Mieczysław () or Mečislovas (Lithuanian) is a
Slavic name of
Polish origin and consists of two parts: miecz "sword", and sław "glory, famous". Feminine form: Mieczysława. Alternate form:
Mieszko.
This name may refer to:
People
Mečislovas
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Mečislovas Gedvilas, Lithuanian Soviet politician, first Prime Minister of the Lithuanian SSR
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Mečislovas Reinys, was the Lithuanian Roman Catholic archbishop of the Vilnius, Minsk and Tiddi dioceses, a professor at Vytautas Magnus University
Mieczysław
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Mieczysław Batsch
Mieczysław Józef Batsch a.k.a. Bacz (1 January 1900 in Lemberg – 9 September 1977 in Przemyśl) was a Polish soccer forward. He represented both Pogoń Lwów and the Polish National Team.
Batsch was a graduate of the mechanical engineering p ...
, Polish footballer
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Mieczysław Boruta-Spiechowicz
Mieczysław Ludwik Boruta-Spiechowicz (20 February 1894, in Rzeszów – 13 October 1985, in Zakopane) was a Polish military officer, a general of the Polish Army and a notable member of the post-war anti-communist opposition in Poland.
He joine ...
, a Polish military officer, a general of the Polish Army and a notable member of the post-war anti-communist opposition in Poland
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Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, a Polish film actress, stage actor and singer. She was often nicknamed Lińska or Amiette.
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Mieczysław Fogg, Polish singer
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Mieczysław Garsztka
Mieczysław Sylwester Garsztka (31 December 1896 - 10 June 1919) was a Polish pilot and a flying ace of the German air force during World War I and later the Polish air force during the Polish-Ukrainian War.
World War I German service
He was b ...
, Polish aviator, flying ace in the German Air Force in World War I
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Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, a Cardinal Ledóchowski
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Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist
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Mieczysław Jagielski
Mieczysław Zygmunt Jagielski (12 January 192427 February 1997) was a Polish politician and economist. During the times of the People's Republic of Poland he was the last leading politician from the former eastern regions of pre-Second World War ...
, Polish communist politician and economist
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Mieczysław Janowski, Polish politician and Member of the
European Parliament
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Mieczysław Kalenik, Polish actor
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Mieczysław Karłowicz, Polish composer and conductor
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Mieczysław Kawalec, Polish officer in the anti-communist resistance
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Mieczysław Mickiewicz, Polish-Ukrainian politician
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Mieczysław Moczar, Polish communist who played a prominent role in the history of the
Polish People's Republic
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Mieczysław Mokrzycki, Polish Catholic archbishop
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Mieczysław Morański, Polish actor, famous for cartoon voice-overs
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Mieczysław Munz, Polish-American pianist
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Miguel Najdorf, Polish-born Argentine chess grandmaster of Jewish origin, famous for his Najdorf Variation
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Mieczysław Niedziałkowski, Polish writer and activist executed during the
German AB-Aktion in Poland
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Mieczysław Nowicki, Polish Olympic medalist in bicycle racing and Minister of Sport
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Mieczysław Połukard, Polish speedway rider and coach
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Mieczysław "Mietek" Pemper, a Polish-born Jewish Holocaust survivor who assisted
Oskar Schindler in his rescue activities during World War II
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Mieczysław Rakowski, Polish communist politician, historian and journalist
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Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski
Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski ( Jazgarzew, near Warsaw, 1896–1989, London), also known as "Rygor-Słowikowski," was a Polish Army officer whose intelligence work in North Africa facilitated Allied preparations for the 1942 Operation Torch lan ...
, Polish army officer
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Mieczysław Smorawiński
Brigadier General Mieczysław Makary Smorawiński (1893–1940), was a Polish military commander and officer of the Polish Army. He was one of the Polish generals identified by forensic scientists of the Katyn Commission as the victim of the Sovie ...
, Polish general who died in the
Katyn massacre
* Mieczyslaw Solomonowicz, changed his name to
Michael Sela
Michael Sela ( he, מיכאל סלע; Mieczysław Salomonowicz; 2 March 1924 – 27 May 2022) was an Israeli immunologist of Polish Jewish origin. He was the W. Garfield Weston Professor of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Reho ...
(born 1924), Israeli immunologist; President of the
Weizmann Institute of Science
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Mieczysław Stoor, Polish film actor
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Mieczysław Demetriusz Sudowski, writer on esoteric, spiritual and mystical topics
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Mieczysław Weinberg, important Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin
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Mieczysław Wolfke
Mieczysław Wolfke (29 May 1883 – 4 May 1947) was a Polish physicist, professor at the Warsaw University of Technology, the forerunner of holography and television. He discovered the method of solidification of helium as well as two types of l ...
, Polish physicist
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Mieczysław Zub
Mieczysław Zub (10 October 1953 – 29 September 1985) was a Polish serial killer who killed 4 women in Silesian Voivodeship. The militia gave him the pseudonym Fantomas.
Murders
Mieczysław Zub committed 4 murders and 13 rapes at the turn of ...
, Polish serial killer
Fiction
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Mieczysław "Mickey Doyle" Kuzik, from the television series ''Boardwalk Empire''
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Mieczysław "Stiles" Stilinski, a character from the 2011 television series ''Teen Wolf''.
See also
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Mieszko, possible diminutive form
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Mstislav (given name)
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Polish name
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Slavic names
Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic countries.
The main types of Slavic names:
* Two-basic names, often ending in mir/měr (''Ostromir/měr'', ''Tihomir/měr'', '' Němir/měr''), *voldъ (''Vsevolod'', ...
External links
* http://www.behindthename.com/name/mieczysl16aw
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Polish masculine given names
Slavic masculine given names