Mieczysław () or Mečislovas (Lithuanian) is a Slavic name of

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...

origin and consists of two parts: miecz "sword", and sław "glory, famous". Feminine form: Mieczysława. Alternate form:

Mieszko Mieszko is a Slavic given name of uncertain origin. Onomastics There are three major theories concerning the origin and meaning of the name of Duke Mieszko I of Poland. The most popular theory, proposed by Jan Długosz, explains that Mieszko is a ...

. This name may refer to:

People

Mečislovas

* Mečislovas Gedvilas, Lithuanian Soviet politician, first Prime Minister of the Lithuanian SSR * Mečislovas Reinys, was the Lithuanian Roman Catholic archbishop of the Vilnius, Minsk and Tiddi dioceses, a professor at Vytautas Magnus University

Mieczysław

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 *

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 * Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, a Polish film actress, stage actor and singer. She was often nicknamed Lińska or Amiette. *

Mieczysław Fogg Mieczysław Fogg (born Mieczysław Fogiel; 30 May 1901, Warsaw3 September 1990, Warsaw) was a Polish singer and artist. His popularity started well before World War II and continued well into the 1980s. He had a characteristic way of staying v ...

, Polish singer *

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 *

Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski 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 *M ...

, a Cardinal Ledóchowski * Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist *

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 *

Mieczysław Janowski Mieczysław Edmund Janowski (born 16 November 1947 in Zduńska Wola) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Subcarpathian Voivodship with the Law and Justice, part of the Union for a Europe of Nations. He sits ...

, Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament *

Mieczysław Kalenik Mieczysław Kalenik (1 January 1933 – 16 June 2017) was a Polish actor. Selected filmography *'' Knights of the Teutonic Order'' (1960) *''The First Day of Freedom'' (1964) *''Stawka większa niż życie'' (television; 1968) *'' Tecumseh'' (197 ...

, Polish actor * Mieczysław Karłowicz, Polish composer and conductor *

Mieczysław Kawalec Mieczysław Kawalec (noms de guerre "Iza", "Zbik", "Psarski", "Stanislawski"), born in 1916 in the village of Trzciana, Rzeszów County, was a Polish resistance fighter. In the late 1930s, he graduated from the Law Department at Lwów University, ...

, Polish officer in the anti-communist resistance * Mieczysław Mickiewicz, Polish-Ukrainian politician *

Mieczysław Moczar Mieczysław Moczar (; birth name Mikołaj Diomko, pseudonym ''Mietek'', 23 December 1913 in – 1 November 1986) was a Polish communist politician who played a prominent role in the history of the Polish People's Republic. He is most known for hi ...

, Polish communist who played a prominent role in the history of the Polish People's Republic *

Mieczysław Mokrzycki Mieczysław Mokrzycki (born 29 March 1961 in Majdan Lipowiecki) is the archbishop of Lviv. Early life and ordination Mokrzycki completed primary school in Łukawiec and Cieszanów, and then studied at the State Agricultural Technical School in O ...

, Polish Catholic archbishop *

Mieczysław Morański Mieczysław Morański (21 January 1960 – 27 December 2020) was a Polish actor. Biography He was mostly known for his dubbing of popular children film and cartoon characters, including Barney, Asterix, and Slinky Dog, as well as Eric Cartman. ...

, Polish actor, famous for cartoon voice-overs *

Mieczysław Munz Mieczysław Munz (October 31, 1900, Kraków – August 25, 1976) was a Polish-American pianist. Munz trained in Vienna and Berlin, with Ferruccio Busoni. He was a teacher of Emanuel Ax, Walter Hautzig, David Oei, Ann Schein, Virginia Reinec ...

, Polish-American pianist * Miguel Najdorf, Polish-born Argentine chess grandmaster of Jewish origin, famous for his Najdorf Variation *

Mieczysław Niedziałkowski Mieczysław Niedziałkowski (September 19, 1893 in Vilnius - June 21, 1940 in Palmiry) was a Polish politician and writer. He was an activist in the Polish Socialist Party, editor in chief of Robotnik, and one of the primary activists and cofou ...

, Polish writer and activist executed during the

German AB-Aktion in Poland , location = Palmiry Forest and similar locations in occupied Poland , date = Spring–summer 1940 , incident_type = Mass murder with automatic weapons , perpetrators = Wehrmacht, ''Einsatzgruppen'' , participants = , or ...

Mieczysław Nowicki Mieczysław Paweł Nowicki (born 26 January 1951, in Piątek) is a retired road bicycle racer from Poland, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There he won the bronze medal in the men's ind ...

, Polish Olympic medalist in bicycle racing and Minister of Sport * Mieczysław Połukard, Polish speedway rider and coach * Mieczysław "Mietek" Pemper, a Polish-born Jewish Holocaust survivor who assisted Oskar Schindler in his rescue activities during World War II * Mieczysław Rakowski, Polish communist politician, historian and journalist *

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 *

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 Re ...

(born 1924), Israeli immunologist; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science *

Mieczysław Stoor Mieczysław Stoor (5 September 1929 – 5 October 1973) was a Polish film actor. He appeared in 37 films between 1954 and 1973. Selected filmography * '' Boleslaw Smialy'' (1972) * ''Landscape After the Battle'' (1970) * ''Jak rozpętałem ...

, Polish film actor * Mieczysław Demetriusz Sudowski, writer on esoteric, spiritual and mystical topics *

Mieczysław Weinberg Mieczysław Weinberg (8 December 1919 – 26 February 1996) was a Polish-born Soviet composer and pianist. Names Much confusion has been caused by different renditions of the composer's names. In official Polish documents made before he mov ...

, important Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin *

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 *

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

* Mieczysław "Mickey Doyle" Kuzik, from the television series ''Boardwalk Empire'' * Mieczysław "Stiles" Stilinski, a character from the 2011 television series ''Teen Wolf''.

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