Mieczysław () or Mečislovas (Lithuanian) is a
Slavic name
Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic peoples, Slavic countries.
The main types of Slavic names:
* Two-basic names, often ending in mir/měr (''Ostromir/měr'', ''Tihomir/měr'', ''Niemir, Němir/měr''), ...
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
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Mečislovas Gedvilas
Mečislovas Gedvilas (19 October 1901 – 15 February 1981) was a Lithuanian Communist politician who collaborated with occupying Soviet forces. He served as the first Prime Minister of the Lithuanian SSR from 1940 to 1956. Rivalry between him and ...
, Lithuanian Soviet politician, first Prime Minister of the Lithuanian SSR
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Mečislovas Reinys
Mečislovas Reinys (1884 in Madagaskaras, Kovno Governorate – 1953) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic archbishop, a professor at Vytautas Magnus University, a Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mečislovas Reinys was imprisoned by the Sovie ...
, 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, 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
Mieczysława Ćwiklińska-SteinsbergĆwiklińska was the maiden name of Ćwiklińska's grandmother, Anna Trapszowa. (née Mieczysława Trapszo, ; 1 January 1879 – 28 July 1972) was a Polish film actress, stage actor, and singer. She was often ni ...
, a Polish film actress, stage actor and singer. She was often nicknamed Lińska or Amiette.
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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
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Mieczysław Garsztka, Polish aviator, flying ace in the German Air Force in World War I
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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
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Mieczysław Horszowski
Mieczysław Horszowski (June 23, 1892May 22, 1993) was a Polish-American pianist who had one of the longest careers in the history of the performing arts.
Life
Early life
Horszowski was born in Lwów (Lemberg), Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine). He ...
, 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
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 si ...
, Polish politician and Member of the
European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts ...
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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
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Mieczysław Karłowicz
Mieczysław Karłowicz (, 11 December 18768 February 1909) was a Polish composer and conductor.
Life
Mieczysław Karłowicz was born in Vishneva, in the Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Belarus) into a noble family belonging to ...
, Polish composer and conductor
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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
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Mieczysław Mickiewicz
Mieczysław Mickiewicz (1879 – before 1939) was a Ukrainian politician and lawyer of Polish descent, later a statesman of the Second Polish Republic.
Mieczysław Mickiewicz (Polish Democratic Central) served as the Deputy-Secretary of Polish A ...
, Polish-Ukrainian politician
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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
The Polish People's Republic ( pl, Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989 as the predecessor of the modern Republic of Poland. With a population of approximately 37.9 million nea ...
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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
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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
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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
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Miguel Najdorf
Miguel Najdorf (born Mojsze Mendel Najdorf) (15 April 1910 – 4 July 1997) was a Polish–Argentinian chess grandmaster. Originally from Poland, he was in Argentina when World War II began in 1939, and he stayed and settled there. He was a ...
, Polish-born Argentine chess grandmaster of Jewish origin, famous for his Najdorf Variation
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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 ...
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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
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Mieczysław Połukard
Mieczysław Połukard (1930 in Warsaw, Poland – 26 October 1985 in Bydgoszcz, Poland) was a Polish motorcycle speedway rider and coach, the first Polish rider to ride in the Individual World Championship Final in 1959 and won the World Team Cu ...
, Polish speedway rider and coach
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Mieczysław "Mietek" Pemper, a Polish-born Jewish Holocaust survivor who assisted
Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler (; 28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist, humanitarian and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and amm ...
in his rescue activities during World War II
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Mieczysław Rakowski
Mieczysław Franciszek Rakowski (; 1 December 1926 – 8 November 2008) was a Polish communist politician, historian and journalist who was Prime Minister of Poland from 1988 to 1989. He served as the seventh and final First Secretary of the Pol ...
, Polish communist politician, historian and journalist
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Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski, 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
The Katyn massacre, "Katyń crime"; russian: link=yes, Катынская резня ''Katynskaya reznya'', "Katyn massacre", or russian: link=no, Катынский расстрел, ''Katynsky rasstrel'', "Katyn execution" was a series of m ...
* 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
The Weizmann Institute of Science ( he, מכון ויצמן למדע ''Machon Vaitzman LeMada'') is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli unive ...
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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 rozpętał ...
, Polish film actor
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Mieczysław Demetriusz Sudowski, writer on esoteric, spiritual and mystical topics
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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
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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, 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
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 ...
, possible diminutive form
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Mstislav (given name)
Mstislav or Mścisław (Polish) - is a very old Slavic origin given name, consists of two elements: ''msti'' - "vengeance" and ''slav'' - "glory, fame". The feminine forms are Mstislava and Mścisława.
List of people with the given name Mstisl ...
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Polish name
Polish names have two main elements: the given name, and the surname. The usage of personal names in Poland is generally governed by civil law, church law, personal taste and family custom.
The law requires a given name to indicate the person's ...
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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