Mazur (archaic feminine: Mazurowa, plural Mazurowie) is the 14th most common

surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

(68,090 people in 2009). It signifies someone from northern

Mazovia Mazovia or Masovia ( pl, Mazowsze) is a historical region in mid-north-eastern Poland. It spans the North European Plain, roughly between Łódź and Białystok, with Warsaw being the unofficial capital and largest city. Throughout the centuri ...

and has been known since the 15th century. Over 70% of people with this surname live in the south of Poland (mainly between

Katowice Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popu ...

and

Lublin Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of ...

Prevalence of the surname in Polish voivodships

* 1st in Subcarpathia (9,530) * 3rd in Lublin Land (8,019) * 3rd in

Opole Silesia Opole Silesia or Opolian Silesia ( pl, Śląsk Opolski, also known as ''Opolszczyzna'', german: Oppelner Schlesien, szl, Ôpolski Ślōnsk, cs, Opolské Slezsko), is a loosely defined historical region of Poland, part of Upper Silesia. Throug ...

(2,512) * 3rd in Swietokrzyskie (2,512)

People with this surname

Aleksandr Mazur Aleksandr Grigoryevich Mazur ( uk, Олекса́ндр Григо́рович Ма́зур; russian: Алекса́ндр Григо́рьевич Ма́зур, 30 August 1913 – 16 December 2005) was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Uk ...

(1913–2005), Ukrainian wrestler * Alexander J. Mazur (1969–2016), American scholar * Alexandra Mazur (born 1986), Russian beauty pageant contestant * Alla Mazur (born 1965), Ukrainian journalist * Amy Mazur (born 1962), American political scientist *

Barry Mazur Barry Charles Mazur (; born December 19, 1937) is an American mathematician and the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. His contributions to mathematics include his contributions to Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in ...

(born 1937), American mathematician * D. Bennett Mazur (1924–1994), American politician *

Daniel Mazur Daniel Lee Mazur is a mountain climber, trekker, and expedition leader who has ascended nine of the world's highest summits, including Mount Everest and K2. In addition, he is known for several high altitude mountain rescues: the 1991 rescue of R ...

(born 1960), American mountain climber *

Eddie Mazur Edward Joseph "Spider" Mazur (July 25, 1929 – July 3, 1995) was a Canadian ice hockey forward. He played in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks between 1951 and 1956. The rest of his career, which ...

(1929–1995), Canadian ice hockey player * Edward Mazur (born 1946), Polish-American businessman * Eliyahu Mazur (1889–1973), Israeli politician * Elżbieta Trela-Mazur (born 1947), Polish historian * Epic Mazur (born 1970), American musician *

Eric Mazur Eric Mazur (born November 14, 1954) is a physicist and educator at Harvard University, and an entrepreneur in technology start-ups for the educational and technology markets. Mazur's research is in experimental ultrafast optics, condensed matter phy ...

(born 1954), American physicist * Federico Mazur (born 1993), Argentine footballer * Grace Dane Mazur (born 1944), American writer * Gyula Mazur (1888–1953), Hungarian cyclist * Henry Mazur (1919-1988), American military officer and football player * Henryk Mazur (born 1953), Polish wrestler * Jan Mazur (1920–2008), Polish Roman Catholic bishop * Jay Mazur (born 1965), Canadian-American ice hockey player *

Jay Mazur (labor union president) Jay Mazur (born May 21, 1932) is an American labor leader. He was the last president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), serving from 1986 to 1995, and the first president of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textil ...

(born 1932), American labor leader * Jerzy Mazur (born 1953), Polish Roman Catholic bishop * Joanna Mazur (born 1990), Polish Paralympic athlete * John Mazur (1930–2013), American football player and coach * John Mazur (ice hockey) (born 1954), Canadian ice hockey player *

Joseph Mazur Joseph C. Mazur (born in the Bronx in 1942) is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Marlboro College, in Marlboro, Vermont. He holds a B.S. from Pratt Institute, where he first studied architecture. He spent his junior year in Paris, studying ...

(born 1942), American mathematician * Jozef Mazur (1897–1970), Polish-American artist *

Heather Mazur Heather Mazur (born June 17, 1976) is an American actress, best known for her role as Sarah Cooper in the 1990 film '' Night of the Living Dead''. Early life and education Mazur was born in Pittsburgh. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ca ...

(born 1976), American actress * Kazimierz Mazur (1930–2000), Polish modern pentathlete *

Lara Mazur Lara Mazur is a Canadian film and television editor known for her work on films like '' Bordertown Café'', '' Cadillac Girls'', and '' The Burning Season.'' Biography Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Mazur attended the University of Manitoba and a ...

, Canadian film and television editor * Lucas Mazur (born 1997), French para badminton player * Magdalena Mazur (born 1976), Polish television presenter *

Marian Mazur Marian Mazur (Radom, December 7, 1909 – Warsaw, January 21, 1983) was a Polish scientist who specialized in electrothermics and cybernetics Cybernetics is a wide-ranging field concerned with circular causality, such as feedback, in reg ...

(1909–1983), Polish cyberneticist *

Marilyn Mazur Marilyn Mazur (born January 18, 1955) is an American-born Danish percussionist. Since 1975, she has worked as a percussionist with various groups, among them Six Winds with Alex Riel. Mazur is primarily an autodidact, but she has a degree in ...

(born 1955), Danish percussionist * Mark Mazur, American economist * Mary Mazur, American producer * Meron Mazur (born 1962), Brazilian Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch * Michael Mazur (1935–2009), American artist * Miriam Mazur (1909–2000), American mathematician *

Mirek Mazur Mirek Mazur (born January 12, 1961 in Jelcz, Poland) is a Canadian cycling Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cy ...

(born 1961), Polish-Canadian cycling coach *

Monet Mazur Monet H. Mazur (born April 17, 1976) is an American actress. Life Mazur was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Ruby Mazur, an illustrator known for creating the "tongue" logo for the Rolling Stones' " Tumbling Dice" single jacket, ...

(born 1976), American actress and musician * Myroslav Mazur (born 1998), Ukrainian footballer *

Peter Mazur Peter Mazur (born Vienna, Austria, 11 December 1922; died Lausanne, Switzerland, 15 August 2001) was an Austrian-born, Dutch physicist and one of the founders of the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. He is the father of Harvard University phy ...

(1922–2001), Dutch theoretical physicist * Piotr Mazur (born 1982), Polish-Canadian road bicycle racer * Piotr Mazur (canoeist) (born 1991), Polish sprint canoeist * Przemysław Mazur (born 1978), Polish rally codriver *

Richard Masur Richard Masur is an American character actor who has appeared in more than 80 films. From 1995 to 1999, he served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). He is best known for Nick Lobo on ''Rhoda'' (1974-1977), Stanley Uris in th ...

(born 1948), American actor * Rodrigo Mazur (born 1992), Argentine footballer *

Ruby Mazur Ruby Mazur is an American artist who has created the cover art of over 3,000 albums for artists including The Rolling Stones, B.B. King, Sarah Vaughn, Elton John and Ray Charles. He is a former art director for Famous Music (1970), ABC-Dunhill ...

, American artist * Sara Mazur (born 1966), Swedish physicist * Serhiy Mazur (born 1970), Ukrainian footballer *

Stanisław Mazur Stanisław Mieczysław Mazur (1 January 1905, Lwów – 5 November 1981, Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Mazur made important contributions to geometrical methods in linear and nonlinear functio ...

(1905–1981), Polish mathematician *

Steve Mazur Steven Theodore Mazur (born December 21, 1977) is an American guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist for alternative rock band Our Lady Peace. Mazur replaced original band guitarist Mike Turner in 2002. Life and career Early life Mazur h ...

(born 1977), American guitarist * Vasyl Mazur (born 1970), Ukrainian footballer * Viktoria Mazur (born 1994), Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast * Vladimir Mazur (born 1966), Russian politician * Vladyslav Mazur (born 1996), Ukrainian athlete * Włodzimierz Mazur (1954–1988), Polish footballer

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Prevalence of the surname in Polish voivodships

People with this surname

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