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Pavel Šmok
Pavel ( Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian: Павел; Czech, Slovene, and (although Romanian also uses Paul); ; ; ) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pavel may refer to: People Given name * Pavel I of Russia (1754–1801), Emperor of Russia *Paweł Adamowicz (1965–2019), Polish politician * Paweł Brożek (born 1983), Polish footballer * Paweł Cibicki (born 1994), Swedish footballer * Paweł Deląg (born 1970), Polish actor *Pavel Durov (born 1984), Telegram founder *Paweł Fajdek (born 1989), Polish hammer thrower *Pavel Haas (1899-1944), Czech composer who was murdered during the Holocaust * Paweł Jasienica (1909–1970), Polish historian, journalist, essayist and soldier *Paweł Kisielow (born 1945), Polish immunologist *Pavel Kuzmich (born 1988), Russian luger *Paweł Łukaszewski (born 1968), Polish composer *Paweł Mąciwoda (born 1967), Polish bassist for the German rock band Scorpions *Paweł Mykietyn ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul (name)
Paul is a common Latin Language, Latin masculine given name in countries and ethnicities with a Christian heritage (Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Protestantism) and, beyond Europe, in Christian religious communities throughout the world. Paul – or its variations – can be a given name or surname. Origin and diffusion The name has existed since Roman times. It derives from the Roman family name ''Paulus'' or ''Paullus'', from the Latin adjective meaning "small", "humble", "least" or "little". During the Classical antiquity, Classical Age it was used to distinguish the minor of two people of the same family bearing the same name. The Patrician (ancient Rome), Roman patrician family of the Aemilia (gens), Gens Aemilia included such prominent persons as Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 219 BC), Lucius Aemilius Paullus, Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, Aemilia Tertia, Tertia Aemilia Paulla (the wife of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paweł Fajdek
Paweł Fajdek (Polish pronunciation: ; born 4 June 1989) is a Polish hammer thrower, a five-time World Champion, European Champion, Olympic bronze medal winner, multiple Polish Champion and Polish men's hammer throw record holder. In 2013, he became the youngest world champion in the event. His personal best throw of 83.93 metres was achieved on 9 August 2015 at the Janusz Kusociński Memorial in Szczecin. Career Fajdek represented Poland at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, finishing just off the podium in 4th despite throwing a new Polish junior record of 75.31 metres with the 6 kg under-20 implement. In 2009, his first year as a senior, Fajdek placed 8th at the European U23 Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania with a throw of 68.70 metres. Fajdek placed 3rd at the Polish Championships that year with a mark of 70.86, behind former Olympic and World Champion Szymon Ziółkowski and a returning Wojciech Kondratowicz. In 2010 he grabbed another nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Starostin
Pavel Starostin (born April 25, 1955) is an Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...n politician. He was a member of X Riigikogu. See also * Politics of Estonia References 1955 births Living people Estonian Centre Party politicians Members of the Riigikogu, 2003–2007 Estonian people of Russian descent Place of birth missing (living people) {{Estonia-2003-Riigikogu-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Prigozhin
Pavel Yevgenyevich Prigozhin (, born 18 June 1998) is a Russian businessman and mercenary who has led the Wagner Group since 2023. The son of prominent oligarch and mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, he succeeded his father as the leader of the Wagner Group a month and a half after the 2023 Wagner Group plane crash. Early life Pavel Prigozhin was born on 18 June 1998 (according to other sources - in 1996) in the family of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin. He is the middle child in the family, growing up with his sisters Polina and Veronika. The Prigozhin family avoided publicity for a long time; Yevgeny Prigozhin did not disclose details of the personal lives of his relatives. Episodes from Pavel's biography rarely appeared in the media; sometimes his father talked about him. According to Yevgeny Prigozhin, his son served in draft military service, then signed a contract with his father's company. Several photographs of Pavel in American military equipment have been published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paweł Pawlikowski
Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski (; born 15 September 1957) is a Polish filmmaker. He garnered early praise for a string of documentaries in the 1990s and for his award-winning feature films of the 2000s, '' Last Resort'' (2000) and '' My Summer of Love'' (2004). His success continued into the 2010s with '' Ida'' (2013), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and ''Cold War'' (2018), for which Pawlikowski won the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, while the film received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Early life Pawlikowski was born in Warsaw, Poland, to his father Wiktor, who was a doctor and Zula, his mother, who started as a ballet dancer and later became an English literature professor at the University of Warsaw. In his late teens, he learned that his paternal grandmother was Jewish and had been murdered in Auschwitz. At the age of 14, he left communist Poland with hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Nedvěd
Pavel Nedvěd (; born 30 August 1972) is a Czech former professional Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Czech players of all time and he won numerous trophies with Italian clubs SS Lazio, Lazio and Juventus FC, Juventus. He won the last ever UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, Cup Winners' Cup with Lazio and led Juventus to the 2003 UEFA Champions League final. Nedvěd was a vital player in the Czech Republic national football team, Czech team that reached the final of UEFA Euro 1996, Euro 1996, after which he attracted the attention of big European clubs. He also captained the team at UEFA Euro 2004, where they were defeated in the semi-final by eventual champions Greece national football team, Greece, and Nedvěd was named in the Team of the Tournament. Furthermore, Nedvěd helped his team qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup for the first time since the breakup of Czechoslovakia. Due to his quick and energetic runs durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paweł Mykietyn
Paweł Jan Mykietyn (Polish pronunciation: ; born 20 May 1971) is a Polish award-winning composer and clarinetist. By the year 2012, Mykietyn had written two symphonies, cello, piano and violin concertos, St. Marc Passions for soprano, narrator, choir and orchestra, some chamber music and musical King Lear. As a film composer he collaborated with Andrzej Wajda in '' Sweet Rush'' (2009), Jerzy Skolimowski in '' Essential Killing'', '' 11 Minutes'', and '' EO'', and Małgorzata Szumowska in ''It'' and ''33 Scenes from Life''. He is the recipient of many national and international awards and honours including the European Film Award for Best Composer (2022), Cannes Soundtrack Award (2022), Fryderyk Award (2009) and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011). Life and career Paweł Mykietyn graduated in music composition under the guidance of Włodzimierz Kotoński at the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw in 1997. He participated in The Summer Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scorpions (band)
Scorpions are a German hard rock band formed in Hanover in 1965 by guitarist Rudolf Schenker. The longest-running and most successful line-up of the band included Schenker, Klaus Meine (vocals), Matthias Jabs (lead guitar), Francis Buchholz (bass), and Herman Rarebell (drums), and lasted from 1978 to 1992. The band's only continuous member has been Schenker, although Meine has been with the band continuously since 1969, while Jabs has been a consistent member since 1978 and bassist Paweł Mąciwoda and drummer Mikkey Dee have been in the band, since 2003 and 2016, respectively. The band's debut album, ''Lonesome Crow'' (1972), featured Schenker's younger brother Michael Schenker, Michael on lead guitar, before he departed to join UFO (band), UFO. He was replaced by Uli Jon Roth, who played with the band on their next four studio albums, ''Fly to the Rainbow'' (1974), ''In Trance'' (1975), ''Virgin Killer'' (1976) and ''Taken by Force'' (1977), and their first live album ''Tokyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paweł Mąciwoda
Paweł Mąciwoda (; born on 20 February 1967) is a Polish bassist who began playing with the German hard rock band Scorpions in 2003 and became an official member in January 2004. He is the band's longest-tenured bassist, having since surpassed the nineteen-year tenure of bassist Francis Buchholz. Early career Born in Wieliczka, Mąciwoda began playing bass guitar semi-professionally at the age of 15 with his father's encouragement. His young age on the rock and roll circuit earned him the nickname "Baby", but within a few years Mąciwoda was touring Europe with a jazz fusion band called the Little Egoists, and for overlapping periods of time performed as a member of the avant-garde rock bands Düpą and Püdelsi, both based in Kraków , officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paweł Łukaszewski
Paweł Łukaszewski (born 19 September 1968) is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. He has won seven Fryderyk Awards. According to David Wordsworth, Łukaszewski is the best-known Polish composer of his generation in and out of Poland "by far" (Wordsworth 2013, p. 50). Biography Paweł Łukaszewski was born on September 19, 1968, in Częstochowa. His father was the composer Wojciech Łukaszewski. He is the brother of the composer Marcin Łukaszewski. Regarding Łukaszewski's musical style, acclaimed Polish music scholar Adrian Thomas states, "Paweł Łukaszewski (b. 1968) sbest known for his resolutely anti-modern sacred choral music."Adrian Thomas. Polish Music since Szymanowski, page 318. Cambridge University Press. 2005. Also an active conductor, Łukaszewski is Artistic Director and Conductor of the Musica Sacra choir in Warsaw. His works have been recorded on more than 50 CD albums. Łukaszewski was the composer-in-residence of the Warsaw Philhar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Kuzmich
Pavel Kuzmich (born 16 June 1988 in Krasnoyarsk) is a Russian luger who has competed since 2009. His best World Cup finish was 16th in the men's doubles event at Igls on 28 November 2009. External linksFIL-Luge profile 1988 births Living people Russian male lugers Lugers from Krasnoyarsk 21st-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-luge-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paweł Kisielow
Paweł Kisielow (Polish: ; born 21 February 1945 in Gorlice, Poland) is a Polish biologist who specializes in immunology. He is best known for his research on T cells. He is a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Career He graduated in biology from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and received a doctoral degree in 1971. He became a professor in 1987. He works at the Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1992, he received the Jurzykowski Prize conferred by the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation in New York. In 1997, he was awarded the Körber European Science Prize jointly with Klaus Rajewsky and Harald von Boehmer for their work on mutant mouse models in clinical research. His scientific contributions have made significant progress towards better understanding the defense system leading to the development of treatments to support a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
