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Wójcicki
Wójcicki {{{IPAc-en, w, ʊ, ˈ, tʃ, ɪ, t, s, k, i {{respell, wuutch, ITS, kee; {{IPA, pl, vujˈt͡ɕit͡ski) is a Polish masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Wójcicka. The surname may refer to the following notable people: * Anne Wojcicki (born 1973), American biologist * Esther Wojcicki (born 1941), American journalist * Franciszek Wójcicki (1900–1983), Polish politician * Jakub Wójcicki (born 1988), Polish football defender * Janina Wójcicka Hoskins (1912–1996), Polish-American librarian * Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś née Wójcicka (born 1980), Polish speed skater * Patrick Wojcicki (born 1991), German boxer * Roman Wójcicki (born 1958), Polish footballer * Sara Wojcicki Jimenez (born 1979), American politician * Stanley Wojcicki (1937–2023), Polish American physicist * Susan Wojcicki (1968–2024), American businesswoman and former CEO of YouTube. See also * {{intitle, Wojcicki * Wójcik Wójcik, Wojczik, Wojczyk, Wojszyk (also variants of phonetic spell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakub Wójcicki
Jakub Wójcicki (born 9 July 1988) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a right-back or forward for IV liga Masovia club Weszło Warsaw. Career On 20 July 2013, he made his Ekstraklasa debut coming on as substitute in a match against Cracovia. On 11 January 2018, Wójcicki signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Jagiellonia Białystok. On 31 July 2020, he moved to Zagłębie Lubin. On 21 October 2022, Wójcicki was registered to play in II liga for his childhood club Znicz Pruszków, where he was mainly used as a centre-forward. On 16 July 2024, Wójcicki moved to IV liga Masovia club Weszło Warsaw. Honours GLKS Nadarzyn * III liga Łódź–Masovia: 2009–10 Zawisza Bydgoszcz * I liga: 2012–13 * Polish Cup: 2013–14 * Polish Super Cup The Polish Super Cup (, ) is an annually held match between the champions of the Ekstraklasa and the Polish Cup winners or, if the Ekstraklasa champions also win the Polish Cup, the Cup's runners-up. As of 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Wójcicki
Roman Wójcicki (born 8 January 1958) is a Polish former professional football manager and player. He played as a defender for clubs including Odra Opole, Śląsk Wrocław, Widzew Łódź, FC Homburg and Hannover 96. Playing career Wójcicki was born in Nysa. He played for the Poland national team, making 62 appearances and scoring two goals. He was a participant at the three consecutive World Cups, 1978 FIFA World Cup, 1982 FIFA World Cup, where Poland won the bronze medal and 1986 FIFA World Cup. He ended his career as a player-manager for TSV Havelse, before coaching various amateur and youth teams in the Hanover Region. Career statistics International :''Scores and results list Poland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Wójcicki goal.'' Honours Odra Opole * Polish League Cup: 1977 Widzew Łódź * Polish Cup: 1984–85 Hannover 96 * DFB-Pokal: 1991–92 Poland * FIFA World Cup bronze medal: 1982 * Nehru Cup: 1984 Events Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janina Wójcicka Hoskins
Janina Wójcicka Hoskins (February 19, 1912 – October 19, 1996) was a Polish-American librarian. She worked at the Library of Congress from 1951 to 1989 and was responsible for assembling there the largest collection of Polish material in the United States. Biography She was born Janina Wanda Ewa Kozłowska in Kupowo, the daughter of Michał and Jadwiga (née Bielska). She attended '' gimnazjum'' in Nowa Wilejka and Wołkowysk until she left home in 1929, for Białystok. She married Franciszek Wójcicki in Bielsk Podlaski in 1931, taking the name Janina Wójcicka. At the time, a married woman could not continue to be a student in high school, so she studied privately and graduated with her ''matura'' in 1933. In 1934, the couple moved to Warsaw and she studied history at the University of Warsaw. They had two sons, Andrzej (born 1935) and Stanisław (born 1937). In 1938, Wójcicki became a judge in Cracow and she also studied at Jagiellonian University. Following th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Wojcicki
Stanley George Wojcicki ( ; born Stanisław Jerzy Wójcicki, ; March 30, 1937 – May 31, 2023) was a Polish-American physicist and former chair of the physics department at Stanford University in California. Early life and education Wojcicki was born in Warsaw, Poland, the son of Janina Wanda Wójcicka (née Kozłowska), a bibliographer, and Franciszek Wójcicki, a lawyer. He and his brother fled from Poland to Sweden with his mother at the age of 12, when communists came to power. They eventually arrived in the United States. His father remained in Poland, and was soon imprisoned for five years for being a member of the government's main opposition party. He was never able to gain a visa to come to the United States. Wojcicki and his brother were sent to a boarding school run by the Franciscan Order near Buffalo, New York. He excelled in mathematics and had thought of pursuing either engineering or medicine, but decided to study physics. He attended Harvard University on a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Wojcicki
Anne E. Wojcicki ( ; born July 28, 1973) is an American entrepreneur. She is known for co-founding the personal genomics company 23andMe. Early life and education Wojcicki was born in Palo Alto, California, the youngest of three sisters: Susan Wojcicki, former CEO of YouTube, and Janet Wojcicki, an anthropologist and epidemiologist. Her parents are Esther Wojcicki (née Hochman), an educator and journalist, and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish-born physics professor emeritus at Stanford University. The three sisters grew up on Stanford's campus. When she was fourteen, she learned how to figure skate and later started playing ice hockey. Wojcicki attended Gunn High School in Palo Alto, where she edited the school newspaper, ''The Oracle,'' and won a scholarship for her sports stories. She received a Bachelor of Science in biology at Yale University in 1996. During her time there she played on the varsity Yale Bulldogs women's ice hockey, women's ice hockey team. She conducted molecular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Wojcicki
Susan Diane Wojcicki ( ; July 5, 1968 – August 9, 2024) was an American business executive who was the chief executive officer of YouTube from 2014 to 2023. Her net worth was estimated at $765 million in 2022. Wojcicki worked in the technology industry for over twenty years. She became involved in the creation of Google in 1998 when she rented out her garage as an office to the company's founders. She worked as Google's first marketing manager in 1999, leading the company's online advertising business and original video service. After observing the success of YouTube, she suggested that Google should buy it; the deal was approved for $1.65 billion in 2006. She was appointed CEO of YouTube in 2014, serving until resigning in February 2023. Early life and education Susan Diane Wojcicki was born in Santa Clara, California, on July 5, 1968, the daughter of Esther Wojcicki, an American journalist, and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish physics professor at Stanford Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franciszek Wójcicki
Franciszek Wójcicki (27 January 1900 – 2 January 1983) was a Polish politician. He was a member of the People's Party and the Polish People's Party and was elected MP during the 1947 Polish legislative election. His son's name was Stanisław by whom he had three granddaughters: Anne Wojcicki, founder and CEO of 23andMe; Susan Wojcicki, former CEO of YouTube; and Janet, an anthropologist and epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Francisco, California, United States. It is part of the University of California system and is dedic .... References 1900 births 1983 deaths University of Warsaw alumni 20th-century Polish politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 1947–1952 Wojcicki family {{Poland-Sejm-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wójcik
Wójcik, Wojczik, Wojczyk, Wojszyk (also variants of phonetic spelling: Woicik, Woycik, Woyczik, Woytik, etc.) is one of the oldest Polish name, Polish surnames, and the fourth List of most common surnames in Europe, most common in Poland (100,064 in 2009).Ministry of Interior (Poland). Statystyka najpopularniejszych nazwisk występujących w Polsce in 2009'' (The most popular surnames in Poland in 2009). Polish surname, Archaic feminine forms are derived by adding suffixes: ''-owa'' for married woman and ''-ówna'' for maiden name. There are several suggested origins of the surname: diminutive from the occupation of wójt or from the given name Wojciech. It may also be a nickname by the bird '':pl:Wójcik (ptak), wójcik'' (greenish warbler).WÓJCIK (contains further references) Feminine forms are Wójcik, Wójcikówna, Wójcikowa. Over the cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Wojcicki
Esther Denise "Woj" Hochman Wojcicki ( ; born 1941) is an American journalist, educator, and vice chair of the Creative Commons advisory council. Wojcicki has studied education and technology. She is the founder of the Palo Alto High School Media Arts Program in Palo Alto, California. Early life and education Wojcicki is the oldest of three children and was the first in her family to attend college. Her parents were Russian Jewish immigrants who came to New York City in the 1930s. Her family moved to Southern California after she was born. Wojcicki was valedictorian of her high school class and attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a B.A. in English and political science. She also received a secondary teaching credential and a master's degree in journalism from Berkeley. She has an M.A. in French and French history from the Sorbonne as well as both a secondary school administrative credential and a M.A. in educational technology from San Jose State Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś
Katarzyna Anna Bachleda-Curuś (née Wójcicka, born 1 January 1980) is a Polish speed skater, who was born in Sanok and resides in Zakopane. Wójcicka is specialised in allround championships as she performs well on all distances, but almost never finishes among the best on a single distance. In Poland she is however one of the best skaters they ever had and she already won fifteen national titles. In 2005, she made a lot of progression and became twelfth at the European Allround Championships and fourteenth at the World Allround Championships. She competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics, finishing tenth at the 3000 metres, eighth at the 1000 metres, eleventh at the 1500 metres and sixteenth at the 5000 metres. A year later she returned to Turin to participate in the 2007 Winter Universiade, winning the gold medal at the 1500 metres. She won the bronze medal in the team pursuit at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She participated at the 2014 Winter Olympics i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Wojcicki
Patrick Wojcicki (born 14 August 1991 in Wolfsburg) is a German boxer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's welterweight, but was defeated in the first round. Amateur career In 2008, he reached the quarter-finals of the AIBA Youth World Championships in the 64 kg division. He lost to Uktamjon Rahmonov when the referee stopped the contest. He moved up to the senior division in 2009. In 2010, he competed at the European Championships in the -69 kg division, losing in the preliminary rounds to Balazs Bacskai. At the 2011 World Championships, he reached the last 16 in the same division, losing to Fred Evans. From 2009 to 2011, he was also three-time German national champion at 69 kg. He also won the in 2011, defeating Rahmonov in the final. Wojcicki qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics by beating Abdülkadir Köroğlu in a qualifying tournament in Trabzon. At the 2012 Olympics, he lost 12:16 to Alexis Vastine in the first round. Profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Wojcicki Jimenez
Sara Wojcicki Jimenez (born 1979), was a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives representing the 99th district since her appointment in 2015. The 99th district includes Auburn, Berlin, Chatham, Curran, Divernon, Leland Grove, New Berlin, Thayer and the majority of the state's capitol Springfield. She was appointed to replace Raymond Poe who resigned to become the Director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture. Prior to the appointment, she was the Chief of Staff to First Lady Diana Rauner Diana Mendley Rauner (born 1961) is an American businesswoman and president of Start Early, a non-profit in Chicago. She served as the First Lady of Illinois from 2015 to 2019 as her husband, Bruce, served as governor. Early life Rauner was bor ... and a television reporter. Wojcicki Jimenez announced she would not seek reelection in 2018. She was succeeded by fellow Republican Mike Murphy. On February 26, 2019, Senate Minority Leader Bill Brady appointe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
