Franciszek () is a masculine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
of
Polish origin (female form
Franciszka). It is a
cognate
In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language.
Because language change can have radical effects on both the s ...
of
Francis
Francis may refer to:
People and characters
*Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church (2013–2025)
*Francis (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
* Francis (surname)
* Francis, a character played by YouTuber Boogie2 ...
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Francisco
Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''.
Meaning of the name Francisco
In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco (name), Paco". Francis of Assisi, San Francisco de A ...
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François
François () is a French language, French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis (given name), Francis.
People with the given name
* François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter
* Voltaire, Fran ...
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Franz. People with the name include:
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Edward Pfeiffer (Franciszek Edward Pfeiffer) (1895–1964), Polish general officer; recipient of the ''Order of Virtuti Militari''
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Franciszek Alter (1889–1945), Polish general officer during WWII
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Franciszek and Magdalena Banasiewicz (fl. mid-20th century), Polish couple who hid and rescued 15 Jews during the Holocaust
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Franciszek Antoni Kwilecki (1725–1794), Polish nobleman, statesman, and ambassador
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Franciszek Armiński (1789–1848), Polish astronomer
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Franciszek Bieliński
Franciszek Bieliński of Junosza coat of arms (1683–1766) was a Polish statesman. A Crown Grand Marshal, Marshal of Prussia and a voivode of Chełmno, he is best remembered as a strong proponent of the expansion and the modernisation of the c ...
(1683–1766), Polish politician and statesman
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Franciszek Blachnicki (1921–1987), Polish man who started The Light-Life Movement (Światło-Zycie) as a Catholic association
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Franciszek Błażej
Captain Franciszek Błażej ( noms de guerre "Roman", "Bogusław") was born on 27 October 1907 in Nosówka, in Austrian Galicia. He was a professional officer of the Polish Army and participated in the Polish September Campaign. Some time in t ...
(1907–1951), Polish military officer and anticommunist resistance fighter
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Franciszek Bohomolec (1720–1784), Polish dramatist, linguist, and theatrical reformer
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Franciszek Bronikowski (1906–1964), Polish Olympic rower
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Franciszek Bukaty (1747–1797), Polish diplomat
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Franciszek Cebulak (1906–1960), Polish Olympic football (soccer) player
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Franciszek Chalupka (1856–1909), Polish theologian; founder of the first Polish-American parishes in New England
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Franciszek Czapek
Franciszek Czapek (, French: ''François Czapek''; 4 April 1811 – disappeared 1871) was a master watchmaker and partner of Antoni Patek in Patek, Czapek & Cie.
Biography
Czapek was born on 4 April 1811 in Semonice (now part of Jaroměř), B ...
(1811–unknown), Czech-Polish watchmaker
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Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin (1750–1807), Polish poet of the Enlightenment period
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Franciszek Dobrowolski (1830–1896), Polish theater director
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Franciszek Ferdynant Lubomirski (1710–1774), Polish nobleman and Knight of the Order of the White Eagle
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Franciszek Fiszer (1860–1937), Polish ''bon vivant'', gourmand, erudite, and philosopher
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Franciszek Gągor (1951–2010), Polish general officer, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army since 2006
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Franciszek Gajowniczek
Franciszek Gajowniczek (15 November 1901 – 13 March 1995) was a Polish army sergeant whose life was saved at the Auschwitz concentration camp by Catholic priest Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to die in his place.
Gajowniczek had been sent ...
(1901–1995), Polish army sergeant whose life was spared when Saint Maximilian Kolbe sacrificed his life for Gajowniczek at Auschwitz
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Franciszek Gąsienica Groń (1931–2014), Polish Olympic skier
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Franciszek Gąsior (1947–2021), Polish Olympic handball player
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Franciszek Grocholski (1730–1792), Polish nobleman and politician
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Franciszek Gruszka (1910–1940), Polish aviator who flew with the RAF during the Battle of Britain
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Franciszek Hodur (1866–1953), Polish prelate of the Polish National Catholic Church
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Franciszek Jamroż (contemporary), Polish politician, former mayor of Gdańsk; imprisoned for corruption and bribery
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Franciszek Jarecki (1931–2010), Polish Air Force aviator who defected to the West with a MIG-15 in 1953
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Franciszek Jerzy Jaskulski (1913–1947), Polish soldier and commander in the anticommunist Freedom and Independence organization
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Franciszek Kamieński (1851–1912), Polish botanist
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Franciszek Kamiński (1902–2000), Polish general and activist of the peasant movement
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Franciszek Kareu (1731–1802), Belarusian Jesuit priest; Superior General of the Society of Jesus 1801–02
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Franciszek Karpiński
Franciszek Karpiński (4 October 1741 – 16 September 1825) was the leading Sentimentalism (literature), sentimental Polish people, Polish poet of the Age of Enlightenment. He is particularly remembered for his religious works later rendered ...
(1741–1825), Polish poet of the Age of Enlightenment
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Franciszek Kasparek (1844–1903), Polish jurist, professor of law, and rector of Kraków University
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Franciszek Kleeberg (1888–1941), Polish general officer in the Austro-Hungarian army and subsequently in the Polish Legions
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Franciszek Kniaźnin (1750–1807), Polish dramatist and writer
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Franciszek Kokot (1929–2021), Polish nephrologist and endocrinologist
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Franciszek Kostrzewski (1826–1911), Polish painter, illustrator, and caricaturist
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Franciszek Krajowski (1861–1932), Czech-Polish military officer and general of the Polish Army
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Franciszek Krupiński (1836–1898), Polish philosopher
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Franciszek Ksawery Branicki (1730–1819), Polish nobleman, magnate, and a leader of the Targowica Confederation
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Franciszek Ksawery Chomiński (died 1809), Polish politician, writer, and translator
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Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski (1762–1818), Polish Romantic novelist, poet, translator, and satirist
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Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki
Prince Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki (. ; 4 January 1778–10 May 1846) was an important Polish people, Polish politician, freemason and diplomat of the first half of the 19th century. He served as the minister (government), minister of the ...
(1778–1846), Polish politician and government minister in partitioned Poland
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Franciszek Ksawery Godebski (1801–1869), Polish writer and publicist
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Franciszek Ksawery Lampi
Franciszek Ksawery Lampi, also known as Franz Xaver Lampi (22 January 1782 – 22 July 1852), was a Polish Romantic painter born in Austria of ethnic Italian background. He was associated with the aristocratic circle of the late Stanisław II ...
(1782–1852), Polish painter of the Romantic era
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Franciszek Ksawery Zachariasiewicz (1770–1845), Polish Roman Catholic prelate, professor, and historian
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Franciszek Latinik (1864–1949), Polish general officer
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Franciszek Leja (1885–1979), Polish mathematician
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Franciszek Lessel (1780–1838), Polish composer
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Franciszek Lilius (1600–1657), Polish composer
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Franciszek Lubomirski (died 1721), Polish nobleman
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Franciszek Macharski (1927–2016), Polish Roman Catholic cardinal; Archbishop of Kraków 1978–2005
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Franciszek Maksymilian Ossoliński (1676–1756), Polish nobleman, politician, collector, and patron of arts
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Franciszek Malewski (1800–1870), Polish lawyer, archivist, and journalist
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Franciszek Misztal (1901–1981), Polish aircraft designer
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Franciszek Niepokólczycki (1900–1974), Polish military officer and anticommunist resistance fighter; imprisoned under Stalin
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Franciszek Nowicki (1864–1935), Polish poet, mountaineer, and socialist activist
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Franciszek Pieczka
Franciszek Maksymilian Pieczka (18 January 1928 – 23 September 2022) was a Polish actor. A graduate of the National Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw (1954), he first made his debut in the theatre in Jelenia Góra. He won the award for Best ...
(1928–2022), Polish film and stage actor
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Franciszek Piper (born 1941), Polish scholar, historian and author; specializing in the Holocaust
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Franciszek Pius Radziwiłł (1878–1944), Polish nobleman and political activist
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Franciszek Pokorny (fl. mid-20th century), Polish military officer and cryptographer
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Franciszek Przysiężniak (1909–1975), Polish military officer and anticommunist resistance fighter; recipient of the ''Virtuti Militari''
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Franciszek Rychnowski (1850–1929), Polish engineer and an inventor
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Franciszek Salezy Dmochowski (1801–1871), Polish writer, poet, translator, critic, and journalist
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Franciszek Salezy Jezierski (1740–1791), Polish priest, writer, and activist of the Enlightenment period
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Franciszek Salezy Potocki
Franciszek Salezy Potocki (1700 – 22 October 1772) was a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish szlachta, nobleman, diplomat, politician and knight of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland), Order of the White Eagle, awarded on 3 August 1750, i ...
(1700–1772), Polish-Lithuanian nobleman; Knight of the Order of the White Eagle
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Franciszek Sebastian Lubomirski (diet 1699), Polish nobleman
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Franciszek Siarczyński
Franciszek Siarczyński (1758–1829) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, member of the Piarists, Piarist religious order, historian, geographer, teacher, writer and publicist.
He was a lecturer of grammar, history and geography at the Collegiu ...
(1758–1829), Polish Roman Catholic Piarist priest, historian, geographer, teacher, and writer
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Franciszek Smuda (1948–2024), Polish professional football player, coach, and manager
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Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745–1807), Polish-Lithuanian draftsman and painter
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Franciszek Starowieyski
Franciszek Andrzej Bobola Biberstein-Starowieyski (8 July 1930 in Bratkówka – 23 February 2009 in Warsaw) was a Polish artist. From 1949 to 1955, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and Warsaw. He specialized in poster, drawing, ...
(1930–2009), Polish artist
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Franciszek Stefaniuk (born 1944), Polish politician from Chełm
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Franciszek Sulik (1908–2000), Polish-Australian chess master
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Franciszek Szymczyk (1892–1976), Polish Olympic track cyclist
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Franciszek Trąbalski (1870–1964), Polish socialist politician
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Franciszek Trześniewski (died 1939), Polish gourmand and chef; eponym of the ''Trześniewski'' restaurant in Vienna
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Franciszek Walicki (1920–2015), Polish jazz and rock musician
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Franciszek Wielopolski (died 1732), Polish nobleman
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Franciszek Wład (1888–1939), Polish general officer killed during the German invasion of Poland
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Franciszek Wójcicki (1900–1983), Polish politician
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Franciszek Zabłocki (1754–1821), Polish comic dramatist and satirist of the Enlightenment period
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Franciszek Zachara (1898–1966), Polish-American pianist and composer
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Franciszek Ziejka (1940–2020), Polish scholar
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Franciszek Żmurko
Franciszek Żmurko (18 July 1859, Lviv – 9 October 1910, Warsaw) was a Polish realist painter. Żmurko began drawing lessons as a young boy in his hometown with the painter Franciszek Tepa. As an adolescent he relocated to Kraków to study at ...
(1859–1910), Polish painter
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Franciszek Żwirko (1895–1932), Polish sport and military aviator
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Ksawery Lubomirski (Franciszek Ksawery Lubomirski) (1747–1829), Polish nobleman and Russian general officer
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