Jerzy is the
Polish version of the masculine given name
George. The most common nickname for Jerzy is
Jurek (), which may also be used as an official first name. Occasionally the nickname Jerzyk may be used, which means "
swift" in Polish.
People
*Jerzy, ''nom de guerre'' of
Ryszard Białous, Polish World War II resistance fighter
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Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish writer
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Jerzy Bartmiński, Polish linguist and ethnologist
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Jerzy Braun (disambiguation), several people
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Jerzy Brzęczek, Polish footballer and manager
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Jerzy Buzek, Polish politician and former Prime Minister and former President of the European Parliament
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Jerzy Dudek
Jerzy Henryk Dudek (born 23 March 1973) is a Polish former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper.
After beginning his career in his home country, he went on to have successful ...
, Polish footballer
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Jerzy Fedorowicz, Polish actor and theatre director
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Jerzy Ficowski, Polish poet and translator
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Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director and theorist
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Jerzy Hoffman, Polish film director, screenwriter, and producer
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Jerzy Jarniewicz, Polish poet, literary critic, translator and essayist
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Jerzy Janiszewski, Polish artist
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Jerzy Janowicz
Jerzy Filip Janowicz Jr. (; born 13 November 1990) is a Polish inactive professional tennis player and padel player. Janowicz is best known for becoming the first Polish man to reach a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major semifinal, at the 2013 ...
, Polish tennis player
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Jerzy Jurka, Polish-American computational and molecular biologist
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish film director
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Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American novelist
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Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountain climber
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Jerzy Kulej, Polish boxer and sports commentator
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Jerzy Kuźmienko, Polish architect
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Jerzy Owsiak
Jerzy Zbigniew Owsiak (Polish pronunciation: ; born 6 October 1953) is a Polish journalist and social work, social campaigner. He is the founder of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (WOŚP / Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy), one of t ...
, Polish social activist
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Jerzy Pilch, Polish novelist, journalist, and columnist
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Jerzy Pniewski, Polish physicist
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Jerzy Połomski, Polish singer
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Jerzy Popiełuszko, Polish priest assassinated by the
Security Service and
beatified in the
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...
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Jerzy Potz, Polish ice hockey player
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Jerzy Semkow, Polish conductor
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Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor
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Jerzy Urban, Polish journalist and commentator
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Jerzy Vetulani, Polish neuroscientist
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Jerzy Waldorff, Polish media personality
See also
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Jerzy the Giant, the second album by "The Terrible Twos"
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Jurek (disambiguation)
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Agnieszka Jerzyk
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Polish masculine given names
Masculine given names