Maciej (
Polish pronunciation: ) is a
Polish given name, the etymological equivalent of
Matthias Matthias is a name derived from the Greek Ματθαίος, in origin similar to Matthew.
Notable people
Notable people named Matthias include the following:
Religion
* Saint Matthias, chosen as an apostle in Acts 1:21–26 to replace Judas Isca ...
. Its
diminutive
A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment, and sometimes to belittle s ...
forms are Maciek, Maciuś.
Namedays according to Polish calendar: 30 January, 24 February, 14 May
Maciej may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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Maciej Cieślak (born 1969), Polish guitarist and songwriter
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Maciej Dunal (1953–2014), Polish actor and singer
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Maciej Fortuna (born 1982), Polish jazz trumpeter, composer and musical educator
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Maciej Jachowski (born 1977), Polish actor
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Maciej Kozłowski (1957–2010), Polish actor
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Maciej Łukaszczyk
Maciej Łukaszczyk (11 March 1934, Warsaw – 4 June 2014, Poznań) was a Polish pianist.
Life
Łukaszczyk was born in the capital city of Poland, Warsaw, in March 1934. During the Occupation of Poland (1939–45), German occupation of Poland du ...
(1934–2014), Polish pianist
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Maciej Maleńczuk (born 1961), Polish singer, guitarist and poet
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Maciej Małecki (born 1940), Polish composer and pianist
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Maciej Musiał
Maciej Musiał (born 11 February 1995) is a Polish actor and television personality.
Biography
The son of actors Andrzej and Anna Musiał, he began his acting career at an early age with a cameo appearance in a 2004 episode of the long-running ...
(born 1995), Polish actor
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Maciej Silski (born 1976), Polish singer
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Maciej Stuhr
Maciej Jerzy Stuhr (born 23 June 1975) is a Polish actor, comedian and occasional film director. In 2022, he was the recipient of the Polish Academy Award for Best Actor.
Life and career
In 1999, he majored in psychology from the Jagiellonian U ...
(born 1975), Polish actor, comedian and impressionist
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Maciej Ślesicki (born 1966), Polish director and screenwriter, co-founder of the Warsaw Film School.
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Maciej Wojtyszko (born 1946), Polish film director, screenwriter and fiction author
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Maciej Zembaty (1944–2011), Polish artist, writer, journalist, singer, poet and comedian
Politics
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Maciej Giertych
Maciej Marian Giertych (, born 24 March 1936 in Warsaw) is a Polish dendrologist and former far-right politician of the League of Polish Families (LPR). He favours state intervention in the economy. He was a member of the Sejm (between 2001 an ...
(born 1936), Polish dendrologist and social conservative politician
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Maciej Golubiewski (born 1976),
Consul General of the Republic of Poland in New York City
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Maciej Górski (1944–2020), Polish politician
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Maciej Nowicki
Maciej Nowicki (born 28 September 1941) is a Polish politician, manager and scientist. Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Poland in the cabinet of Donald Tusk (from 16 November 2007 to 1 February 2010).
Career
Nowicki graduated of ...
(born 1941), Polish politician, manager and scientist
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Maciej Płażyński
Maciej Płażyński (; 10 February 1958 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish Liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative politician.
Biography
Płażyński was born in Młynary. He began his political career in 1980 / 1981 as one of the leaders of ...
(1958–2010), Polish politician and marshal of the Sejm
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Maciej Rataj
Maciej Rataj (19 February 1884 – 21 June 1940) was a Polish politician, speaker of the Polish Parliament and deputy President of the Republic of Poland, and writer.
Biography
Born in the village of Lviv Raion, Chłopy, near Lwów (now Lviv, ...
(1884–1940), Polish politician and writer
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Maciej Świątkowski
Maciej Świątkowski (born 16 March 1950 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 8780 votes in 4 Bydgoszcz district as a candidate from Civic Platform
The Civic Platform (, PO)The party is of ...
(born 1950), Polish politician, former member of the Sejm and the Senate
Sports
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Maciej Bębenek
Maciej Bębenek (born 22 September 1984) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder
In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position primari ...
(born 1984), Polish footballer
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Maciej Bielecki
Maciej Bielecki (born 19 May 1987) is a Polish track cyclist. He was born in Białystok. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and at the 2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olym ...
(born 1987), Polish cyclist
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Maciej Bodnar
Maciej Bodnar (born 7 March 1985, in Oława) is a Polish former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2007 to 2023. He is the brother of fellow racing cyclist Łukasz Bodnar. Bodnar was a team-mate of Peter Sagan ...
(born 1985), Polish road racing cyclist
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Maciej Bydliński
Maciej Bydliński (born 11 March 1988 in Szczyrk, Poland) is an alpine skier from Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathia ...
(born 1988), Polish alpine skier
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Maciej Dąbrowski
Maciej Dąbrowski (born 20 April 1987) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for regional league club Włókniarz Zelów.
Career Club
In July 2011, he joined Olimpia Grudziądz.
International
Dąbrowski participate ...
(born 1987), Polish footballer
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Maciej Gajos
Maciej Gajos (born 19 March 1991) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.
International career
Gajos received his first call up to the Poland national team in November 2014, for a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifier against Georgi ...
(born 1991), Polish footballer
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Maciej Gębala (born 1994), Polish handball player
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Maciej Górski (born 1990), Polish footballer
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Maciej Hreniak (born 1989), Polish swimmer
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Maciej Iwański (born 1981), Polish footballer
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Maciej Janowski (born 1991), Polish speedway rider
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Maciej Jewtuszko (born 1981), Polish mixed martial artist
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Maciej Korzym (born 1988), Polish footballer
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Maciej Kot (born 1991), Polish ski jumper
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Maciej Lampe (born 1985), Polish basketball player
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Maciej Pałyszko (born 1978), Polish hammer thrower
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Maciej Piaszczyński (born 1989), Polish speedway rider
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Maciej Pospieszyński, Polish glider aerobatic pilot
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Maciej Rybus (born 1989), Polish footballer
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Maciej Skorża (born 1972), Polish football manager
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Maciej Śliwa (born 2001), Polish footballer
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Maciej Staręga (born 1990), Polish cross-country skier
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Maciej Szczęsny (born 1965), Polish footballer
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Maciej Urbańczyk (born 1995), Polish footballer
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Maciej Zieba (born 1987), Polish-German footballer
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Maciej Żurawski
Maciej Stanisław Żurawski (; born 12 September 1976) is a Polish former professional football player, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward.
Żurawski appeared 72 times and scored 17 goals for Poland national foo ...
(born 1976), Polish footballer
* Maciej Kowalczyk (born 2002), Polish-American hockey player and expert computer scientist
Other
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Maciej Cegłowski
Maciej Cegłowski (born 1975) is a Polish-American web developer, entrepreneur, speaker, and social critic, based in San Francisco, California. He is the owner of the bookmarking service Pinboard (website), Pinboard, which he calls a social bookma ...
, Polish-American web developer and writer, owner of the bookmarking service
Pinboard
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Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski (1920–1943), Polish anti-Nazi resistance fighter
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Maciej Dziewoński
Maciej Dziewoński (died May 31, 1794) was a Polish priest, noted for his opposition to the Kościuszko Uprising and his espionage for the Russians.
Dziewoński spoke openly against the uprising and had close ties to the number of Russian Army of ...
(died 1794), Polish priest and Russian spy
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Maciej Franz (born 1969), Polish historian
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Maciej Ganczar (born 1976), Polish literary scholar
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Maciej Kranz (born 1964), Polish-American
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical area of the Santa Clara Valley ...
executive
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Maciej Kuroń (1960–2008), Polish chef, culinary publicist and journalist
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Maciej Łubieński
Maciej Łubieński (1572 in Łubna-Jakusy, Łubna – 1652 in Łowicz), of Pomian coat of arms, was a primate of Poland, archbishop of Gniezno, bishop of Poznań, bishop of Kujawy and Interrex (Poland), interrex in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwe ...
(1572–1652), primate of Poland and archbishop of Gniezno
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Maciej Miechowita (1457–1523), Polish renaissance scholar, professor of Jagiellonian University, historian, chronicler, geographer, and medical doctor
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Maciej Rybiński
Maciej Rybiński (; born 24 February 1784 in Slavuta in Wołyń, died 17 January 1874 in Paris) was a Polish general, who was the last chief of State of November Uprising
The November Uprising (1830–31) (), also known as the Polish ...
(1945–2009), Polish journalist, publicist, satirist and writer
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Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595–1640), Europe's most prominent Latin poet of the 17th century
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Maciej Stachowiak (born 1976), Polish-American software developer and notable proponent for open source software and web standards, and a leader of the WebKit development team.
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Maciej Stoiński (born 1972) Polish businessman and CEO of the
Piotr i Paweł supermarket chain.
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Maciej Stryjkowski
Maciej Stryjkowski (also referred to as Strykowski and Strycovius;Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN. t. 6, 1997 – ) was a Polish historian, writer and a poet, known as the author of ''Chronicle of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia and all of Rutheni ...
(ca. 1547–1593), Polish historian
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Maciej Sulkiewicz (1865–1920), lieutenant general of the Russian Empire, Prime Minister of Crimea, and Chief of General Staff of Azerbaijani Armed Forces
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Maciej Zamoyski, Polish nobleman
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Maciej Zaremba (born 1951), Swedish journalist and author
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Maciej Zień (born 1979), Polish fashion designer
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Maciej Żurowski
Maciej Żurowski (17 September 1915 in Płock – 8 May 2003 in Warsaw) was a Polish historian of French literature, translator, wikt:Romanist#Noun, Romanist. He was a professor of University of Warsaw, co-editor of (since 1957).
Works
Żuro ...
(1915–2003), Polish historian of French literature and translator
See also
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