Mieczysław () or Mečislovas (Lithuanian) is a
Slavic name
Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic countries.
The main types of Slavic names:
* Two-base names, often ending in mir/měr (''Ostromir/měr'', ''Tihomir/měr'', '' Němir/měr''), *voldъ (''Vsevolod'', ...
of
Polish origin. Feminine form: Mieczysława.
This name may refer to:
People
Mečislovas
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Mečislovas Birmanas (1900–1950), Lithuanian chess player
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Mečislovas Davainis-Silvestraitis (1849–1919), Lithuanian activist
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Mečislovas Gedvilas (1901–1981), Lithuanian Soviet politician, first Prime Minister of the Lithuanian SSR
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Mečislovas Leonardas Paliulionis (1834–1908), Roman Catholic bishop
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Mečislovas Reinys (1884–1953), Lithuanian Roman Catholic archbishop and professor
Mieczysław
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Mieczysław Bareja, a Polish judge and politician
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Mieczysław Batsch, Polish footballer
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Mieczysław Boruta-Spiechowicz, a Polish military officer, a general of the Polish Army and a notable member of the post-war anti-communist opposition in Poland
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Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, a Polish film actress, stage actor and singer. She was often nicknamed Lińska or Amiette.
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Mieczysław Fogg, Polish singer
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Mieczysław Garsztka, Polish aviator, flying ace in the German Air Force in World War I
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Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski
Mieczysław () or Mečislovas (Lithuanian) is a Slavic names, Slavic name of Polish people, Polish origin. Feminine form: Mieczysława.
This name may refer to:
People Mečislovas
*Mečislovas Birmanas (1900–1950), Lithuanian chess player
*Meč ...
, a Cardinal Ledóchowski
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Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist
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Mieczysław Jagielski, Polish communist politician and economist
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Mieczysław Janowski
Mieczysław Edmund Janowski (born 16 November 1947 in Zduńska Wola) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Subcarpathian Voivodship with the Law and Justice, part of the Union for a Europe of Nations. He si ...
, Polish politician and Member of the
European Parliament
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Mieczysław Kalenik, Polish actor
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Mieczysław Karłowicz, Polish composer and conductor
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Mieczysław Kawalec
Mieczysław Kawalec (nom de guerre, noms de guerre "Iza", "Zbik", "Psarski", "Stanislawski"), born in 1916 in the village of Trzciana, Rzeszów County, was a Polish resistance fighter. In the late 1930s, he graduated from the Law Department at Lwó ...
, Polish officer in the anti-communist resistance
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Mieczysław Mickiewicz
Mieczysław Mickiewicz (1879 – before 1939) was a Ukrainian politician and lawyer of Polish descent, later a statesman of the Second Polish Republic.
Mickiewicz, a member of Polish Democratic Centrist party, was the deputy-secretary of Polish a ...
, Polish-Ukrainian politician
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Mieczysław Moczar
Mieczysław Moczar (; birth name Mikołaj Diomko, pseudonym ''Mietek'', 23 December 1913 – 1 November 1986) was a Polish communist politician who played a prominent role in the history of the Polish People's Republic
The Polish People's R ...
, Polish communist who played a prominent role in the history of the
Polish People's Republic
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Mieczysław Mokrzycki
Mieczysław Mokrzycki (born 29 March 1961 in Majdan Lipowiecki) is a Polish-born Catholic prelate, currently serving as the archbishop of Lviv of the Latins in Ukraine.
Early life and ordination
Mokrzycki completed primary school in Łukawiec ...
, Polish Catholic archbishop
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Mieczysław Morański
Mieczysław Morański (21 January 1960 – 27 December 2020) was a Polish actor.
Biography
He was mostly known for his dubbing of popular children film and cartoon characters, including Barney, Asterix, and Slinky Dog, as well as Eric Cartma ...
, Polish actor, famous for cartoon voice-overs
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Mieczysław Munz
Mieczysław Munz (October 31, 1900, Kraków – August 25, 1976) was a Polish-American pianist.
Munz trained in Vienna and Berlin, with Ferruccio Busoni. He was a teacher of Emanuel Ax, Walter Hautzig, David Oei, Ann Schein, Virginia Re ...
, Polish-American pianist
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Miguel Najdorf
Miguel Najdorf ( ; born Mojsze Mendel Najdorf; 15 April 1910 – 4 July 1997) was a Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster. Originally from Poland, he was in Argentina when World War II began in 1939, and he stayed and settled there. He was a leadin ...
, Polish-born Argentine chess grandmaster of Jewish origin, famous for his Najdorf Variation
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Mieczysław Niedziałkowski
Mieczysław Niedziałkowski (September 19, 1893 in Vilnius - June 21, 1940 in Palmiry) was a Polish politician and writer. He was an activist in the Polish Socialist Party, editor in chief of Robotnik, and one of the primary activists and co ...
, Polish writer and activist executed during the
German AB-Aktion in Poland
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Mieczysław Nowicki, Polish Olympic medalist in bicycle racing and Minister of Sport
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Mieczysław Połukard, Polish speedway rider and coach
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Mieczysław "Mietek" Pemper, a Polish-born Jewish Holocaust survivor who assisted
Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler (; 28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist, humanitarian, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and amm ...
in his rescue activities during World War II
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Mieczysław Rakowski
Mieczysław Franciszek Rakowski ( Polish: ; 1 December 1926 – 8 November 2008) was a Polish communist politician, historian and journalist who was Prime Minister of Poland from 1988 to 1989. He served as the seventh and final First Secretary o ...
, Polish communist politician, historian and journalist
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Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski, Polish army officer
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Mieczysław Smorawiński
Brigadier General Mieczysław Makary Smorawiński (1893–1940), was a Polish military commander and officer of the Polish Army. He was one of the Polish generals identified by forensic scientists of the Katyn Commission as the victim of the Sovi ...
, Polish general who died in the
Katyn massacre
The Katyn massacre was a series of mass killings under Communist regimes, mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish people, Polish military officer, military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by t ...
* Mieczyslaw Solomonowicz, changed his name to
Michael Sela (1924–2022), Israeli immunologist; President of the
Weizmann Institute of Science
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Mieczysław Stoor, Polish film actor
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Mieczysław Demetriusz Sudowski, writer on esoteric, spiritual and mystical topics
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Mieczysław Weinberg
Mieczysław Weinberg (December 8, 1919 – February 26, 1996) was a Polish, Soviet, and Russian composer and pianist. Born in Warsaw to parents who worked in the Yiddish theatre in Poland, his early years were surrounded by music. He taught him ...
, important Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin
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Mieczysław Wolfke
Mieczysław Wolfke (29 May 1883 – 4 May 1947) was a Polish physicist, professor at the Warsaw University of Technology, the forerunner of holography and television. He discovered the method of solidification of helium as well as two types of l ...
, Polish physicist
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Mieczysław Zub, Polish serial killer
Fiction
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Mieczysław "Mickey Doyle" Kuzik, from the television series ''Boardwalk Empire''
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Mieczysław "Stiles" Stilinski, a character from the 2011 television series ''Teen Wolf''.
See also
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Mieszko
Mieszko is a Slavic given name of uncertain origin.
Onomastics
There are three major theories concerning the origin and meaning of the name of Duke Mieszko I of Poland. The most popular theory, proposed by Jan Długosz, explains that Mieszko is a ...
, possible diminutive form
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Mstislav (given name)
Mstislav or Mścisław (Polish) - is a very old Slavic origin given name, consists of two elements: ''msti'' - "vengeance" and ''slav'' - "glory, fame". The feminine forms are Mstislava and Mścisława.
List of people with the given name Mstisl ...
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Polish name
Polish names have two main elements: the given name, and the surname. The usage of personal names in Poland is generally governed by civil law, church law, personal taste and family custom.
The law requires a given name to indicate the person' ...
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Slavic names
Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic peoples, Slavic countries.
The main types of Slavic names:
* Two-base names, often ending in mir/měr (''Ostromir/měr'', ''Tihomir/měr'', ''Niemir, Němir/měr''), * ...
External links
* http://www.behindthename.com/name/mieczysl16aw
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Slavic masculine given names