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

* Mečislovas Birmanas (1900–1950), Lithuanian chess player * Mečislovas Davainis-Silvestraitis (1849–1919), Lithuanian activist * Mečislovas Gedvilas (1901–1981), Lithuanian Soviet politician, first Prime Minister of the Lithuanian SSR * Mečislovas Leonardas Paliulionis (1834–1908), Roman Catholic bishop * Mečislovas Reinys (1884–1953), Lithuanian Roman Catholic archbishop and professor

Mieczysław

* Mieczysław Bareja, a Polish judge and politician * Mieczysław Batsch, Polish footballer * 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 * Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, a Polish film actress, stage actor and singer. She was often nicknamed Lińska or Amiette. * Mieczysław Fogg, Polish singer * Mieczysław Garsztka, Polish aviator, flying ace in the German Air Force in World War I *

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 * Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist * Mieczysław Jagielski, Polish communist politician and economist *

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 The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it ...

* Mieczysław Kalenik, Polish actor * Mieczysław Karłowicz, Polish composer and conductor *

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 *

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 *

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 The Polish People's Republic (1952–1989), formerly the Republic of Poland (1947–1952), and also often simply known as Poland, was a country in Central Europe that existed as the predecessor of the modern-day democratic Republic of Poland. ...

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 The ''AB-Aktion'' ( , ) was the second stage of the Nazi Germany, Nazi German campaign of violence in Poland early in World War II, taking place between March and September 1940. As with the previous ''Intelligenzaktion'', during the 1939 invasio ...

* Mieczysław Nowicki, Polish Olympic medalist in bicycle racing and Minister of Sport * Mieczysław Połukard, Polish speedway rider and coach * 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 *

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 * Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski, Polish army officer *

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 The Weizmann Institute of Science ( ''Machon Weizmann LeMada'') is a Public university, public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded. Unlike other List of Israeli uni ...

* Mieczysław Stoor, Polish film actor * Mieczysław Demetriusz Sudowski, writer on esoteric, spiritual and mystical topics *

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 *

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 * Mieczysław Zub, Polish serial killer

Fiction

* Mieczysław "Mickey Doyle" Kuzik, from the television series ''Boardwalk Empire'' * Mieczysław "Stiles" Stilinski, a character from the 2011 television series ''Teen Wolf''.

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People

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Fiction

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