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| physicist and chemist who conducted research on radioactivity. | Marie Curie | 77%
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| composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, there's a piano competition named after him | Frédéric Chopin | 69%
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| widely regarded as Poland's greatest 19th century poet | Adam Mickiewicz | 63%
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| the first woman to be crowned as monarch of the Kingdom of Poland | Jadwiga | 56%
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| the founder of the first unified Polish state | Mieszko I | 54%
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| formed the Polish Legions, responsible for May Coup, big moustache | Józef Piłsudski | 48%
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| fought in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's struggles against Russia and Prussia, and on the U.S. side in the American Revolutionary War, he took a part in an uprising named after him | Tadeusz Kościuszko | 29%
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| modernist writer, spent a huge part of his life in Argentina, died in Paris, wrote Ferdydurke | Witold Gombrowicz | 29%
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| Regarded as one of the great poets and intellectuals of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature, on exile in the United States, became a professor at Berkeley. | Czesław Miłosz | 27%
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| Polish pianist, composer and statesman, signed the Treaty of Versailles, head of the Polish governament in exile in London. | Ignacy Jan Paderewski | 19%
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| achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of film, known for her femme fatale roles, the first European actress in history to be contracted in Hollywood | Pola Negri | 17%
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| Daughter of Polish King Sigismund I the Old and Italian duchess Bona Sforza, remained unmarried until the age of 52 | Anna Jagiellon | 15%
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| was a Polish mathematician, nuclear physicist and computer scientist, participated in the Manhattan Project | Stanisław Ulam | 8%
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| fought in the Khmelnytsky Uprising, the Russo-Polish War and during the Swedish invasion known as the Deluge, won against the Ottoman Empire | John III Sobieski | 6%
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| playwright, painter, novelist, and philosopher, his paintings were annotated with mnemonics listing the drugs taken while painting, served in Imperial Russian Army, comitted suicide after hearing the news of the Soviet invasion of Poland | Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Witkacy | 2%
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