Polish history: People #1

the founder of the first unified Polish state

widely regarded as Poland's greatest 19th century poet

physicist and chemist who conducted research on radioactivity.

formed the Polish Legions, responsible for May Coup, big moustache

modernist writer, spent a huge part of his life in Argentina, died in Paris, wrote Ferdydurke

composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, there's a piano competition named after him

Polish pianist, composer and statesman, signed the Treaty of Versailles, head of the Polish governament in exile in London.

the first woman to be crowned as monarch of the Kingdom of Poland

Daughter of Polish King Sigismund I the Old and Italian duchess Bona Sforza, remained unmarried until the age of 52

fought in the Khmelnytsky Uprising, the Russo-Polish War and during the Swedish invasion known as the Deluge, won against the Ottoman Empire

was a Polish mathematician, nuclear physicist and computer scientist, participated in the Manhattan Project

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

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

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.

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