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Famous people from Bialystok

Projekt edukacyjny zespołu uczennic klasy III Publicznego Gimnazjum nr 18 w Białymstoku

Skład zespołu:Jeromin Urszula

Łabacz Katarzyna

Opiekun zespołu:mgr Anna Pogorzelska

You would be surprised how many famous people come from Białystok. Of course, there are different meanings of the word ‘famous’ because some of

these people are famous all over the world, others are well-known in Poland and there are quite a few

legendary figures recognized only in our region. It’s simply a matter of range.

Edward Ryszard Linde-Lubaszenko was born on

August 23rd 1939 in Bialystok. He is a Polish actor. His son Olaf Lubaszenko is also an

actor. Linde-Lubaszenko was studying Medicine. In 1977 he

graduated from The Ludwik Solski State Drama School in

Cracow. Edward Ryszard Linde-Lubaszenko has been playing in many theatres for example in Wroclaw, Opole, Cracow. He was a dean at

State Drama School in Cracow

from 1987 to 1990.

He was a keen football player. He played in the National

Polish artists football team. He took part in 65 films such as Kroll, Psy, Lista Schindlera, Młode wilki, Sztos, Operacja Samum, Chłopaki nie płaczą,

Róża and in 24 series for instance Stawka większa niż życie, Pogranicze w ogniu, Ekstradycja 2, M jak miłość,

Kasia i Tomek and Na dobre i na złe.

Adam Piechocki (pseudonym PIH) was born on September 9th

1977 in Bialystok. He is one of the most popular Polish

rappers. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Bialystok. In

2000 he and his team JedenSiedem recorded an

album Wielka Niewiadoma. The album was a success

and brought him an immense popularity. In

2001 Hirek Wrona invited the team to the 38th

Festival of Polish Song in Opole and soon after the

band broke up.

Since then Adam Piechocki has started making a career

for himself. He has released 8 albums. PIH has collaborated

with such artists as Peja, Jamal, Pezet, Oddział

Zamknięty, Reni Jusis, Fokus, Kaczor, Ero, Chara etc. He has been featured on 70

albums. In 2012, the rapper was in the honorary

committee in support of the March of Independence.

Agnieszka Maciąg-Wolańska was born on May 9th 1969 in Bialystok. Her real name is Agnieszka Kozak. She has graduated from Secondary

School of Fine Art in Supraśl near Bialystok. She was

studying Journalism at the University of Warsaw as well

as and Psychology and Cultural Studies at Wyższa

Szkoła Psychologii Społecznej in Warsaw. She began her modeling career in 1990. She has worked for

well-known designers, including for Karl Lagerfeld, Pierre Cardin, Louis Feraud, Escada, in Poland for Teresa

Rosati, Anna Brodzinska, Maciej Zień.

In 1992, he returned to Poland to give birth to a

son. In 1996, he ended his international career, but did

not quit her job in the country. From time to time

she presents on the catwalk collections of

Polish fashion designers. In 1996 she recorded a

solo album 5:30 Marakesz with the single Zatrzymaj

czas. She conducted interviews with the stars of the world of film, music, art

and sport in Poland including Urszula Dudziak,

Kayah, Robert Korzeniowski, Katarzyna

Figura, Jan Peszek, Michal Urbaniak and abroad for instance Eros Ramazotti, Zucchero, Venessa Mae,

M People, Chambawamba.

She supports charitable organizations and events (eg. Children Hospice in Bialystok, the Foundation for Children's

Fantasy, Synapsis). In the year 2008 was an ambassador Foundation World Food

Programme (WHO Nutrition) working at the United Nations, which is engaged in the fight against hunger in third world countries. She is leading the Metamorphosis Fashion Cafe in TV Polsat Cafe, and is co-

host of the Little Black in the TV 4. Since the year 1996 is

together with the photographer Robert Wolańskim. They

married in 2011. On April 30th 2012 she gave birth to their

daughter Helena.

Kayah was born on Novebmer 5th 1967 in Warsaw. She spent her

childhood with his grandparents in Bialystok.

She is a Polish singer, songwriter, music producer and television personality.

In 1988 she made her debut at the National

Festival of Polish Song in Opole with the song

Córeczko, which brought her fame in the country.

Then she recorded a solo album, entitled Kayah. The first author's album Kamień

Kayah released in November 1995. Kayah

was later nominated for the Fryderyk 1996 for best

singer.

In the 90s launched the careers of such hits as Fleciki,

Supermenka and Na językach. Together with Goran Bregovic they recorded an album Kayah

and Bregovic (1999), which featured the hits Śpij, kochanie śpij and Prawy do lewego. In

2001, he founded his own record label, Kayax. It is still recording, and her last solo

studio album is a rock in September 2009. Total sales of the album is more than a million copies. On November 28, 2006

in Łódz for the first time in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe, there was a concert in

the series MTV Unplugged, which Kayah with several

guests (m.in: Anna Maria Jopek, Chesney Snow) made fourteen

tracks. She recorded 12 albums.

In subsequent years, she has focused more on the activities of a producer, releasing on their label Kayax albums of such artists as

Maria Peszek, Zakopower or Novika. She has recorded several musical themes for films, including Przedwiośnie and Ryś. She also starred in several productions, including series Niania. For 12

years she was married to a Dutch manufacturer Rinke Rooyens.

Couple finally divorced in 2010, after several years of separation.

Paweł Małaszyński was born on June 26th 1976 in Szczecinek. He is a

film and theater actor and a singer. He lived in

Szczecinku and Koszalin. Then he returned to his hometown to Podlasie, Bialystok. He attended

Primary School No. 36 in Bialystok. Then he

passed to V High School in the same city. He was studying the Faculty of

Law, but he decided that his true calling is acting. When he was 22 he won

an index of Wroclaw Academy of Dramatic

Arts (the third time), from which he graduated in

2002.

He was the winner of the prize awarded by the magazine Viva for the

most famous people Viva! Najpiękniejsi, 2005. He also received Telekamery 2007 in the category of

Best Actor and Telekamery 2008 in the same category. Paul Malaszynski has

been selected as one of the three famous people of Poland to participate in the Olympic Torch Relay in Beijing in 2008 carrying a flame from which

the opening day of the Olympic ignition Olympic torch.

Since August 17th 2002 he has been married to Joanna Chitruszko, a

dancer, a choreographer and a teacher. On April

12th 2004 their first son, Jeremiah was born. He plays in the band the

Cochise, in which he is the lead singer and

lyricist. Together with a band they have recorded three discs. He starred in Teraz albo nigdy, Twarzą w twarz, Katyń, Świadek

koronny, Tajemnica Twierdzy Szyfrów, Magda

M. and Wiedźmin.

Tomasz Frankowski was born on 16th August 1974 in Bialystok. He is a former Polish footballer who plays as

a striker and a former Polish representative. Now he is a player of Jagiellonia Bialystok. From childhood Tomasz Frankowski was interested in

football. In 1984, he played for the Primary School No. 10 in Bialystok. His team won a junior tournament

and the winners recorded for training in local Jagiellonia. In this way, as the age of ten, Tomasz Frankowski was in Bialystok club. After six years, has

signed its first contract with Jagiellonia.

Tomasz Frankowski made his debut in the league on 29th August 1992 in a meeting with Ruch Chorzow. The first goal was scored by 7th October in a meeting

with Szombierkami Bytom.The young striker could not break into the

first team. Finally his talent was spotted by French coach RC Strasbourg.

Frankowski appeared in Strasbourg in 1993-1996. In 1996, he went on to run

at the time by Arsène Wenger, the Japanese club

Nagoya Grampus Eight, but quickly returned to

France. He moved first to the third-tier Poitiers FC.

In 1998, Frankowski returned to Poland, becoming the

player of Wisla Kraków. In the period 2005-2006, Frank

was the star of the Polish team to qualify for the World

Cup in 2006. In 2008 a footballer signed two-year

contract with the team, which is a pupil - Jagiellonia Bialystok. He helped

Jagiellonia to remain in the league. On May 29th 2013

he announced that at the end of the 2012/13 season will

end his career.

Justyna Sieńczyłło was born on 28th November 1969 in Bialystok. She

is a theatre and a television actress. She

graduated from the Secondary School in

Bialystok. In 1992 she graduated from the

Warsaw Academy of Dramatic Arts and

Theatre actress. She played the multiple roles including the

following: Hermia in Midsummer Night's

Dream, Chris in Dances in Ballybeg.

Her vocal talent is also appreciated by implementers musicals musical theater in Warsaw: Syrena and Roma. She played there in musicals such as Peter Pan, Crazy for

You and Piękna Ludynda. Justyna Sieńczyłło also occurs in movies and television series

(including Klan, Szatan z siódmej klasy ). She is a

heroine of the book entitled Optymistki written by Marzanna

Graff-Oszczepalińska. An actress is a wife of Emilian

Kaminski. They have two sons Kajetan and Cyprian.

Tomasz Bagiński was born on January 10th 1976 in

Bialystok. He is a Polish illustrator, animator and

director. He is a self-taught artist. His first film Rain has

won a couple of local awards and became the

passport to Platige Image company, in which he is a creative director. Between

1999 and 2002 he was working on his short film

debut,The Cathedral, which in 2002 won the first prize at SIGGRAPH, the biggest festival of animation and

special effects, and a year later was nominated for an

Oscar for the best animated short film.

In 2004, he made his second short film, Fallen Art. In

2005, he received another award at the SIGGRAPH

festival, becoming the only artist in history who has won two main awards. Fallen Art

also received a BAFTA Award for Best Short

Animation and a Grand Prix for Digital Shorts at Golden Horse Film Festival 2005 (shared with Jarek Sawko and Piotr Sikora). Bagiński

has also created cinematics for The Witcher computer

game based on the books by Andrzej Sapkowski.

He is the author of all covers of Jacek Dukaj books,

including the novel entitled Ice. In 2009, he directed another short film, The

Kinematograph, based on a comic book by Mateusz Skutnik from the album

Revolutions: Monochrome. Apart from his own

projects, Bagiński works as a director on commercials and stage shows. He has published in many trade magazines, from United

States to China and Japan.

Szymon Hołownia was born on September 3rd 1976 in Bialystok. He graduated from High School in

Bialystok. He studied Psychology at the Warsaw School of Social

Psychology. Twice he was in the novitiate of the Order Dominicans.

He worked as a paramedic. He founded a branch of Bialystok

Foundation Pomoc Maltańska. In 1997-2000 he was an editor of the

culture of Gazeta Wyborcza. In 2001-2004 a columnist and an

editor of the Newsweek Poland. Since April to July 2005 he was a deputy editor of the Ozone. In the

years 2006-2012 he was a publicist again in Newsweek Poland. From September 2012 to April 2013 he was a columnist for the Wprost.

He broadcasts on Radio Bialystok, Vox FM Radio, worked with Radio PiN. In 2006, he was leading the

program I'm just asking for TVP1. In the years 2007-2012

he was director of programming television station

Religia.tv. Since 2008, together with Marcin Prokop

co-directed the television TVN four editions of the Mam

talent. In December 2012 he launched a web portal Station 7. He has written books such

as Kościół dla średnio zaawansowanych, Tabletki z

krzyżykiem, Ludzie na walizkach, Monopol na

zbawienie or Bóg. Życie i twórczość. He has been

awarded the Grand Press twice.

Adam Woronowicz was born 25th December 1973 in

Bialystok. He gratuated V High School in Bialystok, then

graduated from the Acting Department of the Theatre

Academy in Warsaw in 1997. He has performed at the Teatr Rozmaitości in Warsaw 1997- 2001 and from 2009 till now and in Teatr Powszechny in

Warsaw from 2001 to 2009.

Adam Woronowicz is a prize winner of Aleksander

Zelwerowicz award for season 2004/2005 for the role of Fadinard in Słomkowy

kapelusz and Miron in the Television Theatre play Diary of the Warsaw Uprising. He

played the role of priest Jerzy Popieluszko in the film

Popiełuszko. Wolność jest w nas, directed by Rafał

Wieczyński. Adam Woronowicz starred also in

Enduro Bojz, Chopin. Pragnienie miłości, Generał

Nil, Rewers, Czas honoru and Hans Kloss. Stawka większa

niż śmierć.

Of course, these are not all famous people who were born or lived in Bialystok, but they are very meaningful for the citizens and for the city itself.

Why people here are so fruitful you may ask? Well, it is probably the multiculturalism of Bialystok that inspired so many people to be creative in so many

areas of life. Or maybe it’s the air…  

Bibliography

• www.wikipedia.com• www.google.pl• www.filmweb.pl