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Józef Tusk (23 March 1907 – 12 June 1987) was a Polish luthier, the grandfather of the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk. During World War II, he served in the Wehrmacht, which proved to be controversial during the 2005 Polish presidential election.
His grandfather fought in the Polish–Soviet War and later was a member of the Home Army during the Second World War. [3] Between 1987 and 1991, Duda attended Jan III Sobieski High School, Kraków, where he excelled in Humanities. [4] He subsequently studied law at the Jagiellonian University, and earned a law degree.
Michael's Polish paternal grandfather, Andrew (Andrzej Bobola Bisping von Gallen), was born in what is now Masaliany, Byerastavitsa Rayon, Hrodna Voblasts, Belarus, descended from German nobility who moved to Poland in the Middle Ages and was a member of the noble Polish Zamoyski family (through his mother), while Michael's English paternal ...
Logan Lerman (born 1992), actor; his maternal grandfather was a Polish Jewish immigrant, and the rest of Logan's ancestry is Russian Jewish, Lithuanian Jewish, and other Polish Jewish Justin Long (born 1978), film and television actor; his mother, former Broadway actress Wendy Lesniak, is of half Polish descent
Nedoroscik, a breakout star of this year's Olympic Games, told TODAY that the ear pull was always his signal to his “dziadziu,” which means grandfather in Polish. Grandpa Stephen John ...
The family of Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of Germany, is of German and Polish descent. Merkel was born Angela Dorothea Kasner on 17 July 1954 in Hamburg. The Kasner name is derived from Jan Kaźmierczak, a Pole from Poznań who lived in the 18th century. Merkel's grandfather changed the name to Kasner in 1930.
Janifer was born in Brooklyn, New York with the surname of Harris, but in 1963 took the original surname of his Polish grandfather.Many of his early stories appeared under the "Larry M. Harris" byline.
Along with George Boone, grandfather of frontiersman Daniel Boone, he was a founder of Amity Township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1719. [1] Sadowski worked to establish friendly relations with the Native Americans in the area, learning the Delaware (Lenape) and Iroquois languages. He served as an interpreter to other settlers. [1]