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The following list predominantly names notable alumni of the
Jagiellonian University (its faculty and other prominent figures affiliated with the university are mostly not featured on this list).
History
Founded in 1364 by King of Poland
Casimir the Great , the Jagiellonian University (
Polish : Uniwersytet Jagielloński ) is considered among
the oldest universities in continuous operation in the world as well as one of Poland's two most prestigious academic institutions alongside the
University of Warsaw . Alumni and faculty of the university include many internationally acclaimed philosophers, composers, politicians, poets, writers, historians, natural and social scientists.
Among the most distinguished alumni of the university are:
Renaissance polymath
Nicolaus Copernicus , theologian and Saint
John Cantius , chronicler
Jan Długosz , poet
Jan Kochanowski ,
King of Poland
John III Sobieski , Enlightenment-era thinker
Hugo Kołłątaj , inventor and pioneer of
oil industry
Ignacy Łukasiewicz , chemist
Jan Olszewski , social anthropologist
Bronisław Malinowski , mathematician
Wacław Sierpiński , playwright
Stanisław Wyspiański ,
Nobel Prize winners
Ivo Andrić and
Wisława Szymborska , chemist
Leo Sternbach , psychiatrist
Antoni Kępiński , science fiction writer
Stanisław Lem , composer and conductor
Krzysztof Penderecki ,
Pope
John Paul II , 6th
President of Poland
Andrzej Duda , historian
Norman Davies , physicist
Artur Ekert and neuroscientist
Jerzy Vetulani .
List of notable alumni
John Cantius (1390–1473), scholastic, theologian
[1]
Jan Długosz (1415–1480), historian and chronicler
[2]
Stanisław Kazimierczyk , also known as Saint Stanislaus of Kazimierz (1433–1489), Polish Catholic priest, saint and theologian
[3]
Michał Falkener (ca. 1450–1534),
Silesian
[4]
Scholastic philosopher, astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, theologian and philologist
[5]
Albert Brudzewski (1445–c.1497), astronomer, mathematician, philosopher and diplomat
Laurentius Corvinus (1465–1527),
humanist ; lecturer at the university
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), astronomer; promoter of
heliocentrism
[6]
Maciej Miechowita (1457–1523), Renaissance scholar, historian, chronicler, geographer, medical doctor,
alchemist and
astrologer
[7]
Francysk Skaryna (1485?–1540?), pioneer of the
Belarusian language ; first to print a book in an Eastern Slavic language (1517 in
Prague )
[8]
Johannes Honter (1498–1549),
Transylvanian Saxon ,
renaissance humanist ,
Protestant reformer , and
theologian
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (1503?–1572), diplomat; political thinker; religious thinker
[9]
Mikołaj Rej (1505–1569),
Renaissance poet, writer, translator and theologian
[10]
Marcin Kromer (1512–1589), historian;
Prince-
Bishop of Warmia
[11]
Ivan Fyodorov (c. 1525–1583), Russian printer regarded as one of the fathers of
Eastern Slavonic
printing
[12]
Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584),
Polish Renaissance poet
[13]
Wawrzyniec Goślicki (ca. 1530–1607) Polish
nobleman ,
Bishop of Poznań , political thinker and philosopher best known for his book
De optimo senatore (1568)
[14]
Cyprian Bazylik (1535–1600), composer; musician; poet
Wojciech Oczko (1537–1599), philosopher, doctor, Royal Secretary to King
Sigismund II Augustus
[15]
Bartosz Paprocki (c. 1543 – 1614), writer; historiographer; translator; poet; genealogist
Jan Brożek (1585 –1652), mathematician, astronomer, physician, poet, writer, musician
Stanisław Koniecpolski (1590?–1646), military commander; military politician;
Grand Hetman of the
Crown
Kasper Twardowski (ca. 1592–ca. 1641), poet of the
early Polish Baroque period
John III Sobieski (1629–1696), military leader; monarch of
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ; victor of the
Battle of Vienna
[16]
Stanisław Dąmbski (ca. 1638–1700), Bishop of Krakow
Kasper Niesiecki (1682–1744), heraldist, lexicographer and theologian
Hugo Kołłątaj (1750–1812), a constitutional reformer and educationalist, one of the most prominent figures of the
Polish Enlightenment
[17]
Wincenty Pol (1807–1872), poet; geographer
[18]
Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822–1882),
pharmacist and a pioneer of
oil industry ; deviser of the first method of distilling
kerosene from seep oil and builder of the world's first modern
oil refinery
[19]
Carl Menger (1840–1921), Austrian economist; lawyer; founder of the
Austrian School of economics[
citation needed ]
Henryk Jordan (1842–1907), philanthropist, physician and pioneer of physical education
Edward Janczewski (1846–1918), biologist
Karol Olszewski (1846–1915), physicist; chemist; the first to liquefy
oxygen ,
nitrogen and
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Feliks Koneczny (1862–1949), historian, theatrical critic, librarian, journalist and social philosopher
Józef Paczoski (1864–1942), botanist
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865–1940), Polish
Goral poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and writer, a prominent member of the
Young Poland movement
Ignacy Daszyński (1866–1936), socialist politician and journalist
Stanisław Wyspiański (1869–1907), playwright, painter and poet, as well as interior and furniture designer
[20]
Stanisław Estreicher (1869–1939), historian of law and bibliographer
Tadeusz Estreicher (1871–1952), chemist, historian and
cryogenics pioneer
Vasyl Stefanyk (1871–1936), Ukrainian modernist writer and political activist
Bohdan Lepky (1872–1941), Ukrainian writer and poet
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874–1941), writer, poet, critic and translator
[21]
Marian Dąbrowski (1878–1958), journalist, entrepreneur and publisher, the biggest and the most influential press magnate of the
Second Polish Republic
Maria Grzegorzewska (1888–1967), educator, propagator of the
special education movement
Wacław Sierpiński (1882–1969), mathematician
Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), anthropologist
[22]
Stanisław Kot (1885–1975), Polish historian and politician
Sofija Kymantaitė-Čiurlionienė (1886–1958), Lithuanian writer, educator, and activist.
Stefan Kopeć (1888–1941), biologist and pioneer of insect endocrinology
Kazimierz Papée (1889–1979), Polish Ambassador to the Holy See 1939–1958
Tomasz Dąbal (1890–1937), lawyer, activist and politician
Stanisław Janikowski (1891–1965), diplomat and an Etruscologist
Oskar Halecki (1891–1973), historian, social and Catholic activist
Ivo Andrić (1892–1975), Yugoslav novelist and poet,
Nobel Prize laureate
[23]
Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna (1892–1983), poet, prose writer, playwright and translator
Adam Obrubański (1892–1940), reporter, manager of the
Polish National Team , murdered by the Soviets in the
Katyn Massacre
Wacław Jędrzejewicz (1893–1993), Polish Army officer, diplomat, politician and historian
Adam Heydel (1893–1941), economist and representative of the
Cracow School of Economics
Henryk Sławik (1894–1944), diplomat recognised as
Righteous Among the Nations for the rescue of
Jews in
World War II Hungary
Arkady Fiedler (1894–1985), writer, journalist and adventurer best known as the author of
Squadron 303
Stanisław Sosabowski (1892–1967), Polish general in
World War II
Leopold Infeld (1898–1968), physicist
[24]
Józef Feldman (1899–1946), historian
Volodymyr Kubiyovych (1900–1985), Ukrainian geographer, cartographer, encyclopedist, politician, and statesman
Adam Vetulani (1901–1976), historian of medieval and canon law
Yaroslav Halan (1902–1949), Ukrainian anti-fascist playwright and publicist
Kazimierz Kordylewski (1903–1981), astronomer
[25]
Józef Pieter (1904–1989), psychologist, philosopher, pedagogue, researcher, and lecturer
Oskar R. Lange (1904–1965), economist and diplomat
Ludwik Gross (1904–1999), Polish-American virologist
Wanda Wasilewska (1905–1964), novelist and journalist and a left-wing political activist
Iwo Lominski (1905–1968), bacteriologist
Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886–1941), politician, statesman,
Marshal of Poland and
Commander-in-Chief of Poland's armed forces, as well as a painter and poet
Kazimierz Lejman (1907–1985), dermatologist and college department head
[26]
Tadeusz Pankiewicz (1908–1993), pharmacist and a
Righteous Among the Nations
Lelord Kordel (1908–2001) Polish-American nutritionist and author of books on healthy living
Adolf Fierla (1908–1967), writer and poet
Andrzej Dunajewski (1908–1944), zoologist and ornithologist
Leo Sternbach (1908–2005), chemist; inventor of the
benzodiazepine
Tadeusz Pankiewicz (1908–1993), pharmacist;
Righteous Among the Nations who aided
Jews in the
Kraków Ghetto
Danuta Gierulanka (1909–1995), mathematics educator, psychologist, philosopher, and translator
Józef Cyrankiewicz (1911–1989), Communist politician;
Prime Minister of Poland 1947–1952, 1954–1970
Jerzy Turowicz (1912–1999), journalist
Poldek Pfefferberg (1913–2001), business owner who inspired
Schindler's Ark , and its film adaptation,
Schindler's List
[27]
Artur Jurand
FRSE (1914–2000), geneticist
Herbert Czaja (1914–1997), German Christian democratic politician
George Zarnecki (1915–2008), art historian specializing in English
Romanesque art
Sigmund Strochlitz (1916–2006), American activist and Holocaust survivor
Wilhelm Mach (1916–1965), writer, essayist, poet and literary critic.
Jerzy Tabeau (1918-2002), cardiologist one of the few escapees from
Auschwitz concentration camp
Antoni Kępiński (1918–1972), psychiatrist
Mietek Pemper (1920–2011), law student,
Holocaust survivor who compiled
Schindler's list
Karol Wojtyła (1920–2005), later
John Paul II ,
Pope of the
Catholic Church
[28]
Tadeusz Różewicz (1921–2014), poet, playwright, writer, and translator
Zbigniew Czajkowski (born 1921), fencer ("Father of the Polish School of Fencing")
Andrzej Łobaczewski (1921–2007), psychologist who studied
totalitarianism and introduced the concept of
political ponerology
Stanisław Lem (1921–2006),
science-fiction writer
Piotr Słonimski (1922–2009), Polish-born French geneticist, pioneer of yeast mitochondrial genetics
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012), poet, 1996
Nobel laureate in Literature
[29]
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (1923–2014), philosopher, phenomenologist, founder and president of the
World Phenomenology Institute
Zofia Szmydt (1923–2010), mathematician
Edmund Niziurski (1925–2013), writer of children's literature
Józefa Hennelowa (1925–2020), publicist, journalist, columnist and politician
Stanisław Łojasiewicz (1926–2002), mathematician
Yoram Gross (1926–2015), Australian animation producer
Andrzej Wróblewski (1927–1957), figurative painter
Franciszka Szymakowska (1927–2007), geologist
Krystyna Zachwatowicz (born 1930), scenographer, costume designer and actress
Czeslaw Olech (1931–2015), mathematician
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020), composer and conductor
Andrzej Trzaskowski (1933–1998), jazz composer and musicologist
Jerzy Vetulani (1936–2017), neuroscientist, pharmacologist and biochemist
Norman Davies (born 1939),
British historian
[30]
Krzysztof Zanussi (born 1939), film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter
Wojciech Dziembowski (born 1940 in
Warsaw ), astronomer, member of
Polish Academy of Sciences and
Polish Academy of Learning
Maria Olech (born 1941),
Antarctic researcher; namesake of the Olech Hills in the
Three Sisters point area of Antarctica
Andrzej Zoll (born 1942), lawyer, former judge and president of the
Polish Constitutional Tribunal , former
Polish Ombudsman and former president of the State Electoral Commission
Maria Dzielska (1942–2018), classical philologist, historian, translator, biographer of
Hypatia , and political activist
Adam Zagajewski (1945–2021), poet, translator, essayist
[31]
Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki (born 1948), jurist and professor of legal sciences specializing in legal theory
Lidia Morawska (born 1952), physicist
Jerzy Pilch (1952–2020), writer, columnist, and journalist
Stanisław Pyjas (1953–1977), anti-communist activist
Róża Thun (born 1954), politician
Bat-Erdeniin Batbayar (born c. 1954), Mongolian politician, political analyst and writer
Zbigniew Preisner (born 1955), film score composer
Wojciech Inglot (1955–2013), chemist; founder of
Inglot Cosmetics
Marta Kwiatkowska (born 1957), theoretical computer scientist
Jan Rokita (born 1959), liberal politician
Artur Dmochowski (born 1959), journalist, historian, and diplomat
[32]
Bogdan Klich (born 1960), politician, former
Minister of National Defence of
Poland
Artur Ekert (born 1961), physicist, one of the inventors of
quantum cryptography
Sławomir Kołodziej (born 1961), mathematician
[33]
Jarosław Gowin (b. 1961), politician and editor, former
Minister of Justice and
Minister of Science and Higher Education
Krzysztof Warlikowski (born 1962), theatre director
Beata Szydło (born 1963), politician, former
Prime Minister of Poland
[34]
Wojciech Smarzowski (born 1963), film director and screenwriter
[35]
Robert Makłowicz (born 1963), journalist, historian, television personality and food critic
Manuela Gretkowska (born 1964), writer, feminist and politician
Elżbieta Bieńkowska (born 1964), politician, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development and Transport and
European Commissioner
Grzegorz Hajdarowicz (born 1965), entrepreneur, film producer and publisher
[36]
Jan Hartman (born 1967), philosopher
Joanna Rajkowska (born 1968), contemporary artist
Paulo Szot (born 1969), Brazilian opera singer; winner of
Tony Award for best actor on Broadway 2008
Sławomir Dębski (born 1971), historian
Andrzej Duda (born 1972), lawyer, politician, 6th and current
President of Poland
[37]
Agata Kornhauser-Duda (born 1972), former teacher and the current
First Lady of Poland
[38]
Jacek Dukaj (born 1974), science fiction and fantasy writer
[39]
Jadwiga Emilewicz (born 1974), politician and political scientist,
Deputy Prime Minister of Poland
Czeslaw Walek (born 1975), Czech lawyer and
LGBT activist , studied law at the university 1993–99
[40]
Paweł Kowal (born 1975), politician and former
Member of the European Parliament
Maciej Stuhr (born 1975), actor and comedian
Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz (born 1981), politician and physician
Adam Bielecki (born 1983), alpine and high-altitude climber
Jakub Żulczyk (born 1983), writer and journalist
[41]
Jarosław Duda , computer scientist
[42]
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