List of Leopolitans

The inhabitants of Lviv, Ukraine (Polish: Lwów; German: Lemberg) are commonly known in English as Leopolitans (from the Neo-Latin name for the city, Leopolis). The following is a list of notable Leopolitans.

A

Maria Abashova, ballet dancer
Roman Abraham, general of the Polish army
Pavlo Arie, screenwriter and playwright
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, logician and philosopher
Spirydion Albański, football goalkeeper of the Poland National Team
Zofia Albinowska-Minkiewiczowa, painter
Stanislaw Albinowski, economist, columnist and journalist
Bohdan Ihor Antonych, poet
Stefan Askenase (1896–1985), pianist
Szymon Askenazy, historian and politician, founder of the Lwów-Warsaw historical school
Muhammad Asad, translator of Quran into English (born in Lemberg as Leopold Weiss)
Herman Auerbach, mathematician
Emanuel Ax, American pianist
Teodor Axentowicz, painter
Erwin Axer, actor and theatre professor

B

Oswald Balzer, law historian, rector of the Lwów University (1895–1896), founder of the Society for Support of Polish Science in Lwów (Tow. dla Popierania Nauki Pol. we Lwowie), the first scientific organisation in the city
Stefan Banach, mathematician
Yuri Bashmet, viola soloist
Kazimierz Bartel, mathematician and politician, prime minister of Poland (1926–1930)
Adolf Beck (1863–1942), physiologist
Joseph Beer (1908–1987), composer
Alexander Beliavsky, chess grandmaster
Józef Bem, Polish and Hungarian national hero
Saint Józef Bilczewski, Archbishop of Lviv and a Catholic saint
Szymon Okolski (1580–1653), a historian, specialist in heraldry, provincial of the Dominican Order
Fabian Birkowski, writer, preacher
Wojciech Bobowski (1610–1675), dragoman and musician in the Ottoman Empire, translated the Bible into Ottoman Turkish
Wojciech Bogusławski, composer
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, general of the Polish army, commander-in-chief of the Home Army
Mieczysław Boruta-Spiechowicz, general of the Polish army
Naftali Botwin, political militant and labor activist
Michał Boym (ca. 1612–1659), Jesuit missionary in China, known for his travels and writings
Heinrich Gottfried von Bretschneider, German satirical writer
Julia Brystiger, political militant, member of the security apparatus of the Polish People's Republic
Jan Brzoza, writer, publicist
Martin Buber, philosopher
Solomon Buber, banker and philosopher

C

Leopold Caro, economist and lawyer
Emmanuil Chekalyuk, petroleum engineer
Vyacheslav Chornovil, politician
Taras Chubay, leader of Ukrainian rock band Plach Yeremiji
Jan Czekanowski, anthropologist
Anna Czekanowska-Kuklińska, musicologist and ethnographer
Eugeniusz Czerwiński, Polish architect

D

Danylo of Halych, 1st King of Galicia, founder of city
Andrzej Dobrowolski, composer
Hryhoriy Dolenko, petroleum geologist, academician
Danylo Ishutin, professional Dota 2 eSports player, affiliated with the team Natus Vincere

E

Max Ettinger, composer

F

Iryna Farion, Ukrainian linguist and nationalist politician
Ludwik Fleck, biologist
Aleksander Ford, film director
Ivan Franko, poet and linguist, reformer of the Ukrainian language
Mikhail Fridman, Russian oligarch
Filip Friedman, Holocaust researcher
Ivan Fedorov, founder of book printing in Russia and Ukraine
Count Aleksander Fredro, comedy writer

G

Mieczysław Gębarowicz, scientist and art historian, director of the Ossolineum Institute during World War II
Eugeniusz Geppert, painter
Franciszek Ksawery Godebski, director of the Ossolineum and father to Cyprian Godebski, renowned sculptor
Julian Godlewski, businessman and philanthropist
Maksymilian Goldstein, a pre-war Judaica collector, director of the Lviv Jewish Museum, and owner of a privately-maintained museum
Georgiy R. Gongadze, journalist kidnapped and murdered in 2000
Zygmunt Gorgolewski, architect, constructor of the Grand Theatre in Lwów (currently the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet)
Kazimierz Górski, football coach
Uri Zvi Greenberg, poet
Artur Grottger, late romanticist painter

H

Yaroslav Halan, anti-fascist playwright and publicist
Bernard Hausner (1874–1938), rabbi, diplomat and member of the Sejm
Zbigniew Herbert, poet
Mykhailo Hrushevsky, first president of the Ukrainian People's Republic
Lyubomyr Huzar, Cardinal, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Mieczyslaw Horszowski, pianist

I

Vasyl Ivanchuk, chess grandmaster
Volodymyr Ivasyuk, composer
Danylo "Dendi" Ishutin, professional eSports player

K

Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski, painter
Bertha Kalich, actress
Vera Kamsha, fantasy writer
Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, general
Stanisław Kasznica, resistance soldier
Wojciech Kilar, composer
Lubka Kolessa, pianist
Yevhen Konovalets, Ukrainian nationalist leader
Maria Konopnicka, writer
Ihor Kobrin, film director
Juliusz Kossak, painter
Ihor Kozhan, Ukrainian archivist, cultural and public figure
Jan Krukowiecki, general
Solomiya Krushelnytska, opera singer
Tadeusz Krwawicz, ophthalmologist
Jerzy Kulczycki, civil engineer and activist publisher and bookseller
Jacek Kuroń, freedom fighter and politician (Solidarity, KOR)
Vilém Kurz, pianist, professor at the Lwów State Conservatory
Ilona Kurzowa, pianist
Wacław Kuchar, talented athlete, multiple champion of Poland in various sports

L

Stanisław Jerzy Lec, poet and aphorist
Stanisław Lem, science fiction writer and futurist
Stanisław Leśniewski, philosopher and logician
Stanisław I Leszczyński (1677–1766), twice King of Poland.^[1]
Antoni Łomnicki, mathematician
Roman Longschamps de Berier, lawyer, last rector of the Jan Kazimierz University
Alfred J. Lotka, mathematician, physical chemist, statistician, biophysicist, author of predator-prey model
Yuriy Loutseiko, guitarist in Smerichka and Vatra
Ignacy Łukasiewicz, engineer, pioneer of oil industry
Jan Łukasiewicz, philosopher and logician
Oleh Luzhnyi, former professional footballer

M

Stanisław Maczek, Polish World War II general, Commander Allied (Polish) 1st Armoured Division in Western Europe
Kornel Makuszyński, writer of books for children
Michael Malice, Author, political commentator, Anarchist
Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer of detective stories
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer, author of Venus in Furs
Kazimierz Michałowski, Egyptologist, founder of Nubiology
Krystyna Mihułka, author
Ludwig von Mises, free-market economist (born in Lemberg)
Richard von Mises, mathematician (younger brother of Ludwig, also born in Lemberg)
Izydor Modelski, Polish Lieutenant General and spy
Iryna Morykvas, Ukrainian illustrator, artist, writer
Sigmund Mogulesko, Yiddish singer and actor
Ignacy Mościcki, chemist and President of Poland (1926–1939)
Andrzej Mostowski, mathematician
Gabriela Moyseowicz, composer and pianist
Paul Muni, actor
Ana Muzičuk, chess grandmaster
Vitaly Mansky, film director

N

Joseph Saul Nathanson, leading rabbinical authority of the 19th century
Joanna Nittenberg, journalist

O

Aaron ha-Levi Oettingen, Eighteenth century Galician rabbi^[2]
Janusz Onyszkiewicz, politician, Vice President of the European Parliament
Stanisław Ostrowski, Polish politician, best known for serving as the last Polish Mayor of Lwów and third President of Poland in exile.

P

Jan Parandowski, writer
Jakub Karol Parnas, biochemist
Teodor Parnicki, historian
Aniela Pawlikowska, painter
Aaron ben Phinehas, member of rabbinical college of Lemberg
Leon Piniński, politician, lawyer and art historian
Wojciech Pszoniak, actor
Witold Pyrkosz, modern Polish actor

R

Karl Radek, international Communist figure
Samuel Judah Löb Rapoport (1790–1867), prominent Austrian rabbi.^[3]
Leon Reich (1879–1929), lawyer and member of the Sejm of Poland
Wilhelm Reich, American psychiatrist
Eugeniusz Romer, geographer and geologist
Lillian Roxon, writer
Roman Rozdolsky, economist and political revolutionary
Ruslana, pop singer

S

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, journalist and BDSM writer whose surname originated the term "masochism"
Henryk Samsonowicz, historian
Iryna Senyk (1926-2009), poet, nurse, political dissident
Filip Schleicher (1870-1932), Polish-Jewish lawyer, deputy mayor from 1913 to 1927
Larisa Shepitko, Soviet film director.
Andrey Sheptytsky, head of the Ukrainian Church through both the world wars
Roman Shukhevych, general of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Iva Sidash, Ukrainian street and documentary photographer
Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski, hetman
Stanisław Skrowaczewski, composer
Myroslav Skoryk, composer, Hero of Ukraine
Natalka Sniadanko, Ukrainian writer, journalist, translator
Wacław Sobieski, historian
Leopold Staff, poet
Hugo Steinhaus, mathematician
Zygmunt Steuermann (1899–1941), Polish football player
Julian Stryjkowski, writer
Roman Svintsitskyi (born 1981), former Ukrainian professional footballer
Jan Szeliga ( ? — 1636), wandering book printer
Moritz Szeps, journalist
Wacław Szybalski, medical researcher

T

Alfred Tarski, logician
Władysław Tatarkiewicz, historian of philosophy
Kazimierz Twardowski, philosopher, founder of Lwów-Warsaw philosophical school

U

Stanisław Marcin Ulam, mathematician
Adam Ulam, historian

V

Yuri Velykanovych, journalist, volunteer of the International Brigades
Elena Vesnina, professional tennis player, multiple Olympic medallist

W

Jan Wasiewicz, soccer player of the Poland National Team
Rudolf Weigl, scientist, inventor of the typhus vaccine
Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter
Wanda Wasilewska, writer

Y

Grigoriy Alekseyevich Yavlinskiy, politician

Z

Julian Zachariewicz, architect and rector of the Lwów University
Adam Zagajewski, poet
Gabriela Zapolska, writer
Andrzej Żuławski, film director
Jozef J. Zwislocki, physicist and neuroscientist^[4]

References

^ Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Stanislaus I." . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). pp. 775–776.
^ "AARON HA-LEVI OETTINGEN". jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
^ "Rapoport, Samuel Judah Löb" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 909.
^ "Jozef J. Zwislocki". Syracuse Post Standard. May 14, 2018. Retrieved June 4, 2018.

[1] Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Stanislaus I." . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). pp. 775–776.

[2] "AARON HA-LEVI OETTINGEN". jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 29 January 2024.

[3] "Rapoport, Samuel Judah Löb" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 909.

[4] "Jozef J. Zwislocki". Syracuse Post Standard. May 14, 2018. Retrieved June 4, 2018.

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List of Leopolitans

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