In 1974 historian Jerzy Ochmański noted that Zadonshchina, a poem from the end of the 14th century, contains a line in which two sons of Algirdas name their ancestors: " We are two brothers – sons of Algirdas, and grandsons of Gediminas, and great-grandsons of Skalmantas.

* Jerzy Dzik has suggested that Ausia bears some similarity to the halkieriids, and resembles the bodyplan that might be expected of halkieriid ancestors under the coeloscleritophoran hypothesis.

In the late 17th century, the weakened Republic of Both Nations under King Jan III Sobieski in alliance with the forces of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, dealt the crushing defeats to the Ottoman Empire ; Jerzy Trubecki was the Polish wojewoda of Kiev Voivodeship, 1673.

After earning a Master's degree under the influence of Warsaw Tech's theoretical physics professor Jerzy Plebański, he continued graduate work in Leopold Infeld's group at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of Warsaw University.

He befriended many Polish artists there, including Roman Kramsztyk, Wacław Borowski, Leopold Gottlieb, Jerzy Merkel, Elie Nadelman, Mela Muter, Tytus Czyżewski and Zygmunt Menkes.

* 1947 – Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, screenwriter, and director

There is no strict division in Poland between theatre and film directors and actors, therefore many stage artists are known to theatre goers from films of Andrzej Wajda, for example: Wojciech Pszoniak, Daniel Olbrychski, Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, and from films of Krzysztof Kieślowski, actors such as Jerzy Stuhr, Janusz Gajos and others.

It was twice invited to the Edinburgh International Festival: in 1996 with Macbeth directed by Jerzy Stuhr, and in 1997 with Antigona directed by Włodzimierz Nurkowski.

* Jerzy Stuhr in The Scar, Camera Buff, Blind Chance, The Decalogue, and Three Colors: White

Jerzy Stuhr, who starred in several Kieślowski films and co-wrote the script for Camera Buff, filmed his own adaptation of an unfilmed Kieślowski script as Big Animal ( Duże zwierzę ) in 2000.

He returns to working as a hairdresser with his brother ( Jerzy Stuhr ).

* Jerzy Stuhr as Jurek

Typically for Kieślowski, the tone of most of the films is melancholic, except for the final one, which, like Three Colors: White, is a black comedy, and features two of the same actors, Jerzy Stuhr and Zbigniew Zamachowski.

Jerzy Stuhr (; born 18 April 1947 in Kraków ) is one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish film and theatre actors.

In spite of the production's success, it was not until 1995 that Stuhr began directing films as well, with List of Adulteresses () based on a novel by Jerzy Pilch.

Jerzy Stuhr in 2006

Jerzy Stuhr became very popular with younger viewers after he provided the voice for Donkey in the Polish dubbed version of Shrek ( as well as in Shrek 2, Shrek the Third and in video games, based on the Shrek movies ).

* Jerzy Stuhr

His centrality to Ray's work is akin to other key collaborations in the history of cinema — Mifune and Kurosawa, Mastroianni and Fellini, De Niro and Scorsese, DiCaprio and Scorsese, Max von Sydow and Ingmar Bergman, Jerzy Stuhr and Kieślowski.

Among members of the Council there were also the late: Jerzy Turowicz ( Chair of the Council, 1991 – 1999 ), Anna Radziwiłł ( Chair of the Counc, 1999 – 2009 ), Prof. Bronisław Geremek, Prof. Leszek Kołakowski and father Jerzy Tischner

In 1593 the town was sold by his great granddaughter Anna, wife of voivod of Vitebsk Mikołaj Sapieha, to a local noble Jerzy Grodziński for sixty times the amount of 10. 000 grosz in silver.

Anna Dymna starred as Barbara, and Jerzy Zelnik as King Zygmunt August.

They had five children together: Aleksander Michał Lubomirski, Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, Konstanty Jacek Lubomirski, Konstancja Lubomirska and Anna Krystyna Lubomirska.

He married Anna Marianna Połubienska on 11 October 1660, and in 1692 the daughter of Grand Marshal and Hetman Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, Anna Krystyna Lubomirska.

) Count Wincenty Potocki ( d. 1825 ), podkomorzy wielki koronny in 1773, szef regimentarzy gwardii konnej koronnej, general lejtnant wojsk koronnych in 1775, starosta lubelski ( married secondly in 1787 Anna Mycielska and thirdly in 1792 Princess Helena Apolonia Massalska ( 1763 – 1815, both without issue ), by whom she had a son, and secondly Michal Jerzy Mniszech, marszalek wielki koronny:

He was married to Anna Wiśniowiecka and had six children: Jerzy Zamoyski, Maurycy Zamoyski, Zdzisław Jan Zamoyski, Aleksander Zamoyski, Jan Zamoyski and Helena Zamoyska.

They had twelve children together, including Maria Anna Czartoryska, Anna Maria Czartoryska, Kazimierz Jerzy Czartoryski, Jerzy Piotr Czartoryski, Włodzimierz Alfons Czartoryski, Jan Franciszek Czartoryski, Roman Jacek Czartoryski, Stanisław Ignacy Czartoryski, Elżbieta Czartoryska.

His children were Jerzy Andrzej Bobola Czartoryski, Maria Krystyna Czartoryska, Izabella Czartoryska, and Jadwiga Anna Czartoryska.

* Anna Zofia Sapieha ( 1799-1864 ), wife of Adam Jerzy Czartoryski

The true rebirth, following the collapse of the Soviet empire, was experienced by the Ludowy Theatre in Nowa Huta district of Kraków taken over by an actor, director, and politician Jerzy Fedorowicz ( 1989 – 2005 ).

* Stanisław Stabryła, " P. Clodius Pulcher: a Politician or a Terrorist ," in Jerzy Styka ( ed ), Violence and Aggression in the Ancient World ( Kraków, Ksiegarnia Akademicka, 2006 ) ( Classica Cracoviensia, 10 ),

It was guest-directed by Jerzy Ronard Bujanski of Teatr Stary ( the Old Theater ) in Kraków, who also starred as Konrad.

* Dymitr Jerzy Wiśniowiecki ( Great Guard and Hetman of the Crown, voivode of Belz and Kraków )

* Jerzy Zbaraski ( Krajczy and Podczaszy of the Crown, Castellan of Kraków.

Jerzy Hoffman ( born March 15, 1932 in Kraków, Poland ) is a Polish film director and screenwriter.

Prince Michał Jerzy Poniatowski, born Michał Jerzy Poniatowski ( October 12, 1736 – August 12, 1794 ) was a Polish nobleman, abbot of Tyniec and Czerwińsk, Bishop of Płock and Coadjutor Bishop of Kraków from 1773, and Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland from 1784.

* Jerzy Wyrozumski, Dzieje Polski piastowskiej ( VIII century-1370 ), Kraków 1999, p. 70.

Marzena Woźniak-Łabieniec, Jerzy Wiśniewski, Kraków 2001.

Lubomirski was a friend of Jerzy Zbarski, a popular politician in Sandomierz and Kraków voivodeshops, considered friendly but known to lose his temper and was several times elected as a deputy to the Sejm.

The alliance with Poland was furthered by Dimitriy's marriage ( per procura in Kraków ) with the daughter of Jerzy Mniszech, Marina Mniszech, a Polish noblewoman with whom Dmitriy had fallen in love while in Poland.

He was the son of the voivode of Kraków Voivodeship, Jerzy Dominik Lubomirski, and Magdalena Tarło.

* Jacek Żakowski, Jerzy Turowicz: Trzy ćwiartki wieku: rozmowy z Jerzym Turowiczem, Kraków: Znak, 1999, ISBN 83-7006-166-4

Wojciech Jerzy Has ( 1 April 1925, Kraków ; 3 October 2000, Łódź, Poland ) was a Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer.

Wojciech Jerzy Has was born in Kraków, with Jewish origin on his father's side, and Roman Catholic on his mother's.

Jerzy Kossak ( Kraków, 11 September 1886 – 11 May 1955, Kraków ) was a Polish realist painter specializing in military scenes ; son of painter Wojciech Kossak and grandson of painter Juliusz Kossak — a third-generation artist from a well-known and sought after family of painters, writers and poets.

Jerzy Kossak was a brother: to poet Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska and novelist Magdalena Samozwaniec, as well as the father of: biologist Simona Kossak and painter Gloria Kossak residing at the historic family manor called " Kossakówka ", in metropolitan Kraków.

Jerzy Turowicz (; 10 December 1912 ; Kraków – 27 January 1999 ; Kraków ) was a leading Polish Catholic journalist and editor for much of the post-Second World War period.