Kowalski

Kowalski (Polish pronunciation: [kɔˈvalskʲi]; feminine: Kowalska, plural: Kowalscy) is the second most common surname in Poland (140,471 people in 2009).[1] Kowalski surname is derived from the word Kowal, meaning "[black]smith".

"Jan Kowalski" is a popular name that is used as a placeholder name in Poland, similar to "John Smith", its rough English-language equivalent, in English-speaking countries[2] (though a more direct translation would be "John Smithson").

LanguageMasculineFeminine
PolishKowalskiKowalska
Belarusian
(Romanization)		Кавальскі
(Kavalski)		Кавальская
(Kavalskaja, Kavalskaya, Kavalskaia)
Russian
(Romanization)		Ковальский
(Kovalsky, Kovalskiy, Kovalskij)		Ковальская
(Kovalskaya, Kovalskaia, Kovalskaja)
Ukrainian
(Romanization)		Ковальський
(Kovalskyi, Kovalskyy, Kovalskyj)		Ковальська
(Kovalska)
Moldovan Covalschi

Kowalski surname in Polish voivodships

Kowalski is:

Notable people
  • Alexander Kowalski (1902–1940), Polish ice hockey player killed in the Katyn massacre
  • Aleksander Kowalski, Polish Nordic combined skier
  • Aleksander Kowalski (1908–1951), Polish trade union activist
  • Alexander Kowalski (musician) (born 1978), German DJ, electronic music artist
  • Alfred Kowalski-Wierusz (1849–1915), Polish painter
  • Aneta Kowalska (born 1982), Polish pair skater
  • Bernard Louis Kowalski (1929–2007), American director
  • Bolesław Kowalski (1915–1944), Polish trade union activist and underground fighter (AL)
  • Daniel Kowalski (born 1975), Australian Olympic swimmer
  • Emmanuel D. Kowalski (born 1969), French historian and writer
  • Faustyna Kowalska, Polish Catholic nun and mystic
  • Franciszek Kowalski (1799–1862), Polish poet, insurgent of the November Uprising
  • Frank Kowalski (1907–1974), American US Army soldier and United States Representative
  • Grzegorz Kowalski (born 1942), Polish sculptor, designer of interior decoration
  • James Kowalski (born 1954), United States Air Force Lieutenant General, Commander of Air Force Global Strike Command Barksdale AFB
  • Janusz Kowalski (born 1952), Polish cyclist
  • Jerzy Kowalski (1893–1948), Polish writer and classical philologist
  • Jerzy Bogdan Kowalski (1923-2017), Polish professor of theory of state and law
  • Jochen Kowalski (born 1954), German singer
  • John Kowalski (born c. 1951), American soccer coach
  • Józef Kowalski (1900–2013), Polish supercentenarian and second-to-last Polish-Soviet war veteran
  • Józef Kowalski (1911–1942), Polish Roman Catholic priest killed at Auschwitz, beatified
  • Józef Wierusz-Kowalski (1866–1927), Polish physicist and diplomat
  • Kasia Kowalska (born 1973), Polish pop rock singer and songwriter
  • Katarzyna Kowalska (born 1985), Polish long distance runner
  • Kazimierz Kowalski (1925–2007), Polish professor of zoology, ordination, mammals paleontology
  • Kazimierz Maria Kowalski (born 1926), Polish writer and journalist
  • Ken Kowalski (born 1945), Canadian politician
  • Kerstin Kowalski (born 1976), German rower
  • Ludwik Kowalski (born 1931), Polish-American nuclear physicist and professor emeritus
  • Manja Kowalski (born 1976), German rower
  • Maria Kowalska, Polish alpine skier
  • Marian Albertovich Kowalski (1821–1884), Polish astronomer
  • Saint Faustina Kowalska (1905–1938), Catholic saint
  • Myron Kowalsky (born 1941), Canadian politician
  • Natalia Kowalska (born 1989), Polish racing driver
  • Natalia Kowalska (1918–unknown), Polish chess master
  • Piotr Kowalski (1927-2004), French-Polish artist
  • Richard Kowalski (born 1963), American astronomer
  • Robert Kowalski (born 1941), British logician
  • Sharon Kowalski, subject of groundbreaking disability and LGBT legal rights case
  • Stanisław Kozyr-Kowalski (born 1936), Polish professor of sociology
  • Tadeusz Kowalski (1841–1904), Polish agronomist, agricultural activist and educator
  • Tadeusz Kowalski (1889–1948), Polish orientalist, expert on Middle East Muslim culture and languages
  • Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski (1949–2013), German composer
  • William Kowalski (born 1970), American author
  • Witold Cezariusz Kowalski (1919-2004), Polish professor of geology
  • Wladek Kowalski (AKA "Killer" Kowalski) (1926–2008), Polish-Canadian professional wrestler, trainer
  • Władysław Kowalski (politician) (1894–1958), Polish trade union activist, writer and politician (PSL, ZSL)
  • Włodzimierz Tadeusz Kowalski (1935-1990), Polish professor of modern history and publicist
  • Yelizaveta Kovalskaya (1851–1943), Russian revolutionary

Fictitious

See also

References
  1. Ministry of Interior (Poland). Statystyka najpopularniejszych nazwisk występujących w Polsce in 2009 Archived 2013-09-28 at the Wayback Machine (The most popular surnames in Poland in 2009). Retrieved 2013-02-28.
  2. "Leading Polish churchman criticizes opposition's vetting proposals". PAP News Agency. Warsaw: BBC News. January 12, 2005. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  3. "Roxanne (1987)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
  4. Maslin, Janet. "Roxanne (1987)". The New York Times. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
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