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Painter, key exponent of XIX century history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history
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Jan Matejko
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Writer, one of the second generation of romantics, author of A Funeral Rhapsody in Memory of General Bem
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Cyprian Norwid
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Writer, key figure in Polish Romanticism, he is one of Poland's Three Bards, considered Poland's greatest poet
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Adam Mickiewicz
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Writer, one of the Three Bards, a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of modern Polish drama
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Juliusz Słowacki
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Romantic poet, one of the Three Bards
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Zygmunt Krasiński
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Writer, known for his best-seller Quo Vadis, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Writer, author of Rescue, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980
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Czesław Miłosz
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Female poet, author of Some Like Poetry, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996
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Wisława Szymborska
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Female writer, author of Flights, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018
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Olga Tokarczuk
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Female revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist. Member of the Spartacus League
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Rosa Luxemburg
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Philosopher, social theorist, who wrote about issues of modernity, the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity
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Zygmunt Bauman
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Logician, known for his work on model theory, metamathematics, and algebraic logic
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Alfred Tarski
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Statesman who served as the Chief of State from 1918 to 1922 and First Marshal of Poland
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Józef Piłsudski
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Statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1983, who served as President of Poland between 1990 and 1995
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Lech Wałęsa
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President from 2015
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Andrzej Duda
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Renaissance polymath and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Female physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, two times winner of Nobel Prize
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Marie Curie
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Female mystic, who had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy
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Faustina Kowalska
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Priest and friar, died in the German death camp of Auschwitz
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Maximilian Kolbe
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Pope from 1978 to 2005
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Pope John Paul II/Karol Józef Wojtyła
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Director, known for his trilogy of war films consisting of A Generation, Kanał and Ashes and Diamonds
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Andrzej Wajda
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Director of The Pianist and Chinatown, winner of Academy Award in 2003
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Roman Polański
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Director of Dekalog and The Double Life of Veronique
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Krzysztof Kieślowski
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The greatest composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period
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Fryderyk Chopin
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One of the greatest pianists of all time
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Arthur Rubinstein
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Star of the silent and golden era of Hollywood, known for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles and was acknowledged as a sex symbol
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Pola Negri
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Footballer who played in Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich and Barcelona
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Robert Lewandowski
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Footballer of 1980s, legend of Juventus. Current UEFA vice-president
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Zbigniew Boniek
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Female sprinter, 7 times winner of Olympic medals, only athlete in history to have held the world record in the 100 m, the 200 m and the 400 m
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Irena Szewińska
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Doctor known as the creator of Esperanto
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L. L. Zamenhof
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Maybe you could get rid of the "female" hints, and accept the original spelling of "Faustyna"?