Mount Adina, one of the peaks of Australia's Blue Mountains, was named by Paweł Strzelecki in honour of his beloved Aleksandryna Turno, who came from Objezierze in Wielkopolska.
An artillery general, poet and writer, he authored a medical treatise and now-lost memories and publications on artillery. Lyrical verse is among his works too.
A mechanical engineer, M.-J. Bekker took part in the U.S. space research programme, his greatest success as part of his cooperation with the NASA being a contribution to construction of a wheeled lunar vehicle.
Actor, stage director, theatrical manager (entrepreneur) and author, considered to be the founding father of the Polish theatre. He wrote several plays, incl. Cud mniemany, czyli Krakowiacy i Górale [‘The Pretended Miracle, or, Krakovians and Highlanders’] and Henryk VI na łowach [‘Henry VI A’Hunting’] and translated some eighty comedies, tragedies, dramas and operatic libretti.
Born in 967, Bolesław was the first King of Poland, son of Mieszko I and Dobrawa. After his father?s death in 992, he came to power by expelling his stepbrothers and eventually unifying the country.
Philologist, industrialist, social and political activist. Removed from his post as a teacher, he opened in 1846 a farming tools shop at the Bazar and subsequently, a repair shop which later on grew to become a considerable-sized factory of farm tools and machinery.
Army general, acted as a commander in as many as three armed insurrections which took place in the area of Wielkopolska. January 1797 saw him head the Polish Legions, then getting formed in Italy.
Wiktor Dega was a physician who created a modern model of orthopaedic rehabilitation. He launched new healing methods, authored some 300 scientific/research publications, founded the Polish Society for Preventing and Combating Disabilities, and delivered lectures at the leading orthopaedic centres of Europe and North America.
Author and traveller. Since 1927, he travelled to various remote parts of the world – initially, as a naturalist collecting fauna specimens, and then, as a traveller and man-of-letters. He spent the years of World War 2 in England as a war correspondent. In 1973, he founded a Literary Atelier/Museum at his home in Puszczykówek.
Also named Gaspar da India, he was born in Poznań. It was probably due to persecutions of Jews that he once left Poznań, together with his parents. Gaspar da Gama can be deemed to have co-discovered Brazil.
This leading poet of the Polish Renaissance era wrote exclusively in Latin. He studied liberated arts in Padua since 1538 and in 1540 was granted a doctorate in philosophy and liberated arts as well as the title of poeta laureatus (laurelled poet).
