Kowalski

Kowalski (feminine: Kowalska, plural Kowalscy) is the second most common surname in Poland (139,719). It is the patronymic form of the name for Smith (see Kowal).

Kowalski surname in Polish voivodships

Kowalski is:

• 1st in Masovia (26,270),
• 2nd in Silesia (11,811),
• 3rd in Kuyavia-Pomerania (12,076),
• 2nd in Łódź Voivodeship (15,005),
• 2nd in Lower Silesia (9,429),
• 3rd in Warmia-Masuria (6,480),
• 2nd in West Pomerania (6,345),
• 3rd in Lubusz Land (2,904).

Famous people

• Anna Kowalska (1903-1969) - Polish writer
• Aleksander Kowalski (1908-1951) - Polish trade union activist
• Alfred Kowalski-Wierusz (1849-1915) - Polish painter
• Bernard Louis Kowalski (b. 1929) - American director
• Bolesław Kowalski (1915-1944) - Polish trade union activist and underground fighter (AL)
• Danuta Kowalska (b. 1929) - Polish artist, designer of interior decoration
• Saint Faustyna Kowalska (1905-1938) - Catholic saint
• Franciszek Kowalski (1799-1862) - Polish poet, insurgent of the November Uprising
• Grzegorz Kowalski (b. 1942) - Polish sculptor, designer of interior decoration
• Janusz Andrzej Kowalski (b. 1935) - Polish artist, designer of interior decoration
• Jerzy Kowalski (1893-1948) - Polish writer and classicial philologist
• Jerzy Bogdan Kowalski (b. 1923) - Polish professor of theory of state and law
• Jochen Kowalski (b. 1954) - German singer
• John Kowalski (b. 1951?) - American soccer coach
• Józef Kowalski-Wierusz (1866-1925) - Polish physicist
• Kasia Kowalska (b. 1973) - Polish pop rock singer and songwriter
• Kazimierz Kowalski (b. 1925) - Polish professor of zoology, ordination, mammals paleontology
• Kazimierz Maria Kowalski (b. 1926) - Polish writer and journalist
• Ken Kowalski - Canadian politician
• Kurt Kowalski (b. 1948) - German soccer player
• Marian Kowalski (1821-1884) - Polish astronomer
• Robert Kowalski (b. 1941) - American logician
• Stanisław Kozyr-Kowalski (b. 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
• Todd "The Rod" Kowalski - Member of Propagandhi
• Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski (b. 1949) - German composer
• William Kowalski (b. 1970) - American author of Eddie's Bastard
• Witold Cezariusz Kowalski (b. 1936) - Polish professor of geology
• Wladek Kowalski (b. 1926) - Polish-Canadian professional wrestler
• Władysław Kowalski (1883-1937) - Polish trade union activist, publicist and politician (KPP)
• Władysław Kowalski (1894-1958) - Polish trade union activist, writer and politician (PSL, ZSL)
• Włodzimierz Tadeusz Kowalski (b. 1935) - Polish professor of modern history and publicist
• Zygmunt Kowalski (b. 1932) - Polish professor of chemistry
• Kowalski - German EBM band formed in 1981, featuring Hans Bäär (bass), Rüdiger ”LC” Elze (guitar), Rüdiger Braune (drums) and Uwe Fellensiek (vocals).

Fictitious

• Kowalski - Crewman on the Seaview, the Submarine on the 1960s TV show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series).
• Kowalski - main character in the 1971 film Vanishing Point
• Kowalski - one of the penguins in the 2005 film Madagascar
• Leon Kowalski - character in the 1982 film Blade Runner
• Major Charles Kawalsky - character in the popular science fiction television series Stargate SG-1
• Stanley Kowalski - character in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams and 1951 film, "A Streetcar Named Desire"
• Detective Stanley Raymond Kowalski - character in the Gemini Award-winning television series Due South (named after the above character)
• "Kowalski" - song by British dance/rock band Primal Scream
• Kowalski - Frequent character in the Ren & Stimpy Show.

See also

• Kowalczyk
• Kowal
• In re Guardianship of Kowalski