Most Famous Graduates of the Nowodworski High School


Jan Sobieski III (1629­1696)
Polish King, the famous defender of Europe in the Battle of Vienna (against the Ottoman Empire) in 1683

Jan Sniadecki (1756­1830)
scientist of the Polish Enlightenment

Jedrzej Sniadecki (1768­1838)
chemist, doctor, biologist, philosopher

Jozef Bem (1794­1850)
Independence fighter, general of the Polish and Hungarian Army

Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski (1857-1924)
writer

Jan Matejko (1838­1893)
painter

Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski (1874­1941)
critic, journalist, satirist, translator

Stefan Banach (1892­1945)
mathematician (creator of functional analysis)