John Paul II
Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 to 2005.
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Poles
Jozef Piłsudski
Polish statesman, political and military figure, leader of the Second Polish Republic, founder of the Polish Army, First Marshal of Poland.
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Polish-Lithuanian military engineer, statesman, and military leader in Poland and the US. Participant in the American Revolutionary War, leader of the 1794 Kosciuszko Uprising. A national hero in Poland.
Kazimierz Pułaski
Father of the American cavalry. Fighter for the freedom of Poles and Americans.
Frederic Chopin
Polish composer and virtuoso pianist, a leading musician of the Western Romantic era.