Rakowski (feminine: Rakowska; plural: Rakowscy) is a
Polish surname
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
* Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin scree ...
. It is related to various surnames in other languages.
Related surnames
People
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Abraham Abba Rakovski (1854–1921), writer and translator
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Adrian Rakowski
Adrian Rakowski (born 7 October 1990) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Career
Club
He made his debut for Zagłębie in a 3–1 victory to Lechia Gdańsk
Lechia Gdańsk () is a Polish football club based in Gdań ...
(born 1990), Polish football player
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Bronisław Rakowski
Bronisław Stanisław Rakowski (20 June 1895 in Szczucin – 28 December 1950 in Buenos Aires) was a Polish general. He fought in the Polish legions during World War I and was imprisoned by the Soviet NKVD during Soviet invasion of Poland. Durin ...
(1895–1950), Polish general
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David Rakowski (born 1958), American composer
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John Rakowski
John Rakowski (born 16 March 1948) is an Australian boxer. He competed in the men's bantamweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics
The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XI ...
(born 1948), Australian boxer
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Joseph Rakowski
Joseph Rakowski is an American Democratic Party politician who served as Acting Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey. He became acting mayor when he was elected to serve as City Council President of Jersey City. Rakowski was the third person to hold ...
, American politician
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Lukáš Rakowski
Lukáš Rakowski (born 8 September 1982) is a Czech former competitive figure skater. He won two silver medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix
The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a ...
(born 1982), Czech figure skater
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Mary Rakowski DuBois
Mary Rakowski DuBois is an inorganic chemist, now retired from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). She made multiple contributions to inorganic and organometallic chemistry, focusing on synthetic and mechanistic studies. In recognition ...
, American chemist
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Mieczysław Rakowski
Mieczysław Franciszek Rakowski (; 1 December 1926 – 8 November 2008) was a Polish communist politician, historian and journalist who was Prime Minister of Poland from 1988 to 1989. He served as the seventh and final First Secretary of the Pol ...
(1926–2008), Polish politician
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Richard Rakowski
Raphael, formerly Richard, Rakowski (born 1952) is an American entrepreneur, investor and health care and energy consultant. He has had a 30-year career in sales engineering, process control consulting, and entrepreneurial start ups in health care ...
(born 1952), American entrepreneur
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Teresa Rakowska-Harmstone
Teresa Jadwiga Rakowska-Harmstone (1927—2017) was a Polish-Canadian political scientist. She was an expert in the politics of Eastern Europe, Soviet Studies, and post-Soviet Studies. Rakowska-Harmstone was a professor at Carleton University fr ...
(1927—2017), Polish-Canadian political scientist
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Georgi Sava Rakovski
Georgi Stoykov Rakovski ( bg, Георги Стойков Раковски) (1821 – 9 October 1867), known also Georgi Sava Rakovski (), born Sabi Stoykov Popovich (), was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary, freemason, writer and an im ...
(1821—1867), Bulgarian revolutionary, and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival and resistance against Ottoman rule.
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Rakovsky Rakovsky is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Christian Rakovsky (1873–1941), Bulgarian and Soviet socialist revolutionary
* Igor Rakovsky (born 1975), Russian footballer
*Martin Rakovský (''c''. 1535–1579), Renaissance-era ...
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Polish-language surnames