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Orlik (surname)
Orlik (Czech version: Orlík) is a Slavic surname literally meaning 'little eagle'. Notable people with the surname include: *Anna Orlik (born 1993), Belarusian tennis player *Curdin Orlik (born 1993), Swiss wrestler *Edmund Roman Orlik (1918–1982), Polish tank ace *Peter Orlik (born 1938), American mathematician *Kazimierz Orlik-Łukoski (1890–1940), Polish military commander *Wilhelm Orlik-Rueckemann (1894–1986), Polish military commander See also * *Orlyk, Ukrainian form {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Orlik
Anna Orlik (; ; born 5 March 1993) is a Belarusian former tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 585 in singles, achieved on 26 October 2009, and 387 in doubles, reached on 1 March 2010. Career summary Orlik began playing on the ITF Circuit in 2007. She did not win a singles title, but she scored a doubles title in 2008 and went on to win three more in 2009. In 2009, she played her first WTA Tour event in Acapulco, falling to Ágnes Szávay Ágnes Szávay (, ; born 29 December 1988) is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. The 2007 WTA Newcomer of the Year achieved her career-high ranking of world No. 13 in April 2008. Personal life Szávay was born in Kiskunhalas an ... in the opening round. Before competing in the seniors, Orlik achieved a career high of No. 26 in the juniors ranking. ITF Circuit titles Doubles: 6 External links * * 1993 births Living people Belarusian female tennis players Tennis players from Minsk 21st-century Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curdin Orlik
Curdin Orlik (born 5 February 1993) is a Swiss professional wrestler who competes in Schwingen (a type of folk wrestling native to Switzerland), and an agronomy, agronomist. Orlik coming out, came out as gay in March 2020, making him the first athlete in the sport of Schwingen to come out as gay, and also the first openly gay male active in Swiss professional sports. Early life and career Orlik was raised in Landquart, Switzerland, Landquart, Canton of Grisons, Grisons. He is the brother of wrestler :de:Armon Orlik, Armon Orlik. Orlik competes in Schwingen, a form of folk wrestling that is native to Switzerland. Orlin was named "Schwinger of the Week" by the Swiss magazine '':de:Schlussgang (Zeitschrift), Schlussgang'' in May 2019. So far in his wrestling career he has been awarded thirty-five wreaths and has won five festivals. In 2019 he ranked twenty-fourth in the :de:Eidgenössischer Schwingerverband, Eidgenössischer Schwingerverband. He also works as an agronomist. Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Roman Orlik
Edmund Roman Orlik (26 January 1918 – 8 April 1982) was a Polish people, Polish architect, and World War II tank commander. During the Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in September 1939 he claimed to have destroyed ten German tanks, including one Panzer IV#Ausf. A to Ausf. F1, Panzer IV Ausf. B, the largest tank then fielded by Germany, with a 2.6 tonne TKS tankette armed with a Nkm wz.38 FK, 20mm autocannon.Janusz Magnuski: Karaluchy przeciw panzerom. Warszawa: Pelta, 1995. . Early life Orlik was born on 26 January 1918. After graduating high school he volunteered for military service and completed his training in Armoured Warfare Training Centre (Centrum Wyszkolenia Broni Pancernych) in Modlin (Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki), Modlin in 1937. Then he began to study Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw Polytechnic.Janusz Magnuski: ''Orlik uderza pierwszy'' in: "Za Wolność i Lud" nr 20/1978, p.15 World War II In August 1939 he was mobilized and took part in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Orlik
Peter Paul Nikolas Orlik (born 12 November 1938, in Budapest) is an American mathematician, known for his research on topology, algebra, and combinatorics. Orlik earned in 1961 his bachelor's degree from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim and in 1966 his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan under Frank Raymond with thesis ''Necessary conditions for the homeomorphism of Seifert manifolds''. He became in 1966 an assistant professor and in 1973 a full professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Orlik was in the academic year 1971/72 a visiting professor in Oslo. From 1967 to 1969 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study. Orlik is the author of over 70 publications. He works on Seifert manifolds, singularity theory, braid theory, reflection groups, invariant theory, and hypergeometric integrals. He was, with Louis Solomon and Hiroaki Terao, a pioneer of the theory of arrangements of hyperplanes in complex space. In 2012 he was elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazimierz Orlik-Łukoski
Kazimierz (; ; ) is a historical district of Kraków and Kraków Old Town, Poland. From its inception in the 14th century to the early 19th century, Kazimierz was an independent city, a royal city of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom, located south of the Old Town of Kraków, separated from it by a branch of the Vistula river. For many centuries, Kazimierz was a place where ethnic Polish and Jewish cultures coexisted and intermingled. The northeastern part of the district was historically Jewish. In 1941, the Jews of Kraków were forcibly relocated by the German occupying forces into the Krakow ghetto just across the river in Podgórze, and most did not survive the war. Today, Kazimierz is one of the major tourist attractions of Krakow and an important center of cultural life of the city. The boundaries of Kazimierz are defined by an old island in the Vistula river. The northern branch of the river ( – Old Vistula) was filled-in at the end of the 19th century and made into an ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Orlik-Rueckemann
Wilhelm may refer to: People and fictional characters * William Charles John Pitcher, costume designer known professionally as "Wilhelm" * Wilhelm (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname Other uses * Wilhelm (name), disambiguation page for people named Wilhelm ** Wilhelm II (1858–1941), king of Prussia and emperor of Germany from 1888 until his abdication in 1918. * Mount Wilhelm, the highest mountain in Papua New Guinea * Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica * Wilhelm (crater), a lunar crater * Wilhelm scream, stock sound effect used in many movies and shows See also * Wilhelm scream, a stock sound effect * SS ''Kaiser Wilhelm II'', or USS ''Agamemnon'', a German steam ship * Wilhelmus, the Dutch national anthem * William Helm William Helm (March 9, 1837 – April 10, 1919) was an American Sheep-rearing, sheep farmer and among the early pioneer settlers of Fresno County, California, Fresno County, California. He was instrumental in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
