Kulikowski, feminine: Kulikowska, is a
Polish surname
Polish names have two main elements: the given name, and the surname. The usage of personal names in Poland is generally governed by civil law (legal system), civil law, church law, personal taste and family custom.
The law requires a given nam ...
. It may be variously transliterated as Kulikowsky, Kulikovsky, etc. It is a
toponymic surname
A toponymic surname or habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname derived from a place name, derived from any of places named
Kulikówka,
Kulików, or Kulikowo.
Notable people with the surname include:
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Lidia Kulikovski (born 1951), Moldovan librarian and bibliographer
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Michael Kulikowski
Michael Kulikowski (born September 3, 1970) is an American historian. He is a professor of history and classics and the head of the history department at Pennsylvania State University. Kulikowski specializes in the history of the western Mediterra ...
(born 1970), American historian
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Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky
Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky (Russian: Николай Овсянико-Куликовский, ''Nikolay Ovsyaniko-Kulikovskiy'', 1768–1846) was the purported author of a famous musical hoax Symphony No. 21 (Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky), perpetrated ...
(1768–1846), Ukrainian composer
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Nikolai Kulikovsky
Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky (5 November 1881 – 11 August 1958) was the second husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, the sister of Tsar Nicholas II and daughter of Tsar Alexander III.
He was born into a military landowning ...
(1811–1958), second husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia
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Traudl Kulikowsky
Traudl Kulikowsky (real name: Edeltraud Kulikowski, born 9 December 1943) is a former East Germany, German film actress. Between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s she took prominent roles in a succession of East Germany, East German cinema and televis ...
(born 1943), German actress
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Zofia Weigl (née Kulikowska; c. 1885–1940), Polish biologist, a collaborator in search vaccine for typhus
See also
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Kuligowski
References
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Polish-language surnames
Toponymic surnames