Malczewski (feminine: Malczewska, plural: Malczewscy) is a

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...

locational surname A toponymic surname or habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname derived from a place name,

, which originally meant a person from Malczew or Malczewo in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

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"Malczewski Family History"
Oxford University Press, 2013. Retrieved on 18 January 2016. Variants of the name include Malczewscy, Malchevski, Malchevsky. The name may refer to: *

Antoni Malczewski Antoni Malczewski (3 June 1793 – 2 May 1826) was a Polish romantic poet, known for his only work, "a narrative poem of dire pessimism", ''Maria'' (1825). At the times, prominent and scandalizing was his autodestructive romance with a married ...

(1793–1826), Polish poet * Franciszek Skarbek-Malczewski (1754–1819), Polish archbishops *

Jacek Malczewski Jacek Malczewski (; 15 July 1854 – 8 October 1929) was a Polish symbolist painter who was one of the central figures of the patriotic Young Poland movement. His works combined the predominant style of his time with historical motifs of Pol ...

(1854–1929), Polish painter * Jakub Malczewski (born 1974), Polish alpine skier * Rafał Malczewski (1892-1965), Polish painter, writer and mountaineer *

Rafał Skarbek-Malczewski Rafał Skarbek-Malczewski (born 7 October 1982) is a Polish snowboarder. He competed in the men's snowboard cross event at the 2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics (), officially the XX Olympic Winter Games () and also known as T ...

(born 1982), Polish snowboarder * Alexey Sergeevich Malchevsky (1915–1985), Soviet ornithologist, dean of biology at the Leningrad State University

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{{surname, Malczewski, Malczewska Polish-language surnames

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