List of Jagiellonian University people

The following list predominantly names notable alumni of the Jagiellonian University (its faculty and other prominent figures affiliated with the university are mostly not featured on this list).

History

Founded in 1364 by King of Poland Casimir the Great, the Jagiellonian University (Polish: Uniwersytet Jagielloński) is considered among the oldest universities in continuous operation in the world as well as one of Poland's two most prestigious academic institutions alongside the University of Warsaw. Alumni and faculty of the university include many internationally acclaimed philosophers, composers, politicians, poets, writers, historians, natural and social scientists.

Among the most distinguished alumni of the university are: Renaissance polymath Nicolaus Copernicus, theologian and Saint John Cantius, chronicler Jan Długosz, poet Jan Kochanowski, King of Poland John III Sobieski, Enlightenment-era thinker Hugo Kołłątaj, inventor and pioneer of oil industry Ignacy Łukasiewicz, chemist Jan Olszewski, social anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, mathematician Wacław Sierpiński, playwright Stanisław Wyspiański, Nobel Prize winners Ivo Andrić and Wisława Szymborska, chemist Leo Sternbach, psychiatrist Antoni Kępiński, science fiction writer Stanisław Lem, composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki, Pope John Paul II, 6th President of Poland Andrzej Duda, historian Norman Davies, physicist Artur Ekert and neuroscientist Jerzy Vetulani.

List of notable alumni

See also


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