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Casimir

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For other uses of Casimir, see Kazimierz (disambiguation). For the quantum force, see Casimir effect.
Casimir / Kazimierz
Gendermale
Origin
Word/nameSlavic
Other names
Variant form(s)Casimira (f), Kazimiera (f)
Related namesCasimiro
Kazimír
Kasimir
Kažimir
Kázmér
Казимир
Kazimieras
etc.

Casimir is classically an English, French and Latin form of the Polish name Kazimierz. Feminine forms are: Casimira, Kazimiera.

List of variations

  • Belarusian: Казімір
  • Catalan: Casimir
  • Croatian: Kazimir, Kažimir
  • Czech: Kazimír
  • Esperanto: Kazimiro
  • Galician: Casemiro, Casamiro
  • German: Kasimir
  • Hungarian: Kázmér
  • Italian: Casimiro
  • Latvian: Kazimirs
  • Lithuanian: Kazimieras
  • Polish: Kazimierz
  • Portuguese: Casimiro
  • Romanian: Cazimir
  • Russian: Казимир
  • Serbian: Казимир/Kazimir
  • Slovak: Kazimír
  • Slovene: Kazimir
  • Spanish: Casimiro
  • Swedish: Casimir
  • Ukrainian: Казимир
  • English: Casimir

Royalty

  • Casimir I of Poland, Polish name Kazimierz Odnowiciel (the Restorer) (1015–1058)
  • Casimir II of Poland, Polish name Kazimierz Sprawiedliwy (the Just) (1138–1194)
  • Casimir III of Poland, Polish name Kazimierz Wielki (the Great) (1310–1370)
  • Casimir IV Jagiellon, Polish name Kazimierz Jagielończyk, Lithuanian name Kazimieras I Jogailaitis (1427–1492)
  • Casimir I, Duke of Pomerania-Demmin (after 1130–1180)
  • Casimir II, Duke of Pomerania-Demmin (c. 1180–1219)
  • Casimir III, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin (1348–1372)
  • Casimir IV, Duke of Pomerania-Stolp (1351–1377)
  • Saint Casimir (1458–1484), patron saint of Lithuania and Poland
  • Casimir I of Opole (1178/79 – 1230), Polish duke

People with name Casimir, Kazimir, etc.

People with name Kazimierz

  • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, a Polish philosopher and logician
  • Kazimierz Bartel, a Polish mathematician and politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland three times between 1926 and 1930
  • Kazimierz Brandys, a Polish essayist and writer of film scripts
  • Kazimierz Brodziński, an important Polish Romantic poet
  • Kazimierz Deyna, a Polish football player, one of the best marksmen in the history of world football
  • Kazimierz Fabrycy, a Polish general. Fabrycy was a member of the Polish Legions in World War I, and fought in the Polish Soviet War
  • Kazimierz Fajans, an American physical chemist of Polish origin and a pioneer in the science of radioactivity.
  • Kazimierz Górecki, a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1970s
  • Kazimierz Konopka, Polish activist
  • Kazimierz Kord, a Polish conductor
  • Kazimierz Kuratowski, a Polish mathematician and logician. He was one of the leading representatives of the Warsaw School of Mathematics
  • Kazimierz Kutz, a Polish film director, author, journalist and politician, one of the representatives of the Polish Film School and a deputy speaker of the Senate of Poland
  • Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, a Polish conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 31 October 2005 to 14 July 2006. He was a member of the Law and Justice party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS)
  • Kazimierz Michałowski, a Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist, and the founder of Nubiology
  • Kazimierz Orlik-Łukoski, a Polish military commander and one of the Generals of the Polish Army murdered by the Soviet Union in the Katyń massacre of 1940
  • Kazimierz Plater, a Polish chess master
  • Kazimierz Poniatowski, a Polish Szlachcic, podkomorzy wielki koronny (1742–1773), generał wojsk koronnych. Knight of the Order of the White Eagle
  • Kazimierz Prószyński, a Polish inventor active in the field of cinema. He patented his first film camera, called Pleograph (in Polish spelling: Pleograf), before the Lumière brothers, and later went on to improve the cinema projector for the Gaumont company, as well as invent the widely used hand-held Aeroscope camera.
  • Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, a Polish poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and writer. He was a member of the Young Poland movement
  • Kazimierz Sabbat, was President of Poland in Exile from 8 April 1986 until his death, 19 July 1989, after serving (from 1976) as Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile
  • Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, was the first Polish poet to become widely celebrated abroad [1], and the most popular Polish author before Henryk Sienkiewicz.
  • Kazimierz Serocki, a Polish composer and one of the founders of the Warsaw Autumn contemporary music festiwal
  • Kazimierz Siemienowicz, a General of artillery, gunsmith, military engineer, artillery specialist and pioneer of rocketry
  • Kazimierz Sosnkowski, a Polish independence fighter, politician and Polish Army general
  • Kazik Staszewski, a Polish rock musician, leader of the band Kult
  • Kazimierz Świtalski, a Polish officer, politician, and a Prime Minister of Poland.
  • Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, a Polish politician
  • Kazimierz Urbanik (1930–2005), Polish mathematician
  • Kazimierz de Weydlich, a Polish chess master

People with surname Casimir

Other

See also

References

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