Nowak - Definition and Overview

Nowak (feminine: Nowak/Nowakowa, plural Nowakowie) is the most popular surname in Poland (203,506 people). See also: Jan Nowak.

Nowak surname in voivodships:

• Nowak is: 1st in Greater Poland (35,011),
• Nowak is 1st in Silesia (31,838),
• Nowak is: 1st in Lesser Poland (23,671),
• Nowak is: 1st in Lodz Land (15,460),
• Nowak is: 1st in Lower Silesia (13,217),
• Nowak is: 1st in West Pomerania (7,444),
• Nowak is: 1st in Opole Silesia (5,538),
• Nowak is: 1st in Lubusz Land (5,444),
• Nowak is: 1st in Swietokrzyskie (5,538),
• Nowak is: 2nd in Subcarpathia (9,301),

Famous people: Nowaks

• Edmund Nowak (b. 1918) - Polish mechanical engineer, inventor
• Edmund Nowak (b.1937) - Polish businessman
• Jan Nowak (1880-1940) - Polish geologist, paleontologist, professor of UJ
• Jan Nowak-Jeziorański (1913-2005) - Polish journalist and WW2 hero
• Jerzy Nowak (b.1923) - Polish actor
• Józef Nowak (1885-1878) - Upper Lusatian poet
• Józef Nowak (1925-1984) - Polish actor
• Józef Nowak (b. 1935) - Polish educational ativist and politician
• Julian Ignacy Nowak (1865-1946) - Polish phicician, veterinarian, bacteriologist, politician
• Kazimierz Nowak (b. 1925) - Polish professor of timber technology
• Kazimierz Nowak (b. 1915) - Polish professor of law
• Leopold Rene Nowak (b. 1934) - Polish director, scenarist, actor and journalist
• Leszek Nowak (b.1933) - Polish professor of philosophy
• Roman Nowak (1900-1980) - Polish trade union activist and politician
• Stanisław Nowak (b. 1937) - Polish politician
• Stefan Nowak (b. 1925) - Polish sociologist
• Tadeusz Nowak (b. 1930) - Polish poet
• Tadeusz Nowak (b. 1930) - Polish writer
• Zbigniew Nowak (b.1926) - Polish general and politician
• Zenon Nowak (1905-1980) - Polish trade union actist and politician

• Juliusz Nowak-Dłużewski (1893-1972) - Polish historian of literature
• Merican Nowak-Njechorinski (b.1900) - Upper Lusatian writer, painter and publicist

Famous people: Novaks

• Michael Novak (born 1933) is a conservative Roman Catholic American philosopher and diplomat
• Slobodan Novak (b.1924) - Croat writer
• Vjenceslav Novak (1859-1903) - Croat writer
• Tereza Novakowa (1853-1922) - Czech writer