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Sylviane Agacinski

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French philosopher, born May 4, 1945 in Nades, in Allier. Daughter of Henri Agacinski, mining engineer and son of a Polish immigrant and Raymonde Lejeune, she is the sister of the actress Sophie Agacinski born December 15, 1943 in Poligny (Jura)

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Mathieu Amalric

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  born October 25, 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French actor and director. He is the son of Jacques Amalric  and Nicole Zand whose mother was of Polish Jewish descent from Krakow.

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Santiago H. Amigorena

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born in Buenos Aires on February 15, 1962, is an Argentine director, screenwriter, producer and writer living in France. Married for a time to Julie Gayet with whom he has two children.

Born to psychoanalyst parents, Santiago Amigorena spent his childhood in Argentina, then in Uruguay. In 1973, his family went into exile in Paris.

Her grandparents are Wincenty Rosemberg and Rosita Szapire married in Buenos Aires.

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Guillaume Apollinaire ( Guglielmo Alberto Wladimiro Alessandro Apollinare de Kostrowitzky )


writer born August 25, 1880 in Romes to Angelica de Kostrowitzky and of unknown father, possibly an Italian prince, died November 9, 1918.
http://www.wiu.edu/Apollinaire/
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Armelle , née Lèsniak


actress, comedian discovered by the camera café program, born on  July 23, 1969.
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Christine arnothy


writer and journalist born in Budapest, Hungary on November 20, 1930 to an Austro-Hungarian father and a German-Polish mother and died on October 6, 2015.
http://www.arnothy.ch/
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Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (in Polish Józef Julian Franciszek Feliks Babiński )

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born in Paris on November 17, 1857 and died in the same city on October 29, 1932, is a French neurologist of Polish descent. He codified neurology and distinguished the major organic neurological conditions from psychiatric syndromes. His studies on reflexes and the physiology of the cerebellum are just a few steps in the work of one of the founders of the French society of neurology. He is the brother of Henri Joseph Séverin Babinski (1855-1931), civil engineer of the Mines, known under the name of "Ali Bab".

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Kahina Bahloul

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  1st imame of France, she was born on March 5, 1979 in Paris. His father is a Kabyle Algerian. Her mother is French, her maternal grandmother was Polish Jew, her maternal grandfather was French Catholic. The 2015 attacks decided to take action to deconstruct Islamist fundamentalism.

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Balthus ( Balthasar Klossowski de Rola )


figurative painter, brother of the writer Pierre Klossowski , born in Paris on February 29, 1908, died on February 18, 2001. 
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Edward baran


Angevin painter of Polish origin. Born in Poland in 1934, he studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Since 1966, the artist has lived in France. By appropriating ancestral techniques such as stamping or weaving.
http://heliceterrestre.canalblog.com/albums/baran_edward/index.html
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Franz Bartelt

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poet and novelist born in October 1949 in Eure.
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Michal Batory

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Born August 25, 1959 in Lodz, Poland, has lived in Paris since September 1987. From 1979 to 1985 he studied at the National School of Plastic Arts in Lodz, Poland. Graduated in graphic design, specializing in posters (with Professor Boguslaw Balicki ).
www.michalbatory.com/
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Georges bereta

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  Son of a Polish emigrant born May 11, 1946 in Saint-Étienne, is a French international footballer. He played as a left attacking midfielder from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s. Trained at AS Saint-Étienne, he won six French championship titles and three French Cups with the Greens. He was transferred in January 1975 to the Olympique de Marseille with whom he won a new Cup. In the France team, he has forty-four caps for four goals scored. He is also captain of the Blues twelve times.

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Stephane Bern

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  journalist, writer, TV presenter, radio host, producer and actor. Born on November 14, 1963 in Lyon, his paternal grandfather is Polish.
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Claude Berri ( Berel Langman )


film director, actor, producer and screenwriter,
son of a Polish furrier and a Romanian worker, born July 1, 1934 in Paris, died January 12, 2009.
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Bolesław Biegas whose real name is Biegalski

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  is a Franco-Polish Symbolist painter and sculptor, as well as a writer and playwright born in 1877 in Koziczyn in the Warsaw region of Poland and died in Paris in 1954.

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Juliette Binoche

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is a French actress born March 9, 1964 in Paris. Her mother is the Franco-Polish actress Monique Stalens, born in 1939 in Częstochowa, then a literature teacher who founded several theaters in the high schools where she taught.

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Olga Boznańska

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born April 15, 1865 in Krakow, died October 26, 1940 in Paris, is a Polish painter, linked to the modernism movement. She spent most of her career in France. Helena Olga Boznańska is the daughter of Adam Nowina Boznański, railway engineer, and Frenchwoman Eugénie Mondan. She has a sister, Izabela. She first learned drawing from Józef Siedlecki and Kazimierz Pochwalski. She was Knight of the Legion of Honor.

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Mike Brant ( Moshé Michaël Brand )


is the son of Bronia Rosenberg, originally from Lodz in Poland, survivor of Auschwitz, and of Fichel Brand, Polish resistance member from Bilgoraj. Israeli Mike Brant was born February 1, 1947 in Famagusta (Cyprus) in a refugee camp and died April 25, 1975 in Paris (France)

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Marie Bromberg

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Of Polish origin, is the psychoanalyst Marie Moscovici , née Bromberg (1932-2015), close to the French Communist Party and signatory in 1960 of the Manifesto of 121 for the right to rebellion during the Algerian War; She is the mother of Pierre Moscovici and Denis Moscivici. 

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Stephane bruey


International footballer, center-forward at SCO d'Angers, he did not play but was part of the twenty-two French at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden (the substitutes, then, did not enter during the game). It has three selections. He was born on December 1, 1932 to a family of Polish immigrants and died in August 2005.
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Marie-George Buffet née Kosellek


Politician, Minister under François Mitterand,
born May 7, 1949 in Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine)

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Henri burda

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  is a French footballer and coach of Polish origin born January 4, 1926 in Chwalibogovo (Poland) died October 29, 1965 (aged 39). He mainly evolved as a defender at FC Metz from 1948 to 1957.

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Agnes Buzyn

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born on November 1, 1962 in Paris 12th, is a hematologist, university professor - hospital practitioner and French politician. From 2008, she held important positions in public institutions related to health and nuclear power. His dual scientific and administrative legitimacy earned him the appointment of Minister of Solidarity and Health in the Edouard Philippe government on May 17, 2017 and then confirmed on June 21, 2017 in the Edouard Philippe 2 government. Agnès Buzyn's paternal family is from Lodz. Ex-daughter-in-law of Simone Veil. Agnès Buzyn is married by first marriage to Pierre-François Veil, one of Simone Veil's sons, with whom she has three children. She married in second marriage to Yves Lévy, director general of INSERM.

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Robert budzynski

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  is a French football player of Polish origin born May 21, 1940 in Calonne-Ricouart in the Pas-de-Calais. He was playing as a defender.

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