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J and K names

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Joseph jadrejak

international footballer. He was defender in Lille in the great post-war team, and played three times for the French team in 1947, born February 20, 1918 in Gladbeck in Westphalia, Germany and died November 24, 1990 in Roubaix
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Jacques Jakubowicz,

born April 30, 1948, says Jacky, is a television host known in particular for his role as a pioneer of musical broadcasts in the 1980s with Les Enfants du Rock and Platine 45 on Antenne 2 and for having participated in the broadcasts in the 1990s linked to Club Dorothée on TF1.
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Christophe Jakubyszyn

born July 8, 1967 in Paris is a French journalist, editorial director of RMC and columnist in the morning of BFM TV. 
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Czesław Borys Jankowski aka Charles-Boris de Jankowski

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  born May 21, 1862 in Warsaw and died December 7, 1941 in Sceaux, is a Polish painter, designer, lithographer and illustrator who has spent his entire career in France.

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Jerzy jankowski

Born in 1912 in Kalisz, member of the foreign resistance in France, founder of the newspaper `Poland in Europe`, founder of the movement of the Franco-Polish community, founder of the movement of Polish federalists. He died in 1982 in Paris.
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Michel jazy

world athletics champion, specialist in cross-country races from 800 to 5000m, born June 13, 1936 in Oignies (Pas de Calais)
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John II Casimir Vasa ( Jan Kazimierz Waza )

king of Poland who reigned from 1648 to 1668. Born March 22, 1609 in Krakow, he died 4 years after his abdication, on December 16, 1672 in Nevers, kingdom of France.
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Irène Joliot-Curie

French chemist, physicist and politician. She is the daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie . Wife of Frédéric Joliot, she obtained with him the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1935 for the discovery of artificial radioactivity. Born September 12, 1897 in Paris, died March 17, 1956 in Paris. Mother of Pierre Joliot-Curie born March 12, 1932, biologist and Hélène Langevin-Joliot born in 1927, nuclear physicist,
grandmother of Michel Langevin (1926-1985) and great grandmother of Yves Langevin , astro-physicist.
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Ewa Karpinska

watercolorist born in Bydgoszcz (Poland) in 1962.
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Wojciech Karpiński

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born May 11, 1943 in Warsaw, died August 18, 2020, is a Polish essayist, writer, art historian, literary critic, close to "Kultura", historian of ideas and literary critic.
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Sandrine Kiberlin née Kiberlajn

French actress and singer of Polish origin whose 4 grandparents were Polish, born February 25, 1968 in Paris. She has a daughter with actor Vincent Lindon.
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Georges Kiejman ,

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born August 12, 1932 in Paris, is a French lawyer and politician. Georges Kiejman is the son of Alter Kiejzman, craftsman, and Brandla Czarnecka, both Jews from Poland.

Minister Delegate to the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice22, from October 2, 1990 to May 15, 1991, after the third government reshuffle Michel Rocard;

Minister Delegate to the Minister of Culture and Communication, in charge of Communication (Government Édith Cresson, May 15, 1991 - April 2, 1992).

Minister Delegate to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Government Pierre Bérégovoy, April 2, 1992 - March 29, 1993).

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Karol Kniaziewicz or Karol Otto Kniaziewicz name francized as Charles Kniaziewicz

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born May 4, 1762 in Asite (now Latvia) village in the west of the Duchy of Courland, which was then part of Poland before the partitions, the Republic of the Two Nations. Died May 9, 1842 in Paris, is a Polish officer and politician, part of his career in the service of France.

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Raymond Kopa ( Kopaszewski )

French footballer born October 13, 1931 in Nœux-les-Mines (Pas-de-Calais), died March 3, 2017 in Angers.He mainly played as an attacking midfielder from the early 1950s until the late 1960s 1st French to play Real Madrid and 1958 Golden Ball. In the French team, Raymond Kopa played 45 matches and scored 18 goals between 1952 and 1962. He participated in the 1954 World Cup, then that of 1958 during which France finished third, he is the best player. Six times, he is captain of the France team.
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Laurent Koscielny

French international footballer born September 10, 1985 in Tulle. He plays as a defender at Arsenal FC.
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Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet (nicknamed NKM )

French politician, minister of the current government,
born May 14, 1973 in Paris. Sister of Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet , born April 17, 1977 in Orléans. Founder and creator of a website connecting buyers and sellers: PriceMinister.com. PriceMinister was bought 200 million euros in 2011 by Rakuten and its famous co-founder left the group in 2014. 

They come from an old French political family of Polish origin, direct descendant of Józef Tomasz Kosciuszko (1743-1789), older brother of the Polish patriot Tadeusz Kosciuszko.
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Ignatius Kowalczyk

 

footballer, the first French international of Polish origin, known under the name of Ignace, he played in Lens, Valenciennes and OM before finishing in Metz, and was selected five times between 1935 and 1938. Born December 27, 1913 in Castrop-Rauxel, who died on March 27, 1996.
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Piotr kowalski

sculptor, mathematician, architect, plastic artist, born March 2, 1927 in Lvov, Poland (today this city is in Ukraine) and died January 7, 2004.
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Zygmunt Krasinski , also called Zygmunt of Corvin-Krasinski

count, writer and playwright, eminent figure of Polish romanticism and patriotism. Born February 19, 1812 in Paris and died February 23, 1859 in Paris. Son of Napoleon's General and Count of the Empire Vincent de Corvin-Krasinski.
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Henri krasucki

Henri Krasucki, born Henoch Krasucki on September 2, 1924 in Wolomin in the suburbs of Warsaw in Poland and died on January 24, 2003 in Paris, is a French trade unionist, former secretary general of the CGT.
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Gerard Krawczyk

born in Paris on May 17, 1953, is a French film director, actor and screenwriter of Polish origin. His first film was: "I hate actors"
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Daniel Krawczyk

is a French footballer born August 7, 1961 in Sains-en-Gohelle. After his playing career, Krawczyk began a coaching career. His brother Richard Krawczyk born May 24, 1947 in Aix-Noulette (Pas-de-Calais) was also a professional footballer.
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Lidia Ksiaskiewicz-Dubois

Polish musician, pianist and organist living in France with French organist Vincent Dubois, born in 1977 in Poznan (Poland).
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Teofil Kwiatkowski

Polish painter, friend of Chopin born February 21, 1809, died in Avallon August 14, 1891.
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