page_title: University of Warsaw
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: University of Warsaw / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz (born August 21, 1917, Moscow) is Regents’ Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Minnesota and co-winner with w:Eric Maskin and w:Roger Myerson of the 2007 w:Nobel Prize in Economics.
context_page_description: The University of Warsaw, established in 1816, is the largest university in Poland. It employs over 6,000 staff including over 3,100 academic educators. It provides graduate courses for 53,000 students. The University offers some 37 different fields of study, 18 faculties and over 100 specializations in Humanities, technical as well as Natural Sciences.
  It was founded as a Royal University on 19 November 1816, when the Partitions of Poland separated Warsaw from the oldest and most influential University of Kraków. Alexander I granted permission for the establishment of five faculties – law and political science, medicine, philosophy, theology and the humanities. The university expanded rapidly, but was closed during November Uprising in 1830. It was reopened in 1857 as the Warsaw Academy of Medicine, which was now based in the nearby Staszic Palace with only medical and pharmaceutical faculties. All Polish-language campuses were closed in 1869 after the failed January Uprising, but the university managed to train 3,000 students, many of whom were important part of the Polish intelligentsia; meanwhile the Main Building was reopened for training military personnel.
context_section_description: Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909–1983), author
  Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921–1944), poet, Home Army soldier killed in the Warsaw Uprising
  Menachem Begin (1913–1992), 6th Prime Minister of Israel (1977–1983), Nobel Peace Prize winner (1978)
  Adam Bodnar (b. 1977), lawyer, human rights activist, Polish Ombudsman
  Tadeusz Borowski (1922–1951), poet, writer
  Kazimierz Brandys (1916–2000), writer
  Marian Brandys (1912–1998), writer, journalist
  Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849), pianist, composer
  Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (b. 1950), politician, Prime Minister of Poland (1996–1997), Marshal of the Sejm (2005)
  Tomasz Dietl (b. 1950), physicist
  Samuel Eilenberg (1913-1998), mathematician, computer scientist, art collector
  Joseph Epstein (1911–1944), communist leader of French resistance
  Lech Gardocki (b. 1944) lawyer, judge, former First President of the Supreme Court of Poland
  Marek Gazdzicki (b. 1956), nuclear physicist
  Bronisław Geremek (1932–2008), historian, politician
  Małgorzata Gersdorf (b. 1952), lawyer, First President of the Supreme Court of Poland
  Maciej Gliwicz (b. 1939), biologist
  Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969), writer
  Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (b. 1952), politician, President of the National Bank of Poland (1992–2001), Mayor of Warsaw (2006-2018)
  Jan T. Gross (b. 1947), historian, writer, Princeton University professor
  Zofia Helman (b. 1937), Polish musicologist
  Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919–2000), journalist, writer, Gulag survivor
  Leonid Hurwicz (1917–2008), economist, mathematician, Nobel Prize in Economics winner (2007)
  Czesław Janczarski (1911–1971), poet and Russian literature translator
  Maria Janion (b. 1926), literary critic
  Monika Jaruzelska (b. 1963) fashion designer, journalist, daughter of former Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski
  Jerzy Jedlicki (1930–2018), historian of ideas, anti-communist activist
  Jarosław Kaczyński (b. 1949), politician, Prime Minister of Poland (2006–2007)
  Lech Kaczyński (1949–2010), politician, Mayor of Warsaw (2002–2005), President of Poland (2005–2010)
  Andrzej Kalwas (b. 1936), lawyer, businessman and former Polish Minister of Justice
  Aleksander Kamiński (1903–1978), writer, leader of Polish Scouting and Guiding Association
  Ryszard Kapuściński (1932–2007), writer and journalist
  Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876–1909), composer
  Jan Karski (1914–2000), Polish resistance fighter
  Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925–2015), paleobiologist
  Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009), philosopher, historian of philosophy
  Bronisław Komorowski (b. 1952), politician, Marshal of the Sejm (2007–2010), President of Poland (2010–2015)
  Alpha Oumar Konaré, (b. 1946), 3rd President of Mali (1992–2002)
  Janusz Korwin-Mikke (b. 1942), conservative-liberal politician and journalist
  Marek Kotański (1942–2002), psychologist and streetworker
  Jacek Kuroń (1934–2004), historian, author, social worker and politician
  Jan Józef Lipski (1926–1991), literature historian, politician
  Jerzy Łojek (1932–1986), historian, writer
  Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927–2013), author, social worker, journalist, Prime Minister of Poland (1989–1991)
  Adam Michnik (b. 1946), journalist
  Karol Modzelewski (1937–2019), historian, politician
  Mirosław Nahacz (1984–2007), novelist, screenwriter
  Jerzy Neyman (1894–1981), mathematician, statistician, University of California professor
  Jan Olszewski (b. 1930), lawyer, politician, Prime Minister of Poland (1991–1992)
  Janusz Onyszkiewicz (b. 1937), politician
  Maria Ossowska (1896–1974), sociologist
  Bolesław Piasecki (1915–1979), politician
  Bohdan Paczyński (1940–2007), astronomer
  Longin Pastusiak (b. 1935), politician, Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland (2001–2005)
  Krzysztof Piesiewicz (b. 1945), lawyer, screenwriter
  Moshe Prywes (1914–1998), Israeli physician and educator; first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
  Adam Przeworski (b. 1940), political scientist, New York University professor
  Bolesław Prus (1847–1912), writer
  Emanuel Ringelblum (1900–1944), historian, founder Emanuel Ringelblum Archives of Warsaw Ghetto
  Józef Rotblat (1908–2005), physicist, Nobel Peace Prize winner (1995)
  Stefan Sarnowski (b. 1939),
caption: Leonid Hurwicz
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