Polonsky
Polonsky (Russian: Полонский, Ukrainian: Полонський) is a surname. It is quite common in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The name independently appeared in Russia and Ukraine, and in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and a little later was used by Polish Jews. The first mention of the surname comes from 16th century Polish genealogy books as a name of an old Lithuanian family Połoński that belonged to Leliwa coat of arms.[1][2] The origin of the name is attributed to Latin polonus 'Polish', or to villages Polonka, Polonnoye or Polonsk in modern Belarus.[3][4]
Notable people with this name include:
Polonsky
- Abraham Polonsky (1910–1999), American film director and novelist
- Antony Polonsky (born 1940), American professor of Holocaust studies
- Arthur Polonsky (1925–2019), American painter
- David Polonsky (born 1973), Ukraine-born Israeli book illustrator an artistic film director
- Gary Polonsky (born 1942), Canadian university president
- Lea Polonsky (born 2002), Israeli swimmer
- Leonid Polonsky (1833–1913) Russian writer and journalist
- Luciano Palonsky (born 1999), Argentine professional volleyball player
- Pinchas Polonsky (born 1958), Russian-Israeli religious philosopher and researcher
- Sergei Polonsky (born 1972), Russian businessman
- Vitold Polonsky (1879–1919), Russian silent film actor
- Vladimir Polonsky (1893–1937), First Secretary of Azerbaijan Communist Party
- Vyacheslav Polonsky (1886–1932), Russian critic, journalist and historian.
- Yakov Polonsky (1819–1898), Russian Pushkinist poet
- Yevgeny Polonsky (died 1919), Ukrainian Red Army soldier
Polonski
- Abraham Polonski (1913–?), Russian French Resistance member
- Dominik Połoński (1976–2018), Polish cellist
Polonska, Polonskaya
- Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890–1969), Russian poet
- Elena Kazimirtchak-Polonskaïa (Olena Ivanivna Kazymyrchak-Polonska), Soviet astronomer
- Marina Polonskaya, pseudonym of Maria Olovennikova, Russian Narodnik revolutionary
- Nataliia Polonska-Vasylenko, Ukrainian historian
- 2006 Polonskaya, a main-belt asteroid, named after the former
See also
- All pages with titles containing Polonsky
- All pages with titles containing Polonska
- All pages with titles containing Polonskaya
- Polonsky conspiracy, a Bolshevik attempted coup in Ukraine
- Polonskyi Raion, a former administrative district in Ukraine
References
- ↑ Paprocki, Bartosz (1584). Herby rycerstwa polskiego. Kraków.
- ↑ Niesiecki, Ks. Kacper (1728). Herby i familie rycerskie tak w Koronie jako y w W.X.L. Lwów.
- ↑ Beider, Alexander. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire: Revised Edition.
- ↑ "Что значит фамилия ПОЛОНСКИЙ?".