Lipka Tatars - Famous Lipka Tatar Descendants

Famous Lipka Tatar Descendants

  • Charles Bronson - Lithuanian American actor whose father was a Lipka Tatar, born in Druskininkai (Druskienik)
  • Aleksander Romanowicz - general of cavalry in Russian Imperial Army and Polish Army.
  • Henryk Sienkiewicz - Polish Nobel Prize-winning novelist.; on his father's side deriving from the Lipka Tatars
  • Aleksander Sulkiewicz - Polish politician of Tatar ethnicity, activist in socialist and independence movements and one of the co-founders of Polish Socialist Party
  • Martha Stewart - US business magnate. Her maternal Lipka Tatar background was unearthed in an episode of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,

Two distantly related members of the Abakanowicz family

  • Bruno Abakanowicz - mathematician, inventor and electrical engineer whose family was of distant Lipka Tatar origin.
  • Magdalena Abakanowicz - Polish artist whose family is of distant Tatar origin.

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