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Poland's first world-femaous actress achieved star status in Europe and America, especially for playing Shakespearean heroines.

Europe's first woman to parachute from an altitude of five kilometres and the first woman pilot in the Polish Air Forces.

Honoured as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, Antonina Żabińska and her husband Jan, the director of the Warsaw Zoo, saved nearly 300 Jews in World War II.

First woman ever to win a track and field gold medal at the Olympic Games and Poland's first Olympic gold medallist.

Europe's first woman to win international fame as a professional pianist was also one of Poland's earliest female composers.

A physicist specialising in research on air quality and its impact on human health, Professor Morawska helped stop the COVID-19 pandemic by proving the virus is airborne.

Her fabric sculptures were exhibited at the world's great art galleries. She was the only artist to give her surname to a new art genre - Abakans.

The queen of Art Deco, counted among the most outstanding female artists of th 20th century.

The queen of jazz and a revolutionary vocalist, she was the world's first singer to use transducers and live vocal looping.

One of World War II's bravest secret agents known as Churchill's 'favourite spy'.