Zawadzki

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Zawadzki [zaˈvat͡ski] (feminine: Zawadzka, plural: Zawadzcy) is a Polish and Ukrainian surname. It is a toponymic surname derived from one of the numerous locations named Zawada or Zawady.

It may belong to a noble family bearing the Zawadzki coat of arms.

Historically, due to the instability of the orthography, as well as in the periods of the partitions of Poland by foreign powers the same person or persons of the same family could use different spelling of the surname. Variant spellings include Zawadski, Zavadsky, Zavadski, Zawadowsky, Zawadowski, Sawadsky, Sawadski, Sawatsky, Sawatzky, Zawatzki, etc.

Notable people with these surnames include:

Zawadzki, Zawadski or Zawacki

Agnes Zawadzki (born 1994), American figure skater
Aleksander Zawadzki (disambiguation)
Andrew Zawacki (born 1972), American poet
Angelica Zawadzki (born 1952), Mexican sprint canoer
Anna Zawadzka (1919–2004), Polish author
Dariusz Zawadzki (born 1982), Polish football player
Ewa Zawadzka (born 1950), Polish graphic artist
Gila Golan (born 1940, originally Zosia Zawadzka), model and actress
Janusz Zawadzki (1931–1977), Polish ice hockey player
Jolanta Zawadzka (born 1987), Polish chess player
Józef Zawadzki (disambiguation)
Lance Zawadzki (born 1985), American baseball player
Magdalena Zawadzka (born 1944), Polish actress
Marcelina Zawadzka (born 1989), Polish model
Saturnin Zawadzki (1923–2003), Polish soil scientist
Sebastian Zawadzki (born 1991), Polish-born composer and pianist
Stella Márquez Zawadski or Stella Araneta (born 1937), Colombian pageant director and beauty queen
Stanisław Zawadzki (1743–1806), Polish architect
Stanisław Zawadzki (born 1984), Polish chess master
Stanisława Zawadzka (1890–1988), Polish singer
Stefan Zawadzki (born 1946), Polish historian
Sylwester Zawadzki (disambiguation)
Tadeusz Zawadzki (1921–1943), Polish scoutmaster and lieutenant of the Armia Krajowa
Tavar Zawacki (born 1980), American abstract artist
Włodzimierz Zawadzki (born 1967), Polish sport wrestler

Sawatzky, Sawatsky or Sawatzki

This version of the name is very prevalent among the Plautdietsch-speaking Russian Mennonites who emigrated from Ukraine to Canada and the United States. Many hundreds or thousands of families with these spellings exist, thus it is likely the most numerous of the many versions listed in this article. Family history suggests it derives from a Pole who converted to Mennonitism and joined the Mennonites in the Vistula delta region. It is not connected to other similar-sounding German names like the Sudeten-German name Watzke or Watzky, with which it is sometimes confused.^{[citation needed]}

Andrea Sawatzki (born 1963), German actress
Darren Sawatzky (born 1973), American soccer player
George Sawatzky (born 1942), Canadian-Dutch physicist
Harry Leonard Sawatzky (1931–2008), Canadian scholar and writer
Herb Sawatzky (1933–1999), Australian rules football player
John Sawatsky (born 1948), Canadian author and journalist
Peter Sawatzky (born 1951), Canadian sculptor
Rick Sawatsky (born 1976), Canadian curler
Mary Sawatzky (born 1961), American politician
Michelle Sawatzky-Koop (born 1970), Canadian volleyball player
Rick Sawatsky (born 1976), Canadian curler

Other variants

Ed Zawatsky (born 1968), Canadian hockey coach

Fictional characters

Ralph Sawatzky, a protagonist of the 1990 American film Working Trash
Fabian Sawatzki, Look Who's Back/Er ist wieder da 2015 German satirical black comedy film