Polish Uruguayan

A Polish Uruguayan is a Uruguayan citizen of full or partial Polish ancestry.

The Polish arrived in Uruguay at the end of the 19th century. The most recent figure is from the 2011 Uruguayan census, which revealed 497 people who declared Poland as their country of birth. Other sources claim around 5,000 Poles in Uruguay.

Most Polish Uruguayans belong to the Roman Catholic Church. There is also a significant Polish Jewish minority.

Polish Uruguayans have two important institutions: the Polish Society Marshal Joseph Pilsudsky (Spanish: Sociedad Polonesa Mariscal José Pilsudski), established in 1915, and the Uruguayan Polish Union (Spanish: Unión Polono Uruguaya), established in 1935, both associated with USOPAL.

Notable Polish Uruguayans

past

• the sisters Paulina, Luisa and Clotilde Luisi, prominent feminists
• Chil Rajchman (1914-2004), Holocaust survivor and entrepreneur
• Francisco Majewski (1939–2012), footballer
• Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (1945–2013), footballer

present

• Jan Kobylański (born 1923 in Rowne), businessman
• José Serebrier (born 1938), conductor and composer
• Juan Carlos Masnik (born 1943), footballer
• Lucía Topolansky (born 1944), politician and First Lady (2010-2015)
• Eduardo Dluzniewski (born 1952), football referee
• Marcelo Tulbovitz (born 1961), football trainer
• Daniel Hendler (born 1976), film, television, and theatre actor
• Matías Vitkieviez (born 1985), footballer
• Daniel Fedorczuk (born 1976), football referee

See also

• Poland–Uruguay relations