Grażyna
Grażyna is a Polish feminine given name. The name was created by the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz for the main character of his 1823 poem Grażyna. The name is derived from the Lithuanian adjective gražus, meaning "pretty", "beautiful".
Diminutives/hypocoristics include Grasia, Grazia, Grażynka, Grażka, Grażusia.
In Polish tradition, the name days for Grażyna are April 1 and July 26.
Notable people
- Grażyna Auguścik, Polish jazz vocalist, composer, and arranger
- Grażyna Bacewicz, Polish composer and violinist
- Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska, Polish actress
- Grażyna Brodzińska, Polish soprano, opera and operetta singer, and musical actress
- Grażyna Ciemniak, Polish politician
- Grażyna Długołęcka, Polish film actress
- Grażyna Gęsicka, Polish sociologist and politician
- Grazyna Kochanska, Polish-American developmental psychologist
- Grażyna Kostrzewińska, Polish pair skater
- Grażyna Kulczyk, Polish investor, art collector, philanthropist and billionaire
- Grazyna Monvid, British actress, author and award-winning playwright
- Grażyna Miller, Polish poet and translator
- Grażyna Prokopek, Polish sprinter
- Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil, Polish composer and music educator
- Grażyna Szapołowska, Polish film and theatre actress
- Grażyna Staszak-Makowska, Polish fencer
- Grażyna Strachota, Polish actress
- Grażyna Rabsztyn, Polish hurdler
- Grażyna Witkowska, Polish gymnast
- Grażyna Wolszczak, Polish actress
- Grażyna Vetulani, Polish philologist and linguist, professor of the humanities
- Wanda Grażyna Gałecka-Szmurło, Polish lawyer, independence and social activist, the second woman in Poland who was entered on the list of lawyers