Czajkowski

Czajkowski (Polish pronunciation: [tʂajˈkɔfskʲi], feminine: Czajkowska, plural: Czajkowscy) is the Polish form of a Slavic surname. Its Russian (Cyrillic: Чайко́вский, fem: Чайко́вская) and Ukrainian (Чайко́вський, fem: Чайковська) forms have numerous English transliterations, including Chaikovskiy, Chaikovsky, Chaikovskyi, Chaykovskiy, and Chaykovsky; and, influenced by French, Tchaikovski or Tchaikovsky (feminine ending in Russian: -skaia or -skaya; Ukrainian: -ska).

The name also occurs among other Slavic languages which use the Latin alphabet, such as Czech (Čajkovskij), Slovak (Čajkovský), and West South Slavic (Čajkovski). Less common transliterations include Tsjaikovski (Dutch), Tschaikowski (German), and Tjajkovskij (Swedish). The surname, in all its forms, is shared by the following individuals and fictional entities:

People

Composers

(Alphabetical by surname)

• Aleksandr Chaikovski (born 1946), Russian classical composer; studied with Tikhon Khrennikov; rector of Saint Petersburg Conservatory
• Andrzej Czajkowski (also known as André Tchaikowsky; born Robert Andrzej Krauthammer; 1935–1982), Polish classical pianist and composer; works include sonatas, string quartets and concertos
• Boris Tchaikovsky (1925–1996), Russian classical composer; works include four symphonies, chamber music and film music
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), Russian composer whose works are among the most frequently performed in classical repertoire; brother of the writer Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Filmmakers

(Alphabetical by surname)

• Boris Vitalyevich Chaikovsky (1888–1924), Russian director of silent films including Miss Meri (1918) and Beglets [Man on the Run] (1919)

Military people

(Alphabetical by surname)

• Iosif Chaikovski (1923–1945), Soviet Army officer whose name became nationally known as a World War II Hero of the Soviet Union
• Kasyan Chaikovski (1893–1938), Russian military commander; World War I hero with rank of comcor; executed during Stalin's Great Terror; posthumously rehabilitated in 1956
• Jędrzej Czajkowski (born 1947), Polish military officer who rose to top rank of fleet admiral; chief of staff for naval command, 1996–2005
• Kaspar Czajkowski (1898?–1940), Polish state police officer, murdered at Katyn Forest Massacre, 1940
• Victor A. Czajkowski (1922–2004), Polish Army Officer 1939-1945, prisoner at Auschwitz KZ 1941-1945, Canadian Army non-commissioned officer, metallurgist

Musician and singers

• Bram Tchaikovsky (born 1950), English lead vocalist and guitarist for the eponymous power pop band; original name Peter Bramall

Political figures and activists

(Alphabetical by surname)

• Bogdan Czajkowski (born 1933), Polish educator; led March 1968 strike at Warsaw University of Technology; advisor to Lech Wałęsa
• Krzysztof Czajkowski (born 1939), Polish political figure; longtime mayor (1989–2002) of Łódzkie Voivodship town of Aleksandrów Łódzki

Sports figures

(Alphabetical by surname)

• Željko Čajkovski (born 1925), Croatian footballer and coach; silver medalist as part of Yugoslavia's national team at 1948 Olympics; brother of Zlatko Čajkovski
• Zlatko Čajkovski (1923–1998), Croatian footballer (right half, 1939–60) and coach (1961–81); known by moniker, "Čik"; brother of Željko Čajkovski
• Daniel Czajkowski (born 1978), Polish cyclist who turned professional in 2001; has been a member of DHL–Author team since 2006
• Jim Czajkowski (born 1963), American former Major League Baseball player for the Colorado Rockies
• Marlin Czajkowski (born 1955), Founder of Rock Crawling (motorsports)
• Stanisław Czaykowski (1899–1933), Polish Grand Prix driver
• Zbigniew Czajkowski (born 1921), Polish fencing master; known as "father of the Polish School of Fencing" and coach of champions

Visual artists

(Alphabetical by surname)

• Józef Czajkowski (pl:Józef Czajkowski) (1872–1947), Polish painter, architect, graphic artist and educator; one of founders of movement known as "Polish Applied Art"; brother of Stanisław Czajkowski
• Stanisław Czajkowski (1878–1954), Polish landscape painter who studied at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków as well as in Paris; brother of Józef Czajkowski

Writers

(Alphabetical by surname)

• Yuriy Chaikovskiy (born 1940), Russian historian of science whose writings focus on evolution and its philosophical constructs
• Andriy Yakovich Chaykovskiy (1857–1935), Ukrainian lawyer, essayist, nationalist, and organizer during Ukrainian War of Independence
• Adrian Czajkowski (born 1972), British fantasy and science fiction author of the Empire of Black and Gold series, written under the pen name Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Antoni Czajkowski (1816–1873), Polish writer, poet and translator during literary era of Romanticism in Poland
• Fraser Czajkowski (born 1963), writer of numerous screenplays and the novel Six Men in the Field
• James Paul (Jim) Czajkowski (born 1961), writing under the pen names James Rollins and James Clements, American author of best-selling action-thrillers and fantasy novels
• Juan Czajkowski (1896–1970), Polish-Argentine journalist based in Posadas, capital of Misiones province where, for many years, he edited Polish-language newspaper, Orędownik
• Leszek Czajkowski (born 1967), Polish poet, songwriter, composer and publicist; along with Jacek Kaczmarski, known as "bard of Polish right"
• Michał Czajkowski (1804–1886), Polish-Ukrainian writer on Cossack themes; lived in Turkey under acquired name, Mehmed Sadyk Pasha
• Michał Czajkowski (theologian) (born 1934), Polish Catholic educator and priest based in Wrocław; author of hundreds of ecclesiastical studies
• Ryszard Czajkowski (born 1933), Polish geophysicist, journalist, filmmaker, publicist and travel writer; member of Polish expedition to South Pole
• Zbigniew Czajkowski-Dębczyński (1926–1999), Polish participant in Warsaw Uprising; wrote about battlefield death of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
• Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1850–1916), Russian playwright and opera librettist; brother of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Nikolai Tchaikovsky (1851–1926), Russian writer of influential revolutionary socialist tracts; lived in U.S. and London; opponent of Bolshevism; died in exile in Paris

Fictional entities

• Magda Czajkowski, half-Polish-half-Yorkshire character played by actress Kathryn Apanowicz on British serial drama Eastenders

See also

• Tchaikovsky (disambiguation)