1940), sportscaster for CBS Sports Gary Styczynski (born 1965), professional poker player; won the 2007 World Series of Poker Other George Adamski (1891–1965), one of the first people to publicly claim to have seen and photographed UFOs Francis E. Dec (1926–1996), outsider writer and predecessor to targeted individuals Leon Czolgosz (1873–1901), assassin of U.S. President William McKinley John Wayne Gacy (1942–1994), serial killer, of Polish and Danish ancestry. His paternal grandparents (family name spelled "Gatza" or "Gaca") were from what is now Poland, then part of the German Empire. Ted Kaczynski (born 1942), the Unabomber Richard "Iceman" Kuklinski (1935–2006), notorious hitman, claimed to have killed 200 people Meyer Lansky (1902-1983), an organized crime figure who was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States Jan Lewan (born 1941), songwriter and polka band leader (known as the "Polka King"), who ran a Ponzi scheme Curtis Sliwa (born 1954), Guardian Angels founder Wilfrid Michael Voynich (1865–1930), antiquarian and bibliophile, and the eponym of the Voynich manuscript Henry Earl J. Wojciechowski (aka Hymie Weiss) (1898–1926), mob boss and rival of Al Capone John Wojnowski (born 1943), protester against pedophilia in the Catholic Church. References Polish American Americans Polish