with the Beethoven Quartet Society in London Performing arts Kathryn Apanowicz – actor Jan Herman Cukiertort (1842–1888) – chess grandmaster Daniela Denby-Ashe (born Pszkit) – actor Robert Donat – actor Anulka Dziubinska – actor, model Coky Giedroyc – director Mel Giedroyc – actor, comedian, one half of 'Mel and Sue' Sir John Gielgud – actor, director Maina Gielgud – ballet dancer Val Gielgud – pioneer of radio drama Stefan Golaszewski – comedian Paul Heiney (born Wisniewski) – son of a Polish serviceman) journalist, TV personality and farmer Stanislas Idzikowski (1894-1977) – Ballet dancer, with Anna Pavlova and the Ballets Russes and esteemed ballet master Marek Kanievska – director Mark Kielesz-Levine - Television Journalist and Presenter Richard Kwietniowski – director, screenwriter Rula Lenska – actor Kasia Madera – newsreader Anna Ptaszynski – comedian, host of No Such Thing as a Fish education/comedy podcast Ida Schuster – actor Vladek Sheybal (1923–1992) – film and TV actor and director Peter Serafinowicz – comedian Michael Winner (1935–2013) – son of a Polish mother, film director, producer, food critic Politics Tomasz Arciszewski – third Prime Minister of Polish government-in-exile and the last to have international recognition Adam Ciołkosz – with wife, Lidia, leading light of the Polish Socialist Party for several decades in Poland and in UK exile Daniel Kawczynski – Conservative MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, came to the UK in 1978 Stanisław Mackiewicz (1896–1966) (older brother of Jozef Mackiewicz) – foremost political journalist who served as exiled Prime Minister (1955–56) before returning to Poland Stanislaw Mikolajczyk – second Prime Minister of Polish government-in-exile David Miliband – former Foreign Secretary, whose mother was born in Poland Ed Miliband – former leader of the Labour Party, whose mother was born in Poland Rosena Allin-Khan (born 1977) – medical practitioner and Labour Party MP for Tooting in London Walery Mroczkowski (1840–1889) – anarchist follower of Mikhail Bakunin Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz – political theorist, diplomat, prolific writer Leon Walerian Ostroróg (1867–1932) – international jurist, specialising in Islamic Law, delegate to Paris Peace Conference, 1919 Józef Piłsudski – statesman and marshal of Polish Armed Forces stayed in London as an independence activist early in his career Adam Pragier – leading socialist and political writer, Information minister in the Polish government-in-exile Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz – Polish Head of State-in-exile (President) 1939–1947 Edward Bernard Raczyński – aristocrat, diplomat, writer, politician and President of Poland in exile (between 1979 and 1986) Jozef