Polonsky

Polonsky (Russian: Полонский, Ukrainian: Полонський) is a surname. It is quite common in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The name independently appeared in Russia and Ukraine, and in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and a little later was used by Polish Jews. The first mention of the surname comes from 16th century Polish genealogy books as a name of an old Lithuanian family Połoński that belonged to Leliwa coat of arms.¹² The origin of the name is attributed to Latin polonus 'Polish', or to villages Polonka, Polonnoye or Polonsk in modern Belarus.³⁴

Notable people with this name include:

• Abraham Polonsky (1910–1999), American film director and novelist
• Antony Polonsky (born 1940), American professor of Holocaust studies
• Arthur Polonsky (1925–2019), American painter
• David Polonsky (born 1973), Ukraine-born Israeli book illustrator an artistic film director
• Gary Polonsky (born 1942), Canadian university president
• Lea Polonsky (born 2002), Israeli swimmer
• Leonid Polonsky (1833–1913) Russian writer and journalist
• Luciano Palonsky (born 1999), Argentine professional volleyball player
• Pinchas Polonsky (born 1958), Russian-Israeli religious philosopher and researcher
• Sergei Polonsky (born 1972), Russian businessman
• Vitold Polonsky (1879–1919), Russian silent film actor
• Vladimir Polonsky (1893–1937), First Secretary of Azerbaijan Communist Party
• Vyacheslav Polonsky (1886–1932), Russian critic, journalist and historian.
• Yakov Polonsky (1819–1898), Russian Pushkinist poet
• Yevgeny Polonsky (died 1919), Ukrainian Red Army soldier

• Abraham Polonski (1913-?), Russian French Resistance member
• Dominik Połoński (1976–2018), Polish cellist

• Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890–1969), Russian poet
• Elena Kazimirtchak-Polonskaïa (Olena Ivanivna Kazymyrchak-Polonska), Soviet astronomer
• Marina Polonskaya, pseudonym of Maria Olovennikova, Russian Narodnik revolutionary
• Nataliia Polonska-Vasylenko, Ukrainian historian
• 2006 Polonskaya, a main-belt asteroid, named after the former