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The Polish surname Dunin allegedly originated with the 12th century Piotr Wlast Dunin. The coat of arms is the Łabędź (swan). Notable individuals in the English Misplaced Pages with this name include:

• Piotr Włostowic (1080-1153), also known as Piotr Wlast Dunin, founder of the name.

• Princess Mariya (Maria), Daughter of Grand Duke Sviatopolk II of Kiev, she Married Piotr Włostowic and co-founded the Dunin family. Through Princess Maria the Dunin's are descended from many of the famous royal families of antiquity with a list of ancient Royal Grandparents that fill history books.

• Count Piotr Dunin On September 17, 1462 defeated the Teutonic Knights at Malbork castle during the Thirteen Years' War at the Battle of Świecino bringing an end to Teutonic control of the region. The Teutonic Knights were never able to recover from this defeat and the ones that followed.

• Count Rodryg Dunin (1870-1928), Polish agriculturist

• Count Casimir Dunin-Markiewicz (1874-1932), (also spelled Kazimierz_Dunin-Markiewicz) Polish painter, but more famous for his marriage to Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (aka, Constance Gore-Booth) who was a revolutionary and campaigned for Irish independence.

• Count Antoni Dunin (1907-1939), Polish army officer

• Ron Dunin, (1918-2004), longterm mayor of San Luis Obispo, California

• Stanley Dunin (b. 1936), Polish-American mathematician and aerospace engineer

• Elsie Ivancich Dunin (b. 1935), Croatian-American dance ethnologist

• Elonka Dunin (b. 1958), American cryptographer and game developer

Other Notable individuals of the name DUNIN not in the English Misplaced Pages at this time include:

• Count Dunin-Wonsowicz, Lithuanian Captain of the 1st Polish Lancers and Napoleon's loyal aide-de-camp during his 1812 Russian Campaign. On December 5, 1812, with his troops in disarray and freezing temperatures taking a heavy toll, Napoleon abandoned his Grand Army at Smorgonie (Russia) and returned to Paris. He was accompanied only by a Mameluke bodyguard and his aide-de-camp Captain (Count) Dunin-Wonsowicz. It is claimed that Napoleon ordered that he should never be allowed to be captured alive and handed Count Dunin-Wonsowicz a set of pistols.

• Martin von Dunin (1774-1842), Archbishop of Gnesen and Posen Prussia (1831-1842), Refused to follow the Royal decree of King Frederick William III which allowed Catholics and other christians to marry outside of the rules set forth by Pope Benedict XIV. In 1839 he was imprissoned for six months and then immediately imprissoned again until the kings death in 1840. (note: Misplaced Pages article is not in english, but articles in english do exist on some Catholic sites.

• Vincent Dunin-Marcinkievich (1808-1884), was instramental in reviving Belarusian culture and is the father of the New Belarusian Literature.

• Captain Zbigniew Dunin-Wonsowicz, On June 13, 1915 he led a famous Polish cavalry charge of four platoons up the side of Rokitna hill. The Russian Muscovite infantry was heavily entrenched with machine guns and cannons. Despite the heavy casualties from machine gun fire, the Poles took all three trenches and sent the Russians running in fear.

• Wladyslaw Antoni Dunin-Wilczynski, Major in the Polish Intelligence Corp. Executed at Katyn Forest along with over 14,000 other Polish prisoners of war by order of Joseph Stalin. Prior to the war he was a professor of electronics at the University of Warsaw and was instrumental at setting up the first Television stations in Warsaw.

• Dr. Jerzy Wladyslaw Dunin-Wilczynski (1922-1972), Doctor of Medicine, University of Rome. Immigrated to the United States and practiced Psychiatry. During WWII he fought with Polish troops in several theaters and was a hero at Monte Casino.

• Zbigniew Dunin-Wilczynski, Fought with the Polish resistance during WWII under the code name "Lupus" and was part of the Warsaw uprising.

• Dr. Jan Dunin-Borkowski, Centre for Informatics Education and Computer Applications, He heads the Centre for the Technology of Teaching, Warszawa, PL

• Dr. Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is a Royal Society University Research Fellow. He was the 2001 winner in the "Science as Art" category of the "visions of science" contest for his work with, and picture of a Magnetic bacterium. He co-authored a paper in the November 20, 2001 "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" that refuted the assertion that the magnetite Crystals in the "Mars meteorite",ALH84001, offered absolute proof of extraterrestrial bacterial life on Mars.

• Stanislaw Dunin-Horkawicz, Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland. One of the creators of the MODOMICS modified RNA database.

• Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Ph.D. (b.1952), Professor of Computer Science, Institute of Informatics at the University of Warsaw and the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. Author of books on Multi-Agent Systems and Artificial Intelligence.

• Kinga Dunin (b. 1954), Famous Polish feminist author and cultural journalist.

• Ricardo Dunin, president and founder of Flagler Holding Group, a Miami Beach, Florida real estate firm that sells luxury residential lofts.

• Zbigniew Dunin-Kozicki, Polish Actor

• Witali L. Dunin-Barkowski, Ph.D., Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics (b. 1959). Professor of Biophysics, Professor of Physiology at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Authored and co-authoreda number of papers on biological neural networks and neurocomputing.

• Romuald Lvovich Dunin - Barkovskyi, Ph.D. in Mineralogy, Senior Scientist at Institute of Volcanic Geology and Geochemistry, Petropavlovsk - Kamchatsky.

• Dr. Ola Dunin-Bell, Clinical Assistant Professor Pediatric Surgery at McMasters University wiki.mcmastersurgery.com

See also

• Polish Misplaced Pages entry on Duninowie
• Dunn (surname)
• Dunning (surname)

• Human name disambiguation pages
• Surnames