| ![Show Contents]() Tarnowski History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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 Poland Illustrious names such as Tarnowski proudly evoke images of the historic Eastern European homeland of the Polish people. Although the most common form of a hereditary surname in Poland is the "patronymic" surname, which is derived from the name of the father, there are also "local" surnames. Local surnames usually came from a fairly universal and long standing tradition of noting "where" a person came from. They were derived from place-names; where a person lived, held land, or where he was born. Over the course of its history, the boundaries of Poland changed frequently and as a result, Polish names have much in common with other Slavic names in the way they are formed and in reference to localities. Polish surnames often end with a diminutive suffix, such as -owicz, ak, ski or ska, which can be attached to local names. A "local" type of surname, the Tarnowski family lived in the city of Tarnow in the region known as Malopolska, which means Little Poland. However, it was Cracow where the lineage originated. The earliest records of the House of Tarnowski date back to 1330, when a Spicimir Tarnowski, who was a member of the Cracow nobility, founded the city of Tarnow and the Melsztyn castle. Early Notables of the Tarnowski family- Jan Feliks Tarnowski (1471-1507), a Polish nobleman, was Chorazy of Kraków since 1484, Starost of Belz since 1485, Stolnik of the Royal court since 1494, Castellan of Lublin since 1497, Voivode of Lub...
Tarnowski RankingIn the United States, the name Tarnowski is the 17,525th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1
| Contemporary Notables of the name Tarnowski (post 1700) | + |
- Josef "Joe" Tarnowski (1922-2010), Polish-Scottish electronics engineer
- Adam Graf Tarnowski (1866-1946), Austro-Hungarian diplomat of Polish origin
- Jan Feliks Tarnowski, Polish nobleman, the Palatine of Lublin
- Jan Tarnowski (1550-1605), Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland
- Count Stanis³aw Tarnowski (1837-1917), Polish nobleman (szlachcic), historian, literary critic, publicist
- Marcin Tarnowski (b. 1985), Polish footballer
- Jan Amor Tarnowski (1488-1561), Polish szlachcic (nobleman)
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