Jadwiga (Polish pronunciation: [jadˈviɡa] ; diminutives: Jadzia [ˈjad͡ʑa], Iga) is a Polish feminine given name. It originated from the old Germanic feminine given name Hedwig (variants of which include Hedwiga), which is compounded from hadu ('battle') and wig ('fight').
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People with the given name Jadwiga
Jadwiga (wife of Władysław Odonic) (died 1249), Duchess consort of Greater Poland
Jadwiga of Kalisz (1266-1339), Polish queen
Jadwiga of Poland (ca. 1373-74-1399), Polish monarch
Jadwiga Abramson (1887-1944), Polish child psychologist
Jadwiga Andrzejewska (1915-1977), Polish film and theater actress
Jadwiga Apostoł (1913-1990), Polish writer, resistance fighter
Jadwiga Barańska(1935-2024), Polish actress and screenwriter
Jadwiga Chojnacka (1900-1992), Polish film actress
Jadwiga Damse (born 1947), Polish Olympic luger
Jadwiga Długoborska (1899-1944), Polish teacher, who rescued Jews in WWII
Jadwiga Dobrzyńska (1898-1940), Polish architect
Jadwiga Doering (born 1938), Polish Olympic sprint canoer
Jadwiga Dudziec (1912-1944), Polish educator and member of the Polish Resistance during World War II
Jadwiga Dzido (1918-1985), Polish resistance worker deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp
Jadwiga Dzieduszycka (1867-1941), Polish noblewoman
Jadwiga Dziubińska (1874-1937), Polish politician
Jadwiga Falkowska (1889-1944), Polish teacher, soldier, and scout leader
Jadwiga Golcz (1866-1936), Polish photographer
Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak (1920-2018), Polish architect
Jadwiga Harasowska (1904-1978), Polish publisher, journalist, and émigré activist
Jadwiga Hładki (1904-1944), Polish artist
Jadwiga Jagiellon (disambiguation), several Polish princesses of that name
Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak (1951-2025), Polish film actress
Jadwiga Jędrzejowska (1912-1980), Polish tennis player
Jadwiga Klemensiewicz (1871-1963), Polish pharmacist
Jadwiga Klimaj (1931-1998), Polish Olympic shot putter
Jadwiga Kołdras (born 1959), Polish Olympic field hockey player
Jadwiga Kotnowska (born 1957), Polish flautist
Jadwiga Książek (1939-2019), Polish volleyball player
Jadwiga Kuryluk (1912-1995), Polish film actress
Jadwiga Lachowska (1892-after 1962), Polish operatic soprano and mezzo-soprano
Jadwiga Lenartowicz Rylko (1910-2010), Polish physician and Nazi concentration camp survivor
Jadwiga Lipińska (1932-2009), Polish Egyptologist
Jadwiga Łopata, Polish organic farmer
Jadwiga Łuszczewska (1834-1908), Polish poet, novelist and salonniére
Jadwiga Łuszkowska (1616-1648), Polish noblewoman, known as the mistress of Polish king Ladislaus IV Vasa
Jadwiga Ostrowska-Czubenko (born 1949), Polish chemist
Jadwiga Piłsudska (1920-2014), Polish pilot who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War
Jadwiga Rappé (1952-2025), Polish contralto
Jadwiga Rutkowska (1934-2004), Polish Olympic volleyball player
Jadwiga Sapieżyna (1806-1890), Polish noblewoman and philanthropist
Jadwiga Sarnecka (1877 or 1883-1913), Polish composer and pianist
Jadwiga Smosarska (1898-1971), Polish film actress
Jadwiga Staniszkis (1942-2024), Polish sociologist and political scientist
Jadwiga Szczawińska-Dawidowa (1864-1910), Polish teacher, school founder, writer and women's rights activist
Jadwiga Szmidt (1889 – 1940), Polish-Russian physicist
Jadwiga Szopieraj (1908-1975), Polish photographer
Jadwiga Szoszler-Wilejto (born 1949), Polish Olympic archer
Jadwiga Szubartowicz (1905-2017), Polish supercentenarian
Jadwiga Tyszka (1954-2005), Polish-born actress and community activist
Jadwiga Umińska (1900-1983), Polish painter
Jadwiga Vuyk (1886-1950), Polish-Dutch art dealer and art historian
Jadwiga Wajs (1912-1990), Polish Olympic discus thrower
Jadwiga Wołoszyńska (1882-1951), Polish botanist
Jadwiga Wysoczanská (1927-2021), Czech operatic soprano
Jadwiga Zakrzewska (born 1950), Polish politician
Jadwiga Złotorzycka (1926-2002), Polish entomologist
Jadwiga Żylińska (1910-2009), Polish author
People with the given name Jadzia
Jadzia Axelrod (fl. from 2022), American comic book writer and illustrator
Fictional characters
Jadzia Dax, from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine