Jacek

Jacek, Jacinto, Giacinto, Jacint

The Death of Hyacinth by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Pronunciation	Polish: [ˈjat͡sɛk]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Hyacinth
Meaning	[real meaning needed]
Region of origin	Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Greek
Other names
Related names	Jacinto (Spanish and Portuguese), Jacint/Cint/Cinto (Catalan), Giacinto (Italian), Jácint (Hungarian), Hyacinth (Greek)

Jacek is a Polish given name of Greek origin related to Hyacinth, through the archaic form of Jacenty. Its closely related equivalents are: Jacinto (Spanish and Portuguese), Giacinto (Italian), Jácint (Hungarian) and Jacint (Catalan, shortened to Cint or Cinto following the Catalan tradition of hypocorising through apheresis).

The name Jacek might refer to:

• Saint Hyacinth (Święty Jacek, Jacek Odrowąż), Dominican friar and saint
• Jacek Andrzej Rossakiewicz
• Jacek Bąk, footballer
• Jacek Bednarek, racewalker
• Jacek Bogucki, politician
• Jacek Bury, Senator
• Jacek Cichocki, politician
• Jacek Dehnel, poet and writer
• Jacek Dukaj, science fiction writer
• Jacek Falfus, politician
• Jacek Gmoch, footballer
• Jacek "Tede" Graniecki, rapper
• Jacek Huchwajda, fencer
• Jacek Jezierski, writer and businessmen
• Jacek Jędruch, Polish-American nuclear engineer and historian
• Jacek Kaczmarski, singer, songwriter, dissident
• Jacek Karpiński, computer scientist and engineer
• Jacek Komuda, historian
• Jacek Kościelniak, politician
• Jacek Krupa, politician
• Jacek Krywult, politician
• Jacek Krzynówek, footballer
• Jacek Kuroń, historian, dissident
• Jacek Kurski, politician
• Jacek Lipiński, lawyer, mayor of Aleksandrów Łódzki
• Jacek Łągwa, musician and actor
• Jacek Majchrowski, mayor of Kraków
• Jacek Malczewski, painter
• Jacek Małachowski, szlachcic
• Jacek Pastusiński, triple jumper
• Jacek Poniedziałek, actor
• Jacek Rostowski, politician and economist
• Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, politician, diplomat
• Jacek Stopa (born 1987), polish chess player
• Jacek Wszoła, high jumper
• Jacek Yerka, painter
• Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló (died 1902), Catalan poet