Clergymen and film-makers among 100 'most influential Poles'

Aside from Tadeusz Rydzyk, the founder of the controversial Radio Maryja media group, political heavyweights such as Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the socially conservative Law and Justice party, are included in the list by the Wprost magazine.

However, the premier's 24-year-old daughter Kasia Tusk has also found a place on the list.

Besides having more fans on her Facebook fashion blog than Solidarity hero Lech Walesa, Kasia Tusk takes several calls a day from her father, and Wprost claims that the premier seeks her advice on political as well as domestic matters.

There is space on the list too for the business success stories of the last 25 years - a period in which Poland wrenched itself out of the communist system of economics.

Jan Kulczyk, Poland's richest man, is among those cited.

In the arts, figures such as poet Wislawa Szymborska, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, is noted alongside actress Krystyna Janda and director Andrzej Wajda as figures who “exert the greatest influence on the Polish intelligentsia.”

Wprost also sought to draw attention to figures who “don't care about fame, money and honours”, citing former actress Anna Dymna, who is currently one of Poland's leading charity-workers. (nh/pg)