Jadwiga (; diminutives: Jadzia , 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").
Jadwiga may refer to:
- Jadwiga (wife of WÃ
ÂadysÃ
Âaw 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 ApostoÃ
 (1913-1990), Polish writer, resistance fighter
- Jadwiga BaraÃ
Âska(1935-2024), Polish actress and screenwriter
- Jadwiga Chojnacka (1900-1992), Polish film actress
- Jadwiga Damse (born 1947), Polish Olympic luger
- Jadwiga DÃ
Âugoborska (1899-1944), Polish teacher, who rescued Jews in WWII
- Jadwiga DobrzyÃ
Âska (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 DziubiÃ
Âska (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 HÃ
Âadki (1904-1944), Polish artist
- Jadwiga Jagiellon (disambiguation), several Polish princesses of that name
- Jadwiga Jankowska-CieÃ
Âlak (1951-2025), Polish film actress
- Jadwiga JÃÂdrzejowska (1912-1980), Polish tennis player
- Jadwiga Klemensiewicz (1871-1963), Polish pharmacist
- Jadwiga Klimaj (1931-1998), Polish Olympic shot putter
- Jadwiga KoÃ
Âdras (born 1959), Polish Olympic field hockey player
- Jadwiga Kotnowska (born 1957), Polish flautist
- Jadwiga KsiÃÂ
Ã
¼ek (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 LipiÃ
Âska (1932-2009), Polish Egyptologist
- Jadwiga Ã
Âopata, Polish organic farmer
- Jadwiga Ã
Âuszczewska (1834-1908), Polish poet, novelist and salonniére
- Jadwiga Ã
Âuszkowska (1616-1648), Polish noblewoman, known as the mistress of Polish king Ladislaus IV Vasa
- Jadwiga Ostrowska-Czubenko (born 1949), Polish chemist
- Jadwiga PiÃ
Âsudska (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 SapieÃ
¼yna (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 SzczawiÃ
Âska-Dawidowa (1864-1910), Polish teacher, school founder, writer and women's rights activist
- 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 UmiÃ
Âska (1900-1983), Polish painter
- Jadwiga Vuyk (1886-1950), Polish-Dutch art dealer and art historian
- Jadwiga Wajs (1912-1990), Polish Olympic discus thrower
- Jadwiga WoÃ
ÂoszyÃ
Âska (1882-1951), Polish botanist
- Jadwiga Wysoczanská (1927-2021), Czech operatic soprano
- Jadwiga Zakrzewska (born 1950), Polish politician
- Jadwiga ZÃ
Âotorzycka (1926-2002), Polish entomologist
- Jadwiga Ã
»yliÃ
Âska (1910-2009), Polish author
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