Georgios Iwanow-Szajnowicz

Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz (, Georgios Ivanof-Sainovits; 14 December 1911 – 4 January 1943) was a Polish athlete who was active as a secret agent in Greece and was collaborating with the Greek Resistance during World War II before his execution by the Germans.

Life Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz was born in Warsaw on 14 December 1911, as the son of the Russian army colonel Count Vladimir Ivanov, and a Polish mother Leonarda Szajnowicz. His parents divorced soon after. His mother married a Greek merchant, Ioannis Lambrianidis, and together they emigrated to Thessaloniki in northern Greece in 1926.

He became an athlete in the G.S. Iraklis Thessaloniki sport club, and a distinguished swimmer: in 1934, he became Greek champion in 100 m freestyle. he became part of AZS Warsaw's water polo team and of the Polish national water polo team, and was declared Poland's top water polo player in 1938. for an undercover mission in Greece.

Movie In 1971, the Polish film "Agent No. 1", directed by Zbigniew Kuźmiński, was premiered, in which Karol Strasburger played the role of Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz.