Mieczysław Bareja

Mieczysław Bareja (; 18 October 1939 – 10 February 2003) was a judge and politician. He was a judge of the appellate court, and the mayor of Warsaw, Poland, in 1994.

He had graduated the law from the University of Warsaw, and begun working in the jurisprudence in 1963. In 1981 he became the secretary of the Warsaw committee of the Alliance of Democrats. He unsuccessfully attempted to get its mandate to run for the office of a member of Sejm of Poland in the 1989 parliamentary election. Bareja died on 10 February 2003, on the day of his trial. He was posthumously found not guilty, and his supposed connections to the Security Service dismissed. Bareja was buried at the Bródno Cemetery in Warsaw, in the grave no. 68E-1-23.