Przasnysz

Przasnysz (פראשניץ Proshnitz, German: "Praschnitz") is a town in Poland. Located in the Masovian Voivodship, about 110 km north of Warsaw and about 115 km south of Olsztyn, it is the capital of Przasnysz County. It has 18,093 inhabitants (2004). One of the most important towns in Mazovia during the Middle Ages. Przasnysz was granted town privileges in 1427.

==Notable people==
 * Helga Adler (born 1943) German academic and politician (SED/PDS)
 * Stanisław Chełchowski (born 1866 - zm. 1907) naturalist and ethnographist
 * Moisei Freidenberg (1858—1920) — Russian inventor and journalist
 * Aleksander Kakowski (born 1862 - died 1938) Archbishop of Warsaw
 * Stanisław Kostka (born 1550 - died 1568) - patron of children in the Catholic Church
 * Bernard Kryszkiewicz (born 1915 - died 1945) - a Passionist priest
 * Józef Stanisław Ostoja-Kotkowski (born 1922 - died 1994) - artist
 * Abraham Lichtstein - Av Beis Din (head of the rabbinical court) of Przasnysz
 * Józef Sawa-Caliński (died 1771) - one of the leaders of Bar Confederation
 * Edmund Mikołaj Majkowski (born 1929, died 2009) - sculptor, specializing in battle and historical subjects.