I just found out (thanks to PBS’ New York Voices) that Maurice Sendak is Polish. The “Wild Things” were based on his relatives, who he described as ‘speaking Yiddish with Polish accents.’ I knew they seemed familiar (though my relatives didn’t speak Yiddish, just English with a Polish accent).
So there’s me, and Maurice Sendak, and PJP II, and Andy Warhol. And Chopin.