title: Petrusewicz
text: # Petrusewicz
  
  Petrusewicz is a Polish gender-neutral surname of Eash-Slavic origin. Archaic feminine forms: Petrusewiczowna (maiden name), Petrusewiczowa (surname by husband). It should be distinguished from the spelling Pietrusiewicz which conforms to the Polish phonology, which is usually a by-name in the noble Polish clan Wysoczański. It is a patronymic surname derived from the East Slavic given name Petrus', a diminutive of Piotr/Petro/Piatro (Peter).
  
  Russian-language transliteration: Petrusevich, Belarusian: Petrusevich, Ukrainian: Petrusevych, Lithuanianized form: Petrusevičius. Latvian: Petrusēviča (feminine), Petrusēvičs (masculine)
  
  Notable people with this surname include:
  
  * Irena Hausmanowa-Petrusewicz (1917–2015), Polish doctor, neurologist
  * Marek Petrusewicz (1934–1992), Polish swimmer
  * Kazimierz Petrusewicz, Polish Communist revolutionary, professor
  * Kazimierz Adam Petrusewicz [ru], Polish and Russian revolutionary and lawyer
  * Aleksey Petrusevich [ru] (1912– ?), Soviet engineer, recipient of Lenin and Stalin prizes
  * Nikolai Petrusevich (1838–1880), Russian general, geologist, geographer, and scientist
  * Ināra Petrusēviča (born 1969), Latvian artist
  