Agata Kornhauser-Duda (born 2 April 1972) is a Polish former teacher and the current First Lady of Poland. She is married to the president of Poland, Andrzej Duda.

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Agata Kornhauser-Duda
First Lady of Poland
Incumbent
Assumed role 6 August 2015
President	Andrzej Duda
Preceded by	Anna Komorowska
Personal details
Born	Agata Kornhauser (1972-04-02) 2 April 1972 (age 52) Kraków, Poland
Political party	Law and Justice
Spouse	Andrzej Duda ​ (m. 1994)​
Children	Kinga
Parents	Julian Kornhauser Alicja Wojna
Residence	Presidential Palace
Alma mater	Jagiellonian University
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Kornhauser was born in Kraków, the child of Julian Kornhauser, a Polish writer, translator and literary critic of Jewish descent,^[1][2] and Alicja Wojna, a Polish philologist. She has one brother, Jakub, a poet and translator.^[3]

She has been married to Andrzej Duda since 21 December 1994. Together they have one daughter, Kinga, born in 1995, a law student.^[4]

She is a German teacher at the Jan III Sobieski High School, Kraków,^[5] where she has worked since 1998. She has been described as a demanding but fair and dedicated teacher, and during the presidential campaign only took one day off, vowing to stay with her students until the end of the school year.^[6] The school is her husband's alma mater, she herself attended its rival Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School.^[7] She wrote her dissertation on the tetralogy of Horst Bienek^[8] at the Jagiellonian University,^[6] where she and her husband met.^[9]

She became the first lady of Poland on 6 August 2015, when her husband became president. On 24 May 2015, he won the second round of the presidential election, achieving 51.55% of the vote against the 48.45% won by his rival, the incumbent Bronisław Komorowski.^[10] During the campaign she supported her husband by appearing in party broadcasts. In terms of her own political beliefs, she has been described as more liberal than Andrzej Duda by her brother.^[3]