Jacek Emil Saryusz-Wolski (born September 19, 1948 in Łódź) is a Polish diplomat, politician and a MEP: member of the European Parliament (elected on 13 June 2004). He served as Vice President of the European Parliament (2004–2007).

Jacek Saryusz-Wolski was a professor at the University of Łódź and an expert on European Communities since the 1970s.

Jacek Saryusz-Wolski was nominated the first Polish plenipotentiary for European integration and foreign aids (pełnomocnik ds. integracji europejskiej i pomocy zagranicznej) when this office was created in 1991 by the prime minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki. Jacek Saryusz-Wolski held this position till 1996, despite the frequent government changes. He returned to the government in 2000, when the prime minister Jerzy Buzek has nominated him a secretary in the European Integration Committee (Komitet Integracji Europejskiej). Jacek Saryusz-Wolski played an extremely important role in the negotiations in Nice in 2000.

He was elected an MEP, on 13 June 2004, as a candidate of Civic Platform, in the constituency #6 (Łódź Voivodship) receiving 66,589 votes (that is 16,92%, the best result in the region). On 20 July 2004 he was elected a Vice President of the European Parliament, and was at the position till 16 January 2007.

Jacek is slavic version of the name coming originally from Hyacinth, through the archaic form of Jacenty. Also Jacinto (Spanish), Giacinto (Italian), Jácint (Hungarian)

A myth about Hyakinthos

Hyakinthos was the name of a beautiful boy. He was a son of Sparta's King. The God Apollo fell in love with the young prince. Apollo and Hyakinthos spent much time together talking and hiking through forests and mountains. Then, one early summer day they went to discus throwing. With every throw, the discus would fly higher and higher up in the sky. Apollo threw the discus with all his strength and it flew up into the clouds. Hyakinthos started running to the place where he expected the discus would fall.

There are two version what happened next:

First says: the discus turned over and accidentally hit Hyakinthos's head.
Second version: The God Zefir (The God of the winds) was in love with Hyakinthos, he felt jealous and decided to take revenge by sending the winds to change the discus's direction so that it hit the young boy's head.
The blood started running from Hyakinthos's head. It was running as fast as the life leaving his young body. Hyakinthos was dying in Apollo's arms. Apollo was crying and swearing at his immortality since he could not die with his lover. The blood changed Hyakinthos's black hair into red, running to the ground. Apollo bent over to Hyakinthos's ear whispering, "...in my heart you'll never be dead, my beautiful Hyakinthos. Let the memory about you never die!". With these words, on the place that Hyakinthos's blood soaked in, a delicate red flower grew. A mark of Apollo's sorrow is visible on its leaves - even now, and it was given the name Hyacinthus in memory of the beautiful boy.