Józef Mieczysław Mączka (2 June 1888– 9 September 1918) was a Polish soldier, poet of the Polish Legions. He was born in the village of Zaleszany to Franciszek Mączka, who as a teenager fought in the January Uprising in 1863. Józef Mączka attended primary school in Oleszyce, later grammar schools (gymnasiums) in Lwów, Sanok, and since 1905 in Rzeszów, where he graduated in 1907. He later started engineering studies at the Lwów Polytechnic. In November 1998 memorial obelisk to Mączka was unveiled in his birthplace Zaleszany.