This is a partial list of notable

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...

or Polish-speaking or -writing people. People of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited.

Science

Physics

Czesław Białobrzeski Czesław Białobrzeski (31 August 1878 in Poshekhonye near Yaroslavl, Russia – 12 October 1953 in Warsaw) was a Polish physicist. He studied 1896–1901 at the University of Kyiv, continued 1908–1810 as a student of Paul Langevin at Collèg ...

Andrzej Buras Andrzej Jerzy Buras (Polish pronunciation: ; born 26 October 1946 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-born Danish theoretical physicist, professor emeritus at the Technical University Munich (TUM). Scientific career He received his master's degree ...

Georges Charpak Georges Charpak (; born Jerzy Charpak, 1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992. Life Georges Charpak was born Jerzy Charpak to Jewish parents, Anna (Szapiro) and ...

, 1995 Nobel Prize *

Jan Kazimierz Danysz Jean Danysz (11 March 1884 – 4 November 1914) born Jan Kazimierz Danysz, was a French physicist of Polish extraction. He was an assistant of Maria Skłodowska-Curie and notable in the development of beta spectrometry. Danysz made consider ...

Marian Danysz Marian Danysz (March 17, 1909 – February 9, 1983) was a Polish physicist, Professor of Physics at Warsaw University. Son of Jan Kazimierz Danysz. In 1952, he co-discovered with Jerzy Pniewski a new kind of matter, an atomic nucleus, which ...

Tomasz Dietl Tomasz is a Polish given name, the equivalent of Thomas in English. Notable people with the given name include: *Tomasz Adamek (born 1976), Polish heavyweight boxer *Tomasz Arciszewski (1877–1955), Polish socialist politician and Prime Minist ...

Maria Dworzecka Maria Dworzecka, originally Marysia Rozenszajn (June 19, 1941 – January 16, 2023) was a Polish-American computational nuclear physicist and physics educator, and a survivor of the Białystok Ghetto. Topics in her research have included the H ...

Artur Ekert Artur Konrad Ekert FRS (born 19 September 1961) is a Polish professor of quantum physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, professorial fellow in quantum physics and cryptography at Merton College, Oxford, Lee Kong Chian Cen ...

, one of the independent inventors (in 1991) of

quantum cryptography Quantum cryptography is the science of exploiting quantum mechanical properties to perform cryptographic tasks. The best known example of quantum cryptography is quantum key distribution which offers an information-theoretically secure solution ...

Marek Gazdzicki Marek Gaździcki (born 9 June 1956) is a Polish high-energy nuclear physicist, and the initiator and spokesperson of the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). He, along with Mark I. Gorenstein, predicted the thres ...

Ryszard Horodecki Ryszard Horodecki (born 30 September 1943) is a Polish physicist and a professor of University of Gdańsk. He contributed largely to the field of quantum informatics. In his most widely cited paper, 'Separability of Mixed States: Necessary and Su ...

Leopold Infeld Leopold Infeld (20 August 1898 – 15 January 1968) was a Polish physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada (1938–1950). He was a Rockefeller fellow at Cambridge University (1933–1934) and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Ea ...

Aleksander Jabłoński Professor Aleksander Jabłoński (born 26 February 1898 in Woskresenówka, in Imperial Russia, died 9 September 1980 in Skierniewice, Poland) was a Polish physicist and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research was in molecular spect ...

* Jerzy Stanisław Janicki *

Sylwester Kaliski Sylwester Kaliski (19 December 1925 – 16 September 1978) was a Polish engineer, professor and military general. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). Born in Toruń, Kaliski was a specialist in the field of applied physics. H ...

* Elżbieta Kossecka * Jan Eugeniusz Krysiński *

Stanislas Leibler Stanislas Leibler (born 1957) is a French-American theoretical and experimental biologist and physicist. He is Systems Biology Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Gladys T. Perkin Professor and Head of the Laboratory ...

Maciej Lewenstein Maciej Lewenstein (born September 21, 1955 in Warsaw), is a Polish theoretical physicist, currently an ICREA professor at ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Castelldefels near Barcelona. He is an author of over 480 scientific articl ...

Olga Malinkiewicz Olga Malinkiewicz (Polish pronunciation: ; born 26 November 1982) is a Polish physicist, inventor of a method of producing solar cells based on perovskites using inkjet printing. She is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Saule Tec ...

Albert A. Michelson Albert Abraham Michelson Royal Society of London, FFRS HFRSE (surname pronunciation anglicized as "Michael-son", December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) was a German-born American physicist of Polish/Jewish origin, known for his work on measuring the ...

, 1907 Nobel Prize *

Lidia Morawska Lidia Morawska (born 10 November 1952, Tarnów, Poland) is a Polish-Australian physicist and distinguished professor at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, at the Queensland University of Technology and director of the International L ...

Stanisław Mrozowski Stanisław Wojciech Mrozowski (February 9, 1902 – February 21, 1999) was a Polish born American physicist. He was a professor of physics at SUNY Buffalo from 1949 until 1972, after which he worked at Ball State University. He worked briefly on ...

Władysław Natanson Władysław Natanson (1864–1937) was a Polish physicist. Life Natanson was head of Theoretical Physics at Kraków University from 1899 to 1935.

Witold Nazarewicz Dr. Witold Nazarewicz (born 1954) is a Polish nuclear physicist born in Warsaw, Poland, currently teaching at Michigan State University. He is also the scientific director of the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility at Oak Ridge National Laborat ...

Henryk Niewodniczański Henryk Niewodniczański (1900–1968) was a Polish physicist, professor at the Jagiellonian University and the creator and director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kraków. Niewodniczański graduated from the Stefan Batory University in ...

Georges Nomarski Georges (Jerzy) Nomarski (January 6, 1919 – 1997) was a Polish physicist and optics theoretician. Creator of differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy, the method is widely used to study live biological specimens and unstained tissues an ...

Karol Olszewski Karol Stanisław Olszewski (29 January 1846 – 24 March 1915) was a Polish chemist, mathematician and physicist. Biography Olszewski was a graduate of Kazimierz Brodziński High School in Tarnów (I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Kazimierza ...

* Jerzy Plebański *

Jerzy Pniewski Jerzy Pniewski (June 1, 1913 – June 16, 1989) was a Polish physicist. Pniewski was born in Płock.http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~ajduk/hyperakw.pdf He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Warsaw. In 1952, he co-discovered the hypernu ...

* Nikodem Popławski * Sylwester Porowski, blue

laser A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word "laser" is an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation". The fir ...

Józef Rotblat Sir Joseph Rotblat (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish and British physicist. During World War II he worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory on grounds of conscience after it became cl ...

, 1995

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemi ...

Stefan Rozental Stefan Rozental (13 August 1903, Łódź – 2 August 1994, Copenhagen), was a Nuclear physics, nuclear physicist, specialising in quantum mechanics. Trapped outside Poland when World War I started, he and his parents ended up in Denmark and spent ...

Wojciech Rubinowicz Wojciech Sylwester Piotr Rubinowicz (February 22, 1889 – October 13, 1974) was a Polish theoretical physicist who made contributions in quantum mechanics, mathematical physics, and the theory of radiation. He is known for the Maggie-Rubinowicz ...

* Maria Skłodowska Curie (Marie Curie), two Nobel Prizes *

Jan Sładkowski Jan Sładkowski (born 1958 in Świętochłowice) is a Polish physicist. He is notable for his work on the role of exotic smoothness in cosmology, quantum game theory, and applications of thermodynamics in the theory of finance. Education He ear ...

Marian Smoluchowski Marian Smoluchowski (; 28 May 1872 – 5 September 1917) was a Polish physicist who worked in the Polish territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a pioneer of statistical physics, and an avid mountaineer. Life Born into an upper-c ...

kinetic theory Kinetic (Ancient Greek: κίνησις “kinesis”, movement or to move) may refer to: * Kinetic theory, describing a gas as particles in random motion * Kinetic energy, the energy of an object that it possesses due to its motion Art and ente ...

Einstein–Smoluchowski relation In physics (specifically, the kinetic theory of gases), the Einstein relation is a previously unexpected connection revealed independently by William Sutherland in 1904, Albert Einstein in 1905, and by Marian Smoluchowski in 1906 in their works on ...

Andrzej Sobolewski Andrzej Sobolewski (born 9 October 1951, Augustów) is a Polish people, Polish physicist and academic working at the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Foun ...

Haroun Tazieff Haroun Tazieff (Warsaw, 11 May 1914 – Paris, 2 February 1998) was a Tatar, Belgian and French volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books on volcanoes. He ...

geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes Earth and other terrestrial planets, as well as the processes that shape them. Geologists usually study geology, earth science, or geophysics, althou ...

volcanologist A volcanologist, or volcano scientist, is a geologist who focuses on understanding the formation and eruptive activity of volcanoes. Volcanologists frequently visit volcanoes, sometimes active ones, to observe and monitor volcanic eruptions, col ...

cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...

, writer and French

Cabinet minister A minister is a politician who heads a ministry, making and implementing decisions on policies in conjunction with the other ministers. In some jurisdictions the head of government is also a minister and is designated the ‘prime minister’, � ...

Andrzej Trautman Andrzej Mariusz Trautman (born January 4, 1933 in Warsaw) is a Polish mathematical physicist who has made contributions to classical gravitation in general and to general relativity in particular. He made contributions to gravitation as early as ...

Witelo Vitello ( pl, Witelon; german: Witelo; – 1280/1314) was a friar, theologian, natural philosopher and an important figure in the history of philosophy in Poland. Name Vitello's name varies with some sources. In earlier publications he was quo ...

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

, medieval

optics Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultraviole ...

August Witkowski August Wiktor Witkowski (12 October 1854 – 21 January 1913), was a Polish physicist, professor and rector of Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Biography August Witkowski was born in Brody, the city, which then belonged to Kingdom of Gal ...

* Stanley Wojcicki *

Mieczysław Wolfke Mieczysław Wolfke (29 May 1883 – 4 May 1947) was a Polish physicist, professor at the Warsaw University of Technology, the forerunner of holography and television. He discovered the method of solidification of helium as well as two types of l ...

* Stanisław Lech Woronowicz *

Zygmunt Wróblewski Zygmunt, Zigmunt, Zigmund and spelling variations thereof are masculine given names and occasionally surnames. People so named include: Given name Medieval period * Sigismund I the Old (1467–1548), Zygmunt I Stary in Polish, King of Poland and Gr ...

* Marek Żukowski *

Wojciech H. Zurek Wojciech Hubert Zurek ( pl, Żurek; born 1951) is a theoretical physicist and a leading authority on quantum theory, especially decoherence and non-equilibrium dynamics of symmetry breaking and resulting defect generation (known as the Kibble–Zu ...

File:Artur Ekert 2011.jpg, Ekert File:Leopold Infeld 1960.jpg, Infeld File:Karol Olszewski.jpg, Olszewski File:Josef Rotblat ID badge.png, Rotblat File:Marie Curie 1903.jpg, Skłodowska Curie File:Marian Smoluchowski.jpg, Smoluchowski File:Haroun Tazieff à l'Hôtel de ville de Saint-Denis de La Réunion le 20 octobre 1972.jpg, Tazieff File:August Wikowski - professor and rector of Jagiellonian University, 1910.jpeg,

Witkowski Witkowski (Polish feminine: Witkowska, plural: Witkowscy) is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Witkowski *August Witkowski (1854–1913), Polish physicist ** Collegium Witkowski in Kraków, Poland * Bronisław Witkowski ...

File:Wojciech H. Zurek.gif, Zurek

Chemistry

Osman Achmatowicz Osman Achmatowicz (April 16, 1899 – December 4, 1988) was a Polish professor of chemistry of Lipka Tatars, Lipka Tatar descent. His son, Osman Achmatowicz Jr., (also a chemist) is credited with the Achmatowicz reaction in 1971. Biography Profes ...

Józef Boguski Józef Jerzy Boguski (; 1853–1933) was a Polish chemist and a professor at the Warsaw Polytechnic. Life Boguski had served as an assistant in St. Petersburg to the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. From 1895 Boguski was a professor at Warsaw's ...

* Kazimierz Boratyński *

Jan Czochralski Jan Czochralski ( , ; 23 October 1885 – 22 April 1953) was a Polish chemist who invented the Czochralski method, which is used for growing single crystals and in the production of semiconductor wafers. It is still used in over 90 percent of al ...

, modern semiconductors *

Emil Czyrniański Emilian (also Emil) Czyrniański (Lemko ''Емілиян Чырняньскій'') (1824–1888) was a Polish chemist of Lemko descent, science writer, rector of the Jagiellonian University and co-founder of the Polish Academy of Learning. He is r ...

Tadeusz Estreicher Tadeusz Estreicher (19 December 1871 – 8 April 1952) was a Polish chemist, historian and cryogenics pioneer. Life Tadeusz Estreicher was born in Kraków when the city was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. He grew up in the intellectu ...

cryogenics In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures. The 13th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration (held in Washington DC in 1971) endorsed a universal definition of “cryogenics” and “cr ...

pioneer *

Kazimierz Fajans Kazimierz Fajans (Kasimir Fajans in many American publications; 27 May 1887 – 18 May 1975) was a Polish American physical chemist of Polish-Jewish origin, a pioneer in the science of radioactivity and the discoverer of chemical element protac ...

Kazimierz Funk Kazimierz Funk (; February 23, 1884 – November 19, 1967), commonly anglicized as Casimir Funk, was a Polish-American biochemist generally credited with being among the first to formulate (in 1912) the concept of vitamins, which he called "vita ...

biochemist Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. They study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. Biochemists study DNA, proteins and Cell (biology), cell parts. The word "biochemist" is a portmanteau of ...

, the concept of

vitamin A vitamin is an organic molecule (or a set of molecules closely related chemically, i.e. vitamers) that is an Nutrient#Essential nutrients, essential micronutrient that an organism needs in small quantities for the proper functioning of its ...

s * Andrzej Górak *

Antoni Grabowski Antoni Grabowski (11 June 1857 – 4 July 1921)Julius Glück, ''El la klasika periodo de Esperanto (Grabowski kaj Kabe)'', en Muusses Esperanto Biblioteko No. 5, Purmerend, 1937. p. 6. was a Polish chemical engineer, and an activist of the early ...

Konstanty Hrynakowski KHrynakowski

Konstanty Hrynakowski (May 21, 1878 – September 4, 1938) w ...

Andrzej Jajszczyk Andrzej Bogdan Jajszczyk (born 23 January 1952, Dęblin) is a professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland, and President of the Krakow Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences. From 2011 to 2015 he served as the fou ...

Alina Kabata-Pendias Alina Kabata-Pendias (8 September 1929 – 3 April 2019) was a Polish chemist working in the field of biogeochemistry and soil science. She was a professor of agricultural sciences associated with the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivati ...

Aharon Katzir Aharon Katzir (Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky) (September 15, 1914 – May 30, 1972) was an Israeli pioneer in the study of the electrochemistry of biopolymers. Biography Born 1914 in Łódź, Poland, he moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1925, where he ...

, electrochemistry of biopolymers *

Wiktor Kemula Wiktor Kemula (born November 6, 1902 in Izmail – October 17, 1985 in Warsaw) was a Polish chemist, electrochemist, and polarographist. He greatly contributed to the development of electroanalytical chemistry, particularly polarography. He de ...

* Włodzimierz Kołos *

Stanisław Kostanecki Stanisław Kostanecki (born 16 April 1860 in Myszaków, now in Poland then Kingdom of Prussia – 15 November 1910 in Würzburg) was a Polish organic chemist, professor who pioneered in vegetable dye chemistry e.g. curcumin. Known for Kostan ...

Marek Gatty-Kostyal Marek Gatty-Kostyal (born July 20, 1886 in Bochnia – September 13, 1965 in Kraków) was a Polish chemist and pharmacist, known for his many contributions to pharmaceutical A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical d ...

Ignacy Łukasiewicz Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz (; 8 March 1822 – 7 January 1882) was a Polish pharmacist, engineer, businessman, inventor, and philanthropist. He was one of the most prominent philanthropists in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, crown land o ...

, inventor of kerosene lamp *

Mieczysław Mąkosza Mieczysław Józef Mąkosza (born 16 November 1934) is a Polish chemist specializing in organic synthesis and investigation of organic mechanisms. Along with Jerzy Winiarski he is credited for the discovery of the aromatic vicarious nucleophilic s ...

Leon Marchlewski Leon Paweł Teodor Marchlewski (15 December 1869 in Włocławek – 16 January 1946 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish chemist and an Honorary Member of the Polish Chemical Society. He was one of the founders in the field of chlorophyll chemist ...

* Bolesław Masłowski *

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Krzysztof "Kris" Matyjaszewski (; born April 8, 1950) is a Polish-American chemist. He is the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon University Matyjaszewski is best known for the discovery of atom transfer radical ...

Mark Miodownik Mark Andrew Miodownik () is a British materials scientist, engineer, broadcaster and writer at University College London. Previously, he was the head of the Materials Research Group at King's College London, and a co-founder of Materials Libr ...

, materials scientist and engineer *

Ignacy Mościcki Ignacy Mościcki (; 1 December 18672 October 1946) was a Polish chemist and politician who was the country's president from 1926 to 1939. He was the longest serving president in Polish history. Mościcki was the President of Poland when Germany ...

Marceli Nencki Wilhelm Marceli Nencki (15 January 1847 in Boczki, Zduńska Wola County – 14 October 1901 in Saint Petersburg) was a Polish chemist and doctor. Work Nencki's main scientific interest concentrated on urea synthesis, the chemistry of purines a ...

Krzysztof Palczewski Krzysztof Palczewski (born 1957) is a Polish-American biochemist working at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine. In 2012 he was awarded Prize of the Found ...

* Sylwester Porowski *

Tadeusz Reichstein Tadeusz Reichstein (20 July 1897 – 1 August 1996) was a Polish-Swiss chemist and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (1950), which was awarded for his work on the isolation of cortisone. Early life Reichstein was born into a Pol ...

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...

winner *

Michał Sędziwój Michael Sendivogius (; pl, Michał Sędziwój; 2 February 1566 – 1636) was a Polish alchemist, philosopher, and medical doctor. A pioneer of chemistry, he developed ways of purification and creation of various acids, metals and other chemi ...

, Latinized as ''Sendivogius'':

alchemist Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, ''khumeía'') is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscience, protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in Chinese alchemy, C ...

, physician, discoverer of

oxygen Oxygen is the chemical element with the symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group in the periodic table, a highly reactive nonmetal, and an oxidizing agent that readily forms oxides with most elements as wel ...

* Zuzanna S. Siwy * Maria Skłodowska Curie (Marie Curie), two-time

winner * Edward Sucharda *

Jędrzej Śniadecki Jędrzej Śniadecki (archaic ''Andrew Sniadecki''; ; 30 November 1768 – 11 May 1838) was a Polish writer, physician, chemist, biologist and philosopher. His achievements include being the first person who linked rickets to lack of sunlight. He ...

Wojciech Świętosławski Wojciech Alojzy Świętosławski (1881 – 1968) was a Polish physical chemist, who is considered the "father of modern thermochemistry". He developed a static method of cryometric measurement and a new method of testing coal. Świętosławski was ...

, "father of

thermochemistry Thermochemistry is the study of the heat energy which is associated with chemical reactions and/or phase changes such as melting and boiling. A reaction may release or absorb energy, and a phase change may do the same. Thermochemistry focuses on ...

" *

Bohdan Szyszkowski Bohdan Szyszkowski (born June 20, 1873, in Trybuchy, Podolia, Russia (now village in Ukraine) – August 13, 1931 in Myślenice, Poland) was a Polish chemist and member of PAU. Szyszkowski published important papers on electrochemistry and ...

Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski (February 25, 1906 in Grodzisk Wielkopolski – November 13, 1982) was a Polish chemist, physicist and mathematician. An institute in Wrocław, Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a countr ...

Filip Neriusz Walter Filip Neriusz Walter or Philippe Walter (31 May 1810 – 9 April 1847) was a Polish chemist and pioneer of organic chemistry who worked in Paris. A pioneer of organic chemistry, he was extracted and characterized several compounds including toluene ...

, pioneer of

organic chemistry Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms.Clayden, J.; ...

* Józef Zawadzki File:Jan-czochralski.jpg, Czochralski File:Kazimierz Fajans.jpg, Fajans File:Casimir Funk 01.jpg,

Funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the m ...

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Biology, medicine

Joseph Babinski Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski ( pl, Józef Julian Franciszek Feliks Babiński; 17 November 1857 – 29 October 1932) was a French-Polish professor of neurology. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathologic ...

, neurologist, discoverer of the

Babinski reflex The plantar reflex is a reflex elicited when the sole of the foot is stimulated with a blunt instrument. The reflex can take one of two forms. In healthy adults, the plantar reflex causes a downward response of the hallux (flexion). An upward re ...

Gabriela Balicka-Iwanowska Gabriela Balicka-Iwanowska (16 May 1871 Warsaw – 19 February 1962 in Krakow) was a Polish botanist, activist, and legislator. Her botanical research focused on the plant taxonomy of ''Iris'', ''Tremandraceae'' and marine algae. Biography Gabr ...

, botanist *

Edmund Biernacki Edmund Faustyn Biernacki (19 December 1866 in Opoczno – 29 December 1911 in Lwów) was a Polish physician. Biernacki was the first one to note a relationship between the sedimentation rate of red blood cells in a human blood sample and the ...

, physician, discoverer of

erythrocyte sedimentation rate The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR or sed rate) is the rate at which red blood cells in anticoagulated whole blood descend in a standardized tube over a period of one hour. It is a common hematology test, and is a non-specific measure of ...

* Czesław Bieżanko, entomologist *

Jan Biziel Jan Biziel (1858-1934) was a German and Polish physician, social activism, activist, city councilor of Bydgoszcz. He was designated "Honorary Citizen of Bydgoszcz" in 1930. Biography Jan Łukasz Biziel was born on October 12, 1858, in Osiecz ...

, physician, social activist *

Tytus Chałubiński Tytus Chałubiński (Radom, 29 December 1820 – 4 November 1889, Zakopane) was a Polish physician and co-founder of the Polish Tatra Society. Chałubiński established tuberculosis sanatoria in Zakopane, in the Tatra Mountains. He was a profes ...

, physician *

Napoleon Cybulski Napoleon Nikodem Cybulski (Polish pronunciation: ; 14 September 1854 – 26 April 1919) was a Polish physiologist and a pioneer of endocrinology and electroencephalography. In 1895, he isolated and identified adrenaline. Life Napoleon Cybulski wa ...

, neurophysiologist, discoverer of

adrenaline Adrenaline, also known as epinephrine, is a hormone and medication which is involved in regulating visceral functions (e.g., respiration). It appears as a white microcrystalline granule. Adrenaline is normally produced by the adrenal glands and ...

Maria Antonina Czaplicka Maria Antonina Czaplicka (25 October 1884 – 27 May 1921), also referred to as Marya Antonina Czaplicka and Marie Antoinette Czaplicka, was a Polish cultural anthropologist who is best known for her ethnography of Siberian shamanism. Czaplicka ...

, anthropologist *

Jan Czekanowski Jan Czekanowski (October 8, 1882, Głuchów – July 20, 1965, Szczecin) was a Polish anthropologist, statistician, ethnographer, traveller, and linguist. His scientific contributions include introducing his system of racial classification and fou ...

, anthropologist *

Kazimierz Dąbrowski Kazimierz Dąbrowski (1 September 1902 in Klarów – 26 November 1980 in Warsaw) was a Polish psychologist, psychiatrist, and physician. He is best known for his theory of " positive disintegration" as a mechanism in personality development. H ...

, psychiatrist, creator of the theory of positive disintegration * Wiktor Dega, surgeon *

August Dehnel August Gustaw Dehnel s. Michała (June 25, 1903, in Warsaw – November 22, 1962, in Warsaw) was a Polish zoologist, Ph.D. (1926), professor.

, biologist *

Jozef Dietl Jozef or Józef is a Dutch language, Dutch, Breton language, Breton, Polish language, Polish and Slovak language, Slovak version of masculine given name Joseph. A selection of people with that name follows. For a comprehensive list see and .. * J ...

, physician *

Hermann Dietz Hermann Ernest Georg Dietz, generally called Hermann Dietz, (1861-1944) was a German physician, a member of the Bromberg city council, a senator of the Republic of Poland and a prominent social activist in the first half of the 20th century in Br ...

, physician, senator of the Republic of Poland, social activist *

Jan Dzierżon Johann Dzierzon, or Jan Dzierżon or Dzierżoń , also John Dzierzon (16 January 1811 – 26 October 1906), was a Polish apiarist who discovered the phenomenon of parthenogenesis in bees. Dzierzon came from a Polish family in Silesia. Trained i ...

, zoologist,

apiarist A beekeeper is a person who keeps honey bees. Beekeepers are also called honey farmers, apiarists, or less commonly, apiculturists (both from the Latin '' apis'', bee; cf. apiary). The term beekeeper refers to a person who keeps honey bees i ...

Stefan Falimierz Stefan Falimierz, or Stefan Falimirz, was a Polish physician and botanist. He served at the court of the voivode Jan Tęczyński in Kraśnik. Falimierz is known for his 1534 work ''On Herbs and Their Potency'' (''O ziolach y o moczy gich''). The bo ...

, physician,

herbalist Herbal medicine (also herbalism) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine. With worldwide research into pharmacology, some herbal medicines have been translated into modern remed ...

Sidney Farber Sidney Farber (September 30, 1903 – March 30, 1973) was an American pediatric pathologist. He is regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy for his work using folic acid antagonists to combat leukemia, which led to the development of other c ...

, pathologist and cancer biologist, founder of the

Dana–Farber Cancer Institute Dana–Farber Cancer Institute is a comprehensive cancer treatment and research institution in Boston, Massachusetts. Dana–Farber is the founding member of Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Harvard's Comprehensive Cancer Center designated b ...

Edward Flatau Edward Flatau (27 December 1868, Płock – 7 June 1932, Warsaw) was a Polish neurologist and psychiatrist. He was a co-founder of the modern Polish neurology, an authority on the physiology and pathology of meningitis, co-founder of medical jou ...

, neurologist *

Ludwik Fleck Ludwik Fleck (11 July 1896 – 5 June 1961) was a Polish Jewish and Israeli physician and biologist who did important work in epidemic typhus in Lwów, Poland, with Rudolf WeiglT. Tansey (2014) ''Typhus and tyranny'', ''Nature'' 511(7509), 291 ...

, microbiologist, philosopher of science *

Eva Frommer Eva Ann Frommer (6 September 1927 – 8 August 2004) was a German-born British consultant child psychiatrist, working at St Thomas' Hospital in South London. Her specialism was to apply the arts and eurythmy to the treatment of pre-school ch ...

child psychiatrist Child and adolescent psychiatry (or pediatric psychiatry) is a branch of psychiatry that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and their families. It investigates the biopsychosocial fact ...

and

anthroposophist Anthroposophy is a spiritualist movement founded in the early 20th century by the esotericist Rudolf Steiner that postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world, accessible to human experience. Followers ...

, coined the term

Marian Gieszczykiewicz Marian Teodor Ludwik Gieszczykiewicz (born 21 May 1889 in Kraków, Austria-Hungary - 21 July 1942 in Auschwitz.) was a Polish physician, bacteriologist. Gieszczykiewicz was professor at the Jagiellonian University starting in 1924 and member of th ...

, physician * Emil Godlewski, embryologist *

Samuel Goldflam Samuel Wulfowicz Goldflam (15 February 1852 – 26 August 1932) was a Polish-JewishIsaac Lewin & Nathan Michael Gelber, ''A History of Polish Jewry during the revival of Poland'', Shengold Publishers (1990), p. 86 neurologist best known for his br ...

, neurologist *

Adam Gruca Adam Gruca (born 3 December 1893 in Majdan Sieniawski, died 3 June 1983 in Warsaw) was a famous Polish orthopaedist, inventor, and surgeon. He is considered to be the founder of modern orthopedic Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics ( altern ...

, surgeon *

Ryszard Gryglewski Ryszard Jerzy Gryglewski (born 4 August 1932, in Wilno) is a Polish pharmacologist and physician. Member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) and the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).Tomasz Guzik Tomasz Jan Guzik (born 8 March 1974 in Kraków, Poland) is a Polish physician scientist. Since 2012, he has been the Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow. He is a member of the American Heart Association and scientific soci ...

, physician *

Ludwik Hirszfeld Ludwik Hirszfeld (5 August 1884 – 7 March 1954) was a Polish microbiologist and serologist. He is considered a co-discoverer of the inheritance of ABO blood types. Life He was a cousin of Aleksander Rajchman, a Polish mathematician, and of ...

, microbiologist * Janina Hurynowicz, neurophysiologist *

Feliks Paweł Jarocki Feliks Paweł Jarocki (Pacanów, 14 January 1790 – 25 March 1865, Warsaw) was a Polish zoologist and entomologist. Life Jarocki was a Doctor of Liberal Arts and Philosophy. He organized and managed the Zoological Cabinet of the Royal Univers ...

, zoologist *

Stefania Jabłońska Stefania Jabłońska (born Szela Ginzburg; 7 September 1920 – 8 May 2017) was a Polish physician and professor specializing in dermatology. She worked at the Medical University of Warsaw. In 1972, she theorized the association of human papillo ...

, dermatologist *

Walery Jaworski Walery Jaworski (born March 20, 1849 in Florynka – died July 17, 1924 in Kraków) was one of the pioneers of gastroenterology in Poland. In 1899 he described bacteria living in the human stomach that he named ''Vibrio rugula''. He speculated ...

, physician *

Konstanty Jelski Konstanty Roman Jelski ( be, Канстанцін Ельскі, February 17, 1837–November 26, 1896) was an acclaimed Polish ornithologist and zoologist who explored French Guiana. Jeski was born in Liady village, now in the Smalyavichy Raion o ...

, ornithologist *

Zbigniew Kabata Zbigniew 'Bob' Kabata, CM (17 March 1924 – 4 July 2014) was a Polish parasitologist, veteran of the Polish Armia Krajowa during World War II, poet, fisherman, translator and scientific administrator. Early life Kabata was born into a military ...

, biologist *

Ewa Kamler Ewa Kamler (born 18 January 1937, Warsaw) is a Polish biologist and ichthyologist, Professor of Natural Sciences specializing in the fields of ecology, hydrobiology and zoology. Life and career She graduated from the Juliusz Słowacki High School ...

, biologist *

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (25 April 1925 – 13 March 2015) was a Polish paleobiologist. In the mid-1960s, she led a series of Polish-Mongolian paleontological expeditions to the Gobi Desert. She was the first woman to serve on the executive commit ...

, paleobiologist *

Aleksander Koj Aleksander Koj (; 26 February 1935 – 29 December 2016) was a Polish physician and scientist, a member of Polish Academy of Learning and Polish Academy of Sciences, honorary doctor of Cleveland University and University of Hartford. He was a rect ...

, physician, scientist *

Jerzy Konorski Jerzy Konorski (1 December 1903 in Łódź, Congress Poland – 14 November 1973 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish neurophysiologist who further developed the work of Ivan Pavlov by discovering secondary conditioned reflexes and operant conditioning ...

, neurophysiologist *

Stefan Kopec Stefan may refer to: * Stefan (given name) * Stefan (surname) * Ștefan, a Romanian given name and a surname * Štefan, a Slavic given name and surname * Stefan (footballer) (born 1988), Brazilian footballer * Stefan Heym, pseudonym of German writ ...

, biologist *

Hilary Koprowski Hilary Koprowski (5 December 191611 April 2013) was a Polish virologist and immunologist active in the United States who demonstrated the world's first effective live polio vaccine. He authored or co-authored over 875 scientific papers and co ...

polio vaccine Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis (polio). Two types are used: an inactivated poliovirus given by injection (IPV) and a weakened poliovirus given by mouth (OPV). The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends all chil ...

Tadeusz Krwawicz Tadeusz Krwawicz (15 January 1910 – 17 August 1988) was a Polish ophthalmologist. He pioneered the use of cryosurgery in ophthalmology.A . Skłodowska, J. Szaflik.Tadeusz Krwawicz - Distinguished Ophthalmologist and Polish Scientist (1910-1 ...

, medical pioneer *

Elwira Lisowska Elwira Lisowska (born May 6, 1930) is a Polish biochemist and professor. She made significant contributions to the biochemistry of human blood groups, especially MNS antigen system, MNS and P antigen system, P1PK blood group systems, and to the ...

, biochemist *

Abraham Low Abraham Low (1891–1954) was an American neuropsychiatrist noted for his work in establishing self-help programs for people with mental illness, and for his criticism of Freudian psychoanalysis. Early years Low was born February 28, 1891, in Bar ...

, neuropsychiatrist *

Margaret Lowenfeld Margaret Frances Jane Lowenfeld (4 February 1890 – 2 February 1973) was a British pioneer of child psychology and play therapy, a medical researcher in paediatric medicine, and an author of several publications and academic papers on the study ...

, paediatrician and pioneer of

Sandplay Therapy Play therapy refers to a range of methods of capitalising on children's natural urge to explore and harnessing it to meet and respond to the developmental and later also their mental health needs. It is also used for forensic or psychological as ...

Liliana Lubińska Liliana Lubińska (14 October 1904 – 19 November 1990) was a Polish neuroscientist known for her research on the peripheral nervous system and her discovery of bidirectional axoplasmic transport.; http://www.ane.pl/pdf/5102.pdf http://www.an ...

, neuroscientist *

Karol Marcinkowski Karol Marcinkowski (23 June 1800 in Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, today Poznań in Poland–6 November 1846) was a Polish physician, social activist in the Greater Poland region (also called the Grand Duchy of Posen), supporter of the basic educa ...

, physician *

Eugène Minkowski Eugène (Eugeniusz) Minkowski (; 17 April 1885 – 17 November 1972) was a French psychiatrist of Jewish Polish origin, known for his incorporation of phenomenology into psychopathology and for exploring the notion of "lived time". A student of ...

, psychiatrist influenced by

Bergson Henri-Louis Bergson (; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopherHenri Bergson. 2014. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 13 August 2014, from https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/61856/Henri-Bergson

and

phenomenology Phenomenology may refer to: Art * Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties Philosophy * Phenomenology (philosophy), a branch of philosophy which studies subjective experiences and a ...

Ludwik Mlokosiewicz Ludwik () is a Polish given name. Notable people with the name include: * Ludwik Czyżewski, Polish WWII general * Ludwik Fleck (1896–1961), Polish medical doctor and biologist * Ludwik Gintel (1899–1973), Polish-Israeli Olympic soccer player ...

, botanist *

Maksymilian Nowicki Maksymilian Siła-Nowicki (9 October 1826 – 30 October 1890) was a Polish zoology professor and pioneer conservationist in Austrian Poland, and father of the poet Franciszek Nowicki. He was brother-in-law to Kraków University law professor ...

, biologist *

Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (27 May 1876 – 3 January 1945) was a Polish writer, explorer, university professor, and anticommunist political activist. He is known for his books about Lenin and the Russian Civil War in which he participated. ...

, biologist *

Marek Pienkowski Marek Maria Pienkowski (born 8 September 1945) is a Polish-American medical researcher and clinician focused on broad aspects of immunological diagnosis and treatment. He collaborated in important discoveries related to immunology, viral oncogen ...

, immunologist *

Piotr Ponikowski Piotr Ponikowski (born 11 February 1961, in Wrocław) is a Polish cardiologist, Professor of Medical Sciences, Vice-Rector of the Wrocław Medical University and Head of the Polish Cardiological Society (2017-2019). His scientific interests includ ...

, cardiologist *

Moshe Prywes Moshe Prywes (משה פריבס; January 3, 1914 - March 1998) was a Polish-Israeli physician and educator. He was the first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1973-1975). Biography Prywes was born in Warsaw, Poland. He studied medi ...

(1914-1998), Israeli physician and educator; first President of

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the ...

, Polish-Swiss physiologist; 1950

Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( sv, Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded annually by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Institute to scientists in the various fields of physiology or medicine. It is one of the ...

Zbigniew Religa Zbigniew Eugeniusz Religa (; 16 December 1938 – 8 March 2009) was a prominent Polish cardiac surgeon and politician. Career as doctor Religa finished his studies at the Medical University of Warsaw in 1963. From 1966 to 1980 he worked in ...

, cardiologist *

Józef Rostafiński Józef Tomasz Rostafiński (14 August 1850 – 5 May 1928) was a Polish botanist. Life He was born in Warsaw, and studied in (1866–1869), Jena, Halle, and Strasbourg, where he achieved his PhD before being appointed lecturer at the unive ...

, biologist *

Albert Sabin Albert Bruce Sabin ( ; August 26, 1906 – March 3, 1993) was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 1969–72, he served as the ...

; President of the

Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science ( he, מכון ויצמן למדע ''Machon Vaitzman LeMada'') is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli unive ...

* Andrzej Wiktor Schally, Nobel-laureate endocrinologist *

Hanna Segal Hanna Segal (born Hanna Poznańska; 20 August 1918 – 5 July 2011) was a British psychoanalyst of Polish descent and a follower of Melanie Klein. She was president of the British Psychoanalytical Society, vice-president of the International Psych ...

, leading Kleinian

psychoanalyst PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: + . is a set of Theory, theories and Therapy, therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a bo ...

Michael Sela Michael Sela ( he, מיכאל סלע; Mieczysław Salomonowicz; 2 March 1924 – 27 May 2022) was an Israeli immunologist of Polish Jewish origin. He was the W. Garfield Weston Professor of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Re ...

(born 1924), Israeli immunologist; President of the

* Henryk Skarżyński,

otolaryngologist Otorhinolaryngology ( , abbreviated ORL and also known as otolaryngology, otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (ORL–H&N or OHNS), or ear, nose, and throat (ENT)) is a surgical subspeciality within medicine that deals with the surgical a ...

audiologist Audiology (from Latin , "to hear"; and from Greek , ''-logia'') is a branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders. Audiologists treat those with hearing loss and proactively prevent related damage. By employing various ...

, phoniatrist *

Michalina Stefanowska Michalina Stefanowska (; November 20, 1855 - December 15, 1942) was a Polish neurophysiologist and biologist. She was a member of the Poznań Society of Friends of Sciences and the second woman (following Marie Curie) to become a member of the Po ...

, neurophysiologist *

Eduard Adolf Strasburger Eduard Adolf Strasburger (1 February 1844 – 18 May 1912) was a Poland, Polish-Germany, German professor and one of the most famous botanists of the 19th century. He discovered mitosis in plants. Life Eduard Strasburger was born in Warsaw, Con ...

(born in Poland, of German descent), botanist *

Andrzej Szczeklik Andrzej Szczeklik (July 29, 1938 – February 3, 2012) was a Polish immunologist working at the Jagiellonian University School of Medicine (''Collegium Medicum'') in Kraków. Having received numerous distinctions for his research, Szczeklik was ...

, immunologist *

Jan Sztolcman Jan Stanisław Sztolcman (sometimes referred to as Jean Stanislaus Stolzmann) (19 November 1854, Warsaw – 28 April 1928, Warsaw) was a Polish ornithologist. Biography Beginning in 1872, Sztolcman studied zoology at the Imperial Universit ...

, ornithologist *

Wacław Szybalski Wacław Szybalski (9 September 1921 – 16 December 2020) was a Polish-American professor of oncology at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin–Madison Medical School. Life Wacław Szybalski was born in September 1 ...

, physician *

Władysław Taczanowski Władysław Taczanowski (; 17 March 1819, in Jabłonna, Lublin Voivodeship – 17 January 1890, in Warsaw) was a Polish zoologist and collector of natural history who explored the Russian Far East and northern Africa. He specialized mainly in ornit ...

, zoologist *

Andrzej K. Tarkowski Andrzej Krzysztof Tarkowski (4 May 1933 – 23 September 2016) was a Polish embryologist and a professor at Warsaw University. He is best known for his pioneering researches on embryos and blastomeres, which have created theoretical and practical ...

, embryologist * Zbylut Twardowski, physician *

Jerzy Vetulani Jerzy Adam Gracjan Vetulani (; 21 January 1936 – 6 April 2017) was a Polish neuroscientist, pharmacologist and biochemist, professor of natural sciences, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Learning, one of the mo ...

, neuroscientist, pharmacologist and biochemist * Emil Warmiński, physician, social and national activist *

Józef Warszewicz Józef Warszewicz Ritter von Rawicz ( lt, 'Juozapas Varševičius') (8(?) September 1812, Vilnius – 29 December 1866, Cracow) was a Polish people, Polish botanist, plant and animal collector, and biologist. Life Born into an impoverished Poli ...

, botanist *

Rudolf Weigl Rudolf Stefan Jan Weigl (2 September 1883 – 11 August 1957) was a Polish biologist, physician and inventor, known for creating the first effective vaccine against epidemic typhus. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine each year betwe ...

typhus Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus. Common symptoms include fever, headache, and a rash. Typically these begin one to two weeks after exposure. ...

vaccine *

Wanda Wesołowska Wanda Wesołowska (born 11 August 1950) is a Polish zoologist known for her work with jumping spiders. She has described more species of jumping spider than any contemporary writer, and is second only to Eugène Simon in the history of arachnolog ...

, zoologist *

Helena Rosa Wright Helena Rosa Wright (17 September 1887 – 21 March 1982) was an English pioneer and influential figure in birth control and family planning both in Britain and internationally. With her husband she undertook missionary work in China for five yea ...

, physician influential in

family planning Family planning is the consideration of the number of children a person wishes to have, including the choice to have no children, and the age at which they wish to have them. Things that may play a role on family planning decisions include marita ...

Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska Marie Elisabeth Zakrzewska (6 September 1829 – 12 May 1902) was a Polish-American physician who made her name as a pioneering female doctor in the United States. As a Berlin native, she found great interest in medicine after assisting her mother ...

, physician * Jozef J. Zwislocki, neuroscientist File:Jozef Babinski.jpg, Babinski File:Edmund Biernacki.JPG, Biernacki File:Napoleon Nikodem Cybulski.jpeg, Cybulski File:Jan Czekanowski.jpg, Czekanowski File:Jan Dierżoń.png, Dzierżoń File:Edward Flatau.jpg, Flatau File:Dr. Eva Frommer FRPsych.jpg, Frommer File:Samuel Goldflam.jpg, Goldflam File:Jerzy Gryglewski fot Lech Polcyn.jpg, Gryglewski File:Ludwik Hirszfeld1.jpg, Hirszfeld File:Hilary Koprowski. Photograph. Wellcome V0027622.jpg, Koprowski File:Albert Sabin.jpg,

Sabin Sabin may refer to: ;Places in the United States * Sabin, Minnesota, a city in Clay County, Minnesota * Sabin, Portland, Oregon, a neighborhood in Portland, Oregon *Sabin-Schellenberg Center, a technical skills center for the North Clackamas Schoo ...

File:Schally portrait.jpg, Schally File:Jerzy Vetulani TEDx Krakow (cropped).jpg, Vetulani File:Weigl-Lwow.jpg,

Weigl Weigl is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bruce Weigl, American poet *Joseph Weigl, Austrian composer and conductor *Julian Weigl, German footballer *Karl Weigl, Austrian composer *Rudolf Weigl, Polish biologist *Vally We ...

Astronomy

Franciszek Armiński Franciszek Armiński (born October 2, 1789 in Tymbark – January 14, 1848 in Warsaw) was a Polish astronomer. He was professor at the Warsaw University and director of the astronomical observatory in Łazienki Park Łazienki Park or R ...

Tadeusz Banachiewicz Tadeusz Julian Banachiewicz (13 February 1882, Warsaw – 17 November 1954, Kraków) was a Polish astronomer, mathematician and geodesist. Scientific career He was educated at University of Warsaw and his thesis was on "reduction constan ...

Jan Brożek Jan Brożek (''Ioannes Broscius'', ''Joannes Broscius'' or ''Johannes Broscius''; 1 November 1585 – 21 November 1652) was a Polish polymath: a mathematician, astronomer, physician, poet, writer, musician and rector of the Kraków Academy. Life ...

Albert Brudzewski Albert Brudzewski, ''also'' Albert Blar (of Brudzewo), Albert of Brudzewo or Wojciech Brudzewski (in Latin, ''Albertus de Brudzewo''; c.1445–c.1497) was a Polish astronomer, mathematician, philosopher and diplomat. Life Albert (in Polish, ...

Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (; pl, Mikołaj Kopernik; gml, Niklas Koppernigk, german: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic Church, Catholic cano ...

, known for the

heliocentric theory Heliocentrism (also known as the Heliocentric model) is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the universe. Historically, heliocentrism was opposed to geocentrism, which placed the Earth at ...

Wojciech Dziembowski Wojciech Andrzej Dziembowski (born 14 January 1940 in Warsaw), is a Polish astronomer, member of Polish Academy of Sciences and Polish Academy of Learning. Biography He studied at the Jagiellonian University and in 1967 he defended his PhD the ...

Władysław Dziewulski Władysław Dziewulski (2 September 1878 – 6 February 1962) was a Polish astronomer and mathematician. He spent most his life performing astronomical research, and published over 200 papers. Life He studied mathematics and astronomy in his ...

* Michał Falkener *

Jan Gadomski Jan Gadomski (24 June 1889, Czatkowice, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Russian Poland – 2 January 1966) was a Polish astronomer. At the Jagiellonian University Observatory he made systematic observations of eclipsing binary stars. The crater G ...

Johannes Hevelius Johannes Hevelius Some sources refer to Hevelius as Polish: * * * * * * * Some sources refer to Hevelius as German: * * * * *of the Royal Society * (in German also known as ''Hevel''; pl, Jan Heweliusz; – 28 January 1687) was a councillor ...

(Jan Heweliusz) * Felicjan Kępiński *

Marian Albertovich Kowalski Marian Albertovich Kowalski (russian: Мариан Альбертович Ковальский) (15 August 1821 or 15 October 1821 – 28 May 1884 or 9 July 1884) was a Polish-Russian astronomer. Sometimes his last name is given as Kovalsky or ...

Kazimierz Kordylewski Kazimierz Kordylewski (born 11 October 1903 in Poznań – 11 March 1981 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish astronomer. In 1956, he claimed the discovery of the Kordylewski clouds, large transient concentrations of dust at the Trojan points of the ...

Wojciech Krzemiński Wojciech Krzemiński (20 May 1933 – 5 August 2017) was a Polish astronomer and a retired professor of Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of Polish Academy of Sciences. He worked many years for the Carnegie Institution for Science Observato ...

Jan Latosz Jan Latosz or Jan LatoszyńskiHis surname is sometimes also spelt ''Latos'' or ''Latasz'' (1539–1608) was a Polish scholar, astronomer, astrologist and physician. A professor at the Cracow Academy, he is best known for his staunch criticism of th ...

* Stanisław Lubieniecki *

Bohdan Paczyński Bohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski (8 February 1940 – 19 April 2007) was a Polish astronomer notable in the theory of the stellar evolution, accretion discs, and gamma ray bursts. Life Paczyński was born on 8 February 1940 in Vilnius, Lith ...

Marcin Poczobutt-Odlanicki Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt ( lt, Martynas Počobutas; 30 October 1728 near Grodno – 7 February 1810 in Daugavpils) was a Polish–Lithuanian Jesuit, astronomer and mathematician. He was professor of Vilnius University for over 50 yea ...

Alexius Sylvius Polonus Alexius Sylvius Polonus (1593 - c. 1653) was a Polish Jesuit astronomer and maker of astronomical instruments. He adopted the added name of Polonus, meaning "Pole" in Latin. Sylvius studied at the Jesuit College in Kalisz. The Belgian Jesuit C ...

* Adam Prażmowski *

Antoni Przybylski Antoni Przybylski (1913 — September 21, 1985),Przybylski, Antoni
...

* Agata Różańska *

Konrad Rudnicki Konrad Rudnicki (born 2 July 1926 in Warsaw, Poland, died 12 November 2013 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish astronomer, professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and a priest of the Old Catholic Mariavite Church. He was a member of th ...

Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki (1610–1656), of the Grzymała coat of arms, was a Polish nobleman, politician, missionary, scholar and Jesuit credited with introducing logarithms to China. Life Smogulecki was born in 1610 in Kraków or Smogulec (sourc ...

Jan Śniadecki Jan Śniadecki (29 August 1756 – 9 November 1830) was a Polish mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Life Born in Żnin, Śniadecki studied at Kraków Jagellonian University and in Paris. He w ...

Andrzej Udalski Andrzej Jarosław Udalski (born 22 January 1957 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish astronomer and astrophysicist, and director of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw. He is also head of the Department of Observational Astrophy ...

Wiesław Wiśniewski :"Wiesław" is sometimes transliterated as "Wieslaw", in the absence of ''L with stroke.'' Wiesław () is a Polish masculine given name, of Slavonic origin, meaning "great glory" or "all glory". It is the shortened, more common, form of the person ...

Aleksander Wolszczan Aleksander Wolszczan (born 29 April 1946) is a Polish astronomer. He is the co-discoverer of the first confirmed extrasolar planets and pulsar planets. Early life and education Wolszczan was born on 29 April 1946 in Szczecinek located in pre ...

, first discovery of

extrasolar planet An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first possible evidence of an exoplanet was noted in 1917 but was not recognized as such. The first confirmation of detection occurred in 1992. A different planet, init ...

s *

Thomas Zebrowski Thomas Zebrowski ( lt, Tomas Žebrauskas, pl, Tomasz Żebrowski; November 24, 1714 in Samogitia – March 18, 1758 in Vilnius) was a Jesuit architect, mathematician, and astronomer. He was instrumental in establishing and funding the Observatory ...

Anna N. Żytkow Anna N. Żytkow (; born 21 February 1947) is a Polish astrophysicist working at the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Cambridge. Żytkow and Kip Thorne proposed a model for what is called the Thorne–Żytkow object, which is a star ...

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Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (; pl, Mikołaj Kopernik; gml, Niklas Koppernigk, german: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated ...

File:Jan Brożek portr.jpg, Brożek File:Johannes Hevelius(close-up).jpg,

Hevelius Johannes Hevelius Some sources refer to Hevelius as Polish: * * * * * * * Some sources refer to Hevelius as German: * * * * *of the Royal Society * (in German also known as ''Hevel''; pl, Jan Heweliusz; – 28 January 1687) was a councillor ...

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Mathematics

Nachman Aronszajn Nachman Aronszajn (26 July 1907 – 5 February 1980) was a Polish American mathematician. Aronszajn's main field of study was mathematical analysis, where he systematically developed the concept of reproducing kernel Hilbert space. He also contrib ...

Michel Balinski Michel Louis Balinski (born Michał Ludwik Baliński; October 6, 1933 – February 4, 2019) was an applied mathematician, economist, operations research analyst and political scientist. As a Polish-American, educated in the United States, he liv ...

Stefan Banach Stefan Banach ( ; 30 March 1892 – 31 August 1945) was a Polish mathematician who is generally considered one of the 20th century's most important and influential mathematicians. He was the founder of modern functional analysis, and an original ...

Kazimierz Bartel Kazimierz Władysław Bartel (; en, Casimir Bartel; 3 March 1882 – 26 July 1941) was a Polish mathematician, freemason, scholar, diplomat and politician who served as 15th, 17th and 19th Prime Minister of Poland three times between 1926 a ...

* Andrzej Białynicki-Birula *

Karol Borsuk Karol Borsuk (May 8, 1905 – January 24, 1982) was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was topology, while he obtained significant results also in functional analysis. Borsuk introduced the theory of '' absolute retracts'' (ARs) and ''abs ...

Jacob Bronowski Jacob Bronowski (18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974) was a Polish-British mathematician and philosopher. He was known to friends and professional colleagues alike by the nickname Bruno. He is best known for developing a humanistic approach to sc ...

Meier Eidelheit Meier "Maks" Eidelheit (6 July 1910 – March 1943) was a Polish mathematician belonging to the Lwów School of Mathematics who worked in Lwów and was murdered in the Holocaust. Biography Meier Eidelheit left the Lwów Gymnasium in 1929 and ...

Samuel Eilenberg Samuel Eilenberg (September 30, 1913 – January 30, 1998) was a Polish-American mathematician who co-founded category theory (with Saunders Mac Lane) and homological algebra. Early life and education He was born in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland to a ...

Andrzej Grzegorczyk Andrzej Grzegorczyk (; 22 August 1922 – 20 March 2014) was a Polish logician, mathematician, philosopher, and ethicist noted for his work in computability, mathematical logic, and the foundations of mathematics. Historical family background ...

Witold Hurewicz Witold Hurewicz (June 29, 1904 – September 6, 1956) was a Polish mathematician. Early life and education Witold Hurewicz was born in Łódź, at the time one of the main Polish industrial hubs with economy focused on the textile industry. His ...

Henryk Iwaniec Henryk Iwaniec (born October 9, 1947) is a Polish-American mathematician, and since 1987 a professor at Rutgers University. Background and education Iwaniec studied at the University of Warsaw, where he got his PhD in 1972 under Andrzej Schinz ...

Zygmunt Janiszewski Zygmunt Janiszewski (12 July 1888 – 3 January 1920) was a Polish mathematician. Early life and education He was born to mother Julia Szulc-Chojnicka and father, Czeslaw Janiszewski who was a graduate of the University of Warsaw and served as t ...

Stanisław Jaśkowski Stanisław Jaśkowski (22 April 1906, in Warsaw – 16 November 1965, in Warsaw) was a Polish logician who made important contributions to proof theory and formal semantics. He was a student of Jan Łukasiewicz and a member of the Lwów–War ...

Jan Jaworowski Jan W. Jaworowski (March 2, 1928 in Augustów, Poland – April 10, 2013 in Bloomington, Indiana) was a Polish and American mathematician, topologist. Biography His father was Jan Leonard Jaworowski, and his mother—Helena (maiden name Heybo ...

Mark Kac Mark Kac ( ; Polish: ''Marek Kac''; August 3, 1914 – October 26, 1984) was a Polish American mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, " Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, the i ...

Stefan Kaczmarz Stefan Marian Kaczmarz (March 20, 1895 in Sambor, Galicia, Austria-Hungary – 1939) was a Polish mathematician. His Kaczmarz method provided the basis for many modern imaging technologies, including the CAT scan.. Kaczmarz was a professor of ...

Marek Karpinski Marek KarpinskiMarek Karpinski Biography
at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Exc ...

, computer scientist *

Bronisław Knaster Bronisław Knaster (22 May 1893 – 3 November 1980) was a Polish mathematician; from 1939 a university professor in Lwów and from 1945 in Wrocław. He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of ...

Robert Kowalski Robert Anthony Kowalski (born 15 May 1941) is an American-British logician and computer scientist, whose research is concerned with developing both human-oriented models of computing and computational models of human thinking. He has spent mo ...

Zdzisław Krygowski Zdzisław Jan Ewangelii Antoni Krygowski (Lwów, 1872 — 1955, Poznań) was a Polish mathematician, rector of the Lwów Polytechnic (1917–18), and professor at Poznań University (1919–38, 1946–55). Enigma Krygowski has become famous in ...

Krystyna Kuperberg Krystyna M. Kuperberg (born ''Krystyna M. Trybulec''; 17 July 1944) is a Polish-American mathematician who currently works as a professor of mathematics at Auburn University, where she was formerly an Alumni Professor of Mathematics.Włodzimierz Kuperberg Włodzimierz Kuperberg (born January 19, 1941) is a professor of mathematics at Auburn University, with research interests in geometry and topology. Biography Although Kuperberg is Poles, Polish-United States, American, he was born in what is now ...

Kazimierz Kuratowski Kazimierz Kuratowski (; 2 February 1896 – 18 June 1980) was a Polish mathematician and logician. He was one of the leading representatives of the Warsaw School of Mathematics. Biography and studies Kazimierz Kuratowski was born in Warsaw, (th ...

Izabella Łaba Izabella Łaba (born 1966) is a Polish-Canadian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. Her main research specialties are harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and additive combinatorics. Professi ...

Franciszek Leja Franciszek Leja (27 January 1885 in Grodzisko Górne near Leżajsk – 11 October 1979 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish mathematician. He was born to a poor peasant family in the southeastern Poland. After graduating from the University of L ...

Stanisław Leśniewski Stanisław Leśniewski (30 March 1886 – 13 May 1939) was a Polish mathematician, philosopher and logician. Life He was born on 28 March 1886 at Serpukhov, near Moscow, to father Izydor, an engineer working on the construction of the Trans-Sibe ...

Adolf Lindenbaum Adolf Lindenbaum (12 June 1904 – August 1941) was a Polish-Jewish logician and mathematician best known for Lindenbaum's lemma and Lindenbaum–Tarski algebras. He was born and brought up in Warsaw. He earned a Ph.D. in 1928 under Wacław ...

Stanisław Łojasiewicz Stanisław Łojasiewicz (9 October 1926 – 14 November 2002) was a Polish mathematician.. Biography At the end of the 1950s, he solved the problem of distribution division by analytic functions, introducing the %C5%81ojasiewicz inequality. Its ...

Antoni Łomnicki Antoni Marian Łomnicki (17 January 1881 – 4 July 1941) was a Polish mathematician. Antoni Łomnicki was educated at Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów in Poland and the University of Göttingen in Germany. In 1920 he became professor of the L ...

Jerzy Łoś Jerzy Łoś (born 22 March 1920 in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) – 1 June 1998 in Warsaw) () was a Polish mathematician, logician, economist, and philosopher. He is especially known for his work in model theory, in particular for "Łoś's the ...

Jan Łukasiewicz Jan Łukasiewicz (; 21 December 1878 – 13 February 1956) was a Polish logician and philosopher who is best known for Polish notation and Łukasiewicz logic His work centred on philosophical logic, mathematical logic and history of logic. He ...

, logician, inventor of the ''parenthesis-free''

Polish Notation Polish notation (PN), also known as normal Polish notation (NPN), Łukasiewicz notation, Warsaw notation, Polish prefix notation or simply prefix notation, is a mathematical notation in which operators ''precede'' their operands, in contrast t ...

Edward Marczewski Edward Marczewski (15 November 1907 – 17 October 1976) was a Polish mathematician. He was born Szpilrajn but changed his name while hiding from Nazi persecution. Marczewski was a member of the Warsaw School of Mathematics. His life and work aft ...

Józef Marcinkiewicz Józef Marcinkiewicz (; 30 March 1910 in Cimoszka, near Białystok, Poland – 1940 in Katyn, USSR) was a Polish mathematician. He was a student of Antoni Zygmund; and later worked with Juliusz Schauder, Stefan Kaczmarz and Raphaël Salem. ...

Stanisław Mazur Stanisław Mieczysław Mazur (1 January 1905, Lwów – 5 November 1981, Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Mazur made important contributions to geometrical methods in linear and nonlinear functio ...

Stefan Mazurkiewicz Stefan Mazurkiewicz (25 September 1888 – 19 June 1945) was a Polish mathematician who worked in mathematical analysis, topology, and probability. He was a student of Wacław Sierpiński and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning (''PAU''). ...

Jan Mikusinski Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Numb ...

* Michał Misiurewicz *

Andrzej Mostowski Andrzej Mostowski (1 November 1913 – 22 August 1975) was a Polish mathematician. He is perhaps best remembered for the Mostowski collapse lemma. Biography Born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, Mostowski entered University of Warsaw in 1931. He was ...

Jan Mycielski Jan Mycielski (born February 7, 1932 in Wiśniowa, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland)Curriculum vitae
from ...

* Jerzy Spława-Neyman *

Otton M. Nikodym Otto Marcin Nikodym (3 August 1887 – 4 May 1974) (also Otton Martin Nikodým) was a Polish mathematician. Education and career Nikodym studied mathematics at the University of Jan Kazimierz (UJK) in Lvov (today's University of Lviv). Im ...

* Wiesława Nizioł *

Andrew Odlyzko Andrew Michael Odlyzko (Andrzej Odłyżko) (born 23 July 1949) is a Polish-American mathematician and a former head of the University of Minnesota's Digital Technology Center and of the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute. He began his career in ...

Władysław Orlicz Władysław Roman Orlicz (May 24, 1903 in Okocim, Austria-Hungary (now Poland) – August 9, 1990 in Poznań, Poland) was a Polish mathematician of Lwów School of Mathematics. His main interests were functional analysis and topology: Orlicz spac ...

Józef H. Przytycki Józef Henryk Przytycki (, ; born 14 October 1953 in Warsaw, Poland), is a Polish mathematician specializing in the fields of knot theory and topology. Academic background Przytycki received a Master of Science degree in mathematics from Unive ...

Helena Rasiowa Helena Rasiowa (20 June 1917 – 9 August 1994) was a Polish mathematician. She worked in the foundations of mathematics and algebraic logic. Early years Rasiowa was born in Vienna on 20 June 1917 to Polish parents. As soon as Poland regained ...

Marian Rejewski Marian Adam Rejewski (; 16 August 1905 – 13 February 1980) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who in late 1932 reconstructed the sight-unseen German military Enigma cipher machine, aided by limited documents obtained by French mili ...

, mathematician-cryptologist who broke the German Enigma cipher *

Jerzy Różycki Jerzy Witold Różycki (; Vilshana, Ukraine, 24 July 1909 – 9 January 1942, Mediterranean Sea, near the Balearic Islands) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers before and during World ...

Enigma Enigma may refer to: *Riddle, someone or something that is mysterious or puzzling Biology *ENIGMA, a class of gene in the LIM domain Computing and technology * Enigma (company), a New York-based data-technology startup * Enigma machine, a family ...

-breaker *

Stanisław Ruziewicz Stanisław Ruziewicz (29 August 1889 – 12 July 1941) was a Polish mathematician and one of the founders of the Lwów School of Mathematics. He was a former student of Wacław Sierpiński, earning his doctorate in 1913 from the University of Lw� ...

Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski (; 7 October 1926 – 18 September 2015) was a Polish mathematician. Born in Wilno, Second Polish Republic (now Vilnius, Lithuania), he was a student of Hugo Steinhaus. At the age of 26 he became professor at Warsaw Univ ...

Stanisław Saks Stanisław Saks (30 December 1897 – 23 November 1942) was a Polish mathematician and university tutor, a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics, known primarily for his membership in the Scottish Café circle, an extensive monograph on the th ...

Wojciech Samotij Wojciech Samotij is a Polish mathematician who works in combinatorics, additive number theory, Ramsey theory and graph theory. Education and career He studied at the University of Wrocław where in 2007 he obtained his Master of Science degree ...

Juliusz Schauder Juliusz Paweł Schauder (; 21 September 1899, Lwów, Austria-Hungary – September 1943, Lwów, Occupied Poland) was a Polish mathematician of Jewish origin, known for his work in functional analysis, partial differential equations and mathema ...

Wacław Sierpiński Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (; 14 March 1882 – 21 October 1969) was a Polish mathematician. He was known for contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, and to ...

Roman Sikorski Roman Sikorski (July 11, 1920 – September 12, 1983) was a Polish mathematician. Biography Sikorski was a professor at the University of Warsaw from 1952 until 1982. Since 1962, he was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Sikorski's ...

Julian Sochocki Julian Karol Sochocki (russian: Юлиан Васильевич Сохоцкий; pl, Julian Karol Sochocki; February 2, 1842 in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – December 14, 1927 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Russian- Polish mathema ...

Hugo Steinhaus Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus ( ; ; January 14, 1887 – February 25, 1972) was a Polish mathematician and educator. Steinhaus obtained his PhD under David Hilbert at Göttingen University in 1911 and later became a professor at the Jan Kazimierz Unive ...

Włodzimierz Stożek Włodzimierz Stożek (23 July 1883 – 3 or 4 July 1941) was a Polish mathematician of the Lwów School of Mathematics. Head of the Mathematics Faculty on the Lwów University of Technology. He was arrested and murdered together with his two son ...

Wanda Szmielew Wanda Szmielew née Montlak (5 April 1918 – 27 August 1976) was a Polish mathematical logician who first proved the decidability of the first-order theory of abelian groups. Life Wanda Montlak was born on 5 April 1918 in Warsaw. She complet ...

Władysław Ślebodziński Władysław Ślebodziński () (February 6, 1884 – January 3, 1972) was a Polish mathematician. Władysław Ślebodziński was born in Pysznica, Poland and educated at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (1903-1908) where he subsequently he ...

Ivan Śleszyński Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...

Alfred Tarski Alfred Tarski (, born Alfred Teitelbaum;School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews ''School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews''. January 14, 1901 – October 26, 1983) was a Polish-American logician a ...

* Adam Henryk Toruńczyk *

Stanisław Ulam Stanisław Marcin Ulam (; 13 April 1909 – 13 May 1984) was a Polish-American scientist in the fields of mathematics and nuclear physics. He participated in the Manhattan Project, originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapon ...

, co-designer (with

Edward Teller Edward Teller ( hu, Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" (see the Teller–Ulam design), although he did not care fo ...

) of the

hydrogen bomb A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly greater destructive power than first-generation nuclear bombs, a more compact size, a lowe ...

Kazimierz Urbanik Kazimierz Urbanik (February 5, 1930 – May 29, 2005) was a prominent member of the Polish School of Mathematics. He founded the journal ''Probability and Mathematical Statistics'' and served as Rector (academia), rector of the University of Wroc ...

Tadeusz Ważewski Tadeusz Ważewski (24 September 1896 – 5 September 1972) was a Polish mathematician. Ważewski made important contributions to the theory of ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, control theory and the theory of analy ...

* Józef Hoene-Wroński *

Kazimierz Zarankiewicz Kazimierz Zarankiewicz (2 May 1902 – 5 September 1959) was a Polish mathematician and Professor at the Warsaw University of Technology who was interested primarily in topology and graph theory. Biography Zarankiewicz was born in Częstochowa. ...

* Stanisław Zaremba *

Henryk Zygalski Henryk Zygalski (; 15 July 1908 – 30 August 1978) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma ciphers before and during World War II. Life Zygalski was born on 15 July 1908 in Posen, German Empire (now Pozn ...

-breaker *

Antoni Zygmund Antoni Zygmund (December 25, 1900 – May 30, 1992) was a Polish mathematician. He worked mostly in the area of mathematical analysis, including especially harmonic analysis, and he is considered one of the greatest analysts of the 20th century. ...

Kazimierz Żorawski Kazimierz Żorawski (June 22, 1866 – January 23, 1953) was a Polish mathematician. His work earned him an honored place in mathematics alongside such Polish mathematicians as Wojciech Brudzewski, Jan Brożek (Broscius), Nicolas Copernicus, S ...

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Bartel Bartel may refer to: *Bartel, one of the companions of Saint Nicholas Given name *Bartel J. Jonkman (1884–1955), U.S. politician *Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903–1996), Dutch mathematician Surname *Beate Bartel, a member of the German b ...

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Kuratowski Kazimierz Kuratowski (; 2 February 1896 – 18 June 1980) was a Polish mathematician and logician. He was one of the leading representatives of the Warsaw School of Mathematics. Biography and studies Kazimierz Kuratowski was born in Warsaw, (th ...

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Mostowski Mostowski (feminine: Mostowska, plural: Mostowscy) is a surname. It may refer to: * Mostowski Palace ( pl, Pałac Mostowskich), an 18th-century palace in Warsaw * Andrzej Mostowski (1913 - 1975), a Polish mathematician ** Mostowski collapse lemma, ...

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Ulam Ulam may refer to: * ULAM, the ICAO airport code for Naryan-Mar Airport, Russia * Ulam (surname) * Ulam (salad), a type of Malay salad * ''Ulam'', a Filipino term loosely translated to viand or side dish; see Tapa (Filipino cuisine) * Ulam, the l ...

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Computer science

Krzysztof R. Apt Krzysztof R. Apt (born 26 December 1949 in Katowice, Poland) is a Polish computer scientist. He defended his PhD in mathematical logic in Warsaw, Poland in 1974. His research interests include program correctness and semantics, use of logic as a ...

Paul Baran Paul Baran (born Pesach Baran ; April 29, 1926 – March 26, 2011) was a Polish-American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks. He was one of the two independent inventors of packet switching, which is today the dom ...

Krzysztof Cios Krzysztof J. Cios (born 1950) is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), located in Richmond, Virginia. His research is focused on machine learning, data mining, ...

Andrzej Ehrenfeucht Andrzej Ehrenfeucht (, born 8 August 1932) is a Polish-American mathematician and computer scientist. Life Andrzej Ehrenfeucht formulated the Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé game, using the back-and-forth method given in Roland Fraïssé's PhD thesis. ...

Siemion Fajtlowicz Siemion Fajtlowicz is a Polish-American mathematician, formerly a professor at the University of Houston. He is known for creating and developing the conjecture-making computer program Graffiti.. Fajtlowicz received his Ph.D. in 1967 or 1968 from ...

, known for his

Graffiti Graffiti (plural; singular ''graffiti'' or ''graffito'', the latter rarely used except in archeology) is art that is written, painted or drawn on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view. Graffiti ranges from s ...

* Tomasz Imieliński *

Piotr Indyk Piotr Indyk is Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor in the Theory of Computation Group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Academic biography Indyk received the Magister (MA) ...

Jacek Karpiński Jacek Karpiński (9 April 1927 21 February 2010) was a Polish pioneer in computer engineering and computer science. During World War II, he was a soldier in the Batalion Zośka of the Polish Home Army, and was awarded multiple times with a C ...

* Marek Karpiński *

Marian Mazur Marian Mazur (Radom, December 7, 1909 – Warsaw, January 21, 1983) was a Polish scientist who specialized in electrothermics and cybernetics Cybernetics is a wide-ranging field concerned with circular causality, such as feedback, in reg ...

Jan Mycielski Jan Mycielski (born February 7, 1932 in Wiśniowa, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland)Curriculum vitae
from ...

* Zdzislaw Pawlak *

Emil Leon Post Emil Leon Post (; February 11, 1897 – April 21, 1954) was an American mathematician and logician. He is best known for his work in the field that eventually became known as computability theory. Life Post was born in Augustów, Suwałki Govern ...

Stanisław Radziszowski Stanisław P. Radziszowski (born June 7, 1953) is a Polish- American mathematician and computer scientist, best known for his work in Ramsey theory. Radziszowski was born in Gdańsk, Poland, and received his PhD from the Institute of Informatics ...

* Andrew Targowski *

Jack Tramiel Jack Tramiel ( ; born Idek Trzmiel; December 13, 1928 – April 8, 2012) was an American businessman and Holocaust survivor, best known for founding Commodore International. The Commodore PET, VIC-20 and Commodore 64 are some home compute ...

Andrzej Trybulec Andrzej Wojciech Trybulec (29 January 1941 in Kraków, Poland – 11 September 2013 in Białystok, Poland) was a Polish mathematician and computer scientist noted for work on the Mizar system. Early years His parents Jan W. Trybulec and Barbara ...

Mizar system The Mizar system consists of a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant, which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics, which can be used i ...

Jan Węglarz Jan Węglarz (born 1947 in Poznań) is a Polish computer scientist. His current research focuses on operations research. He studied at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań, where he graduated mathematics in 1969, and later on Poznań Un ...

Michał Zalewski Michał Zalewski (born 19 January 1981), also known by the user name lcamtuf, is a computer security expert and "white hat" hacker from Poland. He is a former Google Inc. employee (until 2018), and currently the VP of Security Engineering at Sna ...

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Linguistics

Jolanta Antas Jolanta Antas (born 20 February 1954 in Szczecin) is a Polish professor of linguistics at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. Antas is the head of the Institute of Theory of Communication at the Faculty of Polish Language and Literature of the ...

Jerzy Bartmiński Jerzy Bartmiński (19 September 1939 – 7 February 2022) was a Polish linguist and ethnologist. Biography Bartmiński was born in Przemyśl to a Polish family of Galician craftsmen, moved to Lublin in 1956, where he lived until his death in 2 ...

Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay (13 March 1845 – 3 November 1929) was a Polish linguist and Slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations. For most of his life Baudouin de Courtenay worked at Imperia ...

(1845–1929) developed the theory of the

phoneme In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme () is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language. For example, in most dialects of English, with the notable exception of the West Midlands and the north-west o ...

and phonetic alternations. *

Andrzej Bogusławski Andrzej Stanisław Bogusławski (born 1 December 1931) is a Polish philologist, semanticist, semioticist and philosopher of language of international repute. Originally a specialist in Russian language, his interests broadened into the epistem ...

, Russian-Polish-Russian

lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoreti ...

, philosopher of language, semioticist *

Aleksander Brückner Aleksander Brückner (; 29 January 1856 – 24 May 1939) was a Polish scholar of Slavic languages and literatures (Slavistics), philologist, lexicographer and historian of literature. He is among the most notable Slavicists of the late 19th ...

(1856–1939),

Slavicist Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was prim ...

and Polish-language lexicographer * Kazimierz Bulas (1903–70),

–English

(''

Kościuszko Foundation The Kosciuszko Foundation is a foundation (charity), charitable foundation based in New York City. It was created by Stephen Mizwa to fund programs that promote Poland, Polish-American intellectual and artistic exchange. History The Polish Amer ...

Dictionary'') * Jan Bystroń *

Andrzej Gawroński Andrzej Gawroński (20 June 1885 in Geneva – 11 January 1927 in Józefów, in the vicinity of Warsaw) was a Polish Indologist, linguist and polyglot. Professor of Jagiellonian University and Lwów University, (starting in 1916), the author of t ...

Grzegorz Knapski Grzegorz Knapski (Knapiusz, Cnapius; 1561–1639) was a Polish Jesuit, teacher, philologist, lexicographer and writer. Works His most important work is the ''Thesaurus Polono-Latino-Graecus''. First published in 1621 in Kraków, second edition ...

Władysław Kopaliński Władysław Kopaliński (real name Władysław Jan Stefczyk; November 14, 1907 – October 5, 2007) was a Polish lexicographer, publisher, writer and translator. He was a prolific author and winner of numerous awards for his work. ...

* Onufry Kopczyński, creator of Polish-grammar

terminology Terminology is a group of specialized words and respective meanings in a particular field, and also the study of such terms and their use; the latter meaning is also known as terminology science. A ''term'' is a word, compound word, or multi-wor ...

Alfred Korzybski Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (, ; July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of se ...

, originator of

general semantics General semantics is concerned with how events translate to perceptions, how they are further modified by the names and labels we apply to them, and how we might gain a measure of control over our own cognitive, emotional, and behavioral respons ...

Mikołaj Kruszewski Mikołaj Habdank Kruszewski, (Russian language, Russianized, ''Nikolay Vyacheslavovich Krushevsky'', Никола́й Вячесла́вович Круше́вский) (December 18, 1851, Lutsk – November 12, 1887, Kazan) was a Polish linguist ...

Jerzy Kuryłowicz Jerzy Kuryłowicz (; 26 August 1895 – 28 January 1978) was a Polish linguist who studied Indo-European languages. Life Born in Stanislawow, Austria-Hungary. He was a Polish historical linguist, structuralist and language theoretician, deeply i ...

Samuel Bogumił Linde Samuel Gottlieb Linde (polonised ''Samuel Bogumił Linde''; 11 or 24 April 1771, in Toruń – 8 August 1847, in Warsaw) was a linguist, librarian, and lexicographer of the Polish language. He was director of the Prussian-founded Warsaw Lyceum ...

, Polish language lexicographer *

Jan Mączyński Jan Mączyński (c. 1520 – c. 1587) was a Polish humanist and lexicographer. He was appointed as canon of the Collegiate church in Kalisz. Mączyński was the author of a Polish-Latin Dictionary published around 1564 with 1000 pages and 20,500 La ...

Halina Mierzejewska Halina Mierzejewska (1922 – November 14, 2003) was a professor of linguistics at the University of Warsaw, in the Institute of Polish Language. Mierzejewska served as the honorary president of the Polish College of Logopedes. Her research f ...

Jan Miodek Jan Franciszek Miodek (born 7 June 1946 in Tarnowskie Góry, Silesian Voivodeship), is a Polish linguist, a prescriptive grammarian and a Professor of Wrocław University. He is regarded as one of the most prominent educators and promoters of the ...

Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski (3 September 1921 – 21 July 2016) was a Polish-born polymath and inventor with 50 patents to his credit. He was a civil and industrial engineer by profession, educated in Poland, Belgium, and the United States. He was al ...

(1921–2016), Polish–English lexicographer *

Anna Siewierska Anna Siewierska (born Gdynia, Poland, 25 December 1955, died Da Lat, Vietnam, 6 August 2011) was a Polish-born linguist who worked in Australia, Poland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. She was professor of linguistics at Department of Li ...

* Jan Stanisławski, Polish–English lexicographer * Antoni Józef Śmieszek *

Michel Thomas Michel Thomas (born Moniek Kroskof, February 3, 1914 – January 8, 2005) was a Polyglot (person), polyglot linguist, and decorated war veteran. He survived imprisonment in several different Nazi concentration camps after serving in the Maqu ...

* Zdzisław Wąsik *

Anna Wierzbicka Anna Wierzbicka (born 10 March 1938 in Warsaw) is a Poles, Polish linguistics, linguist who is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra. Brought up in Poland, she graduated from Warsaw University and emigrated to Austr ...

L. L. Zamenhof L. L. Zamenhof (15 December 185914 April 1917) was an ophthalmologist who lived for most of his life in Warsaw. He is best known as the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language. Zamenhof first dev ...

, inventor of

Esperanto Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communi ...

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Baudouin de Courtenay Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay (13 March 1845 – 3 November 1929) was a Polish linguist and Slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations. For most of his life Baudouin de Courtenay worked at Imperi ...

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Korzybski Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (, ; July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of se ...

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Invention

Bruno Abakanowicz Bruno Abdank-Abakanowicz (6 October 1852 – 29 August 1900) was a Polish mathematician, inventor, and electrical engineer. Life Abakanowicz was born in 1852 in the Russian Empire (now Lithuania). After graduating from the Riga Technical Univ ...

, mathematician, engineer, inventor of the

integraph An Integraph is a mechanical analog computing device for plotting the integral of a graphically defined function. History Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis first described the fundamental principal of a mechanical integraph in 1836 in the ''Journal ...

* Stefan Bryła, first welded road bridge *

Mieczysław G. Bekker Mieczysław Gregory Bekker (1905–1989) was a Polish engineer and scientist. Bekker was born in Strzyżów, near Hrubieszów, Poland and graduated from Warsaw Technical University in 1929. Early career Bekker worked for the Polish Minist ...

Lunar Roving Vehicle The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program ( 15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972. It is popularly called the Moon buggy, a play on the t ...

, Czochralski process *

Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski "Laudański" (20 April 1924 in Bydgoszcz – 22 June 1998 in Ciechocinek) was a noted Polish soldier during World War II, and later an engineer and inventor, as well as writer.Stefan Drzewiecki Stefan Drzewiecki (russian: Джеве́цкий Степа́н Ка́рлович (Казими́рович); 26 July 1844, Kunka, Podolia, Russian Empire (today Ukraine) – 23 April 1938, Paris) was a Polish scientist, journalist, engineer, con ...

, first

submarine A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability. The term is also sometimes used historically or colloquially to refer to remotely op ...

Jan Dzierzon Johann Dzierzon, or Jan Dzierżon or Dzierżoń , also John Dzierzon (16 January 1811 – 26 October 1906), was a Polish apiarist who discovered the phenomenon of parthenogenesis in bees. Dzierzon came from a Polish family in Silesia. Trained ...

, first successful movable-frame

beehive A beehive is an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species of the subgenus '' Apis'' live and raise their young. Though the word ''beehive'' is commonly used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature ...

Leo Gerstenzang Leo Gerstenzang (June 3, 1892 – 31 January, 1961) was a Polish-American inventor who, in 1923, created the first contemporary cotton swab or Q-Tips. His product, which he named "Baby Gays," went on to become one of the most widely sold bran ...

, Q-Tips *

Rudolf Gundlach Rudolf Gundlach (1892–1957) was a Polish military engineer, inventor and tank designer. He headed the design division of the Armored Weapons Technical Research Bureau (''Biuro Badań Technicznych Broni Pancernych''). He held the military rank ...

, Gundlach Rotary Periscope *

Józef Hofmann Josef Casimir Hofmann (originally Józef Kazimierz Hofmann; January 20, 1876February 16, 1957) was a Polish-American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor. Biography Josef Hofmann was born in Podgórze (a district of Kraków), in Aus ...

, pneumatic shock absorbers *

Stefan Kudelski Stefan Kudelski (27 August 1931 – 26 January 2013)
Nagra was a Polish audio engineer known for creating ...

Nagra Nagra is a brand of portable audio recorders produced from 1951 in Switzerland. Beginning in 1997 a range of high-end equipment aimed at the audiophile community was introduced, and Nagra expanded the company’s product lines into new markets. ...

audio recorders *

Stephanie Kwolek Stephanie Louise Kwolek (; July 31, 1923 – June 18, 2014) was a Polish-American chemist who is known for inventing Kevlar. Her career at the DuPont company spanned more than 40 years. She discovered the first of a family of synthetic fibers of ...

, inventor of

Kevlar Kevlar (para-aramid) is a strong, heat-resistant synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora. Developed by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont in 1965, the high-strength material was first used commercially in the early 1970s a ...

Kazimierz Leski Kazimierz Leski, ''pseudonym#Nom de guerre, nom de guerre'' Bradl (21 June 1912 — 27 May 2000), was a Polish engineer, co-designer of the Polish submarines ''ORP Sęp (1938)'' and ''ORP Orzeł (1938), ORP Orzeł'', a fighter aircraft, fighter p ...

, ballast tank funnels *

Janusz Liberkowski Janusz Liberkowski (born March 9, 1953 in Nowa Sól, Poland) is the winner of the first season of the show ''American Inventor''. His invention was the Anecia Safety Capsule. He graduated from the Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland in 1 ...

, Anecia Safety Capsule *

kerosene lamp A kerosene lamp (also known as a paraffin lamp in some countries) is a type of lighting device that uses kerosene as a fuel. Kerosene lamps have a wick or mantle as light source, protected by a glass chimney or globe; lamps may be used on a t ...

oil refinery An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into useful products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, lique ...

Henryk Magnuski Henryk Władysław Magnuski (January 30, 1909 – May 4, 1978) was a Polish telecommunications engineer who worked for Motorola in Chicago. He was a primary contributor in the development of one of the first Walkie-Talkie radios, the Motorola SCR- ...

walkie-talkie A walkie-talkie, more formally known as a handheld transceiver (HT), is a hand-held, portable, two-way radio transceiver. Its development during the Second World War has been variously credited to Donald Hings, radio engineer Alfred J. Gross, ...

Julian Ochorowicz Julian Leopold Ochorowicz (Polish pronunciation: ; outside Poland also known as Julien Ochorowitz; Radzymin, 23 February 1850 – 1 May 1917, Warsaw) was a Polish philosopher, psychologist, inventor (precursor of radio and television), poet, pub ...

, precursor of

radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ...

and

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

, petroleum-drilling platform inventor * Kazimierz Proszyński, cinematic camera *

Tadeusz Sendzimir Tadeusz Sendzimir (originally Sędzimir; July 15, 1894 in Lwów – September 1, 1989 in Jupiter, Florida) of Ostoja coat of arms was a Polish engineer and inventor of international renown with 120 patents in mining and metallurgy, 73 of which we ...

, processing steel *

Władysław Starewicz Ladislas Starevich (russian: Владисла́в Алекса́ндрович Старе́вич, pl, Władysław Starewicz; August 8, 1882 – February 26, 1965) was a Polish-Russian stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first pu ...

, first puppet-animated film * Abraham Stern, first computing-machine and device for calculating the square roots of numbers * Wacław Struszyński, seaborne direction finding antenna, which made a vital contribution to the defeat of

U-boat U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships, they were most effectively used in an economic warfare role ...

s in the

Battle of the Atlantic The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was the Allied naval blockade ...

Jan Szczepanik Jan Szczepanik (June 13, 1872 – April 18, 1926) was a Polish inventor, with several hundred patents and over 50 discoveries to his name, many of which are still applied today, especially in the motion picture industry, as well as in photography ...

, television patents * Józef Tykociński,

sound film A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before ...

Stefan Tyszkiewicz Stefan Eugeniusz Tyszkiewicz, in Polish, Stefan Eugeniusz Maria Tyszkiewicz-Łohojski z Landwarowa, Leliwa coat of arms, (born 24 November 1894 in Warsaw, died 6 February 1976 in London) was a member of the Polish nobility, landowner, engineer, i ...

, automotive and audio improvements *

, precursor of

holography Holography is a technique that enables a wavefront to be recorded and later re-constructed. Holography is best known as a method of generating real three-dimensional images, but it also has a wide range of other applications. In principle, i ...

Casimir Zeglen Casimir Zeglen (Polish: Kazimierz Żegleń; 1869 near Ternopil, Tarnopol – before 1927) was a Polish priest who invented a silk bulletproof vest. At the age of 18 he entered the Resurrectionist Order in Lviv, Lwów (today Lviv, Ukraine). In 18 ...

, bullet-proof vest *

, ''

Zygalski sheets The method of Zygalski sheets was a cryptologic technique used by the Polish Cipher Bureau before and during World War II, and during the war also by British cryptologists at Bletchley Park, to decrypt messages enciphered on German Enigma mac ...

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Hofmann Hoffman is a surname of German and Jewish origin. The original meaning in medieval times was "steward", i.e. one who manages the property of another. In English and other European languages, including Yiddish and Dutch, the name can also be spelle ...

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Tyszkiewicz Tyszkiewicz is the name of the Tyszkiewicz family, a Polish–Lithuanian magnate noble family of Ruthenian origin. The Lithuanian equivalent is Tiškevičius; it is frequently transliterated from Russian and Belarusian as Tyshkevich. Other peopl ...

Engineering

Karol Adamiecki Karol Adamiecki (Dąbrowa Górnicza, 18 March 1866 – 16 May 1933, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish engineer, management researcher, economist, and professor. Life Karol Adamiecki was a prominent management researcher in Eastern and Central Euro ...

Krzysztof Arciszewski Krzysztof Arciszewski (9 December 1592 in Rogalin – 7 April 1656 near Gdańsk (Danzig), Poland) was a Polish nobleman, military officer, engineer, and ethnographer. Arciszewski also served as a general of artillery for the Netherlands and Poland ...

, first moon rover * Stefan Bryła, first welded road bridge * Romuald Cebertowicz, soil solidification * Zdzisław Celiński *

particle detector In experimental and applied particle physics, nuclear physics, and nuclear engineering, a particle detector, also known as a radiation detector, is a device used to detect, track, and/or identify ionizing particles, such as those produced by nuc ...

Jerzy Dąbrowski Jerzy Dąbrowski (September 8, 1899 – September 17, 1967) was a Polish aeronautical engineer. He was the lead designer of the famed PZL.37 Łoś medium bomber. Dąbrowski was born in Nieborów, west of Warsaw to a railway clerk family. He stud ...

, designer of PZL.37 Łoś bomber *

Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky Mikhail Osipovich Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (russian: Михаи́л О́сипович Доли́во-Доброво́льский; german: Michail von Dolivo-Dobrowolsky or ''Michail Ossipowitsch Doliwo-Dobrowolski''; – ) was a Russian Empire ...

, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor *

Adam Freytag Adam Freytag (1608–1650) was a Polish military engineer, mathematician and physician. He is best known for his work ''Architectura militaris nova et aucta'', the first manual of bastion fortifications of the so-called Old Dutch system, publishe ...

, tank designer * Kazimierz Gzowski *

Edward Jan Habich Edward Jan Habich ( es, Eduardo de Habich) (31 January 1835, Warsaw – 31 October 1909, Lima, Peru) was a Polish engineer and mathematician. In 1876, he founded the National University of Engineering ( es, Universidad Nacional de Ingenierí ...

Tytus Maksymilian Huber Tytus Maksymilian Huber (also known as Maksymilian Tytus Huber; 4 January 1872 in Krościenko nad Dunajcem – 9 December 1950) was a Polish mechanical engineer, educator, and scientist. He was a member of the pre-war Polish scientific foundati ...

Jacek Jędruch Jacek Jędruch (Warsaw, Poland, 1927 – Athens, Greece, 1995) was a Polish-American nuclear engineer and historian of Polish representative government. Life During World War II, Jędruch participated in the Polish Resistance movement. After ...

Stanisław Kierbedź Stanisław Kierbedź (russian: link=no, Станислав Валерианович Кербедз, lt, link=no, Stanislovas Kerbedis 1810–1899) was a Polish railway engineer. He designed and supervised the construction of dozens of bridges, rai ...

Stefan Kudelski Stefan Kudelski (27 August 1931 – 26 January 2013)
Nagra was a Polish audio engineer known for creating ...

, electronics engineer, inventor of the

tape recorder *

Józef Kosacki Józef Stanisław Kosacki (21 April 1909–26 April 1990) was a Polish professor, engineer, inventor, and an officer in the Polish Army during World War II. He is best known as the inventor of the Polish mine detector, the first portable mine detect ...

Polish mine detector The Mine detector (Polish) Mark I () was a metal detector for landmines developed during World War II. Initial work on the design had started in Poland but after the invasion of Poland by the Germans in 1939, and then the Fall of France in mid- ...

, inventor *

, ''

'' *

Ernest Malinowski Ernest Adam Malinowski (5 January 1818 – 2 March 1899) was a Polish civil engineer best known for constructing the world's highest railway at the time, the Ferrovias Central, in the Peruvian Andes between 1871–1876 .Norman Davies. ''God's ...

, 19th-century constructor of Peru's '' Ferrovias Central'', the world's highest railway at the time *

Henry Millicer Henry K. Millicer, AM (11 June 1915 – 28 August 1996) born Henryk Kazimierz Milicer, was a Polish-Australian aircraft designer and pilot. Early life and Second World War Millicer was born in Warsaw, Poland, the son of Kazimierz Mili ...

, aviation *

Ralph Modjeski Ralph Modjeski (born Rudolf Modrzejewski; January 27, 1861 – June 26, 1940) was a Polish-American civil engineer who achieved prominence as "America's greatest bridge builder." Life He was born in Bochnia, called Galicia at the time, on Janua ...

, bridge designer *

Jan Nagórski Alfons Jan Nagórski (1888–1976), also known as ''Ivan Iosifovich Nagurski'', was a Polish engineer and pioneer of aviation, the first person to fly an airplane in the Arctic and the first aviator to perform a loop with a flying boat. Biog ...

, first man to fly over the North Pole *

Antoni Patek Antoni Norbert Patek (french: link=no, Antoine Norbert de Patek; 14 June 1812 – 1 March 1877) was a Polish pioneer in watchmaking and the creator of the Patek Philippe & Co., one of Swiss watchmaker companies, and Polish independence fighter and ...

, pioneer in watchmaking and a creator of Patek Philippe & Co. *

Zygmunt Puławski Zygmunt Puławski (October 24, 1901 – March 21, 1931) was a Polish aircraft designer and pilot. He invented a gull-wing aircraft design, also known as "Puławski wing" and designed a series of Polish PZL fighters. He was born in Lublin. In ...

, designer of

PZL P.11 The PZL P.11 was a Polish fighter aircraft, designed and constructed during the early 1930s by Warsaw-based aircraft manufacturer PZL. Possessing an all-metal structure, metal-covering, and high-mounted gull wing, the type held the distinction of ...

fighter *

Bogdan Raczkowski Bogdan Feliks Raczkowski (12 March 1888 – 4 October 1939) was an influential engineer, builder and urbanism, urbanist in Bydgoszcz from the 1920s till the outbreak of World War II. Personal life Early life Bogdan was born in Poznań on March 1 ...

, engineer and urbanist in

Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...

* Ludwik Regamey, engineer and social activist * Wojciech Rostafiński,

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

Kazimierz Siemienowicz Kazimierz Siemienowicz ( la, Casimirus Siemienowicz, lt, Kazimieras Simonavičius; born 1600 – 1651) was a general of artillery, gunsmith, military engineer, and one of pioneers of rocketry. Born in the Raseiniai region of the Grand Duchy o ...

, pioneer of

rocket A rocket (from it, rocchetto, , bobbin/spool) is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using the surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. Rocket engines work entirely fr ...

, automotive engineer, inventor of the airport luggage trolley *

Stanisław Wigura Stanisław Wigura (9 April 1901 – 11 September 1932) was a Polish aircraft designer and aviator, co-founder of the RWD aircraft construction team and lecturer at the Warsaw University of Technology. Along with Franciszek Żwirko, he won the in ...

, aviation *

Piotr Wilniewczyc Piotr Wilniewczyc (1887–1960) was a Polish engineer and arms designer. Among his most successful designs were the Vis-35 (weapon), Vis-35 pistol, commonly known as the Radom for the arsenal in which it was produced, and the Pistolet maszynowy M ...

, weaponry *

Franciszek Żwirko Franciszek Żwirko nglish pronunciation like: frantsishek zhvirko(16 September 1895 – 11 September 1932) was a prominent Polish sport and military aviator. Along with Stanisław Wigura, he won the international air contest Challenge 1932. He w ...

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Malinowski Malinowski (Polish pronunciation: ; feminine: Malinowska; plural: Malinowscy) is a surname of Polish-language origin. It is related to the following surnames: People * Agnieszka Malinowska, Polish mathematician * (born 1954), Polish Army gene ...

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Social sciences

Tadeusz Andrzejewski Tadeusz Andrzejewski (1923–1961) was a Polish archeologist and Egyptologist. Life Andrzejewski was born in Łódź. After leaving school, he joined the staff of the Warsaw National Museum in the 1940s, and was appointed to a post in University ...

, archeologist, Egyptologist *

Zygmunt Bauman Zygmunt Bauman (; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrate ...

, sociologist, philosopher *

Stefan Błachowski Stefan Błachowski (Opawa, 19 May 1889 – 31 January 1962, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish psychologist and professor at Poznań University. Life Błachowski was the son of a military physician, Konstanty Błachowski, and Maria Niklas. He graduate ...

, psychologist *

Maria Czaplicka Maria Antonina Czaplicka (25 October 1884 – 27 May 1921), also referred to as Marya Antonina Czaplicka and Marie Antoinette Czaplicka, was a Polish cultural anthropologist who is best known for her ethnography of Siberian shamanism. Czaplicka ...

, anthropologist * Jan Władysław Dawid, psychologist *

Tomasz Drezner Tomasz Drezner (1560–1616) was a Polish jurist. The fame of Drezner's 1601 work, ''Processus iudiciarius Regni Poloniae'' (Judicial Procedure in the Kingdom of Poland), saw him admitted to the service of Royal Chancellor Jan Zamojski and allow ...

, Renaissance jurist * Agnieszka Dudzińska, sociologist *

Barbara Engelking Barbara Engelking (born 22 April 1962) is a Polish sociologist specializing in Holocaust studies. The founder and director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, she is the author or editor of several works on the Holocaust in P ...

, sociologist *

Zygmunt Gloger Zygmunt Gloger (3 November 1845 in Tybory-Kamianka – 16 August 1910 in Warsaw) was a Polish historian, archaeologist, geographer and ethnographer, bearer of the Wilczekosy coat of arms. Gloger founded the precursor of modern and widely popul ...

, ethnographer, archaeologist, historian *

Ludwig Gumplowicz Ludwig Gumplowicz (March 9, 1838 – August 19, 1909), was a Polish sociologist, jurist, historian, and political scientist, who taught constitutional and administrative law at the University of Graz. Gumplowicz was the son of a Jewish carpet and ...

, a founder of sociology *

Norbert Guterman Norbert Guterman (1900–1984) was a scholar, and translator of scholarly and literary works from French, Polish and Latin into English. His translations were remarkable for their range of subject matter and high quality. Born in Warsaw, Guterman ...

Alicja Iwańska Alicja Iwańska (also known as Alicia Iwanska, 13 May 1918 – 26 September 1996) was a Polish sociologist, academic and writer. Born into the landed gentry of Poland, her family were members of the intelligentsia and encouraged Iwańska to pu ...

, sociologist *

Franciszek Kasparek Franciszek Ksawery Kasparek ( Sambor, 29 October 1844 – 4 August 1903, Kraków) was a Polish jurist, professor of law and rector of Kraków University, founder of the first chair in international law in Poland (at Kraków University), and member o ...

, jurist, professor of international law *

Oskar Kolberg Henryk Oskar Kolberg (22 February 1814 – 3 June 1890) was a Polish ethnographer, folklorist, and composer active during the foreign Partitions of Poland.Marek Kotański Marek Kotański, (March 11, 1942 – August 19, 2002) was a Polish charity worker and campaigner on behalf of disadvantaged people, including the homeless and those with HIV. He died in a car accident in Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki, Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, ...

, psychologist *

Ludwik Krzywicki Ludwik Joachim Franciszek Krzywicki (21 August 1859 – 10 June 1941) was a Polish Marxist anthropologist, economist and sociologist. One of the early champions of sociology in Poland, he approached historical materialism from a sociological viewpo ...

, anthropologist, economist, sociologist *

Jan Kubary John Stanislaw Kubary (13 November 1846 in Warsaw, Poland – 9 October 1896 in Pohnpei), also stated as Jan Stanisław Kubary, Jan Kubary, or Johann Stanislaus Kubary, was a Polish naturalist and ethnographer. In 1868 he became a collector for ...

, naturalist, ethnographer *

Hersch Lauterpacht Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (16 August 1897 – 8 May 1960) was a British international lawyer, human rights activist, and judge at the International Court of Justice. Biography Hersh Lauterpacht was born on 16 August 1897 to a Jewish family in t ...

, creator of the legal concept of

crimes against humanity Crimes against humanity are widespread or systemic acts committed by or on behalf of a ''de facto'' authority, usually a state, that grossly violate human rights. Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity do not have to take place within the ...

Raphael Lemkin Raphael Lemkin ( pl, Rafał Lemkin; 24 June 1900 – 28 August 1959) was a Polish lawyer who is best known for coining the term ''genocide'' and initiating the Genocide Convention, an interest spurred on after learning about the Armenian genocid ...

, creator of the legal concept of

genocide Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the Latin ...

* Wiesław Łukaszewski, psychologist *

Bronisław Malinowski Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (; 7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish-British anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropol ...

, anthropologist * Władysław Markiewicz, sociologist *

Kazimierz Michałowski Kazimierz Józef Marian Michałowski (born December 14, 1901 in Tarnopol – January 1, 1981 in Warsaw) was a Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist, art historian, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, professor ordinarius of the Univer ...

, archeologist, Egyptologist *

Karol Myśliwiec Karol Myśliwiec (born 3 November 1943) is a Polish egyptologist, known for his ongoing efforts at Saqqara to discover the tomb of Imhotep. Career Karol Myśliwiec studied Mediterranean archeology at Warsaw University under Kazimierz Michałowski ...

, archeologist, Egyptologist *

, psychologist, philosopher, inventor *

Maria Ossowska Maria Ossowska (''née'' Maria Niedźwiecka, 16 January 1896, Warsaw – 13 August 1974, Warsaw) was a Polish sociologist and social philosopher. Life A student of the philosopher Tadeusz Kotarbiński, she originally in 1925 received a doctorat ...

, sociologist *

Stanisław Ossowski Stanisław Ossowski ( Lipno, 22 May 18977 November 1963, Warsaw) was one of Poland's most important sociologists. He held professorships at Łódź University (1945–47) and Warsaw University (1947–63). Life Ossowski first contributed to logi ...

, sociologist *

Bronisław Piłsudski Bronisław Piotr Piłsudski (; ; 2 November 1866 – 17 May 1918) was an ethnologist, who researched the Ainu people after he was exiled by the Tsar Alexander III of Russia to the Far East. Piłsudski pioneered research into Lithuanian cro ...

, cultural anthropologist *

Jadwiga Staniszkis Jadwiga Staniszkis (born April 26, 1942 in Warsaw) is a Polish sociologist and political scientist, essayist, a former professor at the University of Warsaw and the Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu (Higher Business School), a Polish campus of National-L ...

, sociologist *

Paweł Śpiewak Paweł Śpiewak (born 17 April 1951) is the Director of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland. He is a sociologist, historian, author and former politician. History Paweł Śpiewak is a Professor of Sociology at Warsaw University. H ...

, sociologist *

Henryk Stroband Henryk Stroband (1548–1609) was a Polish jurist and mayor of Toruń )'' , image_skyline = , image_caption = , image_flag = POL Toruń flag.svg , image_shield = POL Toruń COA.svg , nickname = City of Angels, ...

, jurist and mayor of

Toruń )'' , image_skyline = , image_caption = , image_flag = POL Toruń flag.svg , image_shield = POL Toruń COA.svg , nickname = City of Angels, Gingerbread city, Copernicus Town , pushpin_map = Kuyavian-Pom ...

Jerzy Szacki Jerzy Ryszard Szacki (6 February 1929 – 25 October 2016) was a Polish sociologist and historian of ideas.Jerzy Szacki, Liberalism after communism, Central European University Press, 1995, back cover/ref>Nauka Polska, "prof. zw. dr hab. czł. rze ...

, historian of ideas * Zbigniew Szafrański, Egyptologist, archeologist *

Jacek Szmatka Jacek Szmatka (28 March 1950 – 20 October 2001) was a Polish sociologist. Professor the Jagiellonian University, visiting professor in a number of American universities State University of New York (Buffalo), Stanford University (Stanfo ...

, sociologist *

Piotr Sztompka Piotr Sztompka (born 2 March 1944, in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish sociologist known for his work on the theory of social trust. He is professor of sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and has also frequently served as vi ...

, sociologist *

Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński (4 May 1944 – 4 January 2015) was a Polish sociologist, political scientist, and writer. A professor of sociology, he was the founder and first head of the Polish Academy of Sciences' Institute of Political Studies, and re ...

, sociologist, founder of PAN's Institute of Political Studies *

Florian Znaniecki Florian Witold Znaniecki (15 January 1882 – 23 March 1958) was a Polish philosopher and sociologist who taught and wrote in Poland and in the United States. Over the course of his work he shifted his focus from philosophy to sociology. H ...

, sociologist File:Zigmunt Bauman na 20 Forumi vydavciv(Cropped).jpg, Bauman File:Czaplicka My Siberian Year 1916.JPG, Czaplicka File:Barbara Engelking 2018.jpg, Engelking File:Zygmunt Gloger.jpg, Gloger File:Гумплович.jpg, Gumplowicz File:OskarKolberg(photo).png, Kolberg File:Ludwik krzywicki 1882.jpg, Krzywicki File:Bronislawmalinowski.jpg,

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Economics

Leszek Balcerowicz Leszek Henryk Balcerowicz (pronounced ; born 19 January 1947) is a Polish economist, statesman, and Professor at Warsaw School of Economics. He served as Chairman of the National Bank of Poland (2001–2007) and twice as Deputy Prime Minister of ...

Czesław Bobrowski Czesław Bobrowski (17 February 1904, in Sarny – 18 May 1996, in Warsaw) was a Polish economist. In postwar Poland, he was a director of Central Planning Office (''Centralny Urząd Planowania'') from 1945–1948, author of the Three-Year Plan. ...

Henryka Bochniarz Henryka Teodora Bochniarz, Ph.D. (born in Świebodzin on 29 October 1947) is a Polish economist and administrator who is a former Minister of Industry and Trade in the Government of Poland. Bochniarz is also the founder and head of the Polish C ...

Joanna Cygler Joanna Agnieszka Cygler (born May 21, 1967) is a Polish economist and professor of management at the Warsaw School of Economics. Career Cygler was born in Warsaw and graduated from Warsaw School of Economics (WSE) in 1991. In 1999, she earne ...

Gabriel Czechowicz Gabriel Czechowicz (1876-1938) was a Polish lawyer, economist and politician. He was the Polish Treasury Minister from 1926 to 1929. Accused of misuse of government funds, Czechowicz was the only Polish politician of the interwar period that fa ...

Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki Prince Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki ('' en, Francis Xavier Drucki-Lubecki''; 4 January 1778–10 May 1846) was an important Polish politician, freemason and diplomat of the first half of the 19th century. He served as the minister of the ...

Zyta Gilowska Zyta Janina Gilowska (7 July 1949 – 5 April 2016) was a Polish economist, academic, and politician. Early life and education Gilowska was born in Nowe Miasto Lubawskie on 7 July 1949. In 1972, she graduated with a degree in economics from Wa ...

Adam Glapiński Adam Glapiński (born 9 April 1950 in Warsaw) is a Polish economist and politician, the current President of the National Bank of Poland, Economics professor, a member of the first term of the Sejm, a member of the fourth term of the Senate and ...

Władysław Grabski Władysław Dominik Grabski (; 7 July 1874 – 1 March 1938) was a Polish National Democratic politician, economist and historian. He was the main author of the currency reform in the Second Polish Republic and served as Prime Minister of Poland ...

Henryk Grossman Henryk Grossman (alternative spelling: ''Henryk Grossmann''; 14 April 1881 – 24 November 1950) was a Polish economist, historian, and Marxist revolutionary active in both Poland and Germany. Grossman's key contribution to political-economic t ...

Robert Gwiazdowski Robert Gwiazdowski (born 23 March 1960) is a Polish habilitated doctor of jurisprudence and economist. He studied law on the University of Warsaw. In 2004, he was appointed president of the Adam Smith Centre. From 2006 to 2007 he was the head of s ...

Leonid Hurwicz Leonid Hurwicz (; August 21, 1917 – June 24, 2008) was a Polish-American economist and mathematician, known for his work in game theory and mechanism design. He originated the concept of incentive compatibility, and showed how desired outcomes ...

, 2007

Nobel Laureate The Nobel Prizes ( sv, Nobelpriset, no, Nobelprisen) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make out ...

Danuta Hübner Danuta Maria Hübner, née Młynarska ( or ; born 8 April 1948) is a Polish politician and Diplomat and Economist and Member of the European Parliament. She has served as European Commissioner for Regional Policy from 22 November 2004 until 4 Jul ...

Michał Kalecki Michał Kalecki (; 22 June 1899 – 18 April 1970) was a Polish Marxian economist. Over the course of his life, Kalecki worked at the London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford and Warsaw School of Economics an ...

Grzegorz Kołodko Grzegorz Witold Kołodko (pronounced ; born 28 January 1949 in Tczew, Poland) is a distinguished professor of economics. A key architect of Polish economic reforms. He is the author of New Pragmatism original paradigmatic and heterodox theory of ...

Monika Kostera Monika Maria Kostera (born 28 February 1963) is a Polish sociologist of management. She is known for her contribution to organization theory, organizational archetypes and myths, storytelling and narrative analysis in organizational anthropology. ...

Tadeusz Kowalik Tadeusz Kowalik (19 November 1926 – 30 July 2012) was a Polish economist, public intellectual and political and activism, social activist. As a prolific publicist in the area of political economy, he is notable for his dissenting left-wing politi ...

* Stanisław Kronenberg *

Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski (30 December 1888, Kraków – 22 August 1974, Kraków) was a Polish politician and economist, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, government minister and manager of the Second Polish Republic. Biography He studied at the pr ...

Ludwik Maurycy Landau Ludwik Maurycy Landau (31 May 1902 in Tomaszów Mazowiecki 29 February 1944) was a Polish economist and statistician, a member of the Polish resistance movement in World War II, and a victim of the Holocaust. Life Ludwik Maurycy Landau was ...

Oskar Lange Oskar Ryszard Lange (27 July 1904 – 2 October 1965) was a Polish economist and diplomat. He is best known for advocating the use of market pricing tools in socialist systems and providing a model of market socialism. He responded to the economi ...

Janusz Lewandowski Janusz Antoni Lewandowski (; born 13 June 1951) is a Polish politician and economist belonging to the Gdańsk liberals group, and a former member of the European Parliament (elected on 13 June 2004), Chairman of the Committee on Budgets. On 27 ...

* Edward Lipiński *

Kazimierz Łaski Kazimierz Łaski (December 15, 1921 – October 20, 2015) was a Polish-Austrian economist. During the antisemitism, antisemitic 1968 Polish political crisis, purge of 1968 Łaski had to leave Poland and moved to Austria, where he worked for the ...

Grzegorz Marek Michalski Grzegorz Marek Michalski is an economist, researcher at the School of Management, Computer Science and Finance at Wrocław University of Economics. His main area of research are Business Finance and Financial Liquidity Management. Grzegorz Mare ...

Wacław Micuta Wacław Micuta (pseudonym ''Wacek''; Petrograd, Russia, 6 December 1915 – 21 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland) was a Polish economist, World War II veteran, and United Nations functionary. He took part in the September 1939 defense of Polan ...

Hilary Minc Hilary Minc (24 August 1905, Kazimierz Dolny – 26 November 1974, Warsaw) was a Polish economist and communist politician prominent in Stalinist Poland. Minc was born into a middle class Jewish family; his parents were Oskar Minc and Stefan ...

* Marek Rocki *

Dariusz Rosati Dariusz Kajetan Rosati (born 8 August 1946 as Gaetano Dario Rosati) is a Polish professor of economics and a politician who served as a member of the European Parliament from 2004–2019, and subsequently as a deputy of the Sejm since 2019. Bio ...

Jacek Rostowski Jan Anthony Vincent-Rostowski, also known as Jacek Rostowski (; born 30 April 1951, London), is a Polish-British economist and politician who served as Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland. He was a candidate ...

Edward Szczepanik Edward Franciszek Szczepanik (; 22 August 1915 – 11 October 2005) was a Poles, Polish economist and the last Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile. Biography Szczepanik was born on 21 A ...

Sławomir Szwedowski Sławomir Szwedowski (1928–2000) was a Polish economist, professor at the Institute of Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Until 1990, he was the financial director of the Institute (the head director was Professor Jozef ...

Louis Wolowski Louis-François-Michel-Reymond Wolowski (original ''Ludwik Franciszek Michał Reymond Wołowski''; 31 August 1810 at Warsaw – 15 August 1876 at Gisors, Eure) was a Polish writer on economics and politician, naturalised in France. Life His f ...

Halina Wasilewska-Trenkner Halina Weronika Wasilewska-Trenkner (26 April 1942 – 15 November 2017)See in Polish: http://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/wydarzenia/artykuly/562644,nie-zyje-byla-minister-finansow-halina-wasilewska-trenkner.html Retrieved 23 January 2018 was a Polis ...

* Antoni Żabko-Potopowicz File:Karol adamiecki.jpg, Adamiecki File:Balcerowicz.wywiad.do.radia.jpg, Balcerowicz File:Władysław Grabski 1925.jpg, Grabski File:Leonid Hurwicz.jpg,

Hurwicz Hurwicz ( he, הורביץ), russian: Гурвич: * Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz (1917-2008), a Jewish Russian-American economist and mathematician of Polish-Jewish descent * Angelika Hurwicz (1922-1999), a German actress and theatre director See also ...

File:Michal Kalecki.jpg, Kalecki File:Stanisław Kronenberg (60763).jpg, Kronenberg File:Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski.PNG, Kwiatkowski File:Ludwik Maurycy Landau.jpg,

Landau Landau ( pfl, Landach), officially Landau in der Pfalz, is an autonomous (''kreisfrei'') town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town (since 1990 ...

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Lange Lange may refer to: People *Lange (surname), a German surname * Lange (musician) (born 1974), British DJ * Lange (Brazilian footballer) (born 1966), Brazilian footballer Companies * Lange (ski boots), a producer of ski boots used in alpine (dow ...

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Other sciences

Henryk Arctowski Henryk Arctowski (15 July 1871 – 21 February 1958; ), born Henryk Artzt, was a Polish scientist and explorer. Living in exile for a large part of his life, he was one of the first persons to winter in Antarctica and became an internationally ...

, explorer of the Antarctic *

Leon Barszczewski Leon Barszczewski (February 20, 1849 in Warsaw – March 19, 1910 in Częstochowa) was a Polish soldier, topographer, explorer of the Central Asia culture, naturalist, and glaciologer. At the Paris exposition of 1895, he won a gold medal for his ph ...

, explorer *

Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski (1865 – 1925) was a Polish classical scholar and archaeologist, professor of Jagiellonian University. Bieńkowski studied classical philology and history at the University of Lwów and University of Berlin (under ...

, scholar, archaeologist, professor *

Karol Bohdanowicz Karol Bohdanowicz (born 29 November 1864 in Lucyn – died 5 June 1947 in Warsaw) was a Polish geologist, an expert in mining geology and physical geography. Bohdanowicz' research contributed to the construction of the Caspian railway line an ...

, geologist *

Gerard Ciołek Gerard is a masculine forename of Proto-Germanic origin, variations of which exist in many Germanic and Romance languages. Like many other early Germanic names, it is dithematic, consisting of two meaningful constituents put together. In this ca ...

, architect and historian of gardens *

Aleksander Czekanowski Aleksander Piotr Czekanowski, or Aleksandr Lavrentyevich Chekanovsky (russian: Александр Лаврентьевич Чекановский, 24 February 1833 – 30 October 1876) was a Polish geologist and explorer of Siberia during his exile ...

,Dominic Lieven. ''The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 2, Imperial Russia, 1689–1917''.

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press A university press is an academic publishing hou ...

. 2006. p. 182. explorer of Siberia *

Jan Czerski Jan Stanisław Franciszek Czerski (russian: Иван Дементьевич Черский; 3 May 1845, in Swolna – 25 June 1892, nr. Kolyma) was a Polish paleontologist, osteologist, geologist, geographer and explorer of Siberia. He was ex ...

, paleontologist, explorer of Siberia * Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska, socialist politician, suffragist *

, psychologist *

Helene Deutsch Helene Deutsch (née Rosenbach; 9 October 1884 – 29 March 1982) was a Polish American psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud. She founded the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. In 1935, she immigrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where sh ...

, psychoanalyst *

Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski (6 June 1872 – 27 April 1954) was a Polish geophysicist, meteorologist and explorer. Early life Dobrowolski was born into an indigent family in Dworszowice Kościelne, and supported himself from the age of 12 by ...

, geophysicist, meteorologist, polar explorer *

Ignacy Domeyko Ignacy Domeyko or Domejko, pseudonym: ''Żegota'' ( es, Ignacio Domeyko, ; 31 July 1802 – 23 January 1889) was a Polish geologist, mineralogist, educator, and founder of the University of Santiago, in Chile. Domeyko spent most of his life, and ...

, geologistSal P. Restivo. ''Science, Technology, And Society: An Encyclopedia.''

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...

. 2005. p. 502. *

Benedykt Dybowski Benedykt Tadeusz Dybowski (12 May 183331 January 1930) was a Polish naturalist and physician. Life Benedykt Dybowski was born in Adamaryni, within the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire to Polish nobility. He was the brother of naturalist ...

, naturalist, explorer of Siberia *

Gaspar da Gama Gaspar da Gama also known as Gaspar da India and Gaspar de Almeida (c. 1444 – c. 1510) was an interpreter ("Língua", in old Portuguese) and guide to several fleets of the Portuguese maritime explorations. He was of Jewish origin and was proba ...

, traveller, interpreter, explorer * Bronisław Grąbczewski, explorer *

Mirosław Hermaszewski Mirosław Hermaszewski (; 15 September 1941 – 12 December 2022) was a Polish cosmonaut, fighter plane pilot, and Polish Air Force officer. He became the first, and at the time of his death in December 2022, the only, Polish national in space ...

, the first Polish cosmonaut *

Anton Hoffmann Anton Hoffmann was an important designer and builder in Prussian-time Bydgoszcz during the entire second half of the 19th century. He witnessed the transformation of Bydgoszcz, creating numerous residential buildings throughout the city. His activ ...

, 19th century architect in

Leonard Jaczewski Leonard Jaczewski, Леонард Антонович Ячевский, Leonard Yachevsky (1858–1916) was a Polish geologist, geographer, engineer and explorer of Siberia. He was one of the pioneers in the study of permafrost. Biography After ...

, engineer, explorer of Asian Russia *

Maria Janion Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...

, critic and theoretician of literature, feminist *

Henryk Jordan Henryk Jordan (23 July 1842 in Przemyśl – 16 May 1907 in Kraków) was a Polish philanthropist, physician and pioneer of physical education. A professor of obstetrics from 1895 at Kraków's Jagiellonian University, Jordan became best known for o ...

, founding father of physical education *

Józefa Joteyko Józefa Joteyko (29 January 1866 – 24 April 1928) was a Polish physiologist, psychologist, pedagogue, and researcher. After completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Geneva, she entered medical school at the Free University of ...

, physiologist, psychologist and pedagogue *

Rudolf Kern Rudolf Kern was an important designer and builder in Bydgoszcz, at the end of the Prussian period of the city. Most his works have been realized between 1903 and 1914. His artistic style relates to Art Nouveau and Modernism. Life Rudolf Kern alle ...

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...

architect in Bydgoszcz * Antoni Kępiński, psychiatrist * Stefan Klajbor, architect * Janusz Korczak, pedagogue, writer * Jan Kossowski, modernist architect * Józef Kostrzewski, archeologist, museologist * Irena Krzywicka, feminst, writer, translator * Henryk Lipszyc, specialist in Japanese culture, translator, ambassador of Poland in Tokyo * Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist political theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary * Józef Morozewicz, mineralogist, petrographer * Halszka Osmólska, paleontologist * Jacek Pałkiewicz, journalist and explorer, best known for discovering the sources of the Amazon River * Michael Alfred Peszke, psychiatrist * Benedykt Polak (Benedict the Pole, Benedictus Polonus), explorer * Jan Potocki, linguist, Egyptologist, sociologist, author of ''The Saragossa Manuscript'' * Eugeniusz Romer, cartographer * Antoni Józef Śmieszek, Egyptologist * Józef Święcicki, 19th century architect * Stanisław of Skarbimierz, political scientist * Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, geologist, explorer of Australia * Tadeusz Sulimirski, archeologist * Józef Trzemeski, polar explorer * Bernard Wapowski, "father of Polish cartography" * Andrzej Wawrzyniak, diplomat, founder of the Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw * Fritz Weidner, designer and architect in Bydgoszcz * Paweł Włodkowic, jurist * Robert Zajonc, psychologist * Czesław Zakaszewski, hydrologist * Kazimierz Żurowski, archaeologist File:Henryk Arctowski 1940 LOC hec 28338.jpg, Henryk Arctowski, Arctowski File:Domeyko.jpg, Ignacy Domeyko, Domeyko File:Benedykt Dybowski 1.PNG, Benedykt Dybowski, Dybowski File:Miroslaw H.jpg, Mirosław Hermaszewski, Hermaszewski File:Antoni Kepinski.jpg, Antoni Kępiński, Kępiński File:Jacek Palkiewicz.JPG, Jacek Pałkiewicz, Pałkiewicz File:Jan Potocki.PNG, Jan Potocki, Potocki File:Paweł Edmund Strzelecki 1.jpg, Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Strzelecki

History

File:Szymon Askenazy.jpg, Szymon Askenazy, Askenazy File:Maricn Bielski.PNG, Marcin Bielski, Bielski File:Epitaphy of Filippo Buonaccorsi in Kraków.PNG, Filip Callimachus, Callimachus File:Piotr M.A. Cywiński, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.jpg, Piotr Cywiński, Cywiński File:Jan Dlugosz.jpg, Jan Długosz, Długosz File:Józef Feldman.png, Józef Feldman, Feldman File:Gieysztor.jpg, Aleksander Gieysztor, Gieysztor File:Wincenty Kadłubek.png, Wincenty Kadłubek, Kadłubek File:Kollataj hugo.jpg, Hugo Kołłątaj, Kołłątaj File:Stanisław Kot 1933.jpg, Stanisław Kot, Kot File:Kromer.jpg, Marcin Kromer, Kromer File:Prof. Gerard Labuda.jpg, Gerard Labuda, Labuda File:Joachim Lelewel.JPG, Joachim Lelewel, Lelewel File:Jerzy Lerski.jpg, Jerzy Jan Lerski, Lerski File:Tadeusz Manteuffel.jpg, Tadeusz Manteuffel, Manteuffel File:Maciej Miechowita.JPG, Maciej Miechowita, Miechowita File:Karol Modzelewski3.jpg, Karol Modzelewski, Modzelewski File:ANaruszewicz.jpg, Adam Naruszewicz, Naruszewicz File:MichaelAlfredPeszke.jpg, Michael Alfred Peszke, Peszke File:Richard Pipes 2004.JPG, Richard Pipes, Pipes File:Henryk Samsonowicz - Order of the White Eagle.jpg, Henryk Samsonowicz, Samsonowicz File:Dariusz Stola.jpg, Dariusz Stola, Stola File:Jozef Szujski.jpg, Józef Szujski, Szujski File:Adam Vetulani 1934.jpg, Adam Vetulani, Vetulani * Roman Aftanazy, historian of former Eastern Borderlands and librarian * Szymon Askenazy, historian and diplomat * Marcin Bielski, chronicler * Michael Bobrzynski, Michał Bobrzyński, historian and politician * Józef Borzyszkowski, Kashubians, Kashubian historian * Filip Callimachus * Alina Cała * Marek Jan Chodakiewicz * Piotr Cywiński * Tadeusz Czacki * Norman Davies, British-Polish historian * Małgorzata Dąbrowska, historian, Byzantist * Jan Długosz, 15th-century chronicler of Poland * Maria Dzielska * Marian Kamil Dziewanowski, Poland, Russia, modern Europe * Karol Estreicher (senior), father of Polish Bibliography * Stanisław Estreicher *

* Józef Feldman * Mieczysław Gębarowicz, art historian, museum director, custodian of Ossolineum * Aleksander Gieysztor * Kazimierz Godłowski, historian and archeologist *

* Roman Grodecki * Oskar Halecki, historian of Poland * Marceli Handelsman, historian of Poland * Paweł Jasienica, historian of Poland *

* Wincenty Kadłubek, 13th-century historian of Poland * Józef Kasparek, constitutions; World War II era * Stefan Kieniewicz, 19th-century Polish history * Jerzy Kirchmayer, 1944 Warsaw Uprising (1944), Warsaw Uprising * Jerzy Kolendo, archaeologist, epigraphy, epigraphist and historian of the Mediterranean Basin in antiquity * Hugo Kołłątaj, 18th–19th-century historian, philosopher and politician * Feliks Koneczny, Polish history, social philosophy * Władysław Konopczyński, Polish and world history * Stanisław Kot, historian, List of Poles#Politics, politician, List of Poles#Diplomacy, diplomat * Władysław Kozaczuk, military history, military intelligence, World War II * Manfred Kridl, history of Polish culture and literature * Marcin Kromer, 16th-century Bishops of Warmia, Bishop of Warmia, secretary to two Polish kings, and historian of Poland * Jan Kucharzewski, historian and politician * Marian Kukiel, military historian and politician * Lucyna Kulińska * Stanisław Kutrzeba, Poland, Polish law, Kraków * Gerard Labuda * Joachim Lelewel, historian of Poland * Jerzy Jan Lerski * Wacław Lipiński * Stanisław Lorentz, art history, art historian * Czesław Madajczyk, World War II * Janusz Magnuski, World War II Polish and Soviet armor * Tadeusz Manteuffel, medievalist * Maciej Masłowski, art history, art historian * Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995), Israeli historian and archeologist; President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem * Maciej Miechowita * Lidia Milka-Wieczorkiewicz * Karol Modzelewski * Stephen Mizwa * Teodor Narbutt, Polish historian of Lithuania * Adam Naruszewicz, 18th-century historian, participant in the Great Sejm * Kasper Niesiecki, Jesuit

and Heraldry, heraldic scholar * Szymon Okolski, 17th-century historian * Bartosz Paprocki, Polish and Czech Heraldry, heraldic scholar * Michael Alfred Peszke, Polish Armed Forces, World War II * Tadeusz Piotrowski (sociologist), Tadeusz Piotrowski, historian of Poland during World War II * Richard Pipes, Polish-American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union *

, World War II, Polish-Jewish relations * Teresa Prekerowa * Stanisław Salmonowicz, historian of law * Henryk Samsonowicz, historian specializing in History of Poland in the Middle Ages, medieval Poland * Konstancja Skirmuntt * Julian Stachiewicz, military historian * Szymon Starowolski * Aneta Stawiszyńska * Dariusz Stola * Maciej Stryjkowski, historian, writer, poet * Irena Strzelecka * Tomasz Strzembosz, Polish World War II history * Tadeusz Sulimirski, historian and archeologist * Karol Szajnocha, historian and novelist * Józef Szujski * Zygmunt Szweykowski, Polish literature * Władysław Tatarkiewicz, philosophy and aesthetics * Rafał Taubenschlag, history of law * Janusz Tazbir, historian, specializing in the History of Poland in the Early Modern era (1569–1795), culture and religion of Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries * Józef Turowski, World War II Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, OUN massacres of Poles * Adam Ulam, Polish-American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union * Adam Vetulani, history of law * Piotr S. Wandycz, Polish-American historian of Central and Eastern Europe * Leon Wasilewski * Ewa Wipszycka, historian and papyrologist * Richard Woytak, World War II era * Julia Zabłocka (1931–1993), historian, classical scholar, archaeologist * Wincenty Zakrzewski, 16th-century Poland * Adam Zamoyski * Janusz K. Zawodny, World War II * Marek Żukow-Karczewski, historian and journalist

Philosophy

* Adam of Łowicz * Edward Abramowski * Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz *

* Józef Maria Bocheński * Anna Brożek * Stanisław Brzozowski (writer), Stanisław Brzozowski * Adam Burski * Piotr Chmielowski * Leon Chwistek * August Cieszkowski * Edward Dembowski * Anioł Dowgird * Adolf Dygasiński * Michał Falkener *

, 20th-century philosopher of science * Danuta Gierulanka * Józef Gołuchowski * Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki * Jakub Górski * Grzegorz of Stawiszyn * Joanna Hańderek * Jan Hartman (philosopher), Jan Hartman * Władysław Heinrich * Michał Heller * Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński * Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum * Roman Ingarden * Jakub of Gostynin * Jan of Głogów * Jan of Stobnica * Józef Emanuel Jankowski * Feliks Jaroński *

* Jan Jonston * Leszek Kołakowski * Hugo Kołłątaj *

* Tadeusz Kotarbiński * Władysław Mieczysław Kozłowski * Józef Kremer * Franciszek Krupiński * Irena Lasota * Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek * Stanisław Leszczyński *

* Casimir Lewy * Karol Libelt * Wincenty Lutosławski *

* Kazimierz Łyszczyński * Adam Mahrburg * Ewa Majewska * Marian Massonius * Émile Meyerson * Konstanty Michalski * Wawrzyniec Mitzler de Kolof * Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski *

* Stefan Pawlicki * Leon Petrażycki * Sebastian Petrycy * Bolesław Prus * Adam Schaff * Ulrich Schrade * Barbara Skarga * Stanisław Staszic * Józef Supiński * Józef Kalasanty Szaniawski * Jan Szylling * Krystyn Lach Szyrma * Maria Szyszkowska *

* Magdalena Środa * Aleksander Świętochowski *

* Władysław Tatarkiewicz * Józef Tischner * Andrzej Towiański * Bronisław Trentowski * Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka * Kazimierz Twardowski * Michał Twaróg of Bystrzyków * Vitello * Józef Warszawski * Władysław Weryho * Michał Wiszniewski * Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (''Witkacy'') * Władysław Witwicki * Karol Wojtyla * Jan Woleński * Adam Ignacy Zabellewicz * Marian Zdziechowski * Eleonora Ziemięcka * Czesław Znamierowski *

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Prose literature

* Franciszka Arnsztajnowa, playwright * S. Ansky, Bielorussian, Polish-Jewish author of ''The Dybbuk'' * Joanna Bator, novelist, feminist * Witold Bełza, librarian, writer, publicist on

* Halina Birenbaum, Polish Israeli writer, translator, chronicler of the martyrdom of Polish Jewry * Karol Olgierd Borchardt, maritime author * Tadeusz Borowski, writer and journalist * Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, writer; translator of over 100 French literary classics * Edmund Chojecki, journalist based in France * Joanna Chmielewska, crime writer * Sylwia Chutnik, novelist, feminist, social activist * Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), English-language novelist * Stanisław Czerniecki, landowner and chef, author of the first Cookery book in Polish 1682 * Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa, cookbook author * Maria Dąbrowska, novelist and translator of the Diary of Samuel Pepys into Polish * Johannes Dantiscus (Jan Dantyszek), Latin poet and Prince-Bishop of Warmia * Jacek Dehnel, writer, poet, translator, painter * Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, author of the novel, ''The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma'' * Jacek Dukaj, science-fiction writer * Adolf Dygasiński, novelist * Leszek Engelking, short story writer * Felicjan Medard Faleński, poet, novelist * Aleksander Fredro, poet, comedy writer * Jerzy Giedroyć, legendary émigré editor (''Kultura'') * Janusz Głowacki, playwright, nonfiction author * Ferdynand Goetel, novelist, playwright, essayist * Witold Gombrowicz, novelist, playwright * Stefan Grabiński, horror writer * Mieczysław Grydzewski, legendary editor (''Skamander'', ''Wiadomości (London magazine), Wiadomości Literackie'') * Henryk Grynberg, writer * Adam Grzymała-Siedlecki, literary and theater critic * Józef Hen, novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and reporter * Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, writer, journalist, essayist, World War II underground fighter * Marek Hłasko, novelist, short story writer * Klementyna Hoffmanowa, writer of memoir and children's literature * Paweł Huelle, essayist * Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski * Wincenty Kadłubek, political scientist, writer, chronicler * Ryszard Kapuściński, writer and journalist * Wojciech Karpiński, writer and essayist * Maria Konopnicka, writer, novelist * Tadeusz Konwicki, writer * Janusz Korczak, writer, pedagogist * Jerzy Kosiński, writer * Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, novelist and World War II resistance fighter * Marek Krajewski, crime writer, known for his series of novels set in pre-war Wrocław with Eberhard Mock as the protagonist * Hanna Krall, writer * Ignacy Krasicki, author of the first Polish novel, ''The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom'', and of ''Fables and Parables'' * Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, extremely prolific historical novel, historical-novelist * Wojciech Kuczok, novelist, screenwriter, film critic * Antoni Lange, writer, poet, philosopher * Stanisław Lem, science-fiction writer, essayist, philosopher * Stanisław Lubieniecki, writer, astronomer* Waldemar Łysiak, writer * Józef Mackiewicz, writer, journalist * Kornel Makuszyński, children's writer * Dorota Masłowska, writer and playwright * Juliusz Mieroszewski, publicist, translator of George Orwell/1984, Orwell's ''1984'' into Polish * Kazimierz Moczarski, writer and journalist * Sławomir Mrożek, dramatist and writer * Wiesław Myśliwski, novelist * Anna Nakwaska, children's author and educationist * Joanna Olczak-Ronikier, novelist * Eliza Orzeszkowa, Positivism in Poland, Positivist writer *

, writer * Teodor Parnicki, historical novelist * Jan Chryzostom Pasek, memoirist * Sergiusz Piasecki, writer * Krzysztof Piesiewicz, screenwriter and politician * Jerzy Pilch, writer, columnist, journalist * Jan Potocki, ''The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, The Saragossa Manuscript'' * Bolesław Prus, ''The Doll (novel), The Doll'' and ''Pharaoh (Prus novel), Pharaoh'' * Ksawery Pruszyński, writer and journalist * Stanisława Przybyszewska * Stanisław Przybyszewski, novelist, dramatist, and poet who wrote in both German and Polish * Mikołaj Rej, a founder of Polish literature, Polish literary language and literature * Małgorzata Rejmer, writer * Sydor Rey, writer, poet, novelist * Władysław Reymont, 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel laureate * Henryk Rzewuski, novelist * Pinchas Sadeh, Israeli novelist and poet * Barbara Sanguszko, Enlightenment in Poland, enlightenment writer and Salon (gathering), salon hostess * Andrzej Sapkowski, fantasy writer * Sat-Okh, Polish-Shawnee writer * Bruno Schulz, novelist and painter * Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel laureate * Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel laureate * Piotr Skarga, poet, writer, humanist * Andrzej Stasiuk, writer, journalist, literary critic *

, terminologist, writer * Stefan Themerson, children's writer, film maker, inventor of "semantic poetry", philosopher * Olga Tokarczuk, writer, psychologist, 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel laureate * Magdalena Tulli, novelist, translator * Marian Turwid, writer and painter from

* Leopold Tyrmand, writer * Meyer Wolf Weisgal, American journalist, publisher, and playwright; President of the

* Józef Weyssenhoff, novelist, poet, literary critic * Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (''Witkacy'') * Stanisław Wyspiański, painter and writer * Franciszek Zabłocki, comic dramatist and satirist * Janusz A. Zajdel, science-fiction writer * Gabriela Zapolska, novelist * Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz, political fiction and science-fiction writer * Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, writer * Antonina Żabińska, writer * Stefan Żeromski, novelist * Jerzy Żuławski, novelist File:Tadeusz Borowski.jpg, Tadeusz Borowski, Borowski File:Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski Polish writer.jpg, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Boy-Żeleński File:Joseph Conrad.PNG, Joseph Conrad, Conrad File:Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz Polish writer.jpg, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Dołęga-Mostowicz File:Jacek Dukaj by Anna Zemanek 2009.jpg, Jacek Dukaj, Dukaj File:RaczynskiAleksander.PortretAleksandraFredro.jpg, Aleksander Fredro, Fredro File:Maria Dąbrowska.png, Maria Dąbrowska, Dąbrowska File:Witold Gombrowicz by Bohdan Paczowski - detail.jpg, Witold Gombrowicz, Gombrowicz File:Jozef-hen-wtk-2013 2.jpg, Józef Hen, Hen File:Marek Hłasko by Zbigniew Kresowaty.jpg, Marek Hłasko, Hłasko File:Ryszard Kapuscinski by Kubik 17.05.1997 - cropped.jpg, Ryszard Kapuściński, Kapuściński File:Maria Konopnicka Portrait.jpg, Maria Konopnicka, Konopnicka File:Tadeusz Konwicki Kancelaria Senatu 01.jpg, Tadeusz Konwicki, Konwicki File:Jerzy Kosinsky (1969).jpg, Jerzy Kosiński, Kosiński File:Krajewski.jpg, Marek Krajewski, Krajewski File:Hanna Krall.jpg, Hanna Krall, Krall File:Krafft the Elder Ignacy Krasicki (detail).jpg, Ignacy Krasicki, Krasicki File:J.I. Kraszewski Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi41.Jpeg, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Kraszewski File:Antoni Lange 1.jpg, Antoni Lange, Lange File:St Lem resize.jpg, Stanisław Lem, Lem File:Dorota Maslowska 2018.jpg, Dorota Masłowska, Masłowska File:Slawomir Mrozek.JPG, Sławomir Mrożek, Mrożek File:Wieslaw Mysliwski.JPG, Wiesław Myśliwski, Myśliwski File:Zofia Nalkowska.jpg, Zofia Nałkowska, Nałkowska File:Eliza Orzeszkowa.PNG, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Orzeszkowa File:Pilch Jerzy.jpg, Jerzy Pilch, Pilch File:Jan Potocki.PNG, Jan Potocki, Potocki File:Prus 002.jpg, Bolesław Prus, Prus File:Przybyszewska.jpg, Stanisława Przybyszewska, Przybyszewska File:Stanisław Przybyszewski.PNG, Stanisław Przybyszewski, Przybyszewski File:Mikolaj Rej.jpg, Mikołaj Rej, Rej File:Wladyslaw Reymont 1924.jpg, Władysław Reymont, Reymont File:Barbara sangushkivna.jpg, Barbara Sanguszko, Sanguszko File:Andrzej Sapkowski - Lucca Comics and Games 2015 2.JPG, Andrzej Sapkowski, Sapkowski File:Henryk Sienkiewicz 02.jpg, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Sienkiewicz File:Isaac Bashevis Singer (upright).jpg, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Singer File:Piotr Skarga.PNG, Piotr Skarga, Skarga File:Stasiuk1.jpg, Andrzej Stasiuk, Stasiuk File:Olga Tokarczuk (2018).jpg, Olga Tokarczuk, Tokarczuk File:Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz.jpg, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Witkiewicz File:Stanisław Wyspiański3.png, Stanisław Wyspiański, Wyspiański File:Janusz A Zajdel.jpg, Janusz A. Zajdel, Zajdel File:Gabriela Zapolska.PNG, Gabriela Zapolska, Zapolska File:Stefan Zeromski Polish writer.jpg, Stefan Żeromski, Żeromski File:Stanisław Wyspiański - Portret Jerzego Żuławskiego.jpg, Jerzy Żuławski, Żuławski

Journalism

Poetry

* Guillaume Apollinaire, (Wilhelm Apolinary Kostrowicki) * Franciszka Arnsztajnowa * Adam Asnyk * Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński * Edward Balcerzan * Stanisław Barańczak * Miron Białoszewski * Zbigniew Bieńkowski * Biernat of Lublin * Tadeusz Borowski * Władysław Broniewski * Jan Brzechwa * Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski * Teodor Bujnicki * Andrzej Bursa * Tytus Czyżewski * Jacek Dehnel * Elżbieta Drużbacka * Leszek Engelking * Jerzy Ficowski * Aleksander Fredro * Tadeusz Gajcy * Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński * Zuzanna Ginczanka * Stanisław Grochowiak * Julia Hartwig * Marian Hemar * Zbigniew Herbert * Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna * Wacław Iwaniuk * Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz * Klemens Janicki * Bruno Jasieński * Anna Kamieńska * Franciszek Karpiński * Jan Kasprowicz * Jan Kochanowski * Feliks Konarski * Maria Konopnicka * Julian Kornhauser * Urszula Kozioł * Ignacy Krasicki * Zygmunt Krasiński * Andrzej Krzycki * Paweł Kubisz * Jalu Kurek * Stanisław Jerzy Lec * Jan Lechoń * Bolesław Leśmian * Ewa Lipska * Henryka Łazowertówna * Tadeusz Miciński * Adam Mickiewicz * Grazyna Miller, translation * Czesław Miłosz, 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature * Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, humanism * Jan Andrzej Morsztyn * Zbigniew Morsztyn * Daniel Naborowski * Adam Naruszewicz, translation, history * Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz * Cyprian Norwid, Cyprian Kamil Norwid * Franciszek Nowicki * Beata Obertyńska * Antoni Edward Odyniec * Władysław Orkan * Agnieszka Osiecka * Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska * Jacek Podsiadło * Wincenty Pol * Wacław Potocki * Halina Poświatowska * Zenon Przesmycki * Jeremi Przybora, songs * Julian Przyboś * Mikołaj Rej * Sydor Rey * Tadeusz Różewicz * Zygmunt Rumel * Lucjan Rydel * Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz * Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski * Antoni Słonimski * Juliusz Słowacki * Edward Stachura * Anatol Stern * Leopold Staff * Xawery Stańczyk, poet, sociologist * Władysław Szlengel, Jewish-Polish poet and lyricist killed in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising * Włodzimierz Szymanowicz * Wisława Szymborska, 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature * Szymon Szymonowic * Marcin Świetlicki * Bolesław Taborski, translator of Pope John Paul II into English, BBC editor * Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer * Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki * Julian Tuwim * Jan Twardowski * Kornel Ujejski * Bronisława Wajs, aka "Papusza", Polska Roma poet and singer * Aleksander Wat * Kazimierz Wierzyński * Stefan Witwicki * Rafał Wojaczek * Stanisław Wyspiański * Tymon Zaborowski * Adam Zagajewski * Józef Bohdan Zaleski * Kazimiera Zawistowska * Piotr Zbylitowski * Emil Zegadłowicz * Juliusz Żuławski File:Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński - Maturzysta.jpg, Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Baczyński File:Zuzanna Ginczanka.jpg, Zuzanna Ginczanka, Ginczanka File:Julia Hartwig Warsaw October21 2009 Fot Mariusz Kubik 05.jpg, Julia Hartwig, Hartwig File:Zbigniew Herbert.jpg, Zbigniew Herbert, Herbert File:Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz.jpg, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Iwaszkiewicz File:JanKasprowicz.jpg, Jan Kasprowicz, Kasprowicz File:Kochanowski korwin.jpg, Jan Kochanowski, Kochanowski File:Krafft the Elder Ignacy Krasicki (detail).jpg, Ignacy Krasicki, Krasicki File:Zygmunt Krasiński by Ary Scheffer 1850 (fragment).png, Zygmunt Krasiński, Krasiński File:Jan Lechoń.jpg, Jan Lechoń, Lechoń File:Bolesław Leśmian portret - Dziejba leśna.jpg, Bolesław Leśmian, Leśmian File:Adam Mickiewicz według dagerotypu paryskiego z 1842 roku.jpg, Adam Mickiewicz, Mickiewicz File:Czeslaw Milosz 3 ap.tif, Czesław Miłosz, Miłosz File:Norwid Cyprian Kamil.jpg, Cyprian Norwid, Norwid File:M. Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska.jpg, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska File:Mikolaj Rej.jpg, Mikołaj Rej, Rej File:Juliusz Słowacki 1.PNG, Juliusz Słowacki, Słowacki File:LeopoldStaff.jpg, Leopold Staff, Staff File:Szymborska(closeup).jpg, Wisława Szymborska, Szymborska File:Julian Tuwim.jpg, Julian Tuwim, Tuwim File:Adam Zagajewski 2.jpg, Adam Zagajewski, Zagajewski

Music

* Chava Alberstein, Israeli singer-songwriter * Piotr Anderszewski, pianist * Stefan Askenase, pianist * Emanuel Ax, pianist * Grażyna Bacewicz, composer * Stanisław Barcewicz, conductor, violinist * Edyta Bartosiewicz, singer * Kamil Bednarek, reggae and dancehall vocalist, songwriter, composer and musician * Michał Bergson, pianist composer, promoter of Chopin and father of Henri Bergson * Marek Biliński, electronic music composer * Rafał Blechacz, pianist * Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz, composer ("the Chopin of guitar") * Stan Borys, singer-songwriter * Monika Brodka, singer * Dariusz Brzozowski, drummer * Grzegorz Ciechowski, composer, singer * Frédéric Chopin, Fryderyk Chopin, composer * Agnieszka Chylińska, singer-songwriter, author and television personality * Cleo (Polish singer), Cleo, singer * Krzysztof Czerwiński, conductor and organist * Adam Darski, singer-songwriter, guitarist * Ania Dąbrowska, singer-songwriter, composer * Ewa Demarczyk, singer * Krzesimir Dębski, composer * Wojciech Długoraj, lutenist, composer * Andrzej Dobrowolski, composer * Doda (singer), Doda, singer * Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, composer * Jan Drozdowski, pianist and music teacher * Urszula Dudziak, singer * Walek Dzedzej, punk performer * Józef Elsner, composer, Chopin's piano teacher * Ewa Farna, singer * Stanislaw Frey, guitarist * Luxtorpeda (band), Robert 'Litza' Friedrich, rock singer * Anna German, singer * Mikołaj Gomółka, composer * Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki, composer * Kasia Glowicka, composer * Konstanty Gorski, composer and violinist * Henryk Górecki, composer * Edyta Górniak, singer * Marek Grechuta, singer-songwriter, composer, and lyricist * Taco Hemingway, rapper *

, pianist * Mieczysław Horszowski, pianist * Bronisław Huberman, violinist * Grzegorz Hyży, singer-songwriter * Zdzisław Jachimecki, musicologist, composer * Alicja Janosz, singer * Anna Jantar, singer * Adam Jarzębski, composer * Anna Maria Jopek, singer, musician * Jula (singer), Jula, singer-songwriter * Reni Jusis, singer * Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, Academy Awards, Oscar-winning film composer * Jacek Kaczmarski, singer-songwriter * Maria Kalergis, pianist * Bronisław Kaper, film composer * Mieczysław Karłowicz, composer * Jerzy Katlewicz, conductor * Kayah (singer), Kayah, singer * Wacław Kiełtyka, guitarist * Stefan Kisielewski, composer, writer * Wojciech Kilar, composer * Krzysztof Komeda, jazz composer * Zygmunt Konieczny, composer * Abel Korzeniowski, film score composer * Roman Kostrzewski, controversial singer-songwriter * Kasia Kowalska, singer * Seweryn Krajewski, singer-songwriter * Dawid Kwiatkowski, singer-songwriter * Human Error (musician), Rafał Kuczynski ('Human Error') * Hanna Kulenty, composer * Karol Kurpiński, composer * Lucjan Kydryński, music critic, writer * Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist * Teodor Leszetycki, pianist, pedagogue * Monika Lewczuk, singer-songwriter, model * Franciszek Lilius, composer * Karol Lipiński, composer, virtuoso violinist (about equal to Niccolò Paganini) * Jan Lisiecki, pianist * Ewelina Lisowska, singer-songwriter * Michał Lorenc, film score composer * Jan z Lublina, composer * Witold Lutosławski, composer * Jerzy Maksymiuk, conductor * Ray Manzarek, musician, singer, keyboardist of The Doors * Margaret (singer), Margaret, singer-songwriter * Patrycja Markowska, pop rock singer * Mata (rapper), Mata, rapper * Paweł Mąciwoda, bassist, member of the German rock band Scorpions (band), Scorpions * Megitza, singer, double bass player, and composer * Krzysztof Meyer, composer * Aleksander Michałowski, pianist and pedagogue * Carl Mikuli, composer * Maciek Miernik, producer * Marcin Mielczewski, composer * Emil Młynarski, conductor and composer * Stanisław Moniuszko, composer * Moritz Moszkowski, composer * Czesław Mozil, singer and musician * Leszek Możdżer, pianist and composer * Tadeusz Nalepa, composer, guitar player, vocalist, and lyricist * Czesław Niemen, singer-songwriter * Katarzyna Nosowska, singer-songwriter * Marcin Nowak (musician), Marcin Nowak, guitarist and singer * Feliks Nowowiejski, composer * Zygmunt Noskowski, composer * Natalia Nykiel, singer-songwriter * Wiesław Ochman, opera singer * Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, composer * Michał Kleofas Ogiński, composer * Hanka Ordonówna, singer, actress, dancer * O.S.T.R., rapper, musician * Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist, composer * Andrzej Panufnik, composer * Włodek Pawlik, jazz musician, composer * Krzysztof Penderecki, composer * Maria Peszek, singer-songwriter * Jerzy Petersburski, pianist, composer * Egon Petri, pianist born Dutch who never lived in Holland, a resident of Zakopane, Poland, 1927–39, a Polish-speaker * Pezet, rapper * Bartłomiej Pękiel, composer * Andrzej Piaseczny, singer-songwriter, actor, and television personality * Svika Pick, Israeli pop singer, composer * Dawid Podsiadło, singer * Jerzy Połomski, singer * Piotr Półtorak, guitarist * Zbigniew Preisner, composer * Zbigniew Robert Promiński, drummer * Natalia Przybysz, rhythm and blues singer * Pawel Przytocki, conductor * Acid Drinkers, Tomasz "Titus" Pukacki, singer * Krzysztof Raczkowski, drummer * Mikołaj z Radomia, Middle Ages composer * Édouard de Reszke, bass * Jan Reszke, Jan and Emilja Reszke, violinist and mezzo-soprano, parents of opera stars * Jean de Reszke, tenor * Josephine de Reszke, soprano * Ryszard Riedel, singer * Maryla Rodowicz, singer * Artur Rodziński, conductor * Eddie Rosner, jazz, "Polish (or: The White) Louis Armstrong" * Piotr Rubik, composer * Arthur Rubinstein, pianist * Sanah (singer), Sanah, singer-songwriter * Ada Sari, opera singer * Sarsa (singer), Sarsa, singer-songwriter * Bogusław Schaeffer, composer * Xaver Scharwenka, composer * Marcella Sembrich (1858–1935), coloratura soprano * Kazimierz Serocki, composer * Witold Silewicz, composer, Double bass, bassist * Józef Skrzek, composer and leader of SBB (band), SBB band * Cezary Skubiszewski, Polish-Australian composer * Tomasz Stańko, jazz trumpeter * Kazik Staszewski, singer-songwriter * Muniek Staszczyk, singer * Justyna Steczkowska, singer * Zygmunt Stojowski, composer * Jadwiga Szamotulska, pianist * Wacław of Szamotuły * Aleksander Szeligowski, composer, pedagog * Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer, conductor * Henryk Szeryng, violinist * Władysław Szpilman, pianist * Patryk Dominik Sztyber, guitarist, singer * Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, concert pianist * Karol Szymanowski, composer, pianist * Paweł Szymański, composer * Andrzej Szwalbe, first director of the Pomeranian Philharmonic * André Tchaikowsky, pianist, composer * Basia Trzetrzelewska, Barbara Trzetrzelewska, singer * Grzegorz Turnau, singer * Ifi Ude, singer * Michał Urbaniak, jazz musician * Moshe Vilenski, Israeli composer, lyricist, and pianist * Violetta Villas, singer-songwriter * Andrzej Wasowski, pianist * Henryk Wieniawski, composer * Wanda Wiłkomirska, violinist * Antoni Wit, conductor * Piotr Wiwczarek, guitarist, singer * Zbigniew Wodecki, singer, musician, composer, actor and TV presenter * Tomasz Wróblewski, guitarist, singer * Aga Zaryan, jazz singer * Mikołaj Zieleński, composer * Krystian Zimerman, pianist * Władysław Żeleński (composer), Władysław Żeleński, composer * Wojciech Żywny, composer, Chopin's first professional piano teacher File:grazyna bacewicz.jpg, Grażyna Bacewicz, Bacewicz File:Monika Brodka Life Festival Oświęcim 2013 (7).jpg, Monika Brodka, Brodka File:Chopin, by Wodzinska.JPG, Frédéric Chopin, Chopin File:Me and That Man - Rock am Ring 2017-AL5540.jpg, Adam Darski, Darski File:Ewa Demarczyk Polish singer.jpg, Ewa Demarczyk, Demarczyk File:Józef Elsner.PNG, Józef Elsner, Elsner File:Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Polish composer cropped.jpg, Henryk Górecki, Górecki File:46. 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Visual arts

* Magdalena Abakanowicz, sculptor * Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, painter * Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz, painter * Sylwester Ambroziak, sculptor * Chrystian Piotr Aigner, architect * Paweł Althamer, contemporary artist * Teodor Axentowicz, Polish painter and rector of Krakow Academy of Fine Arts * Marcello Bacciarelli, Italian-Polish portrait painter * Tomasz Bagiński, computer graphics * Balthus (Balthasar Kłossowski de Rola), Polish-French painter * Mirosław Bałka, contemporary painter and sculptor * Krzysztof Bednarski, sculptor * Zdzisław Beksiński, painter * Bernardo Bellotto, Italian-Polish landscape and court painter * Władysław T. Benda, Polish painter, illustrator, designer * Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, painter * Walerian Borowczyk, painter, lithographer and film director * Olga Boznańska, painter * Józef Brandt, battle-scene painter * Maximilian Cercha, painter and drawer * Jan Chełmiński (1851–1925), painter of historical and military subjects * Józef Marian Chełmoński, painter * Józef Czapski, painter * Tytus Czyżewski, painter, poet, art critic * Jacenty Dędek, photographer * Zbigniew Dłubak, painter * Andrzej Dłużniewski, contemporary sculptor * Karl Duldig (1902–1986), * Xawery Dunikowski, sculptor * Maksymilian Fajans, Jewish–Polish artist, lithographer, photographer * Julian Fałat, painter * Wojciech Fangor, painter * Jakub Fontana, baroque and Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical architect * Teodor and Franciszek Gajewski, sculptors and painters * Wojciech Gerson, painter * Stefan Gierowski, painter * Aleksander Gierymski, painter, brother of Maksymilian Gierymski * Maksymilian Gierymski, painter * Cyprian Godebski (sculptor), Cyprian Godebski, sculptor * Zygmunt Gorgolewski, architect * Józef Gosławski (Polish sculptor), Józef Gosławski, sculptor and medallist * Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak, architect * Artur Grottger, painter, illustrator * Aleksander Gryglewski, interior portraits * Władysław Hasior, sculptor, painter, stage designer * Józef Hecht, engraver, printmaker * Józef Holewiński, graphic artist and painter * Stanisław Horno-Popławski, painter, sculptor, pedagogue * Władysław Horodecki, architect * Maria Jarema, painter, sculptor * Ewa Juszkiewicz, painter * Anna Kamieńska-Łapińska, sculptor, animated-film scenarist * Johann Christian Kammsetzer, architect * Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990), painter, theater director * Marta Klonowska, glass maker and sculptor * Katarzyna Kobro, sculptor * Roman Kochanowski, landscape painter * Gloria Kossak, painter, poet * Jerzy Kossak, painter * Juliusz Kossak, painter, illustrator * Wojciech Kossak, painter * Katarzyna Kozyra, video artist * Nikifor Krynicki, painter * Alexander Kucharsky, painter * Zofia Kulik, performer * Teofil Kwiatkowski, painter * Tamara de Lempicka, painter * Zbigniew Lengren, cartoonist and illustrator * Jan Lenica, graphic designer and cartoonist * Stanisław Lentz, painter * Aleksander Lesser, painter * Daniel Libeskind, architect * Bronisław Linke, graphic artist, painter of the horror of war * Mieczysław Lubelski, sculptor, ceramicist and creator of the Polish War Memorial * Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, painter * Tadeusz Makowski, painter member of Paris School * Jacek Malczewski, painter * Rafał Malczewski, painter, writer, climber * Casimir Malevich#Polish ethnicity, Kazimierz Malewicz, painter, founder of Suprematism * Stanisław Masłowski, painter * Jan Matejko, painter * Agata Materowicz, painter, photographer, graphic designer, FIMO figurines designer and hand-maker * Józef Mehoffer, painter * Piotr Michałowski, painter * Jacek Mierzejewski, painter * Jerzy Mierzejewski, painter and pedagogue * Ambroży Mieroszewski, Chopin's first portraitist * Igor Mitoraj, sculptor * Dorota Nieznalska, sculptor * Nikifor, Naive painting, naive artist of Lemkos, Lemko origin * Jan Piotr Norblin, painting, drawing, caricature * Jerzy Nowosielski, painter * Seweryn Obst, painter, illustrator, ethnographer * Rafał Olbiński, illustrator, painter * Roman Opałka, painter * Aleksander Orłowski, painter * Stanisław Julian Ostroróg, early portrait photographer, known as "Walery" * Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostroróg, celebrated photographer son of the other Ostroróg * Józef Pankiewicz, painter, graphic artist * Aniela Pawlikowska, portrait painter * Maximilian Piotrowski, painter and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Königsberg * Władysław Podkowiński, painter and illustrator * Józef Pokutyński, architect * Peter Potworowski, painter * Stanislaw Przespolewski, painter, sculptor * Anna Rajecka, 18th-c. portrait painter * Joanna Rajkowska, contemporary artist; designer of Warsaw's artificial palm tree * Zofia Romer, painter * Ferdynand Ruszczyc, painter, graphic artist, cartoonist, stage designer * Henryk Rodakowski, painter * Wilhelm Sasnal, painter * Jan Sawka, painter, print-maker, architect, graphic designer, multi-media artist * Johann Christian Schuch, garden designer, architect * Kazimierz Sichulski, painterDavid Crowley. ''National Style and Nation-State: Design in Poland from the Vernacular Revival to the International Style''. Manchester University Press. 1992. p. 36. * Władysław Sławny, photographer * Jan Stanisławski (painter), Jan Stanisławski, painter * Henryk Stażewski, painter * Zofia Stryjeńska, illustrator, painter * Władysław Strzemiński, painter * January Suchodolski, painter * Józef Szajna, sculptor, stage designer, theatre director * Stanisław Szukalski, sculptor, painter * Arthur Szyk, illuminator, war cartoonist, book illustrator * Wacław Szymanowski, sculptor, designer of Chopin monument in Warsaw * Włodzimierz Tetmajer, painter * Franciszka Themerson, painter, illustrator, stage designer * Stanisław Tondos, painter * Feliks Topolski, Expressionism, expressionist painter and draughtsman * Roland Topor, illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker * Piotr Triebler, sculptor * Zygmunt Vogel, watercolor and drawing * Marian Walentynowicz, illustrator and comic strip pioneer * Walenty Wańkowicz, painter * Max Weber (artist), Max Weber, painter * Michał Weinzieher, art critic * Wojciech Weiss, painter and draughtsman * Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański, sculptor * Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, painter * Stanisław Witkiewicz, painter, architect * Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (''Witkacy''), painter, photographer, playwright, novelist, philosopher * Kazimierz Wojniakowski, painter * Leon Wyczółkowski, painter * Stanisław Wyspiański, painter * August Zamoyski, sculptor * Jerzy Zaruba, graphic artist, caricaturist, stage designer * Jan Sas Zubrzycki, architect * Marek Zulawski, painter and art theorist File:Magdalena Abakanowicz crop 3x4.jpg, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Abakanowicz File:Teodor Axentowicz Autoportret 1907.jpg, Teodor Axentowicz, Axentowicz File:Self-portrait by Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa, 1887.jpg, Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, Bilińska-Bohdanowicz File:Olga Boznańska 1900 Autoportret 1900.jpg, Olga Boznańska, Boznańska File:ChelmonskiJozef.1902.Autoportret.jpg, Józef Marian Chełmoński, Chełmoński File:Julian Fałat, Autoportret.jpg, Julian Fałat, Fałat File:Wojciech Gerson.jpg, Wojciech Gerson, Gerson File:Aleksander Gierymski.jpg, Aleksander Gierymski, Gierymski File:Artur Grottger, Portret własny.jpg, Artur Grottger, Grottger File:Kantor09.jpg, Tadeusz Kantor, Kantor File:Juliusz Kossak.PNG, Juliusz Kossak File:PL Wojciech Kossak Autoportret.jpeg, Wojciech Kossak File:L2890841 rzeźbiarz Sławomir Micek popiersie malarka Tamara Łempicka.jpg, Tamara de Lempicka, Lempicka File:Jacek Malczewski, Autoportret z paletą.jpg, Jacek Malczewski, Malczewski File:Stanisław Masłowski (1853-1926) photo portrait of 1925 copy of book.jpg, Stanisław Masłowski, Masłowski File:Matejko Self-portrait.jpg, Jan Matejko, Matejko File:Roman Opalka (1995).png, Roman Opałka, Opałka File:Igor Mitoraj (15434967636).jpg, Igor Mitoraj, Mitoraj File:WladyslawPodkowinski.Autoportret.1887.ws.jpg, Władysław Podkowiński, Podkowiński File:Wilhelm Sasnal 2022a.jpg, Wilhelm Sasnal, Sasnal File:Walenty wankowicz.jpg, Walenty Wańkowicz, Wańkowicz File:Jan de Weryha-Wysoczanski, Sammlung de Weryha, Hamburg, 2014.jpg, Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański, de Weryha-Wysoczański File:MalczewskiJacek.1897.PortretStanislawaWitkiewicza.jpg, Stanisław Witkiewicz, Witkiewicz File:Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz.jpg, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, ''Witkacy'' File:Wyczółkowski1898.jpg, Leon Wyczółkowski, Wyczółkowski File:Stanisław Wyspiański, Autoportret.jpg, Stanisław Wyspiański, Wyspiański

Entertainment

* Piotr Andrejew, film director * Józef Arkusz, film director * Tomasz Bagiński, creator of short animated films, BAFTA Award winner, Academy Awards, Academy Award nominee * Andrzej Bartkowiak, cinematographer, director, actor * Eugeniusz Bodo, singer and actor * Wojciech Bogusławski, actor, theater director, playwright; "father of the Polish Theater" * Walerian Borowczyk, film director * Ewa Braun, Academy Award-winning set decorator, costume designer, production designer * Ewa Demarczyk, actress, poetry singer * Doda (Dorota Rabczewska), actress, singerdoda.net.pl
/ref> * Paweł Edelman, cinematographer, European Film Award winner * Aleksander Ford, director * Piotr Fronczewski, actor and singer * Jerzy Grotowski, theatre reformer * Loda Halama, dancer, actor * Adam Hanuszkiewicz, actor, theater director * Wojciech Has, film director * Marian Hemar, songwriter, cabaret artist * Jerzy Hoffman, film director * Agnieszka Holland, film director, nominated for Academy Awards and BAFTA Award * Miłosz Horodyski, film and television director * Sławomir Idziak, cinematographer, nominated for Academy Awards, Oscar * Stanislas Idzikowski, ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher * Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning composer, nominated to BAFTA Award * Jacek Kaczmarski, protest songwriter, poetry singer, guitarist * Janusz Kamiński, two-time-Academy Awards, Oscars- and BAFTA Award-winning cinematographer and film director * Bronislau Kaper, Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning composer * Krzysztof Kieślowski, film director, nominated for Academy Awards * Anna Kochanowska, radio journalist and politician * Max Kolonko, TV personality, producer, writer * Joanna Krupa, actress and supermodel * Kazimierz Kutz, film director * Vaslav Nijinsky (Wacław Niżyński), Ballet dancer considered the greatest male lead of the early 20th century * Jerzy Owsiak, broadcaster * Krzysztof Pastor, dancer, choreographer and ballet director * Paweł Pawlikowski, film director * Marianna Franciszka Pierożyńska (1763–1816), actress, opera singer * Jan Pietrzak (born 1937), satirist, cabaret performer * Roman Polanski, award-winning film director raised and educated in Poland * Beata Pozniak, actress, director, activist, writer, producer * Jeremi Przybora, writer, actor and singer * Krzysztof Ptak, cinematographer * Marie Rambert, influential ballet pedagogue and director * Zbigniew Rybczyński, Academy Awards, Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker * Lew Rywin, film producer * Andrzej Saramonowicz, screenwriter, film director * Leon Schiller, theatre director * Izabella Scorupco, Polish-born Hollywood-actress and singer * Jerzy Skolimowski, film director * Przemysław Skwirczyński, cinematographer * Piotr Sobocinski, cinematographer * Allan Starski, Academy Awards, Oscar-winning production designer, art director, set designer * Yvonne Strahovski (Strzechowski), Polish-Australian television, film, and voice actress * Jerzy Stuhr, actor, film director * Franciszka Themerson, filmmaker and artist * Henryk Tomaszewski (mime), Henryk Tomaszewski, mime * Basia Trzetrzelewska, singer * Andrzej Wajda, Academy Awards, Academy Award, Golden Palm, BAFTA Award, Berlin International Film Festival, Silver Berlin Bear, César Award and Golden Lion winning film director * Harry Warner, Warner Bros. co-founder * Albert Warner, Warner Bros. co-founder * Sam Warner, Samuel Warner, Warner Bros. co-founder * Jerzy Wasowski, radio announcer, composer, pianist, actor and director * Michał Waszyński, film director * Leon Woizikovsky, dancer and ballet master * Dariusz Wolski, cinematographer * Krzysztof Zanussi, film director * Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, actor, theater director * Andrzej Żuławski, film director * Konrad Piaseczny, sound designer File:Eugeniusz Bodo (from Titine page 1 crop).jpg, Eugeniusz Bodo, Bodo File:Wojciech Bogusławski.PNG, Wojciech Bogusławski, Bogusławski File:Katowice - Zbigniew Cybulski 02.JPG, Zbigniew Cybulski, Cybulski File:Janusz Gajos (2).jpg, Janusz Gajos, Gajos File:MJK32641 Agnieszka Holland (Pokot, Berlinale 2017) crop.jpg, Agnieszka Holland, Holland File:Krystyna Janda by Foksal.jpg, Krystyna Janda, Janda File:Stefan Jaracz (1883 - 1945).jpg, Stefan Jaracz, Jaracz File:Krzysztof Kieślowski Portrait 1994.jpg, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Kieślowski File:Joanna Kulig 2.jpg, Joanna Kulig, Kulig File:Boguslaw Linda.jpg, Bogusław Linda, Linda File:PO7ophelias.jpg, Helena Modjeska, Modjeska File:Pola Negri Ball.jpg, Pola Negri, Negri File:Talisman -Vayou -Vaslav Nijinsky -1909.JPG, Vaslav Nijinsky, Nijinsky File:01DOlbrychski-Time.jpg, Daniel Olbrychski, Olbrychski File:Pawel Pawlikowski (cropped 2).jpg, Paweł Pawlikowski, Pawlikowski File:Roman Polanski at Cannes in 2013 cropped and brightened.jpg, Roman Polanski, Polanski File:JKRUK 20090827 ANDRZEJ SEWERYN SANATO BUSKO IMG 5280.jpg, Andrzej Seweryn, Seweryn File:00 JSkolimowski.jpg, Jerzy Skolimowski, Skolimowski File:Andrzej Wajda OFF Plus Camera 2012 (cropped).jpg, Andrzej Wajda, Wajda File:GoEast 2014 Krzysztof Zanussi 4.jpg, Krzysztof Zanussi, Zanussi

Business

* Jan Gotlib Bloch, railway financier who in 1898 predicted the railroad-moblized industrial warfare of World War I * Count Xavier Branicki, financier, philanthropist, co-founder of Credit Foncier de France * Hipolit Cegielski * Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Antiquarian, Gallery owner, collector and philanthropist * André Citroën, automotive industrialist * Jack Cohen (businessman), Jack Cohen, co-founder of the Tesco retail chain * Franciszek Czapek, co-partner in Patek, Czapek & Co. * Henryk Orfinger, cosmetics entrepreneur * Max Factor, Sr., cosmetics entrepreneur * Françoise Frenkel, bookshop entrepreneur * Henryk Grohman, textile manufacturer and patron of the arts * Nathan Handwerker * Anna Jabłonowska, early social and industrial entrepreneur, magnate * Barbara Piasecka Johnson, humanitarian, philanthropist, widow of J. Seward Johnson, Sr. * Leopold Stanisław Kronenberg, banker * Stanisław Kronenberg, financier * Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki, merchant, spy, opened first Coffeehouse in Vienna (1683) * Grażyna Kulczyk, businesswoman, philanthropist, art collector * Jan Kulczyk (1950–2015), CEO of Kulczyk Investments; richest 21st-century Pole * Michał Łempicki, mining engineer, entrepreneur, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Empire * Henry Lowenfeld, theatrical impresario and brewing entrepreneur * Tomasz Lubienski, early industrialist co-founder, with his brothers, of Zyrardow textile industry * Henryk Łubieński, banker, lawyer, industrial pioneer and Russian exile (1848) * Zofia Lubomirska, textile entrepreneur in Przeworsk * Michael Marks, co-founder of Marks and Spencer retail chain * Samuel Orgelbrand, editor *

, co-founder of watchmakers Patek Philippe & Co. * Antoni Protazy Potocki, banker and industrialist who developed Odessa into an international port (1780s) * Izrael Poznański, textile magnate, philanthropist * Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics entrepreneur, one of the richest women that have ever lived * Karol Scheibler, textile magnate * Feliks Sobański, landowner and philanthropist * Piotr Steinkeller, industrial pioneer, ''King of Zinc'' * Henri Strzelecki, founder of Henri Lloyd, Henri Lloyd, Ltd., sportswear manufacturer *

, founder of Stetysz early Polish car manufacturer * Hyppolite Wawelberg, Polish-Jewish banker and philanthropist * Karol Wedel, Chocolatier, confectioner * Antoni Weynerowski, founder in Bydgoszcz of the firm Pomeranian Leather Company "Kobra", Leo, renamed Kobra *

, financier co-founder of Credit Foncier de France * Andrzej Artur Zamoyski, initiated river transportation File:Ivan Bloch.jpg, Jan Gotlib Bloch, Bloch File:Xavier Branicki.jpg, Count Xavier Branicki, Branicki File:Hipolit Cegielski.jpg, Hipolit Cegielski, Cegielski File:Kronenberg Leopold.jpg, Leopold Stanisław Kronenberg, L. Kronenberg File:X. Zofia Lubomirska-370x454.jpg, Zofia Lubomirska, Lubomirska File:Antoni Patek.jpg, Antoni Patek, Patek File:Antoni Protazy Potocki.PNG, Antoni Protazy Potocki, Potocki File:Izrael Kalmanowicz Poznański.jpg, Izrael Poznański, Poznański File:Helena Rubinstein 2.jpg, Helena Rubinstein, Rubinstein File:Stefan Tyszkiewicz 1952.jpg,

Politics

* Tomasz Arciszewski, first Prime Minister of Poland in exile (1944–1947) * Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni, Kazimierz Feliks Badeni, count, Minister-President of Austria (1895–1897) * Menachem Begin, (Mieczysław Biegun), militant Zionism, Zionist, prime minister of Israel * David Ben-Gurion, Zionist leader and first Prime Minister of Israel (1886–1973) * Marek Belka, former director of economic policy in the interim coalition administration of Iraq, Prime Minister of Poland (2004–2005) * Bolesław Bierut, leader of communist Poland (1948–1956) * Michael Bobrzynski, Michał Bobrzyński, Governor of Galicia (1908–1913) * Anna Borucka-Cieślewicz (1941–), elected to the Sejm in 2005 * Zbigniew Brzezinski, Zbigniew Brzeziński (1928–2017), political scientist, advisor to US President Jimmy Carter * Matheus Butrymowicz, liberal member of the Great Sejm assembled in Warsaw (1788–1792) * Jerzy Buzek, Prime Minister of Poland (1997–2001), President of the European Parliament (2009–2012) * Józef Cyrankiewicz, Prime Minister of communistic Poland (1947–1952 and 1954–1970) * Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, prince, statesman, Prime Minister (1830–1831) * Ignacy Daszyński, Prime Minister of the Temporary People's Government of the Republic of Poland (1918) * Jan Dekert, merchant, Mayor of Warsaw (1789–1791) * Isaac Deutscher (1907–67), writer, journalist, political activist * Heinrich Dietz, member of the Prussian parliament, philanthropist * Roman Dmowski (1864–1939), nationalist politician, statesman * Andrzej Duda, sixth President of the Third Polish Republic (since 2015) * Felix Dzerzhynsky, Feliks Dzierżyński, founder of Soviet State Security under the original name ''Cheka'' * Edward Gierek, leader of communist Poland (1970–1980) * Maciej Golubiewski (born 1976), Polish political scientist and diplomat * Władysław Gomułka, leader of communist Poland (1956–1970) * Ludwik Gorzkowski (1811–1857), politician and revolutionary activist * Julian Gutowski, Mayor of Nowy Sącz (1867–1870) * Piotr Jaroszewicz, Prime Minister of communistic Poland (1970–1980) * Wojciech Jaruzelski, last leader of communist Poland (1981–1989), first President of the Third Polish Republic (1989–1990) * Ryszard Kaczorowski, sixth and last President of Poland in exile (1989–1990) * Jarosław Kaczyński, identical twin brother of Lech, leader of the Law and Justice party, Prime Minister of Poland (2006–2007) * Lech Kaczyński, fourth President (2005–2010) of Third Polish Republic, died in Smolensk air crash * Hugo Kołłątaj, co-author of Constitution of 3 May 1791 * Bronisław Komorowski, fifth President of the Third Polish Republic (2010–2015) * Wojciech Korfanty, leader of Silesians during the Third Silesian uprising * Janusz Korwin-Mikke, free-market activist * Stanisław Kot, List of Poles#History, historian, politician, List of Poles#Diplomacy, diplomat * Jan Kucharzewski, first Prime Minister of Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918) * Jacek Kuroń, politician, social activist * Anna Kurska, judge, lawyer, and member of the Polish Senate * Aleksander Kwaśniewski, third President of the Third Polish Republic (1995–2005) * Andrzej Lepper, leader of Samoobrona and former Vice-PM * Herman Lieberman, lawyer and prominent Socialist politician * Feliks Lubienski, Minister of Justice who introduced the Code Napoleon, state archives and public libraries * Katarzyna Lubnauer, leader of Modern (political party), Modern political party * Rosa Luxemburg, leading Marxism, Marxist theoretician * Teofil Magdziński, political activist in Bydgoszcz, representative at the Reichstag * Julian Marchlewski, Soviet politician * Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Prime Minister of Poland (2005–2006) * Tadeusz Mazowiecki, politician, first Prime Minister of the Third Polish Republic (Poland) * Adam Michnik, influential journalist * Ludwik Mierosławski, insurgent, general, Paris Commune, Paris communard * Stanisław Mieroszewski, member of the Imperial Council of Austria * Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Prime Minister of Poland (1943–1944), Agrarian Party politician * Karol Modzelewski, activist, politician and academic * Jędrzej Moraczewski, first Prime Minister of II RP (1918–1919) *

, third President (1926–39) of the Second Polish Republic * Walery Mroczkowski, the only Polish Anarchism, anarchist, friend of Mikhail Bakunin * Lewis Bernstein Namier, British politician and historian * Gabriel Narutowicz, first President of the Second Polish Republic (1922) * Józef Oleksy, Prime Minister of III RP (1995–1996), Speaker of the Sejm (1993–1995; 2004–2005) * Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Solidarność spokesman, mathematician, alpinist, Minister of Defence * Marian P. Opala, Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court * Stanisław Osiecki, Minister of Agriculture 1923, Minister of Trade & Industry (1925-6) * Jozef Maksymilian Ossolinski, Founder of Ossolineum, Poland's signal cultural patron * Stanisław Ostrowski, third President of Poland in exile (1972–1979) * Ignacy Paderewski, second Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic (1919) * Longin Pastusiak, Marshal of the Senate (2001–2005) * Waldemar Pawlak, Prime Minister of Poland (1992 and 1993–95) *Karolina Pawliczak (born 1976), lawyer and politician * Shimon Peres, President of Israel 2007–2014, Prime Minister of Israel (1984–1986; 1995–1996) * Teodoro Picado Michalski, Costa Rican president, of Polish mother * Józef Piłsudski, statesman, politician and Marshal of Poland * Emilia Plater, revolutionary, independence leader * Władysław Plater, Władysław Broel-Plater, independence activist, founder of Polish Museum, Rapperswil * Alfred Józef Potocki, count, Minister-President of Austria (1870–1871) * Ignacy Potocki, co-author of Constitution of 3 May 1791 * Adam Pragier, leading socialist deputy, exiled minister and writer * Władysław Raczkiewicz, first President of Poland in exile (1939–1947) * Edward Bernard Raczyński, Edward Raczyński, fourth President of Poland in exile (1979–1986) * Antoni Radziwiłł, prince, the Duke-Governor of Grand Duchy of Posen (Poznań) (1815–1831) * Jozef Retinger, writer, adviser, grey eminence, founder of the Bilderberg Group, Bilderberg conferences * Adam Ronikier, count, president of the Central Welfare Council (1916–1918; 1940–1943) * Kazimierz Sabbat, fifth President of Poland in exile (1986–1989) * Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, vice-president of European Parliament (2004–2007) * Władysław Sikorski, general, Prime Minister of Poland (1939–1943) * Radosław Sikorski, politician and former foreign minister (2007–2014) * Stefan Starzyński, President of Warsaw (1934–1939) * Władysław Studnicki, politician and publicist * Beata Szydło, Prime Minister of Poland, 2015–2017 * Theodore de Korwin Szymanowski, conceptualised an economic union for Europe in 1885 * Róża Thun, anticommunist activist, activist for European Union * Donald Tusk, chairman of Civic Platform; Prime Minister of Poland, 2007–14 * Kazimierz Tyszka, Minister of Railways, 1923–25, in

's government * Lech Wałęsa, trade unionist who started dismantling of the Soviet bloc, the

in 1983, second President of the Third Polish Republic (1990–1995) * Ludwik Warynski, Ludwik Waryński, socialist activist in the 19th century * Wanda Wasilewska, communist activist during World War II * Edward Werner, born in Poland to parents of German origin; vice-Minister of Finance, and Polish diplomat during World War II * Alexander Wielopolski, count, Marquis of Gonzaga, statesman * Wincenty Witos, politician of the agrarian party * Stanisław Wojciechowski, second President of the Second Polish Republic (1922–1926) * Walery Antoni Wróblewski, politician, insurgency commander (1836–1908) * August Zaleski, second President of Poland in exile (1947–1972) * Jan Zamoyski, chancellor and grand hetman of the crown (1542–1605) File:Brzezinski 1977.jpg, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brzeziński File:Jerzy Buzek, 2010.JPG, Jerzy Buzek, Buzek File:Prince Czartoryski by Nadar.jpg, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Czartoryski File:Ignacy Daszynski2 (cropped).jpg, Ignacy Daszyński, Daszyński File:Roman Dmowski in color.jpg, Roman Dmowski, Dmowski File:Edward Gierek 1980.jpg, Edward Gierek, E. Gierek File:Wojciech Jaruzelski.jpg, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Jaruzelski File:Lech Kaczyński.jpg, Lech Kaczyński, L. Kaczyński File:KPRP 20130131 WG 230 BRONISLAW KOMOROWSKI.jpg, Bronisław Komorowski, Komorowski File:Ewa Kopacz - Konwencja PO (cropped).jpg, Ewa Kopacz, Kopacz File:Wojciech Korfanty 1905.jpg, Wojciech Korfanty, Korfanty File:Stanisław Kot 1933.jpg, Stanisław Kot, Kot File:Aleksander Kwaśniewski - Europejski Kongres Gospodarczy 2013 (5).jpg, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Kwaśniewski File:Rosa Luxemburg.jpg, Rosa Luxemburg, Luxemburg File:Tadeusz Mazowiecki - Europeana 1989 - TV Interview.jpg, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Mazowiecki File:Adam Michnik 2018.jpg, Adam Michnik, Michnik File:Ignacy Moscicki.jpg, Ignacy Mościcki, Mościcki File:Portret Narutowicz (cropped).jpg, Gabriel Narutowicz, Narutowicz File:Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz 11.PNG, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Niemcewicz File:Ignacy Jan Paderewski 1860 - 1941.jpg, Ignacy Paderewski, Paderewski File:Jozef Pilsudski1.jpg, Józef Piłsudski, Piłsudski File:Emilia Plater.PNG, Emilia Plater, Plater File:Hanna Suchocka, Prime Minister of Poland 1992-1993.jpg, Hanna Suchocka, Suchocka File:Premier RP Beata Szydło w Parlamencie UE.jpg, Beata Szydło, Szydło File:Roza Thun in EP.jpg, Róża Thun, Thun File:Donald Tusk. Tallinn Digital Summit.jpg, Donald Tusk, Tusk File:Lech Walesa - 2009.jpg, Lech Wałęsa, Wałęsa File:W. Witos.JPG, Wincenty Witos, Witos File:Stanislaw Wojciechowski portrait.jpg, Stanisław Wojciechowski, Wojciechowski

Law

Diplomacy

* Władysław Bartoszewski, foreign affairs minister of III RP (1995; 2000–2001) * Józef Beck, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1932–1939) * Alois Friedrich von Brühl, Polish-Saxon diplomat, starost of Warsaw * Matthew Bryza, American diplomat * Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, foreign affairs minister of III RP (2001–2005) * Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Polish diplomat; Russian Imperial foreign minister (1804–1806) * Władysław Czartoryski, prince, the main diplomatic agent of the National Government (1863–1864) * Roman Dmowski, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1923) * Bronisław Geremek, foreign affairs minister of III RP (1997–2000) * Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, count, foreign affairs minister of Austria-Hungary (1895–1906) * Krzysztof Grzymułtowski, diplomat and Voivode, voivod of Poznań, author of the Eternal Peace Treaty with Russia (1686) * Stanisław Janikowski, diplomat in Rome, to Holy See (1927–1954) * Wacław Jędrzejewicz * Julian Klaczko, Polish diplomat * Stanisław Kot, List of Poles#History, historian, List of Poles#Politics, politician, diplomat. Polish ambassador to the Soviet Union (1941–1942), Italy (1945–1947). * Józef Lipski, Polish ambassador to Germany (1933–1939) * Juliusz Łukasiewicz, Polish ambassador to the Soviet Union (1934–1936) and France (1936–1939) * Ivan Maysky, diplomat * Stefan Meller, foreign affairs minister of III RP (2005–2006) * Lewis Bernstein Namier, British diplomat and historian * Andrzej Olechowski, foreign affairs minister of III RP (1993–1995) * Ignacy Paderewski, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1919) and third prime minister of Poland * Stanisław Patek, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1919–1920) * Edward Bernard Raczyński, count, Polish ambassador to the United Kingdom (1934–1945) and foreign affairs minister (1941–1943) * Adam Rapacki, foreign affairs minister of communist Poland (1956–1968) * Józef Retinger, advocate for a European Union * Tadeusz Romer, foreign affairs minister of the Polish Government in Exile (1943–1944) *

, foreign affairs minister of III RP (1995–1997) * Adam Daniel Rotfeld, foreign affairs minister of III RP (2005) * Radosław Sikorski, foreign affairs minister of III RP (2007–2014) * Konstanty Skirmunt, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1921–1922) * Aleksander Skrzynski, Aleksander Skrzyński, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1922–1923; 1924–1926) * Krzysztof Skubiszewski, first foreign affairs minister of III RP (1989–1993) * Romuald Spasowski, Polish ambassador to the United States (1955–1961; 1978–1981) * Jan Szembek (diplomat), Jan Szembek, count, foreign affairs deputy secretary (1932–1939) * Yosef Tekoah (1925–1991), Israeli diplomat and President of the

* Andrey Vyshinsky, Soviet jurist and diplomat * Alexandre Joseph Count Colonna-Walewski, French foreign affairs minister * Leon Wasilewski, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1918–1919) * Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski, general, Polish ambassador to Italy (1938–1940) * Sergey Yastrzhembsky, diplomat * August Zaleski, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1926–1932) * Maurycy Klemens Zamoyski, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1924) * Josef Zieleniec, Czech foreign affairs minister File:20070212 Wladyslaw Bartoszewski by Kubik.jpg, Władysław Bartoszewski, Bartoszewski File:J Beck.jpg, Józef Beck, Beck File:2004.05.01. Bronislaw Geremek 02.jpg, Bronisław Geremek, Geremek File:WP Agenor Goluchowski der Jüngere.jpg, Agenor Maria Goluchowski, A. M. Gołuchowski File:Stanisław Kot 1933.jpg, Stanisław Kot, Kot File:Edward Bernard Raczyński.jpg, Edward Bernard Raczyński, Raczyński File:Tadeusz Romer.PNG, Tadeusz Romer, Romer File:RadoslawSikorki2.jpg, Radosław Sikorski, R. Sikorski File:Count Alexander Walewski by Sir George Hayter 1832.jpg, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Walewski

Military

* Władysław Anders, general, military commander during the Battle of Monte Cassino (1944) *

, general of artillery of Holland (1639), and Poland (1646) * Józef Bem, military commander, commander-in-chief of Hungarian army (1849) * Janusz Bokszczanin, colonel, last chief of staff of the Home Army (1944–45) * Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, military commander, victor of Kircholm (1605) * Józef Chyliński, resistance fighter * Michał Czajkowski (Sadok Pasha) (1804–86), Polish commander-in-chief of an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Cossack brigade during the Crimean War (1853–56) * Stefan Czarniecki, Hetman, Field Crown Hetman of Poland (1665) * Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, general, military commander during the Napoleonic Wars * Jarosław Dąbrowski, military commander during the January Uprising, January 1863 Uprising and the Paris Commune (1871) * Henryk Dembiński, military commander in the November uprising and the Hungarian uprising of 1849 * Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski, general, ambassador, nominated President of Poland (1939) * Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, general, military commander in the Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19), Greater Poland Uprising (1919) * Bolesław Bronisław Duch, World War II general * Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski (1894–2005), soldier in World War I and in the 1920–21 Polish-Soviet War; at his death, he was the oldest man in the United Kingdom (111 years old) * Emil August Fieldorf, general, last deputy commander-in-chief of the Home Army (1944–45) * Wanda Gertz, major, soldier during World War I, Home Army commandant in World War II and in German POW camps * Józef Haller de Hallenburg, Józef Haller, politician, commander of the Polish Army in France during World War I * Stanisław Haller, general, murdered by the NKVD in the 1940 Katyn massacres * Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski, Hetman, Grand Crown Hetman (1682/3-1702) * Jan Nowak-Jezioranski (1913–2005), journalist and World War II hero * Berek Joselewicz, Polish-Jewish colonel in the Kościuszko Uprising and in Napoleon's Polish Legions (Napoleonic period), Polish Legions; commanded the first Jewish military formation in modern history * Mikołaj Kamieniecki, first Hetman, Grand Crown Hetman of Poland (1503–15) * Werner Kampe, SS Hauptsturmführer war criminal, Kreisleiter of the NSDAP, Mayor of Bydgoszcz * Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, general, founder of the resistance movement "Polish Victory Service" (27 September 1939) * Kazimierz J. Kasperek, most decorated Polish Navy officer of World War II * Tadeusz Klimecki, general, the Chief of the Polish General Staff, General staff of the Polish Army (1941–43) * Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, general, commander-in-chief of the Home Army (1943–1944), during Warsaw Uprising (1944), Warsaw Uprising (1944) * Stanisław Koniecpolski, Hetman, Grand Crown Hetman (1632–46) * Stanisław Kopański, general, the Chief of the Polish General Staff, General staff of the Polish Army (1943–46) * Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish and American commander, general and revolutionist * Jan Kozietulski, colonel, commander during the Napoleonic Wars * Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski, Polish Union Army, Union general in the American Civil War; Chopin's first cousin * Marian Kukiel, World War II general, historian * Franciszek Latinik, general, military governor of Warsaw during the 1920 Battle of Warsaw (1920), Battle of Warsaw * Aleksander Lisowski, commander of 17th-century ''Lisowczycy'' * Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, Prince, Hetman, Field Crown Hetman (1657–64), victor at the Battle of Chudniv (Cudnów) (1660) * Walenty Łukawski, captain in the Bar Confederation, abductor of King Stanisław August Poniatowski * Stanisław Maczek (1892–1994), commander of the Polish Armored Division; after World War II, commander-in-chief of Polish forces in exile * Bernard Mond, Polish–Jewish general * Mieczysław Norwid-Neugebauer, general and minister of Polish–Jewish family * Leopold Okulicki, general, last commander-in-chief of the Home Army (1944–45) * Juliusz Konstanty Ordon, officer in the November uprising (1830–31) * Tadeusz Pełczyński, chief of staff of the Home Army (''ZWZ / AK'') (1941–44) * Józef Piłsudski, statesman, interwar Marshal of Poland * Emilia Plater, countess, heroine of the November Uprising, November 1830 Uprising * Józef Poniatowski, prince, Polish general and marshal of France * Kazimierz Pułaski (Casimir Pulaski), Polish and American military commander * Konstantin Rokossovsky (born Konstanty Rokossowski) Marshal of the Soviet Union and Polish defense minister, communist * Stefan Rowecki, general, military commander, commander-in-chief of the Union of Armed Struggle, Armed Resistance (''ZWZ'') (1940–42) and Home Army (1942–43) * Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski, general, Chief of Staff during the Battle of Warsaw (1920), Battle of Warsaw * Edward Rydz-Śmigły, marshal, military commander, successful in the Polish-Soviet War, C-in-C of the Polish Army in the Invasion of Poland, September 1939 Campaign * Yitzhak Sadeh (born Isaac Landsberg; 1890–1952), a founder of the Israel Defense Forces * Danuta Siedzikówna (1928–46), medical orderly in Polish Army * Władysław Sikorski, general, commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces and Prime Minister of Poland (1939–43) * Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski (1885-1962), general, physician and 28th Prime Minister of Poland (1936–39) * Piotr Skuratowicz, general of the Polish Army, was murdered by the NKVD in the Katyn massacre * Stanisław Sosabowski, commander of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, which saw action at the Battle of Arnhem during Operation Market Garden (1944) * Kazimierz Sosnkowski, general, Commander-in-Chief of Polish Armed Forces (1943–44) * Adam Sowa, former deputy chief executive of the European Defence Agency * Józef Sowiński, general, hero of the November uprising (1830–31) * Zygmunt Szendzielarz ("Łupaszko") * Ignacy Szymanski, veteran of November Uprising, November 1830 Uprising and American Civil War (on the Confederate side) * Jerzy Świrski (1882–1959), vice admiral in the Polish navy under British command during World War II * Jan Tarnowski, Hetman, Grand Crown Hetman (1527–61), victor of Battle of Obertyn, Obertyn (1531) * Jozef Unrug (1884–1973), German-born vice-admiral in Polish navy, imprisoned in Colditz Castle during WWII * Maria Wittek (1899–1997), brigadier general, head of Women's Auxiliary Military Service (1928–1949) * Wojtek (bear), Wojtek Perski (1942–63), a Persian bear, World War II Polish II Corps enlisted soldier * Piotr Wysocki, led the November Uprising (1830) * Aleksandra Zagórska, lieutenant colonel, independence activist and organiser of women's military squads (1917-1921) * Kordian Józef Zamorski, general; chief of the Polish state police (1935–39) * Jan Zamoyski, Great Chancellor of Poland (1578–1605) and Hetman, Grand Crown Hetman (1581–1605) * Władysław Stanisław Zamoyski, general in the Crimean War, diplomat (1803–1868) * Elżbieta Zawacka, general, the only woman among the Silent Unseen * Stanisław Żółkiewski, chancellor of Poland, military commander, conqueror of Moscow (1610), Hetman, Grand Crown Hetman (1613–20) * Janusz Żurakowski, World War II fighter pilot and Avro Arrow test pilot File:Wladyslaw Anders.jpg, Wladyslaw Anders, Anders File:Józef Bem 111.JPG, Józef Bem, Bem File:Jan Karol Chodkiewicz 1.PNG, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Chodkiewicz File:Stefan Czarniecki.PNG, Stefan Czarniecki, Czarniecki File:JHDąbrowski 1.JPG, Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Jan Dąbrowski File:Generał Józef Haller.jpg, Józef Haller, Haller File:Stanislaw Koniecpolski.jpg, Stanisław Koniecpolski, Koniecpolski File:Schweikart Tadeusz Kościuszko.jpg, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Kościuszko File:Wlodzimierz Krzyzanowski.jpg, Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski, Krzyżanowski FranciszekKsaweryLatinik.jpg, Franciszek Latinik, Latinik File:Stanislaw Maczek 2.jpg, Stanisław Maczek, Maczek File:Jozef Pilsudski1.jpg, Józef Piłsudski, Piłsudski File:Emilia Plater.PNG, Emilia Plater, Plater File:Prince Joseph Poniatowski by Józef Grassi.jpg, Józef Poniatowski, Poniatowski File:Kazimierz Pułaski.PNG, Casimir Pulaski, Pułaski File:Tadeusz Rozwadowski.jpg, Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski, Rozwadowski File:Marshal Rydz-Smigly LOC hec 27123.jpg, Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Rydz-Śmigły File:Wladyslaw Sikorski 2.jpg, Władysław Sikorski, Sikorski File:Sosnkowski Kazimierz.jpg, Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Sosnkowski File:Józef Sowiński.PNG, Józef Sowiński, Sowiński File:Jan Tarnowski (Hetman).jpg, Jan Tarnowski, Tarnowski File:Maria Wittek.jpg, Maria Wittek, Wittek File:Wojtek the bear.jpg, Wojtek (bear) File:Jan Zamoyski.jpg, Jan Zamoyski, Zamoyski File:Elżbieta Zawacka.jpg, Elżbieta Zawacka, Zawacka File:Lesseur-Hetman Żółkiewski.jpg, Stanisław Żółkiewski, Żółkiewski

Intelligence

* Feliks Ankerstein, interwar covert operations, covert-operations officer and deputy to Edmund Charaszkiewicz in Office 2 of the General Staff's Section II (Intelligence) * Edmund Charaszkiewicz, interwar covert operations, covert-operations officer and coordinator of Józef Piłsudski's Prometheism, Promethean project to dismember the Soviet Union * Maksymilian Ciężki, chief of the Polish Biuro Szyfrów, Cipher Bureau's German section (''BS–4''), which from 1932 decrypted German Enigma ciphers, paving the way for Britain's World War II Ultra, Ultra secret * Roman Czerniawski, Polish Air Force captain and British Double Cross System agent * :pl:Marian Drobik, Marian Drobik, Home Army (AK) colonel, chief of the General Staff's Section II (intelligence) (1942–43) * Wiktor Tomir Drymmer, close collaborator of Foreign Minister Józef Beck, and chief of the secret prewar K-7 organization that supervised certain Polish covert operations * Józef Englicht, prewar deputy chief of the Polish General Staff's Section II * Michael Goleniewski, Cold War Polish, Soviet and American CIA agent * Jan Karski, emissary who confirmed the reality of the Holocaust to Allies of World War II, Western Allies * Bolesław Kontrym, Polish agent, Red Army combrig, Polish Army major * Jan Kowalewski, engineer, intelligence officer and cryptologist, one of many who broke Soviet ciphers during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–21 * Andrzej Kowerski, Polish Army officer and World War II British Special Operations Executive, SOE agent; colleague of Krystyna Skarbek * Ryszard Kukliński, Polish Army colonel, Cold War Central Intelligence Agency, CIA master spy * Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki, Polish spy at the Battle of Vienna (1683); founder of Vienna's first coffee house, which offered coffee produced from coffee beans captured from the Turks * Gwido Langer, head of Poland's Biuro Szyfrów, Cipher Bureau, which from 1932 broke Germany's military Enigma ciphers *

, engineer, fighter pilot, World War II "Musketeers" and Home Army intelligence officer * Stefan Mayer, prewar Section II intelligence officer who supervised the General Staff's Biuro Szyfrów, Cipher Bureau * Jerzy Pawłowski, Olympic gold-medalist fencing, fencer and Cold-War double agent * Tadeusz Pełczyński, general, chief of the General Staff's Section II (1929–32; 1935–January 1938) * Sergiusz Piasecki, Polish agent, covering the area of Soviet Belarus (1922–26) * Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish consul-general and intelligence agent in London (1948–49); the most influential contemporary literary criticism, critic of German literature * Tadeusz Schaetzel, intelligence officer, chief of the General Staff's Section II (1926–29) * Krystyna Skarbek, aka ''Christine Granville'', World War II British Special Operations Executive, SOE agent * Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski (''Rygor-Słowikowski''), Polish Army intelligence officer whose work in North Africa facilitated Allied preparations for the 1942 Operation Torch landings * Jerzy Sosnowski, major, a Polish spy in Germany (1926–1934) as Georg von Sosnowski, Ritter von Nalecz * Antoni Szymański, Polish military attaché in Berlin (1932–39) * Halina Szymańska, World War II British intelligence agent; wife of Antoni Szymański * Jan Włodarkiewicz, lieutenant colonel, the first commander of Wachlarz * Marian Zacharski, Cold-War Polish intelligence agent convicted of espionage against the United States File:Grodynski Brigade Image 04.JPG, Stanisław Sylwester Alfonzy Grodyński, Grodyński File:Jan Karski - Instytut w Rudzie Śląskiej.jpg, Jan Karski, Karski File:Boleslaw kontrym.jpg, Bolesław Kontrym, Kontrym File:Jan Kowalewski.jpg, Jan Kowalewski, Kowalewski File:Płk Ryszard Kukliński.jpg, Ryszard Kukliński, Kukliński File:Georg Franz Kolschitzky.JPG, Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki, Kulczycki File:Leski Kazimierz.jpg, Kazimierz Leski, Leski File:Tadeusz Pełczyński - Grzegorz.jpg, Tadeusz Pełczyński, Pełczyński File:Schaetzel T.jpg, Tadeusz Schaetzel, Schaetzel File:Krystyna Skarbek alias Jacqueline Armand 1945.png, Krystyna Skarbek, Skarbek File:Wlodarkiewicz jan.jpg, Jan Włodarkiewicz, Włodarkiewicz

Holocaust resistance

* Irena Adamowicz * Mordechaj Anielewicz, Warsaw Ghetto uprising * Dawid Apfelbaum, Warsaw Ghetto uprising * Władysław Bartoszewski * Adolf Berman * Anna Borkowska (Sister Bertranda) * Icchak Cukierman * Marek Edelman * Leon Feldhendler (1910–1945) * Izrael Kanal * Yitzhak Gitterman * Bernard Goldstein (Warsaw Uprising), Bernard Goldstein * Haika Grossman * Irena Gut * Kazimierz Iranek-Osmecki, Polish Army officer, Home Army officer, historian of aid given to Jews in World War II by the Polish Underground State and by ordinary Polish civilians * Henryk Iwański * Jan Karski * Juliusz Kühl * Michał Klepfisz * Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, co-founder of Żegota * Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz, co-founder of Żegota * Countess Karolina Lanckorońska * Zivia Lubetkin * Aleksander Ładoś, Polish de facto Ambassador to Switzerland * Edward Mosberg (1926-2022), Polish-American Holocaust survivor, educator, and philanthropist * Maurycy Orzech * Witold Pilecki * Konstanty Rokicki, Polish consul in Bern who forged Paraguayan passports to rescue Jews * Tadeusz Romer, Polish ambassador to Japan and in Shanghai Ghetto * Stefan Ryniewicz, Polish diplomat * Irena Sendler, saved nearly 2,500 Jewish children in World War II * Henryk Sławik, "Polish Oskar Schindler, Schindler", diplomat in Hungary * Leopold Socha, another "Polish Oskar Schindler, Schindler" * Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter * Józef and Wiktoria Ulma * Henryk Woliński * Lidia Zamenhof * Szmul Zygielbojm * Jan Żabiński, Jan and Antonina Żabiński File:Mordechaj Anielewicz.JPG, Mordechaj Anielewicz, Anielewicz File:Marek Edelman by Kubik.JPG, Marek Edelman, Edelman File:ZOFIA KOSSAK.jpg, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Kossak-Szczucka File:Krahelska1905.jpg, Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz, Krahelska File:Karolina Lanckorońska.jpg, Karolina Lanckorońska, Lanckorońska File:Edward Mosberg.png, Edward Mosberg File:Witold Pilecki 1.JPG, Witold Pilecki, Pilecki File:Irena Sendlerowa 1942.jpg, Irena Sendler, Sendler File:Szmul Zygielbojm.jpg, Szmul Zygielbojm, Zygielbojm

Religion

* Yitzchak Meir Alter, Rebbe founder of the Ger (Hasidic dynasty), Ger Hasidic dynasty * Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz, Roman Catholic archbishop of Lwów (1815–33) and archbishop of Prague (1833–38) * Baal Shem Tov (Yisroel ben Eliezer, 1698–1760), rabbi and founder of Hasidic Judaism * Beatification, Blessed Jan Beyzym (1850–1912), Jesuit missionary among Leprosy, lepers in Madagascar * St. Józef Bilczewski, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lwów, 1900–23 * St. Andrew Bobola, Jesuit * Tadeusz Brzozowski, elected first Jesuit Superior General after the restoration of the Society of Jesus * Szymon Budny, Polish-Belarusian humanist and Arian priest * Juliusz Bursche, Polish Lutheran bishop killed by the Germans at Sachsenhausen concentration camp * St. Saint Casimir, Casimir Jagiellon, grandson of King Władysław II Jagiełło * St. Albert Chmielowski, Adam (Albert) Chmielowski (Albertine order) * Bl. August Czartoryski, Prince * Edmund Dalbor, Primate of Poland, Cardinal, 1915–1926 * Albin Dunajewski, Bishop of Kraków, Cardinal, 1879–1894 * Stanisław Dziwisz, Archbishop of Kraków, since 2005, Cardinal * St. Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski, founder of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary, Archbishop of Warsaw (1862), exiled and Titular Archbishop of Tarsus, Mersin, Tarsus (1882) * Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Archbishop of Warsaw, 1856–1861 * Jacob Frank, Jewish messianic leader who combined Judaism and Christianity * Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, vicar, humanist, and theologian * Piotr Gamrat, Primate of Poland, 1541–1545 * Józef Gawlina, military bishop, Divisional general, theologian, archbishop * Józef Glemp, Primate of Poland, 1981–2006 * Adam Stanisław Grabowski, Bishop of Warmia, Prince-Bishop of Warmia * Michał Heller, physicist and philosopher, Templeton Prize laureate * August Hlond, Primate of Poland, 1926–1948, Cardinal * Stanislaus Hosius, legate to Poland, Cardinal and Prince-Bishop of Warmia * Hyacinth of Poland, St. Hyacinth, Dominican * Hedwig of Poland, St. Jadwiga, Queen of Poland, 1384–1399 * Henryk Jankowski, Prelate, Chaplain of "Solidarność" * Marian Jaworski, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lvov, 1991–2008, Cardinal * Aleksander Kakowski, Archbishop of Warsaw, Cardinal * St. Raphael Kalinowski, Carmelite * St. John Cantius, Jan Kanty, professor at Kraków University * Stanisław Karnkowski, Primate of Poland, 1581–1603; Interrex, 1586–1587 * St. Stanisław Kazimierczyk, priest and preacher * Chaim Kreiswirth, Chief Rabbi of Congregation Machzikei Hadass Antwerp, founder and rosh yeshiva of the Mercaz HaTorah yeshiva in Jerusalem * St. Maximilian Kolbe, Maksymilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan martyr, Auschwitz 1941 * Hugo Kołłątaj, priest, statesman * Bolesław Kominek, Archbishop of Wrocław, 1972–1974, Cardinal * St. Stanislaus Kostka, Stanisław Kostka, Jesuit * St. Mary Faustina Kowalska, Faustina Kowalska, Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy * Maria Michał Kowalski, Archbishop of the Catholic Church of the Mariavites, introduced Women priests, women clergy in 1929 * Adam Kozłowiecki, Jesuit, Archbishop of Lusaka, Cardinal (Catholic Church), Cardinal * Feliksa Kozłowska, inspiration of the Mariavite Church * Ignacy Krasicki, Primate of Poland * Adam Stanisław Krasiński, Bishop of Kamieniec Podolski, 1757–1798 * John Krol, Archbishop of Philadelphia, Cardinal, 1961–1988 * Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Primate of Poland, 1866–1886, Cardinal * Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, missionary, founder of the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver * Saint Ursula Ledóchowska, religious, founder of the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus * Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Włodzimierz Halka Ledóchowski, Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1915–1942) * Jan Łaski (1456-1531), Jan Łaski (1456–1531), Primate of Poland, 1510–1531 * Jan Łaski (1499–1560), Protestant reformer; nephew of the Primate * Władysław Aleksander Łubieński, Archbishop of Lwów, Primate of Poland, 1759–1767; Interrex, 1763–1764 * Franciszek Macharski, Archbishop of Kraków, 1978–2005, Cardinal * Ryszard Markwart, catholic priest and national activist * Tomasz Miśkiewicz, mufti of Polish Muslims :pl:Muzułmański Związek Religijny and Imam of Białystok * Mieczysław Mokrzycki, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lvov, since 2008 * Mikołaj Stanisław Oborski (1576–1646), Jesuit * Zbigniew Oleśnicki (cardinal), Zbigniew Oleśnicki, Bishop of Kraków, 1423–1455; first Cardinal of Polish origin, from 1449; statesman * Zbigniew Oleśnicki (Primate of Poland), Zbigniew Oleśnicki, nephew of Zbigniew Oleśnicki; Cardinal Primate of Poland, 1481–1493 * Edward O'Rourke, bishop of Gdańsk * Piotr of Goniądz, spiritual leader of the Polish Brethren * Jerzy Popiełuszko, Catholic priest and dissident assassinated by the Polish security service in 1984, martyr of the Church * Walenty Potocki (died 1749), Count; converted to Judaism as Avrohom ben Avrohom, the Ger Tzedek of Vilna * Tadeusz Puder (1908–1945), Polish Roman Catholic priest of Jewish origin * Jan Puzyna, Bishop of Kraków, 1895–1911, Cardinal * Jerzy Radziwiłł (1556–1600), Jerzy Radziwiłł, Bishop of Kraków, Cardinal, 1591–1600 * Sholom Rokeach, the first Belz (Hasidic dynasty), Belzer Rebbe, 1817–1855 * Tadeusz Rydzyk, Redemptorist, broadcast radio controller * Czeslaw Sokolowski, Roman Catholic priest, theologian, university rector * St. Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Stanisław of Szczepanów, Bishop of Kraków, martyr 1079 * Adam Stefan Sapieha, Bishop/Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal, 1911–1951 * Franciszka Siedliska, religious, founder of Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth * Piotr Skarga, Jesuit preacher * Kajetan Sołtyk, Bishop of Kiev, 1756–59; Bishop of Kraków, 1759–1788 * Boruch Steinberg, the first Rabbi and an officer of the Polish Army before and during World War II * Kazimierz Świątek, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev; Apostolic Administrator of Pinsk, Cardinal * Edmund Szoka, Catholic Archbishop of Detroit, Cardinal 1981–1990 * Jakub Szynkiewicz (1884–1966), Imam of Poland, translated portions of Qur'an into Polish * Jozef Teodorowicz, last Armenian Catholic Church, Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Lwow (1864–1938) * Hipolit Terlecki, theologian * Józef Tischner, priest, philosopher and first chaplain of the trade union, Solidarity * Andrzej Towiański, philosopher and 19th century messianism, messianist * Mikołaj Trąba, Archbishop of Gniezno, first Primate of Poland, 1418–1422 * Jakub Uchański, Primate of Poland, 1562–1581; Interrex, 1572–73 and 1574–1575 * Vilna Gaon (1720–97), non-Hassidim, Hassidic Jewish leader, the "saintly genius from Vilnius" * Piotr Wawrzyniak, priest, economist and activist (1849–1910) * Chaim Elozor Wax (1822–1887), rabbi * Pope John Paul II, Karol Józef Wojtyła, Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków 1958–1963, Archbishop of Kraków 1963–1978, Pope John Paul II 1978–2005 * Stefan Wyszyński, Primate of Poland, Cardinal, 1948–1981 * Lawrence Wnuk, Protonotary apostolic, decorated Polish Canadian, (1908–2006) * Schneur Zalman, first Hasidic Judaism, Hasidic Rebbes of Chabad, Rebbe of Chabad (1745–1810) File:Beyzym.jpg, Jan Beyzym, Beyzym File:T.Brzozowski.jpg, Tadeusz Brzozowski File:Adam Chmielowski.JPG, Adam Chmielowski, Chmielowski File:Jakub Frank.jpg, Jacob Frank, Frank File:Michal Heller 2013-pau-claus-kiefer.jpg, Michał Heller, Heller File:August Hlond portr.jpg, August Hlond, Hlond File:Stanisław Hozjusz.JPG, Stanisław Hozjusz, Hosius File:Grobowiec krolowej Jadwigi.jpg, Jadwiga of Poland, Jadwiga File:Stanislaus Kostka Legros n1.jpg, Stanislaus Kostka, Stanisław Kostka File:200px-Faustina.jpg, Mary Faustina Kowalska, Kowalska File:Cardinal Adam Kozlowiecki.png, Adam Kozlowiecki, Kozłowiecki File:Ledochowski.tif, Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Włodzimierz Ledóchowski File:SStanisław.JPG, Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Stanisław of Szczepanów File:Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867-1951).jpg, Adam Stefan Sapieha, Sapieha File:Józef Teodorowicz-NAC-1-R-925.jpg, Józef Teodorowicz, Teodorowicz File:Ursula Leduhovskaya in 1907.jpg, Ursula Ledóchowska, Saint Ursula File:Vilna Gaon, Winograd picture.jpg, Vilna Gaon File:John Paul II.jpg, Karol Józef Wojtyła, Wojtyła File:Stefan Wyszynski 1978.jpg, Stefan Wyszyński, Wyszyński File:Schneur Zalman of Liadi.jpg, Schneur Zalman of Liadi, Zalman

Nobility

Royalty

* Mieszko I, first Duke of Poland * Doubravka of Bohemia, first Duchess of Poland * Świętosława (Gunhild), daughter of Mieszko I of Poland, mother of Canute the Great, King of England, Denmark and Norway * Bolesław I the Brave, first King of Poland * Mieszko II Lambert, second King of Poland * Richeza of Lotharingia, queen of Poland * Casimir I the Restorer, duke of Poland * Bolesław II the Bold, third King of Poland * Władysław I Herman, duke of Poland * Bolesław III Wrymouth, duke of Poland * Mieszko III the Old, duke of Greater Poland, Senior Duke of Poland * Casimir II the Just, duke of Cracow, Senior Duke of Poland * Leszek I the White, duke of Cracow, Senior Duke of Poland * Henry I the Bearded, duke of Silesia, Senior Duke of Poland * Konrad I of Masovia, duke of Mazovia and Kuyavia * Henry II the Pious, senior duke of Poland, commander of Polish forces in the Battle of Legnica (1241) * Przemysł II, King of Poland * Władysław I the Elbow-high, king of Poland * Louis I of Hungary, king of Poland * Elizabeth of Poland, Queen of Hungary, Regent in Poland * Casimir III of Poland, Casimir III the Great, Piast Dynasty last King of Poland * Jadwiga of Poland, first female monarch of Poland * Władysław II Jagiełło, Lithuanian, king of Poland, victor at the Battle of Grunwald (1410) * Władysław III of Varna (Ulászló I), king of Poland and Hungary, killed at the Battle of Varna (1444) * Casimir IV Jagiellon, king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, victor in the Thirteen Years' War (1454–66), Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466) * John I Albert, king of Poland * Alexander Jagiellon, grand duke of Lithuania and king of Poland * Sigismund I the Old, king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania * Roxelana (Khourrem, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent) * Barbara Radziwiłłówna, consort of Sigismund II August * Bona Sforza, Queen consort of Poland * Sigismund II Augustus, last Jagiellon king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth * Anna Jagiellon, reigned together with her husband Stephen Báthory * Henry III of France, king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth * Stephen Báthory of Poland, Stephen Báthory, Hungary, Hungarian-born king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth * Sigismund III Vasa, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and king of Sweden * Władysław IV Vasa, elected Tsar of Russia, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth * Marie Louise Gonzaga, Queen of Poland, Grand Duchess of Lithuania * John II Casimir Vasa, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, victor at the Battle of Beresteczko (1651) * John III Sobieski, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, victor at the Battle of Vienna (1683) * Maria Clementina Sobieska, queen of France, England, Scotland and Ireland * Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, Michael I, king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth * Stanisław Leszczyński, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Duke of Lorraine * Marie Leszczyńska, Queen consort of France * Katarzyna Opalińska, Catherine Opalińska, queen of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Duchess of Lorraine * Maria Leszczyńska, consort of Louis XV of France, Louis XV, king of France * Augustus II the Strong, king of Poland, Elector of Saxony * Augustus III of Poland, king of Poland, Elector of Saxony * Maria Amalia of Saxony, consort of Charles III of Spain, Charles III, king of Spain * Stanisław August Poniatowski, last king of the Poland, co-author of the Constitution of 3 May 1791 * Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (1770–1851), Princess Carignano House of Savoy File:MieszkoDagome.jpg, Mieszko I, Mieszko File:Bacciarelli - Chrobry.jpeg, Bolesław I the Brave, Chrobry File:Władysław Łokietek.jpg, Władysław I the Elbow-high, Elbow-high File:Boleslaus III of Poland.PNG, Boleslaus III of Poland, Wrymouth File:Jadwiga by Bacciarelli.jpg, Jadwiga of Poland, Jadwiga File:CasimirtheGreat.jpg, Casimir III the Great, Casimir the Great File:Jagajła. Ягайла (M. Godlewski, 1863).jpg, Władysław II Jagiełło, Jagiełło File:Kober Anna Jagiellon in coronation robes.jpg, Anna Jagiellon, Jagiellonka File:Anonymous Stephen Báthory (detail) 01.jpg, Stefan Batory, Batory File:Zygmunt Waza Soutman.jpg, Sigismund III Vasa, Vasa File:John III Sobieski of Poland.PNG, Jan III Sobieski, Sobieski File:Stanisław Augustus Poniatowski.jpg, Stanisław August Poniatowski, Stanisław August

Assassins

* Ignacy Hryniewiecki, assassin of Tsar Alexander II of Russia * Eligiusz Niewiadomski, modernist painter, art critic, assassin of Polish President Gabriel Narutowicz * Janusz Waluś, assassin of Chris Hani File:I Grinevizky.jpg, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, Hryniewiecki File:E Niewiadomski.jpg, Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Niewiadomski

Miscellany

* George Adamski, controversial ufology, ufologist * Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, sailor * Franciszek Czapek, watchmaker * Aleksander Doba, explorer who holds the record for the longest open-water kayak voyage ever made * Michał Drzymała, resistance hero * Piotr Gawryś, contract bridge champion * Wincenty Gostkowski, watchmaker * Halina Grabowski, war hero * Barbara Hulanicki, fashion designer, founder of Biba * Piotr Iwanicki, wheelchair dancing world champion *

, resistance movement and anti-communist activist * Marek Kamiński, adventure traveler * Rutka Laskier, diarist, killed during the World War II Holocaust * Piotr Naszarkowski, engraver * Stefan Ossowiecki, psychic * Stanisław Pietkiewicz, cartographer and geographer * Feliks Rajmund Podkóliński, physician, soldier * Ludwik Rajchman, bacteriologist, founder of UNICEF * Czesław Słania, postage stamp and banknote engraver * Renia Spiegel, diarist, killed during the World War II Holocaust, known as "the Polish Anne Frank" * Stanisława Tomczyk, spiritualism, spiritualist mediumship, medium, early 20th century * Wilfrid Michael Voynich, bibliophile, eponym of the mysterious Voynich Manuscript * Warren Winiarski, California winemaker * Kuba Wojewódzki, journalist, television personality, drummer, comedian, and columnist *

, physician, pioneering female doctor in the United States * Maciej Zien, fashion designer File:Marek okulary1.JPG, Marek Kamiński, Kamiński File:Ludwik Rajchman.jpg, Ludwik Rajchman, Rajchman File:Michael Voynich.jpg, Wilfrid Michael Voynich, Voynich File:Maria E. Zakrzewska.jpg, Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, Zakrzewska

Legendary persons

* Krakus, legendary prince and founder of Kraków * Lech, Czech and Rus, Lech, legendary founder of the Polish nation * Piast the Wheelwright (''Piast Kołodziej''), semi-legendary figure in prehistoric Poland (9th century); founder of the Piast dynasty * Popiel, semi-legendary 9th-century ruler of the Polans (western), western Polans; last of the Popielids * Lajkonik, a Kraków half-man-half-horse figure representing a Mongol invader, with his own festival after the feast of Corpus Christi (feast), Corpus Christi * Our Lady of Częstochowa (known also as "the Black Madonna"), foremost of Polish religious icons * Abraham Prochownik, legendary Jewish figure, said to have been named prince of the western Polans after the death of Popiel in 842 * Sarmatians, ancient proto-Persian Empire, Persian tribe that fed the idea of ''Sarmatism'' during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth * John Scolvus, semi-legendary sailor of the late 15th century * Warsaw Mermaid, Syrenka warszawska, legendary fresh-water mermaid said to have been rescued by Vistula fishermen. Iconic symbol of Warsaw * Pan Twardowski, semi-legendary Faust-like sorcerer; in Polish legend, the first man on the Moon (in the 16th century) * Janek Wiśniewski, freedom fighter; hero of 1970 Gdynia riots File:Krakovia Lajkonik Zamaltzain 8599 (13619274304).jpg, Lajkonik File:POL Warszawa Katowicka syrenka 02.jpg, Warsaw Mermaid, Syrenka

Fictional characters

* Matteusz Andrzejewski, played by Jordan Renzo, a character in ''Class (2016 TV series), Class'', a British science fiction drama programme, and a spin-off (media), spin-off of the long-running programme ''Doctor Who'' * Captain William Joseph B.J. Blazkowicz in ''Wolfenstein 3D'' * Ernst Stavro Blofeld, a villain from the James Bond series of novels and films, created by Ian Fleming * Bolek i Lolek, cartoon characters from a Polish children's TV animated comedy series * Baba Yaga, Baba Jaga, Polish version of the forest-dwelling sorceress * Waldemar Daninsky, wolfman in ''Paul Naschy, La Marca del Hombre Lobo'' * Nicodemus Dyzma, in Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz's novel ''The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma'' * Jacob Jankowski, a character played by Robert Pattinson in a 2011 American romantic drama film '' Water for Elephants (film), Water for Elephants'' * Marcin Jerek, Polish-born British professor and former CIA interrogator, in the TV series ''NCIS (TV series), NCIS'', played by W. Morgan Sheppard * Dr. Judym, in Stefan Żeromski's novel ''Ludzie bezdomni, Homeless People'' * Kajko i Kokosz * Florentyna Kane in ''The Prodigal Daughter'' and ''Shall We Tell the President?'' * Commander Keen, grandson of B.J. Blazkowicz * Hans Kloss (fictional character), Hans Kloss (Captain Kloss), World War II secret agent in the Polish TV serial ''Stake larger than life'' * ''Kordian'' * Funky Koval, space detective * Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk, a singer of Polish descent played by Marilyn Monroe in Billy Wilder's 1959 romantic comedy film ''Some Like It Hot'' * Kowalski (Madagascar), Kowalski, a penguin in the children's film ''Madagascar (2005 film), Madagascar'' * Stanley Kowalski, in Tennessee Williams' play ''A Streetcar Named Desire (play), A Streetcar Named Desire'' * Due South characters#Detective Stanley Kowalski, Detective Stanley Kowalski, Polish-American Chicago policeman in the 1990s Canadian television series ''Due South'' * Walt Kowalski, Polish-American Korean War veteran and retired Ford worker, in Clint Eastwood's 2008 film ''Gran Torino (film), Gran Torino'' * Lucyna "Lucy" Kushinada, a netrunner of mixed Polish and Japanese descent in ''Cyberpunk: Edgerunners'' * Quo Vadis (novel), ''Ligia'', heroine of Sienkiewicz's novel, Quo Vadis (novel), Quo Vadis? * Man of Iron, symbol of Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity and title of Andrzej Wajda, Wajda's film * Koziołek Matołek, like the bear and the horse, the goat is part of Polish folklore, here in Kornel Makuszyński's rendition * Steve Roper and Mike Nomad, Mike Nomad (with Steve Roper), an American adventure comic strip (1936–2004) * Count Olenski, estranged husband of Ellen Olenska in Edith Wharton's novel ''The Age of Innocence'' (1920) * ''Pan Tadeusz'', poetic distillation of Polish patriotism and nostalgia * Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski, in HBO's ''The Wire'', went from police officer to school teacher * Officer Eddie Pulaski in ''Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'' * Stefan "Steve" Radecki, a character played by Anton Walbrook in 1941 British war film ''Dangerous Moonlight'' * Abel Rosnovski in ''Kane and Abel (novel), Kane and Abel'' * Pan Samochodzik, adventurer created by Zbigniew Nienacki * Aleksander Fredro, ''Paweł i Gaweł'', humorous morality tale about neighbour relations, a favourite children's poem * Sasquatch (comics), Sasquatch (Dr. Walter Langkowski), Marvel superhero * Maria Konopnicka, ''Sierotka Marysia'', archetypal abandoned girl, "Little orphan Mary", living with Dwarf (mythology), dwarves * Walter Sobchak, the "Polish Catholic" in the film ''The Big Lebowski'' * Silk Spectre I & II, superheroines in ''Watchmen'' * Stanislau, ace pilot in ''Blackhawk (DC Comics), Blackhawk'' * Stanisław Tarkowski (''Staś''), protagonist of young adult novel, young-adult novel ''In Desert and Wilderness'' by Nobel Prize, Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz * Mieczysław Stilinski, also known as Stiles Stilinski, one of the main characters in American television series ''Teen Wolf (2011 TV series), Teen Wolf'' broadcast on MTV and played by Dylan O'Brien * Michael Stivic, in ''All in the Family'' * Tadzio, a Polish boy (inspired by Władysław Moes) in Thomas Mann's novel ''Death in Venice'' as well as 1971 film adaptation Death in Venice (film), of the same name by Luchino Visconti played by Björn Andrésen * Ijon Tichy, main protagonist in several works of Stanisław Lem such as ''The Star Diaries'', ''The Futurological Congress'', ''Peace on Earth (novel), Peace on Earth'' and ''Observation on the Spot'' * Kasia Tomaszewski, played by Zofia Wichłacz, a character in ''World on Fire (miniseries), World on Fire'', a 2019 war film, war drama miniseries broadcast on BBC One * Maciej Tomczyk ala Lech Wałęsa, in the 1981 film ''Man of Iron'', directed by Andrzej Wajda * Pan Twardowski, a Faust-like figure of Polish legend, literature and film. * Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek, Polish comic book heroes Syzyfki

* Miś Uszatek, cartoon character * Walter Koskiusko Waldowski, the "Painless Pole" in the film ''MASH (film), MASH'' * Konrad Wallenrod (poem), Konrad Wallenrod, in the narrative poem by Adam Mickiewicz * John Paul Wiggin (Jan Paweł Wieczorek) in the ''Ender's Game (series), Ender's Game'' series * Stanisław Wokulski, protagonist of Bolesław Prus' novel ''The Doll (novel), The Doll'' * Wrocław's dwarfs, brass manikins that first appeared on the city's pavements in 2005 * Piotr Zak, composer in a spoof BBC documentary * Sophie Zawistowski, played by Meryl Streep, in ''Sophie's Choice (film), Sophie's Choice'' based on ''Sophie's Choice (novel), a novel'' by William Styron

Models

* Anna Anka (Anna Åberg, Anna Yeager), born in Poland * Małgosia Bela, born in Kraków * Magdalena Frąckowiak, born in Gdańsk * Monika Jagaciak, born in Poznań * Anna Jagodzińska, born in Sierpc * Joanna Krupa, born in Warsaw * Anja Rubik, born in Rzeszów * Izabella Scorupco, born in Białystok * Ewa Sonnet, born in Rybnik, glamour model * Sasha Strunin, born in Saint Petersburg * Kasia Struss, born in Ciechanów * Francys Sudnicka, born in Valencia, Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela * Karolina Wydra, born in Opole * Iga Wyrwał, born in Kalisz File:Malgosia Bela.jpg, Malgosia Bela, Bela File:Magdalena Frackowiak copyright Ed Kavishe.jpg, Magdalena Frackowiak, Frackowiak File:Joanna Krupa Benchwarmer 2008.jpg, Joanna Krupa, Krupa File:Anja Rubik Copyright Ed Kavishe.JPG, Anja Rubik, Rubik

Sport

Athletics

* Andrzej Badeński, sprint (running), sprinter * Iga Baumgart-Witan, sprinter * Konrad Bukowiecki, shot putter * Lidia Chojecka, Athletics (sport), athlete * Jerzy Chromik, athlete * Teresa Ciepły, sprinter * Sofia Ennaoui, middle-distance runner * Paweł Fajdek, hammer thrower * Marian Foik, sprinter * Wioletta Frankiewicz, steeplechaser * Halina Górecka, sprinter * Piotr Haczek, sprinter * Michał Haratyk, shot putter * Zdzisław Hoffmann, triple jumper * Barbara Janiszewska, sprinter * Michel Jazy, athlete * Ilana Karaszyk, Israeli Olympic runner and long jumper * Ewa Kłobukowska, sprinter * Władysław Komar, shot putter * Halina Konopacka, discus thrower * Robert Korzeniowski, race walking, racewalker * Władysław Kozakiewicz, pole vaulter * Łukasz Krawczuk, athlete * Elżbieta Krzesińska, long jumper * Jakub Krzewina, sprinter * Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak, athlete * Wacław Kuchar, athlete * Janusz Kusociński, athlete * Maria Kwaśniewska, javelin thrower * Adam Kszczot, athlete * Marcin Lewandowski, athlete * Tomasz Majewski, shot putter * Piotr Małachowski, discus thrower * Wiesław Maniak, sprinter * Bronisław Malinowski (athlete), Bronisław Malinowski, athlete * Robert Maćkowiak, sprinter * Tamara Metal, Israeli Olympic high jumper and long jumper, and captain of the Israel women's national basketball team * Aleksandra Mirosław, speed climber * Józef Noji, athlete * Rafał Omelko, athlete * Wanda Panfil, athlete * Artur Partyka, high jumper * Edmund Piątkowski, discus thrower * Marek Plawgo, athlete * Myer Prinstein, long-jumper * Monika Pyrek, pole vaulter * Anna Rogowska, pole vaulter * Tadeusz Rut, hammer thrower * Piotr Rysiukiewicz, sprinter * Edward Sarul, shot putter * Janusz Sidło, javelin thrower * Kamila Skolimowska, hammer thrower * Irena Szewińska, sprinter * Józef Szmidt, triple jumper * Ewa Swoboda, sprinter * Tadeusz Ślusarski, pole vaulter * Justyna Święty-Ersetic, sprinter * Marcin Urbaś, sprinter * Jadwiga Wajs, discus thrower * Stanisława Walasiewicz, sprinter * Jan Werner (athlete), Jan Werner, sprinter * Anita Włodarczyk, hammer thrower * Paweł Wojciechowski (athlete), Paweł Wojciechowski, pole vaulter * Marian Woronin, sprinter * Jacek Wszoła, high jumper * Karol Zalewski, athlete * Kazimierz Zimny, athlete * Szymon Ziółkowski, hammer thrower File:Robert Korzeniowski.jpg, Robert Korzeniowski, R. Korzeniowski File:Tomasz Majewski Pedro's Cup Łódź 2016 03.jpg, Tomasz Majewski, Majewski File:Prinstein cropped.jpg, Meyer Prinstein, Prinstein File:Anna Rogowska.JPG, Anna Rogowska, Rogowska File:Irena Szewinska 2012.jpg, Irena Szewińska, Szewińska File:Wajsówna.jpg, Jadwiga Wajs, Wajs File:Feliks Wiśnik 2020.Fencer File:AnitaWRio2016 cropped.jpg, Anita Włodarczyk, Włodarczyk

Basketball

* Aleksander Balcerowski * Dardan Berisha * Oded Brandwein (born 1988), Israeli-Polish relations, Israeli-Polish basketball player * Aaron Cel * Olek Czyż * Margo Dydek * Filip Dylewicz * Tomasz Gielo * Marcin Gortat, NBA, NBA basketball, Los Angeles Clippers * Karol Gruszecki * Adam Hrycaniuk * Przemek Karnowski * Thomas Kelati, American-Polish basketball player * Mateusz Kostrzewski * Łukasz Koszarek * Damian Kulig * Maciej Lampe * David Logan (basketball), David Logan, American-born Polish basketball player * Dominik Olejniczak * Mateusz Ponitka * A.J. Slaughter, Polish-American basketball player * Jeremy Sochan, NBA, NBA basketball, San Antonio Spurs * Michał Sokołowski * Krzysztof Szubarga * Adam Waczyński * Adam Wójcik File:20160814 Basketball ÖBV Vier-Nationen-Turnier 4428.jpg, Olek Czyż, Czyż File:Marcin Gortat (15698879036).jpg, Marcin Gortat, Gortat File:EuroBasket 2017 Finland vs Poland 22.jpg, Mateusz Ponitka, Ponitka File:Wojcik Adam.jpg, Adam Wójcik, Wójcik

Boxing

* Tomasz Adamek * Aleksy Antkiewicz * Joe Choynski * Zygmunt Chychła * Leszek Drogosz * Charley Goldman, International Boxing Hall of fame * Andrzej Gołota * Janusz Gortat * Józef Grudzień * Marian Kasprzyk * Jerzy Kulej * Dariusz Michalczewski * Kazimierz Paździor * Zbigniew Pietrzykowski * Jerzy Rybicki * Feliks Stamm, coach * Jan Szczepański (boxer), Jan Szczepański * Artur Szpilka * Henryk Średnicki * Izu Ugonoh * Krzysztof Włodarczyk * Tony Zale * Janusz Zarenkiewicz File:Tomasz Adamek 11.JPG, Tomasz Adamek, Adamek File:Andrzej Golota 2014.jpg, Andrzej Gołota, Gołota

Checkers

* Natalia Sadowska

Chess

* Izak Aloni (1905–1985) * Izaak Appel (1905–1941) * Arnold Aurbach (1888–1952) * Zdzisław Belsitzmann (1890–1920) * Abram Blass (1895–unknown) * Agnieszka Brustman (b. 1962) * Oscar Chajes (1873–1928) * Joseph Cukierman (1900–1941) * Hieronim Czarnowski (1834–1902) * Moshe Czerniak (1910–1984) * Arthur Dake (1910–2000), American born to Polish parents * Dawid Daniuszewski (1885–1944) * Józef Dominik (1894–1920) * Jan-Krzysztof Duda (b. 1998) * Arthur Dunkelblum (1906–1979) * Boruch Israel Dyner (1903–1979) * Hanna Ereńska (b. 1946) * Samuel Factor (1883–1949) * Alexander Flamberg (1880–1926) * Henryk Friedman (1903–1942) * Achilles Frydman (1905–1940) * Paulino Frydman (1905–1982) * Regina Gerlecka (1913–1983) * Edward Gerstenfeld (1915–1943) * Róża Herman (1902–1995) * Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska * Chaim Janowski (1868–1935) * Dawid Janowski (1868–1927) * Max Judd (1851–1906) * Bernhard Kagan (1866–1932) * Stanisław Kohn (1895–1940) * George Koltanowski (1903–2000), born in Belgium to a Polish-Jewish family * Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov (b. 1938) * Michał Krasenkow (b. 1963), Russian born, moved to Poland in 1992 * Leon Kremer (1901–1941) * Adam Kuligowski (b. 1955), awarded the title of Chess Grandmaster in 1980 * Abraham Kupchik (1892–1970) * Salo Landau (1903–1943) * Edward Lasker (1885–1981) * Paul Saladin Leonhardt (1877–1934) * Grigory Levenfish (1889–1961) * Moishe Lowtzky (1881–1940) * Bartłomiej Macieja (b. 1977) * Kazimierz Makarczyk (1901–1972) * Kalikst Morawski (1859–1939) * Stasch Mlotkowski (1881–1943), born in the United States to Polish parents * Piotr Murdzia (b. 1975) * Miguel Najdorf (1910–1997) * Menachem Oren (1903–1962) * Julius Perlis (1880–1913) * Karol Piltz (1903–1939) * Oskar Piotrowski (chess player), Oskar Piotrowski * Kazimierz Plater (1915–2004) * Henryk Pogorieły (1908–1943) * Ignatz von Popiel (1863–1941) * Artur Popławski (1860–1918) * Dawid Przepiórka (1880–1940) * Iweta Rajlich (b. 1981) * Teodor Regedziński (1894–1954) * Samuel Reshevsky (1911–1992) * Samuel Rosenthal (1837–1902) * Gersz Rotlewi (1889–1920) * Akiba Rubinstein (1880–1961) * Gersz Salwe (1862–1920) * Włodzimierz Schmidt (b. 1943) * Leon Schwartzmann (1887–1942) * Stanislaus Sittenfeld (1865–1902) * Monika Soćko (b. 1978) * Franciszek Sulik (1908–unknown) * Bogdan Śliwa (1922–2003) * Dariusz Świercz (b. 1994) * Savielly Tartakower (1887–1956) * Jean Taubenhaus (1850–1919) * Oscar Tenner (1880–1948) * Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1944–2011) * Alexander Wagner (1868–1942) * Szymon Winawer (1838–1919) * Radosław Wojtaszek (b. 1987) * Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (1963–2006) * Daniel Yanofsky (1925–2000) * Józef Żabiński (1860–1928) * Johannes Zukertort (1842–1888) * Adolf Zytogorski (–1882) File:Duda und Giri 2018 Dortmund (cropped).jpg, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Duda File:Miguel Najdorf 1973.jpg, Miguel Najdorf, Najdorf File:Akiba-RubinsteinC.jpg, Akiba Rubinstein, Rubinstein File:Monika Soćko 2013.jpg, Monika Soćko, Soćko File:Dariusz Świercz POLch 2014.jpg, Dariusz Świercz, Świerszcz File:Ksawery Tartakower.jpg, Savielly Tartakower, Tartakower File:Radoslaw Wojtaszek POLch 2014.jpg, Radosław Wojtaszek, Wojtaszek

Climbing

* Klemens Bachleda, Tatra guide and mountain rescuer * Kinga Baranowska, mountaineer * Andrzej Bargiel, ski mountaineer and climber * Leszek Cichy, high-altitude climber * Jerzy Kukuczka, high-altitude climber * Wojciech Kurtyka, high-altitude climber and rock climber * Piotr Pustelnik, high-altitude climber * Wanda Rutkiewicz, high-altitude climber * Krzysztof Wielicki, high-altitude climber * Andrzej Zawada, high-altitude climber File:Jerzy Kukuczka Mount Everest 1980.jpg, Jerzy Kukuczka, Kukuczka File:2018 - Pol’and’Rock Festival - Krzysztof Wielicki 02.jpg, Krzysztof Wielicki, Wielicki

Cycling

* Maciej Bodnar * Eugenia Bujak * Zenon Jaskuła * Justyna Kaczkowska * Michał Kwiatkowski * Czesław Lang * Wacław Latocha * Rafał Majka * Przemysław Niemiec * Katarzyna Niewiadoma * Mieczysław Nowicki * Katarzyna Pawłowska * Daria Pikulik * Paweł Poljański * Wojciech Pszczolarski * Szymon Sajnok * Sylwester Szmyd * Stanisław Szozda * Ryszard Szurkowski * Mateusz Taciak * Adrian Tekliński * Maja Włoszczowska File:Fourmies - Grand Prix de Fourmies, 6 septembre 2015 (B087).JPG, Michał Kwiatkowski, Kwiatkowski File:Rafał Majka, Japan Cup 2012 (cropped).jpg, Rafał Majka, Majka File:Ryszard Szurkowski 2.jpg, Ryszard Szurkowski, Szurkowski File:Majawloszczowska1.jpg, Maja Włoszczowska, Włoszczowska

Fencing

* Robert Andrzejuk * Kazimierz Barburski * Michał Butkiewicz * Zbigniew Czajkowski * Danuta Dmowska * Egon Franke (fencer), Egon Franke * Arkadiusz Godel * Sylwia Gruchała * Roman Kantor, épée * Marcin Koniusz * Ed Korfanty, Edward Korfanty * Adam Krzesiński * Michał Majewski * Ryszard Parulski * Jerzy Pawłowski * Anna Rybicka * Ryszard Sobczak * Aleksandra Socha * Witold Woyda * Barbara Wysoczańska * Wojciech Zabłocki File:Chwała olimpijczykom - s.064a - Roman Kantor.tif, Roman Kantor, Kantor File:Jerzy Pawłowski 1968.jpg, Jerzy Pawłowski, Pawłowski File:Witold Woyda c1974.jpg, Witold Woyda, Woyda

Football

* Zygmunt Anczok, defender * Henryk Apostel, coach * Jan Banaś, attacker * Jan Bednarek (footballer), Jan Bednarek, defender * Jakub Błaszczykowski, midfielder * Zbigniew Boniek, midfielder, head of the Polish Football Association (PZPN) * Artur Boruc, goalkeeper * Lucjan Brychczy, midfielder * Andrzej Buncol, midfielder * Matty Cash, defender * Ewald Cebula, defender * Gerard Cieślik, midfielder * Lesław Ćmikiewicz, midfielder * Kazimierz Deyna, midfielder * Jerzy Dudek, goalkeeper * Ewald Dytko, midfielder * Łukasz Fabiański, goalkeeper * Robert Gadocha, attacker * Ludwik Gintel, defender/forward * Jacek Gmoch, coach * Jerzy Gorgoń, defender * Kazimierz Górski, coach * Paweł Janas, defender, coach * Ireneusz Jeleń, attacker * Erich Juskowiak, defender * Józef Kałuża, attacker, coach * Henryk Kasperczak, midfielder, coach * Miroslav Klose, attacker * Józef Klotz, defender; murdered by the Nazis * Raymond Kopa, attacker * Hubert Kostka, goalkeeper * Tadeusz Kuchar, midfielder, coach * Tomasz Kuszczak, goalkeeper * Grzegorz Lato, attacker * Robert Lewandowski, attacker * Jan Liberda, attacker * Włodzimierz Lubański, attacker * Józef Lustgarten, midfielder, manager * Stefan Majewski, defender, coach * Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, goalkeeper * Arkadiusz Milik, attacker * Józef Młynarczyk, goalkeeper * Piotr Nowak, midfielder * Erwin Nyc, midfielder * Teodor Peterek, attacker * Krzysztof Piątek, attacker * Ryszard Piec, midfielder * Wilhelm Piec, midfielder * Antoni Piechniczek, defender, coach * Leonard Piontek, midfielder * Lukas Podolski, attacker * Łukasz Piszczek, defender * Ernest Pohl, attacker * Fryderyk Scherfke midfielder * Euzebiusz Smolarek, attacker * Włodzimierz Smolarek, midfielder * Leon Sperling, forward (left wing) * Zygmunt Steuermann, forward * Piotr Świerczewski, midfielder * Grzegorz Szamotulski, goalkeeper * Andrzej Szarmach, attacker * Władysław Szczepaniak, defender * Wojciech Szczęsny, goalkeeper * Edward Szymkowiak, goalkeeper * Andrzej Szczypkowski (born 1971), midfielder * Łukasz Teodorczyk, attacker * Jan Tomaszewski, goalkeeper * Piotr Trochowski, midfielder * Krzysztof Warzycha, attacker * Ernest Wilimowski, attacker * Walter Winkler, defender * Maryan Wisnieski, attacker * Gerard Wodarz, attacker * Łukasz Załuska, goalkeeper * Piotr Zieliński, midfielder * Władysław Żmuda, defender File:Boniek Zbigniew.jpg, Zbigniew Boniek, Boniek File:Kazimierz Deyna.jpg, Kazimierz Deyna, Deyna File:Jerzy Dudek 2006 (rotated and cropped).jpg, Jerzy Dudek, Dudek File:Grzegorz Lato by Slawek.jpg, Grzegorz Lato, Lato File:Robert Lewandowski FCB.jpg, Robert Lewandowski, R. Lewandowski File:Wojciech Szczęsny 2018.jpg, Wojciech Szczęsny, Szczęsny

Ice hockey

* Mariusz Czerkawski * Wayne Gretzky, mixed Polish descent * Gordie Howe, mixed Polish descent * Mike Komisarek * Ed Olczyk * Krzysztof Oliwa * Brian Rafalski * Peter Sidorkiewicz * Bryan Smolinski * Pete Stemkowski * Lee Stempniak * Daniel Tkaczuk * James Wisniewski * Wojtek Wolski * Travis Zajac File:Mariusz Czerkawski.jpg, Mariusz Czerkawski, Czerkawski File:Wojtek Wolski 1 2012-03-09.JPG, Wojtek Wolski, Wolski

Skiing

* Konrad Bartelski, Alpine ski racer * Bronisław Czech, Alpine ski racer * Piotr Fijas, ski jumper * Wojciech Fortuna, ski jumper * Krystyna Guzik, biathlete * Monika Hojnisz, biathlete * Stefan Hula, Sr., Nordic combined skier * Stefan Hula, Jr., ski jumper * Justyna Kowalczyk, cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skier * Maciej Kot, ski jumper * Dawid Kubacki, ski jumper * Józef Łuszczek, cross-country skier * Adam Małysz, ski jumper * Stanisław Marusarz#Brother, Jan Marusarz, World War II Carpathian Mountains escort of intelligence agent Krystyna Skarbek * Stanisław Marusarz, ski jumper * Weronika Nowakowska, biathlete * Tomasz Sikora, biathlete * Monika Skinder, cross-country skiing * Kamil Stoch, ski jumper * Jan Ziobro, ski jumper * Piotr Żyła, ski jumper File:Kowalczyk-Trondheim09.jpg, Justyna Kowalczyk, Kowalczyk File:Adam Malysz (2).jpg, Adam Małysz, Małysz File:Tomasz Sikora - 21-01-2010 (cropped).jpg, Tomasz Sikora, Sikora File:20170106 VST Bischofshofen 5186.jpg, Kamil Stoch, Stoch

Swimming

* Katarzyna Baranowska * Konrad Czerniak * Agnieszka Czopek * Otylia Jędrzejczak * Radosław Kawęcki * Bartosz Kizierowski * Michael Klim * Agata Korc * Paweł Korzeniowski * Daniel Kowalski * Sławomir Kuczko * Mariusz Podkościelny * Mateusz Sawrymowicz * Ilja Szrajbman, Lejzor Ilja Szrajbman; murdered by the Nazis in Majdanek concentration camp * Rafał Szukała * Katarzyna Wasick * Wojciech Wojdak * Artur Wojdat File:KonradCzerniak-0137.jpg, Konrad Czerniak, Czerniak File:Otylia Jędrzejczak 2014.jpg, Otylia Jędrzejczak, Jędrzejczak File:Chwała olimpijczykom - s.071 - Lejzor Szrajbman.tif, Ilja Szrajbman, Szrajbman

Tennis

* Wojciech Fibak * Magdalena Fręch * Mariusz Fyrstenberg * Hubert Hurkacz * Jerzy Janowicz * Klaudia Jans-Ignacik * Jadwiga Jędrzejowska * Angelique Kerber * Łukasz Kubot * Magda Linette * Sabine Lisicki * Kamil Majchrzak * Marcin Matkowski * Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), Russian-born German, Polish, and British world-top-ten tennis player * Michał Przysiężny * Agnieszka Radwańska * Urszula Radwańska * Iga Świątek * Caroline Wozniacki File:Hurkacz RG19 (10) (48199235282).jpg, Hubert Hurkacz, Hurkacz File:Kubot WM16 (1) (28136044530).jpg, Łukasz Kubot, Kubot File:Agnieszka Radwanska (19027292262).jpg, Agnieszka Radwańska, A. Radwańska File:Swiatek RG19 (1) (48199020336).jpg, Iga Świątek, Świątek

Volleyball

* Zbigniew Bartman * Michał Bąkiewicz * Mateusz Bieniek * Agnieszka Bednarek-Kasza * Izabela Bełcik * Grzegorz Bociek * Monika Bociek * Rafał Buszek * Fabian Drzyzga * Tomasz Fornal * Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale * Piotr Gruszka * Krzysztof Ignaczak * Jakub Jarosz * Joanna Kaczor * Łukasz Kadziewicz * Karol Kłos * Jakub Kochanowski * Dawid Konarski * Grzegorz Kosok * Michał Kubiak * Bartosz Kurek * Bartosz Kwolek * Wilfredo León * Grzegorz Łomacz * Mateusz Mika * Joanna Mirek * Marcin Możdżonek * Agata Mróz-Olszewska * Dawid Murek * Piotr Nowakowski * Paweł Papke * Daniel Pliński * Kamil Semeniuk * Katarzyna Skowrońska-Dolata * Artur Szalpuk * Aleksander Śliwka * Sebastian Świderski * Dorota Świeniewicz * Hubert Wagner * Anna Werblińska * Michał Winiarski * Mariusz Wlazły * Tomasz Wójtowicz * Andrzej Wrona * Paweł Zagumny * Paweł Zatorski * Łukasz Żygadło File:Zbigniew Bartman 2. 2010-05-29.jpg, Zbigniew Bartman, Bartman File:Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale 02 - FIVB World Championship European Qualification Women Łódź January 2014.jpg, Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale, Glinka File:Piotr Gruszka - FIVB World Championship European Qualification Women Łódź January 2014.jpg, Piotr Gruszka, Gruszka File:Volleyball Nations League Poland - France (28628996908).jpg, Michał Kubiak, Kubiak File:Bartosz Kurek (Legavolley 2014).jpg, Bartosz Kurek, Kurek File:Katarzyna Skowrońska-Dolata 02 - FIVB World Championship European Qualification Women Łódź January 2014.jpg, Katarzyna Skowrońska-Dolata, Skowrońska File:Szalpuk Artur 2018.jpg, Artur Szalpuk, Szalpuk File:Mariusz Wlazły 2014 01.jpg, Mariusz Wlazły, Wlazły

Weightlifting

* Waldemar Baszanowski * Marcin Dołęga * Ben Helfgott * Zbigniew Kaczmarek (weightlifter), Zbigniew Kaczmarek * Aleksandra Klejnowska * Szymon Kołecki * Andrzej Maszewski * Mieczysław Nowak * Norbert Ozimek * Ireneusz Paliński * Norbert Schemansky * Zygmunt Smalcerz * Marek Seweryn * Stanley Stanczyk * Agata Wróbel * Adrian Zieliński * Marian Zieliński File:Waldemar Baszanowski 1964.jpg, Waldemar Baszanowski, Baszanowski File:Szymon Kołecki (2007).jpg, Szymon Kołecki, Kołecki

Others

* Karol Bielecki, handball * Leszek Blanik, gymnastics * Jan Błachowicz, mixed martial artist * Karolina Bosiek, speed skater * Zbigniew Bródka, speed skater * Maciej Chorążyk, soccer official and sports journalist * Janusz Centka, gliding, soaring * Moe Drabowsky, baseball * Jarek Dymek, Strongman (strength athlete), strongman * Mateusz Gamrot, mixed martial arts * Tomasz Gollob, Motorcycle speedway Speedway World Championship, World Champion * Andrzej Grubba, table tennis * Sebastian Janikowski, American football * Stan Javie, American football official * Steve Javie, National Basketball Association * Joanna Jędrzejczyk, mixed martial arts * Stefan Kapłaniak, canoeing * Sebastian Kawa, gliding * Justin Koschitzke, former professional Australian rules footballer for St Kilda * Karolina Kowalkiewicz, mixed martial arts * Rafał Kubacki, judo * Robert Kubica, Formula One and auto racing * Tomasz Kucharski, rowing (sport), rowing * Mateusz Kusznierewicz, sailing (sport), sailing * Waldemar Legień, judo * Jerzy Makula, Glider aircraft, glider competition aerobatics, aerobatics * Wiktor Malinowski, professional poker player * Patrycja Maliszewska, Short track speed skating, short track speed skater * Szymon Marciniak, football referee * Piotr Markiewicz, canoeing * Renata Mauer, shooting * Bill Mazeroski, baseball * Przemyslaw Mazur, auto racing * Aleksandra Mirosław, speed climbing * Gene Mruczkowski, American football * Scott Mruczkowski, American football * Paweł Nastula, judo * Zofia Noceti-Klepacka, windsurfing * Tom Paciorek, baseball * Aneta Pastuszka, canoeing * James Podsiadly, former professional Australian rules footballer for Adelaide and Geelong * Mariusz Pudzianowski, strongman (strength athlete), strongman * Ivan Putski, professional wrestler * Helena Rakoczy, gymnastics * Elwira Seroczyńska, speed skater * Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek, modern pentathlete * Paul Slowinski, Muay Thai * Adam Smelczyński, shooting * Rafał Sonik, quad rally driver * Robert Sycz, rowing (sport), rowing * Jerzy Szczakiel, Motorcycle speedway Speedway World Championship, World Champion * Sławomir Szmal, team handball, handball * Ryszard Szurkowski, road bicycle racing * Jan Szymański (speed skater), Jan Szymański, speed skater * Marek Twardowski, canoeing * Roger Verey, rowing (sport), rowing * Piotr Wadecki, road bicycle racing * Bogdan Wenta, team handball, handball * Sebastian Wenta, strongman (strength athlete), strongman, highland games * David Wojcinski, former professional Australian rules footballer for Geelong * Jerzy Wojnar, luge * Andrzej Wroński, wrestling * Józef Zapędzki, shooting * Sobiesław Zasada, auto racing File:2013 WSDC Sochi - Zbigniew Brodka.JPG, Zbigniew Bródka, Bródka File:Joanna Jędrzejczyk.png, Joanna Jędrzejczyk, Jędrzejczyk File:Sebastian Kawa piloting over the Aconcagua.JPG, Sebastian Kawa, Kawa File:2014 Rallye Deutschland by 2eight 8SC0282.jpg, Robert Kubica, Kubica File:Mariusz Pudzianowski 5.JPG, Mariusz Pudzianowski, Pudzianowski

References

External links

* {{Commons category-inline, People of Poland Lists of Polish people,