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Silesia Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split ...

Nobel laureates

Theodor Mommsen Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th cent ...

(1902, literature) *

Philipp Lenard Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard (; hu, Lénárd Fülöp Eduárd Antal; 7 June 1862 – 20 May 1947) was a Hungarian-born German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his work on cathode rays and the discovery of m ...

(1905, physics) *

Eduard Buchner Eduard Buchner (; 20 May 1860 – 13 August 1917) was a German chemist and zymologist, awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation. Biography Early years Buchner was born in Munich to a physician and Doctor Extraor ...

(1907, chemistry) *

Paul Ehrlich Paul Ehrlich (; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure ...

(1908, medicine) *

Gerhart Hauptmann Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (; 15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He recei ...

(1912, literature) *

Fritz Haber Fritz Haber (; 9 December 186829 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen ...

(1918, chemistry) *

Friedrich Bergius Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius (, 11 October 1884 – 30 March 1949) was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1931, together with Carl Bosch) in recognition of contributi ...

(1931, chemistry) *

Carl von Ossietzky Carl von Ossietzky (; 3 October 1889 – 4 May 1938) was a German journalist and pacifist. He was the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German re-armament. As editor-in-chief of the magazine ''Die ...

(1935, peace) *

Gerhard Domagk Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk (; 30 October 1895 – 24 April 1964) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist. He is credited with the discovery of sulfonamidochrysoidine (KL730) as an antibiotic for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Phy ...

(1939, medicine) *

Otto Stern :''Otto Stern was also the pen name of German women's rights activist Louise Otto-Peters (1819–1895)''. Otto Stern (; 17 February 1888 – 17 August 1969) was a German-American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. He was the second most n ...

(1943, physics) *

Kurt Alder Kurt Alder (; 10 July 1902 – 20 June 1958) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate. Biography Alder was born in the industrial area of Königshütte, Silesia (modern day Chorzów, Upper Silesia, Poland), where he received his early sch ...

(1950, chemistry) *

Max Born Max Born (; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a n ...

(1954, physics) *

Maria Goeppert-Mayer Maria Goeppert Mayer (; June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972) was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus The atomic nucleus is the small, dense ...

(1963, physics) *

Konrad Bloch Konrad Emil Bloch (; 21 January 1912 – 15 October 2000) was a German-American biochemist. Bloch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 (joint with Feodor Lynen) for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the ...

(1964, medicine) *

Johannes Georg Bednorz Johannes Georg Bednorz (; born 16 May 1950) is a German physicist who, together with K. Alex Müller, discovered high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, for which they shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics. Life and work Bednorz was bor ...

(1987, physics) *

Hans Georg Dehmelt Hans Georg Dehmelt (; 9 September 1922 – 7 March 2017) was a German and American physicist, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique (Penning trap) with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one- ...

(1989, physics) *

Reinhard Selten Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten (; 5 October 1930 – 23 August 2016) was a German economist, who won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with John Harsanyi and John Nash). He is also well known for his work in bound ...

(1994, economics) *

Günter Blobel Günter Blobel (; May 21, 1936 – February 18, 2018) was a Silesian German and American biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in t ...

(1999, medicine) *

Olga Tokarczuk Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland; in 2019, she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize ...

(2018, literature)

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Erich Abraham Erich Abraham (27 March 1895 – 7 March 1971) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany who command the 76th Infantry Division then the LXIII Corps on the Western Front during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of ...

, officer *

Andreas Acoluthus Andreas Acoluthus (; 16 March 1654 – 4 November 1704 Jöcher, Christian Gottlieb, ''Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon: darinne die Gelehrten aller Stände.. vom Anfange der Welt bis auf ietzige Zeit.. Nach ihrer Geburt, Leben,... Schrifften aus den g ...

, theologian and orientalist *

Melchior Adam Melchior Adam (c. 1575 – 26 December 1622) was a German Calvinist literary historian. Life Adam was born in Grottkau, Nysa, Habsburg Silesia (present-day Grodków, Opole Voivodeship). He visited the college in ''Brieg'' Brzeg, then studied ...

, literary historian *bishop

Stanisław Adamski Stanisław Adamski (12 April 1875 – 12 November 1967) was a Polish bishop, politician, and social and political activist of the Union of Catholic Societies of Polish Workers (Związek Katolickich Towarzystw Robotników Polskich), founder and edit ...

Joy Adamson Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson ( Gessner; 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, ''Born Free'', describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. ''Born Free'' was printed in several langua ...

(born Friederike Victoria Gessner), naturalist and writer *

Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem Anna Eufemia Carolina Gräfin von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem (1854–1941) was a German aristocratic novelist. Early life She was born in Ratibor, Upper Silesia, as the daughter of Count Alexander von Ballestrem (1806-1881) and his wife, Mathi ...

, novelist *

, chemist *

Henryk Alszer Henryk Alszer (7 May 1918 in Chorzów – 31 December 1959 in Ruda Śląska) was a Polish footballer. He was part of the Poland national team who were at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Before the war he participated in several sports for the sports a ...

, soccer player *

Johann Baptist Alzog Johann Baptist Alzog (8 June 1808 – 1 March 1878) was a German theologian and Catholic church historian. He was born at Ohlau, in Silesia. He studied at the universities of Breslau and Bonn and was ordained a priest at Cologne in 1834. In th ...

, theologian and historian *

Zygmunt Anczok Zygmunt Józef Anczok (born 14 March 1946 in Lubliniec) is a former Poland, Polish Association football, footballer who played as a left-sided defender, who was an Olympic champion for Poland national football team, Poland in the 1972 Summ ...

, soccer player *

Adolf Anderssen Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818 – March 13, 1879)"Anderssen, Adolf" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 385. was a German chess master. He won the great interna ...

, chess grandmaster *

Georg Graf von Arco Georg Wilhelm Alexander Hans Graf von Arco (30 August 1869 in Großgorschütz – 5 May 1940 in Berlin) was a German physicist, radio pioneer, and one of the joint founders of the "''Society for Wireless Telegraphy''" which became the Telefu ...

, physicist, radio pioneer *

Hans-Jürgen von Arnim Hans-Jürgen Bernard Theodor von Arnim (; 4 April 1889 – 1 September 1962) was a German general in the Nazi Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several armies. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Early life ...

, general *

Iris von Arnim Iris Von Arnim (born 25 January 1945 in Berbisdorf ( Dziwiszów), Silesia, today Poland) is an internationally acclaimed German fashion designer. History von Arnim's career began in the early 1976 when she began knitting while recovering in a hosp ...

, fashion designer * Hans Erasmus Aßmann, statesman and poet *

Andreas von Aulock Andreas Maria Karl von Aulock (23 March 1893 – 23 June 1968) was a highly decorated Oberst in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 79th Infantry Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Le ...

, colonel *, general *

Walter Arndt Walther Arndt (8 January 1891 in Landeshut, Silesia, now Kamienna Góra, Poland – 26 June 1944 in Brandenburg) was a German zoologist and physician. A curator at the in Berlin, and a professor, he was executed for being critical of the Nazi ...

, zoologist and physician

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Paul Baender Paul Baender, also known in Spanish as Pablo Baender (30 November 1906 – 18 December 1985), was a German–Bolivian chess player and functionary. Born in Rosdzin, now part of Katowice, Upper Silesia, he moved to Görlitz in 1921. When Nazis cam ...

, politician and chess player *

Adolf Aron Baginsky Adolf Aron Baginsky (May 22, 1843 – 15 May 1918) was a German professor of diseases of children at Berlin University. He was an older brother to otorhinolaryngologist Benno Baginsky (1848-1919).John Baildon John Baildon (11 December 1772 – 7 August 1846) was a Scotland, Scottish pioneer in metallurgy in continental Europe. Baildon was born in Larbert, Stirlingshire. In 1793, he came to Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian Province of Silesia, Silesia (i ...

, Scottish pioneer in metallurgy in Silesia *

Michael Ballack Michael Ballack (; born 26 September 1976) is a German former professional footballer. He is among the top goal scorers in the history of the German national team. Ballack wore the number 13 shirt for every team he has played for, except 1. FC ...

, soccer player *the House of

Ballestrem The Ballestrem is the name of an influential German noble family, originally from Piedmont, Italy. They are still extant, despite losing much of their land in 1945. History Originally named ''Ballestrero di Castellengo'', they are first attest ...

, de, pl *

Hans Baluschek Hans Baluschek (9 May 1870 – 28 September 1935) was a German painter, graphic artist and writer. Baluschek was a prominent representative of German Critical Realism, and as such he sought to portray the life of the common people with vivid fra ...

, painter *

Jan Banaś Jan Banaś (born Hans Dieter Banas on 29 March 1943 in the Schöneberg district of Berlin), nicknamed Bubi, is a Polish footballer, who began his career as a youngster playing for AKS Mikołów (1956–59) before moving to Zryw Chorzów in 195 ...

, soccer player *

Franz Bardon Franz may refer to: People * Franz (given name) * Franz (surname) Places * Franz (crater), a lunar crater * Franz, Ontario, a railway junction and unorganized town in Canada * Franz Lake, in the state of Washington, United States – see Fran ...

, occultist *

Walter Bathe Walter Bathe (1 December 1892 – 21 September 1959) was a German breaststroke swimmer. He won gold medals in the 200 m and 400 m breaststroke at the 1912 Summer Olympics, setting Olympic records that lasted until 1924. In 1970 he was inducte ...

, swimmer *bishop Herbert Bednorz *

, physicist *

Hans Bellmer Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 – 24 February 1975) was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. Biography Be ...

, painter and sculptor * Benedict of Poland, explorer * Henryk Bereska; pl, de, translator and poet *

Max Berg Max Berg (17 April 1870 – 22 January 1947) was a German architect and urban planner. Biography Berg was born in Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland) in Pomerania, then part of the German Empire. He attended the Technical University in Charlotte ...

, architect *

, chemist *

Saul Berlin Saul Berlin (also Saul Hirschel after his father; 1740 at Glogau – November 16, 1794 in London) was a German Jewish scholar who published a number of works in opposition to rabbinic Judaism. Early life He received his general education prin ...

, scholar *

Gottfried Bermann Gottfried Bermann, later Gottfried Bermann Fischer (31 July 1897, Gleiwitz, Silesia – 17 September 1995, Camaiore), was a German publisher. He owned the S. Fischer Verlag. Biography After serving as an officer in World War I, Bermann Fischer s ...

, publisher *cardinal

Adolf Bertram Adolf Bertram (14 March 1859 – 6 July 1945) was archbishop of Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Early life Adolf Bertram was born in Hildesheim, Royal Prussian Province of Hanover (now Lower Saxony), ...

Petr Bezruč Petr Bezruč () was the pseudonym of Vladimír Vašek (; 15 September 1867 – 17 February 1958), a Czech poet and short story writer who was associated with the region of Austrian Silesia. His most notable work is ''Silesian Songs,'' a coll ...

, poet * von Bibran-Modlau family * Albert Bielschowsky, literary historian *

Max Bielschowsky Max Israel Bielschowsky (20 February 1869 – 15 August 1940) was a German neuropathologist born in Breslau. After receiving his medical doctorate from the University of Munich in 1893, he worked with Ludwig Edinger (1855–1918) at the ...

, neuropathologist *

Horst Bienek Horst Bienek (May 7, 1930 in Gleiwitz – December 7, 1990 in Munich) was a German novelist and poet. Life Born in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Gliwice, Poland), Bienek was forced to leave there in 1945, when Germans were expelled ...

, writer * Stanisław Bieniasz, writer; pl *

Elżbieta Bieńkowska Elżbieta Ewa Bieńkowska (; ''née'' Moycho; born on 4 February 1964 in Katowice) is a Polish politician who served as Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development and Transport before being nominated as European Commission ...

, politician, deputy prime minister of Poland *

Iva Bittová Iva Bittová (born 22 July 1958) is a Czech avant-garde violinist, singer, and composer. She began her career as an actor in the mid-1970s, appearing in several Czech feature films, but switched to playing violin and singing in the early 1980s. ...

, violinist, singer, and composer *rev.

Franciszek Blachnicki Franciszek Blachnicki (24 March 1921 – 27 February 1987) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Light-Life movement - also known as the Oasis Movement - and the Secular Institute of the Immaculate Mother of the Church. He f ...

William Blandowski Johann Wilhelm Theodor Ludwig von Blandowski, known as William Blandowski (21 January 1822 – 18 December 1878), was a German explorer, soldier, zoologist and mining engineer of Polish roots, he is most famous for his exploration of the Murray an ...

, zoologist and mining engineer *

Leszek Blanik Leszek Robert Blanik (born 1 March 1977 in Wodzisław Śląski) is a Polish gymnast, World and Olympic champion in vault. He was the first to perform a handspring double front vault in piked position which now has been named after him. Olympics ...

, gymnast *

Barbara Blida Barbara Maria Blida, née Szwajnoch (3 December 1949 – 25 April 2007) was a Polish political figure who served in the nation's Parliament (Sejm) for 16 years (1989–2005), including a stint as a member of the cabinet, and whose suicide in the ...

, politician *

Konrad Emil Bloch Konrad Emil Bloch (; 21 January 1912 – 15 October 2000) was a German-American biochemist. Bloch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 (joint with Feodor Lynen) for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the ...

, biochemist *

Josef Block Josef Block (27 November 1863 – 20 December 1943) was a German painter. Life and career Block was born in Bernstadt an der Weide (Bierutów) in Prussian Silesia. He was a scholar of the Breslau (Wrocław) Art Academy, where his lifelong fri ...

, painter *

, biologist * Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, pianist *

Maurice Bloomfield Maurice Bloomfield, Ph.D., LL.D. (February 23, 1855 – June 12, 1928) was an Austrian-born American philologist and Sanskrit scholar. Biography He was born Maurice Blumenfeld in Bielitz ( pl, Bielsko), in what was at that time Austrian Sil ...

, philologist *

Friedrich Blühmel Friedrich Blühmel (born 1777, died before 1845) was a German horn player and musical instrument builder. He is credited as one of the earliest inventors of brass instrument valves. Biography Friedrich Blühmel initially worked as a coal miner, ...

; de *

Krystyna Bochenek Krystyna Maria Bochenek (née Neuman) (30 June 1953 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish journalist, politician and Vice-Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland representing Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska). She died in office on board th ...

, politician * Hermann Boehm, admiral *

Sebastian Boenisch Sebastian Boenisch (, ; ; born 1 February 1987) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a feft-back. At international level, he made 14 appearances for the Polish national team between 2010 and 2013. Early career Boenisch was born i ...

, soccer player *Bishop *

Lothar Bolz Lothar Bolz (3 September 190328 December 1986) was an East German politician. From 1953 to 1965 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of East Germany (GDR). Biography Lothar Bolz was born in Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia, now Poland, on 3 Septemb ...

, politician *

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer (; 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have ...

, theologian *

Karl Bonhoeffer Karl Bonhoeffer (; March 31, 1868 – December 4, 1948) was a German neurologist, psychiatrist and physician. Life Bonhoeffer was born in Neresheim in the Kingdom of Württemberg to Friedrich von Bonhoeffer (1828–1907), who worked as judge ...

, psychiatrist *

Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer (13 January 1899 – 15 May 1957) was a German chemist. Education and career Born in Breslau, he was an older brother of martyred theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His father was neurologist Karl Bonhoeffer and his moth ...

, chemist *

Klaus Bonhoeffer Klaus Bonhoeffer (5 January 1901 – 23 April 1945) was a German jurist and German resistance to Nazism, resistance fighter against the Nazism, Nazi régime who was executed after the 20 July Plot, July 1944 plot to kill Hitler. Early life Klaus ...

, lawyer *

Ernst Borinski Ernst Borinski (November 26, 1901 – May 26, 1983) was a German-Jewish sociologist and intellectual, who contributed to undermining Jim Crow laws in Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s. Background Borinski was born in the city of Kattowi ...

, sociologist *

, physicist *

Willibald Borowietz __NOTOC__ Willibald Borowietz (17 September 1893 – 1 July 1945) was a German general during World War II who commanded several divisions. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Borowiet ...

, general * Arka Bożek, Silesian politician; pl *

Josef Božek Josef Božek (Polish: Józef Bożek) (28 February 1782 in Biery – 21 October 1835 in Prague) was an engineer and inventor from Cieszyn Silesia, labelled by various sources as Czech or Polish. The area was part of the Austrian Empire during mu ...

, engineer and inventor * Ernst-Joachim Bradel, colonel *

Walter Brom Walter Henryk Brom (14 January 1921 – 18 June 1968) was a Polish soccer goalkeeper. Brom, who played for Ruch Chorzów, was a reserve player of Polish team in FIFA World Cup 1938. He was (and to this day is) the youngest goalie who has ever bee ...

, soccer player *

Lucjan Brychczy Lucjan Antoni Brychczy (otherwise known as Kici; born 13 June 1934) is a former Polish football player who is most notable for winning four top-tier titles with Legia Warsaw, but was also a keen archer. In football, he represented ŁTS Łabęd ...

, soccer player *

Ignatz Bubis Ignatz Bubis (12 January 1927 – 13 August 1999), German Jewish leader, was the influential chairman (and later president) of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (''Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland'') from 1992 to 1999. In this capacity he ...

, politician *

Andrzej Buncol Andrzej Bernard Buncol (born 21 September 1959) is a Polish former footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career He played for clubs such as Ruch Chorzów and Legia Warsaw in Poland. In the (West) German top-flight he made over 180 appea ...

, soccer player *

Agata Buzek Agata Bronisława Buzek (born 20 September 1976) is a Polish actress and model. Agata, the daughter of Polish politician, former Prime Minister of Poland and President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek, was born in Pyskowice in Gliwice Cou ...

, actress *

Jan Buzek Jan Jerzy Buzek (27 March 1874 – 24 November 1940) was a Polish physician, activist and politician. He came from the region of Trans-Olza. Biography Buzek was born in Końska as a son of a peasant. He graduated from primary school there, and ...

, physician and politician *

Jerzy Buzek Jerzy Karol Buzek (born 3 July 1940) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament from Poland. He has served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001, since being elected to the European Parliament in 2004, he served as Pre ...

, engineer and politician, prime minister of Poland *

Józef Buzek Józef Buzek (16 November 1873 in Końska – 22 September 1936 in Cieszyn) was a Polish lawyer, economist, statistician and politician from the region of Cieszyn Silesia. He was born in the village of Końska to a peasant's family. He graduate ...

, economist and politician * Jan Bystroń, linguist *

Jan Stanisław Bystroń Jan Stanisław Bystroń (20 December 1892 in Kraków - 18 November 1964 in Warsaw) was a Polish sociologist and ethnographer. Professor of University of Poznań, University of Warsaw and Jagiellonian University in Kraków, member of Polish Academ ...

, sociologist

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Ernst Cassirer Ernst Alfred Cassirer ( , ; July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science. Aft ...

, philosopher * Ewald Cebula, soccer player *Blessed

Ceslaus Ceslaus, O.P., ( pl, Czesław) (c. 1184 – c. 1242) was born in Kamień Śląski in Silesia, Poland, of the noble family of Odrowąż, and was a relative, possibly the brother, of Hyacinth of Poland. Biography Having studied philosophy at ...

; (bł. Czesław Odrowąż), Dominican friar *

Dietrich von Choltitz Dietrich Hugo Hermann von Choltitz (; 9 November 1894 – 5 November 1966) was a German general. Sometimes referred to as the Saviour of Paris, he served in the Wehrmacht (armed forces) of Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as serving in ...

, general * Jerzy Chromik, long-distance runner *rev. Jan Piotr Chrząszcz; pl, de, historian *

Claudia Ciesla Claudia Ciesla is a Polish-born German actress and model who works mainly in the Indian film industry.Gerard Cieślik Gerard Cieślik (27 April 1927 – 3 November 2013), also known as Gienek, was a football player of Ruch Chorzów (1949-1955 Unia Chorzów, 1956 Unia-Ruch Chorzów). Playing for the Poland national football team, he is most noted for hav ...

, soccer player *

Ferdinand Cohn Ferdinand Julius Cohn (24 January 1828 – 25 June 1898) was a German biologist. He is one of the founders of modern bacteriology and microbiology. Ferdinand J. Cohn was born in the Jewish quarter of Breslau in the Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia ...

(1828–1898), biologist * Maria Cunitia (Cunitz) (1610–1664), astronomer *

Richard Courant Richard Courant (January 8, 1888 – January 27, 1972) was a German American mathematician. He is best known by the general public for the book '' What is Mathematics?'', co-written with Herbert Robbins. His research focused on the areas of real ...

, mathematician *

Johannes Crato von Krafftheim Johannes Crato von Krafftheim (born Johannes Krafft; 22 November 1519 – 19 October 1585) was a German humanist and court physician to three Holy Roman emperors. Origins and education Crato von Krafftheim was born Johannes Krafft''.'' He was ...

(1519–1585), imperial physician *bishop

Andrzej Czaja Andrzej is the Polish language, Polish form of the given name Andrew. Notable individuals with the given name Andrzej

* Andrzej Bartkowiak (born 1950), Polish film director and cinematographer * Andrew Bobola, Andrzej Bobola, S.J. (1591–16 ...

; pl * Herbert Czaja, politician * Richard Czaya; de, chess master

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Kurt Daluege Kurt Max Franz Daluege (15 September 1897 – 24 October 1946) was chief of the national uniformed ''Ordnungspolizei'' (Order Police) of Nazi Germany. Following Reinhard Heydrich's assassination in 1942, he served as Deputy Protector for th ...

, SS-general, Deputy Protector of Bohemia and Moravia *

Frank Damrosch Frank Heino Damrosch (June 22, 1859 – October 22, 1937) was a German-born American music conductor and educator. In 1905, Damrosch founded the New York Institute of Musical Art, a predecessor of the Juilliard School. Life and career Damrosch w ...

, music conductor and educator *

Ernst Degner Ernst Degner (born Ernst Eugen Wotzlawek on 22 September 1931 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany - died 10 September 1983 in Arona, Tenerife, Spain) was a professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Eastern Germany. Degner was noted fo ...

, motorcycle road racer *

, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate * Hans Karl Graf von Diebitsch-Sabalkanski (Graf Ivan Ivanovich Dibich-Zabalkansky), Russian field marshal *cardinal Melchior von Diepenbrock, Prince-Bishop of Breslau *

Leopold Wilhelm von Dobschütz Leopold Wilhelm von Dobschütz (1 January 1763 in Brzeg, Brieg, Niederschlesien – 3 February 1836 at Gut Zölling, Landkreis Freystadt i. Niederschles., Kreis Freystadt, prev. Landkreis Sagan, Kreis Sagan, Niederschlesien) was a Prussian "general ...

, general *the House of

Henckel von Donnersmarck The House of Henckel von Donnersmarck is an old Austro-German noble family that originated in the former region of Spiš in Upper Hungary, now in Slovakia. The founder of the family was Henckel de Quintoforo in the 14/15th century. The original ...

Hans-Jürgen Dörner Hans-Jürgen "Dixie" Dörner (25 January 1951 – 19 January 2022) was a German football player and coach. He distinguished himself during his career by being named East Germany's player of the year three times (1977, 1984 and 1985) – the on ...

, soccer player and coach *

Bernard Drzyzga Bernard ('' Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brav ...

; pl, colonel * Ireneusz Dudek; pl, blues vocalist *

Jerzy Dudek Jerzy Henryk Dudek (; born 23 March 1973) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. After beginning his career in his home country, he went on to have successful spells in the Netherlands and England, winning the Ch ...

, soccer player *

Rafał Dutkiewicz Rafał Dutkiewicz (born 6 July 1959, Mikstat) is a Polish politician and entrepreneur who served as the city mayor of Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland from 2002 to 2018. Career till 2002 In the late 1970s and early 1980s he engag ...

, politician *

Ewald Dytko Edward Jan (or Ewald Oskar) Dytko (18 October 1914 – 13 June 1993) was a Polish football player, who, when his home country became Poland by Treaty of Versailles represented the no longer existing team of Dąb Katowice, also in 1935-39 he played ...

, soccer player * Wojciech Dzieduszycki; pl, count *

Johann 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 ...

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 ...

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Katja Ebstein Katja Ebstein (born Karin Witkiewicz; 9 March 1945) is a German singer. She was born in Girlachsdorf (now Gniewków, Poland). She achieved success with songs such as "Theater" and "Es war einmal ein Jäger". She was married to , who wrote many of ...

, singer *

Franz Eckert Franz Eckert (5 April 1852 – 6 August 1916) was a German composer and musician who composed the harmony for Japan's national anthem, "Kimigayo" and the national anthem of the Korean Empire, "Aegukga". Early life and education Eckert was a ...

, musician who composed the national anthem of Japan *

(1854–1915), physiologist *

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (10 March 178826 November 1857) was a German poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist. Eichendorff was one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism.Cf. J. A. Cuddon: '' ...

, poet * Bernd Eistert, chemist *

Norbert Elias Norbert Elias (; 22 June 1897 – 1 August 1990) was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes. Biography Elias was born on 22 June 1897 in Bresla ...

(1897–1990), sociologist *

Józef Elsner Józef Antoni Franciszek Elsner (sometimes ''Józef Ksawery Elsner''; baptismal name, ''Joseph Anton Franz Elsner''; 1 June 176918 April 1854) was a composer, music teacher, and music theoretician, active mainly in Warsaw. He was one of the firs ...

, composer, music teacher and theoretician *

Emin Pasha 185px, Schnitzer in 1875 Mehmed Emin Pasha (born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, baptized Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer; March 28, 1840 – October 23, 1892) was an Ottoman physician of German Jewish origin, naturalist, and governor of the Egyp ...

(Isaak Eduard Schnitzer), physician *

Leszek Engelking Leszek Engelking (2 February 1955 – 22 October 2022) was a Polish poet, short story writer, novelist, translator, literary critic, essayist, Polish philologist, and literary academic, scholar, and lecturer. Engelking translated a vast amount ...

, writer, poet, translator, scholar *

Berthold Englisch Berthold Englisch (9 July 1851, Hotzenplotz – 19 October 1897, Vienna) was a leading Austrian chess master. Englisch was born in Austrian Silesia (then Austria-Hungary) into a Jewish family. He earned his living as a stock-market agent. He won ...

, chess master * Anzelm Ephorinus; pl, physician *

Johann Samuel Ersch Johann Samuel Ersch (23 June 1766 – 16 January 1828) was a German bibliographer, generally regarded as the founder of German bibliography. Biography He was born in Großglogau (now Głogów), in Silesia. In 1785 he entered the University of H ...

, bibliographer

F

Eugeniusz Faber Eugeniusz Faber (6 April 1939 – 24 September 2021) was a Polish footballer who played as a forward for Ruch Chorzów and Lens A lens is a transmissive optical device which focuses or disperses a light beam by means of refraction. A simpl ...

, soccer player *

Nikolaus von Falkenhorst Paul Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (17 January 1885 – 18 June 1968) was a German general and a war criminal during World War II. He planned and commanded the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940, and was commander of German troops during ...

, general *

Gottfried Bermann Fischer Gottfried Bermann, later Gottfried Bermann Fischer (31 July 1897, Gleiwitz, Silesia – 17 September 1995, Camaiore), was a German publisher. He owned the S. Fischer Verlag. Biography After serving as an officer in World War I, Bermann Fischer ...

, publisher *

Grzegorz Fitelberg Grzegorz Fitelberg (18 October 1879 – 10 June 1953) was a Polish conductor, violinist and composer. He was a member of the Young Poland group, together with artists such as Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir Różycki and Mieczysław Karłowicz. Life ...

, conductor, violinist and composer * Walenty Fojkis; pl, politician *

Jan Foltys Jan Foltys (13 October 1908, Svinov – 11 March 1952, Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic) was a Czech chess International Master. Biography In 1933, he tied for 8-12th in Mnichovo Hradiště (13th Czech championships). In ...

, chess master * Emanuel Aloys Förster, composer * Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Leopold von Forcade de Biaix (1747–1808), Royal Prussian lieutenant colonel, Knight of the Order of ''

Pour le Mérite The ' (; , ) is an order of merit (german: Verdienstorden) established in 1740 by Frederick the Great, King Frederick II of Prussia. The was awarded as both a military and civil honour and ranked, along with the Order of the Black Eagle, the Or ...

'' * Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Ernst Heinrich von Forcade de Biaix (1787–1835), Royal Prussian major and Knight of the

Iron Cross The Iron Cross (german: link=no, Eisernes Kreuz, , abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945). King Frederick William III of Prussia est ...

2nd Class * Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Konstantin Quirin, Baron von Forcade de Biaix (1784–1840), Royal Prussian major, Knight of the

Knight A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Gr ...

of the Order of St. John Bailiwick of Brandenburg (1817), Royal Prussian

Chamberlain Chamberlain may refer to: Profession *Chamberlain (office), the officer in charge of managing the household of a sovereign or other noble figure People *Chamberlain (surname) **Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927), German-British philosop ...

, and ''

Castellan A castellan is the title used in Medieval Europe for an appointed official, a governor of a castle and its surrounding territory referred to as the castellany. The title of ''governor'' is retained in the English prison system, as a remnant o ...

Neuenrade Neuenrade is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, located in the hills of the Sauerland in the ''Märkischer Kreis''. Geography The highest elevation in the town area is the ''Kohlberg'' with an altitude of 514 m above sea level. The lowes ...

'' in the

County of Mark The County of Mark (german: Grafschaft Mark, links=no, french: Comté de La Marck, links=no colloquially known as ) was a county and state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle. It lay on both sides of the Ruhr River ...

* Rudolf Fränkel, architect *

Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat Heinz Ludwig Fraenkel-Conrat (July 29, 1910 – April 10, 1999) was a biochemist, famous for his research on viruses. Early life Fraenkel-Conrat was born in Breslau/Germany. He was the son of Lili Conrat and Professor Ludwig Fraenkel, direc ...

, biochemist * Egon Franke, fencer *

Zecharias Frankel Zecharias Frankel, also known as Zacharias Frankel (30 September 1801 – 13 February 1875) was a Bohemian-German rabbi and a historian who studied the historical development of Judaism. He was born in Prague and died in Breslau. He was the foun ...

, historian *

Gustav Freytag Gustav Freytag (; 13 July 1816 – 30 April 1895) was a German novelist and playwright. Life Freytag was born in Kreuzburg (Kluczbork) in Silesia. After attending the school at Oels (Oleśnica), he studied philology at the universities of ...

, writer * Fritz von Friedlaender-Fuld; de (1858–1917), industrialist *

Johnny Friedlaender Johnny Friedlaender (26 December 1912 – 18 June 1992) was a leading German/French 20th-century artist, whose works have been exhibited in Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Japan and the United States. He has been influential upon oth ...

(1912–1992), painter * Max Friedlaender (1852–1934), musicologist *

Carl Friedländer Carl Friedländer (19 November 1847, Brieg (Brzeg), Silesia – 13 May 1887, Meran (Merano), County of Tyrol) was a German pathologist and microbiologist who helped discover the bacterial cause of pneumonia in 1882. He also first described throm ...

(1847–1887), bacteriologist * Max Friedländer (1829–1872), journalist *

Max Jakob Friedländer Max Jakob Friedländer (5 July 1867 in Berlin – 11 October 1958 in Amsterdam) was a German museum curator and art historian. He was a specialist in Early Netherlandish painting and the Northern Renaissance, who volunteered at the Kupferstichkab ...

(1867–1958), art historian *

Walter Friedländer Walter Ferdinand Friedlaender (March 10, 1873 – September 8, 1966) was a German art historian (who should not be confused with Max Jakob Friedländer). Walter Friedlaender was the son of Sigismund Friedlaender and Anna Joachimsthal. Born in G ...

(1873–1966), art historian *

Anni Friesinger-Postma Anna ("Anni") Christine Friesinger-Postma (born 11 January 1977) is a German former speed skater. Her father Georg Friesinger, of Germany, and mother Janina ("Jana") Korowicka, of Poland, were both skaters; Jana was on the Polish team at the 197 ...

, speed skater *

Willy Fritsch Willy Fritsch (27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973) was a German theater and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s. Biography Early life He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, the only s ...

, actor *rev.

August Froehlich August Froehlich (26 January 1891 – 22 June 1942) was an Upper Silesian Roman Catholic priest. In his pastoral activity he opposed National Socialism. He campaigned in the name of German Catholics and of Polish forced labourers. He died in Dach ...

* Radek Fukala, historian *

Jan Furtok Jan Furtok (born 9 March 1962) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Career Born in Katowice, Furtok played for a few clubs, including GKS Katowice (Polish cup winner in 1986) and Hamburger SV and Eintracht Frankf ...

, soccer player

G

Hubert Gad Hubert Gad, also known as Hubert God (15 August 1914 – 3 July 1939), was a Polish football player, a very skilled and aggressive forward, who for a while was the top scorer of Poland. Born in Świętochłowice, Gad represented both Śląsk Św ...

, soccer player *

Christian Ganczarski Christian Ganczarski (born 1966, in Gliwice, Poland) is a German citizen of Polish ancestry who converted to a radical Islamic group. Nicolas Sarkozy, then French Interior Minister, alleged Ganczarski was a top Al-Qaeda leader who had been in Afgh ...

, terrorist *archbishop

Józef Gawlina Józef Feliks Gawlina, born in 1892 in Strzybnik ( Racibórz County) in Silesia - died 1964 in Rome was a Divisional general in the Polish Armed Forces. He was an ordained priest, Doctor of Theology and from 1933, Catholic bishop in the Military ...

* Dan Gawrecki, historian * Adam Gdacjusz, writer * Adam Abraham von Gaffron und Oberstradam, Danish general *

Gunther Gebel-Williams Gunther Gebel-Williams (September 12, 1934 – July 19, 2001) was an animal trainer for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from 1968 to 1990. Early life Gebel was born in Schweidnitz, Lower Silesia (now Świdnica, Poland). As a c ...

, circus performer, animal trainer * Oscar Gelbfuhs, chess master *

Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (27 March 1905 – 27 January 1980) was an officer in the German Army. He attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing on 21 March 1943; the plan failed when Hitler left early, but Gersdorff ...

, general * Eugeniusz Get-Stankiewicz; pl, sculptor *

Edmund Giemsa Edmund Giemza (Giemsa) (16 October 1912 – 30 September 1994) was a Polish interwar soccer player. He was born on 16 October 1912 in Upper Silesian city of Ruda Śląska and died on 30 September 1994 in Chinnor, England. Giemsa played for Ruc ...

, soccer player *

Georg von Giesche Georg may refer to: * ''Georg'' (film), 1997 *Georg (musical), Estonian musical * Georg (given name) * Georg (surname) * , a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker See also * George (disambiguation) George may refer to: People * George (given name) * ...

; de, merchant and manufacturer *

Karl Gilg Karl Gilg (20 January 1901, in Mankovice (Mankendorf), Austrian Silesia – 4 December 1981, in Kolbermoor, Bavaria) was a German chess International Master from Czechoslovakia. Biography Gilg played for Czechoslovakia in several Chess Olympiads.< ...

, chess master *

Krzysztof Globisz Krzysztof Maria Globisz (born 16 January 1957 in Siemianowice Śląskie) is a Polish theatre and film actor. His best-known role is as Piotr Balicki, the newly qualified barrister whose opinion of capital punishment undergoes a radical change in ...

, actor *rev.

Joseph Glowatzki Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

; de, politician *

Karl Godulla Karl Godulla, Carolus Godulla, in Polish language, Polish spelled Karol Godula (born 8 November 1781 in Makoschau, today Makoszowy, a subdivision of Zabrze, Silesia; died 6 July 1848 in Breslau, today Wrocław) was a Silesian self-made industrialist ...

, industrialist *

, physicist *

Eugen Goldstein Eugen Goldstein (; 5 September 1850 – 25 December 1930) was a German physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays or canal rays, later identified as positive ions in the gas phase including the h ...

, physicist *

Kurt Goldstein Kurt Goldstein (November 6, 1878 – September 19, 1965) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who created a holistic theory of the organism. Educated in medicine, Goldstein studied under Carl Wernicke and Ludwig Edinger where he focused on n ...

, neurologist *

Robert Gonera Robert Gonera is a Polish film, stage and television actor. He played leading roles in Krzysztof Krauze's political drama ''Street Games'' and the thriller '' The Debt'', for which he received Best Actor at the Polish Film Awards:Eagles. He bec ...

, actor *

Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (ca. 1665 to 1667 – 30 April 1734) was a Polish Baroque composer. Considered one of the greatest composers of Polish Baroque music, during his lifetime he was called the "Polish Handel". Life Born in Rozbark near Byt ...

, composer, musician *

Jerzy Gorgoń Jerzy Paweł Gorgoń (born 18 July 1949 in Zabrze) is a Polish former football player who is remembered for his participation in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was a 6'4" tall central defender, who became well known in 1967 while playing for Górn ...

, soccer player * Emil Görlitz; de, soccer player *

Jerzy Gorzelik Jerzy Zdzisław Gorzelik (born 25 October 1971, in Zabrze) is a Silesian politician and an art historian. He is the president of the Silesian Autonomy Movement and an advocate for decentralization of the Polish administrative structure.Aleksandra ...

, Silesian politician * Rudolf von Gottschall, poet, dramatist, chess master *

Wilhelm Góra Wilhelm Antoni Góra (18 January 1916 – 21 May 1975) was a Polish midfield soccer player. His career started in Szarlej (Scharley O/S) - a small hamlet located near Bytom -Beuthen O/S. After some years, he moved to Pogon Katowice (which no lo ...

, soccer player *

Halina Górecka Halina Sylwia Górecka (née Richter, later Herrmann; born 4 February 1938) is a retired Polish and German sprinter. At the Summer Olympics she competed for Poland in 1956, 1960 and 1964 and for West Germany in 1968. She won a bronze and a gold ...

, athlete (sprinter) *

Henryk Górecki Henryk Mikołaj Górecki ( , ; 6 December 1933 – 12 November 2010) was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. According to critic Alex Ross, no recent classical composer has had as much commercial success as Górecki. He became a l ...

, composer * Joachim Grallert, watchmaker and jeweler *

Heinrich Graetz Heinrich Graetz (; 31 October 1817 – 7 September 1891) was amongst the first historians to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective. Born Tzvi Hirsch Graetz to a butcher family in Xions (now Książ Wielkopo ...

, historian *

Jerzy Grotowski Jerzy Marian Grotowski (; 11 August 1933 – 14 January 1999) was a Polish theatre director and theorist whose innovative approaches to acting, training and theatrical production have significantly influenced theatre today. He was born in Rzesz ...

, theatre director * Friedrich Grundmann; pl, businessman, co-founder of Katowice * Ignatz Grünfeld; pl, architect *

Andreas Gryphius Andreas Gryphius (german: Andreas Greif; 2 October 161616 July 1664) was a German poet and playwright. With his eloquent sonnets, which contains "The Suffering, Frailty of Life and the World", he is considered one of the most important Baroque ...

, poet * Joanna Gryzik von Schomberg-Godula; pl, (Johanna Gräfin von Schaffgotsch); de, industrialist *

Karol Grzesik Karol may refer to: Places * Karol, Gujarat, a village on Saurashtra peninsula in Gujarat, west India * Karol State, a former Rajput petty princely state with seat in the above town Film/TV *'' Karol: A Man Who Became Pope'', a 2005 miniseries *' ...

; pl, politician *

Bernhard Grzimek Bernhard Klemens Maria Grzimek (; 24 April 1909 – 13 March 1987) was a German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar West Germany. Biography Early years and education Grzimek was born in Neisse (N ...

, zoologist *cardinal

Henryk Gulbinowicz Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz (17 October 1923 – 16 November 2020) was a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Wrocław from 1976 to 2004. Pope John Paul II made him a cardinal in 1985. In 2020, he was banned from making publi ...

* Torsten Gütschow, soccer player

H

*the House of

Habsburg The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...

; Branch of Toscania/Teschen *

, chemist * Stanisław Hadyna; pl, composer * Richard Hanke, soccer player *

Daniel Harrwitz Daniel Harrwitz (22 February 1821 – 2 January 1884) was a German chess master. Harrwitz was born in Breslau (Wrocław) in the Prussian Province of Silesia. Harrwitz's correct birth and death dates (22 February 1821 and 2 January 1884 respectiv ...

, chess master *

Alfred Hauptmann Alfred Hauptmann (born August 29, 1881 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, died April 5, 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts) was a German-Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist. His most important contribution remained the article written in 1912 on the effectiv ...

; de, neurologist *

, dramatist *

Felix Hausdorff Felix Hausdorff ( , ; November 8, 1868 – January 26, 1942) was a German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, and ...

, mathematician *

Saint Hedwig of Andechs Hedwig of Silesia ( pl, Święta Jadwiga Śląska), also Hedwig of Andechs (german: Heilige Hedwig von Andechs, la, Hedvigis; 1174 – 15 October 1243), a member of the Bavarian comital House of Andechs, was Duchess of Silesia from 1201 and o ...

; (św. Jadwiga Śląska), Duchess of Silesia (1174–1243) *

Johann Heermann Johann Heermann (11 October 158517 February 1647) was a German poet and hymnodist. He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on 26 October with Philipp Nicolai and Paul Gerhardt. Life Heermann was born in Raudten (m ...

, poet and hymnwriter *

Sigfried Held Sigfried "Siggi" Held (born 7 August 1942) is a German former football player and coach. He played as an attacking midfielder or forward. Born in Freudenthal, Sudetenland (now Czech Republic), Held's first football club was Kickers Offenbach. In ...

, soccer player and coach *

Henry the Bearded Henry the Bearded ( pl, Henryk (Jędrzych) Brodaty, german: Heinrich der Bärtige; c. 1165/70 – 19 March 1238) was a Polish duke from the Piast dynasty. He was Duke of Silesia at Wrocław from 1201, Duke of Kraków and High Duke of all Pola ...

, Duke *

Henry II the Pious Henry II the Pious ( pl, Henryk II Pobożny; 1196 – 9 April 1241) was Duke of Silesia and High Duke of Poland as well as Duke of South-Greater Poland from 1238 until his death. Between 1238 and 1239 he also served as regent of Sandomierz and ...

, Duke *

Henry III the White Henry III the White ( pl, Henryk III Biały) ( – 3 December 1266), a member of the Silesian Piasts, was Duke of Silesia at Wrocław from 1248 until his death, as co-ruler with his brother Władysław. Life He was the third son of the Polish hi ...

, Duke *

Henry IV Probus Henryk IV Probus (Latin for ''the Righteous'') ( pl, Henryk IV Probus or ''Prawy''; german: Heinrich IV. der Gerechte) ( – 23 June 1290) was a member of the Silesian branch of the royal Polish Piast dynasty. He was Duke of Silesia at Wro ...

, Duke * Lothar Herbst; pl, poet *

Max Herrmann-Neisse Max Herrmann-Neisse (also Max Hermann, 23 May 1886, Nysa, Poland, Nysa – 8 April 1941, London) was a German people, German expressionism, expressionist writer. He was a childhood friend of fellow writer Franz Jung. He was also a personal friend ...

; pl, de, writer * Richard Herrmann, soccer player *

Arno Herzig The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the most important river of central Italy after the Tiber. Source and route The river originates on Monte Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a s ...

; de, historian *

Dieter Hildebrandt Dieter Hildebrandt (23 May 1927 – 20 November 2013) was a German Kabarett artist. Biography Hildebrandt was born in Bunzlau, Lower Silesia, Weimar Germany (now Boleslawiec, Poland) where he attended school. In World War II he became a Flakhe ...

, kabarettist * Moses Hirschel, writer and chess master *

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 *cardinal

August Hlond August Hlond (July 5, 1881 – October 22, 1948) was a Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, who was Archbishop of Poznań and Gniezno in 1926 and Primate of Poland. He was then appointed as the Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw in 194 ...

;

Primate of Poland This is a list of archbishops of the Archdiocese of Gniezno, who are simultaneously primates of Poland since 1418.Hans Heinrich XV von Hochberg Hans Heinrich XV von Hochberg ( pl, Jan Henryk XV; 23 April 1861 – 31 January 1938) was Prince of Pless (Pszczyna), Count von Hochberg and Baron of Fürstenstein ( Książ). He was the husband (1891–1923) of Mary Theresa Olivia Hochberg von P ...

, Prince *

Karl Höfer Karl Höfer also Hoefer; (29 December 1862 in Pleß – 12 May 1939 in Würzburg) was a German general. During World War I he became known as the ''Held vom Kemmelberge'' (hero of Kemmel hill) after his division had captured the Kemmelber ...

, general *

Otto Höhne Leutnant Otto Paul Wilhelm Höhne (30 April 1895 – 22 November 1969) was a German World War I flying ace credited with six confirmed aerial victories.The Aerodrome website page on HöhnRetrieved on 11 August 2010. Höhne was a pioneer ace; he wa ...

, general *

Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (baptised 25 December 1616 – 4 April 1679) was a German poet of the Baroque era. He was born and died in Breslau (Wrocław) in Silesia. During his education in Danzig (Gdańsk) and Leiden, he befrien ...

, poet and municipal politician *

Prince Adolf of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen Adolf Karl Friedrich Ludwig Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (29 January 1797 – 24 April 1873) was a Prussian nobleman, soldier, and politician. He briefly served as Minister-President of Prussia in 1862 and was succeeded by Otto von Bismarck ...

, nobleman, soldier, and politician *

Prince Kraft of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen Kraft Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (2 January 1827 – 16 January 1892) was a Prussian general and military writer during the time of the German Empire. Early life Kraft Karl August zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen was born at Koschentin in Up ...

, nobleman and general *

August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen Frederick ''August'' Charles, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (27 November 1784 – 15 February 1853) was a German general of the Napoleonic Wars and nobleman of the house of Hohenlohe. Early life August was born on 27 November 1784 in Breslau. ...

, general, industrialist, landowner and mining business people *

Karl Eduard von Holtei Karl Eduard von Holtei (24 January 1798 – 12 February 1880) was a German poet and actor. Life and career Karl Eduard von Holtei was born at Breslau, the son of an officer of Hussars. Having served in the Prussian army as a volunteer in 1815 ...

; poet and actor * Richard Holtze; szl, politician, co-founder of Katowice * Walther von Holzhausen, chess master *

Bernhard von Hülsen Bernhard Franz Karl Adolf von Hülsen (20 April 1865 – 21 April 1950) was a German general. He was the son of Prussian colonel lieutenant Hermann von Hülsen (1816–1867) and his second wife Helene, née von Clausewitz. Walter von Hü ...

, general * Herbert Hupka, politician * Saint Hyacinth; (św. Jacek Odrowąż), Dominican friar, called the Apostle of the North

I

Salomon Isaac Salomon may refer to: People * Salomon (given name) * Salomon (surname) Companies * Salomon Brothers, a former investment bank, now a part of Citigroup * Salomon Group, a company manufacturing sporting equipment (which was a part of Adidas-Salom ...

; pl, merchant

J

* Anton Jadasch; de, politician *

Lech Janerka Lech Andrzej Janerka (born 2 May 1953 in Wrocław, Poland) is a Polish songwriter, vocalist, and bassist. In the 1980s he was leader of a notable Polish post-punk Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of punk music that em ...

, composer *

Janosch Janosch (, born as Horst Eckert on 11 March 1931) is a German children's author and illustrator. Biography Janosch was born as Horst Eckert in what was then Hindenburg (now Zabrze, Poland) in Upper Silesia to a family of mixed German and Poli ...

, children's writer *

Michael Jary Michael Jary (born 'Maximilian Michael Andreas Jarczyk'; 24 September 1906 in Laurahütte, Siemianowitz (today Siemianowice Śląskie) – 12 July 1988 in Munich) was a German composer. Early years Jary's father worked at the Königshüt ...

, composer * Grzegorz Jarzyna; pl, theatre director *

Otylia Jędrzejczak Otylia Jędrzejczak (; born 13 December 1983) is a Polish swimmer. She was the Olympic champion from 2004 Athens in the 200 metre butterfly. She finished 4th in this event in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and also swam at the 2000 Summ ...

, swimmer *

Jens Jeremies Jens Jeremies (born 5 March 1974) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Best known for his tackling abilities, he played for three clubs during his professional career, most notably Bayern Munich which ...

, soccer player * Moritz Jursitzky, writer

K

* Ryszard Kaczmarek; pl, historian * Zbigniew Kadłubek; pl, classical philologist * Helmut Kajzar; pl, playwright, theatre director * Theodor Kalide, sculptor *

David Kalisch David Kalisch (also known under the pseudonym: D. J. Schalk; February 23, 1820 – August 21, 1872) was a German playwright and humorist. Early life His infancy and early childhood were spent in a home of comfort and culture; but when he was onl ...

, writer and humorist *bishop

Maximilian Kaller Maximilian Kaller (10 October 1880 – 7 July 1947) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Ermland ( pl, Warmia) in East Prussia from 1930 to 1947. However, ''de facto'' expelled from mid-August 1945, he was a special bishop for the homeland-expellees unt ...

Theodor Kaluza Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza (; 9 November 1885 – 19 January 1954) was a German mathematician and physicist known for the Kaluza–Klein theory, involving field equations in five-dimensional space-time. His idea that fundamental forces can be ...

, mathematician and physicist *

Tomasz Kamusella Tomasz Kamusella FRHistS (born 24 December 1967) is a Polish scholar pursuing interdisciplinary research in language politics, nationalism and ethnicity. Education Kamusella was educated at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Faculty of Phi ...

, linguist *

Manfred Kanther Manfred Kanther (born 26 May 1939 in Schweidnitz, Silesia) is a German conservative politician and was Minister of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1993 to 1998. He has been a member of the CDU (since 1958). Life and edu ...

, politician *

Anna Louisa Karsch Anna Louisa Karsch (1 December 1722 in Hammer, Silesia – 12 October 1791 in Berlin) was a German autodidact and poet from the Silesia region, known to her contemporaries as "Die Karschin" and "the German Sappho". She became the first German woma ...

, poet * Adolf Kaschny; pl, Silesian politician *

Georg Katzer Georg Katzer (; 10 January 1935 – 7 May 2019) was a German composer and teacher. The last master student of Hanns Eisler, he composed music in many genres, including works for the stage. Katzer was one of the pioneers of electronic new music ...

, composer *

Lars Kaufmann Lars Kaufmann (born February 25, 1982) is a German team handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkee ...

, handball player *

Bernhard Kempa Bernhard Kempa (19 November 1920 – 20 July 2017) was a German handball player and coach. He was born in Oppeln, Upper Silesia (Opole, Poland). As a national team player he became world champion in field handball in 1952 and 1955. Career In ...

; de, handball player *

Alfred Kerr Alfred Kerr (''né'' Kempner; 25 December 1867 – 12 October 1948, surname: ) was an influential German theatre critic and essayist of Jewish descent, nicknamed the ''Kulturpapst'' ("Culture Pope"). Biography Youth Kerr was born in Breslau, ...

, art critic *

Jan Kidawa-Błoński Jan Kidawa-Błoński (born 12 February 1953, Chorzów) is a Polish film director, producer and screenwriter. Life He initially studied architecture at the Silesian University of Technology. In 1980, he graduated from the National Film School in � ...

; pl, film director *

Leon Kieres Leon Kieres (born 26 May 1948) is a Polish lawyer and politician. He was the president of the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (Institute of National Remembrance) (8 June 2000 – 22 December 2005), a judge of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal. Bio ...

, historian *

Wojciech Kilar Wojciech Kilar (; 17 July 1932 – 29 December 2013) was a Polish classical and film music composer. One of his greatest successes came with his score to Francis Ford Coppola's '' Bram Stoker's Dracula'' in 1992, which received the ASCAP Award ...

, composer *

Gustav Kirchhoff Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (; 12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. He coine ...

, physicist *

Martin Kirschner Martin Kirschner (28 October 1879 – 30 August 1942) was a German surgeon. Kirschner was born in Breslau, the son of Margarethe Kalbeck (sister of Max Kalbeck) and Judge Martin Kirschner (1842–1912), who later served as city councillor ( ...

, surgeon *

August Kiss August Karl Eduard Kiss, or Kiß (October 11, 1802 – March 24, 1865) was a German sculptor, known for his monumental bronzes. Life and works Kiss was born in Paprotzan (now Paprocany, part of Tychy in Poland) in Prussian Silesia. He studie ...

, sculptor *

Eckart Klein Eckhart Klein (born 6 April 1943) is a German legal scholar. From June 1994 to July 2008, he held the chair for constitutional, international, and European law at the University of Potsdam. Biography Klein was born 6 April 1943 in Oppeln, Sile ...

; de, social scientist *

Norbert Klein Norbert Klein (25 October 1866 in Brunzeif, Austrian Silesia – 10 March 1933 in Bruntál, Czechoslovakia) was Bishop of Brno from 1916 to 1926 and 59th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1923 to 1933. Life Klein began his theological s ...

, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (1923–1933) *

Otto Klemperer Otto Nossan Klemperer (14 May 18856 July 1973) was a 20th-century conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the US, Hungary and finally Britain. His early career was in opera houses, but he was later better known as a concer ...

, conductor and composer * Karl Ludwig Klose; de, historian *

Miroslav Klose Miroslav Josef Klose (, pl, Mirosław Józef Klose; born 9 June 1978 as Mirosław Marian Klose) is a German professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player who is the head coach of Austrian Footb ...

, soccer player * Samuel Benjamin Klose; de, historian *

Baladine Klossowska Baladine Klossowska or Kłossowska (21 October 1886 — 11 September 1969) was a German painter. Originating from an artistic Jewish family with roots in Lithuania, she moved from Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) to Paris, France, at the t ...

, painter *

Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (12 February 1848 – 12 October 1918) was a German botanist and dendrologist born near Striegau, a town known today as Strzegom, Poland. Koehne was a professor of botany in Berlin and was a leading authority ...

, botanist *

Alexander Kohut Alexander (Chanoch Yehuda) Kohut (April 22, 1842 – May 25, 1894) was a rabbi and orientalist. He belonged to a family of rabbis, the most noted among them being Rabbi Israel Palota, his great-grandfather, Rabbi Amram (called "The Gaon," who die ...

, orientalist * Józef Kokot; pl, soccer player *

Heinz Kokott Heinz Kokott (14 November 1900 – 29 May 1976) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Kokott took part in the siege of Bastogne in December 1944. ...

, general *

Jan Jakub Kolski Jan Jakub Kolski (born 29 January 1956) is a Polish film director, cinematographer, and writer. Early life and career Kolski was born in Wrocław, and comes from a family closely connected to cinema. His father, Roman Kolski, and his sister, Ewa ...

, film director and writer *cardinal

Bolesław Kominek Bolesław Kominek (23 December 1903 – 10 March 1974) was a Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Wrocław from 1972 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1973. Biography Bolesław Komin ...

Jerzy Konikowski Jerzy Konikowski (born 24 January 1947, in Bytom, Poland) is a Polish–German chess master, problemist and author. He was a Polish national team trainer in 1978–1981 (the Polish Women's national team won bronze medal in the 9th Women's Ch ...

, chess master *Richard Konwiarz; architect *Kopaynski or Kopanski family *cardinal Georg von Kopp *Rudolf Koppitz, photographer *Wojciech Korfanty, politician *Julian Kornhauser, poet and literary critic *Hubert Kostka, soccer player *Jan Kotrč, chess master *Viktor de Kowa, actor and singer *Józef Kożdoń, Silesian autonomist *Marek Krajewski, classical philologist and crime-story writer *Adolf Kramer, chess master *Paul Krause (politician), Paul Krause; :de:Paul Krause, de (December 27, 1905, † October 19, 1950), politician *Emil Krebs, polyglot and sinologist *Otto Kretschmer, commodore *Rodolphe Kreutzer (father was born in Silesia), violinist and composer *Henryk Kroll, politician *Jan Kropidło, Duke of Opole, bishop of Chełmno, Kamień Pomorski, Kuyavia, Poznań, archbishop of Gniezno,

Primate of Poland This is a list of archbishops of the Archdiocese of Gniezno, who are simultaneously primates of Poland since 1418.Philipp Lenard Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard (; hu, Lénárd Fülöp Eduárd Antal; 7 June 1862 – 20 May 1947) was a Hungarian-born German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his work on cathode rays and the discovery of m ...

, physicist *Roman Lentner, soccer player *Jan Liberda, soccer player *the House of Lichnowsky *Felix Lichnowsky, Felix Graf von Lichnowsky, politician *the House of Princely Family of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein *Felix Liebrecht, folklorist *Paul Löbe, politician *Friedrich von Logau, epigrammatist *Daniel Casper von Lohenstein, diplomat and writer *Stanisław Ligoń; :pl:Stanisław Ligoń, pl, writer and painter *Józef Lompa; :pl:Józef Lompa, pl, poet *rev. Józef Londzin; :pl:Józef Londzin, pl, politician *Fritz London, physicist *Ortwin Lowack; :de:Ortwin Lowack, de, lawyer and politician *Fred Lowen, designer *Erich Löwenhardt, fighter pilot, Oberleutnant *Arthur Löwenstamm, rabbi *Heinz A. Lowenstam, paleoecologist *Włodzimierz Lubański, soccer player *Emil Ludwig, writer *Hans Lukaschek; :de:Hans Lukaschek, de, Silesian politician *Bobby E. Lüthge; :de:Bobby E. Lüthge, de, screenwriter *Alojzy Lysko, writer and politician *Mariusz Łukasiewicz; :pl:Mariusz Łukasiewicz, pl, businessman *Olgierd Łukaszewicz, actor *Ondra Łysohorsky, poet

M

*Gottlieb Machate, chess master *Wacław Maciejowski, historian *Lech Majewski, film and theatre director *Anton Franz Graf von Magnis; :de:Anton Franz von Magnis, de, colonel *Franz Magnis-Suseno; priest, missionary man and Indonesian public figure. *Leonard Malik; :pl:Leonard Malik, pl, soccer player *Richard Malik, soccer player *Adam Małysz, ski jumper *Andrzej Markowski; :pl:Andrzej Markowski (językoznawca), pl, linguist *Martin of Opava, historian, archbishop of Gniezno,

Primate of Poland This is a list of archbishops of the Archdiocese of Gniezno, who are simultaneously primates of Poland since 1418.Theodor Mommsen Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th cent ...

, historian and writer *Gustaw Morcinek, writer *Oskar Morgenstern, economist *, architect *Moritz Moszkowski, composer, pianist *Czesław Śpiewa, Czesław Mozil, singer *Paul Mross, chess master *Bogdan Musioł, bobsledder *Joseph Musiol, politician *bishop Jan Muskata

N

*bishop Nanker *, poet *Albert Neisser, physician *Gustav Neumann, chess master *Ernst Niekisch, politician *Jaromír Nohavica, poet and songwriter *archbishop Alfons Nossol; :pl:Alfons Nossol, pl *Erwin Nyc, soccer player

O

*Teofil Ociepka; :pl:Teofil Ociepka, pl, naïve painter *Jan Olbrycht, politician *Reinhold Olesch, linguist *Paul Ondrusch, sculptor *Martin Opitz, poet *Władysław Opolczyk, Duke of Opole *Edmund Osmańczyk, writer *

, publicist *Stanisław Oślizło, soccer player

P

*Franz Pacher, engineer *Idzi Panic, historian *Helmuth von Pannwitz, general and ataman *Rudolf Pannwitz, writer and philosopher *Eduard Pant, politician *Joseph Partsch, geographer *Ildefons Pauler, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (1970–1988) *rev. Paul Peikert; :pl:Paul Peikert, pl *Teodor Peterek, soccer player *the House of Piast dynasty, Piast *Ryszard Piec, soccer player *Wilhelm Piec, soccer player *Antoni Piechniczek, soccer player and coach *Franciszek Pieczka, actor *bishop Tadeusz Pieronek *Jerzy Pilch, writer *David Pindur; :cs:David Pindur, cs, :pl:David Pindur, pl, historian *Józef Pinior, politician *, vicar *, Silesian politician *Heinz Piontek, poet and writer *, actor *Leonard Piontek, soccer player *Sepp Piontek, soccer player and coach *Richard Pipes, historian *Łukasz Piszczek, soccer player *Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, mathematician and astronomer *Marek Plawgo, athlete *the House of Pszczyna, Pless *Lukas Podolski, soccer player *Ernest Pol, Ernest Pohl, soccer player *Hugo von Pohl, admiral *Ewald Stefan Pollok, historian *Yosef Porat, chess master *Hans Poelzig, architect *Vincenz Priessnitz, hydrotherapist *Alfred Pringsheim, mathematician *Ernst Pringsheim Sr., physicist *Ernst Pringsheim Jr., biochemist and botanist *Nathanael Pringsheim, botanist *, railway magnate *Maximilian von Prittwitz, general *the *, Silesian politician *, actor

R

*Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden, engineer *Jan Reginek; :pl:Jan Reginek, pl, politician *rev. Tomasz Reginek; :pl:Tomasz Reginek, pl, politician *Eva Gabriele Reichmann, historian and sociologist *, known as ''Philo vom Walde'', poet *Hanna Reitsch, aviator *, politician *Bolko von Richthofen, archeologist *Ferdinand von Richthofen, traveller, geographer *Hermann von Richthofen, diplomat *Lothar von Richthofen, fighter pilot *Manfred von Richthofen, fighter pilot *Wolfram von Richthofen, fighter pilot, General Field Marshal *Ryszard Riedel, blues/rock vocalist *Fritz Riemann, chess master *Günther Rittau, camera operator and film director *Horst Rittner, chess master *Abraham Robinson, mathematician *Julius Roger, entomologist and folklorist *Ottomar Rosenbach, physician *Philipp Roth (cellist), Philipp Roth, cellist *Walenty Roździeński; :pl:Walenty Roździeński, pl, industrialist and poet *Tadeusz Różewicz, poet *Johann Christian Ruberg, pioneer in the metallurgy of zinc *Hans-Ulrich Rudel, fighter pilot, colonel *Andrzej Rudy, soccer player *Otto Rüster, chess master *Wanda Rutkiewicz, mountain climber *Józef Rymer, politician

S

*Julius von Sachs, botanist *Otto Sackur, chemist *Valery Salov, chess grandmaster *John Sarkander, Saint John Sarkander, priest *the House of Schaffgotsch *Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch, general *Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch: :de:Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch (Industrieller), de, industrialist *Raphael Schäfer, soccer player *Reinhard Schaletzki, soccer player *Robert Schälzky, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (1936–1948) *cardinal Leo Scheffczyk, theologian *Theodor von Scheve, chess master *bishop Emanuel von Schimonsky; :de:Emanuel von Schimonsky, de *Friedrich Schleiermacher *Ludwig Schmitt, chess master *August Schneider; :de:August Schneider, de, politician *August Scholtis; :de:August Scholtis, de, :pl:August Scholtis, pl, writer *Arnold Schottländer, chess master *Heinrich Schulz-Beuthen, composer *Peter Schumann, artist, puppeteer, theatre director *Johann Gottlieb Schummel; :de:Johann Gottlieb Schummel, de, writer *Theodor Emil Schummel, entomologist *Caspar Schwenckfeld, theologian and writer *Hanna Schygulla, actress *Karl Sczodrok; :pl:Karl Sczodrok, pl, writer *bishop Leopold von Sedlnitzky *Josef von Sedlnitzky; :de:Josef von Sedlnitzky, de *Paul Segieth; :de:Paul Segieth, de, painter *Oskar Seidlin, writer *

, economist *Gustavus Sidenberg, financier *Janusz Sidło, athlete *Tomasz Sikora, biathlete *Angelus Silesius, poet *Edward Simoni; :de:Edward Simoni, de, pan flute musician *Gerhard Skrobek, sculptor *archbishop Wiktor Skworc; :pl:Wiktor Skworc, pl *Aleksandra Śląska, actress *Henryk Sławik, diplomat *Bohdan Smoleń, comedian *Michał Smolorz; :pl:Michał Smolorz, pl, publicist *Franciszek Smuda, soccer player and coach *Monika Soćko, chess grandmaster *Emanuel Sperner, mathematician *Edith Stein, philosopher, Roman Catholic saint *Hugo Steinhaus, mathematician *Fritz Stern, historian *

, physicist *Ernst Steinitz, mathematician *Feliks Steuer, Silesian educationist *Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz, general *Moritz von Strachwitz, writer *Pavle Jurišić Šturm, Serbian general *Czesław Suszczyk, soccer player *Carl Gottlieb Svarez, jurist *Dariusz Świercz, chess grandmaster *Waldemar Świerzy, poster artist *rev. Józef Szafranek; :pl:Józef Szafranek, pl, politician *Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska, chess grandmaster *Thomas Szczeponik, Silesian politician *rev. Leopold Szersznik (Leopold Jan Šeršník); :pl:Leopold Szersznik, pl, bibliophile *Sławomir Szmal, handball player *Józef Szmidt, athlete *Zygfryd Szołtysik, soccer player *rev. Emil Szramek; :pl:Emil Szramek, pl (born Emil Michael Schramek) *Edward Szymkowiak, soccer player

T

*Siegbert Tarrasch, chess grandmaster *Max Tau, writer *Adam Taubitz, musician *Johannes Thiele (chemist), Johannes Thiele, chemist *Wolfgang Thierse, politician *Georg Thomalla, actor *Harry Thürk, writer *prince-bishop Johannes V. Thurzo; :de:Johannes V. Thurzo, de *

, writer *Henryk Tomaszewski (mime), Henryk Tomaszewski, mime *Klaus Töpfer, politician *Alfons Tracki, priest *Ludwig Traube (physician), Ludwig Traube, physician *Moritz Traube, biochemist *Wilhelm Traube, chemist *Oscar Troplowitz, pharmacist, inventor of Nivea *rev. Jiří Třanovský, pastor and hymnwriter, the "Luther of the Slavs" *Paul Tschackert, theologian and historian *Szczepan Twardoch; :pl:Szczepan Twardoch, pl, writer *Sebastian Tyrała, soccer player

U

*Tomáš Ujfaluši, soccer player *Alexander Ulfig; :de:Alexander Ulfig, de, philosopher and sociologist *Arnold Ulitz; :de:Arnold Ulitz, de, writer *rev. Carl Ulitzka; :de:Carl Ulitzka, de, Silesian politician *Kurt Urbanek; :de:Kurt Urbanek, de, politician *Zacharias Ursinus, theologian and author of the Heidelberg Catechism

V

*Julius von Verdy du Vernois, general and military writer *Hieronymus Vietor, printer and publisher *Ingmar Villqist; :sv:Ingmar Villqist, sv, writer

W

*Andrzej Waligórski; :pl::Andrzej Waligórski, pl, actor and poet *Henryk Waniek; :pl:Henryk Waniek, pl, painter and writer *Walter Warzecha, admiral *Krzysztof Warzycha, soccer player *Franz Waxman, composer *Martin Websky; :de::Martin Websky, de, mineralogist *Karl Weigert, pathologist *Erich Weinitschke, chess master *Edmund Weiss, astronomer *Friedrich Weißler, lawyer *rev. Augustin Weltzel; :pl:Augustin Weltzel, pl, historian *Henry Wenceslaus, Duke of Oels-Bernstadt, Governor of Silesia (1629–1639) *Carl Wernicke, neurologist *archbishop Stefan Wesoły; :pl:Stefan Wesoły, pl *Robert Więckiewicz, actor *Ernest Wilimowski, soccer player *Wincenty of Kielcza, poet *Franz von Winckler; :de::Franz von Winckler, de, industrialist *Johann Heinrich Winckler, physicist and philosopher *Hubert von Tiele-Winckler; :de:Hubert von Tiele-Wincler, de, industrialist *Eva von Tiele-Winckler; :de:Eva von Tiele-Winckler, de, diakonissa *Walter Winkler, soccer player *Witelo ca.1230-ca.1300, physicist *Paul Wittich, mathematician and astronomer *Erwin von Witzleben, field marshal *Piotr Włostowic, Peter Wlast, palatine *Gerard Wodarz, soccer player *Erich Peter Wohlfarth, physicist *Józef Wojaczek, priest, member of the Mariannhillers, Mariannhill Missionaries. *Rafał Wojaczek, poet *Balduin Wolff, drawer and painter *Konstanty Wolny; :pl:Konstanty Wolny, pl, politician *Johann Gottlob Worbs; :de:Johann Gottlob Worbs, de, historian *Jerzy Wostal, soccer player *Dariusz Wosz, soccer player *Remus von Woyrsch, general *Tomasz Wylenzek, canoer *Klaus Wyrtki, geophysicist

Y

*Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg, jurist and politician

Z

*Rudolf Žáček; :cs:Rudolf Žáček, cs, historian *Adam Zagajewski, poet *Vilém Závada; :cs:Vilém Závada, cs, poet *Jolanta Zawadzka, chess grandmaster *Karl Abraham Zedlitz, Karl Abraham von Zedlitz, politician *Hans Zenker, admiral *Alfons Zgrzebniok; :pl:Alfons Zgrzebniok, pl, military officer and politician *Jerzy Ziętek, politician *Krystian Zimerman, pianist *archbishop Damian Zimoń *Benedict Zuckermann, scientist *Arnold Zweig, writer *Stefanie Zweig, writer

The major Silesian cities

*Bielsko-Biała *Bohumín *Brzeg *Bruntál *Bytom *Cieszyn *Chorzów *Frýdek-Místek *Gliwice *Głogów *Görlitz *Hoyerswerda *Jelenia Góra *Jeseník *Katowice *Karviná *Kłodzko *Kluczbork *Krnov *Legnica *Lubin *Oleśnica *Opava *Opole *Ostrava *Mysłowice *Nysa, Poland, Nysa *Prudnik *Pszczyna *Racibórz *Ruda Śląska *Rybnik *Tarnowskie Góry *Tychy *Wałbrzych *Wrocław *Zabrze *Zielona Góra *Żagań

Literature

* Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse: ''Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City'', London: Jonathan Cape, 2002. * Marek Czapliński, Elżbieta Kaszuba, Gabriela Wąs, Rościsław Żerelik: ''Historia Śląska'', Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2002. * Hugo Weczerka: ''Handbuch der historischen Stätten: Schlesien''. Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner Verlag, 2003. . * ''Historia Górnego Śląska'', ed. Joachim Bahlcke, Dan Gawrecki, Ryszard Kaczmarek, Dom Współpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej, Gliwice 2011. . * Arno Herzig, Krzysztof Ruchniewicz, Małgorzata Ruchniewicz: ''Śląsk i jego dzieje'', Wydawnictwo Via Nova, Wrocław 2012. {{ISBN, 978-83-60544-91-4