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Science


Physics

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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 Collè ...
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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, 1995 Nobel Prize * Jan Kazimierz Danysz *
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 Jerzy Pniewski (June 1, 1913 – June 16, 1 ...
* Tomasz Dietl *
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 ...
* Artur Ekert, 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 *
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 ...
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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. E ...
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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 ...
* Jerzy Stanisław Janicki * Sylwester Kaliski * 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 Laborato ...
* Maciej Lewenstein * Olga Malinkiewicz *
Albert A. Michelson Albert Abraham Michelson 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 speed of light and esp ...
, 1907 Nobel Prize * Lidia Morawska * Stanisław Mrozowski * Władysław Natanson * Witold Nazarewicz * Henryk Niewodniczański * Georges Nomarski * Karol Olszewski *
Jerzy Plebański Jerzy Franciszek Plebański (7 May 1928, Warsaw – 24 August 2005, Mexico) was a Polish theoretical physicist best known for his extensive research into general relativity and supergravity. Biography In 1954, Plebański received his Ph.D. und ...
* Jerzy Pniewski * Nikodem Popławski *
Sylwester Porowski Sylwester Andrzej Porowski (born April 7, 1938 in Bierzyn, Lower Silesian Voivodeship), is a Polish physicist specializing in solid-state Solid state, or solid matter, is one of the four fundamental states of matter. Solid state may also ref ...
, 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 ...
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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 c ...
, 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 Chemistry, Physics, Physiolo ...
* Stefan Rozental * Wojciech Rubinowicz *
Maria Skłodowska Curie Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie ( , , ; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first ...
(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 ea ...
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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 ...
, kinetic theory,
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 *
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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� ...
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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 ...
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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 q ...
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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, ultrav ...
* August Witkowski *
Stanley Wojcicki Stanley George Wojcicki ( ; born Stanisław Jerzy Wójcicki, ; March 30, 1937) is a Polish American emeritus professor and former chair of the physics department at Stanford University in California, United States. Early life and education Wojcic ...
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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 * 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 ...
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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 ...
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Chemistry

* Osman Achmatowicz * Józef Boguski * 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 all ...
, 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 ...
* Tadeusz Estreicher,
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 “c ...
pioneer * Kazimierz Fajans * Kazimierz Funk,
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 parts. The word "biochemist" is a portmanteau of "biological ch ...
, the concept of
vitamin A vitamin is an organic molecule (or a set of molecules closely related chemically, i.e. vitamers) that is an essential micronutrient that an organism needs in small quantities for the proper functioning of its metabolism. Essential nutrie ...
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 ...
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Konstanty Hrynakowski Konstanty Hrynakowski (May 21, 1878 – September 4, 1938) was a Polish chemist. He studied natural sciences at the St. Vladimir University, branching into inorganic chemistry and mineralogy at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, and earning a de ...
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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 f ...
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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 ...
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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 h ...
, electrochemistry of biopolymers * Wiktor Kemula *
Włodzimierz Kołos Włodzimierz Kołos (1928 - 1996) was a Polish chemist and physicist who was one of the founders of modern quantum chemistry, and pioneered accurate calculations on the electronic structure of molecules. Life and scientific work Kołos was born o ...
* Stanisław Kostanecki * Marek Gatty-Kostyal * Ignacy Łukasiewicz, 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 ...
* Leon Marchlewski * Bolesław Masłowski * Krzysztof Matyjaszewski *
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 Lib ...
, 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 * Karol Olszewski *
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 ...
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Sylwester Porowski Sylwester Andrzej Porowski (born April 7, 1938 in Bierzyn, Lower Silesian Voivodeship), is a Polish physicist specializing in solid-state Solid state, or solid matter, is one of the four fundamental states of matter. Solid state may also ref ...
* Tadeusz Reichstein,
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, Latinized as ''Sendivogius'':
alchemist Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, ''khumeía'') is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim ...
, 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 ...
* Zuzanna S. Siwy * Maria Skłodowska Curie (Marie Curie), two-time
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 ...
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Edward Sucharda Edward Sucharda (1891–1947) was a renowned Polish chemist and engineer. He was rector of Lwów University of Technology from 1938 to 1939 and vice-rector of Wrocław University of Technology from 1945 to 1947. Scientific activity Edward Suc ...
* Jędrzej Śniadecki * Wojciech Świętosławski, "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 ...
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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 * Filip Neriusz Walter, 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 ...
* Zygmunt Wróblewski * 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 mi ...
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Biology, medicine

* Joseph Babinski, neurologist, discoverer of the Babinski reflex *
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, 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 ...
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Czesław Bieżanko Czesław Marian Bieżanko (22 November 1895 in Kielce – 1986 in Pelotas, Brazil) was a Polish entomologist and recognized authority on South American butterflies. He was professor of the College of Agronomy in the city of Pelotas (current ...
, entomologist * Jan Biziel, physician, social activist * Tytus Chałubiński, 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 an ...
* Maria Antonina Czaplicka, anthropologist * Jan Czekanowski, 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 Wiktor Dega (7 December 1896 – 16 February 1995) was a Polish surgeon and orthopedist who was well known for his work on polio. Dega served as an expert for the World Health Organization and was one of the founders of the Polish Orthopedic Societ ...
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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, physician * Hermann Dietz, 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 ...
, 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 in ...
* Stefan Falimierz, physician, herbalist * Sidney Farber, 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 ...
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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), 2 ...
, microbiologist, philosopher of science * Eva Frommer,
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 * Kazimierz Funk, coined the term
vitamin A vitamin is an organic molecule (or a set of molecules closely related chemically, i.e. vitamers) that is an essential micronutrient that an organism needs in small quantities for the proper functioning of its metabolism. Essential nutrie ...
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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 ...
, 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 b ...
, neurologist * Adam Gruca, surgeon * Ryszard Gryglewski, pharmacologist, physician *
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, zoologist * Stefania Jabłońska, dermatologist * Walery Jaworski, physician * Konstanty Jelski, 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, biologist * Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, paleobiologist * Aleksander Koj, physician, scientist * Jerzy Konorski, neurophysiologist * Stefan Kopec, biologist * Hilary Koprowski, polio vaccine * Tadeusz Krwawicz, medical pioneer * Elwira Lisowska, biochemist * Abraham Low, neuropsychiatrist * Margaret Lowenfeld, 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, neuroscientist * Karol Marcinkowski, 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 E ...
, 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
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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 ...
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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, 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, cardiologist * Moshe Prywes (1914-1998), Israeli physician and educator; first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev * Tadeusz Reichstein, 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 Institute to scientists in the various fields of physiology or medicine. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes esta ...
* Zbigniew Religa, 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 univers ...
, 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 th ...
, polio vaccine; 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, leading Kleinian
psychoanalyst PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: + . is a set of theories and 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 body of knowledge. In what might ...
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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 Reh ...
(born 1924), Israeli immunologist; 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 ...
* 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 ...
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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 vario ...
, phoniatrist * Michalina Stefanowska, neurophysiologist *
Eduard Adolf Strasburger Eduard Adolf Strasburger (1 February 1844 – 18 May 1912) was a Polish-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, Congress Poland, ...
(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 Univers ...
, ornithologist * Wacław Szybalski, 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 orni ...
, zoologist * Andrzej K. Tarkowski, embryologist *
Zbylut Twardowski Zbylut Twardowski is a Polish-American nephrologist, known for his pioneering work on dialysis. His patented dialysis machines and catheters are commonly found in hospitals and dialysis centers worldwide. Twardowski is associated with the Departm ...
, 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 mos ...
, 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 botanist, plant and animal collector, and biologist. Life Born into an impoverished Polish family of ...
, botanist * Rudolf Weigl,
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, zoologist * Helena Rosa Wright, 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 ...
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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 moth ...
, physician *
Jozef J. Zwislocki Jozef John Zwislocki (March 22, 1922 – May 14, 2018) was a Polish-born American neuroscientist. A native of Lwow, Poland, Zwislocki attended the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, and taught at the University of Basel fro ...
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Frommer Frommer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Arthur Frommer Arthur Frommer (born July 17, 1929) is a travel writer. He founded the Frommer's brand of travel guides. Frommer was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, and moved to B ...
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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 Scho ...
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Astronomy

* Franciszek Armiński *
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 co ...
* Jan Brożek *
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, ...
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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 canon, who formulat ...
, known for the heliocentric theory * Wojciech Dziembowski * Władysław Dziewulski * 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 ...
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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 * Kazimierz Kordylewski * Wojciech Krzemiński * Jan Latosz *
Stanisław Lubieniecki Stanisław Lubieniecki (german: link=no, Stanislaus de Lubienietz, also ''Lubiniezky'' or ''Lubyenyetsky'') (August 23, 1623 in Raków – May 18, 1675 in Hamburg) was a Polish Socinian theologist, historian, astronomer, and writer. He is the e ...
* Bohdan Paczyński *
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 years ...
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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 Jesui ...
* Adam Prażmowski * Antoni Przybylski * Agata Różańska * Konrad Rudnicki * Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki * Jan Śniadecki * Andrzej Udalski *
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 pers ...
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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 ...
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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 Observato ...
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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 formulat ...
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Mathematics

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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 cont ...
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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 li ...
* Stefan Banach *
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 co ...
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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 192 ...
* 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 ...
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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 ...
* Jan Brożek * Meier Eidelheit *
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 ...
* Andrzej Grzegorczyk *
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. Hi ...
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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 Schin ...
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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 ...
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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–Wa ...
* Jan Jaworowski * Mark Kac * Stefan Kaczmarz *
Marek Karpinski Marek KarpinskiMarek Karpinski Biography
at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Exc ...
, computer scientist * Bronisław Knaster * Kazimierz Kordylewski * Robert Kowalski * Zdzisław Krygowski *
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 Polish-American, he was born in what is now Belarus, where his ...
* Kazimierz Kuratowski *
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. Profes ...
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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 * Adolf Lindenbaum * Stanisław Łojasiewicz * Antoni Łomnicki * Jerzy Łoś *
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. ...
, 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 ...
* Edward Marczewski *
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 *
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 * 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 * Jerzy Spława-Neyman * Otton M. Nikodym * Wiesława Nizioł * Andrew Odlyzko * Władysław Orlicz * Józef H. Przytycki *
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 regaine ...
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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 mil ...
, mathematician-cryptologist who broke the German Enigma cipher * Jerzy Różycki, Enigma-breaker * Stanisław Ruziewicz * Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski *
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 t ...
* Wojciech Samotij * Juliusz Schauder *
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 ...
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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 * Hugo Steinhaus * Włodzimierz Stożek *
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 *
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 ...
* Jan Śniadecki *
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, 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 for ...
) 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 * Tadeusz Ważewski * Józef Hoene-Wroński * Kazimierz Zarankiewicz * Stanisław Zaremba * Henryk Zygalski, Enigma-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 File:عالم الرياضيات البولندى ستيفان بناخ.jpg, Banach File:Kazimierz Bartel2.gif,
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 Germa ...
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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, ( ...
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Computer science

* Krzysztof R. Apt * Paul Baran * Krzysztof Cios * Andrzej Ehrenfeucht * Siemion Fajtlowicz, known for his Graffiti (program), Graffiti * :en:Tomasz Imieliński, Tomasz Imieliński * Piotr Indyk * Jacek Karpiński * Marek Karpinski, Marek Karpiński * Marian Mazur * Jan Mycielski * Zdzislaw Pawlak * Emil Leon Post * Stanisław Radziszowski * Andrew Targowski * Jack Tramiel * Andrzej Trybulec, Mizar system * Stanisław Ulam * Jan Węglarz * Michał Zalewski File:Jacek Karpiński.jpg, Jacek Karpiński, Karpiński File:Targowski-Lazienki-2011-2.JPG, Andrew Targowski, Targowski File:Jack Tramiel retuschiert.jpg, Jack Tramiel, Tramiel File:Stanislaw Ulam.tif, Stanisław Ulam, Ulam


Linguistics

* Jolanta Antas * Jerzy Bartmiński * Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929) developed the theory of the phoneme and allophone, phonetic alternations. * Andrzej Bogusławski, Russian-Polish-Russian lexicographer, philosopher of language, Semiotics, semioticist * Aleksander Brückner (1856–1939), Slavicist and Polish-language lexicographer * :pl:Kazimierz Bulas, Kazimierz Bulas (1903–70), Polish language, Polish–English lexicographer (''Kościuszko Foundation Dictionary'') * Jan Bystroń (linguist), Jan Bystroń * Jan Czekanowski * Andrzej Gawroński * Grzegorz Knapski * Władysław Kopaliński * Onufry Kopczyński, creator of Polish grammar, Polish-grammar terminology * Alfred Korzybski, originator of general semantics * Mikołaj Kruszewski * Jerzy Kuryłowicz * Samuel Bogumił Linde, Polish language lexicographer * Jan Mączyński * Halina Mierzejewska * Jan Miodek * Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski (1921–2016), Polish–English lexicographer * Anna Siewierska * Jan Stanisławski (lexicographer), Jan Stanisławski, Polish–English lexicographer * Antoni Józef Śmieszek * Michel Thomas * Zdzisław Wąsik * Anna Wierzbicka * L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto File:Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay.png, Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, Baudouin de Courtenay File:Professor Andrzej Boguslawski.jpg, Andrzej Boguslawski, Bogusławski File:Aleksander Brückner 1939.jpg, Aleksander Brückner, Brückner File:POL Onufry Kopczyński.jpg, Onufry Kopczyński, Kopczyński File:Alfred Korzybski.jpg, Alfred Korzybski, Korzybski File:Samuel Bogumił Linde.JPG, Samuel Bogumił Linde, Linde File:1908-kl-t-zamenhof.jpg, L. L. Zamenhof, Zamenhof


Invention

* Bruno Abakanowicz, mathematician, engineer, inventor of the integraph * Stefan Bryła, first welded road bridge * Mieczysław G. Bekker, Lunar Roving Vehicle *
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 all ...
, Czochralski process * Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski, medical equipment * Stefan Drzewiecki, first submarine * Johann Dzierzon, Jan Dzierzon, first successful movable-frame beehive * Leo Gerstenzang, Q-Tips * Rudolf Gundlach, Gundlach Rotary Periscope * Józef Hofmann, pneumatic shock absorbers * Stefan Kudelski, Nagra audio recorders * Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar * Kazimierz Leski, ballast tank funnels * Janusz Liberkowski, Anecia Safety Capsule * Ignacy Łukasiewicz, kerosene lamp, oil refinery * Henryk Magnuski, walkie-talkie * Julian Ochorowicz, precursor of radio and television * Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, petroleum-drilling platform inventor * Kazimierz Proszyński, cinematic camera * Tadeusz Sendzimir, processing steel * Ladislas Starevich, Władysław Starewicz, first puppet-animated film * Abraham Stern (inventor), 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-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic * Jan Szczepanik, television patents * Józef Tykociński, sound-on-film, sound film * Stefan Tyszkiewicz, automotive and audio improvements *
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 ...
, precursor of holography * Casimir Zeglen, bullet-proof vest * Henryk Zygalski, ''Zygalski sheets'' File:Bruno-abakanowicz.png, Bruno Abakanowicz, Abakanowicz File:Josef Hofman.jpg, Józef Hofmann, Hofmann File:Ignacy Lukasiewicz.jpg, Łukasiewicz File:1959-Magnuski-Henryk-W-Portrait.jpg, Henryk Magnuski, Magnuski File:Straus photo 02 mod01 col bal.jpg, Wacław Struszyński, Struszyński File:Jan Szczepanik - autograph 2.jpg, Jan Szczepanik, Szczepanik File:Joseph Tykocinski-Tykociner.jpg, Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner, Tykociński File:Stefan Tyszkiewicz 1952.jpg, Stefan Tyszkiewicz, Tyszkiewicz


Engineering

* Karol Adamiecki * Krzysztof Arciszewski * Mieczysław G. Bekker, first moon rover * Stefan Bryła, first welded road bridge * Romuald Adam Cebertowicz, Romuald Cebertowicz, soil solidification * Zdzisław Celiński * Georges Charpak, particle detector * Jerzy Dąbrowski, designer of PZL.37 Łoś bomber * Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor * Adam Freytag * Rudolf Gundlach, tank designer * Casimir Gzowski, Kazimierz Gzowski * Edward Jan Habich * Tytus Maksymilian Huber * Jacek Jędruch * Stanisław Kierbedź * Stefan Kudelski, electronics engineer, inventor of the Nagra tape recorder * Józef Kosacki, Polish mine detector * Janusz Liberkowski, inventor * Henryk Magnuski, ''walkie-talkie'' * Ernest Malinowski, 19th-century constructor of Peru's ''Ferrocarril Central Andino, Ferrovias Central'', the world's highest railway at the time * Henry Millicer, aviation * Ralph Modjeski, bridge designer * Jan Nagórski, first man to fly over the North Pole * Antoni Patek, pioneer in watchmaking and a creator of Patek Philippe & Co. * Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski * Zygmunt Puławski, designer of PZL P.11 fighter * Bogdan Raczkowski, engineer and urbanist in Bydgoszcz * Ludwik Regamey, engineer and social activist * Wojciech Rostafiński, NASA * Kazimierz Siemienowicz, pioneer of rocket * Stefan Tyszkiewicz, automotive engineer, inventor of the airport luggage trolley * Stanisław Wigura, aviation * Piotr Wilniewczyc, weaponry * Franciszek Żwirko, aviation File:Karol adamiecki.jpg, Karol Adamiecki, Adamiecki File:Kazimierz Gzowski.jpg, Casimir Gzowski, Gzowski File:Stefan Kudelski by Erling Mandelmann.jpg, Stefan Kudelski, Kudelski File:Ernest Malinowski cropped.jpg, Ernest Malinowski, Malinowski File:Rudolf.Modrzejewski.1931.jpg, Ralph Modjeski, Modjeski File:ICP with Hex Model - 2.jpg, Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, Pogonowski


Social sciences

* Tadeusz Andrzejewski, archeologist, Egyptologist * Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist, philosopher * Stefan Błachowski, psychologist * Maria Czaplicka, anthropologist * Jan Władysław Dawid, psychologist * Tomasz Drezner, Renaissance jurist * Agnieszka Dudzińska, sociologist * Barbara Engelking, sociologist * Zygmunt Gloger, ethnographer, archaeologist, historian * Ludwig Gumplowicz, a founder of sociology * Norbert Guterman * Alicja Iwańska, sociologist * Franciszek Kasparek, jurist, professor of international law * Oskar Kolberg, ethnographer * Marek Kotański, psychologist * Ludwik Krzywicki, anthropologist, economist, sociologist * Jan Kubary, naturalist, ethnographer * Hersch Lauterpacht, creator of the legal concept of crimes against humanity * Raphael Lemkin, creator of the legal concept of genocide * Wiesław Łukaszewski, psychologist * Bronisław Malinowski, anthropologist * Władysław Markiewicz, sociologist * Kazimierz Michałowski, archeologist, Egyptologist * Karol Myśliwiec, archeologist, Egyptologist * Julian Ochorowicz, psychologist, philosopher, inventor * Maria Ossowska, sociologist * Stanisław Ossowski, sociologist * Bronisław Piłsudski, cultural anthropologist * Jadwiga Staniszkis, sociologist * Paweł Śpiewak, sociologist * Henryk Stroband, jurist and mayor of Toruń * Jerzy Szacki, historian of ideas * Zbigniew Szafrański, Egyptologist, archeologist * Jacek Szmatka, sociologist * Piotr Sztompka, sociologist * Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński, sociologist, founder of Polish Academy of Sciences, PAN's Institute of Political Studies * Florian Znaniecki, sociologist File:Zigmunt Bauman na 20 Forumi vydavciv(Cropped).jpg, Zygmunt Bauman, Bauman File:Czaplicka My Siberian Year 1916.JPG, Maria Czaplicka, Czaplicka File:Barbara Engelking 2018.jpg, Barbara Engelking, Engelking File:Zygmunt Gloger.jpg, Zygmunt Gloger, Gloger File:Гумплович.jpg, Ludwig Gumplowicz, Gumplowicz File:OskarKolberg(photo).png, Oskar Kolberg, Kolberg File:Ludwik krzywicki 1882.jpg, Ludwik Krzywicki, Krzywicki File:Bronislawmalinowski.jpg, Bronisław Malinowski, Malinowski File:Kazimierz Michałowski MNW 01.jpg, Kazimierz Michałowski, Michałowski File:Karol Mysliwiec.jpg, Karol Myśliwiec, Myśliwiec File:Julian Ochorowicz.jpg, Julian Ochorowicz, Ochorowicz File:Maria Ossowska.jpg, Maria Ossowska, Ossowska File:Profesor Stanisław Ossowski.jpg, Stanisław Ossowski, Ossowski File:Bronisław Piłsudski.jpg, Bronisław Piłsudski, Piłsudski File:Jadwiga Staniszkis (3) (cropped).jpg, Jadwiga Staniszkis, Staniszkis File:Jerzy Szacki 2004.jpg, Jerzy Szacki, Szacki File:Florian Znaniecki.jpg, Florian Znaniecki, Znaniecki


Economics

* Karol Adamiecki * Leszek Balcerowicz * Czesław Bobrowski * Henryka Bochniarz * Joanna Cygler * Gabriel Czechowicz * Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki * Zyta Gilowska * Adam Glapiński * Władysław Grabski * Henryk Grossman * Robert Gwiazdowski * Leonid Hurwicz, 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics, Nobel Laureate * Danuta Hübner * Michał Kalecki * Grzegorz Kołodko * Monika Kostera * Tadeusz Kowalik * Stanisław Kronenberg * Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski * Ludwik Maurycy Landau * Oskar Lange * Janusz Lewandowski * Edward Lipiński (economist), Edward Lipiński * Kazimierz Łaski * Grzegorz Marek Michalski * Wacław Micuta * Hilary Minc * Marek Rocki * Dariusz Rosati * Jacek Rostowski * Edward Szczepanik * Sławomir Szwedowski * Louis Wolowski * Halina Wasilewska-Trenkner * Antoni Żabko-Potopowicz File:Karol adamiecki.jpg, Karol Adamiecki, Adamiecki File:Balcerowicz.wywiad.do.radia.jpg, Leszek Balcerowicz, Balcerowicz File:Władysław Grabski 1925.jpg, Władysław Grabski, Grabski File:Leonid Hurwicz.jpg, Leonid Hurwicz, Hurwicz File:Michal Kalecki.jpg, Michał Kalecki, Kalecki File:Stanisław Kronenberg (60763).jpg, Stanisław Kronenberg, Kronenberg File:Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski.PNG, Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, Kwiatkowski File:Ludwik Maurycy Landau.jpg, Ludwik Maurycy Landau, Landau File:Oskar Lange 20-65.jpg, Oskar Lange, Lange File:1986 Szczepanik EF 3 old.jpg, Edward Szczepanik, Szczepanik File:Halina Wasilewska-Trenkner, Polish finance minister.jpeg, Halina Wasilewska-Trenkner, Wasilewska-Trenkner


Other sciences

* Henryk Arctowski, explorer of the Antarctic * Leon Barszczewski, explorer * Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski, scholar, archaeologist, professor * Karol Bohdanowicz, geologist * Gerard Antoni Ciołek, Gerard Ciołek, architect and historian of gardens * Aleksander Czekanowski,Dominic Lieven. ''The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 2, Imperial Russia, 1689–1917''. Cambridge University Press. 2006. p. 182. explorer of Siberia * Jan Czerski, paleontologist, explorer of Siberia * Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska, socialist politician, suffragist *
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 ...
, psychologist * Helene Deutsch, psychoanalyst * Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski, geophysicist, meteorologist, polar explorer * Ignacy Domeyko, geologistSal P. Restivo. ''Science, Technology, And Society: An Encyclopedia.'' Oxford University Press. 2005. p. 502. * Benedykt Dybowski, naturalist, explorer of Siberia * Gaspar da Gama, traveller, interpreter, explorer * Bronislav Grombchevsky, Bronisław Grąbczewski, explorer * Mirosław Hermaszewski, the first Polish cosmonaut * Anton Hoffmann, 19th century architect in Bydgoszcz * Leonard Jaczewski, engineer, explorer of Asian Russia * Maria Janion, critic and theoretician of literature, feminist * Henryk Jordan, founding father of physical education * Józefa Joteyko, physiologist, psychologist and pedagogue * Rudolf Kern, Art Nouveau 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 * Tadeusz Estreicher * Józef Feldman * Mieczysław Gębarowicz, art historian, museum director, custodian of Ossolineum * Aleksander Gieysztor * Kazimierz Godłowski, historian and archeologist * Władysław Grabski * Roman Grodecki * Oskar Halecki, historian of Poland * Marceli Handelsman, historian of Poland * Paweł Jasienica, historian of Poland * Jacek Jędruch * 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 lexicographer 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 * Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, 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 * Zygmunt Bauman * Stefan Błachowski * 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 *
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), 2 ...
, 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 *
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–Wa ...
* Jan Jonston * Leszek Kołakowski * Hugo Kołłątaj * Alfred Korzybski * Tadeusz Kotarbiński * Władysław Mieczysław Kozłowski * Józef Kremer * Franciszek Krupiński * Irena Lasota * Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek * Stanisław Leszczyński * Stanisław Leśniewski * Casimir Lewy * Karol Libelt * Wincenty Lutosławski *
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. ...
* Kazimierz Łyszczyński * Adam Mahrburg * Ewa Majewska * Marian Massonius * Émile Meyerson * Konstanty Michalski * Wawrzyniec Mitzler de Kolof * Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski * Julian Ochorowicz * Maria Ossowska * 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 * Jan Śniadecki * Jędrzej Śniadecki * Magdalena Środa * Aleksander Świętochowski *
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 ...
* 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 * Florian Znaniecki File:Zigmunt Bauman na 20 Forumi vydavciv(Cropped).jpg, Zygmunt Bauman, Bauman File:Brzozowski Stanislaw.jpg, Stanisław Brzozowski (writer), Brzozowski File:Leon Chwistek.jpg, Leon Chwistek, Chwistek File:Jozef Maria Hoëné-Wronski--Laurent-Charles Maréchal mg 9487.jpg, Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Hoene–Wroński File:Witkacy Roman Ingarden 1937.jpg, Roman Ingarden, Ingarden File:Johnston Portrait.jpg, Jan Jonston, Jonston File:Leszek Kolakowski 1971.jpg, Leszek Kołakowski, Kołakowski File:Tadeusz Kotarbiński.jpg, Tadeusz Kotarbiński, Kotarbiński File:Wincenty Lutosławski (cropped).jpg, Wincenty Lutosławski, Lutosławski File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg, Jan Łukasiewicz, Łukasiewicz File:Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski.JPG, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Modrzewski File:Prus 002.jpg, Bolesław Prus, Prus File:Stanislaw Staszic.jpg, Stanisław Staszic, Staszic File:Jan Śniadecki cr.jpg, Jan Śniadecki File:AleksanderSwietochowski.jpg, Aleksander Świętochowski, Świętochowski File:AlfredTarski1968.jpeg, Alfred Tarski, Tarski File:Władysław Tatarkiewicz.jpg, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Tatarkiewicz File:Kazimierz Twardowski 1933.jpg, Kazimierz Twardowski, Twardowski File:Władysław Witwicki.jpg, Władysław Witwicki, Witwicki File:Jan-wolenski-2009.jpg, Jan Woleński, Woleński


Prose literature

* Franciszka Arnsztajnowa, playwright * S. Ansky, Bielorussian, Polish-Jewish author of ''The Dybbuk'' * Joanna Bator, novelist, feminist * Witold Bełza, librarian, writer, publicist on Bydgoszcz * 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 Stanisław Lubieniecki (german: link=no, Stanislaus de Lubienietz, also ''Lubiniezky'' or ''Lubyenyetsky'') (August 23, 1623 in Raków – May 18, 1675 in Hamburg) was a Polish Socinian theologist, historian, astronomer, and writer. He is the e ...
, 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 *
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. ...
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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 * Józef Hofmann, 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 * Antoni Patek, 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 * Stefan Tyszkiewicz, 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 * Louis Wolowski, 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, Stefan Tyszkiewicz, Tyszkiewicz


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) *
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, 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 Władysław Grabski's government * Lech Wałęsa, trade unionist who started dismantling of the Soviet bloc, the
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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) * Dariusz Rosati, 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 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev * 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) * Krzysztof Arciszewski, 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 * Kazimierz Leski, 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 * Alicja Iwańska, 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 *
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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 * 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


See also

* List of Nobel laureates by country#Poland, List of Polish Nobel laureates * List of Polish Jews * Poles * Timeline of Polish science and technology


References


External links

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