List of people from Wrocław

This list includes people who were born in or lived in

Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...

after 1945. For a list of notable residents before 1945, see

List of people from Breslau This list includes people who were born in or lived in Breslau before 1945. For a list of famous residents after 1945, see List of notable people from Wrocław. * Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) a psychiatrist and neuropathologist, discov ...

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Jan Borysewicz Jan Józef Borysewicz (born April 17, 1955) is the co-founder and guitar player of Lady Pank, a Polish rock band. He composed all but two of their songs. Borysewicz was born in Wrocław. In the 1970s, he played for Izabela Trojanowska and Budka S ...

- guitar player, composer, leader of the rock band

Lady Pank Lady Pank is a popular Polish rock band, started in 1981 in Wrocław by Jan Borysewicz and Andrzej Mogielnicki. One of the most popular groups in history of Polish rock. Its first hit was ''Mała Lady Punk'' ("Little Lady Punk"). Lady Pank gar ...

Leszek Czarnecki Leszek Janusz Czarnecki (born 9 May 1962 in Wrocław) is a Polish billionaire. His main business activity is banking. He is an engineer by education and a doctor of economics. Graduate of Harvard Business School (AMP). Since 2006 he lives in Ma ...

- businessman and billionaire *

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

- physicist *

Władysław Frasyniuk Władysław Frasyniuk (born 25 November 1954 in Wrocław) is a Polish politician, former activist of Solidarity trade union, and former chairman of the Partia Demokratyczna - demokraci.pl political party. He served as a member of the Sejm (Pol ...

- politician *

Jolanta Fraszyńska Jolanta Fraszyńska (born 14 December 1968 in Mysłowice) – Polish actress in film and theater. Biography Fraszyńska spent her childhood in Mysłowice, Poland. As a six year old she began performing in the singing and dancing program of ...

, actress * Robert Fudali - sole member of black metal band

Graveland Graveland are a Polish pagan black metal band which was formed in 1991 by Rob Darken (born Robert Fudali). They began as a black metal band before adopting a pagan and Viking metal style. The lyrics and imagery of Graveland are strongly inspi ...

Waldemar Fydrych Waldemar Andrzej Fydrych "Major" (born April 8, 1953) is a Polish activist and founding leader of the Orange Alternative movement in Poland. Early career Fydrych was born in Toruń, Poland on April 8, 1953. He is a graduate of the History and Hi ...

- alias "Major"; artist, founder of the

Orange Alternative The Orange Alternative (Polish language, Polish: ''Pomarańczowa Alternatywa'') is a Polish far-left anti-communist underground movement, started in Wrocław, a city in south-west Poland and led by Waldemar Fydrych (sometimes misspelled as Frydr ...

happening movement * Eugeniusz Geppert - painter * Kamil Giżycki - writer and traveler *

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

- theatre director and theatrical avant-garde figure *

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

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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, co-discover of the inheritance of the BO blood type * Marek Hłasko - novelist, writer *

Hubert Hurkacz Hubert Hurkacz (; born 11 February 1997) is a Polish professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 9 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved in November 2021, making him the high ...

- tennis player * Klaudia Jachira - politician and comedian *

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

- singer, musician and composer * Ewa Klonowski - forensic anthropologist * Aleksandr Ivanovich Korolyov -

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of the

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* Urszula Kozioł - poet * Marek Krajewski - writer *

Wojciech Kurtyka Wojciech Kurtyka (also ''Voytek'' Kurtyka, born 25 July 1947, in Skrzynka near Kłodzko) is a Polish mountaineer and rock climber, one of the pioneers of the alpine style of climbing the biggest walls in the Greater Ranges. He lived in Wrocław up ...

- mountain climber *

Aleksandra Kurzak Aleksandra Kurzak (Polish pronunciation: ; born 7 August 1977) is a Polish operatic soprano who has an international career primarily in Europe and the United States. In her earlier career she was a specialist in lyric and coloratura soprano ro ...

- opera singer *

Olaf Lubaszenko Olaf Sergiusz Linde-Lubaszenko (born 6 December 1968)Olaf Lubaszenko
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- actor and film director * Jan Łopuszański - physicist * Mata - rapper *

Mateusz Morawiecki Mateusz Jakub Morawiecki (; born 20 June 1968) is a Polish economist, historian and politician who has served as prime minister of Poland since 2017. A member of Law and Justice (PiS), he previously served in the cabinet of prime minister Beata ...

- politician, Prime Minister of Poland *

Rafał Omelko Rafał Omelko (Polish pronunciation: ; born 16 January 1989) is a retired Polish athlete who specialised in the 400 metres. He won two medals in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships. Career Omelko finished fourth at ...

- athlete *

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

- cardiologist * Barbara Rogowska - comedian actress and comic *

Tadeusz Różewicz Tadeusz Różewicz (9 October 1921 – 24 April 2014) was a Polish poet, playwright, writer, and translator. Różewicz was in the first generation of Polish writers born after Poland regained its independence in 1918, following the century of f ...

- poet and writer *

Wanda Rutkiewicz Wanda Rutkiewicz (née Błaszkiewicz) ( 4 February 1943 – 12–13 May 1992) was a Polish mountain climber and computer engineer. She was the first woman to reach the summit of K2 and the third woman (first European woman) to summit Mount Ev ...

- mountaineer * Selma Nicklass-Kempner - soprano *

Andrzej Sekuła Andrzej Sekuła (born December 19, 1954) is a Polish cinematographer and film director, known for his work on various critically acclaimed films throughout the 1990s. Career Born in Wrocław, Poland in 1954, he emigrated to Los Angeles in 1980. ...

- cinematographer and film director *

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

- mathematician *

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

- chemist and physicist * Michał Witkowski - writer * Rafał Wojaczek - poet * Dagmara Wozniak (born 1988) - Polish-American U.S. Olympic sabre fencer * Maciej Żurowski - historian of

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