List Of People From Wrocław

This list includes people who were born in or lived in

Wrocław Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...

after 1945. For a list of notable residents before 1945, see List of people from Breslau. * Jan Borysewicz - guitar player, composer, leader of the rock band Lady Pank *

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 (born 19 September 1961) is a British / 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 Chi ...

- physicist * Władysław Frasyniuk - politician * Jolanta Fraszyńska, actress * Robert Fudali - sole member of black metal band Graveland * Waldemar Fydrych - alias "Major"; artist, founder of the

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

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 is considered one ...

- theatre director and theatrical avant-garde figure * Mirosław Hermaszewski -

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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 ...

microbiologist A microbiologist (from Greek ) is a scientist who studies microscopic life forms and processes. This includes study of the growth, interactions and characteristics of microscopic organisms such as bacteria, algae, fungi, and some types of par ...

, 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 ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 6 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, making him the highest-ranked Polish man in singl ...

- tennis player * Klaudia Jachira - politician and comedian * Lech Janerka - singer, musician and composer * Ewa Klonowski - forensic anthropologist * Aleksandr Ivanovich Korolyov -

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of the

Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and locally as Pridnestrovie, is a landlocked breakaway state internationally recognized as part of Moldova. It controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dni ...

* Urszula Kozioł - poet * Marek Krajewski - writer * Wojciech Kurtyka - mountain climber * Aleksandra Kurzak - opera singer * Olaf Lubaszenko - 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 served as the prime minister of Poland between 2017 and 2023. A member of the Law and Justice (PiS) party, he previously served in the Cabinet of ...

- politician, former 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 - cardiologist * Barbara Rogowska - comedian actress and comic * Tadeusz Różewicz - poet and writer *

Wanda Rutkiewicz Wanda Rutkiewicz ( 4 February 1943 – 12–13 May 1992) was a Polish mountaineer and computer engineer. She was the first woman to reach the summit of K2 and the third woman (first European woman) to summit Mount Everest. Early life Wanda R ...

- mountaineer * Selma Nicklass-Kempner - soprano * Andrzej Sekuła - cinematographer and film director *

Hugo Steinhaus Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus ( , ; 14 January 1887 – 25 February 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 Univers ...

- 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 country ...

- chemist and physicist * Michał Witkowski - writer * Rafał Wojaczek - poet *

Dagmara Wozniak Dagmara "Daga" Wozniak (; born July 1, 1988) is an American saber fencer. Wozniak was named to the U.S. Olympic team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in women's saber competition as a substitute, and as a competitor at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olymp ...

(born 1988) - Polish-American U.S. Olympic sabre fencer *

Maciej Żurowski Maciej Żurowski (17 September 1915 in Płock – 8 May 2003 in Warsaw) was a Polish historian of French literature, translator, wikt:Romanist#Noun, Romanist. He was a professor of University of Warsaw, co-editor of (since 1957). Works Żuro ...

- historian of

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