List of Polish people

This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing persons. Persons of mixed heritage have their respective ancestries credited.

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History

Szymon Askenazy, historian and diplomat Marcin Bielski, chronicler Michał Bobrzyński, historian and politician Józef Borzyszkowski, Pomeranian history Filip Callimachus Marek Jan Chodakiewicz Piotr Cywiński Tadeusz Czacki Jan Długosz, 15th-century chronicler of Poland Marian Kamil Dziewanowski, Poland, Russia, modern Europe Stanisław Estreicher Tadeusz Estreicher Aleksander Gieysztor Kazimierz Godłowski, historian and archeologist Władysław Grabski 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 Hugo Kołłątaj, 18th–19th-century historian, philosopher and politician Feliks Koneczny, Polish history, social philosophy Władysław Konopczyński, Polish and world history Stanisław Kot, historian and politician Władysław Kozaczuk, military history, military intelligence, World War II Manfred Kridl, history of Polish culture and literature Marcin Kromer, 16th-century Bishop of Warmia, secretary to two Polish kings, and historian of Poland Jan Kucharzewski, historian and politician Marian Kukiel, military historian and politician Stanisław Kutrzeba, Poland, Polish law, Kraków Gerard Labuda Joachim Lelewel, historian of Poland Jerzy Jan Lerski Wacław Lipiński Stanisław Lorentz Czesław Madajczyk, World War II Janusz Magnuski, World War II Polish and Soviet Armor Tadeusz Manteuffel, medievalist Maciej Miechowita Stephen Mizwa Teodor Narbutt, Polish historian of Lithuania Adam Naruszewicz, 18th-century historian, participant in the Great Sejm Szymon Okolski, 17th-century historian Michael Alfred Peszke, Polish Armed Forces, World War II Richard Pipes, Polish-American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, World War II, Polish-Jewish relations Stanisław Salmonowicz, historian of law Julian Stachiewicz, military historian Szymon Starowolski Maciej Stryjkowski, historian, writer, poet Tomasz Strzembosz, Polish World War II history Tadeusz Sulimirski, historian and archeologist Karol Szajnocha, historian and novelist Zygmunt Szweykowski, Polish literature Władysław Tatarkiewicz, philosophy and esthetics Rafał Taubenschlag, history of law Janusz Tazbir Józef Turowski, World War II 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 Richard Woytak, World War II era Adam Zamoyski Janusz K. Zawodny, World War II

Askenazy Cywiński Długosz Gieysztor Halecki Kadłubek Kołłątaj Kot Kromer Lelewel Lerski Manteuffel Miechowita Naruszewicz Peszke Pogonowski

Science

Astronomy

Franciszek Armiński Tadeusz Banachiewicz Jan Brożek Albert Brudzewski Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikołaj Kopernik) Władysław Dziewulski Jan Gadomski Johannes Hevelius (Jan Heweliusz) Felicjan Kępiński Marian Albertovich Kowalski Kazimierz Kordylewski

Brudzewski

Copernicus Brożek

Stanisław Lubieniecki Bohdan Paczyński Marcin Poczobutt-Odlanicki Alexius Sylvius Polonus Adam Prażmowski Konrad Rudnicki Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki Jan Śniadecki Wiesław Wiśniewski Aleksander Wolszczan, first discovery of extrasolar planets

Hevelius

Paczyński Wolszczan

Biology, medicine

Joseph Babinski, neurologist, discoverer of the Babinski reflex Edmund Biernacki, physician, discoverer of erythrocyte sedimentation rate Czesław Bieżanko, entomologist Tytus Chałubiński, physician Napoleon Cybulski, neurophysiologist Maria Antonina Czaplicka, anthropologist Jan Czekanowski, anthropologist Wiktor Dega, surgeon August Dehnel, biologist Jozef Dietl, physician Jan Dzierżon, zoologist, apiarist Edward Flatau, neurologist Ludwik Fleck, microbiologist, philosopher of science Kazimierz Funk, discoverer of vitamins Marian Gieszczykiewicz, physician Emil Godlewski, embryologist Samuel Goldflam, neurologist Adam Gruca, surgeon Ryszard Gryglewski, physician Ludwik Hirszfeld, microbiologist Feliks Paweł Jarocki, zoologist Walery Jaworski, physician Konstanty Jelski, ornithologist Zbigniew Kabata, biologist

Babinski Biernacki Chałubiński Cybulski Dzierżoń Flatau Funk

Jerzy Konorski, neurophysiologist Stefan Kopec, biologist Hilary Koprowski, polio vaccine Tadeusz Krwawicz, medical pioneer Abraham Low, neuropsychiatrist Karol Marcinkowski, physician Ludwik Mlokosiewicz, botanist Maksymilian Nowicki, biologist Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, biologist Marek Pienkowski, immunologist Zbigniew Religa, cardiologist Józef Rostafiński, biologist Albert Sabin, polio vaccine Andrzej Wiktor Schally, Nobel-laureate endocrinologist. Bolesław Skarżyński, biologist Eduard Adolf Strasburger (born in Poland, of German descent), botanist Jan Sztolcman, ornithologist Wacław Szybalski Władysław Taczanowski, zoologist Andrzej K. Tarkowski, embryologist Zbylut Twardowski, physician Rudolf Weigl, biologist Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, physician

Goldflam Hirszfeld Koprowski Mlokosiewicz Schally Weigl Weigl Zakrzewska

Chemistry

Józef Boguski Jan Czochralski, modern semiconductors Tadeusz Estreicher, cryogenics pioneer Kazimierz Fajans Kazimierz Funk, biochemist, the concept of vitamins Antoni Grabowski Adolf Joszt Aharon Katzir, electrochemistry of biopolymers Sylwester Porowski Wiktor Kemula Stanisław Kostanecki Marek Gatty-Kostyal Ignacy Łukasiewicz, kerosene lamp Leon Marchlewski

Czochralski Fajans Łukasiewicz Łukasiewicz Michał Sędziwój

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Ignacy Mościcki Marceli Nencki Karol Olszewski Tadeusz Reichstein Michał Sędziwój Maria Skłodowska Curie (Marie Curie) Edward Sucharda Jędrzej Śniadecki Wojciech Świętosławski, father of thermochemistry Bohdan Szyszkowski Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski Zygmunt Wróblewski Józef Zawadzki

Skłodowska Curie Śniadecki Świętosławski Wróblewski

Engineering

Krzysztof Arciszewski Karol Adamiecki Mieczysław G. Bekker, first moon rover Georges Charpak, Particle detector Stefan Bryła Romuald Cebertowicz, soil solidification Zdzisław Celiński Jerzy Dąbrowski, designer of PZL.37 Łoś bomber Rudolf Gundlach, tank designer Kazimierz Gzowski Edward Jan Habich Tytus Maksymilian Huber Jacek Jędruch

Adamiecki Gzowski

Stanisław Kierbedź Józef Kosacki, Polish mine detector Janusz Liberkowski, inventor Henryk Magnuski, walkie-talkie Ernest Malinowski Henry Millicer, aviation Ralph Modjeski, bridge designer Jan Nagórski, first man to fly over the North Pole Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski Zygmunt Puławski, designer of PZL P.11 fighter Wojciech Rostafiński, NASA Kazimierz Siemienowicz, pioneer of rocket Stanisław Wigura, aviation Piotr Wilniewczyc, weaponry Franciszek Żwirko, aviation

Modjeski Pogonowski

Economics

Karol Adamiecki Leszek Balcerowicz Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki Władysław Grabski Leonid Hurwicz, 2007 Nobel Laureate Michał Kalecki Grzegorz Kołodko Stanisław Kronenberg

Balcerowicz Grabski Grabski Hurwicz

Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski Oskar Lange Edward Lipiński Grzegorz Marek Michalski Wacław Micuta Hilary Minc Sławomir Szwedowskii

Kwiatkowski Lange

Invention

Bruno Abakanowicz, mathematician, engineer Stefan Bryła, first welded road bridge Mieczysław G. Bekker, Lunar Roving Vehicle Jan Czochralski, Czochralski process Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski, medical equipment Leo Gerstenzang, Q-Tips Józef Hofmann, pneumatic shock absorbers Stefan Kudelski, Nagra audio recorders Kazimierz Leski, ballast tank funnels Janusz Liberkowski, Anecia Safety Capsule

Abakanowicz Deczkowski

Hofmann Leski

Ignacy Łukasiewicz, kerosene lamp, oil refinery Julian Ochorowicz Kazimierz Proszyński, cinematic camera Tadeusz Sendzimir, processing steel Abraham Stern, first computing-machine and device for calculating the square roots of numbers Jan Szczepanik, television patents Józef Tykociński, sound film Casimir Zeglen, bullet resistant cloth Henryk Zygalski, Zygalski sheets

cap Łukasiewicz Szczepanik

Tykociński

Computer science

Paul Baran Siemion Fajtlowicz, known for his Graffiti Tomasz Imieliński Jacek Karpiński Marek Karpiński Marian Mazur

Targowski Ulam Emil Leon Post Stanisław Radziszowski Andrew Targowski Jack Tramiel Andrzej Trybulec, Mizar system Stanisław Ulam Jan Węglarz Michał Zalewski

Linguistics

Jolanta Antas Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay Aleksander Brückner Jan Bystroń (linguist) Jan Czekanowski Andrzej Gawroński Grzegorz Knapski Władysław Kopaliński Alfred Korzybski

Brückner Korzybski

Jerzy Kuryłowicz Samuel Bogumił Linde Jan Mączyński Halina Mierzejewska Jan Miodek Antoni Józef Śmieszek Michel Thomas Anna Wierzbicka Ludwik Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto.

Linde Zamenhof

Mathematics

Nachman Aronszajn Stefan Banach Tadeusz Banachiewicz Kazimierz Bartel Andrzej Białynicki-Birula Karol Borsuk Jacob Bronowski Jan Brożek Samuel Eilenberg Andrzej Grzegorczyk Witold Hurewicz Henryk Iwaniec Zygmunt Janiszewski Stanisław Jaśkowski Jan Jaworowski Mark Kac Stefan Kaczmarz Marek Karpinski, computer scientist Bronisław Knaster Kazimierz Kordylewski Robert Kowalski Zdzisław Krygowski Krystyna Kuperberg Włodzimierz Kuperberg Kazimierz Kuratowski Izabella Łaba Franciszek Leja Stanisław Leśniewski Adolf Lindenbaum Stanisław Łojasiewicz Antoni Łomnicki Jerzy Łoś Jan Łukasiewicz, logician, inventor of the parenthesis-free Polish Notation Edward Marczewski Józef Marcinkiewicz Stanisław Mazur Stefan Mazurkiewicz

Banach Bartel Borsuk Eilenberg Kac Knaster Kuratowski Leśniewski Mazur Mostowski

Jan Mikusinski Michał Misiurewicz Andrzej Mostowski Jan Mycielski Jerzy Spława-Neyman Otton M. Nikodym Wiesława Nizioł Andrew Odlyzko Władysław Orlicz Emil Leon Post Józef H. Przytycki Helena Rasiowa Marian Rejewski, mathematician-cryptologist who broke the German Enigma cipher Jerzy Różycki, Enigma-breaker Stanisław Ruziewicz Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski Stanisław Saks Juliusz Schauder Wacław Sierpiński Roman Sikorski Władysław Ślebodziński Jan Śniadecki Julian Sochocki Hugo Steinhaus Włodzimierz Stożek Alfred Tarski Stanisław Ulam, co-designer (with Edward Teller) of the hydrogen bomb Tadeusz Ważewski Józef Hoene-Wroński Kazimierz Zarankiewicz Stanisław Zaremba Henryk Zygalski, Enigma-breaker Antoni Zygmund Kazimierz Żorawski

Neyman Rejewski Różycki Sierpiński Steinhaus Śniadecki Tarski Ulam Zaremba Zygalski

Physics

Czesław Białobrzeski Georges Charpak, 1995 Nobel Prize Jan Kazimierz Danysz Marian Danysz Leopold Infeld Aleksander Jabłoński Sylwester Kaliski Stanisław Mrozowski Władysław Natanson Georges Nomarski Karol Olszewski Jerzy Pniewski

Olszewski Rotblat Skłodowska Curie

Sylwester Porowski, blue laser Józef Rotblat, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize Stefan Rozental Wojciech Rubinowicz Maria Skłodowska Curie (Marie Curie), 2 Nobel Prizes Marian Smoluchowski, Kinetic theory Witelo, philosopher, medieval optics Mieczysław Wolfke Stanisław Lech Woronowicz Zygmunt Wróblewski Wojciech H. Zurek

Smoluchowski Wróblewski Zurek

Social sciences

Tadeusz Andrzejewski, archeologist, Egyptologist Zygmunt Bauman (sociologist, philosopher) Stefan Błachowski, psychologist Maria Czaplicka, anthropologist Jan Władysław Dawid, psychologist Tomasz Drezner, Renaissance jurist Zygmunt Gloger, ethnographer, archeologist, historian Ludwig Gumplowicz, a founder of sociology Franciszek Kasparek, jurist, professor of international law Oskar Kolberg, ethnographer Marek Kotański, psychologist Ludwik Krzywicki, anthropologist, economist, sociologist Jan Kubary, naturalist, ethnographer Bronisław Malinowski, anthropologist Władysław Markiewicz, sociologist

Czaplicka Dawid

Gloger Kolberg Krzywicki Malinowski

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 Jerzy Szacki, historian of ideas Zbigniew Szafrański, Egyptologist, archeologist Jacek Szmatka, sociologist Piotr Sztompka, sociologist Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński, sociologist, founder of PAN Florian Znaniecki, sociologist

Ochorowicz Ossowska Piłsudski Znaniecki

Other sciences

Henryk Arctowski, explorer of the Antarctic Benedykt Polak (Benedict the Pole, Benedictus Polonus), explorer Leon Barszczewski, explorer Karol Bohdanowicz, geologist Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski, scholar, archaeologist, professor Gerard Ciołek, architect and historian of gardens Aleksander Czekanowski, explorer of Siberia Jan Czerski, paleontologist, explorer of Siberia Kazimierz Dąbrowski, psychologist Helene Deutsch, psychoanalyst Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski, geophysicist, meteorologist, polar explorer Ignacy Domeyko, Polish geologist Benedykt Dybowski, naturalist, explorer of Siberia Bronisław Grąbczewski, explorer Gaspar da Gama, traveller, interpreter, explorer Mirosław Hermaszewski, the first Polish cosmonaut Leonard Jaczewski, engineer, explorer of Asian Russia Henryk Jordan, founding father of physical education Antoni Kępiński, psychiatrist Janusz Korczak, pedagogist, writer Józef Kostrzewski, archeologist, museologist

Dobrowolski Domeyko

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 Jacek Pałkiewicz, journalist and explorer, best known for discovering the sources of the Amazon River. Michael Alfred Peszke, psychiatrist Jan Potocki, linguist, Egyptologist, sociologist, author of The Saragossa Manuscript Antoni Józef Śmieszek, Egyptologist Stanisław of Skarbimierz, political scientist Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, geologist, explorer of Australia Tadeusz Sulimirski, archeologist Józef Trzemeski, polar explorer Bernard Wapowski (1450–1535), "father of Polish cartography" Paweł Włodkowic, jurist Robert Zajonc, psychologist

Dybowski Potocki

Music

See also: List of Polish composers

Chava Alberstein, Israeli singer-songwriter Piotr Anderszewski, pianist Stefan Askenase, pianist Grażyna Bacewicz, composer Edyta Bartosiewicz, singer Marek Biliński, electronic music composer Rafał Blechacz, pianist Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz, composer ("the Chopin of guitar") Stan Borys, singer-songwriter Dariusz Brzozowski, drummer Grzegorz Ciechowski, composer, singer Fryderyk Chopin, composer Krzysztof Czerwiński, conductor and organist Adam Darski, singer-songwriter, guitarist Ewa Demarczyk, singer Krzesimir Dębski, composer Wojciech Długoraj, lutenist, composer Andrzej Dobrowolski, composer Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, composer Urszula Dudziak, singer Józef Elsner, composer, Chopin's piano teacher Anna German, singer Mikołaj Gomołka, composer Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki, composer Kasia Glowicka, composer Konstanty Gorski, composer and violinist Henryk Górecki, composer Edyta Górniak, singer Doda (Dorota Rabczewska), singer Haim Hefer, Israeli songwriter, poet, and writer Józef Hofmann, pianist Mieczysław Horszowski, pianist Bronisław Huberman, violinist Zdzisław Jachimecki, musicologist, composer Małgorzata Jamroży, singer-songwriter Alicja Janosz, singer Anna Jantar, singer Adam Jarzębski, composer Reni Jusis, singer Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, film composer (Oscar prize) Maria Kalergis, pianist Bronisław Kaper, film composer Mieczysław Karłowicz, composer Kayah, singer Wacław Kiełtyka, guitarist Witold Kiełtyka, drummer Stefan Kisielewski, composer, writer Wojciech Kilar, composer Krzysztof Komeda, jazz composer Zygmunt Konieczny, composer Roman Kostrzewski, controversial singer and songwriter Kasia Kowalska, singer Hanna Kulenty, composer Karol Kurpiński, composer Lucjan Kydryński, music critic, writer Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist Teodor Leszetycki, pianist, pedagogue Franciszek Lilius, composer Karol Lipiński, composer, virtuoso violinist (about equal to Niccolò Paganini) Jan z Lublina, composer Witold Lutosławski, composer Ray Manzarek, musician, singer, keyboardist of The Doors Krzysztof Meyer, composer Aleksander Michałowski Carl Mikuli, composer

Bobrowicz Chopin Elsner Górecki Kilar Kurpiński Landowska Lutosławski Moniuszko Niemen Ogiński

Maciek Miernik, producer Marcin Mielczewski, composer Emil Młynarski Stanisław Moniuszko, composer Moritz Moszkowski, composer Leszek Możdżer, pianist and composer Czesław Niemen, singer-songwriter Katarzyna Nosowska, singer-songwriter Marcin Nowak, guitarist and singer Feliks Nowowiejski, composer Zygmunt Noskowski, composer Michał Kleofas Ogiński, composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist, composer Andrzej Panufnik, composer Krzysztof Penderecki, composer Jerzy Petersburski, pianist, composer Bartłomiej Pękiel, composer Svika Pick, Israeli pop singer, composer Piotr Półtorak, guitarist Zbigniew Preisner, composer Zbigniew Robert Promiński, drummer Pawel Przytocki, conductor Krzysztof Raczkowski, drummer Mikołaj z Radomia, Middle Ages composer Ryszard Riedel, singer Maryla Rodowicz, singer Eddie Rosner, jazz, "Polish (or: The White) Louis Armstrong" Piotr Rubik, composer Arthur Rubinstein, pianist Bogusław Schaeffer, composer Xaver Scharwenka, composer Kazimierz Serocki, composer Józef Skrzek, composer and leader of SBB band Cezary Skubiszewski, Polish-Australian composer Tomasz Stańko, jazz trumpeter Kazik Staszewski, singer-songwriter Justyna Steczkowska, singer Zygmunt Stojowski, composer Wacław of Szamotuły Aleksander Szeligowski, composer, pedagog Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer, conductor Władysław Szpilman, pianist Patryk Dominik Sztyber, guitarist, singer Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, concert pianist Karol Szymanowski, composer (Polish father, Swedish mother) Paweł Szymański, composer Barbara Trzetrzelewska, singer Grzegorz Turnau, singer Moshe Vilenski, Israeli composer, lyricist, and pianist Violetta Villas, singer-songwriter Andrzej Wasowski, pianist Henryk Wieniawski, composer Wanda Wiłkomirska, violinist Piotr Wiwczarek, guitarist, singer Tomasz Wróblewski, guitarist, singer Mikołaj Zieleński, composer Krystian Zimerman, pianist Władysław Żeleński (musician) Wojciech Żywny, composer, Chopin's first professional piano teacher

Panufnik Penderecki Rubinstein Stojowski Szpilman Szymanowska Karol Szymanowski Szymanowski Wieniawski Zimerman Żywny

Prose literature

See also: List of Polish writers and List of Polish novelists

Franciszka Arnsztajnowa, playwright Agnieszka Baranowska, playwright Wacław Berent, novelist Karol Olgierd Borchardt, maritime author Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, writer; translator of over 100 French literary classics Edmund Chojecki Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), English-language novelist Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa, first Polish cookbook Maria Dąbrowska, novelist Johannes Dantiscus (Jan Dantyszek), Latin poet and Prince-Bishop of Warmia Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, novelist, 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 Janusz Głowacki, playwright, nonfiction author Witold Gombrowicz, novelist, playwright Stefan Grabiński, horror writer 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 Ryszard Kapuściński, writer and journalist Maria Konopnicka, writer, novelist Tadeusz Konwicki Janusz Korczak, writer, pedagogist Jerzy Kosiński Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, novelist and World War II resistance fighter 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-novelist Stanisław Lem, science-fiction writer, essayist, philosopher Stanisław Lubieniecki writer, astronomer Waldemar Łysiak, writer Józef Mackiewicz, writer, journalist Kornel Makuszyński, children's writer Sławomir Mrożek, dramatist and writer Eliza Orzeszkowa, Positivist writer Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, writer

Boy-Żeleński Chojecki Dołęga-Mostowicz Fredro Kaden-Bandrowski Krasicki Kraszewski Stanisław Lem Lem Orzeszkowa Parnicki

Teodor Parnicki, historical novelist Jan Chryzostom Pasek, memoirist Sergiusz Piasecki, writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz, screenwriter and politician Jan Potocki, The Saragossa Manuscript Bolesław Prus, The Doll and Pharaoh. Ksawery Pruszyński, writer and journalist Stanisław Przybyszewski, novelist, dramatist and poet who wrote in both German and Polish Mikołaj Rej, a founder of Polish literary language and literature Sydor Rey, writer, poet, novelist Władysław Reymont, 1924 Nobel laureate Maria Rodziewiczówna, novelist Henryk Rzewuski, novelist Pinchas Sadeh, Israeli novelist and poet Andrzej Sapkowski, fantasy writer Sat-Okh, Polish-Shawnee writer Bruno Schulz, novelist and painter Joanna Siedlecka, non-fiction writer Lucjan Siemieński Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1905 Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1978 Nobel laureate Piotr Skarga, poet, writer, humanist Robert Stiller, polyglot, writer, poet, translator, editor Jędrzej Śniadecki, terminologist, writer Olga Tokarczuk, Polish-Ukrainian writer Leopold Tyrmand, writer Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) Lucjan Wolanowski, writer, journalist, and traveller Stanisław Wyspiański, painter and writer Franciszek Zabłocki, comic dramatist and satirist Janusz A. Zajdel, science-fiction writer Gabriela Zapolska, novelist Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz, political fiction and science-fiction writer Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, writer Stefan Żeromski, novelist Jerzy Żuławski, novelist Eugeniusz Żytomirski, novelist

Potocki Bolesław Prus Prus Rej Reymont Sienkiewicz Witkiewicz Zajdel Zapolska Stefan Żeromski Żeromski Żuławski

Poetry

See also: List of Polish poets

Herbert

Kasprowicz

Kochanowski

Krasicki

Krasiński

Lechoń

Leśmian

Mickiewicz

• 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
• Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki
• Leszek Engelking
• Jerzy Ficowski
• Aleksander Fredro
• Tadeusz Gajcy
• Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński
• Zuzanna Ginczanka
• Stanisław Grochowiak
• Marian Hemar
• Zbigniew Herbert
• Wacław Iwaniuk
• Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
• Klemens Janicki
• Bruno Jasieński
• Anna Kamieńska
• Jan Kasprowicz
• Jan Kochanowski
• Feliks Konarski
• Maria Konopnicka
• Julian Kornhauser
• 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

Norwid

Rej

Sarbiewski

Słowacki

Staff

Szymborska

Tuwim

Wierzyński

• 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 Kamil Norwid
• Franciszek Nowicki
• Antoni Edward Odyniec
• Władysław Orkan
• Agnieszka Osiecka
• Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
• 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
• Włodzimierz Szymanowicz
• Wisława Szymborska, 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Szymon Szymonowic
• Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
• Julian Tuwim
• Jan Twardowski
• Kornel Ujejski
• 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

Philosophy

Copernicus

Hoene–Wroński

Jonston

Kołakowski

Libelt

Modrzewski

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Prus

• Adam of Łowicz
• Edward Abramowski
• Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
• Zygmunt Bauman
• Stefan Błachowski
• Józef Maria Bocheński
• Stanisław Brzozowski
• Adam Burski
• Piotr Chmielowski
• Leon Chwistek
• August Cieszkowski
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Edward Dembowski
• Anioł Dowgird
• Adolf Dygasiński
• Michał Falkener
• Ludwik Fleck, leading 20th-century philosopher of science
• Józef Gołuchowski
• Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki
• Jakub Górski
• Grzegorz of Stawiszyn
• Władysław Heinrich
• Michał Heller
• Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński
• Roman Ingarden
• Jakub of Gostynin
• Jan of Głogów
• Jan of Stobnica
• Józef Emanuel Jankowski
• Feliks Jaroński
• Stanisław Jaśkowski
• Jan Jonston
• Leszek Kołakowski
• Hugo Kołłątaj
• Alfred Korzybski
• Tadeusz Kotarbiński
• Władysław Mieczysław Kozłowski
• Józef Kremer
• Franciszek Krupiński
• Stanisław Leszczyński
• Stanisław Leśniewski
• Casimir Lewy

Staszic

Jan Śniadecki

Świętochowski

Tarski

Tatarkiewicz

Twardowski

Wiszniewski

• Karol Libelt
• Wincenty Lutosławski
• Jan Łukasiewicz
• Adam Mahrburg
• Marian Massonius
• Émile Meyerson
• Konstanty Michalski
• Wawrzyniec Mitzler de Kolof
• Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski
• Julian Ochorowicz
• Stefan Pawlicki
• Leon Petrażycki
• Sebastian Petrycy
• Bolesław Prus
• Adam Schaff
• Ulrich Schrade
• Stanisław Staszic
• Józef Supiński
• Józef Kalasanty Szaniawski
• Jan Szylling
• Krystyn Lach Szyrma
• Maria Szyszkowska
• Jan Śniadecki
• Jędrzej Śniadecki
• Aleksander Świętochowski
• Alfred Tarski
• Władysław Tatarkiewicz
• Józef Tischner
• Andrzej Towiański
• Bronisław Trentowski
• Kazimierz Twardowski
• Michał Twaróg of Bystrzyków
• Władysław Weryho
• Michał Wiszniewski
• Witelo
• Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy)
• Władysław Witwicki
• Karol Wojtyla
• Adam Ignacy Zabellewicz
• Marian Zdziechowski
• Czesław Znamierowski
• Florian Znaniecki

Fine arts

See also: List of Polish architects, List of Polish artists, and List of Polish painters

Chełmoński

Fałat

Gerson

Aleksander Gierymski

Grottger

Kantor

Kobro

Juliusz Kossak

Wojciech Kossak

• Magdalena Abakanowicz, sculptor
• Sylwester Ambroziak, sculptor
• Chrystian Piotr Aigner, architect
• Paweł Althamer, contemporary artist
• Tomasz Bagiński, computer graphics
• Balthus (Balthasar Kłossowski de Rola), Polish-French painter
• Mirosław Bałka, contemporary painter and sculptor
• Krzysztof Bednarski, sculptor
• Zdzisław Beksiński, painter
• Władysław T. Benda, Polish-American painter, illustrator, designer
• Olga Boznańska, painter
• Józef Brandt, painter
• Józef Marian Chełmoński, painter
• Józef Czapski, painter
• Tytus Czyżewski, painter, poet, art critic
• Jacenty Dędek, photographer
• Zbigniew Dłubak, painter
• Andrzej Dłużniewski, contemporary sculptor
• Xawery Dunikowski, sculptor
• Maksymilian Fajans, Jewish–Polish artist, lithographer, photographer
• Julian Fałat, painter
• Wojciech Fangor, painter
• Wojciech Gerson, painter
• Stefan Gierowski, painter
• Aleksander Gierymski, painter, brother of Maksymilian Gierymski
• Maksymilian Gierymski, painter
• Cyprian Godebski (sculptor)
• Zygmunt Gorgolewski, architect
• Władysław Horodecki, architect
• Józef Gosławski, sculptor and medallist
• Artur Grottger, painter, illustrator
• Władysław Hasior, sculptor, painter, stage designer
• Józef Hecht, engraver, printmaker
• Józef Holewiński, graphic artist and painter
• Anna Kamieńska-Łapińska, sculptor, animated-film scenarist
• Johann Christian Kammsetzer, architect
• Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990), painter, theater director
• Adam Kalinowski, visual artist
• Katarzyna Kobro, sculptor
• 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
• Tamara de Lempicka, painter
• Zbigniew Lengren, cartoonist and illustrator.
• Jan Lenica, graphic designer and cartoonist
• Aleksander Lesser, painter

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Malczewski

Matejko

Norblin

Orłowski

Podkowiński

Schuch

Witkiewicz

Witkacy

Wyczółkowski

Wyspiański

• Daniel Libeskind, architect
• Jacek Malczewski, painter
• Jan Matejko, painter
• Agata Materowicz, painter, photographer, graphic designer, FIMO figurines designer and hand-maker
• Józef Mehoffer, painter
• Piotr Michałowski, painter
• Ambroży Mieroszewski, Chopin's first portraitist
• Igor Mitoraj, sculptor
• Dorota Nieznalska, sculptor
• Jan Piotr Norblin, painting, drawing, caricature
• Jerzy Nowosielski, painter
• Rafał Olbiński, illustrator, painter
• Roman Opałka, painter
• Aleksander Orłowski, painter
• Józef Pankiewicz, painter, graphic artist
• Władysław Podkowiński, painter and illustrator
• Stanislaw Przespolewski, painter, sculptor
• 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, 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
• Roland Topor, illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker
• Zygmunt Vogel, watercolor and drawing
• Max Weber, painter
• Michał Weinzieher, art critic
• Wojciech Weiss, painter and draughtsman
• Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański, sculptor
• 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
• Jan Sas Zubrzycki, architect

Entertainment

Piotr Adamczyk, actor Piotr Andrejew, film director Józef Arkusz, film director Aniela Aszpergerowa, actress, great-grandmother of John Gielgud Tomasz Bagiński, BAFTA Award-winning short-animated-movie maker, nominated for an Academy Award 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 Zbigniew Cybulski, actor Elżbieta Czyżewska, actress Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, actress Ewa Demarczyk, actress, poetry singer Dagmara Dominczyk, actress Doda (Dorota Rabczewska), actress, singer Irena Dziedzic, journalist, TV presenter Paweł Edelman, cinematographer, European Film Award winner. Katarzyna Figura, actress Aleksander Ford, director Małgorzata Foremniak, actress, starred in Avalon Piotr Fronczewski, actor and singer Janusz Gajos, actor Jerzy Grotowski, theatre reformer Adam Hanuszkiewicz, actor, theater director Wojciech Has, film director Jerzy Hoffman, film director Agnieszka Holland, film director, nominated to Academy Awards and BAFTA Award Gustaw Holoubek, actor Sławomir Idziak, cinematagrapher, nominated to Oscar Stefan Jaracz, actor Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Academy Award winning composer, nominated to BAFTA Award Jacek Kaczmarski, protest songwriter, poetry singer, guitarist Janusz Kamiński, two Oscars and BAFTA Award winning cinematographer and film director Bronislau Kaper, Academy Award winning composer Krzysztof Kieślowski, film director, nominated for Academy Awards Max Kolonko TV personality, producer, writer Jacek Koman, actor Joanna Krupa actress and super-model Kazimierz Kutz, film director Irena Kwiatkowska, actress Bogusław Linda, actor

Aszpergerowa and daughters Bogusławski Cybulski Hanuszkiewicz Jaracz Kwiatkowska Modjeska Negri

Tadeusz Łomnicki, actor Helena Modjeska (Modrzejewska), actress Pola Negri, actress Daniel Olbrychski, actor Jerzy Owsiak, broadcaster Joanna Pacuła, actress Ludwika Paleta, Polish-Mexican actress Dominika Paleta, Polish-Mexican actress Cezary Pazura, actor Roman Polanski, award winning film director educated in Poland Beata Pozniak, actress, director, activist, writer, producer Jeremi Przybora Anna Przybylska, actress Wojciech Pszoniak, actor of Comédie-Française Krzysztof Ptak, cinematographer Zbigniew Rybczyński, 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. Andrzej Seweryn, actor of Comédie Française Jerzy Skolimowski, film director Przemysław Skwirczyński, cinematographer Piotr Sobocinski, cinematographer Allan Starski, Oscar winning production designer, art director, set designer Yvonne Strahovski (Strzechowski), Polish-Australian television, film, and voice actress. Jerzy Stuhr, actor, film director Henryk Tomaszewski, mime Basia Trzetrzelewska, singer Andrzej Wajda, Academy Award, Golden Palm, BAFTA Award, Silver Berlin Bear, César Award and Golden Lion winning film director Jerzy Wasowski Michał Waszyński, film director Roman Wilhelmi, actor Dariusz Wolski, cinematographer Lidia Wysocka, actress Zbigniew Zamachowski, actor Krzysztof Zanussi, film director Michał Żebrowski, actor Artur Żmijewski, actor Andrzej Żuławski, film director

Olbrychski Polanski Schiller Skolimowski Wajda Wasikowska Zanussi

Business

Hipolit Cegielski Franciszek Czapek, co-partner in Patek, Czapek & Co. Max Factor, Sr., cosmetics entrepreneur Henryk Grohman, textile manufacturer and patron of the arts Nathan Handwerker Barbara Piasecka Johnson, humanitarian, philanthropist, widow of J. Seward Johnson, Sr. Leopold Kronenberg, banker Stanisław Kronenberg, financier Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki, merchant, spy, diplomat; first café in Vienna (1683) Jan Kulczyk, CEO of Kulczyk Investments and richest Pole Michael Marks, co-founder of Marks and Spencer retail chain Samuel Orgelbrand, editor Antoni Patek, co-founder of watchmakers Patek Philippe & Co. Izrael Poznański, textile magnate, philanthropist Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics entrepreneur, one of the richest women that have ever lived Karol Scheibler, textile magnate Henri Strzelecki, founder of Henri Lloyd, Ltd., sportswear manufacturer Hyppolite Wawelberg, Polish-Jewish banker and philanthropist Andrzej Artur Zamoyski

Cegielski L. Kronenberg

Patek Poznański Rubinstein

Royalty

Mieszko I, first Duke of Poland. Doubravka of Bohemia, the 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. 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. 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. Casimir III the Great, Piast Dynasty last King of Poland. Jadwiga Angevin, King and Queen 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 (1454–1466). 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. Sigismund II Augustus, last Jagiellon king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Anna Jagiellon, reigned together with her husband Stephen Báthory Stephen Báthory, 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. 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. Stanisław Leszczyński, King of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Duke of Lorraine. Catherine Opalińska, Queen of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Duchess of Lorraine. Maria Leszczyńska, consort of Louis XV, King of France. Stanisław August Poniatowski, last King of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, co-author of the Constitution of May 3, 1791.

Mieszko I Władysław the Elbow-high Casimir the Great Władysław Jagiełło Casimir Jagiellon Stefan Batory Jan III Sobieski Stanisław August

Nobility

see: List of szlachta

Military

Władysław Anders, general, military commander during the Battle of Monte Cassino (1944) Dawid Apfelbaum, Polish Army lieutenant; commander of the Jewish Military Union (backed by Home Army) in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943) 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) Michał Czajkowski (Sadyk Pasha), (1804–86), Polish-Ukrainian commander-in-chief of an Ottoman Cossack brigade during the Crimean War (1853–56) Stefan Czarniecki, Field Crown Hetman of Poland (1665) Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, general, military commander during the Napoleonic Wars Jarosław Dąbrowski, military commander during the 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 (1919) Bolesław Bronisław Duch, World War II general Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski (1894–2005), Polish 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) 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, Grand Crown Hetman (1682/3-1702) Jan Nowak-Jezioranski (1913–2005), Polish journalist and World War II hero Berek Joselewicz, Polish-Jewish colonel in the Kościuszko Uprising and in Napoleon's Polish Legions; commanded the first Jewish military formation in modern history Mikołaj Kamieniecki, first Grand Crown Hetman of Poland (1503–15) 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 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) Stanisław Koniecpolski, Grand Crown Hetman (1632–46) Stanisław Kopański, general, the Chief of the 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 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 Aleksander Lisowski, commander of 17th-century Lisowczycy Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, Prince, Field Crown Hetman (1657–64), victor at the Battle of Chudniv (Cudnów) (1660)

Anders Bem Czarniecki Jan Henryk Dąbrowski Kościuszko Krzyżanowski Maczek Piłsudski Plater

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 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 Armed Resistance (ZWZ) (1940–42) and Home Army (1942–43) Edward Rydz-Śmigły, marshal, military commander, successful in the Polish-Soviet War, C-in-C of the Polish Army in the 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) 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) Józef Sowiński, general, hero of the November Uprising (1830–31) Zygmunt Szendzielarz ("Łupaszko") Ignacy Szymanski, veteran of November 1830 Uprising and American Civil War (on the Confederate side) Jan Tarnowski, Grand Crown Hetman (1527–61), victor of Obertyn (1531) Piotr Wysocki, led the November Uprising (1830) Kordian Józef Zamorski, general; chief of the Polish state police (1935–39) Jan Zamoyski, Great Chancellor of Poland (1578–1605) and Grand Crown Hetman (1581–1605) Elżbieta Zawacka, general, the only woman among the Silent Unseen Stanisław Żółkiewski, chancellor of Poland, military commander, conqueror of Moscow (1610), Grand Crown Hetman (1613–20) Janusz Żurakowski, World War II fighter pilot and Avro Arrow test pilot

Józef Poniatowski Pułaski Sadeh Sikorski Sosnkowski Sowiński Tarnowski Zamoyski Żółkiewski

Politics

Tomasz Arciszewski, first Prime Minister of Poland in exile (1944–1947) Kazimierz Feliks Badeni, count, Minister-President of Austria (1895–1897) 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) Michał Bobrzyński, Governor of Galicia (1908–1913) Zbigniew Brzeziński, (1928–Present), political scientist, advisor to US President Jimmy Carter. 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) Roman Dmowski, (1864–1939) nationalist politician, statesman Feliks Dzierżyński, founder of Soviet State Security under the original name Cheka Edward Gierek, leader of communist Poland (1970–1980) Władysław Gomułka, leader of communist Poland (1956–1970) 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 of the Third Polish Republic (2005–2010), "first President of the Fourth Polish Republic", died in Smolensk air crash Hugo Kołłątaj, co-author of Constitution of May 3, 1791 Bronisław Komorowski, fifth President of the Third Polish Republic (since 2010) Wojciech Korfanty, leader of Silesians during the Third Silesian Uprising Janusz Korwin-Mikke, free-market activist Stanisław Kot Jan Kucharzewski, first Prime Minister of Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918),* Jacek Kuroń, politician, social activist 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 Julian Marchlewski, Soviet politician Tadeusz Mazowiecki, politician, first Prime Minister of the Third Polish Republic (Poland) Adam Michnik, influential journalist Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Prime Minister of Poland (1943–1944), Agrarian Party politician Jędrzej Moraczewski, first Prime Minister of II RP (1918–1919) Ignacy Mościcki, third President (1926–39) of the Second Polish Republic Lewis Bernstein Namier, British politician and historian Gabriel Narutowicz, first President of the Second Polish Republic (1922) Marian P. Opala, Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court 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 Senat 2001–2005 Waldemar Pawlak, Prime Minister of Poland (1992 and 1993–95) Teodoro Picado Michalski, Costa Rican president, of Polish mother Józef Piłsudski, statesman, politician and Marshal of Poland 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 May 3, 1791 Władysław Raczkiewicz, first President of Poland in exile (1939–1947) Edward Raczyński, fourth President of Poland in exile (1979–1986) Antoni Radziwiłł, prince, the Duke-Governor of Grand Duchy of Posen (Poznań) (1815–1831) Adam Ronikier, count, president of the Central Welfare Council (1916–1918) and (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) Stefan Starzyński, President of Warsaw (1934–1939) Władysław Studnicki, politician and publicist Donald Tusk, chairman of the Civic Platform, Prime Minister of Poland (since 2007) Lech Wałęsa, trade unionist who started dismantling of the Soviet bloc, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, second President of the Third Polish Republic (1990–1995) Ludwik Waryński, socialist activist in the 19th century 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) August Zaleski, second President of Poland in exile (1947–1972) Jan Zamoyski, chancellor and grand hetman of the crown (1542–1605)

Brzeziński Czartoryski Daszyński Dmowski Filipowicz L. Kaczyński Korfanty Kot Lieberman

Michnik Niemcewicz Paderewski Piłsudski Wałęsa Wielopolski Witos

Diplomats

Bartoszewski

Beck

A. M. Gołuchowski

Lipski

Raczyński

Romer

R. Sikorski

• Władysław Bartoszewski, foreign affairs minister of III RP (1995 and 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 and Russian diplomat; Russian Imperial foreign minister (1804–6)
• 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 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-Austrian diplomat
• Stanisław Kot, Polish ambassador to the Soviet Union (1941–1942) and to 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, Soviet 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 Skrzyński, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1922–1923 and 1924–1926)
• Krzysztof Skubiszewski, first foreign affairs minister of III RP (1989–1993)
• Romuald Spasowski, Polish ambassador to the United States (1955–1961 and 1978–1981)
• Jan Szembek, count, foreign affairs deputy secretary (1932–1939)
• 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)
• 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
• Sergey Yastrzhembsky, Russian diplomat

Intelligence

Kontrym

Kowalewski

Kukliński

Kulczycki

• Feliks Ankerstein, interwar covert-operations officer and deputy to Edmund Charaszkiewicz in Office 2 of the General Staff's Section II (the Intelligence section).
• Edmund Charaszkiewicz, interwar covert-operations officer and coordinator of Józef Piłsudski's Promethean project to dismember the Soviet Union.
• Maksymilian Ciężki, chief of the Polish Cipher Bureau's German section (BS–4), which from 1932 decrypted German Enigma ciphers, paving the way for Britain's World War II Ultra secret.
• Roman Czerniawski, Polish Air Force captain and British Double Cross System agent.
• Marian Drobik, Home Army (AK) colonel, chief of the General Staff's Section II (intelligence) in 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.
• 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 SOE agent; colleague of Krystyna Skarbek.
• Ryszard Kukliński, Polish Army colonel, Cold War 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.

Leski

Pełczyński

Schaetzel

Włodarkiewicz

• Gwido Langer, head of Poland's 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 Cipher Bureau.
• Jerzy Pawłowski, Olympic gold-medalist fencer and Cold-War double agent.
• Tadeusz Pełczyński, general, chief of the General Staff's Section II (1929–32 and 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 critic of German literature.
• Tadeusz Schaetzel, intelligence officer, chief of the General Staff's Section II (1926–29).
• Krystyna Skarbek, World War II British 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.

Holocaust resisters

Irena Adamowicz Mordechaj Anielewicz, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Dawid Apfelbaum, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Władysław Bartoszewski Adolf Berman Anna Borkowska (Sister Bertranda) Icchak Cukierman Marek Edelman Yitzhak Gitterman Bernard Goldstein Haika Grossman Irena Gut Henryk Iwański Jan Karski Michał Klepfisz Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, co-founder of Żegota Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz, Provisional Committee for Aid to Jews Countess Karolina Lanckorońska Zivia Lubetkin Maurycy Orzech Witold Pilecki Tadeusz Romer, Polish ambassador to Japan and in Shanghai Ghetto Irena Sendler saved nearly 2,500 Jewish children in World War II Henryk Sławik, Polish Schindler, diplomat in Hungary Leopold Socha, another "Polish Schindler" Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter Henryk Woliński Lidia Zamenhof Szmul Zygielbojm

Anielewicz Edelman Karski Kossak-Szczucka Pilecki Sendler

Religion

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, the founder of Hasidic Judaism) St. Józef Bilczewski (Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lvov, 1900–23) Szymon Budny (Polish-Belarusian humanist and Arian priest) St. Casimir Jagiellon (grandson of King Władysław II Jagiełło) St. Adam (Albert) Chmielowski (Albertine) Bl. August Czartoryski (Prince) Edmund Dalbor (Primate of Poland, Cardinal, 1915–26) Albin Dunajewski (Bishop of Kraków, Cardinal, 1879–94) Stanisław Dziwisz (Archbishop of Kraków, since 2005, Cardinal) Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski (Archbishop of Warsaw, 1856–61) Jacob Frank (Jewish messianic leader who merged Judaism and Christianity) Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (vicar, humanist, and theologian) Piotr Gamrat (Primate of Poland, 1541–45) Józef Glemp (Primate of Poland since 1981, Cardinal) Adam Stanisław Grabowski, Prince-Bishop of Warmia August Hlond (Primate of Poland, 1926–48, Cardinal) Stanislaus Hosius (legate to Poland, Cardinal and Prince-Bishop of Warmia) St. Hyacinth (Dominican) St. Jadwiga (Queen of Poland, 1384–99) 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. Jan Kanty (professor at Kraków University). Stanisław Karnkowski (Primate of Poland, 1581–1603; Interrex, 1586–87). St. Stanisław Kazimierczyk (priest and preacher). St. Maksymilian Maria Kolbe (Franciscan martyr, Auschwitz 1941). Hugo Kołłątaj (priest, statesman) Bolesław Kominek (Archbishop of Wrocław, 1972–74, Cardinal) St. Stanisław Kostka (Jesuit) St. Faustina Kowalska (Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy) Ignacy Krasicki (Primate of Poland) Adam Stanisław Krasiński (Bishop of Kamieniec Podolski, 1757–98) John Krol (Archbishop of Philadelphia, Cardinal, 1961–88) Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski (Primate of Poland, 1866–86, Cardinal) Jan Łaski (1456-1531), Primate of Poland, 1510–31 Jan Łaski (1499–1560), Protestant reformer; nephew of the Primate Władysław Aleksander Łubieński (Archbishop of Lwów, Primate of Poland, 1759–67; Interrex, 1763–64) Franciszek Macharski (Archbishop of Kraków, 1978–2005, Cardinal) Tomasz Miśkiewicz, mufti of the Polish Muslims (Muzułmański Związek Religijny (Polish)) and Imam of Białystok Mieczysław Mokrzycki (Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lvov, since 2008) Zbigniew Oleśnicki (Bishop of Kraków, 1423–55; first Cardinal of Polish origin, from 1449; statesman) Zbigniew Oleśnicki (nephew of Zbigniew Oleśnicki; Cardinal Primate of Poland, 1481–93) Piotr of Goniądz, a spiritual leader of the Polish Brethren Walenty Potocki (Count; converted to Judaism as Avrohom ben Avrohom, the Ger Tzedek of Vilna; died 1749) Jan Puzyna (Bishop of Kraków, 1895–1911, Cardinal) Jerzy Radziwiłł (Bishop of Kraków, Cardinal, 1591–1600) Sholom Rokeach, (the first Belzer Rebbe, 1817–1855). Tadeusz Rydzyk (Redemptorist) St. Stanisław of Szczepanów (Bishop of Kraków, martyr 1079) Adam Stefan Sapieha (Bishop/Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal, 1911–51) Piotr Skarga (Jesuit) Kajetan Sołtyk (Bishop of Kiev, 1756–59; Bishop of Kraków, 1759–88) Boruch Steinberg the 1st Rabbi of the Polish Army before and during World War II, an officer Kazimierz Świątek (Roman Catholic Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev; Apostolic Administrator of Pinsk, Cardinal) Edmund Szoka (Archbishop of Detroit, Cardinal 1981–90) Jakub Szynkiewicz (1884–1966), Ph.D. in Philosophy, Imam of Poland, translated portions of Qur'an into Polish Józef Tischner (priest, philosopher and first chaplain of the trade union "Solidarity") Mikołaj Trąba (Archbishop of Gniezno, first Primate of Poland, 1418–22) Jakub Uchański (Primate of Poland, 1562–81; Interrex, 1572–73 and 1574–75) Piotr Wawrzyniak (priest and economist) Chaim Elozor Wax (1822–1887) famous rabbi Karol Józef Wojtyla (Auxiliary bishop of Kraków 1958–1963, Archbishop of Kraków, 1963–1978, Pope John Paul II, 1978–2005) Stefan Wyszyński (Primate of Poland, Cardinal, 1948–81) Reverend Monsignor (Wawrzyniec) Lawrence Wnuk (Protonotary Apostolic)

Chmielowski Frank Hlond Hosius Jadwiga Stanisław Kostka Kowalska Stanisław of Szczepanów Sapieha Wojtyła Wyszyński

Assassins

Ignacy Hryniewiecki, assassin of Tsar Alexander II of Russia

Hryniewiecki

Eligiusz Niewiadomski, modernist painter, art critic, assassin of Polish President Gabriel Narutowicz

Niewiadomski

Lawyers

Main article: List of Polish lawyers

Miscellaneous

Ossowiecki

Voynich

• George Adamski, controversial ufologist
• Florian Ceynowa, Kashubian activist
• Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, first woman to sail solo around the world
• Franciszek Czapek, watchmaker
• Michał Drzymała, resistance hero
• Piotr Gawryś, contract bridge champion
• Wincenty Gostkowski, watchmaker
• Piotr Iwanicki, wheelchair dancing world champion
• Marek Kamiński, adventure traveller
• Adam Michnik, journalist
• Piotr Naszarkowski, engraver
• Stefan Ossowiecki, psychic
• Józef Piotrowski
• Anthony Radziwill, U.S. news journalist/producer (nephew of John F. Kennedy)
• Wilfrid Michael Voynich, bibliophile, eponym of the mysterious Voynich Manuscript
• Warren Winiarski, California winemaker

Models

• Anna Anka (Anna Åberg, Anna Yeager), born in Poland
• Małgosia Bela, born in Kraków
• Magdalena Frackowiak, born in Gdańsk
• Monika Jagaciak, born in Poznań
• Anna Jagodzinska, born in Sierpc
• Joanna Krupa, born in Warsaw
• Anja Rubik, born in Rzeszów
• Ewa Sonnet, born in Rybnik, adult model
• Kasia Struss, born in Ciechanów
• Francys Sudnicka, born in Valencia, Venezuela
• Magdalena Wróbel, born in Sopot

Frackowiak

Krupa

Rubik

Sonnet

Legendary persons

• Krakus, legendary prince and founder of Kraków.
• 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 western Polans; last of the Popielids.
• Abraham Prochownik, legendary Jewish figure, said to have been named prince of the western Polans after the death of Popiel in 842.
• John Scolvus, semi-legendary sailor of the late 15th century.
• 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.

Fictional characters

• Captain William Joseph "B.J." Blazkowicz in Wolfenstein 3D
• Bolek i Lolek
• Waldemar Daninsky, wolfman in La Marca del Hombre Lobo
• Nicodemus Dyzma (in Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz's novel, The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma).
• Marcin Jerek, a Polish-born British professor and former CIA interrogator, in the TV series NCIS, played by W. Morgan Sheppard
• Dr. Judym (in Stefan Żeromski's novel, 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 (Captain Kloss), World War II secret agent in the Polish TV serial Stake larger than life
• Kordian
• Funky Koval, space detective
• Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' play, A Streetcar Named Desire
• Stanley Kowalski, a Polish-American detective in the 1990s Canadian television series Due South
• Walt Kowalski—a Polish-American Korean War veteran and retired Ford worker, in Clint Eastwood's 2008 film Gran Torino
• Kowalski, a penguin on the List of characters in Madagascar (franchise)
• Koziołek Matołek
• 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)
• Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski, in HBO's The Wire, from police officer to school teacher
• Officer Eddie Pulaski in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Abel Rosnovski in Kane and Abel
• Pan Samochodzik, an adventurer created by Zbigniew Nienacki
• Sasquatch (Dr. Walter Langkowski), Marvel superhero
• Walter Sobchak, the "Polish Catholic" in the film, The Big Lebowski
• Silk Spectre I & II, superheroines in Watchmen
• Stanislau, ace pilot in Blackhawk
• Michael Stivic in All in the Family
• 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
• Konrad Wallenrod, in the narrative poem by Adam Mickiewicz
• John Paul Wiggin (Jan Paweł Wieczorek) in the Ender's Game series
• The Witcher, fantasy hero created by Sapkowski
• Stanisław Wokulski, protagonist of Bolesław Prus' novel, The Doll.
• Mike Bruski, character in a video game Mafia II, junkyard operating stolen cars expert.
• Piotr Zak, composer in a spoof BBC documentary
• Sophie Zawistowski in Sophie's Choice, a novel by William Styron and film by Alan J. Pakula.

Sports

See also: list of Polish sports players

Athletics

• Andrzej Badeński, sprinter
• Lidia Chojecka, athlete
• Jerzy Chromik, athlete
• Teresa Ciepły, sprinter
• Paweł Fajdek, hammer thrower
• Marian Foik, sprinter
• Wioletta Frankiewicz, steeplechaser
• Halina Górecka, sprinter
• Piotr Haczek, sprinter
• Zdzisław Hoffmann, triple jumper
• Barbara Janiszewska, sprinter
• Michel Jazy, athlete
• Ewa Kłobukowska, sprinter
• Władysław Komar, shot putter
• Halina Konopacka, discus thrower
• Robert Korzeniowski, racewalker
• Władysław Kozakiewicz, pole vaulter
• Elżbieta Krzesińska, long jumper

• 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
• Robert Maćkowiak, sprinter
• Józef Noji, athlete
• Wanda Panfil, athlete
• Artur Partyka, high jumper
• Edmund Piątkowski, discus thrower
• Marek Plawgo, athlete
• 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
• Tadeusz Ślusarski, pole vaulter
• Marcin Urbaś, sprinter
• Jadwiga Wajs, discus thrower
• Stanisława Walasiewicz, sprinter
• Jan Werner, sprinter
• Anita Włodarczyk, hammer thrower
• Paweł Wojciechowski, pole vaulter
• Marian Woronin, sprinter
• Jacek Wszoła, high jumper
• Kazimierz Zimny, athlete
• Szymon Ziółkowski, hammer thrower

Basketball

• Marcin Gortat, NBA basketball, Washington Wizards

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
• Henryk Średnicki
• Krzysztof Włodarczyk
• Tony Zale
• Janusz Zarenkiewicz

Chess

• Izak Aloni (1905–1985)
• Izaak Appel (1905–1941)
• Arnold Aurbach (1888–1952)
• Zdzisław Belsitzmann (1890–1920)
• Abram Blass (1895-Unknown)
• Agnieszka Brustman (1962–Present)
• Oscar Chajes (1873–1928)
• Josef 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)
• Arthur Dunkelblum (1906–1979)
• Boruch Israel Dyner (1903–1979)
• Hanna Ereńska (1946–Present)
• 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)
• Stanislaw Kohn (1895–1940)
• George Koltanowski (1903–2000) Born in Belgium to a Polish-Jewish family.
• Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov (1938–Present)
• Michał Krasenkow (1963–Present) Russian born, moved to Poland in 1992.
• Leon Kremer (1901–1941)
• Adam Kuligowski (1955–Present) 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 (1977–Present)
• Kazimierz Makarczyk (1901–1972)
• Kalikst Morawski (1859–1939)
• Stasch Mlotkowski (1881–1943) Born in the United States to Polish Parents.
• Piotr Murdzia (1975–Present)
• Miguel Najdorf (1910–1997)
• Menachem Oren (1903–1962)
• Julius Perlis (1880–1913)
• Jusefs Petkevich (1940–Present)
• Karol Piltz (1903–1939)
• Oskar Piotrowski
• Kazimierz Plater (1915–2004)
• Henryk Pogorieły (1908–1943)
• Ignatz von Popiel (1863–1941)

• Artur Popławski
• Dawid Przepiórka
• Iweta Rajlich
• Teodor Regedziński
• Samuel Reshevsky
• Jakob Rosanes
• Samuel Rosenthal
• Gersz Rotlewi
• Akiba Rubinstein
• Gersz Salwe
• Włodzimierz Schmidt
• Leon Schwartzmann
• Stanislaus Sittenfeld
• Monika Soćko
• Franciszek Sulik
• Bogdan Śliwa
• Dariusz Świercz
• Savielly Tartakower
• Jean Taubenhaus
• Oscar Tenner
• Vitaly Tseshkovsky
• Alexander Wagner
• Szymon Winawer
• Aleksander Wojtkiewicz
• Daniel Yanofsky
• Johannes Zukertort
• Adolf Zytogorski
• Józef Żabiński

Climbing

• Leszek Cichy, himalaist
• Jerzy Kukuczka, himalaist
• Wojciech Kurtyka, himalaist, rock climber
• Piotr Pustelnik, himalaist
• Wanda Rutkiewicz, himalaist
• Krzysztof Wielicki, himalaist
• Andrzej Zawada, himalaist

Fencing

• Zbigniew Czajkowski
• Danuta Dmowska
• Egon Franke
• Sylwia Gruchała
• Roman Kantor, épée

• Edward Korfanty
• Ryszard Parulski
• Jerzy Pawłowski
• Anna Rybicka
• Ryszard Sobczak
• Witold Woyda
• Barbara Wysoczańska
• Wojciech Zabłocki

Ice hockey

• Mariusz Czerkawski
• Dan Chojecki
• 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

Skiing

• Bronisław Czech
• Wojciech Fortuna, ski jumper
• Justyna Kowalczyk, cross-country skier
• Józef Łuszczek, cross-country skier
• Adam Małysz, ski jumper
• Jan Marusarz, brother of Stanisław Marusarz, WWII escort of Krystyna Skarbek
• Stanisław Marusarz, ski jumper
• Stefan Hula, Sr., Nordic combined skier
• Stefan Hula, Jr., ski jumper
• Kamil Stoch, ski jumper

Football

• Zygmunt Anczok, defender
• Henryk Apostel, coach
• Jan Banaś, attacker
• Jakub Błaszczykowski, midfielder
• Zbigniew Boniek, midfielder
• Artur Boruc, goalkeeper
• Lucjan Brychczy, midfielder
• Andrzej Buncol, midfielder
• Ewald Cebula, defender
• Gerard Cieślik, midfielder
• Lesław Ćmikiewicz, midfielder
• Kazimierz Deyna, midfielder
• Jerzy Dudek, goalkeeper
• Ewald Dytko, midfielder
• 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
• 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
• Józef Młynarczyk, goalkeeper
• Piotr Nowak, midfielder
• Erwin Nyc, midfielder
• Teodor Peterek, attacker
• Ryszard Piec, midfielder
• Wilhelm Piec, midfielder
• Antoni Piechniczek, defender, coach
• Leonard Piontek, midfielder
• Lukas Podolski attacker
• Lukasz Piszczek, defender
• Ernest Pohl, attacker
• Fryderyk Scherfke midfielder
• Euzebiusz Smolarek, attacker
• Włodzimierz Smolarek, midfielder
• Leon Sperling, forward (left wing)
• Grzegorz Szamotulski, goalkeeper
• Andrzej Szarmach, attacker
• Władysław Szczepaniak, defender
• Wojciech Szczęsny, goalkeeper
• Edward Szymkowiak, goalkeeper
• Piotr Świerczewski, midfielder
• Jan Tomaszewski, goalkeeper
• Piotr Trochowski, midfielder
• Krzysztof Warzycha, attacker
• Ernest Wilimowski, attacker
• Walter Winkler, defender
• Maryan Wisnieski, attacker
• Gerard Wodarz, attacker
• Łukasz Załuska, goalkeeper
• Władysław Żmuda, defender

Swimming

• Katarzyna Baranowska
• Agnieszka Czopek
• Otylia Jędrzejczak
• Bartosz Kizierowski
• Michael Klim
• Paweł Korzeniowski

• Daniel Kowalski
• Sławomir Kuczko
• Mariusz Podkościelny
• Mateusz Sawrymowicz
• Lejzor Ilja Szrajbman
• Rafał Szukała
• Artur Wojdat
• Agata Korc

Tennis

• Wojciech Fibak
• Jadwiga Jędrzejowska
• Angelique Kerber
• Agnieszka Radwańska
• Urszula Radwańska
• Caroline Wozniacki
• Jerzy Janowicz
• Sabine Lisicki

Weightlifting

• Waldemar Baszanowski
• Marcin Dołęga
• Zbigniew Kaczmarek
• Aleksandra Klejnowska
• Szymon Kołecki
• Mieczysław Nowak
• Norbert Ozimek
• Ireneusz Paliński
• Norbert Schemansky
• Zygmunt Smalcerz
• Marek Seweryn
• Stanley Stanczyk
• Agata Wróbel
• Adrian Zieliński
• Marian Zieliński

Others

• Joanna Jędrzejczyk, mixed martial arts
• Leszek Blanik, gymnastics
• Janusz Centka, soaring
• Moe Drabowsky, baseball
• Jarek Dymek, strongman
• Tomasz Gollob, Motorcycle speedway World Champion
• Andrzej Grubba, table tennis
• Sebastian Janikowski, American football
• Stan Javie, American football official
• Steve Javie, National Basketball Association
• Stefan Kapłaniak, canoeing
• Sebastian Kawa, soaring
• Justin Koschitzke, Australian rules footballer
• Rafał Kubacki, judo
• Robert Kubica, auto racing
• Tomasz Kucharski, rowing
• Mateusz Kusznierewicz, sailing
• Waldemar Legień, judo
• Jerzy Makula, glider aerobatics
• Piotr Markiewicz, canoeing
• Renata Mauer, shooting
• Bill Mazeroski, baseball
• Przemyslaw Mazur, auto racing
• Gene Mruczkowski, American football
• Scott Mruczkowski, American football
• Paweł Nastula, judo
• Tom Paciorek, baseball
• Aneta Pastuszka, canoeing
• James Podsiadly, Australian rules footballer

Pudzianowski

• Mariusz Pudzianowski, strongman
• Ivan Putski, professional wrestler
• Helena Rakoczy, gymnastics
• Elwira Seroczyńska, speed skater
• Tomasz Sikora, biathlete
• Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek, modern pentathlete
• Paul Slowinski, Muay Thai
• Adam Smelczyński, shooting
• Robert Sycz, rowing
• Jerzy Szczakiel, Motorcycle speedway World Champion
• Sławomir Szmal, handball
• Ryszard Szurkowski, road bicycle racing
• Marek Twardowski, canoeing
• Roger Verey, rowing
• Piotr Wadecki, road bicycle racing
• Bogdan Wenta, handball
• Sebastian Wenta, strongman, highland games
• Maja Włoszczowska, mountain biking
• David Wojcinski, Australian rules footballer
• Jerzy Wojnar, luge
• Andrzej Wroński, wrestling
• Józef Zapędzki, shooting
• Sobiesław Zasada, auto racing

See also

• Lists of people by nationality
• Lists of people by occupation
• Poles

References