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This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing people. People of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited.

## Physics

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See also: Category:Polish physicists

* Miedziak Antal
* Czesław Białobrzeski
* Andrzej Buras
* Georges Charpak, 1995 Nobel Prize
* Jan Kazimierz Danysz
* Marian Danysz
* Tomasz Dietl
* Maria Dworzecka, Polish-American computational nuclear physicist
* Artur Ekert, British-Polish, one of the independent inventors (in 1991) of quantum cryptography
* Krzysztof Gawedzki, mathematical physicist
* Marek Gazdzicki, high-energy nuclear physicist
* Ryszard Horodecki
* Leopold Infeld
* Aleksander Jabłoński
* Jerzy Stanisław Janicki
* Sylwester Kaliski
* Elżbieta Kossecka
* Jan Eugeniusz Krysiński
* Stanislas Leibler, Polish-French-American
* Maciej Lewenstein, theoretical physicist
* Olga Malinkiewicz
* Albert A. Michelson, American, 1907 Nobel Prize
* Lidia Morawska, Polish-Australian
* Stanisław Mrozowski
* Władysław Natanson
* Witold Nazarewicz, Polish-American nuclear physicist
* Henryk Niewodniczański
* Georges Nomarski
* Karol Olszewski
* Jerzy Plebański, theoretical physicist
* Jerzy Pniewski
* Nikodem Popławski, theoretical physicist
* Sylwester Porowski, blue laser
* Józef Rotblat, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize
* Stefan Rozental, nuclear physicist
* Wojciech Rubinowicz, theoretical physicist
* Maria Skłodowska Curie (Marie Curie), two Nobel Prizes
* Jan Sładkowski
* Marian Smoluchowski, kinetic theory, Einstein–Smoluchowski relation
* Andrzej Sobolewski
* Haroun Tazieff, geologist, volcanologist, cinematographer, writer and French Cabinet minister
* Andrzej Trautman, mathematical physicist
* Witelo, philosopher, medieval optics
* August Witkowski
* Stanley Wojcicki, Polish-American
* Mieczysław Wolfke
* Stanisław Lech Woronowicz, theoretical physicist
* Zygmunt Wróblewski
* Marek Żukowski, theoretical physicist
* Wojciech H. Zurek, theoretical physicist

* Skłodowska Curie

* Ekert

* Infeld

* Olszewski

* Rotblat

* Smoluchowski

* Tazieff

* Witkowski

* Zurek

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## Chemistry

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See also: Category:Polish chemists

* Osman Achmatowicz
* Józef Boguski
* Kazimierz Boratyński
* Jan Czochralski, modern semiconductors
* Emil Czyrniański
* Tadeusz Estreicher, cryogenics pioneer
* Kazimierz Fajans, Polish-American physical chemist
* Kazimierz Funk, biochemist, the concept of vitamins
* Andrzej Górak
* Antoni Grabowski, chemical engineer
* Konstanty Hrynakowski
* Andrzej Jajszczyk
* Alina Kabata-Pendias
* Aharon Katzir, Israeli pioneer in electrochemistry of biopolymers
* Wiktor Kemula
* Włodzimierz Kołos
* Stanisław Kostanecki, organic chemist
* Marek Gatty-Kostyal
* Józef R. Lewandowski
* Ignacy Łukasiewicz, inventor of kerosene lamp
* Mieczysław Mąkosza
* Leon Marchlewski
* Bolesław Masłowski
* Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Polish-American
* Mark Miodownik, British materials scientist and engineer
* Ignacy Mościcki
* Marceli Nencki
* Karol Olszewski
* Krzysztof Palczewski, biochemist
* Janusz Pawliszyn
* Sylwester Porowski
* Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss Nobel Prize winner
* Michał Sędziwój, Latinized as Sendivogius: alchemist, physician, discoverer of oxygen
* Zuzanna S. Siwy, Polish-American
* Maria Skłodowska Curie (Marie Curie), two-time Nobel Prize winner
* Edward Sucharda
* Jędrzej Śniadecki
* Wojciech Świętosławski, "father of thermochemistry"
* Bohdan Szyszkowski
* Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski
* Filip Neriusz Walter, pioneer of organic chemistry
* Zygmunt Wróblewski
* Józef Zawadzki, physical chemist

* Boguski

* Skłodowska Curie

* Czochralski

* Fajans

* Funk

* Górak

* Łukasiewicz

* Matyjaszewski

* Reichstein

* Sędziwój

* Śniadecki

* Świętosławski

* Wróblewski

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## Biology, medicine

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See also: Category:Polish biologists and Category:Polish physicians

* Joseph Babinski, French-Polish neurologist, discoverer of the Babinski reflex
* Gabriela Balicka-Iwanowska, botanist
* Edmund Biernacki, physician, discoverer of erythrocyte sedimentation rate
* Czesław Bieżanko, entomologist
* Jan Biziel, physician, social activist
* Tytus Chałubiński, physician
* Napoleon Cybulski, neurophysiologist, discoverer of adrenaline
* Maria Antonina Czaplicka, anthropologist
* Jan Czekanowski, anthropologist
* Kazimierz Dąbrowski, psychiatrist, creator of the theory of positive disintegration
* Wiktor Dega, surgeon and orthopedist
* August Dehnel, biologist
* Józef Dietl, physician
* Hermann Dietz, physician, senator of the Republic of Poland, social activist
* Jan Dzierżon, zoologist, apiarist
* Stefan Falimierz, physician, herbalist
* Sidney Farber, American pediatric pathologist and cancer biologist, founder of the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
* Edward Flatau, neurologist
* Ludwik Fleck, Polish-Israeli microbiologist, philosopher of science
* Eva Frommer, child psychiatrist and anthroposophist
* Kazimierz Funk, biochemist, coined the term vitamin
* Marian Gieszczykiewicz, physician and bacteriologist
* Emil Godlewski, embryologist
* Samuel Goldflam, neurologist
* Adam Gruca, surgeon and orthopaedist
* Ryszard Gryglewski, pharmacologist, physician
* Tomasz Guzik (born 1974), physician
* Ludwik Hirszfeld, microbiologist and serologist
* Janina Hurynowicz, neurophysiologist
* Feliks Paweł Jarocki, zoologist and entomologist
* Stefania Jabłońska, dermatologist
* Walery Jaworski, physician
* Konstanty Jelski, ornithologist
* Zbigniew Kabata, biologist
* Ewa Kamler (born 1937), biologist and ichthyologist
* Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, paleobiologist
* Aleksander Koj, physician, scientist
* Ryszard Kole, Polish-American pharmacologist
* Jerzy Konorski, neurophysiologist
* Stefan Kopeć, biologist
* Hilary Koprowski, polio vaccine
* Tadeusz Krwawicz, medical pioneer
* Elwira Lisowska (born 1930), biochemist
* Abraham Low, American neuropsychiatrist
* Margaret Lowenfeld, British paediatrician and pioneer of Sandplay Therapy
* Liliana Lubińska, neuroscientist
* Zofia Majewska, neurologist and professor
* Karol Marcinkowski, physician
* Eugène Minkowski, psychiatrist influenced by Bergson and phenomenology
* Ludwik Młokosiewicz, botanist
* Maksymilian Nowicki, biologist
* Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, biologist
* Marek Pienkowski (born 1945), Polish-American immunologist
* Piotr Ponikowski, cardiologist
* Moshe Prywes (1914–1998), Israeli physician and educator; first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
* Tadeusz Reichstein (1897–1996), Polish-Swiss physiologist; 1950 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
* Zbigniew Religa, cardiologist
* Józef Rostafiński, biologist
* Albert Sabin, polio vaccine; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
* Andrzej Wiktor Schally (1926–2024), Polish-American Nobel-laureate endocrinologist
* Hanna Segal, British leading Kleinian psychoanalyst
* Michael Sela (1924–2022), Israeli immunologist; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
* Henryk Skarżyński, otolaryngologist, audiologist, phoniatrist
* Michalina Stefanowska, neurophysiologist
* Eduard Adolf Strasburger (born in Poland, of German descent), botanist
* Andrzej Szczeklik, immunologist
* Jan Sztolcman, ornithologist
* Wacław Szybalski, Polish-American physician
* Władysław Taczanowski, zoologist
* Andrzej K. Tarkowski, embryologist
* Zbylut Twardowski, Polish-American physician
* Jerzy Vetulani, neuroscientist, pharmacologist and biochemist
* Emil Warmiński, physician, social and national activist
* Józef Warszewicz, botanist and biologist
* Rudolf Weigl, typhus vaccine
* Wanda Wesołowska, zoologist
* Helena Rosa Wright, English physician influential in family planning
* Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, Polish-American physician
* Jozef J. Zwislocki, neuroscientist

* Babinski

* Biernacki

* Cybulski

* Czekanowski

* Dzierżoń

* Flatau

* Frommer

* Goldflam

* Gryglewski

* Hirszfeld

* Koprowski

* Nowicki

* Sabin

* Schally

* Vetulani

* Weigl

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## Astronomy

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See also: Category:Polish astronomers

* Franciszek Armiński
* Tadeusz Banachiewicz
* Jan Brożek
* Albert Brudzewski
* Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, the son of a Polish father and a mother who was of mixed German-Polish descent; he is also often considered a German by Germans
* Wojciech Dziembowski
* Władysław Dziewulski
* Michał Falkener
* Jan Gadomski
* Elisabeth Hevelius, astronomer and wife of Johannes Hevelius
* Johannes Hevelius, mayor of Gdańsk; often also considered a German
* Felicjan Kępiński
* Marian Albertovich Kowalski
* Kazimierz Kordylewski
* Wojciech Krzemiński
* Jan Latosz
* Stanisław Lubieniecki
* Bohdan Paczyński
* Marcin Poczobutt-Odlanicki
* Alexius Sylvius Polonus
* Adam Prażmowski
* Antoni Przybylski
* Agata Różańska
* Konrad Rudnicki
* Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki
* Jan Śniadecki
* Andrzej Udalski
* Wiesław Wiśniewski
* Aleksander Wolszczan, first discovery of extrasolar planets
* Thomas Zebrowski
* Anna N. Żytkow

* Brudzewski

* Copernicus

* Brożek

* Elisabeth Hevelius

* Johannes Hevelius

* Paczyński

* Jan Śniadecki

* Wolszczan

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## Mathematics

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See also: Category:Polish mathematicians

* Nachman Aronszajn, Polish-American
* Michel Balinski, American-French
* Stefan Banach
* Tadeusz Banachiewicz
* Kazimierz Bartel
* Andrzej Białynicki-Birula
* Karol Borsuk
* Jacob Bronowski, Polish-British
* Jan Brożek
* Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Polish-American
* Meier Eidelheit
* Samuel Eilenberg, Polish-American
* Andrzej Grzegorczyk
* Witold Hurewicz
* Henryk Iwaniec
* Tadeusz Iwaniec, Polish-American
* Zygmunt Janiszewski
* Stanisław Jaśkowski, logician
* Jan Jaworowski, Polish-American
* Mark Kac, Polish-American
* Stefan Kaczmarz
* Marek Karpinski, computer scientist
* Dawid Kielak
* Bronisław Knaster
* Sławomir Kołodziej
* Robert Kowalski, American-British logician
* Zdzisław Krygowski
* Krystyna Kuperberg, Polish-American
* Włodzimierz Kuperberg
* Kazimierz Kuratowski
* Izabella Łaba, Polish-Canadian
* Franciszek Leja
* Stanisław Leśniewski
* Adolf Lindenbaum
* Stanisław Łojasiewicz
* Antoni Łomnicki
* Jerzy Łoś
* Jan Łukasiewicz, logician, inventor of the parenthesis-free Polish Notation
* Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born French-American
* Edward Marczewski
* Józef Marcinkiewicz
* Stanisław Mazur
* Stefan Mazurkiewicz
* Jan Mikusinski
* Michał Misiurewicz
* Andrzej Mostowski
* Jan Mycielski, Polish-American
* Jerzy Spława-Neyman
* Otton M. Nikodym
* Wiesława Nizioł
* Andrew Odlyzko, Polish-American
* Władysław Orlicz
* Aleksander Pełczyński
* Józef H. Przytycki
* Maksym Radziwill, Polish-Canadian
* Helena Rasiowa
* Marian Rejewski, mathematician-cryptologist who broke the German Enigma cipher
* Jerzy Różycki, Enigma-breaker
* Stanisław Ruziewicz
* Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski
* Stanisław Saks
* Wojciech Samotij
* Juliusz Schauder
* Wacław Sierpiński
* Roman Sikorski
* Julian Sochocki, Polish-Russian
* Hugo Steinhaus
* Włodzimierz Stożek
* Wanda Szmielew, logician
* Władysław Ślebodziński
* Ivan Śleszyński, Polish-Russian
* Jan Śniadecki
* Alfred Tarski, Polish-American
* Adam Henryk Toruńczyk
* Stanisław Ulam, co-designer (with Edward Teller) of the hydrogen bomb
* Kazimierz Urbanik
* Tadeusz Ważewski
* Mariusz Wodzicki
* Józef Hoene-Wroński
* Kazimierz Zarankiewicz
* Stanisław Zaremba
* Henryk Zygalski, Enigma-breaker
* Antoni Zygmund, Polish-American
* Kazimierz Żorawski

* Banach

* Bartel

* Borsuk

* Eilenberg

* Grzegorczyk

* Iwaniec

* Janiszewski

* Kac

* Knaster

* Kuratowski

* Leśniewski

* Mandelbrot

* Mazur

* Mostowski

* Neyman

* Radziwiłł

* Rejewski

* Różycki

* Sierpiński

* Steinhaus

* Śniadecki

* Tarski

* Ulam

* Zaremba

* Zygalski

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## Computer science

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See also: Category:Polish computer scientists

* Krzysztof R. Apt
* Paul Baran, American
* Krzysztof Cios, Polish-American
* Jarosław Duda
* Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Polish-American
* Siemion Fajtlowicz, Polish-American, known for his Graffiti
* Tomasz Imieliński, Polish-American
* Piotr Indyk
* Jacek Karpiński
* Marek Karpiński
* Marian Mazur
* Jan Mycielski, Polish-American
* Zdzislaw Pawlak
* Emil Leon Post, American
* Stanisław Radziszowski, Polish-American
* Andrew Targowski, Polish-American
* Jack Tramiel, Polish-American
* Andrzej Trybulec, Mizar system
* Stanisław Ulam
* Jan Węglarz
* Michał Zalewski

* Karpiński

* Targowski

* Tramiel

* Ulam

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## Linguistics

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See also: Category:Linguists from Poland

* Jolanta Antas
* Jerzy Bartmiński
* Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929), developed the theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations.
* Andrzej Bogusławski (born 1931), Russian-Polish-Russian lexicographer, philosopher of language, semioticist
* Aleksander Brückner (1856–1939), Slavicist and Polish-language lexicographer
* Kazimierz Bulas (1903–1970), Polish–English lexicographer (Kościuszko Foundation Dictionary)
* Jan Bystroń
* Jan Czekanowski
* Andrzej Gawroński
* Grzegorz Knapski
* Władysław Kopaliński
* Onufry Kopczyński (1736 – 1817), creator of Polish-grammar terminology
* Alfred Korzybski, originator of general semantics
* Mikołaj Kruszewski
* Jerzy Kuryłowicz
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1771 – 1847), Polish-language lexicographer
* Jan Mączyński
* Halina Mierzejewska
* Jan Miodek
* Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski (1921–2016), Polish–English lexicographer, historian, and engineer
* Anna Siewierska
* Jan Stanisławski, Polish–English lexicographer
* Antoni Józef Śmieszek
* Michel Thomas
* Zdzisław Wąsik
* Anna Wierzbicka
* L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto

* Baudouin de Courtenay

* Bogusławski

* Brückner

* Kopczyński

* Korzybski

* Linde

* Pogonowski

* Zamenhof

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## Invention

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See also: Category:Polish inventors

* Bruno Abakanowicz, mathematician, engineer, inventor of the integraph
* Stefan Bryła, first welded road bridge
* Mieczysław G. Bekker, Lunar Roving Vehicle
* Jan Czochralski, Czochralski process
* Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski, medical equipment
* Stefan Drzewiecki in 1884 built the first electric-battery-powered submarine
* Jan Dzierżoń, 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; philosopher, psychologist
* Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, petroleum-drilling platform inventor
* Kazimierz Proszyński, cinematic camera
* Marian Rejewski, broke German Enigma-machine ciphers, invented the cryptologic bomb
* Jerzy Różycki, invented "clock" method used in breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers
* Tadeusz Sendzimir, processing steel
* Władysław Starewicz, first puppet-animated film
* 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
* Władysław Tryliński,[1] trylinka
* Józef Tykociński, sound film
* Stefan Tyszkiewicz, automotive and audio improvements
* Mieczysław Wolfke, precursor of holography
* Casimir Zeglen, bullet-proof vest
* Henryk Zygalski, Zygalski sheets

* Abakanowicz

* Drzewiecki

* Dzierżoń

* Hofmann

* Leski

* Łukasiewicz

* Magnuski

* Ochorowicz

* Pogonowski

* Rejewski

* Różycki

* Struszyński

* Szczepanik

* Tykociński

* Tyszkiewicz

* Zygalski

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## Engineering

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See also: Category:Polish engineers

* Karol Adamiecki
* Krzysztof Arciszewski
* Mieczysław G. Bekker, first moon rover
* Włodzimierz Błasiak
* Stefan Bryła, first welded road bridge
* 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
* 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 Ferrovias Central, the world's highest railway at the time
* Henry Millicer, aviation
* Ralph Modjeski, bridge designer
* Zenon Mróz, materials science engineer
* 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,[2] pioneer of rocket
* Stefan Tyszkiewicz, automotive engineer, inventor of the airport luggage trolley
* Stanisław Wigura, aviation
* Piotr Wilniewczyc, weaponry
* Jan Zarzycki, telecommunications
* Franciszek Żwirko, aviation

* Adamiecki

* Gzowski

* Kudelski

* Malinowski

* Modjeski

* Pogonowski

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## Social sciences

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See also: Category:Polish social scientists

* Tadeusz Andrzejewski, archeologist, Egyptologist
* Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist, philosopher
* Stefan Błachowski, psychologist
* Maria Czaplicka, anthropologist
* Kazimierz Dąbrowski, psychologist
* Jan Władysław Dawid, psychologist
* Tomasz Drezner, Renaissance jurist
* Agnieszka Dudzińska, sociologist
* Barbara Engelking, sociologist
* Zygmunt Gloger, ethnographer, archaeologist, historian
* Kazimierz Godłowski, historian and archeologist
* Ludwig Gumplowicz, a founder of sociology
* Norbert Guterman
* Alicja Iwańska, sociologist
* Franciszek Kasparek, jurist, professor of international law, rector of Kraków University
* Oskar Kolberg, ethnographer
* Józef Kostrzewski, archeologist, museologist
* Marek Kotański, psychologist
* Leon Kozłowski (1892–1944), archeologist; Prime Minister of Poland, 1934–35.
* 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
* Andrzej Łobaczewski, psychiatrist, originator of political ponerology
* 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
* Tadeusz Sulimirski, historian and archeologist
* Jerzy Szacki, historian of ideas
* Zbigniew Szafrański, Egyptologist, archeologist
* Jacek Szmatka, sociologist
* Piotr Sztompka, sociologist
* Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński, sociologist, founder of PAN's Institute of Political Studies
* Robert Zajonc, psychologist
* Florian Znaniecki, sociologist

* Bauman

* Czaplicka

* Engelking

* Gloger

* Gumplowicz

* Kolberg

* Kozłowski

* Krzywicki

* Malinowski

* Michałowski

* Myśliwiec

* Ochorowicz

* Ossowska

* Ossowski

* Piłsudski

* Staniszkis

* Szacki

* Znaniecki

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## Economics

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See also: Category:Polish economists

* 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 Laureate
* Danuta Hübner
* Michał Kalecki
* Grzegorz Kołodko
* Monika Kostera
* Tadeusz Kowalik
* Stanisław Kronenberg
* Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski
* Ludwik Maurycy Landau
* Oskar Lange
* Janusz Lewandowski
* 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

* Adamiecki

* Balcerowicz

* Grabski

* Hurwicz

* Kalecki

* Kronenberg

* Kwiatkowski

* Landau

* Lange

* Szczepanik

* Wasilewska-Trenkner

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## Other sciences

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* Henryk Arctowski (1871-1958), geophysicist, meteorologist, Antarctic explorer
* Leon Barszczewski, explorer[3]
* Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski, scholar, archaeologist, professor
* Karol Bohdanowicz, geologist[3]
* Aleksander Czekanowski,[3] explorer of Siberia
* Jan Czerski, paleontologist, explorer of Siberia
* Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska, socialist politician, suffragist
* Helene Deutsch, psychoanalyst
* Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski, geophysicist, meteorologist, polar explorer
* Ignacy Domeyko, geologist[4][5]
* Benedykt Dybowski, naturalist, explorer of Siberia
* Gaspar da Gama, traveller, interpreter, explorer
* Bronisław Grąbczewski, explorer[3]
* Mirosław Hermaszewski, the first Polish cosmonaut
* Leonard Jaczewski, engineer, explorer of Asian Russia[3][6]
* Maria Janion, critic and theoretician of literature, feminist
* Henryk Jordan, founding father of physical education
* Józefa Joteyko, physiologist, psychologist and pedagogue
* Antoni Kępiński, psychiatrist
* Janusz Korczak, pedagogue, writer
* Irena Krzywicka, feminist, writer, translator
* Zofia Licharewa, geologist, museum founder
* 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[3]
* Halszka Osmólska, paleontologist
* Jacek Pałkiewicz, journalist and explorer, best known for discovering the sources of the Amazon River
* Michael Alfred Peszke (1932-2015), psychiatrist, historian
* Benedykt Polak (Benedict the Pole, Benedictus Polonus), explorer
* Jan Potocki, linguist, Egyptologist, sociologist, author of The Saragossa Manuscript
* Eugeniusz Romer, cartographer
* Stanisław of Skarbimierz, political scientist
* Paweł Edmund Strzelecki (1797-1873), geologist, explorer of Australia
* Antoni Józef Śmieszek, Egyptologist
* Józef Trzemeski, polar explorer[3]
* Bernard Wapowski, "father of Polish cartography"
* Andrzej Wawrzyniak (1931-2020), diplomat, founder of the Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw
* Paweł Włodkowic, jurist
* Czesław Zakaszewski, hydrologist

* Arctowski

* Domeyko

* Dybowski

* Hermaszewski

* Kępiński

* Pałkiewicz

* Potocki

* Strzelecki

* Wawrzyniak

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## History

[edit]

See also: Category:Polish historians

* Askenazy

* Bielski

* Callimachus

* Cywiński

* Długosz

* Feldman

* Gieysztor

* Kadłubek

* Kołłątaj

* Kot

* Kromer

* Labuda

* Lelewel

* Lerski

* Manteuffel

* Miechowita

* Modzelewski

* Naruszewicz

* Peszke

* Pipes

* Pogonowski

* Samsonowicz

* Stola

* Szujski

* Vetulani

* Żagiell

* Roman Aftanazy, historian of former Eastern Borderlands and librarian
* Szymon Askenazy, historian and diplomat
* Marcin Bielski, chronicler
* Michał Bobrzyński, historian and politician
* Józef Borzyszkowski, 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
* 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
* Jerzy Kolendo, archaeologist, epigraphist and historian of the Mediterranean Basin in antiquity[7]
* Hugo Kołłątaj, 18th–19th-century historian, philosopher and politician
* Feliks Koneczny, Polish history, social philosophy
* Władysław Konopczyński, Polish and world history
* Iwona Korga, historian, president of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
* Stanisław Kot, historian, politician, diplomat
* 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
* Lucyna Kulińska
* Ewa Kurek
* Stanisław Kutrzeba, Poland, Polish law, Kraków
* Gerard Labuda
* Joachim Lelewel, historian of Poland
* Jerzy Jan Lerski
* Dariusz Libionka
* Wacław Lipiński
* Stanisław Lorentz, art historian
* Czesław Madajczyk, World War II
* Janusz Magnuski, World War II Polish and Soviet armor
* Tadeusz Manteuffel, medievalist
* Maciej Masłowski, 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,[8] Polish historian of Lithuania
* Adam Naruszewicz,[9] 18th-century historian, participant in the Great Sejm
* Kasper Niesiecki, Jesuit lexicographer and heraldic scholar
* Szymon Okolski, 17th-century historian
* Bartosz Paprocki, Polish and Czech heraldic scholar
* Michael Alfred Peszke (1932-2015), Polish Armed Forces, World War II
* 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; engineer; lexicographer
* Teresa Prekerowa
* Stanisław Salmonowicz, historian of law
* Henryk Samsonowicz, historian specializing in 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
* 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 culture and religion of Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries
* 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
* 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
* Ignacy Żagiell (1826–1891), historian of ancient Egypt
* Marek Żukow-Karczewski, historian and journalist
* Kazimierz Żurowski, archaeologist

## Philosophy

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See also: History of philosophy in Poland

* Adam of Łowicz
* Edward Abramowski
* Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz[10]
* Zygmunt Bauman
* Stefan Błachowski
* Józef Maria Bocheński
* Anna Brożek
* Stanisław Brzozowski
* Adam Burski
* Piotr Chmielowski
* Leon Chwistek
* August Cieszkowski
* Nicolaus Copernicus
* Edward Dembowski
* Anioł Dowgird
* Adolf Dygasiński
* Michał Falkener
* Ludwik Fleck, 20th-century philosopher of science
* Danuta Gierulanka
* Józef Gołuchowski
* Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki
* Jakub Górski
* Grzegorz of Stawiszyn
* Joanna Hańderek
* 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
* Jan Jonston
* Leszek Kołakowski
* Hugo Kołłątaj
* Alfred Korzybski
* Tadeusz Kotarbiński
* Władysław Mieczysław Kozłowski
* Józef Kremer
* Franciszek Krupiński
* Krystyn Lach-Szyrma
* Irena Lasota
* Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek
* Stanisław Leszczyński
* Stanisław Leśniewski
* Casimir Lewy
* Karol Libelt
* Wincenty Lutosławski
* Jan Łukasiewicz
* 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
* Maria Szyszkowska
* Jan Śniadecki
* Jędrzej Śniadecki
* Magdalena Środa
* Aleksander Świętochowski
* Alfred Tarski
* 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

* Bauman

* Brzozowski

* Chwistek

* Copernicus

* Hoene–Wroński

* Ingarden

* Jonston

* Kołakowski

* Kotarbiński

* Lach-Szyrma

* Lutosławski

* Łukasiewicz

* Modrzewski

* Ochorowicz

* Prus

* Staszic

* Jan Śniadecki

* Jędrzej Śniadecki

* Świętochowski

* Tarski

* Tatarkiewicz

* Towiański

* Twardowski

* Witwicki

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## Prose literature

[edit]

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

* 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 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
* Stefania Kossowska, journalist, writer, editor and broadcaster in emigré London
* 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, Poland's most prolific writer (and one of the world's most prolific), noted especially for his historical novels
* Wojciech Kuczok, novelist, screenwriter, film critic
* Antoni Lange, writer, poet, philosopher
* Stanisław Lem, science-fiction writer, essayist, philosopher
* Stanisław Lubieniecki, writer, astronomer* Waldemar Łysiak, writer
* Józef Mackiewicz, writer, journalist
* Kornel Makuszyński, children's writer
* Dorota Masłowska, writer and playwright
* Juliusz Mieroszewski, publicist, translator of 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, Positivist writer
* Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, writer
* Teodor Parnicki, historical novelist
* Jan Chryzostom Pasek, memoirist
* Sergiusz Piasecki, writer
* Krzysztof Piesiewicz, screenwriter and politician
* Jerzy Pilch, writer, columnist, journalist
* Elena Poniatowska, columnist and novelist
* Jan Potocki, The Saragossa Manuscript
* Bolesław Prus, The Doll and Pharaoh
* Ksawery Pruszyński, writer and journalist
* Stanisława Przybyszewska
* Stanisław Przybyszewski, novelist, dramatist, and poet who wrote in both German and Polish
* Mikołaj Rej, a founder of Polish literary language and literature
* Małgorzata Rejmer, writer
* Sydor Rey, writer, poet, novelist
* Władysław Reymont, 1924 Nobel laureate
* Zyta Rudzka, novelist
* Henryk Rzewuski, novelist
* Pinchas Sadeh, Israeli novelist and poet
* Barbara Sanguszko, enlightenment writer and salon hostess
* Andrzej Sapkowski, fantasy writer
* Sat-Okh, Polish-Shawnee writer
* Bruno Schulz, novelist and painter
* Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1905 Nobel laureate
* Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1978 Nobel laureate
* Piotr Skarga, poet, writer, humanist
* Andrzej Stasiuk, writer, journalist, literary critic
* Jędrzej Śniadecki, terminologist, writer
* Stefan Themerson, children's writer, film maker, inventor of "semantic poetry", philosopher
* Olga Tokarczuk, writer, psychologist, 2019 Nobel laureate
* Magdalena Tulli, novelist, translator
* Marian Turwid, writer and painter from Bydgoszcz
* Leopold Tyrmand, writer
* Meyer Wolf Weisgal, American journalist, publisher, and playwright; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
* Józef Weyssenhoff, novelist, poet, literary critic
* Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy)
* 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
* Antonina Żabińska, writer
* Stefan Żeromski, novelist
* Jerzy Żuławski, novelist

* Borowski

* Boy-Żeleński

* Conrad

* Dołęga-Mostowicz

* Dukaj

* Fredro

* Dąbrowska

* Gombrowicz

* Hen

* Hłasko

* Kapuściński

* Konopnicka

* Konwicki

* Kosiński

* Stefania Kossowska

* Krajewski

* Krall

* Krasicki

* Kraszewski

* Lange

* Lem

* Mrożek

* Myśliwski

* Nałkowska

* Orzeszkowa

* Pilch

* Potocki

* Prus

* Przybyszewska

* Przybyszewski

* Rej

* Reymont

* Sanguszko

* Sapkowski

* Sienkiewicz

* Skarga

* Stasiuk

* Tokarczuk

* Witkiewicz

* Wyspiański

* Zajdel

* Zapolska

* Żeromski

* Żuławski

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## Journalism

[edit]

Main page: Category:Polish journalists

## Poetry

[edit]

See also: List of Polish poets

* 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 Kamil Norwid
* Franciszek Nowicki
* Beata Obertyńska
* Antoni Edward Odyniec
* Artur Oppman
* 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
* Anna Stanisławska
* 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

* Baczyński

* Ginczanka

* Hartwig

* Herbert

* Iwaszkiewicz

* Kasprowicz

* Kochanowski

* Krasicki

* Krasiński

* Lechoń

* Leśmian

* Mickiewicz

* Miłosz

* Naruszewicz

* Norwid

* Oppman

* Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska

* Potocki

* Rej

* Sarbiewski

* Słowacki

* Staff

* Stanisławska

* Szymborska

* Tuwim

* Wierzyński

* Zagajewski

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## Music

[edit]

* Chava Alberstein, Israeli singer-songwriter
* Piotr Anderszewski, pianist
* Stefan Askenase, Polish-Belgian pianist
* Emanuel Ax, American 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
* Jan Borysewicz, composer, singer, guitarist
* Grzegorz Ciechowski, composer, singer
* Fryderyk Chopin, composer and pianist
* Agnieszka Chylińska, singer-songwriter, author and television personality
* Marcel Chyrzynski, composer
* 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
* 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, Polish-Czech singer
* Mieczysław Fogg, singer
* 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
* Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (1919–1994), composer and music editor
* Taco Hemingway, rapper
* Jan Hoffman, pianist and pedagogue
* Józef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist
* Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish-American 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-songwriter
* Reni Jusis, singer
* Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, Oscar-winning film composer
* Jacek Kaczmarski, singer-songwriter
* Maria Kalergis, Polish-German pianist
* Bronisław Kaper, film composer
* Mieczysław Karłowicz, composer
* Jerzy Katlewicz, conductor
* 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
* Henryk Kowalski (1911–1982), violinist and composer
* Seweryn Krajewski, singer-songwriter
* Dawid Kwiatkowski, singer-songwriter
* Rafał Kuczynski ('Human Error')
* Hanna Kulenty, composer
* Karol Kurpiński, composer
* Lucjan Kydryński, music critic, writer
* Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist
* Teodor Leszetycki, Austrian-Polish pianist, pedagogue
* Monika Lewczuk, singer-songwriter, model
* Franciszek Lilius, composer
* Lydia Kindermann, opera singer
* Karol Lipiński, composer, virtuoso violinist (about equal to Niccolò Paganini)
* Jan Lisiecki, Canadian pianist
* Ewelina Lisowska, singer-songwriter
* Michał Lorenc, film score composer
* Jan z Lublina, composer
* Witold Lutosławski, composer
* Jerzy Maksymiuk, conductor
* Ray Manzarek, American musician, singer, keyboardist of The Doors
* Margaret, singer-songwriter
* Patrycja Markowska, pop rock singer
* Mata, rapper
* Paweł Mąciwoda, bassist, member of the German rock band Scorpions
* Megitza, singer, double bass player, and composer
* Krzysztof Meyer, composer
* Aleksander Michałowski, pianist and pedagogue
* Marcin Mielczewski, composer
* Maciek Miernik, producer
* Marek Mietelski, pianist and pedagogue
* Carl Mikuli, composer
* Emil Młynarski, conductor and composer
* Stanisław Moniuszko, composer
* Moritz Moszkowski, German-Polish composer
* Czesław Mozil, Polish-Danish 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, guitarist and singer
* Feliks Nowowiejski, composer
* Zygmunt Noskowski, composer
* Natalia Nykiel, singer-songwriter
* Wiesław Ochman, opera singer
* Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, composer
* Michał Kleofas Ogiński,[11] composer
* Hanka Ordonówna, singer, actress, dancer
* O.S.T.R., rapper, musician
* Tede, 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 (1881–1962), pianist of Dutch extraction who never lived in Holland; lived and worked in Poland, 1927–31 August 1939; was fluent in Polish.
* 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
* Tomasz "Titus" Pukacki, singer
* Krzysztof Raczkowski, drummer
* Mikołaj z Radomia, Middle Ages composer
* Édouard de Reszke, bass
* 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, Polish-American conductor
* Eddie Rosner, jazz, "Polish (or: The White) Louis Armstrong"
* Piotr Rubik, composer
* Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist
* Sanah, singer-songwriter
* Ada Sari, opera singer
* Jadwiga Sarnecka, composer and pianist
* Sarsa, singer-songwriter
* Bogusław Schaeffer, composer
* Xaver Scharwenka, composer
* Marcella Sembrich (1858–1935), coloratura soprano
* Kazimierz Serocki, composer
* Witold Silewicz, Polish-Austrian composer, bassist
* Józef Skrzek, composer and leader of SBB band
* Cezary Skubiszewski, Polish-Australian composer
* Marek Stachowski, 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, Polish-Mexican 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
* Barbara Trzetrzelewska, singer popularly known as "Basia"
* Grzegorz Turnau, singer
* Ifi Ude, Nigerian and Polish singer
* Michał Urbaniak, jazz musician
* Moshe Vilenski, Polish-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
* Wojciech Żywny, Czech-born Polish composer, Chopin's first professional piano teacher

* Emanuel Ax

* Bacewicz

* Chopin

* Darski

* Demarczyk

* Elsner

* Górecki

* Piaseczny

* Kaczmarek

* Kilar

* Landowska

* Lutosławski

* Mąciwoda

* Manzarek

* Moniuszko

* Niemen

* Ogiński

* Panufnik

* Pawlik

* Penderecki

* Petri

* Rodowicz

* Rubinstein

* Sari

* Stańko

* Szpilman

* Szymanowska

* Szymanowski

* Trzetrzelewska ("Basia")

* Villas

* Wieniawski

* Zimerman

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## Visual arts

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

* Magdalena Abakanowicz, sculptor
* Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, painter
* Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz, painter
* Sylwester Ambroziak, sculptor
* Chrystian Piotr Aigner, architect
* Paweł Althamer, contemporary artist
* Michał Elwiro Andriolli (1836–93), illustrator, painter, architect
* Teodor Axentowicz, 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, painter, illustrator, designer
* Henryka Beyer (1782–1855), painter
* 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
* Gerard Ciołek, architect and historian of gardens
* 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 architect
* Teodor and Franciszek Gajewski, sculptors and painters
* Wojciech Gerson, painter
* Stefan Gierowski, painter
* Aleksander Gierymski, painter, brother of Maksymilian Gierymski
* Maksymilian Gierymski, painter
* Paweł Giżycki, architect
* Cyprian Godebski, sculptor
* Chaim Goldberg, Painter, Sculptor and Engraver
* Zygmunt Gorgolewski, architect
* 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
* Anton Hoffmann, 19th century architect in Bydgoszcz
* Józef Holewiński (1848–1917), graphic artist and painter
* Stanisław Horno-Popławski, painter, sculptor, pedagogue
* Władysław Horodecki, architect
* Ryszard Horowitz, photographer
* 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
* Rudolf Kern, Art Nouveau architect in Bydgoszcz
* Stefan Klajbor, architect
* Marta Klonowska, glass maker and sculptor
* Katarzyna Kobro, sculptor
* Roman Kochanowski, landscape painter
* Robert Konieczny, architect
* Gloria Kossak, painter, poet
* Jerzy Kossak, painter
* Juliusz Kossak, painter, illustrator
* Wojciech Kossak, painter
* Jan Kossowski, modernist architect
* Katarzyna Kozyra, video artist
* Lucjan Kraszewski, painter, photographer, illustrator; brother of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
* Nikifor Krynicki, painter
* Alexander Kucharsky, painter
* Zofia Kulik, performer
* Stefan Kuryłowicz, architect
* 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
* 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[12]
* 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 artist of Lemko origin
* Jan Piotr Norblin, painting, drawing, caricature
* Jerzy Nowosielski, painter
* Seweryn Obst (1847–1917), 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-century 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
* Władysław Sadłowski, architect
* Wilhelm Sasnal, painter
* Jan Sawka, painter, print-maker, architect, graphic designer, multi-media artist
* Johann Christian Schuch, garden designer, architect
* Kazimierz Sichulski, painter[12]
* Władysław Sławny, photographer
* Jan Stanisławski, painter
* Henryk Stażewski, painter
* Zofia Stryjeńska, illustrator, painter[12]
* Władysław Strzemiński, painter
* January Suchodolski, painter
* Józef Święcicki, 19th century architect
* Józef Szajna, sculptor, stage designer, theatre director
* Stanisław Szukalski, sculptor, painter
* Arthur Szyk, illuminator, war cartoonist, book illustrator
* Wacław Szymanowski, painter, sculptor, designer of Frederic Chopin Monument in Warsaw
* Teodor Talowski, architect
* Włodzimierz Tetmajer, painter[12]
* Franciszka Themerson, painter, illustrator, stage designer
* Stanisław Tondos, painter
* Feliks Topolski, expressionist painter and draughtsman
* Roland Topor, illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker
* Piotr Triebler, sculptor
* Armand Vetulani
* Zygmunt Vogel, watercolor and drawing
* Marian Walentynowicz, illustrator and comic strip pioneer
* Walenty Wańkowicz, painter
* Max Weber, painter
* Fritz Weidner, designer and architect in Bydgoszcz
* 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

* Abakanowicz

* Andriolli

* Axentowicz

* Beyer

* Bilińska

* Boznańska

* Chełmoński

* Fałat

* Gerson

* Gierymski

* Grottger

* Holewiński

* Kantor

* Juliusz Kossak

* Wojciech Kossak

* Lucjan Kraszewski

* Lempicka

* Malczewski

* Masłowski

* Matejko

* Obst

* Opałka

* Mitoraj

* Podkowiński

* Sasnal

* Szymanowski

* Wańkowicz

* de Weryha-Wysoczański

* Witkiewicz

* Witkacy

* Wyczółkowski

* Wyspiański

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## Entertainment

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See also: List of Polish actors, Category:Polish theatre directors, and Category:Polish film directors

* Piotr Andrejew (1947–2017) , film director
* Józef Arkusz, film director
* Tomasz Bagiński, creator of short animated films, BAFTA Award winner, Academy Award nominee
* Andrzej Bartkowiak, cinematographer, director, actor
* Barbara Bittnerówna, ballet dancer
* 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, singer[13]
* 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 Oscar
* Stanislas Idzikowski, ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher
* Stefan Jaracz, actor, theater producer
* Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Academy Award-winning composer, nominated to BAFTA Award
* Jacek Kaczmarski, protest songwriter, poetry singer, guitarist
* Janusz Kamiński, two-time-Oscars\- and BAFTA Award-winning cinematographer and film director
* Bronislau Kaper, Academy Award-winning composer
* Krzysztof Kieślowski, film director, nominated for Academy Awards
* Anna Kochanowska, radio journalist and politician
* Max Kolonko, Polish-American TV personality, producer, writer
* Joanna Krupa, actress and supermodel
* Kazimierz Kutz, film director
* Irena Kwiatkowska (1912–2011), actress
* Pola Negri, film actress, singer
* Vaslav Nijinsky (Wacław Niżyński), ballet dancer considered the greatest male lead of the early 20th century
* Hanka Ordonówna (1902–50), singer, dancer, actress
* 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, Polish-American actress, director, activist, writer, producer
* Jeremi Przybora, writer, actor and singer
* Krzysztof Ptak, cinematographer
* Marie Rambert, influential ballet pedagogue and director
* Zbigniew Rybczyński, Oscar\- and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker
* Lew Rywin, film producer
* Andrzej Saramonowicz, screenwriter, film director
* Olga Sawicka (tancerka), ballet dancer and choreographer
* Leon Schiller, theatre director
* Izabella Scorupco, Polish-born Hollywood-actress and singer
* 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
* Franciszka Themerson, filmmaker and artist
* Henryk Tomaszewski, mime
* Basia Trzetrzelewska, singer
* Anna Tsuchiya, Japanese singer, actress, model of Polish descent
* Krystyna Ungeheuer-Mietelska, ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet pedagogue
* Andrzej Wajda, Academy Award, Golden Palm, BAFTA Award, Silver Berlin Bear, César Award and Golden Lion winning film director
* Harry Warner, American Warner Bros. co-founder
* Albert Warner, American Warner Bros. co-founder
* Samuel Warner, American 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
* Benjamin Zemach (1901–1997), choreographer and dancer, nominated for an Academy Award
* Andrzej Żuławski (1940-2016), film director
* Alexis Saint-Pete, Polish-British drag performer

* Bodo

* Bogusławski

* Cybulski

* Gajos

* Holland

* Janda

* Jaracz

* Kieślowski

* Kulig

* Linda

* Modjeska

* Negri

* Nijinsky

* Olbrychski

* Ordonówna

* Pawlikowski

* Polanski

* Schiller

* Seweryn

* Skolimowski

* Wajda

* Zanussi

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## Business

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See also: Category:Polish businesspeople

* 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
* Rafał Brzoska, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, founder and CEO of InPost
* Hipolit Cegielski, businessman and social and cultural activist
* Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Polish-British Antiquarian, gallery owner, collector and philanthropist
* André Citroën, French automotive industrialist
* Jack Cohen, English co-founder of the Tesco retail chain
* Franciszek Czapek, co-partner in Patek, Czapek & Co.
* Leszek Czarnecki, businessman
* Irena Eris, businesswoman
* Max Factor, Sr., Polish-American 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
* Karol Jaroszyński, entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist
* 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)
* Dominika Kulczyk, businesswoman
* Grażyna Kulczyk, businesswoman, philanthropist, art collector
* Jan Kulczyk, CEO of Kulczyk Investments, richest 21st-century Pole
* Sebastian Kulczyk, businessman
* Michał Łempicki, mining engineer, entrepreneur, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Empire
* Henry Lowenfeld, Polish-born British 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
* Dariusz Miłek, businessman and entrepreneur, founder of CCC SA.
* Henryk Orfinger, cosmetics entrepreneur
* Samuel Orgelbrand, editor
* Antoni Patek, co-founder of watchmakers Patek Philippe & Co.
* Antoni Protazy Potocki, banker and industrialist who developed Odesa into an international port (1780s)
* Izrael Poznański, textile magnate, philanthropist
* Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American cosmetics entrepreneur, one of the richest women who ever lived
* Frank Russek (1875/1876-1948), Polish-born American co-founder of the Russeks department store chain
* Karol Scheibler, German-born Polish textile magnate
* Feliks Sobański, landowner and philanthropist
* Zygmunt Solorz-Żak, businessman and media tycoon, owner of Polsat and Plus
* Michał Sołowow, businessman and rally driver
* Piotr Steinkeller, German-Polish industrial pioneer, King of Zinc
* Henri Strzelecki, founder of Henri Lloyd, Ltd., sportswear manufacturer
* Piotr Szulczewski, Canadian-Polish businessman and computer scientist, co-founder of e-commerce platform Wish.com
* 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 Leo, renamed Kobra
* Louis Wolowski, financier co-founder of Credit Foncier de France
* Andrzej Artur Zamoyski, initiated river transportation

* Bloch

* Branicki

* Cegielski

* L. Kronenberg

* Lubomirska

* Patek

* Potocki

* Poznański

* Rubinstein

* Tyszkiewicz

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## Politics

[edit]

See also: Lists of Polish politicians

* Tomasz Arciszewski (1877–1955), first Prime Minister of Poland in exile (1944–47)
* Kazimierz Feliks Badeni (1846–1909), count, Minister-President of Austria (1895–97)
* Menachem Begin (1913–1992), founder of both Herut and Likud, sixth Prime Minister of Israel
* David Ben-Gurion (born David Grün; 1886–1973), head of the Jewish Agency, first Prime Minister of Israel
* Marek Belka (born 1952), director of economic policy in the interim coalition administration of Iraq, Prime Minister of Poland (2004–05)
* Bolesław Bierut (1892–1956), leader of communist Poland (1948–56)
* Michał Bobrzyński (1849–1935), Governor of Galicia (1908–13)
* Anna Borucka-Cieślewicz (born 1941), elected to the Sejm in 2005
* Zbigniew Brzeziński (1928–2017), Polish-American political scientist, advisor to US President Jimmy Carter
* Matheus Butrymowicz (1745–1814), liberal member of the Great Sejm assembled in Warsaw (1788–92)
* Jerzy Buzek (born 1940), Prime Minister of Poland (1997–2001), President of the European Parliament (2009–12)
* Jan Ciechanowski (1887–1973), Ambassador to the United States
* Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810–1868), Polish and French politician and diplomat; French Foreign Minister under Napoleon III.
* Józef Cyrankiewicz (1911–1989), Prime Minister of communistic Poland (1947–52 and 1954–70)
* Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770–1861), prince, statesman, Prime Minister (1830–31)
* Ignacy Daszyński (1866–1936), prime minister of the Provisional People's Government of the Republic of Poland (1918)
* Jan Dekert (1738–1790), merchant, mayor of Warsaw (1789–90)
* Isaac Deutscher (1907–1967), writer, journalist, political activist
* Heinrich Dietz (1840–1901), member of the Prussian parliament, philanthropist
* Roman Dmowski (1864–1939), nationalist politician, statesman
* Andrzej Duda (born 1972), sixth President of the Third Polish Republic (since 2015)
* Feliks Dzierżyński (1877–1926), founder of Soviet State Security under the original name Cheka
* Edward Gierek (1913–2001), leader of communist Poland (1970–80)
* Maciej Golubiewski (born 1976), political scientist and diplomat
* Władysław Gomułka (1905–1982), leader of communist Poland (1956–70)
* Ludwik Gorzkowski (1811–1857), politician and revolutionary activist
* Julian Gutowski (1823–1890), Mayor of Nowy Sącz (1867–70)
* Piotr Jaroszewicz (1909–1992), Prime Minister of communist Poland (1970–80)
* Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923–2014), last leader of communist Poland (1981–89), first President of the Third Polish Republic (1989–90)
* Wojciech Jastrzębowski (1799–1882) was a polymath who in 1831, after fighting in Poland's November 1830 Uprising, drafted the first constitution for his proposed European union.
* Ryszard Kaczorowski (1919–2010), sixth and last President of Poland in exile (1989–90)
* Jarosław Kaczyński (born 1949), identical twin brother of Lech, leader of Law and Justice party, Prime Minister of Poland (2006–07)
* Lech Kaczyński (1949–2010), fourth President (2005–10) of Third Polish Republic, died in Smolensk air crash
* Hugo Kołłątaj (1750–1812), co-author of Constitution of 3 May 1791
* Bronisław Komorowski (born 1952), fifth President of the Third Polish Republic (2010–15)
* Wojciech Korfanty (1873–1939), leader of Silesians during the Third Silesian uprising
* Janusz Korwin-Mikke (born 1942), free-market activist
* Stanisław Kot (1885–1975), historian, politician, diplomat
* Leon Kozłowski (1892–1944), archeologist; Prime Minister of Poland (1934–35).
* Adrian Kubicki (born 1987), Consul General of the Republic of Poland in New York City
* Jan Kucharzewski (1876–1952) , first Prime Minister of Kingdom of Poland (1917–18)
* Jacek Kuroń (1934–2004), politician, social activist
* Anna Kurska (1929–2016), judge, lawyer, and member of the Polish Senate
* Aleksander Kwaśniewski (born 1954), third President of the Third Polish Republic (1995–2005)
* Andrzej Lepper (1954–2011, leader of Samoobrona and Deputy Prime Minister
* Herman Lieberman (1870–1941), lawyer and prominent Socialist politician
* Feliks Lubienski (1758–1848), Minister of Justice, introduced the Code Napoleon, state archives, and public libraries
* Katarzyna Lubnauer (born 1969), leader of Modern political party
* Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), leading Marxist theoretician
* Teofil Magdziński (1818–1889), political activist in Bydgoszcz, representative at the Reichstag
* Julian Marchlewski (1866–1925), Soviet politician
* Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (born 1959), Prime Minister of Poland (2005–06)
* Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927–2013), politician, first Prime Minister of the Third Polish Republic (Poland)
* Adam Michnik (born 1946), influential journalist
* Ludwik Mierosławski (1814–1878), insurgent, general, Paris communard
* Stanisław Mieroszewski (1827–1900), member of the Imperial Council of Austria
* Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1901–1966), Prime Minister of Poland (1943–44), Agrarian Party politician
* Karol Modzelewski (1937–2019), activist, politician and academic
* Jędrzej Moraczewski (1870–1944), first Prime Minister of II RP (1918–19)
* Ignacy Mościcki (1867–1946), third President (1926–39) of the Second Polish Republic
* Walery Mroczkowski (1840–1889), anarchist, friend of Mikhail Bakunin
* Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960), British politician and historian
* Gabriel Narutowicz (1865–1922), first President of the Second Polish Republic (1922)
* Józef Oleksy, Prime Minister of III RP (1995–96), Speaker of the Sejm (1993–95; 2004–05)
* Janusz Onyszkiewicz (born 1937), 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 (1925-26)
* Jozef Maksymilian Ossolinski (1748–1826), founder of Ossolineum, Poland's signal cultural patron
* Stanisław Ostrowski (1892–1982), third President of Poland in exile (1972–79)
* Ignacy Paderewski (1860–1941), second Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic (1919)
* Longin Pastusiak (born 1935), Marshal of the Senate (2001–05)
* Waldemar Pawlak (born 1959), Prime Minister of Poland (1992 and 1993–95)
* Karolina Pawliczak (born 1976), lawyer and politician
* Shimon Peres (born Szymon Perski; 1923–2016), President of Israel (2007–14), Prime Minister of Israel (1984–86; 1995–96)
* Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900–1960), Costa Rican president, Polish mother
* Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935), statesman, politician and Marshal of Poland
* Emilia Plater (1806–1831), revolutionary, independence leader
* Władysław Broel-Plater (1808–1889), independence activist, founder of Polish Museum, Rapperswil
* Alfred Józef Potocki (1817 or 1822–1889), count, Minister-President of Austria (1870–71)
* Ignacy Potocki (1750–1809), co-author of Constitution of 3 May 1791
* Adam Pragier (1886-1976), leading socialist deputy, exiled minister and writer
* Władysław Raczkiewicz (1885–1947), first President of Poland in exile (1939–47)
* Edward Raczyński (1891–1993), fourth President of Poland in exile (1979–86)
* Antoni Radziwiłł (1775–1833), prince, the Duke-Governor of Grand Duchy of Posen (Poznań) (1815–31)
* Józef Retinger (1888–1960), writer, adviser, grey eminence, founder of the Bilderberg conferences
* Adam Ronikier (1881–1952), count, president of the Central Welfare Council (1916–18; 1940–43)
* Kazimierz Sabbat (1913–1989), fifth President of Poland in exile (1986–89)
* Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (born 1948), vice-president of European Parliament (2004–07)
* Władysław Sikorski (1881–1943), general, Prime Minister of Poland (1939–43)
* Radosław Sikorski (born 1963), politician and former foreign minister (2007–14)
* Stefan Starzyński (1893–1939), President of Warsaw (1934–39)
* Władysław Studnicki (1867–1953), politician and publicist
* Krzysztof Szczerski (born 1973), Ambassador to the UN
* Beata Szydło (born 1963), Prime Minister of Poland (2015–17)
* Theodore de Korwin Szymanowski (1846–1901), conceptualised an economic union for Europe in 1885
* Róża Thun (born 1954), anticommunist activist, activist for European Union
* Donald Tusk (born 1957), chairman of Civic Platform; President of European Council (2014–19) and Prime Minister of Poland (2007–14; 2023–)
* Kazimierz Tyszka (1872–1951), Minister of Railways (1923–25), in Władysław Grabski's government
* Lech Wałęsa (born 1943), trade unionist who started dismantling of the Soviet bloc, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, second President of the Third Polish Republic (1990–95)
* Ludwik Waryński (1856–1889), socialist activist in the 19th century
* Wanda Wasilewska (1905–1964), communist activist during World War II
* Edward Werner (1878–1945), born in Poland to parents of German origin; vice-Minister of Finance, and Polish diplomat during World War II
* Alexander Wielopolski (1803–1877), count, Marquis of Gonzaga, statesman
* Wincenty Witos (1874–1945), politician of the agrarian party
* Stanisław Wojciechowski (1869–1953), second President of the Second Polish Republic (1922–26)
* Walery Antoni Wróblewski (1836–1908), politician, insurgency commander
* Joanna Wronecka (born 1958), Ambassador to the UN
* August Zaleski (1883–1972), second President of Poland in exile (1947–72)
* Jan Zamoyski (1542–1605), chancellor and grand hetman of the crown

* Brzeziński

* Buzek

* Colonna-Walewski

* Czartoryski

* Daszyński

* Dmowski

* E. Gierek

* Jaruzelski

* Jastrzębowski

* L. Kaczyński

* Komorowski

* Kopacz

* Korfanty

* Kot

* Kozłowski

* Kwaśniewski

* Luxemburg

* Mazowiecki

* Michnik

* Mościcki

* Narutowicz

* Niemcewicz

* Paderewski

* Piłsudski

* Plater

* Retinger

* Suchocka

* Szydło

* Thun

* Tusk

* Wałęsa

* Witos

* Wojciechowski

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## Law

[edit]

Main article: List of Polish lawyers

## Diplomacy

[edit]

See also: Category:Polish diplomats

* Władysław Bartoszewski (1922–2015), foreign affairs minister of III RP (1995; 2000–2001)
* Józef Beck (1894–1944), foreign affairs minister of II RP (1932–1939)
* Alois Friedrich von Brühl (1739–1793), Polish-Saxon diplomat, starost of Warsaw
* Matthew Bryza (born 1964), American diplomat
* Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (born 1950), foreign affairs minister of III RP (2001–2005)
* Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770–1861), Polish diplomat; Russian Imperial foreign minister (1804–1806)
* Władysław Czartoryski (1828–1894), 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 (1893–1993)
* Julian Klaczko (1825–1906), Polish diplomat
* Stanisław Kot, historian, 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 (1884–1975), Soviet diplomat
* Stefan Meller, foreign affairs minister of III RP (2005–2006)
* Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960), 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 (1888–1960), 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; 1924–1926)
* Krzysztof Skubiszewski (1926– 2010), first foreign affairs minister of III RP (1989–1993)
* Romuald Spasowski, Polish ambassador to the United States (1955–1961; 1978–1981)
* 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, Polish and 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 (born 1953), Russian diplomat
* August Zaleski (1883–1972), foreign affairs minister of II RP (1926–1932)
* Maurycy Klemens Zamoyski (1871–1939), foreign affairs minister of II RP (1924)
* Josef Zieleniec (born 1946), Czech foreign affairs minister

* Bartoszewski

* Beck

* Geremek

* A. M. Gołuchowski

* Kot

* Raczyński

* Romer

* R. Sikorski

* Walewski

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## Military

[edit]

See also: Category:Polish military personnel

Main article: List of Polish admirals

* 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 (1944–1945)
* Edmond Wilhelm Brillant (1916–2004)
* Moshe Carmel (1911–2003), Israeli Major-General and Israeli Minister of Transportation
* Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, military commander, victor of Kircholm (1605)
* Józef Chyliński, resistance fighter
* Michał Czajkowski (Sadok Pasha) (1804–1886), Polish commander-in-chief of an Ottoman Cossack brigade during the Crimean War (1853–1856)
* 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), 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)[14]
* Emil August Fieldorf, general, last deputy commander-in-chief of the Home Army (1944–1945)
* Wanda Gertz, major, soldier during World War I, Home Army commandant in World War II and in German POW camps
* 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
* Hava Inbar (died 2024), Lieutenant Colonel of the Israeli Defense Forces and the first female military judge in the world
* Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski, 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; commanded the first Jewish military formation in modern history
* Mikołaj Kamieniecki, first Grand Crown Hetman of Poland (1503–1515)
* 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
* Wanda Józefa Maria Kirchmayer, second lieutenant of the Polish Secret Military Organization (1940–1944)
* Tadeusz Klimecki, general, the Chief of the General staff of the Polish Army (1941–1943)
* Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, general, commander-in-chief of the Home Army (1943–1944), during Warsaw Uprising (1944)
* Stanisław Koniecpolski, Grand Crown Hetman (1632–1646)
* Stanisław Kopański, general, the Chief of the General staff of the Polish Army (1943–1946)
* 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 (1657–1664), 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 (1944–1945)
* Juliusz Konstanty Ordon, officer in the November uprising (1830–1831)
* Adam Ostrzycki, Marshall of the confederation army 1665-6
* Tadeusz Pełczyński, chief of staff of the Home Army (ZWZ / AK) (1941–1944)
* 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, Marshal of the Soviet Union during WWII
* Stefan Rowecki, general, military commander, commander-in-chief of the Armed Resistance (ZWZ) (1940–1942) and Home Army (1942–1943)
* Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski, general, Chief of Staff during the Battle of Warsaw
* 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 (1928–1946), medical orderly in Polish Army
* Władysław Sikorski, general, commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces and Prime Minister of Poland (1939–1943)
* Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski (1885–1962), general, physician and 28th Prime Minister of Poland (1936–1939)
* 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 (1943–1944)
* Adam Sowa, former deputy chief executive of the European Defence Agency
* Józef Sowiński, general, hero of the November uprising (1830–1831)
* Zygmunt Szendzielarz ("Łupaszko")
* Ignacy Szymanski, veteran of 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, Grand Crown Hetman (1527–1561), victor of 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 Perski (1942–1963), a Persian bear, World War II Polish II Corps enlisted soldier
* Stefania Wojtulanis-Karpińska (1912–2005), Captain in the Polish Air Force, pilot in Air Transport Auxiliary during Second World War, where known as Barbara Wojtulanis
* 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 (1935–1939)
* Jan Zamoyski, Great Chancellor of Poland (1578–1605) and 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), Grand Crown Hetman (1613–1620)
* Janusz Żurakowski, World War II fighter pilot and Avro Arrow test pilot

* Anders

* Bem

* Chodkiewicz

* Czarniecki

* Jan Dąbrowski

* Duch

* Haller

* Koniecpolski

* Kościuszko

* Krzyżanowski

* Latinik

* Maczek

* Piłsudski

* Plater

* Poniatowski

* Pułaski

* Rozwadowski

* Rydz-Śmigły

* Sikorski

* Sosnkowski

* Sowiński

* Tarnowski

* Wittek

* Wojtek (bear)

* Zamoyski

* Zawacka

* Żółkiewski

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## Intelligence

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* Feliks Ankerstein, interwar covert-operations officer and deputy to Edmund Charaszkiewicz in Office 2 of the General Staff's Section II (Intelligence)
* 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) (1942–1943)
* 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 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 1919–1921
* 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
* 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 (1929–1932; 1935–January 1938)
* Sergiusz Piasecki, Polish agent, covering the area of Soviet Belarus (1922–1926)
* Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish consul-general and intelligence agent in London (1948–1949); the most influential contemporary critic of German literature
* Tadeusz Schaetzel, intelligence officer, chief of the General Staff's Section II (1926–1929)
* Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, 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, Polish spy in Germany (1926–1934) as Georg von Sosnowski, Ritter von Nalecz
* Antoni Szymański, Polish military attaché in Berlin (1932–1939)
* 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

* Ankerstein

* Grodyński

* Karski

* Kontrym

* Kowalewski

* Kukliński

* Kulczycki

* Leski

* Pełczyński

* Schaetzel

* Skarbek

* Włodarkiewicz

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## Holocaust resistance

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* Irena Adamowicz
* Mordechaj Anielewicz, Warsaw Ghetto uprising
* Dawid Apfelbaum, Warsaw Ghetto uprising
* Władysław Bartoszewski
* Adolf Berman
* Alexander Bogen (1916–2010), partisan leader
* Anna Borkowska (Sister Bertranda)
* Icchak Cukierman
* Gusta Dawidson Draenger
* Marek Edelman
* Leon Feldhendler (1910–1945)
* Hela Felenbaum-Weiss (1924–1988), partisan fighter
* Tuviah Friedman (1922–2011), Nazi hunter
* Izrael Kanal
* Yitzhak Gitterman
* 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
* Joseph Serchuk (Józef Serczuk; 1919–1993), leader of a Jewish partisan unit in the Lublin area
* Henryk Sławik, "Polish Schindler", diplomat in Hungary
* Leopold Socha, another "Polish Schindler"
* Chaim Sztajer (1909–2008), known for his participation in the Treblinka uprising
* Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter
* Józef and Wiktoria Ulma
* Jankiel Wiernik (י1888-1972), influential figure in the Treblinka extermination camp resistance
* Samuel Willenberg (1923–2016)
* Henryk Woliński
* Lidia Zamenhof
* Szmul Zygielbojm
* Jan and Antonina Żabiński

* Anielewicz

* Edelman

* Kossak-Szczucka

* Krahelska

* Lanckorońska

* Edward Mosberg

* Pilecki

* Sendler

* Zygielbojm

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## Religion

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* Yitzchak Meir Alter, Rebbe founder of the Ger Hasidic dynasty
* Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz, Roman Catholic archbishop of Lwów (1815–33) and archbishop of Prague (1833–1838)
* Baal Shem Tov (Yisroel ben Eliezer, 1698–1760), rabbi and founder of Hasidic Judaism
* Blessed Jan Beyzym (1850–1912), Jesuit missionary among lepers in Madagascar
* St. Józef Bilczewski, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lwów, 1900–1923
* St. Andrew Bobola, Jesuit
* St. Evan Yurewicz, Catholic, missionary
* 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. Casimir Jagiellon, grandson of King Władysław II Jagiełło
* St. 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 (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, 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
* St. Hyacinth, Dominican
* St. Jadwiga, Queen of Poland, 1384–1399
* Henryk Jankowski, Prelate, Chaplain of "Solidarność"
* Marian Jaworski, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lviv, 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, 1586–1587
* 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. Maksymilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan martyr, Auschwitz 1941
* Hugo Kołłątaj, priest, statesman
* Bolesław Kominek, Archbishop of Wrocław, 1972–1974, Cardinal
* St. Stanisław Kostka, Jesuit
* St. Faustina Kowalska, Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy
* Maria Michał Kowalski, Archbishop of the Catholic Church of the Mariavites, introduced women clergy in 1929
* Adam Kozłowiecki, Jesuit, Archbishop of Lusaka, 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
* Włodzimierz Halka Ledóchowski, Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1915–1942)
* 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 Lviv, since 2008
* Mikołaj Stanisław Oborski (1576–1646), Jesuit
* Zbigniew Oleśnicki, Bishop of Kraków, 1423–1455; first Cardinal of Polish origin, from 1449; statesman
* 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, Bishop of Kraków, Cardinal, 1591–1600
* Sholom Rokeach, the first Belzer Rebbe, 1817–1855
* Tadeusz Rydzyk, Redemptorist, broadcast radio controller
* Czeslaw Sokolowski, Roman Catholic priest, theologian, university rector
* St. 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 Kyiv, 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 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 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 (1720–1797), non-Hassidic Jewish leader, the "saintly genius from Vilnius"
* Piotr Wawrzyniak, priest, economist and activist (1849–1910)
* Chaim Elozor Wax (1822–1887), rabbi
* 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 Rebbe of Chabad (1745–1810)

* Beyzym

* Tadeusz Brzozowski

* Chmielowski

* Frank

* Heller

* Hlond

* Hosius

* Jadwiga

* Stanisław Kostka

* Kowalska

* Kozłowiecki

* Włodzimierz Ledóchowski

* Stanisław of Szczepanów

* Sapieha

* Teodorowicz

* Saint Ursula

* Vilna Gaon

* Wojtyła

* Wyszyński

* Zalman

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## Nobility

[edit]

Further information: List of szlachta

## Royalty

[edit]

See also: List of Polish monarchs

* 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 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 (1454–1466)
* 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, 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
* 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
* Catherine Opalińska, queen of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Duchess of Lorraine
* Maria Leszczyńska, consort of 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, 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

* Mieszko

* Chrobry

* Elbow-high

* Wrymouth

* Jadwiga

* Casimir the Great

* Jagiełło

* Jagiellonka

* Batory

* Vasa

* Sobieski

* Stanisław August

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## Assassins

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* Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of American President William McKinley
* 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

* Hryniewiecki

* Niewiadomski

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## Miscellany

[edit]

* George Adamski, controversial 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, spiritualist medium, early 20th century
* Wilfrid Michael Voynich (Michał Habdank-Wojnicz, 1865–1930), Polish revolutionary and bibliophile remembered as the eponym of the mysterious Voynich manuscript
* Warren Winiarski, California winemaker
* Kuba Wojewódzki, journalist, television personality, drummer, comedian, and columnist
* Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, physician, pioneering female doctor in the United States
* Maciej Zien, fashion designer

* Kamiński

* Rajchman

* Voynich

* Zakrzewska

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## Legendary persons

[edit]

* 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
* Lajkonik, a Kraków half-man-half-horse figure representing a Mongol invader, with his own festival after the feast of 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 tribe that fed the idea of Sarmatism during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
* John Scolvus, semi-legendary sailor of the late 15th century
* 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

* Lajkonik

* Syrenka

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## Fictional characters

[edit]

* Matteusz Andrzejewski, played by Jordan Renzo, a character in Class, a British science fiction drama programme, and a 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 Jaga, Polish version of the forest-dwelling sorceress
* Waldemar Daninsky, wolfman in 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
* Marcin Jerek, 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
* 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, a penguin in the children's film Madagascar
* Stanley Kowalski, in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire
* 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
* Lucyna "Lucy" Kushinada, a netrunner of mixed Polish and Japanese descent in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
* Ligia, heroine of Sienkiewicz's novel, Quo Vadis?
* Man of Iron, symbol of Solidarity and title of Wajda's film
* Koziołek Matołek, like the bear and the horse, the goat is part of Polish folklore, here in Kornel Makuszyński's rendition
* 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
* Pan Samochodzik, adventurer created by Zbigniew Nienacki
* Paweł i Gaweł, humorous morality tale about neighbour relations, a favourite children's poem
* Sasquatch (Dr. Walter Langkowski), Marvel superhero
* Sierotka Marysia, archetypal abandoned girl, "Little orphan Mary", living with dwarves
* Walter Sobchak, the "Polish Catholic" in the film The Big Lebowski
* Silk Spectre I & II, superheroines in Watchmen
* Stanislau, ace pilot in Blackhawk
* Stanisław Tarkowski (Staś), protagonist of young-adult novel In Desert and Wilderness by Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz
* Mieczysław Stilinski, also known as Stiles Stilinski, one of the main characters in American television 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 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 and Observation on the Spot
* Kasia Tomaszewski, played by Zofia Wichłacz, a character in World on Fire, a 2019 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

Wrocław's dwarfs

* 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
* Stanisław Wokulski, protagonist of Bolesław Prus' novel The Doll
* Stanley Thaddeus "Wojo" Wojciehowicz, played by Max Gail, in the American television sitcom Barney Miller
* 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 based on a novel by William Styron

## Models

[edit]

* Anna Anka (Anna Åberg, Anna Yeager), Swedish-American, born in Poland
* Małgosia Bela, born in Kraków
* Magdalena Frąckowiak, born in Gdańsk
* Gila Golan, born in Kraków
* 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, Polish-Venezuelan, born in Valencia, Venezuela
* Karolina Wydra, Polish-American, born in Opole
* Iga Wyrwał, born in Kalisz

* Bela

* Frackowiak

* Krupa

* Rubik

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## Athletics

[edit]

* Andrzej Badeński (1943–2008), Olympic sprinter
* Iga Baumgart-Witan (born 1989), Olympic sprinter
* Konrad Bukowiecki (born 1997), Olympic shot putter
* Lidia Chojecka (born 1977), Olympic middle- and long-distance runner
* Jerzy Chromik (1931–1987), Olympic long-distance runner
* Teresa Ciepły (1937–2006), Olympic sprinter and hurdler
* Sofia Ennaoui (born 1995), Olympic middle-distance runner
* Paweł Fajdek (born 1989), Olympic hammer thrower
* Marian Foik (1933–2005), Olympic sprinter
* Wioletta Frankiewicz (born 1977), steeplechaser
* Halina Górecka (born 1938), Polish and German Olympic sprinter
* Piotr Haczek (born 1977), Olympic sprinter
* Michał Haratyk (born 1992), Olympic shot putter
* Zdzisław Hoffmann (born 1959), Olympic triple jumper
* Barbara Janiszewska (1936–2000), Olympic sprinter
* Michel Jazy (1936–2024), French Olympic middle- and long-distance runner
* Ilana Karaszyk (born 1938), Israeli Olympic sprinter and long jumper
* Ewa Kłobukowska (born 1946), Olympic sprinter
* Władysław Komar (1940–1998), Olympic champion shot putter
* Halina Konopacka (1900–1989), Polish-American Olympic champion discus thrower
* Robert Korzeniowski (born 1968), Olympic champion racewalker
* Władysław Kozakiewicz (born 1953), Lithuanian-born Polish Olympic champion pole vaulter
* Łukasz Krawczuk (born 1989), Olympic sprinter
* Elżbieta Krzesińska (1934–2015), Olympic champion long jumper
* Jakub Krzewina (born 1989), Olympic sprinter
* Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (1929–2003), Olympic champion steeplechaser
* Adam Kszczot (born 1989), Olympic middle-distance runner
* Wacław Kuchar (1897–1981), athlete
* Janusz Kusociński (1907–1940), Olympic champion long-distance runner; murdered by the Nazis
* Maria Kwaśniewska (1913–2007), Olympic javelin thrower
* Marcin Lewandowski (born 1987), Olympic middle-distance runner
* Tomasz Majewski (born 1981), Olympic champion shot putter
* Piotr Małachowski (born 1983), Olympic discus thrower
* Wiesław Maniak (1938–1982), Olympic sprinter
* Bronisław Malinowski (1951–1981), Olympic champion steeplechaser
* Robert Maćkowiak (born 1970), Olympic sprinter
* Tamara Metal (1933–2022), Israeli Olympic high jumper and long jumper, and captain of the Israel women's national basketball team
* Józef Noji (1909–1943), Olympic long-distance runner, murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp
* Rafał Omelko (born 1989), Olympic sprinter
* Wanda Panfil (born 1959), Olympic long-distance runner
* Artur Partyka (born 1969), Olympic high jumper
* Edmund Piątkowski (1936–2016), Olympic discus thrower
* Marek Plawgo (born 1981), Olympic hurdler and sprinter
* Myer Prinstein (1878–1925), Polish-American Olympic champion long-jumper and triple-jumper
* Monika Pyrek (born 1980), Olympic pole vaulter
* Anna Rogowska (born 1981), Olympic pole vaulter
* Tadeusz Rut (1931–2002), Olympic hammer thrower
* Piotr Rysiukiewicz (born 1974), Olympic sprinter
* Edward Sarul (born 1958), shot putter
* Janusz Sidło (1933–1993), Olympic javelin thrower
* Kamila Skolimowska (1982–2009), Olympic champion hammer thrower
* Irena Szewińska (1946–2018), Olympic champion sprinter
* Józef Szmidt (1935–2024), Olympic champion triple jumper
* Ewa Swoboda (born 1997), Olympic sprinter
* Tadeusz Ślusarski (1950–1998), Olympic champion pole vaulter
* Justyna Święty-Ersetic (born 1992), Olympic champion sprinter
* Marcin Urbaś (born 1976), Olympic sprinter
* Jadwiga Wajs (1912–1990), Olympic discus thrower
* Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911–1980), Polish-American Olympic champion sprinter
* Jan Werner (1946–2014), Olympic sprinter
* Anita Włodarczyk (born 1985), Olympic champion hammer thrower
* Paweł Wojciechowski (born 1989), Olympic pole vaulter
* Marian Woronin (born 1956), Olympic sprinter
* Jacek Wszoła (born 1956), Olympic champion high jumper
* Karol Zalewski (born 1993), Olympic champion sprinter
* Kazimierz Zimny (1935–2022), Olympic long-distance runner
* Szymon Ziółkowski (born 1976), Olympic champion hammer thrower

* R. Korzeniowski

* Majewski

* Prinstein

* Rogowska

* Szewińska

* Wajs

* Włodarczyk

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## Baseball

[edit]

* Moe Drabowsky (1935–2006), Polish-born American baseball player
* Bill Mazeroski (born 1936), American baseball player, Hall of Fame
* Tom Paciorek (born 1946), American baseball player

## Basketball

[edit]

* Aleksander Balcerowski (born 2000), basketball player
* Dardan Berisha (born 1988), Kosovan-Polish basketball player
* Oded Brandwein (born 1988), Israeli-Polish basketball player
* Aaron Cel (born 1987), French-Polish basketball player
* Olek Czyż (born 1990), basketball player
* Margo Dydek (1974-2011), basketball player, FIBA Hall of Fame
* Filip Dylewicz (born 1980), basketball player
* Tomasz Gielo (born 1993), basketball player
* Marcin Gortat (born 1984), Polish-American National Basketball Association (NBA), Los Angeles Clippers player
* Karol Gruszecki (born 1989), basketball player
* Adam Hrycaniuk (born 1984), basketball player
* Steve Javie (born 1955), American NBA referee
* Przemek Karnowski (born 1993), basketball player
* Thomas Kelati (born 1982), American-Polish basketball player
* Mateusz Kostrzewski (born 1989), basketball player
* Łukasz Koszarek (born 1984), basketball player
* Damian Kulig (born 1987), basketball player
* Maciej Lampe (born 1985), Polish-Swedish NBA basketball player
* David Logan (born 1982), American-born Polish basketball player
* Dominik Olejniczak (born 1996), basketball player
* Mateusz Ponitka (born 1993), basketball player
* A.J. Slaughter (born 1987), Polish-American basketball player
* Jeremy Sochan (born 2003), Polish-American NBA player, San Antonio Spurs
* Michał Sokołowski (born 1992), basketball player
* Krzysztof Szubarga (born 1984), basketball player
* Adam Waczyński (born 1989), basketball player
* Adam Wójcik (1970-2017), basketball player

* Czyż

* Gortat

* Ponitka

* Wójcik

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## Boxing

[edit]

* 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
* Artur Szpilka
* Henryk Średnicki
* Izu Ugonoh
* Krzysztof Włodarczyk
* Tony Zale
* Janusz Zarenkiewicz

* Adamek

* Gołota

* Kulej

* Michalczewski

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## Checkers

[edit]

* Natalia Sadowska (born 1991)

## Chess

[edit]

* Izak Aloni (1905–1985), Polish-Israeli chess master
* Izaak Appel (1905–missing), chess master
* Arnold Aurbach (1888–1952), Polish-French chess master
* Zdzisław Belsitzmann (1890–1920), chess master
* Abram Blass (1895–1971), Polish-Israeli chess master
* Agnieszka Brustman (b. 1962), woman chess grandmaster
* Oscar Chajes (1873–1928)
* Joseph Cukierman (1900–1941), Polish-born French grandmaster
* Hieronim Czarnowski (1834–1902), Polish-French chess master
* Moshe Czerniak (1910–1984), Polish-Israeli International Master
* Arthur Dake (1910–2000), American born to Polish parents, grandmaster
* Dawid Daniuszewski (1885–1944), chess master
* Józef Dominik (1894–1920), chess master
* Jan-Krzysztof Duda (b. 1998), grandmaster
* Arthur Dunkelblum (1906–1979), Polish-Belgian International Master
* Boruch Israel Dyner (1903–1979), Polish-Belgian-Israeli chess master
* Hanna Ereńska (b. 1946), woman grandmaster
* Samuel Factor (1883–1949), Polish-American chess master
* Alexander Flamberg (1880–1926), chess master
* Henryk Friedman (1903–1942), chess master
* Achilles Frydman (1905–1940), chess player, died in a Nazi concentration camp
* Paulino Frydman (1905–1982), Polish-Argentinean chess master
* Regina Gerlecka (1913–1983), chess player
* Edward Gerstenfeld (1915–1943), chess master, killed in the Holocaust
* Yehuda Gruenfeld (born 1956), grandmaster
* Izaak Grynfeld (1912-?), later known as Ignacy Branicki, Polish-born Israeli chess master
* Róża Herman (1902–1995), Woman International Master
* Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska, Woman International Master
* Chaim Janowski (1868–1935), chess master
* Dawid Janowski (1868–1927), chess player
* Max Judd (1851–1906), American chess player
* Bernhard Kagan (1866–1932), German chess player
* Stanisław Kohn (1895–1940), chess master
* George Koltanowski (1903–2000), American International Master born in Belgium to a Polish-Jewish family, set the world's blindfold record by playing 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, and set a record for playing 56 consecutive blindfold games at ten seconds per move (winning 50, drawing 6).
* Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov (b. 1938), Polish-Serbian chess master
* Michał Krasenkow (b. 1963), Russian-born grandmaster, moved to Poland in 1992
* Leon Kremer (1901–1941), chess master
* Adam Kuligowski (b. 1955), grandmaster
* Abraham Kupchik (1892–1970), American chess master
* Salo Landau (1903–1943), Dutch chess player, died in a Nazi concentration camp
* Edward Lasker (1885–1981), German-American chess International Master
* Paul Saladin Leonhardt (1877–1934), German chess master
* Grigory Levenfish (1889–1961), Soviet grandmaster
* Moishe Lowtzky (1881–1940), Ukrainian–Polish chess master, died in a Nazi concentration camp
* Bartłomiej Macieja (b. 1977), grandmaster
* Kazimierz Makarczyk (1901–1972), chess master
* Kalikst Morawski (1859–1939), chess master
* Stasch Mlotkowski (1881–1943), American chess master, born in the US to Polish parents
* Piotr Murdzia (b. 1975), chess International Master
* Miguel Najdorf (1910–1997), Polish-Argentine grandmaster
* Menachem Oren (1903–1962), Polish-born Israeli chess player
* Julius Perlis (1880–1913), Austrian chess player
* Karol Piltz (1903–1939), chess master
* Oskar Piotrowski, chess master
* Kazimierz Plater (1915–2004), International Master
* Henryk Pogorieły (1908–1943), chess master, murdered in the Holocaust
* Ignatz von Popiel (1863–1941), Polish-Ukrainian chess player
* Artur Popławski (1860–1918), chess master
* Dawid Przepiórka (1880–1940), won the first Polish championship, murdered in the Holocaust
* Iweta Rajlich (b. 1981), International Master and Woman Grandmaster
* Teodor Regedziński (1894–1954), chess master
* Samuel Reshevsky (1911–1992), Polish-American grandmaster
* Samuel Rosenthal (1837–1902), Polish-born French chess player
* Gersz Rotlewi (1889–1920), chess master
* Akiba Rubinstein (1880–1961), Polish-Belgian International Grandmaster
* Gersz Salwe (1862–1920), chess master
* Włodzimierz Schmidt (b. 1943), grandmaster
* Leon Schwartzmann (1887–1942), Polish–French chess master, murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp
* Stanislaus Sittenfeld (1865–1902), Polish–French chess master
* Monika Soćko (b. 1978), grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster
* Franciszek Sulik (1908–1997), Polish-Australian chess master
* Bogdan Śliwa (1922–2003), International Master
* Dariusz Świercz (b. 1994), Polish-American grandmaster
* Gedali Szapiro (Grzegorz Szapiro; 1929–1972), chess master
* Savielly Tartakower (1887–1956), Polish-French International Grandmaster
* Jean Taubenhaus (1850–1919), Polish–born French chess master
* Oscar Tenner (1880–1948), Poland-born German–American chess master
* Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1944–2011), Russian grandmaster
* Alexander Wagner (1868–1942)
* Szymon Winawer (1838–1919), chess player
* Radosław Wojtaszek (b. 1987), grandmaster
* Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (1963–2006), Polish-American grandmaster
* Daniel Yanofsky (1925–2000), Canadian grandmaster
* Józef Żabiński (1860–1928), chess master
* Johannes Zukertort (1842–1888), Polish-born British-German chess master
* Adolf Zytogorski (c. 1811/1812–1882), Polish-British chess master

* Duda

* Najdorf

* Rubinstein

* Soćko

* Świerszcz

* Tartakower

* Wojtaszek

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## Climbing

[edit]

* 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
* Aleksandra Mirosław (born 1994), Olympic champion speed climber
* Aleksander Ostrowski, high-altitude climber and extreme skier
* Piotr Pustelnik, high-altitude climber
* Wanda Rutkiewicz, high-altitude climber
* Krzysztof Wielicki, high-altitude climber
* Andrzej Zawada, high-altitude climber

* Kukuczka

* Wielicki

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## Cycling

[edit]

* 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, road bicycle racing
* Mateusz Taciak
* Adrian Tekliński
* Piotr Wadecki, road bicycle racing
* Maja Włoszczowska

* Kwiatkowski

* Majka

* Niewiadoma

* Sajnok

* Szurkowski

* Włoszczowska

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## Fencing

[edit]

* Robert Andrzejuk (born 1975), Olympic épée fencer
* Kazimierz Barburski (1942–2016), Olympic épée fencer
* Michał Butkiewicz (born 1942), Olympic épée fencer
* Zbigniew Czajkowski (1921–2019), foil and sabre fencer, and coach
* Egon Franke (1935–2022), Olympic champion foil fencer
* Arkadiusz Godel (born 1952), Olympic champion foil fencer
* Sylwia Gruchała (born 1981), Olympic foil fencer
* Roman Kantor (1912–1943), Olympic épée fencer, murdered in the Majdanek concentration camp
* Renata Knapik-Miazga (born 1988), Olympic épée fencer
* Marcin Koniusz (born 1983), Olympic sabre fencer
* Edward Korfanty (born 1952), Polish-born American fencing master
* Adam Krzesiński (born 1965), Olympic foil fencer
* Ryszard Parulski (1938–2017), Olympic foil fencer
* Jerzy Pawłowski (1932–2005), Olympic champion sabre fencer
* Anna Rybicka (born 1977), Olympic foil fencer
* Ryszard Sobczak (born 1967), Olympic foil fencer
* Aleksandra Socha (born 1982), Olympic sabre fencer
* Rafał Sznajder (1972–2014), Olympic sabre fencer
* Ewa Trzebińska (born 1989), Olympic épée fencer
* Witold Woyda (1939–2008), Olympic champion foil fencer
* Barbara Wysoczańska (born 1949), Olympic foil fencer
* Wojciech Zabłocki (1930–2020), Olympic sabre fencer

* Kantor

* Pawłowski

* Socha

* Woyda

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## Football

[edit]

* Zygmunt Anczok, defender
* Henryk Apostel, coach
* Jan Banaś, attacker
* 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
* Ya'akov Grundman (Jakub Grundman' 1939-2004), midfielder and manager
* 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[15]
* 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
* Szymon Marciniak, football referee
* 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
* Itzhak Schneor, defender
* Yisha'ayahu Schwager (Jeszaja Szwagier), Olympic defender
* Ebi 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

* Błaszczykowski

* Boniek

* Deyna

* Dudek

* Lato

* R. Lewandowski

* Milik

* Szczęsny

* Tomaszewski

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## Ice hockey

[edit]

* Mariusz Czerkawski
* Wayne Gretzky, mixed Polish descent
* Gordie Howe, mixed Polish descent
* Mike Komisarek
* Ed Olczyk
* Krzysztof Oliwa
* Brian Rafalski
* Peter Sidorkiewicz, Polish-Canadian
* Bryan Smolinski
* Pete Stemkowski
* Lee Stempniak
* Daniel Tkaczuk
* James Wisniewski
* Wojtek Wolski, Polish-Canadian
* Travis Zajac

* Czerkawski

* Wolski

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## Judo

[edit]

* Rafał Kubacki (born 1967), Olympic judoka
* Waldemar Legień (born 1963), Olympic champion judoka
* Paweł Nastula (born 1970), Olympic champion judoka

## Skating

[edit]

* Karolina Bosiek, speed skater
* Zbigniew Bródka, speed skater
* Patrycja Maliszewska, short track speed skater
* Elwira Seroczyńska, speed skater
* Jan Szymański, speed skater

## Skiing

[edit]

* 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 skier
* Maciej Kot, ski jumper
* Dawid Kubacki, ski jumper
* Józef Łuszczek, cross-country skier
* Adam Małysz, ski jumper
* 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

* Kowalczyk

* Małysz

* Sikora

* Stoch

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## Swimming

[edit]

* Katarzyna Baranowska
* Konrad Czerniak
* Agnieszka Czopek
* Otylia Jędrzejczak
* Radosław Kawęcki
* Bartosz Kizierowski
* Michael Klim, Australian
* Agata Korc
* Paweł Korzeniowski
* Daniel Kowalski, Australian
* Sławomir Kuczko
* Ksawery Masiuk
* Mariusz Podkościelny
* Mateusz Sawrymowicz
* Lejzor Ilja Szrajbman; murdered by the Nazis in Majdanek concentration camp[16]
* Rafał Szukała
* Katarzyna Wasick
* Wojciech Wojdak
* Artur Wojdat

* Czerniak

* Jędrzejczak

* Szrajbman

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## Tennis

[edit]

* Wojciech Fibak
* Magdalena Fręch
* Mariusz Fyrstenberg
* Hubert Hurkacz
* Jerzy Janowicz
* Klaudia Jans-Ignacik
* Jadwiga Jędrzejowska
* Angelique Kerber, German
* Łukasz Kubot
* Magda Linette
* Sabine Lisicki, German
* 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
* Władysław Skonecki
* Iga Świątek
* Caroline Wozniacki, Danish

* Hurkacz

* Kubot

* A. Radwańska

* Świątek

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## Volleyball

[edit]

* 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
* Magdalena Sadowska
* Arie Selinger (born 1937)
* 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

* Bartman

* Glinka

* Gruszka

* Kubiak

* Kurek

* Skowrońska

* Szalpuk

* Wlazły

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## Weightlifting

[edit]

* Waldemar Baszanowski (1935–2011)
* Marcin Dołęga (born 1982)
* Ze'ev Friedman (1944–1972), flyweight weightlifter killed in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre
* Ben Helfgott (1929–2023), Polish-born British
* Zbigniew Kaczmarek ( 1946–2023)
* Aleksandra Klejnowska (born 1982)
* Szymon Kołecki (born 1981)
* Andrzej Maszewski
* Mieczysław Nowak
* Norbert Ozimek
* Ireneusz Paliński
* Norbert Schemansky (1924–2016), American
* Zygmunt Smalcerz
* Marek Seweryn
* Stanley Stanczyk (1925–1997), American
* Agata Wróbel
* Adrian Zieliński
* Marian Zieliński (1929–2005)

* Baszanowski

* Kołecki

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## Others sports

[edit]

* Józef Bednarski, wrestling WWF
* Karol Bielecki, handball
* Leszek Blanik, gymnastics
* Jan Błachowicz, mixed martial arts
* Maciej Chorążyk, soccer official and sports journalist
* Janusz Centka, gliding
* Jarek Dymek, strongman
* Mateusz Gamrot, mixed martial arts
* Tomasz Gollob, Motorcycle speedway World Champion
* Andrzej Grubba, table tennis
* Sebastian Janikowski, American football
* Stan Javie, American football official
* 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
* Robert Kubica, Formula One and auto racing driver
* Tomasz Kucharski, rowing
* Mateusz Kusznierewicz, sailing
* Jerzy Makula, glider aerobatics
* Wiktor Malinowski, professional poker player
* Piotr Markiewicz, canoeing
* Renata Mauer, shooting
* Przemyslaw Mazur, auto racing
* Gene Mruczkowski, American football
* Scott Mruczkowski, American football
* Zofia Noceti-Klepacka, windsurfing
* Aneta Pastuszka, canoeing
* James Podsiadly, former professional Australian rules footballer for Adelaide and Geelong
* Mariusz Pudzianowski, strongman
* Ivan Putski, professional wrestler
* Helena Rakoczy, gymnastics
* Teresa Remiszewska (1928–2002), ocean sailor
* Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek, modern pentathlete
* Paul Slowinski, Muay Thai
* Adam Smelczyński, shooting
* Rafał Sonik, quad rally driver
* Robert Sycz, rowing
* Jerzy Szczakiel, Motorcycle speedway World Champion
* Sławomir Szmal, handball
* Marek Twardowski, canoeing
* Roger Verey, rowing
* Bogdan Wenta, handball
* Sebastian Wenta, 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

* Bródka

* Jędrzejczyk

* Kawa

* Kubica

* Mirosław

* Pudzianowski

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## See also

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* Timeline of Polish science and technology

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* Media related to People of Poland at Wikimedia Commons

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