List of famous Poles This is partial list of famous Polish, Polish-speaking/writing people, and people born in Poland.

Table of contents

1 Science 2 Composers 3 Writers 4 Film 5 Actors 6 Royalty 7 Sport persons 8 Military commanders 9 Others 10 Bad guys 11 See also:

Science

• Banach, Stefan, (1892-1945), mathematician
• Karol Borsuk (1905 - 1982), mathematician
• Nicolaus Copernicus, (1473-1543), astronomer
• Curie-Skłodowska, Maria, (1867-1934), scientist, Nobel Prize winner (twice), first female Nobel prize winner
• Samuel Dickstein (1851-1939), mathematician
• Domeyko, Ignacy, (1802-1889), geologist
• Samuel Eilenberg, (1913-1998), mathematician
• Gabriel Fahrenheit, (1686-1736), physicist
• Funk, Kazimierz (1884-1967), biochemist
• Gundlach, Rudolf, inventor of tank periscope
• Johannes Hevelius(Jan Heweliusz in Polish), (1611-1687), astronomer
• Hofman, Józef, (1876-1957), pianist, inventor of windscreen wipers and car springs
• Hurewicz, Witold, (1904-1956), mathematician
• Kac, Mark(1914-1984), mathematician.
• Korczak, Janusz, (1878-1942), pedagogist
• Kuperberg, Krystyna, (1944-), mathematician
• Kuratowski, Kazimierz, (1896-1980), mathematician
• Łukasiewicz, Ignacy (1822-1882), founder of the world petroleum industry
• Łukasiewicz, Jan, (1878-1956), mathematician
• Malinowski, Bronislaw, (1884-1942), anthropologue and ethnologue
• Mandelbrot, Benoit, (1924-), mathematician
• Marcinkiewicz, Jozef (1910-1940 ), mathematician
• Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, (Andreas Fricius Modrevius), 1503-1572, political theorist and philosopher
• Wladyslaw Orlicz (1903-1990), mathematician
• Post, Emil (1897-1954), mathematician
• Paczyński, Bohdan (1940-) astronomer
• Marian Rejewski (1905-1980), mathematician and cryptologist
• Stanislaw Saks (1897-1942), mathematician
• Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860), philosopher
• Sierpiński Wacław, (1882-1969), mathematician
• Hugo Steinhaus(1887-1972), mathematician.
• Strzelecki, Pawel, (1797-1873), explorer
• Tarski, Alfred (1901-1983), mathematician
• Ulam, Stanislaw (1909 - 1984), mathematician
• Wlodkowic, Pawel (1370-1435), scholar and laywer
• Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (1944-), sociologist
• Aleksander Wolszczan (1946-), astronomer
• Wronski, Josef (1778-1853), mathematician
• Zamenhof, Ludovic L, (1859-1917), linguist
• Zarankiewicz, Kazimierz (1902-1959) mathematician
• Zygmund, Antoni (1900 - 1992) mathematician

• Frederic Chopin, (1810-1849),
• Krzysztof Penderecki, (born 1933)
• Wojciech Kilar,
• Zbigniew Preisner
• Henryk Gorecki
• Karol Szymanowski
• Witold Lutoslawski
• Henryk Wieniawski, (1835-1880)

• Joseph Conrad, writer
• Johannes Dantiscus, (1485-1548), poet and Prince-Bishop of Warmia.
• Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz
• Jacek Dukaj (born 1974), science-fiction writer
• Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), novelist and drama writer
• Jan Kochanowski (1530 - 1584), poet
• Jerzy Kosinski
• Zofia Kossak-Szczucka
• Stanislaw Lem, (born 1921), science-fiction writer
• Adam Mickiewicz, (1798-1855), poet
• Czeslaw Milosz, poet, Nobel Prize winner
• Wladyslaw Reymont, (1867-1925), writer, Nobel Prize winner
• Andrzej Sapkowski (born 1948), fantasy writer
• Henryk Sienkiewicz, (1846-1916), writer, Nobel Prize winner
• Wislawa Szymborska, (born 1923), poetess, Nobel Prize winner
• Bruno Schulz, (1892-1942), writer
• Stanislaw Witkiewicz writer and painter
• Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (born 1944), sociologist and science-fiction writer
• Janusz A. Zajdel (1938-1935), science-fiction writer

• Agnieszka Holland
• Krzysztof Kieslowski, (1941-1996), film director
• Roman Polanski, film director and actor
• Andrzej Wajda, film director
• Andrzej Zulawski

• Jan Kiepura, (1902–1966), singer and actor
• Pola Negri, (1895-1987), actress
• Helena Modrzejewska, (1840-1909), actress
• Isabella Scorupco, (1970-)
• Joanna Pacula, (1957-)
• Ludwika Paleta (born 1978), famous in Mexico.
• Wojciech Pszoniak, actor of Comedie Francaise

• Swiatoslawa, daughter of Mieszko I of Poland, mother of Canute the Great, king of England, Denmark and Norway
• Boleslaus the Brave, (966/967-1025), first king of Poland
• Henry II the Pious, (?-1241), senior duke of Poland, commander of Polish forces in Battle of Legnica
• Jadwiga of Poland, (1372-1399], king (!) of Poland, canonised
• Casimir IV the Jagiellonian, (1427-1494), king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania, victor in Thirteen Years' War (1454-1466)
• Sigismund II Augustus, (1520-1572), king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania, creator of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Jan III Sobieski (John III of Poland), 1629-1696, king of Poland and Great Duke of Lithuania, victor at the Battle of Vienna
• Stanislaw Leszczynski, (Stanislaus I of Poland), (1677 - 1766), king of Poland and prince of Lorraine
• Ladislaus III, (Władysław III Warneńczyk, Ulászló I), 1424-1444, king of Poland and Hungary
• Aleksandra Lisowska (Khourrem) (~1510 - 1558), (wife of Suleiman the Magnificent)

• Wojciech Fortuna
• Robert Korzeniowski
• Adam Małysz
• Zbigniew Boniek
• Jerzy Dudek
• Dariusz Michalczewski
• Andrew Golota

• Jozef Bem, (1794-1850), military commander, commander-in-chief of Hungarian army (1849)
• Bohdan Chmielnicki, (c.1596-1657), leader of Zaporozhian Cossacks
• Jaroslaw Dabrowski, (1836-1871), military commander during the January Uprising. Later Commander in Chief of the Paris Commune
• Henryk Dembinski, (1791-1864), military commander, C-i-C during the November Uprising, commanding officer of the Army of the North and later C-i-C of the Hungarian army during the 1849 uprising
• Jozef Haller, (1873-1960), military commander and a politician, commander of the Polish Army in France during WWI
• Tadeusz Komorowski, (1895-1966), military commander, C-i-C of the Home Army during the Warsaw Uprising
• Tadeusz Kosciuszko, (1746-1817), military commander
• Stanislaw Maczek, (1892-1994), commander of the Polish Armoured Division, later C-i-C of the Polish forces in exile after WWII
• Casimir Pulaski, military commander
• Stefan Rowecki, (1895-1944?), military commander, commander-in-chief of the Home Army
• Edward Smigly-Rydz, (1886-1941), military commander, succesful in the polish-bolshevik war, C-i-C of the Polish Army in the September Campaign

• Florian Ceynowa
• Krystyna Skarbek (1915-1952), SOE heroine of WW II
• Miguel Najdorf (1910-1997), chess player
• John Paul II, (born 1920), the pope
• Jozef Pilsudski, (1867-1935), statesman, politician and marshall
• Lech Walesa, (born 1943), trade unionist who started dismantling of the Soviet bloc
• Tadeusz Mazowiecki, politician
• Aleksander Lisowski, (1575-1616), commander of Lisowczycy
• Zbigniew Brzezinski, (1928-), political scientist, advisor of US president Jimmy Carter.
• Daniel Chodowiecki, (1726-1801), painter
• Jerzy Grotowski, (1933-1999), theatre reformer
• Ryszard Kuklinski, (1930-2004), CIA masterspy during the Cold War

• Feliks Dzierzynski, (1877-1926), Cheka founder
• Bronislaw Kaminski, (1899-1944), SS commander and a war criminal

• Polish literature
• List of Polish composers
• List of Polish painters
• List of Polish language poets
• Polish theater
• Polish film history
• Music in Poland