Roman Aftanazy
1914 - 2004
Author of History of Residences
Leszek Engelking
1955 - 2022
poet, short story writer, novelist, translator
Pola Negri
1897 - 1987
Film actress and singer
Georges Nomarski
1919 - 1997
Creator of differential interference microscopy
Maria Dabrowska
1889 - 1965
Novelist, critic, translator
Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz
1780 - 1831
Prussian general and military strategist
Barbara Krafftowna
1928 - 2022
film and theater actress
Boleslaw Prus
1847 - 1912
Novelist, short-story writer, publicist
Wojciech Dlugoraj
1557 - 1619
Renaissance composer and lutenist
Tomasz Wojtowicz
1953 - 2022
Volleyball player
Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski
1921 - 1944
Poet and Home Army soldier
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
1865 - 1940
Poet, novelist, playwright, journalist
Stefan Gierowski
1925 - 2022
Painter and professor
Jan Kulczyk
1950 - 2015
Founder and owner of Kulczyk Holding
Teresa Remiszewska
1928 - 2002
Sailor, journalist, political activist
Stanislaw Baranczak
1946 - 2014
poet, literary critic, translator
Michal Bobrzynski
1849 - 1935
Historian, viceroy of Galicia
Zygmunt Bauman
1925 - 2017
Sociologist and philosopher
Maksymilian Maria Kolbe
1894 - 1941
Founder of Militia of Mary Immaculate
Francoise Frenkel
1889 - 1975
Writer and bookseller
Andrzej Dobrowolski
1921 - 1990
Composer and teacher of electronic music
Elzbieta Zawacka
1909 - 2009
SOE agent, freedom fighter, mathematician
Andrzej Badenski
1943 - 2008
400 metres runner
Jan Gotlib Bloch
1836 - 1902
Railway financier and war analyst
Maksymilian Faktorowicz
1877 - 1938
Cosmetics entrepreneur and inventor
Jerzy Kosinski
1933 - 1991
Novelist and two-time president
Jacek Kaczmarski
1957 - 2004
Singer, songwriter, poet and author
Jan Matejko
1838 - 1893
History painter
Myer Prinstein
1878 - 1925
Track and field athlete
Adam Asnyk
1838 - 1897
Poet and dramatist of the Positivist era
Jozef Pilsudski
1867 - 1935
Chief of State and Marshal of Poland
Irena Kwiatkowska
1912 - 2011
Actress, cabaret artist
Xawery Dunikowski
1875 - 1964
Sculptor and artist
Henning von Tresckow
1901 - 1944
Major general in the German Army
Jerzy Ivanov-Szajnowicz
1911 - 1943
Saboteur in the Greek Resistance
Marie Salome Skudofska Curie
1867 - 1934
Physicist chemist
Bronislaw Geremek
1932 - 2008
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
Sylwester Checinski
1930 - 2021
Film and television director and screenwriter
Marian Foik
1933 - 2005
Sprinter
Edmund Piatkowski
1936 - 2016
Discus thrower
Stefania Wilczynska
1886 - 1942
Director of Jewish orphanage
Jerzy Grotowski
1933 - 1999
Theatre director and theorist
Janusz Sidlo
1933 - 1993
Javelin thrower
Wojciech Has
1925 - 2000
Film director, screenwriter and film producer
Jan Twardowski
1915 - 2006
Poet and Catholic priest
Jozef Noji
1909 - 1943
Long-distance runner
Edith Frank
1900 - 1945
Mother of Anne and Margot Frank
Andrzej Panufnik
1914 - 1991
Composer and conductor
Helena Rubinstein
1872 - 1965
Cosmetics entrepreneur
Janusz Kusocinski
1907 - 1940
Olympic runner
Kazimierz Deyna
1947 - 1989
Attacking midfielder
Tomasz Arciszewski
1877 - 1955
Prime Minister of Poland in exile
Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki
1933 - 2010
Composer of contemporary classical music
Miron Bialoszewski
1922 - 1983
Poet, novelist, playwright, actor
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
1922 - 2015
Historian, journalist, politician
Adam Hanuszkiewicz
1924 - 2011
Actor and director of theater and television
Wojciech Karpinski
1943 - 2020
Writer, historian of ideas, literary critic
Stanislawa Walasiewicz
1911 - 1980
Olympic champion in 100 metres
Agenor Maria Goiuchowski
1849 - 1921
Foreign Minister
Bronislaw Malinowski
1884 - 1942
Founder of social anthropology and fieldwork
Aleksander Jablonski
1898 - 1980
Molecular spectroscopy and photophysics
Samuel Willenberg
1923 - 2016
Sonderkommando at Treblinka and participant
Benjamin Fondane
1898 - 1944
Poet, Philosopher
Stanislaw Moniuszko
1819 - 1872
Opera composer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
1903 - 1991
Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, translator
Zbigniew Brzezinski
1928 - 2017
National Security Advisor
Wladyslaw Reymont
1867 - 1925
Novelist
Michal Bergson
1820 - 1898
Composer and pianist
Teresa Cieply
1937 - 2006
Olympic medalist in athletics
Alina Szapocznikow
1926 - 1973
Sculptor and graphic artist
Stanislaw Kot
1885 - 1975
History of culture and Reformation in Poland
Stanislaw August Poniatowski
1732 - 1798
King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
Jerzy Chromik
1931 - 1987
Long-distance runner
Boleslaus the Brave
967 - 1025
King of Poland, Duke of Bohemia
Franciszka Arnsztajnowa
1865 - 1942
Poet, playwright, and translator
Alfred Tarski
1901 - 1983
Model theory, metamathematics, algebraic logic
Henryk Grohman
1862 - 1939
Textile manufacturer
Grazyna Bacewicz
1909 - 1969
Composer and violinist
Stanislaw Brzozowski
1878 - 1911
Philosopher, writer, publicist, literary
Henryk Arctowski
1871 - 1958
Polar and Antarctic researcher
Wladyslaw Broniewski
1897 - 1962
Poet, writer, translator
Henryk Sienkiewicz
1846 - 1916
Novelist and journalist
Aleksander Ford
1908 - 1980
Film director and head of Film Polski
Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski
1874 - 1941
Writer and translator of French literature
Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak
1929 - 2003
Runner
Barbara Piasecka Johnson
1937 - 2013
Heiress of Johnson & Johnson fortune
Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich
1782 - 1856
Field marshal, viceroy of Poland
Witold Lutoslawski
1913 - 1994
Composer and conductor
Lech Kaczynski
1949 - 2010
President of Poland
Jozef Elsner
1769 - 1854
Composer, music teacher, and music theoretician
Bronislaw Huberman
1882 - 1947
Violinist
Tadeusz Czacki
1765 - 1813
Historian, pedagogue, numismatist
Wladyslaw Natanson
1864 - 1937
Theoretical physics
Ulrich Schrade
1943 - 2009
philosopher, educationist and ethicist
Kazimierz Kutz
1929 - 2018
Film director, author, journalist and politician
Stanislaw Barcewicz
1858 - 1929
Violinist, conductor and teacher
Maria Dworzecka
1941 - 2023
Computational nuclear physicist
Jerzy Trela
1942 - 2022
Theatre and film actor
Krzysztof Kieslowski
1941 - 1996
Film director and screenwriter
Danuta Siedzikowna
1928 - 1946
Medical orderly in the Home Army
Hipolit Cegielski
1813 - 1868
Founder of H. Cegielski - Poznań
Mikhail Artsybashev
1878 - 1927
Writer, Playwright
Casimir III the Great
1310 - 1370
King of Poland and Ruthenia
Jadwiga Wajs
1912 - 1990
Discus thrower
Ignacy Lukasiewicz
1822 - 1882
Inventor of the kerosene lamp
Witold Pilecki
1901 - 1948
Cavalry officer, intelligence agent
Feliks Ankerstein
1897 - 1955
Polish Army major and intelligence officer
Kamila Skolimowska
1982 - 2009
Hammer thrower
Joanna Chmielewska
1932 - 2013
Novelist and screenwriter
Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher
1742 - 1819
Field marshal
Anna Jablonowska
1935 - 2010
poet and translator
Kazimierz Funk
1884 - 1967
Biochemist
Ewa Demarczyk
1941 - 2020
singer
Jan Heweliusz
1611 - 1687
Astronomer, brewer, mayor of Gdańsk
Barbara Janiszewska
1936 - 2000
Sprinter
Nicolaus Copernicus
1473 - 1543
Heliocentric theory of the solar system
Jedrzej Moraczewski
1870 - 1944
Prime Minister of Poland
Jan III Sobieski
1629 - 1696
King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
Ernest Malinowski
1818 - 1899
Civil engineer
Jan Kozielewski
1914 - 2000
Courier for the Polish Underground
Nathan Handwerker
1892 - 1974
Founder of Nathan's Famous
Szymon Askenazy
1865 - 1935
Historian, educator, statesman and diplomat
Stanislaw Lem
1921 - 2006
Science fiction writer and philosopher
Krzysztof Gawedzki
1947 - 2022
Mathematical physics
Jozef Oleksy
1946 - 2015
Prime Minister of Poland
Ferdynand Goetel
1890 - 1960
Novelist, playwright, essayist, screenwriter
Jozef Maria Bochenski
1902 - 1995
Dominican priest, professor, rector
Leopold Infeld
1898 - 1968
Relativity theory
Karol Olszewski
1846 - 1915
Professor of chemistry and physics
Stefan Wyszynski
1901 - 1981
Archbishop of Warsaw and Gniezno
Sylwester Kaliski
1925 - 1978
Professor and military general
Adam Zagajewski
1945 - 2021
Poet, novelist, translator, and essayist
Magdalena Abakanowicz
1930 - 2017
Sculptor and fiber artist
Janusz Glowacki
1938 - 2017
Writer and playwright
Kazimierz Pulaski
1745 - 1779
Military commander
Waclaw Kuchar
1897 - 1981
Footballer, speed skater, ice hockey player
Zbigniew Namyslowski
1939 - 2022
Jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger
Kazimierz Zimny
1935 - 2022
Long-distance runner
Barbara Skarga
1919 - 2009
Philosophy historian and philosopher
Adam Schaff
1913 - 2006
Marxist philosopher and ideologue
Jaroslaw Marek Rymkiewicz
1935 - 2022
Poet, essayist, dramatist, translator
Wieslaw Maniak
1938 - 1982
Olympic medalist and European champion
Frederic Chopin
1810 - 1849
Romantic composer and virtuoso pianist
Agnieszka Osiecka
1936 - 1997
Poet, writer, author,film director and journalist
Andrzej Wajda
1926 - 2016
Film and theatre director
Jozef Haller
1873 - 1960
Lieutenant general of the Polish Army
Ludwik Dorn
1954 - 2022
Deputy Prime Minister, Marshal of the Sejm
Zdzislaw Jachimecki
1882 - 1953
Historian of music, professor
Wladyslaw Hasior
1928 - 1999
Sculptor, painter, set designer
Emil Zegadlowicz
1888 - 1941
Expressionist poet and novelist
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