Wojciech Has
1925 - 2000
Film director, screenwriter and film producer
Casimir III the Great
1310 - 1370
King of Poland and Ruthenia
Jacek Kaczmarski
1957 - 2004
Singer, songwriter, poet and author
Michal Bergson
1820 - 1898
Composer and pianist
Pawel Huelle
1957 - 2023
Novelist
Maria Konopnicka
1842 - 1910
Poet, novelist, children's writer, translator
Georges Charpak
1924 - 2010
Particle detector inventor
Stanislaw Barcewicz
1858 - 1929
Violinist, conductor and teacher
Witold Pilecki
1901 - 1948
Cavalry officer, intelligence agent
Halina Konopacka
1900 - 1989
Discus thrower
Jan Kulczyk
1950 - 2015
Founder and owner of Kulczyk Holding
Emil Zegadlowicz
1888 - 1941
Expressionist poet and novelist
Jaroslaw Marek Rymkiewicz
1935 - 2022
Poet, essayist, dramatist, translator
Henryk Arctowski
1871 - 1958
Polar and Antarctic researcher
Janusz Glowacki
1938 - 2017
Writer and playwright
Gabriela Zapolska
1857 - 1921
Novelist, playwright, naturalist writer
Elzbieta Krzesinska
1934 - 2015
Long jumper
Irena Kwiatkowska
1912 - 2011
Actress, cabaret artist
Edward Abramowski
1868 - 1918
Philosopher, psychologist, sociologist
Maria Kwasniewska
1867 - 1934
Nobel laureate in physics and chemistry
Szymon Askenazy
1865 - 1935
Historian, educator, statesman and diplomat
Janusz Kusocinski
1907 - 1940
Olympic runner
Jozef Maria Bochenski
1902 - 1995
Dominican priest, professor, rector
Jerzy Grotowski
1933 - 1999
Theatre director and theorist
Stanislaw Kot
1885 - 1975
History of culture and Reformation in Poland
Agenor Maria Goiuchowski
1849 - 1921
Foreign Minister
Jan Matejko
1838 - 1893
History painter
Stanislaw Brzozowski
1878 - 1911
Philosopher, writer, publicist, literary
Wojciech Dlugoraj
1557 - 1619
Renaissance composer and lutenist
Mikhail Artsybashev
1878 - 1927
Writer, Playwright
Michael Marks
1859 - 1907
Co-founder of Marks & Spencer
Aleksander Jablonski
1898 - 1980
Molecular spectroscopy and photophysics
Jozef Pilsudski
1867 - 1935
Chief of State and Marshal of Poland
Kazimierz Pulaski
1745 - 1779
Military commander
Wladyslaw Broniewski
1897 - 1962
Poet, writer, translator
Stefan Gierowski
1925 - 2022
Painter and professor
Georges Nomarski
1919 - 1997
Creator of differential interference microscopy
Roman Dmowski
1864 - 1939
Leader of National Democracy
Boleslaus the Brave
967 - 1025
King of Poland, Duke of Bohemia
Zbigniew Namyslowski
1939 - 2022
Jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger
Kazimierz Deyna
1947 - 1989
Attacking midfielder
Irena Sendler
1910 - 2008
Social worker and nurse
Feliks Dzierzynski
1877 - 1926
Head of the Soviet secret police
Marian Foik
1933 - 2005
Sprinter
Alina Szapocznikow
1926 - 1973
Sculptor and graphic artist
Helena Rubinstein
1872 - 1965
Cosmetics entrepreneur
Jozef Noji
1909 - 1943
Long-distance runner
Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski
1874 - 1941
Writer and translator of French literature
Janusz Korczak
1878 - 1942
Pediatrician, children's author, pedagogue
Elzbieta Zawacka
1909 - 2009
SOE agent, freedom fighter, mathematician
Boleslaw Prus
1847 - 1912
Novelist, short-story writer, publicist
Leon Petrazycki
1867 - 1931
Legal scholar
Stanislaw Baranczak
1946 - 2014
poet, literary critic, translator
Adam Asnyk
1838 - 1897
Poet and dramatist of the Positivist era
Henning von Tresckow
1901 - 1944
Major general in the German Army
Aleksander Ford
1908 - 1980
Film director and head of Film Polski
Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich
1782 - 1856
Field marshal, viceroy of Poland
Jan Heweliusz
1611 - 1687
Astronomer, brewer, mayor of Gdańsk
Tadeusz Rozewicz
1921 - 2014
Writer and translator
Waclaw Kuchar
1897 - 1981
Footballer, speed skater, ice hockey player
Roman Czerniawski
1910 - 1985
Polish Air Force captain and Allied double agent
Olga Boznanska
1865 - 1940
Painter
Henryk Niewodniczanski
1900 - 1968
Nuclear physics
Stefania Wilczynska
1886 - 1942
Director of Jewish orphanage
Konstanty Antoni Gorski
1859 - 1924
Composer, violinist, organist, music teacher
Krzysztof Penderecki
1933 - 2020
Composer and conductor of classical music
Fritz Todt
1891 - 1942
Construction engineer and senior Nazi figure
Augustus II the Strong
1670 - 1733
King of Poland and Elector of Saxony
Jozef Oleksy
1946 - 2015
Prime Minister of Poland
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
1686 - 1736
Thermometer and temperature scale
Marie Salome Skudofska Curie
1867 - 1934
Physicist chemist
Wladyslaw Szpilman
1911 - 2000
Pianist and composer
Wojciech Karpinski
1943 - 2020
Writer, historian of ideas, literary critic
Wladyslaw Natanson
1864 - 1937
Theoretical physics
Jerzy Plebanski
1928 - 2005
Theoretical physicist and mathematician
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
1923 - 2014
Phenomenologist
Jozef Elsner
1769 - 1854
Composer, music teacher, and music theoretician
Hipolit Cegielski
1813 - 1868
Founder of H. Cegielski - Poznań
Loda Halama
1911 - 1996
Primabalerina of Grand Theatre, Warsaw
Michal Bobrzynski
1849 - 1935
Historian, viceroy of Galicia
Edward Gierek
1913 - 2001
First Secretary of Polish United Workers' Party
Agnieszka Osiecka
1936 - 1997
Poet, writer, author,film director and journalist
Stanislawa Walasiewicz
1911 - 1980
Olympic champion in 100 metres
Bronislaw Geremek
1932 - 2008
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
Witold Gombrowicz
1904 - 1969
Novelist, playwright, diarist
Henryk Grohman
1862 - 1939
Textile manufacturer
Andrzej Dobrowolski
1921 - 1990
Composer and teacher of electronic music
Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz
1780 - 1831
Prussian general and military strategist
Wladyslaw Witwicki
1878 - 1948
Psychology, philosophy, translation
Krzysztof Kieslowski
1941 - 1996
Film director and screenwriter
Ryszard Kapuscinski
1932 - 2007
Journalist and author
Stefan Wyszynski
1901 - 1981
Archbishop of Warsaw and Gniezno
Jan Kozielewski
1914 - 2000
Courier for the Polish Underground
Kazimierz Zimny
1935 - 2022
Long-distance runner
Barbara Janiszewska
1936 - 2000
Sprinter
Adam Zagajewski
1945 - 2021
Poet, novelist, translator, and essayist
Karol Olszewski
1846 - 1915
Professor of chemistry and physics
Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz
1805 - 1881
Composer, publisher, guitar virtuoso
John Paul II
1920 - 2005
Bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church
Wladyslaw Reymont
1867 - 1925
Novelist
Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak
1929 - 2003
Runner
Jerzy Chromik
1931 - 1987
Long-distance runner
Riad Haidar
1951 - 2023
Member of the Sejm of Poland
Andrzej Wajda
1926 - 2016
Film and theatre director
Danuta Siedzikowna
1928 - 1946
Medical orderly in the Home Army
Maria Dworzecka
1941 - 2023
Computational nuclear physicist
Felicjan Slawoj Skladkowski
1885 - 1962
Prime Minister of Poland
Stanislaw August Poniatowski
1732 - 1798
King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki
1933 - 2010
Composer of contemporary classical music
Jozef Beck
1894 - 1944
Foreign minister of Poland
Xawery Dunikowski
1875 - 1964
Sculptor and artist
Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski
1807 - 1867
Composer, pianist, conductor, teacher
Stefan Jaracz
1883 - 1945
Theatre actor and producer
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
1860 - 1941
Prime minister and foreign minister of Poland
Anna Jablonowska
1935 - 2010
poet and translator
Kamila Skolimowska
1982 - 2009
Hammer thrower
Isaac Bashevis Singer
1903 - 1991
Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, translator
Roman Aftanazy
1914 - 2004
Author of History of Residences
Tomasz Arciszewski
1877 - 1955
Prime Minister of Poland in exile
Ludwik Dorn
1954 - 2022
Deputy Prime Minister, Marshal of the Sejm
Jozef Haller
1873 - 1960
Lieutenant general of the Polish Army
Sylwester Checinski
1930 - 2021
Film and television director and screenwriter
Kazimierz Funk
1884 - 1967
Biochemist
Jerzy Kosinski
1933 - 1991
Novelist and two-time president
Daniel Passent
1938 - 2022
Journalist and writer for Polityka
Wladyslaw Hasior
1928 - 1999
Sculptor, painter, set designer
Janusz Kupcewicz
1955 - 2022
Midfielder
Ryszard Kuklinski
1930 - 2004
CIA agent, Polish colonel
Stanislaw Moniuszko
1819 - 1872
Opera composer
Rosa Luxemburg
1871 - 1919
Marxist theorist, anti-war activist
Ignacy Lukasiewicz
1822 - 1882
Inventor of the kerosene lamp
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
1865 - 1940
Poet, novelist, playwright, journalist
Wladyslaw Sikorski
1881 - 1943
Prime minister of Poland
Adam Hanuszkiewicz
1924 - 2011
Actor and director of theater and television
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
1890 - 1963
Logic, semantics, philosophy of science
Nicolaus Copernicus
1473 - 1543
Heliocentric theory of the solar system
Teresa Cieply
1937 - 2006
Olympic medalist in athletics
Zygmunt Stojowski
1870 - 1946
Composer and pianist
Grazyna Bacewicz
1909 - 1969
Composer and violinist
Jadwiga Wajs
1912 - 1990
Discus thrower
Jedrzej Moraczewski
1870 - 1944
Prime Minister of Poland
Franciszka Arnsztajnowa
1865 - 1942
Poet, playwright, and translator
Adam Schaff
1913 - 2006
Marxist philosopher and ideologue
Andrzej Badenski
1943 - 2008
400 metres runner
Zdzislaw Jachimecki
1882 - 1953
Historian of music, professor
Stanislaw Mrozowski
1902 - 1999
Physics professor and researcher
Maksymilian Maria Kolbe
1894 - 1941
Founder of Militia of Mary Immaculate
Pola Negri
1897 - 1987
Film actress and singer
Tadeusz Czacki
1765 - 1813
Historian, pedagogue, numismatist
Sylwester Kaliski
1925 - 1978
Professor and military general
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