Nicolaus Copernicus
1473 - 1543
Heliocentric theory of the solar system
Mikhail Artsybashev
1878 - 1927
Writer, Playwright
Pola Negri
1897 - 1987
Film actress and singer
Krzysztof Penderecki
1933 - 2020
Composer and conductor of classical music
Maksymilian Maria Kolbe
1894 - 1941
Founder of Militia of Mary Immaculate
Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowicz
1854 - 1893
Portrait painter
Janusz Kusocinski
1907 - 1940
Olympic runner
Wladyslaw Hasior
1928 - 1999
Sculptor, painter, set designer
Georges Charpak
1924 - 2010
Particle detector inventor
Henryk Arctowski
1871 - 1958
Polar and Antarctic researcher
Andrzej Badenski
1943 - 2008
400 metres runner
Jan Kowalewski
1892 - 1965
Cryptologist and intelligence officer
Ludwik Dorn
1954 - 2022
Deputy Prime Minister, Marshal of the Sejm
Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz
1805 - 1881
Composer, publisher, guitar virtuoso
Bronislaw Huberman
1882 - 1947
Violinist
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
1865 - 1940
Poet, novelist, playwright, journalist
Adam Kozlowiecki
1911 - 2007
Archbishop of Lusaka
Jaroslaw Marek Rymkiewicz
1935 - 2022
Poet, essayist, dramatist, translator
Jozef Beck
1894 - 1944
Foreign minister of Poland
Konstanty Antoni Gorski
1859 - 1924
Composer, violinist, organist, music teacher
Ryszard Kuklinski
1930 - 2004
CIA agent, Polish colonel
Kazimierz Pulaski
1745 - 1779
Military commander
Miron Bialoszewski
1922 - 1983
Poet, novelist, playwright, actor
Stanislaw August Poniatowski
1732 - 1798
King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
Jan Twardowski
1915 - 2006
Poet and Catholic priest
Witold Pilecki
1901 - 1948
Cavalry officer, intelligence agent
Andrzej Panufnik
1914 - 1991
Composer and conductor
Stefan Jaracz
1883 - 1945
Theatre actor and producer
Adam Asnyk
1838 - 1897
Poet and dramatist of the Positivist era
Jan Kulczyk
1950 - 2015
Founder and owner of Kulczyk Holding
Xawery Dunikowski
1875 - 1964
Sculptor and artist
Edward Abramowski
1868 - 1918
Philosopher, psychologist, sociologist
Aleksander Jablonski
1898 - 1980
Molecular spectroscopy and photophysics
Kazimierz Funk
1884 - 1967
Biochemist
Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher
1742 - 1819
Field marshal
Lech Kaczynski
1949 - 2010
President of Poland
Grazyna Bacewicz
1909 - 1969
Composer and violinist
Irena Sendler
1910 - 2008
Social worker and nurse
Boleslaw Prus
1847 - 1912
Novelist, short-story writer, publicist
Adam Hanuszkiewicz
1924 - 2011
Actor and director of theater and television
Henning von Tresckow
1901 - 1944
Major general in the German Army
Wladyslaw Reymont
1867 - 1925
Novelist
Barbara Janiszewska
1936 - 2000
Sprinter
Tomasz Arciszewski
1877 - 1955
Prime Minister of Poland in exile
Michal Bobrzynski
1849 - 1935
Historian, viceroy of Galicia
Wieslaw Maniak
1938 - 1982
Olympic medalist and European champion
Michael Marks
1859 - 1907
Co-founder of Marks & Spencer
Riad Haidar
1951 - 2023
Member of the Sejm of Poland
Jozef Haller
1873 - 1960
Lieutenant general of the Polish Army
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
1686 - 1736
Thermometer and temperature scale
Ryszard Kapuscinski
1932 - 2007
Journalist and author
Jozef Noji
1909 - 1943
Long-distance runner
Jadwiga Wajs
1912 - 1990
Discus thrower
Wladyslaw Natanson
1864 - 1937
Theoretical physics
Fritz Todt
1891 - 1942
Construction engineer and senior Nazi figure
Boleslaus the Brave
967 - 1025
King of Poland, Duke of Bohemia
Zbigniew Namyslowski
1939 - 2022
Jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger
Barbara Krafftowna
1928 - 2022
film and theater actress
Feliks Ankerstein
1897 - 1955
Polish Army major and intelligence officer
Stanislaw Mrozowski
1902 - 1999
Physics professor and researcher
Wojciech Has
1925 - 2000
Film director, screenwriter and film producer
Zygmunt Bauman
1925 - 2017
Sociologist and philosopher
Danuta Siedzikowna
1928 - 1946
Medical orderly in the Home Army
Elzbieta Zawacka
1909 - 2009
SOE agent, freedom fighter, mathematician
Maria Dabrowska
1889 - 1965
Novelist, critic, translator
Pawel Huelle
1957 - 2023
Novelist
Ewa Demarczyk
1941 - 2020
singer
Magdalena Abakanowicz
1930 - 2017
Sculptor and fiber artist
Edith Frank
1900 - 1945
Mother of Anne and Margot Frank
Zdzislaw Jachimecki
1882 - 1953
Historian of music, professor
Tadeusz Czacki
1765 - 1813
Historian, pedagogue, numismatist
Jerzy Trela
1942 - 2022
Theatre and film actor
Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski
1874 - 1941
Writer and translator of French literature
Stanislawa Walasiewicz
1911 - 1980
Olympic champion in 100 metres
Jozef Elsner
1769 - 1854
Composer, music teacher, and music theoretician
Agenor Maria Goiuchowski
1849 - 1921
Foreign Minister
Franciszka Arnsztajnowa
1865 - 1942
Poet, playwright, and translator
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
1922 - 2015
Historian, journalist, politician
Henryk Niewodniczanski
1900 - 1968
Nuclear physics
Jan III Sobieski
1629 - 1696
King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
1860 - 1941
Prime minister and foreign minister of Poland
Karol Olszewski
1846 - 1915
Professor of chemistry and physics
Agnieszka Osiecka
1936 - 1997
Poet, writer, author,film director and journalist
Felicjan Slawoj Skladkowski
1885 - 1962
Prime Minister of Poland
Stanislaw Barcewicz
1858 - 1929
Violinist, conductor and teacher
Kamila Skolimowska
1982 - 2009
Hammer thrower
Wladyslaw Sikorski
1881 - 1943
Prime minister of Poland
Joanna Chmielewska
1932 - 2013
Novelist and screenwriter
Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz
1780 - 1831
Prussian general and military strategist
Barbara Skarga
1919 - 2009
Philosophy historian and philosopher
Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak
1920 - 2018
Architect of post-war Wrocław
Jedrzej Moraczewski
1870 - 1944
Prime Minister of Poland
Leopold Infeld
1898 - 1968
Relativity theory
Witold Gombrowicz
1904 - 1969
Novelist, playwright, diarist
Marie Salome Skudofska Curie
1867 - 1934
Physicist chemist
Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak
1929 - 2003
Runner
Jan Heweliusz
1611 - 1687
Astronomer, brewer, mayor of Gdańsk
Ernest Malinowski
1818 - 1899
Civil engineer
Krzysztof Gawedzki
1947 - 2022
Mathematical physics
Marian Foik
1933 - 2005
Sprinter
Janusz Glowacki
1938 - 2017
Writer and playwright
Franciszek Pieczka
1928 - 2022
Film and stage actor
Barbara Piasecka Johnson
1937 - 2013
Heiress of Johnson & Johnson fortune
Jan Gotlib Bloch
1836 - 1902
Railway financier and war analyst
Sylwester Checinski
1930 - 2021
Film and television director and screenwriter
Maria Kwasniewska
1867 - 1934
Nobel laureate in physics and chemistry
Stanislaw Baranczak
1946 - 2014
poet, literary critic, translator
Isaac Bashevis Singer
1903 - 1991
Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, translator
Stefania Wilczynska
1886 - 1942
Director of Jewish orphanage
Stanislaw Brzozowski
1878 - 1911
Philosopher, writer, publicist, literary
Roman Aftanazy
1914 - 2004
Author of History of Residences
Szymon Askenazy
1865 - 1935
Historian, educator, statesman and diplomat
Daniel Passent
1938 - 2022
Journalist and writer for Polityka
Wojciech Karpinski
1943 - 2020
Writer, historian of ideas, literary critic
Krzysztof Kieslowski
1941 - 1996
Film director and screenwriter
Zygmunt Stojowski
1870 - 1946
Composer and pianist
Henryk Grohman
1862 - 1939
Textile manufacturer
Samuel Willenberg
1923 - 2016
Sonderkommando at Treblinka and participant
Hipolit Cegielski
1813 - 1868
Founder of H. Cegielski - Poznań
Leon Petrazycki
1867 - 1931
Legal scholar
Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich
1782 - 1856
Field marshal, viceroy of Poland
Olga Boznanska
1865 - 1940
Painter
Jozef Pilsudski
1867 - 1935
Chief of State and Marshal of Poland
Andrzej Wajda
1926 - 2016
Film and theatre director
Nathan Handwerker
1892 - 1974
Founder of Nathan's Famous
Adam Schaff
1913 - 2006
Marxist philosopher and ideologue
Jerzy Chromik
1931 - 1987
Long-distance runner
Andrzej Ciechanowiecki
1924 - 2015
Art historian, art dealer, antique dealer
Irena Kwiatkowska
1912 - 2011
Actress, cabaret artist
Wladyslaw Witwicki
1878 - 1948
Psychology, philosophy, translation
Jerzy Ivanov-Szajnowicz
1911 - 1943
Saboteur in the Greek Resistance
Jozef Oleksy
1946 - 2015
Prime Minister of Poland
Jacek Kaczmarski
1957 - 2004
Singer, songwriter, poet and author
Stanislaw Lem
1921 - 2006
Science fiction writer and philosopher
Wojciech Dlugoraj
1557 - 1619
Renaissance composer and lutenist
wladyslaw Komar
1940 - 1998
Shot putter
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
1923 - 2014
Phenomenologist
Wislawa Szymborska
1923 - 2012
Poet and essayist
Tomasz Wojtowicz
1953 - 2022
Volleyball player
Jozef Maria Bochenski
1902 - 1995
Dominican priest, professor, rector
Roman Czerniawski
1910 - 1985
Polish Air Force captain and Allied double agent
Janusz Sidlo
1933 - 1993
Javelin thrower
Aleksander Ford
1908 - 1980
Film director and head of Film Polski
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
1746 - 1817
Military leader and statesman
Kazimierz Deyna
1947 - 1989
Attacking midfielder
Helena Rubinstein
1872 - 1965
Cosmetics entrepreneur
Sylwester Kaliski
1925 - 1978
Professor and military general
Adam Zagajewski
1945 - 2021
Poet, novelist, translator, and essayist
Maksymilian Faktorowicz
1877 - 1938
Cosmetics entrepreneur and inventor
Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski
1921 - 1944
Poet and Home Army soldier
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