List of Polish people

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

See also North Pole, South Pole.

Science

Banach, Stefan, (1892-1945), mathematician
Karol Borsuk (1905 - 1982), mathematician
Nicolaus Copernicus, (1473-1543), astronomer
Curie, Marie, (1867-1934), scientist, Nobel Prize winner (twice), first female scientist ever
Samuel Dickstein (1851-1939), mathematician
Samuel Eilenberg, (1913-1998), mathematician
Gabriel Fahrenheit, (1686-1736), physicist
Casimir Funk (1884-1967), biochemist
Johannes Hevelius, (1611-1687), astronomer
Witold Hurewicz, (1904-1956), mathematician
Kac, Mark(1914-1984), mathematician.
Korczak, Janusz, (1878-1942), pedagogist
Kuperberg, Krystyna, (1944-), mathematician
Kuratowski, Kazimierz, (1896-1980), mathematician
Łukasiewicz, Jan, (1878-1956), mathematician
Malinowski, Bronislaw, (1884-1942), anthropologue and ethnologue
Mandelbrot, Benoit, (1924-), mathematician
Marcinkiewicz, Jozef (1910-1940 ), mathematician
Wladyslaw Orlicz (1903-1990), mathematician
Post, Emil (1897-1954), mathematician
Marian Rejewski (1905-1980), mathematician and cryptologist
Stanislaw Saks (1897-1942), mathematician
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
Wronski, Josef (1778-1853), mathematician
Zamenhof, Ludovic L., (1859-1917), linguist
Zarankiewicz, Kazimierz (1902-1959) mathematician
Zygmund, Antoni (1900 - 1992) mathematician
Lukasiewicz Ignacy (1822-1882), founder of petroleum industry
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, (Andreas Fricius Modrevius), 1503-1572, political theorist and philosopher
Aleksander Wolszczan (1946-), astronomer
Ignacy Domeyko, (1802-1889), geologist
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860), philosopher

Composers

Writers

Jerzy Kosinski
Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka
Andrzej Sapkowski
Janusz A. Zajdel
Stanislaw Lem, (born 1921), science-fiction writer
Wislawa Szymborska, (born 1923), poetess, Nobel Prize winner
Wladyslaw Reymont, (1867-1925), writer, Nobel Prize winner
Henryk Sienkiewicz, (1846-1916), writer, Nobel Prize winner
Adam Mickiewicz, (1798-1855), poet
Czeslaw Milosz, poet, Nobel Prize winner
Joseph Conrad, writer
Bruno Schulz, (1892-1942), writer
Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), novelist and drama writer
Jan Kochanowski (1530 - 1584), poet
Stanislaw Witkiewicz writer and painter

Film

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

Royalty

Swiatoslawa, daughter of Mieszko I of Poland, mother of Canute the Great, king of England, Denmark and Norway
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)

Sport persons

Others

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
Casimir Pulaski, military commander
Lech Walesa, (born 1943), trade unionist who started dismantling of the Soviet bloc
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, (1746-1817), military commander
Aleksander Lisowski, (1575-1616), commander of Lisowczycy
Jozef Bem, (1794-1850), military commander, commander-in-chief of Hungarian army (1849)

Bad guys

Feliks Dzierzynski, (1877-1926), Cheka founder