List of Polish people

This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing persons. Persons of mixed heritage have their respective ancestries credited.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

History

Askenazy
Callimachus
Cywiński
Długosz
Gieysztor
Halecki
Kadłubek
Kołłątaj

Kot
Kromer
Lelewel
Lerski
Manteuffel
Miechowita
Naruszewicz
Peszke
Pogonowski

Science

Astronomy

Brudzewski

Copernicus
Brożek

Hevelius

Paczyński
Wolszczan

Biology, medicine

Babinski
Biernacki
Chałubiński
Cybulski
Dzierżoń
Flatau

Goldflam
Hirszfeld
Koprowski
Mlokosiewicz
Schally
Weigl

Chemistry

Czochralski
Fajans
Łukasiewicz
Sędziwój


Skłodowska Curie
Śniadecki
Świętosławski
Wróblewski

Engineering

Adamiecki


Gzowski

Modjeski


Pogonowski

Economics

Balcerowicz
Grabski
Hurwicz

Kwiatkowski
Lange

Invention

Abakanowicz

Deczkowski
Hofmann
Leski

Łukasiewicz

Szczepanik
Tykociński

Computer science

Targowski

Ulam

Linguistics

Brückner
Kopczyński
Korzybski

Linde
Zamenhof

Mathematics

Banach

Bartel

Borsuk

Eilenberg

Kac

Knaster

Kuratowski

Leśniewski
Mazur

Mostowski

Neyman

Rejewski

Różycki

Sierpiński

Steinhaus

Śniadecki

Tarski

Ulam

Zaremba

Zygalski

Physics

Olszewski
Rotblat
Skłodowska Curie
Ekert

Smoluchowski
Wróblewski
Zurek

Social sciences

Czaplicka
Dawid

Gloger
Kolberg
Krzywicki
Malinowski

Ochorowicz
Ossowska
Piłsudski
Znaniecki

Other sciences

Dobrowolski
Domeyko

Dybowski



Potocki

Music

Bobrowicz


Chopin


Elsner


Górecki


Kilar


Kurpiński


Landowska


Lutosławski


Moniuszko


Niemen


Ogiński


Panufnik


Penderecki


Rubinstein


Stojowski


Szpilman


Szymanowska


Szymanowski


Wieniawski


Zimerman


Żywny


Prose literature

Boy-Żeleński
Chojecki
Dołęga-Mostowicz
Fredro
Kaden-Bandrowski
Krasicki
Kraszewski
Lem
Orzeszkowa
Parnicki

Potocki
Prus
Rej
Reymont
Sienkiewicz
Witkiewicz
Zajdel
Zapolska
Żeromski
Żuławski

Poetry

Philosophy

Fine arts

Entertainment

Aszpergerowa and daughters



Bogusławski



Cybulski



Gajos



Hanuszkiewicz



Jaracz



Kwiatkowska



Linda



Modjeska



Negri



Olbrychski



Polanski



Schiller



Skolimowski



Wajda



Zanussi

Business



Royalty

Mieszko I
Władysław the Elbow-high
Casimir the Great
Władysław Jagiełło
Casimir Jagiellon
Stefan Batory
Jan III Sobieski
Stanisław August

Nobility

see: List of szlachta

Military

Anders




Bem




Czarniecki



Jan Henryk Dąbrowski




Kościuszko




Krzyżanowski




Maczek




Piłsudski




Plater

Józef Poniatowski




Pułaski




Sadeh




Sikorski




Sosnkowski




Sowiński




Tarnowski




Wojtek (right)




Zamoyski




Żółkiewski

Politics

Diplomats

Intelligence

Holocaust resisters

Religion

Chmielowski
Frank
Hlond
Hosius
Jadwiga
Stanisław Kostka
Kowalska
Stanisław of Szczepanów
Sapieha

Wojtyła

Wyszyński

Assassins

Hryniewiecki
Niewiadomski

Lawyers

Miscellaneous

Models

Frackowiak

Krupa

Rubik

Sonnet

Legendary persons

Fictional characters

Sports

Athletics

Basketball

Boxing

Chess

Climbing

Fencing

Ice hockey

Skiing

Football


Swimming

Tennis

Weightlifting

Others

See also

References

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