344 people
Famous People
Browse profiles of notable people from around the world.
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Napoleon Cybulski
Polish biologist (1854-1919)
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Napoleon Orda
Polish artist (1807-1883)
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Morris Gordon
Polish-American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film
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Hedwig of Kalisz
Polish noble
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Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria
Polish princess (1457-1502)
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Salome of Berg
Polish princess (1093-1144)
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Zula Pogorzelska
Polish actress (1896–1936)
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Lilly Wachowski
Polish-American film director
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Hilary Minc
Polish politician (1905-1974)
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Hilary Koprowski
Polish physician, virologist, immunologist and medical researcher (1916–2013)
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Celina Jesionowska
Polish sprinter
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Moe Asch
Polish-American record producer (1905-1986)
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Adrianna Biedrzyńska
Polish actress
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Adrianna Sułek-Schubert
Polish athletics competitor
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Adrian Mierzejewski
Polish footballer
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Anita Włodarczyk
Polish hammer thrower
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Maxine Oyedele
English-Polish footballer
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Bruce B. Sabin
Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines (1906-1993)
Anja Rubik
Polish model
1983 — present
Marcel Olbrychski
Polish actor (born 1945)
1945 — present
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Polish-born German literary critic (1920–2013)
1920 — 2013
Stefan Wyszyński
Polish Roman Catholic cardinal (1901-1981)
1901 — 1981
Stefan Żeromski
Polish writer (1864-1925)
1864 — 1925
Stefan Banach
Polish mathematician (1892–1945)
1892 — 1945
Gabriel Narutowicz
Polish politician (1865-1922)
1865 — 1922
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Florian Ceynowa
Polish politician and academic (1817-1881)
1817 — 1881
Florian Znaniecki
Polish sociologist (1882–1958)
1882 — 1958
Thierry Polanski
French-Polish filmmaker (born 1933)
1933 — present
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
1867 — 1934
Fabian Drzyzga
Polish volleyball player
1990 — present
Raul Koczalski
Polish pianist (1884–1948)
1884 — 1948
Sebastian Mila
Polish footballer
1982 — present
Sebastian Szymański
Polish association football player
1999 — present
Sebastian Boenisch
Polish footballer
1987 — present
Natalia Partyka
Polish para table tennis player
1989 — present
Natalia Kaczmarek
Polish athlete
1998 — present
Miguel Najdorf
Polish-Argentine chess player (1910-1997)
1910 — 1997
Wilfredo Leon
Cuban-Polish volleyball player
1993 — present
Adam Zagajewski
Polish poet (1945-2021)
1945 — 2021
Adam Małysz
Polish former ski jumper
1977 — present
Adam Mickiewicz
Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, and political activist (1798-1855)
1798 — 1855
Adam Sienkiewicz
Polish writer, novelist, journalist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize laureate (1846–1916)
1846 — 1916
Robert Lewandowski
Polish association football player (born 1988)
1988 — present
Ariel Borysiuk
Polish footballer
1991 — present
Andrew Schally
Polish-American endocrinologist (1926–2024)
1926 — 2024
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
1686 — 1736
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Polish-American writer (1904–1991)
1904 — 1991
Joseph Conrad
Polish-British writer (1857–1924)
1857 — 1924