List of people from Danzig
List of people from Danzig (Gdańsk) from the period 1308 to 1945.
- Tiedemann Giese, 1480 , bishop
- Johannes Dantiscus, 1485, poet, church canon and bishop
- Bernhard von Reesen, 1490, business man painted by Albrecht Dürer
- Albrecht Giese, 1524, councilman and diplomat
- Caspar Schütz (ca. 1540 Eisleben - 1594 Danzig), Prussian Historian
- Anton Möller, 1563, painter
- Bartholomäus Keckermann c. 1571 - 1608, writer and Calvinist theologist
- Constantia Czirenberg/Zierenberg, born 1605, daughter of Danzig mayor, married to Sigmund Kerschenstein in 1628
- Reinhold Curicke, 1610-1667, jurist, historian
- Johannes Hevelius, 1611, astronomer
- Georg Daniel Schultz, 1615, painter
- Bogusław Radziwiłł, 1620, Prince of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Reichsfürst of the HRE, governor of Ducal Prussia
- Andreas Schlüter, 1660, architect and sculptor
- Jacob Theodor Klein, 1685, jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat
- Gottfried Lengnich, 1689-1774, jurist, historian
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, 1686-1736, physicist and engineer
- Daniel Gralath, 1708, physicist and Bürgermeister (mayor) of Danzig
- Louise Adelgunde Gottsched, 1713, writer
- Daniel Chodowiecki, 1726, artist painter
- Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, 1734, prince
- Michał Jerzy Poniatowski, 1736, primate of Poland
- Johann Wilhelm Archenholz, 1741, historian and publicist
- Avraham Danzig, 1748, rabbi
- Georg Forster, 1754, naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary
- Johanna Schopenhauer, 1766, author and mother of Arthur Schopenhauer
- Johannes Daniel Falk, 1768, poet and educator
- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788, philosopher
- Otto von Below, 1823
- Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf 1832, general, writer
- Fritz von Below, 1853-1918
- Max Halbe, 1865, writer
- Max Adalbert 1874-1933, actor
- Alfred Stock, 1876-1946, chemist
- Carl Schuricht, 1880-1967, conductor
- Gerhard Rose, 1896-1992, expert on tropical medicine
- Gerhard Krüger, 1908-1994
- Mathias Goeritz, 1915-1990 artist
- Alexander Salkind, 1921-1997, film producer
- Heinz-Hermann Koelle, b. 1922, German-American aeronautical and rocket engineer.
- Miltiades Caridis, b. 1923
- Eddi Arent, b. 1925, actor and comedian
- Meir Shamgar, b. 1925, President of the Israel Supreme Court
- Jack Mandelbaum, b. 1926, subject of Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
- Günter Grass, b. 1927, writer
- Henry Rosovsky, b. 1927, economist
- Herlind Kasner née Jent(z)sch, b. 1928 (possibly in Elbing[1]), mother of German Chancellor Angela Merkel
- Zalman Shoval, b. 1930, diplomat and politician
- Wolfgang Völz, b. 1930, actor and voice actor (
- Holger Czukay, b. 1938, musician
- Wawrzyniec Samp, b. 1939, sculptor and graphic artist
- Matthias Habich, b. 1940, actor
- Heidrun Mohr-Mayer, b. 1941, Jeweller