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 an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

History


Askenazy


Cywiński


Długosz


Gieysztor


Halecki


Kadłubek


Kołłątaj


Kromer


Lelewel


Manteuffel


Miechowita


Naruszewicz


Peszke

Science

Astronomy


Brudzewski


Copernicus


Brożek


Hevelius


Paczyński


Wolszczan

Biology, medicine


Babinski

Chałubiński

Cybulski

Flatau

Funk


Koprowski

Mlokosiewicz

Schally

Weigl

Zakrzewska

Chemistry


Łukasiewicz

Skłodowska Curie



Śniadecki

Wróblewski

Engineering


Adamiecki



Gzowski


Modjeski


Economics


Balcerowicz


Hurwicz

Invention


Abakanowicz


Deczkowski

Łukasiewicz


Szczepanik

Tykociński

Computer science

Linguistics


Brückner

Korzybski


Linde

Zamenhof

Mathematics


Banach


Banachiewicz


Bartel


Eilenberg


Kuratowski


Leśniewski


Rejewski


Różycki


Śniadecki


Tarski


Ulam


Zygalski

Physics


Olszewski

Rotblat

Skłodowska Curie


Smoluchowski

Wróblewski

Zurek

Social sciences


Czaplicka

Dawid


Gloger

Kolberg

Krzywicki

Malinowski


Ochorowicz

Ossowska

Piłsudski

Znaniecki

Other sciences


Domeyko


Dybowski




Potocki

Music


Chopin



Elsner



Górecki



Kilar



Kurpiński



Landowska



Lutosławski



Moniuszko



Niemen



Ogiński



Penderecki



Rubinstein



Stojowski



Szpilman



Szymanowska



Szymanowski



Wieniawski



Zimerman



Żywny


Prose literature

See also: List of Polish writers and List of Polish novelists


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

Jonston

Fine arts

Norblin

Entertainment


Bogusławski




Cybulski




Hanuszkiewicz




Jaracz




Kwiatkowska




Modjeska




Negri




Olbrychski




Polanski




Schiller




Skolimowski




Wajda




Wasikowska




Zanussi

Business


L. Kronenberg


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





Zamoyski





Żółkiewski

Politics

Paderewski

Diplomats

A. M. Gołuchowski

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

Soccer


Swimming

Tennis

Weightlifting

Others

See also

References

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