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This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing people. People of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited.

Physics

  • Czesław Białobrzeski
  • Andrzej Buras
  • Georges Charpak, 1995 Nobel Prize
  • Jan Kazimierz Danysz
  • Marian Danysz
  • Tomasz Dietl
  • Maria Dworzecka, Polish-American computational nuclear physicist
  • Artur Ekert, British-Polish, one of the independent inventors (in 1991) of quantum cryptography
  • Krzysztof Gawedzki, mathematical physicist
  • Marek Gazdzicki, high-energy nuclear physicist
  • Ryszard Horodecki
  • Leopold Infeld
  • Aleksander Jabłoński
  • Jerzy Stanisław Janicki
  • Sylwester Kaliski
  • Elżbieta Kossecka
  • Jan Eugeniusz Krysiński
  • Stanislas Leibler, Polish-French-American
  • Maciej Lewenstein, theoretical physicist
  • Olga Malinkiewicz
  • Albert A. Michelson, American, 1907 Nobel Prize
  • Lidia Morawska, Polish-Australian
  • Stanisław Mrozowski
  • Władysław Natanson
  • Witold Nazarewicz, Polish-American nuclear physicist
  • Henryk Niewodniczański
  • Georges Nomarski
  • Karol Olszewski
  • Jerzy Plebański, theoretical physicist
  • Jerzy Pniewski
  • Nikodem Popławski, theoretical physicist
  • Sylwester Porowski, blue laser
  • Józef Rotblat, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize
  • Stefan Rozental, nuclear physicist
  • Wojciech Rubinowicz, theoretical physicist
  • Maria Skłodowska Curie (Marie Curie), two Nobel Prizes
  • Jan Sładkowski
  • Marian Smoluchowski, kinetic theory, Einstein–Smoluchowski relation
  • Andrzej Sobolewski
  • Haroun Tazieff, geologist, volcanologist, cinematographer, writer and French Cabinet minister
  • Andrzej Trautman, mathematical physicist
  • Witelo, philosopher, medieval optics
  • August Witkowski
  • Romuald Niszcz
  • Stanley Wojcicki, Polish-American
  • Mieczysław Wolfke
  • Stanisław Lech Woronowicz, theoretical physicist
  • Zygmunt Wróblewski
  • Marek Żukowski, theoretical physicist
  • Wojciech H. Zurek, theoretical physicist

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File:Marie Curie 1903.jpg|Skłodowska Curie

File:Artur Ekert 2011.jpg|Ekert

File:Leopold Infeld 1960.jpg|Infeld

File:Karol Olszewski.jpg|Olszewski

File:Joseph Rotblat Los Alamos identity badge photo.jpg|Rotblat

File:Marian Smoluchowski (106197299) (cropped).jpg|Smoluchowski

File:Haroun Tazieff à l'Hôtel de ville de Saint-Denis de La Réunion le 20 octobre 1972.jpg|Tazieff

File:August Wikowski - professor and rector of Jagiellonian University, 1910.jpeg|Witkowski

File:Wojciech H. Zurek.gif|Zurek

</gallery>

Chemistry

  • Osman Achmatowicz
  • Józef Boguski
  • Kazimierz Boratyński
  • Jan Czochralski, modern semiconductors
  • Emil Czyrniański
  • Tadeusz Estreicher, cryogenics pioneer
  • Kazimierz Fajans, Polish-American physical chemist
  • Kazimierz Funk, biochemist, the concept of vitamins
  • Andrzej Górak
  • Antoni Grabowski, chemical engineer
  • Konstanty Hrynakowski
  • Andrzej Jajszczyk
  • Alina Kabata-Pendias
  • Aharon Katzir, Israeli pioneer in electrochemistry of biopolymers
  • Wiktor Kemula
  • Włodzimierz Kołos
  • Stanisław Kostanecki, organic chemist
  • Marek Gatty-Kostyal
  • Józef R. Lewandowski
  • Ignacy Łukasiewicz, inventor of kerosene lamp
  • Mieczysław Mąkosza
  • Leon Marchlewski
  • Bolesław Masłowski
  • Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Polish-American
  • Mark Miodownik, British materials scientist and engineer
  • Ignacy Mościcki
  • Marceli Nencki
  • Karol Olszewski
  • Krzysztof Palczewski, biochemist
  • Janusz Pawliszyn
  • Sylwester Porowski
  • Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss Nobel Prize winner
  • Michał Sędziwój, Latinized as Sendivogius: alchemist, physician, discoverer of oxygen
  • Zuzanna S. Siwy, Polish-American
  • Maria Skłodowska Curie (Marie Curie), two-time Nobel Prize winner
  • Edward Sucharda
  • Jędrzej Śniadecki
  • Wojciech Świętosławski, "father of thermochemistry"
  • Bohdan Szyszkowski
  • Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski
  • Filip Neriusz Walter, pioneer of organic chemistry
  • Zygmunt Wróblewski
  • Józef Zawadzki, physical chemist

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File:Józef Jerzy Boguski.jpg|Boguski

File:Kazimierz Pochwalski - Prezydent Ignacy Mościcki 1931.jpg|Mościcki

File:Marie Curie (Nobel-Chem).jpg|Skłodowska Curie

File:Jan-czochralski.jpg|Czochralski

File:Kazimierz Fajans.jpg|Fajans

File:Casimir Funk 01.jpg|Funk

File:Andrzej.jpg|Górak

File:Ignacy Lukasiewicz.jpg|Łukasiewicz

File:Krzysztof Matyjaszewski 03.jpg|Matyjaszewski

File:Thadeus Reichstein ETH-Bib Portr 10137.jpg|Reichstein

File:Poland Alchemist Michał Sędziwój.jpg|Sędziwój

File:Jędrzej Śniadecki.PNG|Śniadecki

File:Wojciech Swietoslawski (72263376) (cropped).jpg|Świętosławski

File:Zygmunt Wróblewski.PNG|Wróblewski

</gallery>

Biology, medicine

  • Joseph Babinski, French-Polish neurologist, discoverer of the Babinski reflex
  • Gabriela Balicka-Iwanowska, botanist
  • Napoleon Baniewicz, Polish-Lithuanian nobleman and neurologist, discoverer of the Baniewicz reflex
  • Edmund Biernacki, physician, discoverer of erythrocyte sedimentation rate
  • Czesław Bieżanko, entomologist
  • Jan Biziel, physician, social activist
  • Tytus Chałubiński, physician
  • Napoleon Cybulski, neurophysiologist, discoverer of adrenaline
  • Maria Antonina Czaplicka, anthropologist
  • Jan Czekanowski, anthropologist
  • Kazimierz Dąbrowski, psychiatrist, creator of the theory of positive disintegration
  • Wiktor Dega, surgeon and orthopedist
  • August Dehnel, biologist
  • Józef Dietl, physician
  • Hermann Dietz, physician, senator of the Republic of Poland, social activist
  • Jan Dzierżon, zoologist, apiarist
  • Stefan Falimierz, physician, herbalist
  • Sidney Farber, American pediatric pathologist and cancer biologist, founder of the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
  • Edward Flatau, neurologist
  • Ludwik Fleck, Polish-Israeli microbiologist, philosopher of science
  • Eva Frommer, child psychiatrist and anthroposophist
  • Kazimierz Funk, biochemist, coined the term vitamin
  • Marian Gieszczykiewicz, physician and bacteriologist
  • Emil Godlewski, embryologist
  • Samuel Goldflam, neurologist
  • Adam Gruca, surgeon and orthopaedist
  • Ryszard Gryglewski, pharmacologist, physician
  • Tomasz Guzik (born 1974), physician
  • Ludwik Hirszfeld, microbiologist and serologist
  • Janina Hurynowicz, neurophysiologist
  • Feliks Paweł Jarocki, zoologist and entomologist
  • Stefania Jabłońska, dermatologist
  • Walery Jaworski, physician
  • Konstanty Jelski, ornithologist
  • Zbigniew Kabata, biologist
  • Ewa Kamler (born 1937), biologist and ichthyologist
  • Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, paleobiologist
  • Aleksander Koj, physician, scientist
  • Ryszard Kole, Polish-American pharmacologist
  • Jerzy Konorski, neurophysiologist
  • Stefan Kopeć, biologist
  • Hilary Koprowski, polio vaccine
  • Tadeusz Krwawicz, medical pioneer
  • Elwira Lisowska (born 1930), biochemist
  • Abraham Low, American neuropsychiatrist
  • Margaret Lowenfeld, British paediatrician and pioneer of Sandplay Therapy
  • Liliana Lubińska, neuroscientist
  • Zofia Majewska, neurologist and professor
  • Karol Marcinkowski, physician
  • Eugène Minkowski, psychiatrist influenced by Bergson and phenomenology
  • Ludwik Młokosiewicz, botanist
  • Maksymilian Nowicki, biologist
  • Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, biologist
  • Janina Oszast, biologist, palaeobotanist and resistance fighter
  • Marek Pienkowski (born 1945), Polish-American immunologist
  • Piotr Ponikowski, cardiologist
  • Moshe Prywes (1914–1998), Israeli physician and educator; first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
  • Tadeusz Reichstein (1897–1996), Polish-Swiss physiologist; 1950 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
  • Zbigniew Religa, cardiologist
  • Józef Rostafiński, biologist
  • Albert Sabin, polio vaccine; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Andrzej Wiktor Schally (1926–2024), Polish-American Nobel-laureate endocrinologist
  • Hanna Segal, British leading Kleinian psychoanalyst
  • Michael Sela (1924–2022), Israeli immunologist; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Henryk Skarżyński, otolaryngologist, audiologist, phoniatrist
  • Michalina Stefanowska, neurophysiologist
  • Eduard Adolf Strasburger (born in Poland, of German descent), botanist
  • Andrzej Szczeklik, immunologist
  • Jan Sztolcman, ornithologist
  • Wacław Szybalski, Polish-American physician
  • Władysław Taczanowski, zoologist
  • Andrzej K. Tarkowski, embryologist
  • Zbylut Twardowski, Polish-American physician
  • Jerzy Vetulani, neuroscientist, pharmacologist and biochemist
  • Emil Warmiński, physician, social and national activist
  • Józef Warszewicz, botanist and biologist
  • Rudolf Weigl, typhus vaccine
  • Wanda Wesołowska, zoologist
  • Helena Rosa Wright, English physician influential in family planning
  • Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, Polish-American physician
  • Jozef J. Zwislocki, neuroscientist

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File:Jozef Babinski.jpg|Babinski

File:Edmund Biernacki foto (cropped).jpg|Biernacki

File:Napoleon Nikodem Cybulski.jpeg|Cybulski

File:Jan Czekanowski.jpg|Czekanowski

File:Jan Dierżoń.png|Dzierżoń

File:Edward Flatau.jpg|Flatau

File:Dr. Eva Frommer FRPsych.jpg|Frommer

File:Samuel Goldflam.jpg|Goldflam

File:Jerzy Gryglewski fot Lech Polcyn.jpg|Gryglewski

File:Ludwik Hirszfeld1.jpg|Hirszfeld

File:Hilary Koprowski. Photograph. Wellcome V0027622.jpg|Koprowski

File:Maksymilian Sila Nowicki.jpg|Nowicki

File:Albert Sabin.jpg|Sabin

File:Schally portrait.jpg|Schally

File:Jerzy Vetulani TEDx Krakow (cropped).jpg|Vetulani

File:Weigl-Lwow.jpg|Weigl

</gallery>

Astronomy

  • Franciszek Armiński
  • Tadeusz Banachiewicz
  • Jan Brożek
  • Albert Brudzewski
  • Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, the son of a Polish father and a mother who was of mixed German-Polish descent; he is also often considered a German by Germans
  • Wojciech Dziembowski
  • Władysław Dziewulski
  • Michał Falkener
  • Jan Gadomski
  • Elisabeth Hevelius, astronomer and wife of Johannes Hevelius
  • Johannes Hevelius, mayor of Gdańsk; often also considered a German
  • Felicjan Kępiński
  • Marian Albertovich Kowalski
  • Kazimierz Kordylewski
  • Wojciech Krzemiński
  • Jan Latosz
  • Stanisław Lubieniecki
  • Bohdan Paczyński
  • Marcin Poczobutt-Odlanicki
  • Alexius Sylvius Polonus
  • Adam Prażmowski
  • Antoni Przybylski
  • Agata Różańska
  • Konrad Rudnicki
  • Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki
  • Jan Śniadecki
  • Andrzej Udalski
  • Wiesław Wiśniewski
  • Aleksander Wolszczan, first discovery of extrasolar planets
  • Thomas Zebrowski
  • Anna N. Żytkow

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File:Albert Brudzewski.jpg|Brudzewski

File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|Copernicus

File:Jan Brożek portr.jpg|Brożek

File:Elisabetha Hevelius 1673.png|Elisabeth Hevelius

File:Johannes Hevelius(close-up).jpg|Johannes Hevelius

File:Bohdan Paczyński.jpg|Paczyński

File:Jan Śniadecki.PNG|Jan Śniadecki

File:Aleksander Wolszczan (2007).jpg|Wolszczan

</gallery>

Mathematics

  • Nachman Aronszajn, Polish-American
  • Michel Balinski, American-French
  • Stefan Banach
  • Tadeusz Banachiewicz
  • Kazimierz Bartel
  • Andrzej Białynicki-Birula
  • Karol Borsuk
  • Jacob Bronowski, Polish-British
  • Jan Brożek
  • Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Polish-American
  • Meier Eidelheit
  • Samuel Eilenberg, Polish-American
  • Andrzej Grzegorczyk
  • Witold Hurewicz
  • Henryk Iwaniec
  • Tadeusz Iwaniec, Polish-American
  • Zygmunt Janiszewski
  • Stanisław Jaśkowski, logician
  • Jan Jaworowski, Polish-American
  • Mark Kac, Polish-American
  • Stefan Kaczmarz
  • Marek Karpinski, computer scientist
  • Dawid Kielak
  • Bronisław Knaster
  • Sławomir Kołodziej
  • Robert Kowalski, American-British logician
  • Zdzisław Krygowski
  • Krystyna Kuperberg, Polish-American
  • Włodzimierz Kuperberg
  • Kazimierz Kuratowski
  • Izabella Łaba, Polish-Canadian
  • Franciszek Leja
  • Stanisław Leśniewski
  • Adolf Lindenbaum
  • Stanisław Łojasiewicz
  • Antoni Łomnicki
  • Jerzy Łoś
  • Jan Łukasiewicz, logician, inventor of the parenthesis-free Polish Notation
  • Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born French-American
  • Edward Marczewski
  • Józef Marcinkiewicz
  • Stanisław Mazur
  • Stefan Mazurkiewicz
  • Jan Mikusinski
  • Michał Misiurewicz
  • Andrzej Mostowski
  • Jan Mycielski, Polish-American
  • Jerzy Spława-Neyman
  • Otton M. Nikodym
  • Wiesława Nizioł
  • Andrew Odlyzko, Polish-American
  • Władysław Orlicz
  • Aleksander Pełczyński
  • Józef H. Przytycki
  • Maksym Radziwill, Polish-Canadian
  • Helena Rasiowa
  • Marian Rejewski, mathematician-cryptologist who broke the German Enigma cipher
  • Jerzy Różycki, Enigma-breaker
  • Stanisław Ruziewicz
  • Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski
  • Stanisław Saks
  • Wojciech Samotij
  • Juliusz Schauder
  • Wacław Sierpiński
  • Roman Sikorski
  • Julian Sochocki, Polish-Russian
  • Hugo Steinhaus
  • Włodzimierz Stożek
  • Wanda Szmielew, logician
  • Władysław Ślebodziński
  • Ivan Śleszyński, Polish-Russian
  • Jan Śniadecki
  • Alfred Tarski, Polish-American
  • Adam Henryk Toruńczyk
  • Stanisław Ulam, co-designer (with Edward Teller) of the hydrogen bomb
  • Kazimierz Urbanik
  • Tadeusz Ważewski
  • Mariusz Wodzicki
  • Józef Hoene-Wroński
  • Kazimierz Zarankiewicz
  • Stanisław Zaremba
  • Henryk Zygalski, Enigma-breaker
  • Antoni Zygmund, Polish-American
  • Kazimierz Żorawski

<gallery mode=nolines widths=86 heights=86 style="width:325px">

File:عالم الرياضيات البولندى ستيفان بناخ.jpg|Banach

File:Kazimierz Bartel (46302151) (cropped).jpg|Bartel

File:Borsuk.jpeg|Borsuk

File:Samuel Eilenberg MFO.jpeg|Eilenberg

File:Andrzej Grzegorczyk (2008).jpg|Grzegorczyk

File:Henryk Iwaniec.JPG|Iwaniec

File:Zygmunt Janiszewski.jpg|Janiszewski

File:Mark Kac.jpg|Kac

File:Bronislaw Knaster.jpeg|Knaster

File:Kazimierz Kuratowski.jpg|Kuratowski

File:Stanislaw Lesniewski (69447640) (cropped).jpg|Leśniewski

File:Benoit Mandelbrot mg 1804c.jpg|Mandelbrot

File:Stanislaw Mazur Polish mathematician.jpg|Mazur

File:Andrzej Mostowski.jpg|Mostowski

File:Jerzy Neyman2.jpg|Neyman

File:Radziwill maksym.jpg|Radziwiłł

File:MR 1932 small.jpg|Rejewski

File:Jerzy Rozycki.jpg|Różycki

File:Wacław Sierpiński.jpg|Sierpiński

File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|Steinhaus

File:Jan Śniadecki cr.jpg|Śniadecki

File:AlfredTarski1968.jpeg|Tarski

File:Ulam-stanislaw m.jpg|Ulam

File:Stanislaw Zareba Polish mathematician.jpg|Zaremba

File:Henryk Zygalski.jpg|Zygalski

</gallery>

Computer science

  • Krzysztof R. Apt
  • Paul Baran, American
  • Krzysztof Cios, Polish-American
  • Jarosław Duda
  • Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Polish-American
  • Siemion Fajtlowicz, Polish-American, known for his Graffiti
  • Tomasz Imieliński, Polish-American
  • Piotr Indyk
  • Jacek Karpiński
  • Marek Karpiński
  • Marian Mazur
  • Jan Mycielski, Polish-American
  • Zdzislaw Pawlak
  • Emil Leon Post, American
  • Stanisław Radziszowski, Polish-American
  • Andrew Targowski, Polish-American
  • Jack Tramiel, Polish-American
  • Andrzej Trybulec, Mizar system
  • Stanisław Ulam
  • Jan Węglarz
  • Michał Zalewski

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Jacek Karpiński.jpg|Karpiński

File:Targowski-Lazienki-2011-2.JPG|Targowski

File:Jack Tramiel retuschiert.jpg|Tramiel

File:Stanislaw Ulam.tif|Ulam

</gallery>

Linguistics

  • Jolanta Antas
  • Jerzy Bartmiński
  • Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929), developed the theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations.
  • Andrzej Bogusławski (1931–2026), Russian-Polish-Russian lexicographer, philosopher of language, semioticist
  • Aleksander Brückner (1856–1939), Slavicist and Polish-language lexicographer
  • Kazimierz Bulas (1903–1970), Polish–English lexicographer (Kościuszko Foundation Dictionary)
  • Jan Bystroń
  • Jan Czekanowski
  • Andrzej Gawroński
  • Grzegorz Knapski
  • Władysław Kopaliński
  • Onufry Kopczyński (1736–1817), creator of Polish-grammar terminology
  • Alfred Korzybski, originator of general semantics
  • Mikołaj Kruszewski
  • Jerzy Kuryłowicz
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1771–1847), Polish-language lexicographer
  • Jan Mączyński
  • Halina Mierzejewska
  • Jan Miodek
  • Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski (1921–2016), Polish–English lexicographer, historian, and engineer
  • Anna Siewierska
  • Jan Stanisławski, Polish–English lexicographer
  • Antoni Józef Śmieszek
  • Michel Thomas
  • Zdzisław Wąsik
  • Anna Wierzbicka
  • L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay.png|Baudouin de Courtenay

File:Professor Andrzej Boguslawski.jpg|Bogusławski

File:Aleksander Brückner (98443413).jpg|Brückner

File:POL Onufry Kopczyński.jpg|Kopczyński

File:Alfred Korzybski.jpg|Korzybski

File:Samuel Bogumił Linde.JPG|Linde

File:ICP with Hex Model - 2.jpg|Pogonowski

File:1908-kl-t-zamenhof.jpg|Zamenhof

</gallery>

Invention

  • Bruno Abakanowicz, mathematician, engineer, inventor of the integraph
  • Stefan Bryła, first welded road bridge
  • Mieczysław G. Bekker, Lunar Roving Vehicle
  • Jan Czochralski, Czochralski process
  • Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski, medical equipment
  • Stefan Drzewiecki in 1884 built the first electric-battery-powered submarine
  • Jan Dzierżoń, first successful movable-frame beehive
  • Leo Gerstenzang, Q-Tips
  • Rudolf Gundlach, Gundlach Rotary Periscope
  • Józef Hofmann, pneumatic shock absorbers
  • Stefan Kudelski, Nagra audio recorders
  • Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar
  • Kazimierz Leski, ballast tank funnels
  • Janusz Liberkowski, Anecia Safety Capsule
  • Ignacy Łukasiewicz, kerosene lamp, oil refinery
  • Henryk Magnuski, walkie-talkie
  • Julian Ochorowicz, precursor of radio and television; philosopher, psychologist
  • Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, petroleum-drilling platform inventor
  • Kazimierz Proszyński, cinematic camera
  • Marian Rejewski, broke German Enigma-machine ciphers, invented the cryptologic bomb
  • Jerzy Różycki, invented "clock" method used in breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers
  • Tadeusz Sendzimir, processing steel
  • Władysław Starewicz, first puppet-animated film
  • Abraham Stern, first computing-machine and device for calculating the square roots of numbers
  • Wacław Struszyński, seaborne direction finding antenna, which made a vital contribution to the defeat of U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic
  • Jan Szczepanik, television patents
  • Władysław Tryliński, trylinka
  • Józef Tykociński, sound film
  • Stefan Tyszkiewicz, automotive and audio improvements
  • Mieczysław Wolfke, precursor of holography
  • Casimir Zeglen, bullet-proof vest
  • Henryk Zygalski, Zygalski sheets

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:325px">

File:Bruno-abakanowicz.png|Abakanowicz

File:Stefan Drzewiecki.jpg|Drzewiecki

File:Jan Dierżoń.png|Dzierżoń

File:Josef Hofman.jpg|Hofmann

File:Leski Kazimierz.jpg|Leski

File:Ignacy Lukasiewicz.jpg|Łukasiewicz

File:1959-Magnuski-Henryk-W-Portrait.jpg|Magnuski

File:Julian Ochorowicz (cropped).jpg|Ochorowicz

File:ICP with Hex Model - 2.jpg|Pogonowski

File:Marian Rejewski 1932 small.jpg|Rejewski

File:Jerzy Rozycki.jpg|Różycki

File:Straus photo 02 mod01 col bal.jpg|Struszyński

File:Jan Szczepanik - autograph 2.jpg|Szczepanik

File:Joseph Tykocinski-Tykociner.jpg|Tykociński

File:Stefan Tyszkiewicz 1952.jpg|Tyszkiewicz

File:Henryk Zygalski.jpg|Zygalski

</gallery>

Engineering

  • Karol Adamiecki
  • Krzysztof Arciszewski
  • Mieczysław G. Bekker, first moon rover
  • Włodzimierz Błasiak
  • Stefan Bryła, first welded road bridge
  • Romuald Cebertowicz, soil solidification
  • Zdzisław Celiński
  • Georges Charpak, particle detector
  • Jerzy Dąbrowski, designer of PZL.37 Łoś bomber
  • Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor
  • Adam Freytag
  • Rudolf Gundlach, tank designer
  • Kazimierz Gzowski
  • Edward Jan Habich
  • Tytus Maksymilian Huber
  • Jacek Jędruch
  • Stanisław Kierbedź
  • Stefan Kudelski, electronics engineer, inventor of the Nagra tape recorder
  • Józef Kosacki, Polish mine detector
  • Janusz Liberkowski, inventor
  • Henryk Magnuski, walkie-talkie
  • Ernest Malinowski, 19th-century constructor of Peru's Ferrovias Central, the world's highest railway at the time
  • Henry Millicer, aviation
  • Ralph Modjeski, bridge designer
  • Zenon Mróz, materials science engineer
  • Jan Nagórski, first man to fly over the North Pole
  • Martin Ostoja-Starzewski, engineering scientist
  • Antoni Patek, pioneer in watchmaking and a creator of Patek Philippe & Co.
  • Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski
  • Zygmunt Puławski, designer of PZL P.11 fighter
  • Bogdan Raczkowski, engineer and urbanist in Bydgoszcz
  • Ludwik Regamey, engineer and social activist
  • Wojciech Rostafiński, NASA
  • Kazimierz Siemienowicz, pioneer of rocket
  • Stefan Tyszkiewicz, automotive engineer, inventor of the airport luggage trolley
  • Stanisław Wigura, aviation
  • Piotr Wilniewczyc, weaponry
  • Jan Zarzycki, telecommunications
  • Franciszek Żwirko, aviation

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Karol Adamiecki (12652896) (cropped).jpg|Adamiecki

File:Kazimierz Gzowski.jpg|Gzowski

File:Stefan Kudelski by Erling Mandelmann.jpg|Kudelski

File:Ernest Malinowski cropped.jpg|Malinowski

File:Rudolf.Modrzejewski.1931.jpg|Modjeski

File:ICP with Hex Model - 2.jpg|Pogonowski

</gallery>

Social sciences

  • Tadeusz Andrzejewski, archeologist, Egyptologist
  • Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist, philosopher
  • Stefan Błachowski, psychologist
  • Maria Czaplicka, anthropologist
  • Kazimierz Dąbrowski, psychologist
  • Jan Władysław Dawid, psychologist
  • Tomasz Drezner, Renaissance jurist
  • Agnieszka Dudzińska, sociologist
  • Barbara Engelking, sociologist
  • Zygmunt Gloger, ethnographer, archaeologist, historian
  • Kazimierz Godłowski, historian and archeologist
  • Ludwig Gumplowicz, a founder of sociology
  • Norbert Guterman
  • Alicja Iwańska, sociologist
  • Franciszek Kasparek, jurist, professor of international law, rector of Kraków University
  • Oskar Kolberg, ethnographer
  • Józef Kostrzewski, archeologist, museologist
  • Marek Kotański, psychologist
  • Leon Kozłowski (1892–1944), archeologist; Prime Minister of Poland, 1934–35.
  • Ludwik Krzywicki, anthropologist, economist, sociologist
  • Jan Kubary, naturalist, ethnographer
  • Hersch Lauterpacht, creator of the legal concept of crimes against humanity
  • Raphael Lemkin, creator of the legal concept of genocide
  • Andrzej Łobaczewski, psychiatrist, originator of political ponerology
  • Wiesław Łukaszewski, psychologist
  • Bronisław Malinowski, anthropologist
  • Władysław Markiewicz, sociologist
  • Kazimierz Michałowski, archeologist, Egyptologist
  • Karol Myśliwiec, archeologist, Egyptologist
  • Julian Ochorowicz, psychologist, philosopher, inventor
  • Maria Ossowska, sociologist
  • Stanisław Ossowski, sociologist
  • Bronisław Piłsudski, cultural anthropologist
  • Jadwiga Staniszkis, sociologist
  • Paweł Śpiewak, sociologist
  • Henryk Stroband, jurist and mayor of Toruń
  • Tadeusz Sulimirski, historian and archeologist
  • Jerzy Szacki, historian of ideas
  • Zbigniew Szafrański, Egyptologist, archeologist
  • Jacek Szmatka, sociologist
  • Piotr Sztompka, sociologist
  • Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński, sociologist, founder of PAN's Institute of Political Studies
  • Robert Zajonc, psychologist
  • Florian Znaniecki, sociologist

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:325px">

File:Zigmunt Bauman na 20 Forumi vydavciv(Cropped).jpg|Bauman

File:Maria Czaplicka (96425723) (cropped).jpg|Czaplicka

File:Barbara Engelking 2018.jpg|Engelking

File:Zygmunt Gloger.jpg|Gloger

File:Гумплович.jpg|Gumplowicz

File:OskarKolberg(photo).png|Kolberg

File:Leon Kozłowski.PNG|Kozłowski

File:Ludwik krzywicki 1882.jpg|Krzywicki

File:Bronislawmalinowski.jpg|Malinowski

File:Kazimierz Michałowski MNW 01.jpg|Michałowski

File:Karol Mysliwiec.jpg|Myśliwiec

File:Julian Ochorowicz (cropped).jpg|Ochorowicz

File:Maria Ossowska.jpg|Ossowska

File:Profesor Stanisław Ossowski.jpg|Ossowski

File:Bronisław Piłsudski.jpg|Piłsudski

File:Jadwiga Staniszkis (3) (cropped).jpg|Staniszkis

File:Jerzy Szacki 2004.jpg|Szacki

File:Florian Znaniecki.jpg|Znaniecki

</gallery>

Economics

  • Karol Adamiecki
  • Leszek Balcerowicz
  • Czesław Bobrowski
  • Henryka Bochniarz
  • Joanna Cygler
  • Gabriel Czechowicz
  • Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki
  • Zyta Gilowska
  • Adam Glapiński
  • Władysław Grabski
  • Henryk Grossman
  • Robert Gwiazdowski
  • Leonid Hurwicz, 2007 Nobel Laureate
  • Danuta Hübner
  • Michał Kalecki
  • Grzegorz Kołodko
  • Monika Kostera
  • Tadeusz Kowalik
  • Stanisław Kronenberg
  • Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski
  • Ludwik Maurycy Landau
  • Oskar Lange
  • Janusz Lewandowski
  • Edward Lipiński
  • Kazimierz Łaski
  • Grzegorz Marek Michalski
  • Wacław Micuta
  • Hilary Minc
  • Marek Rocki
  • Dariusz Rosati
  • Jacek Rostowski
  • Edward Szczepanik
  • Sławomir Szwedowski
  • Louis Wolowski
  • Halina Wasilewska-Trenkner
  • Antoni Żabko-Potopowicz

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Karol Adamiecki (12652896) (cropped).jpg|Adamiecki

File:Balcerowicz.wywiad.do.radia.jpg|Balcerowicz

File:Wladyslaw Grabski ca 1930 (777649) (cropped).jpg|Grabski

File:Leonid Hurwicz.jpg|Hurwicz

File:Michal Kalecki.jpg|Kalecki

File:Stanisław Kronenberg (60763).jpg|Kronenberg

File:Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski.PNG|Kwiatkowski

File:Ludwik Maurycy Landau.jpg|Landau

File:Oskar Lange 20-65.jpg|Lange

File:1986 Szczepanik EF 3 old.jpg|Szczepanik

File:Halina Wasilewska-Trenkner, Polish finance minister.jpeg|Wasilewska-Trenkner

</gallery>

Other sciences

  • Henryk Arctowski (1871-1958), geophysicist, meteorologist, Antarctic explorer
  • Leon Barszczewski, explorer explorer of Siberia
  • Jan Czerski, paleontologist, explorer of Siberia
  • Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska, socialist politician, suffragist
  • Helene Deutsch, psychoanalyst
  • Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski, geophysicist, meteorologist, polar explorer
  • Ignacy Domeyko, geologist
  • Benedykt Dybowski, naturalist, explorer of Siberia
  • Gaspar da Gama, traveller, interpreter, explorer
  • Bronisław Grąbczewski, explorer
  • Maria Janion, critic and theoretician of literature, feminist
  • Henryk Jordan, founding father of physical education
  • Józefa Joteyko, physiologist, psychologist and pedagogue
  • Antoni Kępiński, psychiatrist
  • Janusz Korczak, pedagogue, writer
  • Irena Krzywicka, feminist, writer, translator
  • Zofia Licharewa, geologist, museum founder
  • Henryk Lipszyc, specialist in Japanese culture, translator, ambassador of Poland in Tokyo
  • Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist political theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary
  • Józef Morozewicz, mineralogist, petrographer
  • Hugo Kołłątaj, 18th–19th-century historian, philosopher and politician
  • Feliks Koneczny, Polish history, social philosophy
  • Władysław Konopczyński, Polish and world history
  • Iwona Korga, historian, president of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
  • Stanisław Kot, historian, politician, diplomat
  • Władysław Kozaczuk, military history, military intelligence, World War II
  • Manfred Kridl, history of Polish culture and literature
  • Marcin Kromer, 16th-century Bishop of Warmia, secretary to two Polish kings, and historian of Poland
  • Jan Kucharzewski, historian and politician
  • Marian Kukiel, military historian and politician
  • Lucyna Kulińska
  • Ewa Kurek
  • Stanisław Kutrzeba, Poland, Polish law, Kraków
  • Gerard Labuda
  • Joachim Lelewel, historian of Poland
  • Jerzy Jan Lerski
  • Dariusz Libionka
  • Wacław Lipiński
  • Stanisław Lorentz, art historian
  • Czesław Madajczyk, World War II
  • Janusz Magnuski, World War II Polish and Soviet armor
  • Tadeusz Manteuffel, medievalist
  • Maciej Masłowski, art historian
  • Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995), Israeli historian and archeologist; President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Maciej Miechowita
  • Lidia Milka-Wieczorkiewicz
  • Karol Modzelewski
  • Stephen Mizwa
  • Teodor Narbutt, Polish historian of Lithuania
  • Adam Naruszewicz, 18th-century historian, participant in the Great Sejm
  • Kasper Niesiecki, Jesuit lexicographer and heraldic scholar
  • Szymon Okolski, 17th-century historian
  • Bartosz Paprocki, Polish and Czech heraldic scholar
  • Michael Alfred Peszke (1932–2015), Polish Armed Forces, World War II
  • Tadeusz Piotrowski, historian of Poland during World War II
  • Richard Pipes, Polish-American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union
  • Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, World War II, Polish-Jewish relations; engineer; lexicographer
  • Teresa Prekerowa
  • Stanisław Salmonowicz, historian of law
  • Henryk Samsonowicz, historian specializing in medieval Poland
  • Konstancja Skirmuntt
  • Julian Stachiewicz, military historian
  • Szymon Starowolski
  • Aneta Stawiszyńska
  • Dariusz Stola
  • Maciej Stryjkowski, historian, writer, poet
  • Irena Strzelecka
  • Tomasz Strzembosz, Polish World War II history
  • Karol Szajnocha, historian and novelist
  • Józef Szujski
  • Zygmunt Szweykowski, Polish literature
  • Władysław Tatarkiewicz, philosophy and aesthetics
  • Rafał Taubenschlag, history of law
  • Janusz Tazbir, historian, specializing in the culture and religion of Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries
  • Józef Turowski, World War II OUN massacres of Poles
  • Adam Ulam, Polish-American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union
  • Adam Vetulani, history of law
  • Piotr S. Wandycz, Polish-American historian of Central and Eastern Europe
  • Leon Wasilewski
  • Ewa Wipszycka, historian and papyrologist
  • Richard Woytak, World War II era
  • Julia Zabłocka (1931–1993), historian, classical scholar, archaeologist
  • Wincenty Zakrzewski, 16th-century Poland
  • Adam Zamoyski
  • Janusz K. Zawodny, World War II
  • Ignacy Żagiell (1826–1891), historian of ancient Egypt
  • Marek Żukow-Karczewski, historian and journalist
  • Kazimierz Żurowski, archaeologist

Philosophy

  • Adam of Łowicz
  • Edward Abramowski
  • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
  • Zygmunt Bauman
  • Stefan Błachowski
  • Józef Maria Bocheński
  • Anna Brożek
  • Stanisław Brzozowski
  • Adam Burski
  • Piotr Chmielowski
  • Leon Chwistek
  • August Cieszkowski
  • Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Edward Dembowski
  • Anioł Dowgird
  • Adolf Dygasiński
  • Michał Falkener
  • Ludwik Fleck, 20th-century philosopher of science
  • Danuta Gierulanka
  • Józef Gołuchowski
  • Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki
  • Jakub Górski
  • Grzegorz of Stawiszyn
  • Joanna Hańderek
  • Jan Hartman
  • Władysław Heinrich
  • Michał Heller
  • Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński
  • Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum
  • Roman Ingarden
  • Jakub of Gostynin
  • Jan of Głogów
  • Jan of Stobnica
  • Józef Emanuel Jankowski
  • Feliks Jaroński
  • Stanisław Jaśkowski
  • Jan Jonston
  • Leszek Kołakowski
  • Hugo Kołłątaj
  • Alfred Korzybski
  • Tadeusz Kotarbiński
  • Władysław Mieczysław Kozłowski
  • Józef Kremer
  • Franciszek Krupiński
  • Krystyn Lach-Szyrma
  • Irena Lasota
  • Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek
  • Stanisław Leszczyński
  • Stanisław Leśniewski
  • Casimir Lewy
  • Karol Libelt
  • Wincenty Lutosławski
  • Jan Łukasiewicz
  • Kazimierz Łyszczyński
  • Adam Mahrburg
  • Ewa Majewska
  • Marian Massonius
  • Émile Meyerson
  • Konstanty Michalski
  • Wawrzyniec Mitzler de Kolof
  • Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski
  • Julian Ochorowicz
  • Maria Ossowska
  • Stefan Pawlicki
  • Leon Petrażycki
  • Sebastian Petrycy
  • Bolesław Prus
  • Adam Schaff
  • Ulrich Schrade
  • Barbara Skarga
  • Stanisław Staszic
  • Józef Supiński
  • Józef Kalasanty Szaniawski
  • Jan Szylling
  • Maria Szyszkowska
  • Jan Śniadecki
  • Jędrzej Śniadecki
  • Magdalena Środa
  • Aleksander Świętochowski
  • Alfred Tarski
  • Władysław Tatarkiewicz
  • Józef Tischner
  • Andrzej Towiański
  • Bronisław Trentowski
  • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
  • Kazimierz Twardowski
  • Michał Twaróg of Bystrzyków
  • Vitello
  • Józef Warszawski
  • Władysław Weryho
  • Michał Wiszniewski
  • Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy)
  • Władysław Witwicki
  • Karol Wojtyla
  • Jan Woleński
  • Adam Ignacy Zabellewicz
  • Marian Zdziechowski
  • Eleonora Ziemięcka
  • Czesław Znamierowski
  • Florian Znaniecki

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Zigmunt Bauman na 20 Forumi vydavciv(Cropped).jpg|Bauman

File:Brzozowski Stanislaw.jpg|Brzozowski

File:Leon Chwistek.jpg|Chwistek

File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|Copernicus

File:Jozef Maria Hoëné-Wronski--Laurent-Charles Maréchal mg 9487.jpg|Hoene–Wroński

File:Witkacy Roman Ingarden 1937.jpg|Ingarden

File:Johnston Portrait.jpg|Jonston

File:Leszek Kolakowski 1971.jpg|Kołakowski

File:Tadeusz Kotarbiński.jpg|Kotarbiński

File:Krystyn Lach Szyrma.PNG|Lach-Szyrma

File:Wincenty Lutosławski (cropped).jpg|Lutosławski

File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg|Łukasiewicz

File:Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski.JPG|Modrzewski

File:Julian Ochorowicz (cropped).jpg|Ochorowicz

File:Prus 002.jpg|Prus

File:Stanislaw Staszic.jpg|Staszic

File:Jan Śniadecki cr.jpg|Jan Śniadecki

File:Jędrzej Śniadecki.PNG|Jędrzej Śniadecki

File:AleksanderSwietochowski.jpg|Świętochowski

File:AlfredTarski1968.jpeg|Tarski

File:Władysław Tatarkiewicz ok. 1960.jpg|Tatarkiewicz

File:Andrej Tavianski. Андрэй Тавянскі (V. Vańkovič, 1820-40).jpg|Towiański

File:Kazimierz Twardowski 1933.jpg|Twardowski

File:Władysław Witwicki.jpg|Witwicki

</gallery>

Prose literature

  • Franciszka Arnsztajnowa, playwright
  • S. Ansky, Bielorussian, Polish-Jewish author of The Dybbuk
  • Joanna Bator, novelist, feminist
  • Witold Bełza, librarian, writer, publicist on Bydgoszcz
  • Halina Birenbaum, Polish Israeli writer, translator, chronicler of the martyrdom of Polish Jewry
  • Karol Olgierd Borchardt, maritime author
  • Tadeusz Borowski, writer and journalist
  • Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, writer; translator of over 100 French literary classics
  • Edmund Chojecki, journalist based in France
  • Joanna Chmielewska, crime writer
  • Sylwia Chutnik, novelist, feminist, social activist
  • Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), English-language novelist
  • Stanisław Czerniecki, landowner and chef, author of the first Cookery book in Polish 1682
  • Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa, cookbook author
  • Maria Dąbrowska, novelist and translator of the Diary of Samuel Pepys into Polish
  • Johannes Dantiscus (Jan Dantyszek), Latin poet and Prince-Bishop of Warmia
  • Jacek Dehnel, writer, poet, translator, painter
  • Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, author of the novel, The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma
  • Jacek Dukaj, science-fiction writer
  • Adolf Dygasiński, novelist
  • Janina Dziarnowska, writer and translator, publicist, and expert on Soviet literature
  • Leszek Engelking, short story writer
  • Felicjan Medard Faleński, poet, novelist
  • Aleksander Fredro, poet, comedy writer
  • Jerzy Giedroyć, legendary émigré editor (Kultura)
  • Janusz Głowacki, playwright, nonfiction author
  • Ferdynand Goetel, novelist, playwright, essayist
  • Witold Gombrowicz, novelist, playwright
  • Stefan Grabiński, horror writer
  • Mieczysław Grydzewski, legendary editor (Skamander, Wiadomości Literackie)
  • Henryk Grynberg, writer
  • Adam Grzymała-Siedlecki, literary and theater critic
  • Józef Hen, novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and reporter
  • Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, writer, journalist, essayist, World War II underground fighter
  • Marek Hłasko, novelist, short story writer
  • Klementyna Hoffmanowa, writer of memoir and children's literature
  • Paweł Huelle, essayist
  • Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski
  • Wincenty Kadłubek, political scientist, writer, chronicler
  • Ryszard Kapuściński, writer and journalist
  • Wojciech Karpiński, writer and essayist
  • Maria Konopnicka, writer, novelist
  • Tadeusz Konwicki, writer
  • Janusz Korczak, writer, pedagogist
  • Jerzy Kosiński, writer
  • Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, novelist and World War II resistance fighter
  • Stefania Kossowska, journalist, writer, editor and broadcaster in emigré London
  • Marek Krajewski, crime writer, known for his series of novels set in pre-war Wrocław with Eberhard Mock as the protagonist
  • Hanna Krall, writer
  • Ignacy Krasicki, author of the first Polish novel, The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom, and of Fables and Parables
  • Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Poland's most prolific writer (and one of the world's most prolific), noted especially for his historical novels
  • Wojciech Kuczok, novelist, screenwriter, film critic
  • Antoni Lange, writer, poet, philosopher
  • Stanisław Lem, science-fiction writer, essayist, philosopher
  • Stanisław Lubieniecki, writer, astronomer* Waldemar Łysiak, writer
  • Józef Mackiewicz, writer, journalist
  • Kornel Makuszyński, children's writer
  • Dorota Masłowska, writer and playwright
  • Juliusz Mieroszewski, publicist, translator of Orwell's 1984 into Polish
  • Kazimierz Moczarski, writer and journalist
  • Sławomir Mrożek, dramatist and writer
  • Wiesław Myśliwski, novelist
  • Anna Nakwaska, children's author and educationist
  • Joanna Olczak-Ronikier, novelist
  • Eliza Orzeszkowa, Positivist writer
  • Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, writer
  • Teodor Parnicki, historical novelist
  • Jan Chryzostom Pasek, memoirist
  • Sergiusz Piasecki, writer
  • Krzysztof Piesiewicz, screenwriter and politician
  • Jerzy Pilch, writer, columnist, journalist
  • Elena Poniatowska, columnist and novelist
  • Jan Potocki, The Saragossa Manuscript
  • Bolesław Prus, The Doll and Pharaoh
  • Ksawery Pruszyński, writer and journalist
  • Stanisława Przybyszewska
  • Stanisław Przybyszewski, novelist, dramatist, and poet who wrote in both German and Polish
  • Mikołaj Rej, a founder of Polish literary language and literature
  • Małgorzata Rejmer, writer
  • Sydor Rey, writer, poet, novelist
  • Władysław Reymont, 1924 Nobel laureate
  • Zyta Rudzka, novelist
  • Henryk Rzewuski, novelist
  • Pinchas Sadeh, Israeli novelist and poet
  • Barbara Sanguszko, enlightenment writer and salon hostess
  • Andrzej Sapkowski, fantasy writer
  • Sat-Okh, Polish-Shawnee writer
  • Bruno Schulz, novelist and painter
  • Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1905 Nobel laureate
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1978 Nobel laureate
  • Piotr Skarga, poet, writer, humanist
  • Andrzej Stasiuk, writer, journalist, literary critic
  • Jędrzej Śniadecki, terminologist, writer
  • Stefan Themerson, children's writer, film maker, inventor of "semantic poetry", philosopher
  • Olga Tokarczuk, writer, psychologist, 2019 Nobel laureate
  • Magdalena Tulli, novelist, translator
  • Marian Turwid, writer and painter from Bydgoszcz
  • Leopold Tyrmand, writer
  • Meyer Wolf Weisgal, American journalist, publisher, and playwright; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Józef Weyssenhoff, novelist, poet, literary critic
  • Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy)
  • Stanisław Wyspiański, painter and writer
  • Franciszek Zabłocki, comic dramatist and satirist
  • Janusz A. Zajdel, science-fiction writer
  • Gabriela Zapolska, novelist
  • Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz, political fiction and science-fiction writer
  • Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, writer
  • Antonina Żabińska, writer
  • Stefan Żeromski, novelist
  • Jerzy Żuławski, novelist

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:325px">

File:Tadeusz Borowski.jpg|Borowski

File:Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski Polish writer.jpg|Boy-Żeleński

File:Joseph Conrad.PNG|Conrad

File:Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz Polish writer.jpg|Dołęga-Mostowicz

File:Jacek Dukaj by Anna Zemanek 2009.jpg|Dukaj

File:RaczynskiAleksander.PortretAleksandraFredro.jpg|Fredro

File:Maria Dąbrowska.jpg|Dąbrowska

File:Witold Gombrowicz by Bohdan Paczowski - detail.jpg|Gombrowicz

File:Jozef-hen-wtk-2013 2.jpg|Hen

File:Marek Hłasko by Zbigniew Kresowaty.jpg|Hłasko

File:Ryszard Kapuscinski by Kubik 17.05.1997 - cropped.jpg|Kapuściński

File:Maria Konopnicka Portrait.jpg|Konopnicka

File:Tadeusz Konwicki Kancelaria Senatu 01.jpg|Konwicki

File:Jerzy Kosinsky (1969).jpg|Kosiński

File:Adam Kossowski - portret żony artysty Stefanii Kossowskiej.jpg|Stefania Kossowska

File:Krajewski.jpg|Krajewski

File:Hanna Krall.jpg|Krall

File:Krafft the Elder Ignacy Krasicki (detail).jpg|Krasicki

File:J.I. Kraszewski Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi41.Jpeg|Kraszewski

File:Antoni Lange 1.jpg|Lange

File:St Lem resize.jpg|Lem

File:Slawomir Mrozek.JPG|Mrożek

File:Wieslaw Mysliwski.JPG|Myśliwski

File:Zofia Nalkowska.jpg|Nałkowska

File:Eliza Orzeszkowa.PNG|Orzeszkowa

File:Pilch Jerzy.jpg|Pilch

File:Jan Potocki.PNG|Potocki

File:Prus 002.jpg|Prus

File:Przybyszewska.jpg|Przybyszewska

File:Stanisław Przybyszewski.PNG|Przybyszewski

File:Mikołaj Rej.PNG|Rej

File:Wladyslaw Reymont 1924.jpg|Reymont

File:Barbara sangushkivna.jpg|Sanguszko

File:Andrzej Sapkowski - Lucca Comics and Games 2015 2.JPG|Sapkowski

File:Henryk Sienkiewicz 02.jpg|Sienkiewicz

File:Piotr Skarga.PNG|Skarga

File:Stasiuk1.jpg|Stasiuk

File:Olga Tokarczuk (2018).jpg|Tokarczuk

File:Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz.jpg|Witkiewicz

File:Stanisław Wyspiański3.png|Wyspiański

File:Janusz A Zajdel.jpg|Zajdel

File:Portret Gabrieli Zapolskiej ca 1885 (560580) (cropped).jpg|Zapolska

File:Stefan Zeromski Polish writer.jpg|Żeromski

File:Wyspiański - Portret Jerzego Żuławskiego - 1899.jpg|Żuławski

</gallery>

Journalism

Poetry

  • Guillaume Apollinaire, (Wilhelm Apolinary Kostrowicki)
  • Franciszka Arnsztajnowa
  • Adam Asnyk
  • Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
  • Edward Balcerzan
  • Stanisław Barańczak
  • Miron Białoszewski
  • Zbigniew Bieńkowski
  • Biernat of Lublin
  • Tadeusz Borowski
  • Władysław Broniewski
  • Jan Brzechwa
  • Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski
  • Teodor Bujnicki
  • Andrzej Bursa
  • Tytus Czyżewski
  • Jacek Dehnel
  • Elżbieta Drużbacka
  • Leszek Engelking
  • Jerzy Ficowski
  • Aleksander Fredro
  • Tadeusz Gajcy
  • Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński
  • Zuzanna Ginczanka
  • Stanisław Grochowiak
  • Julia Hartwig
  • Marian Hemar
  • Zbigniew Herbert
  • Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna
  • Wacław Iwaniuk
  • Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
  • Klemens Janicki
  • Bruno Jasieński
  • Anna Kamieńska
  • Franciszek Karpiński
  • Jan Kasprowicz
  • Jan Kochanowski
  • Feliks Konarski
  • Maria Konopnicka
  • Julian Kornhauser
  • Urszula Kozioł
  • Ignacy Krasicki
  • Zygmunt Krasiński
  • Andrzej Krzycki
  • Paweł Kubisz
  • Jalu Kurek
  • Stanisław Jerzy Lec
  • Jan Lechoń
  • Bolesław Leśmian
  • Ewa Lipska
  • Henryka Łazowertówna
  • Tadeusz Miciński
  • Adam Mickiewicz
  • Grazyna Miller, translation
  • Czesław Miłosz, 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature
  • Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, humanism
  • Jan Andrzej Morsztyn
  • Zbigniew Morsztyn
  • Daniel Naborowski
  • Adam Naruszewicz, translation, history
  • Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
  • Cyprian Kamil Norwid
  • Franciszek Nowicki
  • Beata Obertyńska
  • Antoni Edward Odyniec
  • Artur Oppman
  • Władysław Orkan
  • Agnieszka Osiecka
  • Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
  • Jacek Podsiadło
  • Wincenty Pol
  • Wacław Potocki
  • Halina Poświatowska
  • Zenon Przesmycki
  • Jeremi Przybora, songs
  • Julian Przyboś
  • Mikołaj Rej
  • Sydor Rey
  • Tadeusz Różewicz
  • Zygmunt Rumel
  • Lucjan Rydel
  • Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz
  • Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski
  • Antoni Słonimski
  • Juliusz Słowacki
  • Edward Stachura
  • Anna Stanisławska
  • Anatol Stern
  • Leopold Staff
  • Xawery Stańczyk, poet, sociologist
  • Władysław Szlengel, Jewish-Polish poet and lyricist killed in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
  • Włodzimierz Szymanowicz
  • Wisława Szymborska, 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature
  • Szymon Szymonowic
  • Marcin Świetlicki
  • Bolesław Taborski, translator of Pope John Paul II into English, BBC editor
  • Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
  • Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki
  • Julian Tuwim
  • Jan Twardowski
  • Kornel Ujejski
  • Bronisława Wajs, aka "Papusza", Polska Roma poet and singer
  • Aleksander Wat
  • Kazimierz Wierzyński
  • Stefan Witwicki
  • Rafał Wojaczek
  • Stanisław Wyspiański
  • Tymon Zaborowski
  • Adam Zagajewski
  • Józef Bohdan Zaleski
  • Kazimiera Zawistowska
  • Piotr Zbylitowski
  • Emil Zegadłowicz
  • Juliusz Żuławski

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File:Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński - Maturzysta.jpg|Baczyński

File:Zuzanna Ginczanka.jpg|Ginczanka

File:Julia Hartwig Warsaw October21 2009 Fot Mariusz Kubik 05.jpg|Hartwig

File:Zbigniew Herbert.jpg|Herbert

File:Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz.jpg|Iwaszkiewicz

File:JanKasprowicz.jpg|Kasprowicz

File:Jan Kochanowski.png|Kochanowski

File:Ignacy Krasicki 111.PNG|Krasicki

File:Zygmunt Krasiński by Ary Scheffer 1850 (fragment).png|Krasiński

File:Jan Lechoń.jpg|Lechoń

File:Boleslaw Lesmian 1933 (75712148) (cropped).jpg|Leśmian

File:Adam Mickiewicz według dagerotypu paryskiego z 1842 roku.jpg|Mickiewicz

File:Czeslaw Milosz 3 ap.tif|Miłosz

File:Adam Naruševič. Адам Нарушэвіч (J. Klimke, XVIII).jpg|Naruszewicz

File:Norwid Cyprian Kamil.jpg|Norwid

File:PL Or-Ot - Poezje p0003b.jpg|Oppman

File:M. Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska.jpg|Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska

File:Potocki waclaw.jpg|Potocki

File:Mikołaj Rej.PNG|Rej

File:Sarbiewski.gif|Sarbiewski

File:Juliusz Słowacki 1.PNG|Słowacki

File:LeopoldStaff.jpg|Staff

File:Anna Stanislawska.JPG|Stanisławska

File:Szymborska(closeup).jpg|Szymborska

File:Julian Tuwim.jpg|Tuwim

File:Kazimierz Wierzyński (cropped).PNG|Wierzyński

File:Adam Zagajewski 2.jpg|Zagajewski

</gallery>

Music

  • Chava Alberstein, Israeli singer-songwriter
  • Piotr Anderszewski, pianist
  • Stefan Askenase, Polish-Belgian pianist
  • Emanuel Ax, American pianist
  • Grażyna Bacewicz, composer
  • Stanisław Barcewicz, conductor, violinist
  • Edyta Bartosiewicz, singer
  • Kamil Bednarek, reggae and dancehall vocalist, songwriter, composer and musician
  • Michał Bergson, pianist composer, promoter of Chopin and father of Henri Bergson
  • Marek Biliński, electronic music composer
  • Rafał Blechacz, pianist
  • Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz, composer ("the Chopin of guitar")
  • Stan Borys, singer-songwriter
  • Monika Brodka, singer
  • Dariusz Brzozowski, drummer
  • Jan Borysewicz, composer, singer, guitarist
  • Grzegorz Ciechowski, composer, singer
  • Fryderyk Chopin, composer and pianist
  • Agnieszka Chylińska, singer-songwriter, author and television personality
  • Marcel Chyrzyński, composer
  • Cleo, singer
  • Krzysztof Czerwiński, conductor and organist
  • Adam Darski, singer-songwriter, guitarist
  • Ania Dąbrowska, singer-songwriter, composer
  • Ewa Demarczyk, singer
  • Krzesimir Dębski, composer
  • Wojciech Długoraj, lutenist, composer
  • Andrzej Dobrowolski, composer
  • Doda, singer
  • Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, composer
  • Jan Drozdowski, pianist and music teacher
  • Urszula Dudziak, singer
  • Walek Dzedzej, punk performer
  • Józef Elsner, composer, Chopin's piano teacher
  • Ewa Farna, Polish-Czech singer
  • Mieczysław Fogg, singer
  • Robert 'Litza' Friedrich, rock singer
  • Anna German, singer
  • Mikołaj Gomółka, composer
  • Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki, composer
  • Kasia Glowicka, composer
  • Konstanty Gorski, composer and violinist
  • Henryk Górecki, composer
  • Edyta Górniak, singer
  • Marek Grechuta, singer-songwriter, composer, and lyricist
  • Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (1919–1994), composer and music editor
  • Taco Hemingway, rapper
  • Jan Hoffman, pianist and pedagogue
  • Józef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist
  • Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish-American pianist
  • Bronisław Huberman, violinist
  • Grzegorz Hyży, singer-songwriter
  • Zdzisław Jachimecki, musicologist, composer
  • Alicja Janosz, singer
  • Anna Jantar, singer
  • Adam Jarzębski, composer
  • Anna Maria Jopek, singer, musician
  • Jula, singer-songwriter
  • Reni Jusis, singer
  • Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, Oscar-winning film composer
  • Jacek Kaczmarski, singer-songwriter
  • Maria Kalergis, Polish-German pianist
  • Bronisław Kaper, film composer
  • Mieczysław Karłowicz, composer
  • Jerzy Katlewicz, conductor
  • Kayah, singer
  • Wacław Kiełtyka, guitarist
  • Stefan Kisielewski, composer, writer
  • Wojciech Kilar, composer
  • Krzysztof Komeda, jazz composer
  • Zygmunt Konieczny, composer
  • Abel Korzeniowski, film score composer
  • Roman Kostrzewski, controversial singer-songwriter
  • Kasia Kowalska, singer
  • Henryk Kowalski (1911–1982), violinist and composer
  • Seweryn Krajewski, singer-songwriter
  • Dawid Kwiatkowski, singer-songwriter
  • Mira Kubasińska, blues rock singer
  • Rafał Kuczynski ('Human Error')
  • Hanna Kulenty, composer
  • Karol Kurpiński, composer
  • Lucjan Kydryński, music critic, writer
  • Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist
  • Teodor Leszetycki, Austrian-Polish pianist, pedagogue
  • Monika Lewczuk, singer-songwriter, model
  • Franciszek Lilius, composer
  • Lydia Kindermann, opera singer
  • Karol Lipiński, composer, virtuoso violinist (about equal to Niccolò Paganini)
  • Jan Lisiecki, Canadian pianist
  • Ewelina Lisowska, singer-songwriter
  • Michał Lorenc, film score composer
  • Jan z Lublina, composer
  • Witold Lutosławski, composer
  • Jerzy Maksymiuk, conductor
  • Ray Manzarek, American musician, singer, keyboardist of The Doors
  • Margaret, singer-songwriter
  • Patrycja Markowska, pop rock singer
  • Mata, rapper
  • Paweł Mąciwoda, bassist, member of the German rock band Scorpions
  • Megitza, singer, double bass player, and composer
  • Krzysztof Meyer, composer
  • Aleksander Michałowski, pianist and pedagogue
  • Marcin Mielczewski, composer
  • Maciek Miernik, producer
  • Carl Mikuli, composer
  • Emil Młynarski, conductor and composer
  • Stanisław Moniuszko, composer
  • Moritz Moszkowski, German-Polish composer
  • Czesław Mozil, Polish-Danish singer and musician
  • Leszek Możdżer, pianist and composer
  • Tadeusz Nalepa, composer, guitar player, vocalist, and lyricist
  • Czesław Niemen, singer-songwriter
  • Katarzyna Nosowska, singer-songwriter
  • Marcin Nowak, guitarist and singer
  • Feliks Nowowiejski, composer
  • Zygmunt Noskowski, composer
  • Natalia Nykiel, singer-songwriter
  • Wiesław Ochman, opera singer
  • Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, composer
  • Michał Kleofas Ogiński, composer
  • Hanka Ordonówna, singer, actress, dancer
  • O.S.T.R., rapper, musician
  • Tede, rapper, musician
  • Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist, composer
  • Andrzej Panufnik, composer
  • Włodek Pawlik, jazz musician, composer
  • Krzysztof Penderecki, composer
  • Maria Peszek, singer-songwriter
  • Jerzy Petersburski, pianist, composer
  • Egon Petri (1881–1962), pianist of Dutch extraction who never lived in Holland; lived and worked in Poland, 1927–31 August 1939; was fluent in Polish.
  • Pezet, rapper
  • Bartłomiej Pękiel, composer
  • Andrzej Piaseczny, singer-songwriter, actor, and television personality
  • Svika Pick, Israeli pop singer, composer
  • Dawid Podsiadło, singer
  • Jerzy Połomski, singer
  • Piotr Półtorak, guitarist
  • Zbigniew Preisner, composer
  • Zbigniew Robert Promiński, drummer
  • Natalia Przybysz, rhythm and blues singer
  • Pawel Przytocki, conductor
  • Tomasz "Titus" Pukacki, singer
  • Krzysztof Raczkowski, drummer
  • Mikołaj z Radomia, Middle Ages composer
  • Édouard de Reszke, bass
  • Jan and Emilja Reszke, violinist and mezzo-soprano, parents of opera stars
  • Jean de Reszke, tenor
  • Josephine de Reszke, soprano
  • Ryszard Riedel, singer
  • Maryla Rodowicz, singer
  • Artur Rodziński, Polish-American conductor
  • Eddie Rosner, jazz, "Polish (or: The White) Louis Armstrong"
  • Piotr Rubik, composer
  • Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist
  • Sanah, singer-songwriter
  • Ada Sari, opera singer
  • Jadwiga Sarnecka, composer and pianist
  • Sarsa, singer-songwriter
  • Bogusław Schaeffer, composer
  • Xaver Scharwenka, composer
  • Marcella Sembrich (1858–1935), coloratura soprano
  • Kazimierz Serocki, composer
  • Witold Silewicz, Polish-Austrian composer, bassist
  • Józef Skrzek, composer and leader of SBB band
  • Cezary Skubiszewski, Polish-Australian composer
  • Marek Stachowski, composer
  • Tomasz Stańko, jazz trumpeter
  • Kazik Staszewski, singer-songwriter
  • Muniek Staszczyk, singer
  • Justyna Steczkowska, singer
  • Zygmunt Stojowski, composer
  • Jadwiga Szamotulska, pianist
  • Wacław of Szamotuły
  • Aleksander Szeligowski, composer, pedagog
  • Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer, conductor
  • Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexican violinist
  • Władysław Szpilman, pianist
  • Patryk Dominik Sztyber, guitarist, singer
  • Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, concert pianist
  • Karol Szymanowski, composer, pianist
  • Paweł Szymański, composer
  • Andrzej Szwalbe, first director of the Pomeranian Philharmonic
  • André Tchaikowsky, pianist, composer
  • Barbara Trzetrzelewska, singer popularly known as "Basia"
  • Grzegorz Turnau, singer
  • Ifi Ude, Nigerian and Polish singer
  • Michał Urbaniak, jazz musician
  • Moshe Vilenski, Polish-Israeli composer, lyricist, and pianist
  • Violetta Villas, singer-songwriter
  • Andrzej Wasowski, pianist
  • Henryk Wieniawski, composer
  • Wanda Wiłkomirska, violinist
  • Antoni Wit, conductor
  • Piotr Wiwczarek, guitarist, singer
  • Zbigniew Wodecki, singer, musician, composer, actor and TV presenter
  • Tomasz Wróblewski, guitarist, singer
  • Aga Zaryan, jazz singer
  • Mikołaj Zieleński, composer
  • Krystian Zimerman, pianist
  • Władysław Żeleński, composer
  • Wojciech Żywny, Czech-born Polish composer, Chopin's first professional piano teacher

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File:Rótterdam- Yannick Nézet-Séguin24 (14874140070).jpg|Emanuel Ax

File:grazyna bacewicz.jpg|Bacewicz

File:Chopin, by Wodzinska.JPG|Chopin

File:Me and That Man - Rock am Ring 2017-AL5540.jpg|Darski

File:Ewa Demarczyk Polish singer.jpg|Demarczyk

File:Józef Elsner.PNG|Elsner

File:Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Polish composer cropped.jpg|Górecki

File:46. KFPP - Andrzej Piaseczny.jpg|Piaseczny

File:Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, PL Poznań 2011 (2).jpg|Kaczmarek

File:Wojciech Kilar.jpg|Kilar

File:Landowska 1907.jpg|Landowska

File:Lutoslawski3cr.jpg|Lutosławski

File:Scorpions - 07.jpg|Mąciwoda

File:Ray Manzarek 1968.jpg|Manzarek

File:Stanisłaŭ Maniuška. Станіслаў Манюшка (T. Maleszewski, 1865).jpg|Moniuszko

File:Popiersie Czesław Niemen ssj 20060914.jpg|Niemen

File:Michał Kleofas Ogiński.jpg|Ogiński

File:Andrzej Panufnik Polish composer.jpg|Panufnik

File:2014 Woodstock 019 Włodzimierz Pawlik.jpg|Pawlik

File:Krzysztof Penderecki 20080706.jpg|Penderecki

File:Egon Petri (-1916).jpg|Petri

File:Maryla Rodowicz 2017.jpg|Rodowicz

File:Arturrubenstein.jpg|Rubinstein

File:Ada Sari cropped.jpg|Sari

File:Tomasz Stanko.jpg|Stańko

File:Władysław Szpilman.jpg|Szpilman

File:Portret Marii Szymanowskiej.jpg|Szymanowska

File:Karol Szymanowski.jpg|Szymanowski

File:Barbara Trzetrzelewska.jpg|Trzetrzelewska ("Basia")

File:Violettavillas1967.jpg|Villas

File:Henryk Wieniawski three quarters length (cropped).jpg|Wieniawski

File:Krystian Zimerman 2004.jpg|Zimerman

</gallery>

Visual arts

  • Magdalena Abakanowicz, sculptor
  • Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, painter
  • Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz, painter
  • Sylwester Ambroziak, sculptor
  • Chrystian Piotr Aigner, architect
  • Paweł Althamer, contemporary artist
  • Michał Elwiro Andriolli (1836–93), illustrator, painter, architect
  • Teodor Axentowicz, painter and rector of Krakow Academy of Fine Arts
  • Marcello Bacciarelli, Italian-Polish portrait painter
  • Tomasz Bagiński, computer graphics
  • Balthus (Balthasar Kłossowski de Rola), Polish-French painter
  • Mirosław Bałka, contemporary painter and sculptor
  • Krzysztof Bednarski, sculptor
  • Zdzisław Beksiński, painter
  • Bernardo Bellotto, Italian-Polish landscape and court painter
  • Władysław T. Benda, painter, illustrator, designer
  • Henryka Beyer (1782–1855), painter
  • Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, painter
  • Walerian Borowczyk, painter, lithographer and film director
  • Olga Boznańska, painter
  • Józef Brandt, battle-scene painter
  • Maximilian Cercha, painter and drawer
  • Jan Chełmiński (1851–1925), painter of historical and military subjects
  • Józef Marian Chełmoński, painter
  • Gerard Ciołek, architect and historian of gardens
  • Józef Czapski, painter
  • Tytus Czyżewski, painter, poet, art critic
  • Jacenty Dędek, photographer
  • Zbigniew Dłubak, painter
  • Andrzej Dłużniewski, contemporary sculptor
  • Karl Duldig (1902–1986)
  • Xawery Dunikowski, sculptor
  • Maksymilian Fajans, Jewish–Polish artist, lithographer, photographer
  • Julian Fałat, painter
  • Wojciech Fangor, painter
  • Jakub Fontana, baroque and neoclassical architect
  • Teodor and Franciszek Gajewski, sculptors and painters
  • Wojciech Gerson, painter
  • Stefan Gierowski, painter
  • Aleksander Gierymski, painter, brother of Maksymilian Gierymski
  • Maksymilian Gierymski, painter
  • Paweł Giżycki, architect
  • Cyprian Godebski, sculptor
  • Chaim Goldberg, Painter, Sculptor and Engraver
  • Zygmunt Gorgolewski, architect
  • Józef Gosławski, sculptor and medallist
  • Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak, architect
  • Artur Grottger, painter, illustrator
  • Aleksander Gryglewski, interior portraits
  • Władysław Hasior, sculptor, painter, stage designer
  • Józef Hecht, engraver, printmaker
  • Anton Hoffmann, 19th century architect in Bydgoszcz
  • Józef Holewiński (1848–1917), graphic artist and painter
  • Stanisław Horno-Popławski, painter, sculptor, pedagogue
  • Władysław Horodecki, architect
  • Ryszard Horowitz, photographer
  • Maria Jarema, painter, sculptor
  • Ewa Juszkiewicz, painter
  • Anna Kamieńska-Łapińska, sculptor, animated-film scenarist
  • Johann Christian Kammsetzer, architect
  • Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990), painter, theater director
  • Rudolf Kern, Art Nouveau architect in Bydgoszcz
  • Stefan Klajbor, architect
  • Marta Klonowska, glass maker and sculptor
  • Katarzyna Kobro, sculptor
  • Roman Kochanowski, landscape painter
  • Robert Konieczny, architect
  • Gloria Kossak, painter, poet
  • Jerzy Kossak, painter
  • Juliusz Kossak, painter, illustrator
  • Wojciech Kossak, painter
  • Jan Kossowski, modernist architect
  • Katarzyna Kozyra, video artist
  • Lucjan Kraszewski, painter, photographer, illustrator; brother of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
  • Nikifor Krynicki, painter
  • Alexander Kucharsky, painter
  • Zofia Kulik, performer
  • Stefan Kuryłowicz, architect
  • Teofil Kwiatkowski, painter
  • Tamara de Lempicka, painter
  • Zbigniew Lengren, cartoonist and illustrator
  • Jan Lenica, graphic designer and cartoonist
  • Stanisław Lentz, painter
  • Aleksander Lesser, painter
  • Daniel Libeskind, architect
  • Bronisław Linke, graphic artist, painter of the horror of war
  • Mieczysław Lubelski, sculptor, ceramicist and creator of the Polish War Memorial
  • Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, painter
  • Tadeusz Makowski, painter member of Paris School
  • Jacek Malczewski, painter
  • Rafał Malczewski, painter, writer, climber
  • Kazimierz Malewicz, painter, founder of Suprematism
  • Stanisław Masłowski, painter
  • Jan Matejko, painter
  • Agata Materowicz, painter, photographer, graphic designer, FIMO figurines designer and hand-maker
  • Józef Mehoffer, painter
  • Władysław Sławny, photographer
  • Jan Stanisławski, painter
  • Henryk Stażewski, painter
  • Zofia Stryjeńska, illustrator, painter
  • Paweł Edelman, cinematographer, European Film Award winner
  • Aleksander Ford, director
  • Piotr Fronczewski, actor and singer
  • Jerzy Grotowski, theatre reformer
  • Loda Halama, dancer, actor
  • Adam Hanuszkiewicz, actor, theater director
  • Wojciech Has, film director
  • Marian Hemar, songwriter, cabaret artist
  • Jerzy Hoffman, film director
  • Agnieszka Holland, film director, nominated for Academy Awards and BAFTA Award
  • Miłosz Horodyski, film and television director
  • Sławomir Idziak, cinematographer, nominated for Oscar
  • Stanislas Idzikowski, ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher
  • Stefan Jaracz, actor, theater producer
  • Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Academy Award-winning composer, nominated to BAFTA Award
  • Jacek Kaczmarski, protest songwriter, poetry singer, guitarist
  • Janusz Kamiński, two-time-Oscars- and BAFTA Award-winning cinematographer and film director
  • Bronislau Kaper, Academy Award-winning composer
  • Krzysztof Kieślowski, film director, nominated for Academy Awards
  • Anna Kochanowska, radio journalist and politician
  • Max Kolonko, Polish-American TV personality, producer, writer
  • Joanna Krupa, actress and supermodel
  • Kazimierz Kutz, film director
  • Irena Kwiatkowska (1912–2011), actress
  • Pola Negri, film actress, singer
  • Vaslav Nijinsky (Wacław Niżyński), ballet dancer considered the greatest male lead of the early 20th century
  • Hanka Ordonówna (1902–1950), singer, dancer, actress
  • Jerzy Owsiak, broadcaster
  • Krzysztof Pastor, dancer, choreographer and ballet director
  • Paweł Pawlikowski, film director
  • Marianna Franciszka Pierożyńska (1763–1816), actress, opera singer
  • Jan Pietrzak (born 1937), satirist, cabaret performer
  • Roman Polanski, award-winning film director raised and educated in Poland
  • Beata Pozniak, Polish-American actress, director, activist, writer, producer
  • Jeremi Przybora, writer, actor and singer
  • Krzysztof Ptak, cinematographer
  • Marie Rambert, influential ballet pedagogue and director
  • Zbigniew Rybczyński, Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker
  • Lew Rywin, film producer
  • Andrzej Saramonowicz, screenwriter, film director
  • Olga Sawicka, ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Leon Schiller, theatre director
  • Izabella Scorupco, Polish-born Hollywood-actress and singer
  • Jerzy Skolimowski, film director
  • Przemysław Skwirczyński, cinematographer
  • Piotr Sobocinski, cinematographer
  • Allan Starski, Oscar-winning production designer, art director, set designer
  • Yvonne Strahovski (Strzechowski), Polish-Australian television, film, and voice actress
  • Jerzy Stuhr, actor, film director
  • Franciszka Themerson, filmmaker and artist
  • Henryk Tomaszewski, mime
  • Basia Trzetrzelewska, singer
  • Anna Tsuchiya, Japanese singer, actress, model of Polish descent
  • Andrzej Wajda, Academy Award, Golden Palm, BAFTA Award, Silver Berlin Bear, César Award and Golden Lion winning film director
  • Harry Warner, American Warner Bros. co-founder
  • Albert Warner, American Warner Bros. co-founder
  • Samuel Warner, American Warner Bros. co-founder
  • Jerzy Wasowski, radio announcer, composer, pianist, actor and director
  • Michał Waszyński, film director
  • Leon Woizikovsky, dancer and ballet master
  • Dariusz Wolski, cinematographer
  • Krzysztof Zanussi, film director
  • Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, actor, theater director
  • Benjamin Zemach (1901–1997), choreographer and dancer, nominated for an Academy Award
  • Andrzej Żuławski (1940–2016), film director

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Eugeniusz Bodo (from Titine page 1 crop).jpg|Bodo

File:Wojciech Bogusławski.PNG|Bogusławski

File:Katowice - Zbigniew Cybulski 02.JPG|Cybulski

File:Janusz Gajos (2).jpg|Gajos

File:MJK32641 Agnieszka Holland (Pokot, Berlinale 2017) crop.jpg|Holland

File:Krystyna Janda by Foksal.jpg|Janda

File:Stefan Jaracz (1883 - 1945).jpg|Jaracz

File:Krzysztof Kieślowski Portrait 1994.jpg|Kieślowski

File:Joanna Kulig 2.jpg|Kulig

File:Boguslaw Linda.jpg|Linda

File:PO7ophelias.jpg|Modjeska

File:Pola Negri Ball.jpg|Negri

File:Talisman -Vayou -Vaslav Nijinsky -1909.JPG|Nijinsky

File:01DOlbrychski-Time.jpg|Olbrychski

File:Hanka Ordonowna portrait.jpg|Ordonówna

File:Pawel Pawlikowski (cropped 2).jpg|Pawlikowski

File:Roman Polanski at Cannes in 2013 cropped and brightened.jpg|Polanski

File:Leon Schiller (-1924).jpg|Schiller

File:JKRUK 20090827 ANDRZEJ SEWERYN SANATO BUSKO IMG 5280.jpg|Seweryn

File:00 JSkolimowski.jpg|Skolimowski

File:Andrzej Wajda OFF Plus Camera 2012 (cropped).jpg|Wajda

File:GoEast 2014 Krzysztof Zanussi 4.jpg|Zanussi

</gallery>

Business

  • Jan Gotlib Bloch, railway financier who in 1898 predicted the railroad-moblized industrial warfare of World War I
  • Count Xavier Branicki, financier, philanthropist, co-founder of Credit Foncier de France
  • Rafał Brzoska, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, founder and CEO of InPost
  • Hipolit Cegielski, businessman and social and cultural activist
  • Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Polish-British Antiquarian, gallery owner, collector and philanthropist
  • André Citroën, French automotive industrialist
  • Jack Cohen, English co-founder of the Tesco retail chain
  • Franciszek Czapek, co-partner in Patek, Czapek & Co.
  • Leszek Czarnecki, businessman
  • Irena Eris, businesswoman
  • Max Factor, Sr., Polish-American cosmetics entrepreneur
  • Françoise Frenkel, bookshop entrepreneur
  • Henryk Grohman, textile manufacturer and patron of the arts
  • Nathan Handwerker
  • Anna Jabłonowska, early social and industrial entrepreneur, magnate
  • Karol Jaroszyński, entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist
  • Barbara Piasecka Johnson, humanitarian, philanthropist, widow of J. Seward Johnson, Sr.
  • Leopold Stanisław Kronenberg, banker
  • Stanisław Kronenberg, financier
  • Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki, merchant, spy, opened first Coffeehouse in Vienna (1683)
  • Dominika Kulczyk, businesswoman
  • Grażyna Kulczyk, businesswoman, philanthropist, art collector
  • Jan Kulczyk, CEO of Kulczyk Investments, richest 21st-century Pole
  • Sebastian Kulczyk, businessman
  • Michał Łempicki, mining engineer, entrepreneur, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Empire
  • Henry Lowenfeld, Polish-born British theatrical impresario and brewing entrepreneur
  • Tomasz Lubienski, early industrialist co-founder, with his brothers, of Zyrardow textile industry
  • Henryk Łubieński, banker, lawyer, industrial pioneer and Russian exile (1848)
  • Zofia Lubomirska, textile entrepreneur in Przeworsk
  • Michael Marks, co-founder of Marks and Spencer retail chain
  • Dariusz Miłek, businessman and entrepreneur, founder of CCC SA.
  • Henryk Orfinger, cosmetics entrepreneur
  • Samuel Orgelbrand, editor
  • Antoni Patek, co-founder of watchmakers Patek Philippe & Co.
  • Antoni Protazy Potocki, banker and industrialist who developed Odesa into an international port (1780s)
  • Izrael Poznański, textile magnate, philanthropist
  • Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American cosmetics entrepreneur, one of the richest women who ever lived
  • Frank Russek (1875/1876-1948), Polish-born American co-founder of the Russeks department store chain
  • Karol Scheibler, German-born Polish textile magnate
  • Feliks Sobański, landowner and philanthropist
  • Zygmunt Solorz-Żak, businessman and media tycoon, owner of Polsat and Plus
  • Michał Sołowow, businessman and rally driver
  • Piotr Steinkeller, German-Polish industrial pioneer, King of Zinc
  • Henri Strzelecki, founder of Henri Lloyd, Ltd., sportswear manufacturer
  • Piotr Szulczewski, Canadian-Polish businessman and computer scientist, co-founder of e-commerce platform Wish.com
  • Stefan Tyszkiewicz, founder of Stetysz early Polish car manufacturer
  • Hyppolite Wawelberg, Polish-Jewish banker and philanthropist
  • Karol Wedel, Chocolatier, confectioner
  • Antoni Weynerowski, founder in Bydgoszcz of the firm Leo, renamed Kobra
  • Louis Wolowski, financier co-founder of Credit Foncier de France
  • Andrzej Artur Zamoyski, initiated river transportation

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Ivan Bloch.jpg|Bloch

File:Xavier Branicki.jpg|Branicki

File:Hipolit Cegielski portret (cropped).jpg|Cegielski

File:Kronenberg Leopold.jpg|L. Kronenberg

File:X. Zofia Lubomirska-370x454.jpg|Lubomirska

File:Antoni Patek.jpg|Patek

File:Antoni Protazy Potocki.PNG|Potocki

File:Izrael Kalmanowicz Poznański.jpg|Poznański

File:Helena Rubinstein 2.jpg|Rubinstein

File:Stefan Tyszkiewicz 1952.jpg|Tyszkiewicz

</gallery>

Politics

  • Tomasz Arciszewski (1877–1955), first Prime Minister of Poland in exile (1944–47)
  • Kazimierz Feliks Badeni (1846–1909), count, Minister-President of Austria (1895–97)
  • Menachem Begin (1913–1992), founder of both Herut and Likud, sixth Prime Minister of Israel
  • David Ben-Gurion (born David Grün; 1886–1973), head of the Jewish Agency, first Prime Minister of Israel
  • Marek Belka (born 1952), director of economic policy in the interim coalition administration of Iraq, Prime Minister of Poland (2004–05)
  • Bolesław Bierut (1892–1956), leader of communist Poland (1948–56)
  • Michał Bobrzyński (1849–1935), Governor of Galicia (1908–13)
  • Anna Borucka-Cieślewicz (born 1941), elected to the Sejm in 2005
  • Zbigniew Brzeziński (1928–2017), Polish-American political scientist, advisor to US President Jimmy Carter
  • Matheus Butrymowicz (1745–1814), liberal member of the Great Sejm assembled in Warsaw (1788–92)
  • Jerzy Buzek (born 1940), Prime Minister of Poland (1997–2001), President of the European Parliament (2009–12)
  • Jan Ciechanowski (1887–1973), Ambassador to the United States
  • Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810–1868), Polish and French politician and diplomat; French Foreign Minister under Napoleon III.
  • Józef Cyrankiewicz (1911–1989), Prime Minister of communistic Poland (1947–52 and 1954–70)
  • Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770–1861), prince, statesman, Prime Minister (1830–31)
  • Ignacy Daszyński (1866–1936), prime minister of the Provisional People's Government of the Republic of Poland (1918)
  • Jan Dekert (1738–1790), merchant, mayor of Warsaw (1789–90)
  • Isaac Deutscher (1907–1967), writer, journalist, political activist
  • Heinrich Dietz (1840–1901), member of the Prussian parliament, philanthropist
  • Roman Dmowski (1864–1939), nationalist politician, statesman
  • Andrzej Duda (born 1972), sixth President of the Third Polish Republic (2015-2025)
  • Feliks Dzierżyński (1877–1926), founder of Soviet State Security under the original name Cheka
  • Edward Gierek (1913–2001), leader of communist Poland (1970–80)
  • Maciej Golubiewski (born 1976), political scientist and diplomat
  • Władysław Gomułka (1905–1982), leader of communist Poland (1956–70)
  • Ludwik Gorzkowski (1811–1857), politician and revolutionary activist
  • Julian Gutowski (1823–1890), Mayor of Nowy Sącz (1867–70)
  • Piotr Jaroszewicz (1909–1992), Prime Minister of communist Poland (1970–80)
  • Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923–2014), last leader of communist Poland (1981–89), first President of the Third Polish Republic (1989–90)
  • Wojciech Jastrzębowski (1799–1882) was a polymath who in 1831, after fighting in Poland's November 1830 Uprising, drafted the first constitution for his proposed European union.
  • Ryszard Kaczorowski (1919–2010), sixth and last President of Poland in exile (1989–90)
  • Jarosław Kaczyński (born 1949), identical twin brother of Lech, leader of Law and Justice party, Prime Minister of Poland (2006–07)
  • Lech Kaczyński (1949–2010), fourth President (2005–10) of Third Polish Republic, died in Smolensk air crash
  • Hugo Kołłątaj (1750–1812), co-author of Constitution of 3 May 1791
  • Bronisław Komorowski (born 1952), fifth President of the Third Polish Republic (2010–15)
  • Wojciech Korfanty (1873–1939), leader of Silesians during the Third Silesian uprising
  • Janusz Korwin-Mikke (born 1942), far-right politician, former member of the Sejm
  • Stanisław Kot (1885–1975), historian, politician, diplomat
  • Leon Kozłowski (1892–1944), archeologist; Prime Minister of Poland (1934–35).
  • Adrian Kubicki (born 1987), Consul General of the Republic of Poland in New York City
  • Jan Kucharzewski (1876–1952), first Prime Minister of Kingdom of Poland (1917–18)
  • Jacek Kuroń (1934–2004), politician, social activist
  • Anna Kurska (1929–2016), judge, lawyer, and member of the Polish Senate
  • Aleksander Kwaśniewski (born 1954), third President of the Third Polish Republic (1995–2005)
  • Andrzej Lepper (1954–2011, leader of Samoobrona and Deputy Prime Minister
  • Herman Lieberman (1870–1941), lawyer and prominent Socialist politician
  • Feliks Lubienski (1758–1848), Minister of Justice, introduced the Code Napoleon, state archives, and public libraries
  • Katarzyna Lubnauer (born 1969), leader of Modern political party
  • Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), leading Marxist theoretician
  • Teofil Magdziński (1818–1889), political activist in Bydgoszcz, representative at the Reichstag
  • Julian Marchlewski (1866–1925), Soviet politician
  • Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (born 1959), Prime Minister of Poland (2005–06)
  • Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927–2013), politician, first Prime Minister of the Third Polish Republic (Poland)
  • Adam Michnik (born 1946), influential journalist
  • Ludwik Mierosławski (1814–1878), insurgent, general, Paris communard
  • Stanisław Mieroszewski (1827–1900), member of the Imperial Council of Austria
  • Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1901–1966), Prime Minister of Poland (1943–44), Agrarian Party politician
  • Karol Modzelewski (1937–2019), activist, politician and academic
  • Jędrzej Moraczewski (1870–1944), first Prime Minister of II RP (1918–19)
  • Ignacy Mościcki (1867–1946), third President (1926–39) of the Second Polish Republic
  • Walery Mroczkowski (1840–1889), anarchist, friend of Mikhail Bakunin
  • Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960), British politician and historian
  • Gabriel Narutowicz (1865–1922), first President of the Second Polish Republic (1922)
  • Karol Nawrocki (born 1983), seventh President of the Third Polish Republic (since 2025)
  • Józef Oleksy, Prime Minister of III RP (1995–96), Speaker of the Sejm (1993–95; 2004–05)
  • Janusz Onyszkiewicz (born 1937), Solidarność spokesman, mathematician, alpinist, Minister of Defence
  • Marian P. Opala, Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court
  • Stanisław Osiecki, Minister of Agriculture 1923, Minister of Trade & Industry (1925-26)
  • Jozef Maksymilian Ossolinski (1748–1826), founder of Ossolineum, Poland's signal cultural patron
  • Stanisław Ostrowski (1892–1982), third President of Poland in exile (1972–79)
  • Ignacy Paderewski (1860–1941), second Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic (1919)
  • Longin Pastusiak (1935–2025), Marshal of the Senate (2001–05)
  • Waldemar Pawlak (born 1959), Prime Minister of Poland (1992 and 1993–95)
  • Karolina Pawliczak (born 1976), lawyer and politician
  • Shimon Peres (born Szymon Perski; 1923–2016), President of Israel (2007–14), Prime Minister of Israel (1984–86; 1995–96)
  • Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900–1960), Costa Rican president, Polish mother
  • Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935), statesman, politician and Marshal of Poland
  • Emilia Plater (1806–1831), revolutionary, independence leader
  • Władysław Broel-Plater (1808–1889), independence activist, founder of Polish Museum, Rapperswil
  • Alfred Józef Potocki (1817 or 1822–1889), count, Minister-President of Austria (1870–71)
  • Ignacy Potocki (1750–1809), co-author of Constitution of 3 May 1791
  • Adam Pragier (1886-1976), leading socialist deputy, exiled minister and writer
  • Władysław Raczkiewicz (1885–1947), first President of Poland in exile (1939–47)
  • Edward Raczyński (1891–1993), fourth President of Poland in exile (1979–86)
  • Antoni Radziwiłł (1775–1833), prince, the Duke-Governor of Grand Duchy of Posen (Poznań) (1815–31)
  • Józef Retinger (1888–1960), writer, adviser, grey eminence, founder of the Bilderberg conferences
  • Adam Ronikier (1881–1952), count, president of the Central Welfare Council (1916–18; 1940–43)
  • Kazimierz Sabbat (1913–1989), fifth President of Poland in exile (1986–89)
  • Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (born 1948), vice-president of European Parliament (2004–07)
  • Władysław Sikorski (1881–1943), general, Prime Minister of Poland (1939–43)
  • Radosław Sikorski (born 1963), politician and former foreign minister (2007–14)
  • Walery Sławek (1879–1939), independence fighter and former prime minister
  • Stefan Starzyński (1893–1939), President of Warsaw (1934–39)
  • Władysław Studnicki (1867–1953), politician and publicist
  • Romuald Szeremietiew (born 1945), independence activist and former Minister of National Defense
  • Krzysztof Szczerski (born 1973), Ambassador to the UN
  • Beata Szydło (born 1963), Prime Minister of Poland (2015–17)
  • Theodore de Korwin Szymanowski (1846–1901), conceptualised an economic union for Europe in 1885
  • Róża Thun (born 1954), anticommunist activist, activist for European Union
  • Donald Tusk (born 1957), chairman of Civic Platform; President of European Council (2014–19) and Prime Minister of Poland (2007–14; 2023–)
  • Kazimierz Tyszka (1872–1951), Minister of Railways (1923–25), in Władysław Grabski's government
  • Lech Wałęsa (born 1943), trade unionist who started dismantling of the Soviet bloc, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, second President of the Third Polish Republic (1990–95)
  • Ludwik Waryński (1856–1889), socialist activist in the 19th century
  • Wanda Wasilewska (1905–1964), communist activist during World War II
  • Edward Werner (1878–1945), born in Poland to parents of German origin; vice-Minister of Finance, and Polish diplomat during World War II
  • Alexander Wielopolski (1803–1877), count, Marquis of Gonzaga, statesman
  • Wincenty Witos (1874–1945), politician of the agrarian party
  • Stanisław Wojciechowski (1869–1953), second President of the Second Polish Republic (1922–26)
  • Walery Antoni Wróblewski (1836–1908), politician, insurgency commander
  • Joanna Wronecka (born 1958), Ambassador to the UN
  • August Zaleski (1883–1972), second President of Poland in exile (1947–72)
  • Jan Zamoyski (1542–1605), chancellor and grand hetman of the crown

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Brzezinski 1977.jpg|Brzeziński

File:Jerzy Buzek, 2010.JPG|Buzek

File:Alexandre Walewski (1810-1868) (A).jpg|Colonna-Walewski

File:Prince Czartoryski by Nadar.jpg|Czartoryski

File:Ignacy Daszynski2 (cropped).jpg|Daszyński

File:Roman Dmowski in color.jpg|Dmowski

File:Edward Gierek 1980.jpg|E. Gierek

File:Wojciech Jaruzelski.jpg|Jaruzelski

File:Wojciech Jastrzebowski (5913646).jpg|Jastrzębowski

File:Lech Kaczyński.jpg|L. Kaczyński

File:KPRP 20130131 WG 230 BRONISLAW KOMOROWSKI.jpg|Komorowski

File:Ewa Kopacz - Konwencja PO (cropped).jpg|Kopacz

File:Wojciech Korfanty 1905.jpg|Korfanty

File:Stanisław Kot 1933.jpg|Kot

File:Leon Kozłowski 2.jpg|Kozłowski

File:Aleksander Kwaśniewski - Europejski Kongres Gospodarczy 2013 (5).jpg|Kwaśniewski

File:Rosa Luxemburg.jpg|Luxemburg

File:Tadeusz Mazowiecki - Europeana 1989 - TV Interview.jpg|Mazowiecki

File:Adam Michnik 2018.jpg|Michnik

File:Ignacy Moscicki.jpg|Mościcki

File:Portret Narutowicz (cropped).jpg|Narutowicz

File:Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz 11.PNG|Niemcewicz

File:Ignacy Jan Paderewski 1860 - 1941.jpg|Paderewski

File:Józef Piłsudski (SPRA).jpg|Piłsudski

File:Emilia Plater (284384).jpg|Plater

File:Jozef Retinger (cropped) (cropped).jpg|Retinger

File:Hanna Suchocka, Prime Minister of Poland 1992-1993.jpg|Suchocka

File:Romuald Szeremietiew Sejm 2015.JPG|Szeremietiew

File:Premier RP Beata Szydło w Parlamencie UE.jpg|Szydło

File:Roza Thun in EP.jpg|Thun

File:Donald Tusk. Tallinn Digital Summit.jpg|Tusk

File:Lech Walesa - 2009.jpg|Wałęsa

File:W. Witos.JPG|Witos

File:Stanislaw Wojciechowski portrait.jpg|Wojciechowski

</gallery>

Law

Diplomacy

  • Władysław Bartoszewski (1922–2015), foreign affairs minister of III RP (1995; 2000–2001)
  • Józef Beck (1894–1944), foreign affairs minister of II RP (1932–1939)
  • Alois Friedrich von Brühl (1739–1793), Polish-Saxon diplomat, starost of Warsaw
  • Matthew Bryza (born 1964), American diplomat
  • Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (born 1950), foreign affairs minister of III RP (2001–2005)
  • Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770–1861), Polish diplomat; Russian Imperial foreign minister (1804–1806)
  • Władysław Czartoryski (1828–1894), prince, the main diplomatic agent of the National Government (1863–1864)
  • Roman Dmowski, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1923)
  • Bronisław Geremek, foreign affairs minister of III RP (1997–2000)
  • Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, count, foreign affairs minister of Austria-Hungary (1895–1906)
  • Krzysztof Grzymułtowski, diplomat and voivod of Poznań, author of the Eternal Peace Treaty with Russia (1686)
  • Stanisław Janikowski, diplomat in Rome, to Holy See (1927–1954)
  • Wacław Jędrzejewicz (1893–1993)
  • Julian Klaczko (1825–1906), Polish diplomat
  • Stanisław Kot, historian, politician, diplomat. Polish ambassador to the Soviet Union (1941–1942), Italy (1945–1947).
  • Józef Lipski, Polish ambassador to Germany (1933–1939)
  • Juliusz Łukasiewicz, Polish ambassador to the Soviet Union (1934–1936) and France (1936–1939)
  • Ivan Maysky (1884–1975), Soviet diplomat
  • Stefan Meller, foreign affairs minister of III RP (2005–2006)
  • Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960), British diplomat and historian
  • Andrzej Olechowski, foreign affairs minister of III RP (1993–1995)
  • Ignacy Paderewski, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1919) and third prime minister of Poland
  • Stanisław Patek, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1919–1920)
  • Edward Bernard Raczyński, count, Polish ambassador to the United Kingdom (1934–1945) and foreign affairs minister (1941–1943)
  • Adam Rapacki, foreign affairs minister of communist Poland (1956–1968)
  • Józef Retinger (1888–1960), advocate for a European Union
  • Tadeusz Romer, foreign affairs minister of the Polish Government in Exile (1943–1944)
  • Dariusz Rosati, foreign affairs minister of III RP (1995–1997)
  • Adam Daniel Rotfeld, foreign affairs minister of III RP (2005)
  • Radosław Sikorski, foreign affairs minister of III RP (2007–2014)
  • Konstanty Skirmunt, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1921–1922)
  • Aleksander Skrzyński, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1922–1923; 1924–1926)
  • Krzysztof Skubiszewski (1926– 2010), first foreign affairs minister of III RP (1989–1993)
  • Romuald Spasowski, Polish ambassador to the United States (1955–1961; 1978–1981)
  • Jan Szembek, count, foreign affairs deputy secretary (1932–1939)
  • Yosef Tekoah (1925–1991), Israeli diplomat and President of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
  • Andrey Vyshinsky, Soviet jurist and diplomat
  • Alexandre Joseph Count Colonna-Walewski, Polish and French foreign affairs minister
  • Leon Wasilewski, foreign affairs minister of II RP (1918–1919)
  • Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski, general, Polish ambassador to Italy (1938–1940)
  • Sergey Yastrzhembsky (born 1953), Russian diplomat
  • August Zaleski (1883–1972), foreign affairs minister of II RP (1926–1932)
  • Maurycy Klemens Zamoyski (1871–1939), foreign affairs minister of II RP (1924)
  • Josef Zieleniec (born 1946), Czech foreign affairs minister

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:20070212 Wladyslaw Bartoszewski by Kubik.jpg|Bartoszewski

File:J Beck.jpg|Beck

File:2004.05.01. Bronislaw Geremek 02.jpg|Geremek

File:WP Agenor Goluchowski der Jüngere.jpg|A. M. Gołuchowski

File:Stanisław Kot 1933.jpg|Kot

File:Edward Bernard Raczyński.jpg|Raczyński

File:Tadeusz Romer.PNG|Romer

File:RadoslawSikorki2.jpg|R. Sikorski

File:Count Alexander Walewski by Sir George Hayter 1832.jpg|Walewski

</gallery>

Military

  • Władysław Anders, general, military commander during the Battle of Monte Cassino (1944)
  • Krzysztof Arciszewski, general of artillery of Holland (1639), and Poland (1646)
  • Józef Bem, military commander, commander-in-chief of Hungarian army (1849)
  • Janusz Bokszczanin, colonel, last chief of staff of the Home Army (1944–1945)
  • Edmond Wilhelm Brillant (1916–2004)
  • Moshe Carmel (1911–2003), Israeli Major-General and Israeli Minister of Transportation
  • Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, military commander, victor of Kircholm (1605)
  • Józef Chyliński, resistance fighter
  • Michał Czajkowski (Sadok Pasha) (1804–1886), Polish commander-in-chief of an Ottoman Cossack brigade during the Crimean War (1853–1856)
  • Stefan Czarniecki, Field Crown Hetman of Poland (1665)
  • Barbara Bronisława Czarnowska (1810–1891), noblewoman, independence fighter and soldier
  • Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, general, military commander during the Napoleonic Wars
  • Jarosław Dąbrowski, military commander during the January 1863 Uprising and the Paris Commune (1871)
  • Henryk Dembiński, military commander in the November uprising and the Hungarian uprising of 1849
  • Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski, general, ambassador, nominated President of Poland (1939)
  • Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, general, military commander in the Greater Poland Uprising (1919)
  • Bolesław Bronisław Duch, World War II general
  • Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski (1894–2005), soldier in World War I and in the 1920–21 Polish-Soviet War; at his death, he was the oldest man in the United Kingdom (111 years old)
  • Emil August Fieldorf, general, last deputy commander-in-chief of the Home Army (1944–1945)
  • Wanda Gertz, major, soldier during World War I, Home Army commandant in World War II and in German POW camps
  • Józef Haller, politician, commander of the Polish Army in France during World War I
  • Stanisław Haller, general, murdered by the NKVD in the 1940 Katyn massacres
  • Hava Inbar (died 2024), Lieutenant Colonel of the Israeli Defense Forces and the first female military judge in the world
  • Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski, Grand Crown Hetman (1682/3–1702)
  • Jan Nowak-Jezioranski (1913–2005), journalist and World War II hero
  • Berek Joselewicz, Polish-Jewish colonel in the Kościuszko Uprising and in Napoleon's Polish Legions; commanded the first Jewish military formation in modern history
  • Mikołaj Kamieniecki, first Grand Crown Hetman of Poland (1503–1515)
  • Werner Kampe, SS Hauptsturmführer war criminal, Kreisleiter of the NSDAP, Mayor of Bydgoszcz
  • Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, general, founder of the resistance movement "Polish Victory Service" (27 September 1939)
  • Kazimierz J. Kasperek, most decorated Polish Navy officer of World War II
  • Wanda Józefa Maria Kirchmayer, second lieutenant of the Polish Secret Military Organization (1940–1944)
  • Tadeusz Klimecki, general, the Chief of the General staff of the Polish Army (1941–1943)
  • Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, general, commander-in-chief of the Home Army (1943–1944), during Warsaw Uprising (1944)
  • Stanisław Koniecpolski, Grand Crown Hetman (1632–1646)
  • Stanisław Kopański, general, the Chief of the General staff of the Polish Army (1943–1946)
  • Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish and American commander, general and revolutionist
  • Jan Kozietulski, colonel, commander during the Napoleonic Wars
  • Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski, Polish Union general in the American Civil War; Chopin's first cousin
  • Marian Kukiel, World War II general, historian
  • Franciszek Latinik, general, military governor of Warsaw during the 1920 Battle of Warsaw
  • Aleksander Lisowski, commander of 17th-century Lisowczycy
  • Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, Prince, Field Crown Hetman (1657–1664), victor at the Battle of Chudniv (Cudnów) (1660)
  • Walenty Łukawski, captain in the Bar Confederation, abductor of King Stanisław August Poniatowski
  • Stanisław Maczek (1892–1994), commander of the Polish Armored Division; after World War II, commander-in-chief of Polish forces in exile
  • Bernard Mond, Polish–Jewish general
  • Mieczysław Norwid-Neugebauer, general and minister of Polish–Jewish family
  • Leopold Okulicki, general, last commander-in-chief of the Home Army (1944–1945)
  • Juliusz Konstanty Ordon, officer in the November uprising (1830–1831)
  • Adam Ostrzycki, Marshall of the confederation army 1665-6
  • Tadeusz Pełczyński, chief of staff of the Home Army (ZWZ / AK) (1941–1944)
  • Józef Piłsudski, statesman, interwar Marshal of Poland
  • Emilia Plater, countess, heroine of the November 1830 Uprising
  • Józef Poniatowski, prince, Polish general and marshal of France
  • Kazimierz Pułaski (Casimir Pulaski), Polish and American military commander
  • Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during WWII
  • Stefan Rowecki, general, military commander, commander-in-chief of the Armed Resistance (ZWZ) (1940–1942) and Home Army (1942–1943)
  • Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski, general, Chief of Staff during the Battle of Warsaw
  • Edward Rydz-Śmigły, marshal, military commander, successful in the Polish-Soviet War, C-in-C of the Polish Army in the September 1939 Campaign
  • Yitzhak Sadeh (born Isaac Landsberg; 1890–1952), a founder of the Israel Defense Forces
  • Danuta Siedzikówna (1928–1946), medical orderly in Polish Army
  • Władysław Sikorski, general, commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces and Prime Minister of Poland (1939–1943)
  • Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski (1885–1962), general, physician and 28th Prime Minister of Poland (1936–1939)
  • Piotr Skuratowicz, general of the Polish Army, was murdered by the NKVD in the Katyn massacre
  • Stanisław Sosabowski, commander of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, which saw action at the Battle of Arnhem during Operation Market Garden (1944)
  • Kazimierz Sosnkowski, general, Commander-in-Chief of Polish Armed Forces (1943–1944)
  • Adam Sowa, former deputy chief executive of the European Defence Agency
  • Józef Sowiński, general, hero of the November uprising (1830–1831)
  • Zygmunt Szendzielarz ("Łupaszko")
  • Ignacy Szymanski, veteran of November 1830 Uprising and American Civil War (on the Confederate side)
  • Jerzy Świrski (1882–1959), vice admiral in the Polish navy under British command during World War II
  • Jan Tarnowski, Grand Crown Hetman (1527–1561), victor of Obertyn (1531)
  • Jozef Unrug (1884–1973), German-born vice-admiral in Polish navy, imprisoned in Colditz Castle during WWII
  • Maria Wittek (1899–1997), brigadier general, head of Women's Auxiliary Military Service (1928–1949)
  • Wojtek (1942–1963), a Persian bear, adopted during World War II by soldiers of the 2nd Polish Corps
  • Stefania Wojtulanis-Karpińska (1912–2005), Captain in the Polish Air Force, pilot in Air Transport Auxiliary during Second World War, where known as Barbara Wojtulanis
  • Piotr Wysocki, led the November Uprising (1830)
  • Aleksandra Zagórska, lieutenant colonel, independence activist and organiser of women's military squads (1917–1921)
  • Kordian Józef Zamorski, general; chief of the Polish state police (1935–1939)
  • Jan Zamoyski, Great Chancellor of Poland (1578–1605) and Grand Crown Hetman (1581–1605)
  • Władysław Stanisław Zamoyski, general in the Crimean War, diplomat (1803–1868)
  • Elżbieta Zawacka, general; the only woman among the Silent Unseen
  • Stanisław Żółkiewski, chancellor of Poland, military commander, conqueror of Moscow (1610), Grand Crown Hetman (1613–1620)
  • Janusz Żurakowski, World War II fighter pilot and Avro Arrow test pilot

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Wladyslaw Anders.jpg|Anders

File:Józef Bem 111.JPG|Bem

File:Jan Karol Chodkiewicz 1.PNG|Chodkiewicz

File:Stefan Czarniecki.PNG|Czarniecki

File:JHDąbrowski 1.JPG|Jan Dąbrowski

File:GeneralDuch.jpg|Duch

File:Generał Józef Haller.jpg|Haller

File:Stanislaw Koniecpolski (5857040) (cropped).jpg|Koniecpolski

File:Schweikart Tadeusz Kościuszko.jpg|Kościuszko

File:Wlodzimierz Krzyzanowski.jpg|Krzyżanowski

FranciszekKsaweryLatinik.jpg|Latinik

File:Stanislaw Maczek 2.jpg|Maczek

File:Józef Piłsudski (SPRA).jpg|Piłsudski

File:Emilia Plater (284384).jpg|Plater

File:Prince Jozef Poniatowski, by Josef Grassi.jpg|Poniatowski

File:Kazimierz Pułaski.PNG|Pułaski

File:Tadeusz Rozwadowski.jpg|Rozwadowski

File:Edward Śmigły-Rydz portrait, 1939.png|Rydz-Śmigły

File:Wladyslaw Sikorski 2.jpg|Sikorski

File:Sosnkowski Kazimierz.jpg|Sosnkowski

File:Józef Sowiński.PNG|Sowiński

File:Jan Tarnowski (Hetman).jpg|Tarnowski

File:Maria Wittek.jpg|Wittek

File:Wojtek the bear.jpg|Wojtek (bear)

File:Jan Zamoyski.jpg|Zamoyski

File:Elżbieta Zawacka.jpg|Zawacka

File:Lesseur-Hetman Żółkiewski.jpg|Żółkiewski

</gallery>

Intelligence

  • Feliks Ankerstein, interwar covert-operations officer and deputy to Edmund Charaszkiewicz in Office 2 of the General Staff's Section II (Intelligence)
  • Edmund Charaszkiewicz, interwar covert-operations officer and coordinator of Józef Piłsudski's Promethean project to dismember the Soviet Union
  • Maksymilian Ciężki, chief of the Polish Cipher Bureau's German section (BS–4), which from 1932 decrypted German Enigma ciphers, paving the way for Britain's World War II Ultra secret
  • Roman Czerniawski, Polish Air Force captain and British Double Cross System agent
  • Marian Drobik, Home Army (AK) colonel, chief of the General Staff's Section II (intelligence) (1942–1943)
  • Wiktor Tomir Drymmer, close collaborator of Foreign Minister Józef Beck, and chief of the secret prewar K-7 organization that supervised certain Polish covert operations
  • Józef Englicht, prewar deputy chief of the Polish General Staff's Section II
  • Michael Goleniewski, Cold War Polish, Soviet, and American-CIA agent
  • Jan Karski, emissary who confirmed the reality of the Holocaust to Western Allies
  • Bolesław Kontrym, Polish agent, Red Army combrig, Polish Army major
  • Jan Kowalewski, engineer, intelligence officer and cryptologist, one of many who broke Soviet ciphers during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–1921
  • Andrzej Kowerski, Polish Army officer and World War II British SOE agent; colleague of Krystyna Skarbek
  • Ryszard Kukliński, Polish Army colonel, Cold War CIA master spy
  • Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki, Polish spy at the Battle of Vienna (1683); founder of Vienna's first coffee house, which offered coffee produced from coffee beans captured from the Turks
  • Gwido Langer, head of Poland's Cipher Bureau, which from 1932 broke Germany's military Enigma ciphers
  • Kazimierz Leski, engineer, fighter pilot, World War II "Musketeers" and Home Army intelligence officer
  • Stefan Mayer, prewar Section II intelligence officer who supervised the General Staff's Cipher Bureau
  • Jerzy Pawłowski, Olympic gold-medalist fencer and Cold-War double agent
  • Tadeusz Pełczyński, general, chief of the General Staff's Section II (1929–1932; 1935–January 1938)
  • Sergiusz Piasecki, Polish agent, covering the area of Soviet Belarus (1922–1926)
  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish consul-general and intelligence agent in London (1948–1949); the most influential contemporary critic of German literature
  • Tadeusz Schaetzel, intelligence officer, chief of the General Staff's Section II (1926–1929)
  • Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, World War II British SOE agent
  • Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski (Rygor-Słowikowski), Polish Army intelligence officer whose work in North Africa facilitated Allied preparations for the 1942 Operation Torch landings
  • Jerzy Sosnowski, major, Polish spy in Germany (1926–1934) as Georg von Sosnowski, Ritter von Nalecz
  • Antoni Szymański, Polish military attaché in Berlin (1932–1939)
  • Halina Szymańska, World War II British intelligence agent; wife of Antoni Szymański
  • Jan Włodarkiewicz, lieutenant colonel, the first commander of Wachlarz
  • Marian Zacharski, Cold-War Polish intelligence agent convicted of espionage against the United States

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Feliks Ankerstein.jpg|Ankerstein

File:Grodynski Brigade Image 04.JPG|Grodyński

File:Jan Karski - Instytut w Rudzie Śląskiej.jpg|Karski

File:Boleslaw kontrym.jpg|Kontrym

File:Jan Kowalewski.jpg|Kowalewski

File:Płk Ryszard Kukliński.jpg|Kukliński

File:Georg Franz Kolschitzky.JPG|Kulczycki

File:Leski Kazimierz.jpg|Leski

File:Tadeusz Pełczyński - Grzegorz.jpg|Pełczyński

File:Schaetzel T.jpg|Schaetzel

File:Krystyna Skarbek alias Jacqueline Armand 1945.png|Skarbek

File:Wlodarkiewicz jan.jpg|Włodarkiewicz

</gallery>

Holocaust resistance

  • Irena Adamowicz
  • Mordechaj Anielewicz, Warsaw Ghetto uprising
  • Dawid Apfelbaum, Warsaw Ghetto uprising
  • Władysław Bartoszewski
  • Adolf Berman
  • Alexander Bogen (1916–2010), partisan leader
  • Anna Borkowska (Sister Bertranda)
  • Icchak Cukierman
  • Gusta Dawidson Draenger
  • Marek Edelman
  • Leon Feldhendler (1910–1945)
  • Hela Felenbaum-Weiss (1924–1988), partisan fighter
  • Tuviah Friedman (1922–2011), Nazi hunter
  • Izrael Kanal
  • Yitzhak Gitterman
  • Bernard Goldstein
  • Haika Grossman
  • Irena Gut
  • Kazimierz Iranek-Osmecki, Polish Army officer, Home Army officer, historian of aid given to Jews in World War II by the Polish Underground State and by ordinary Polish civilians
  • Henryk Iwański
  • Jan Karski
  • Juliusz Kühl
  • Michał Klepfisz
  • Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, co-founder of Żegota
  • Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz, co-founder of Żegota
  • Countess Karolina Lanckorońska
  • Zivia Lubetkin
  • Aleksander Ładoś, Polish de facto Ambassador to Switzerland
  • Edward Mosberg (1926–2022), Polish-American Holocaust survivor, educator, and philanthropist
  • Maurycy Orzech
  • Witold Pilecki
  • Konstanty Rokicki, Polish consul in Bern who forged Paraguayan passports to rescue Jews
  • Tadeusz Romer, Polish ambassador to Japan and in Shanghai Ghetto
  • Stefan Ryniewicz, Polish diplomat
  • Irena Sendler, saved nearly 2,500 Jewish children in World War II
  • Joseph Serchuk (Józef Serczuk; 1919–1993), leader of a Jewish partisan unit in the Lublin area
  • Halina Seyda, (1906–1944), Polish banker and underground activist killed by Nazis
  • Henryk Sławik, "Polish Schindler", diplomat in Hungary
  • Leopold Socha, another "Polish Schindler"
  • Chaim Sztajer (1909–2008), known for his participation in the Treblinka uprising
  • Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter
  • Józef and Wiktoria Ulma
  • Jankiel Wiernik (י1888-1972), influential figure in the Treblinka extermination camp resistance
  • Samuel Willenberg (1923–2016)
  • Henryk Woliński
  • Lidia Zamenhof
  • Szmul Zygielbojm
  • Jan and Antonina Żabiński

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File:Mordechaj Anielewicz.JPG|Anielewicz

File:Marek Edelman by Kubik.JPG|Edelman

File:ZOFIA KOSSAK.jpg|Kossak-Szczucka

File:Krahelska1905.jpg|Krahelska

File:Karolina Lanckorońska.jpg|Lanckorońska

File:Edward Mosberg.png|Edward Mosberg

File:Witold Pilecki 1.JPG|Pilecki

File:Irena Sendlerowa 1942.jpg|Sendler

File:Szmul Zygielbojm.jpg|Zygielbojm

</gallery>

Religion

  • Yitzchak Meir Alter, Rebbe founder of the Ger Hasidic dynasty
  • Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz, Roman Catholic archbishop of Lwów (1815–33) and archbishop of Prague (1833–1838)
  • Baal Shem Tov (Yisroel ben Eliezer, 1698–1760), rabbi and founder of Hasidic Judaism
  • Blessed Jan Beyzym (1850–1912), Jesuit missionary among lepers in Madagascar
  • St. Józef Bilczewski, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lwów, 1900–1923
  • St. Andrew Bobola, Jesuit
  • St. Evan Yurewicz, Catholic, missionary
  • Tadeusz Brzozowski, elected first Jesuit Superior General after the restoration of the Society of Jesus
  • Szymon Budny, Polish-Belarusian humanist and Arian priest
  • Juliusz Bursche, Polish Lutheran bishop killed by the Germans at Sachsenhausen concentration camp
  • St. Casimir Jagiellon, grandson of King Władysław II Jagiełło
  • St. Adam (Albert) Chmielowski (Albertine order)
  • Bl. August Czartoryski, Prince
  • Edmund Dalbor, Primate of Poland, Cardinal, 1915–1926
  • Albin Dunajewski, Bishop of Kraków, Cardinal, 1879–1894
  • Stanisław Dziwisz, Archbishop of Kraków, since 2005, Cardinal
  • St. Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski, founder of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary, Archbishop of Warsaw (1862), exiled and Titular Archbishop of Tarsus (1882)
  • Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Archbishop of Warsaw, 1856–1861
  • Jacob Frank, Jewish messianic leader who combined Judaism and Christianity
  • Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, vicar, humanist, and theologian
  • Piotr Gamrat, Primate of Poland, 1541–1545
  • Józef Gawlina, military bishop, Divisional general, theologian, archbishop
  • Józef Glemp, Primate of Poland, 1981–2006
  • Adam Stanisław Grabowski, Prince-Bishop of Warmia
  • Michał Heller, physicist and philosopher, Templeton Prize laureate
  • August Hlond, Primate of Poland, 1926–1948, Cardinal
  • Stanislaus Hosius, legate to Poland, Cardinal and Prince-Bishop of Warmia
  • St. Hyacinth, Dominican
  • St. Jadwiga, Queen of Poland, 1384–1399
  • Henryk Jankowski, Prelate, Chaplain of "Solidarność"
  • Marian Jaworski, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lviv, 1991–2008, Cardinal
  • Aleksander Kakowski, Archbishop of Warsaw, Cardinal
  • St. Raphael Kalinowski, Carmelite
  • St. Jan Kanty, professor at Kraków University
  • Stanisław Karnkowski, Primate of Poland, 1581–1603; Interrex, 1586–1587
  • St. Stanisław Kazimierczyk, priest and preacher
  • Chaim Kreiswirth, Chief Rabbi of Congregation Machzikei Hadass Antwerp, founder and rosh yeshiva of the Mercaz HaTorah yeshiva in Jerusalem
  • St. Maksymilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan martyr, Auschwitz 1941
  • Hugo Kołłątaj, priest, statesman
  • Bolesław Kominek, Archbishop of Wrocław, 1972–1974, Cardinal
  • St. Stanisław Kostka, Jesuit
  • St. Faustina Kowalska, Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy
  • Maria Michał Kowalski, Archbishop of the Catholic Church of the Mariavites, introduced women clergy in 1929
  • Adam Kozłowiecki, Jesuit, Archbishop of Lusaka, Cardinal
  • Feliksa Kozłowska, inspiration of the Mariavite Church
  • Ignacy Krasicki, Primate of Poland
  • Adam Stanisław Krasiński, Bishop of Kamieniec Podolski, 1757–1798
  • John Krol, Archbishop of Philadelphia, Cardinal, 1961–1988
  • Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Primate of Poland, 1866–1886, Cardinal
  • Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, missionary, founder of the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver
  • Saint Ursula Ledóchowska, religious, founder of the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus
  • Włodzimierz Halka Ledóchowski, Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1915–1942)
  • Jan Łaski (1456–1531), Primate of Poland, 1510–1531
  • Jan Łaski (1499–1560), Protestant reformer; nephew of the Primate
  • Władysław Aleksander Łubieński, Archbishop of Lwów, Primate of Poland, 1759–1767; Interrex, 1763–1764
  • Franciszek Macharski, Archbishop of Kraków, 1978–2005, Cardinal
  • Ryszard Markwart, catholic priest and national activist
  • Tomasz Miśkiewicz, mufti of Polish Muslims :pl:Muzułmański Związek Religijny and Imam of Białystok
  • Mieczysław Mokrzycki, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lviv, since 2008
  • Mikołaj Stanisław Oborski (1576–1646), Jesuit
  • Zbigniew Oleśnicki, Bishop of Kraków, 1423–1455; first Cardinal of Polish origin, from 1449; statesman
  • Zbigniew Oleśnicki, nephew of Zbigniew Oleśnicki; Cardinal Primate of Poland, 1481–1493
  • Edward O'Rourke, bishop of Gdańsk
  • Piotr of Goniądz, spiritual leader of the Polish Brethren
  • Jerzy Popiełuszko, Catholic priest and dissident assassinated by the Polish security service in 1984, martyr of the Church
  • Walenty Potocki (died 1749), Count; converted to Judaism as Avrohom ben Avrohom, the Ger Tzedek of Vilna
  • Tadeusz Puder (1908–1945), Polish Roman Catholic priest of Jewish origin
  • Jan Puzyna, Bishop of Kraków, 1895–1911, Cardinal
  • Jerzy Radziwiłł, Bishop of Kraków, Cardinal, 1591–1600
  • Sholom Rokeach, the first Belzer Rebbe, 1817–1855
  • Tadeusz Rydzyk, Redemptorist, broadcast radio controller
  • Czeslaw Sokolowski, Roman Catholic priest, theologian, university rector
  • St. Stanisław of Szczepanów, Bishop of Kraków, martyr 1079
  • Adam Stefan Sapieha, Bishop/Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal, 1911–1951
  • Franciszka Siedliska, religious, founder of Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth
  • Piotr Skarga, Jesuit preacher
  • Kajetan Sołtyk, Bishop of Kyiv, 1756–59; Bishop of Kraków, 1759–1788
  • Boruch Steinberg, the first Rabbi and an officer of the Polish Army before and during World War II
  • Kazimierz Świątek, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev; Apostolic Administrator of Pinsk, Cardinal
  • Edmund Szoka, Catholic Archbishop of Detroit, Cardinal 1981–1990
  • Jakub Szynkiewicz (1884–1966), Imam of Poland, translated portions of Qur'an into Polish
  • Jozef Teodorowicz, last Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Lwow (1864–1938)
  • Hipolit Terlecki, theologian
  • Józef Tischner, priest, philosopher and first chaplain of the trade union, Solidarity
  • Andrzej Towiański, philosopher and 19th century messianist
  • Mikołaj Trąba, Archbishop of Gniezno, first Primate of Poland, 1418–1422
  • Jakub Uchański, Primate of Poland, 1562–1581; Interrex, 1572–73 and 1574–1575
  • Vilna Gaon (1720–1797), non-Hassidic Jewish leader, the "saintly genius from Vilnius"
  • Piotr Wawrzyniak, priest, economist and activist (1849–1910)
  • Chaim Elozor Wax (1822–1887), rabbi
  • Karol Józef Wojtyła, Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków 1958–1963, Archbishop of Kraków 1963–1978, Pope John Paul II 1978–2005
  • Stefan Wyszyński, Primate of Poland, Cardinal, 1948–1981
  • Lawrence Wnuk, Protonotary apostolic, decorated Polish Canadian, (1908–2006)
  • Schneur Zalman, first Hasidic Rebbe of Chabad (1745–1810)

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Beyzym.jpg|Beyzym

File:T.Brzozowski.jpg|Tadeusz Brzozowski

File:Adam Chmielowski.JPG|Chmielowski

File:Jakub Frank.jpg|Frank

File:Michal Heller by Adam Walanus (53).jpg|Heller

File:August Hlond portr.jpg|Hlond

File:Stanisław Hozjusz.JPG|Hosius

File:Grobowiec krolowej Jadwigi.jpg|Jadwiga

File:Stanislaus Kostka Legros n1.jpg|Stanisław Kostka

File:Maria Faustyna Kowalska.jpg|Kowalska

File:Cardinal Adam Kozlowiecki.png|Kozłowiecki

File:Ledochowski.tif|Włodzimierz Ledóchowski

File:SStanisław.JPG|Stanisław of Szczepanów

File:Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867-1951).jpg|Sapieha

File:Józef Teodorowicz-NAC-1-R-925.jpg|Teodorowicz

File:Ursula Leduhovskaya in 1907.jpg|Saint Ursula

File:Vilna Gaon, Winograd picture.jpg|Vilna Gaon

File:Pope John Paul II smile.jpg|Wojtyła

File:Stefan Wyszyński.jpg|Wyszyński

File:Schneur Zalman of Liadi.jpg|Zalman

</gallery>

Nobility

Royalty

  • Mieszko I, first Duke of Poland
  • Doubravka of Bohemia, first Duchess of Poland
  • Świętosława (Gunhild), daughter of Mieszko I of Poland, mother of Canute the Great, King of England, Denmark and Norway
  • Bolesław I the Brave, first King of Poland
  • Mieszko II Lambert, second King of Poland
  • Richeza of Lotharingia, queen of Poland
  • Casimir I the Restorer, duke of Poland
  • Bolesław II the Bold, third King of Poland
  • Władysław I Herman, duke of Poland
  • Bolesław III Wrymouth, duke of Poland
  • Mieszko III the Old, duke of Greater Poland, Senior Duke of Poland
  • Casimir II the Just, duke of Cracow, Senior Duke of Poland
  • Leszek I the White, duke of Cracow, Senior Duke of Poland
  • Henry I the Bearded, duke of Silesia, Senior Duke of Poland
  • Konrad I of Masovia, duke of Mazovia and Kuyavia
  • Henry II the Pious, senior duke of Poland, commander of Polish forces in the Battle of Legnica (1241)
  • Przemysł II, King of Poland
  • Władysław I the Elbow-high, king of Poland
  • Louis I of Hungary, king of Poland
  • Elizabeth of Poland, Queen of Hungary, Regent in Poland
  • Casimir III the Great, Piast Dynasty last King of Poland
  • Jadwiga of Poland, first female monarch of Poland
  • Władysław II Jagiełło, Lithuanian, king of Poland, victor at the Battle of Grunwald (1410)
  • Władysław III of Varna (Ulászló I), king of Poland and Hungary, killed at the Battle of Varna (1444)
  • Casimir IV Jagiellon, king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, victor in the Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466)
  • John I Albert, king of Poland
  • Alexander Jagiellon, grand duke of Lithuania and king of Poland
  • Sigismund I the Old, king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
  • Roxelana (Khourrem, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent)
  • Barbara Radziwiłłówna, consort of Sigismund II August
  • Bona Sforza, Queen consort of Poland
  • Sigismund II Augustus, last Jagiellon king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
  • Anna Jagiellon, reigned together with her husband Stephen Báthory
  • Henry III of France, king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  • Stephen Báthory, Hungarian-born king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
  • Sigismund III Vasa, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and king of Sweden
  • Władysław IV Vasa, elected Tsar of Russia, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
  • Marie Louise Gonzaga, Queen of Poland, Grand Duchess of Lithuania
  • John II Casimir Vasa, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, victor at the Battle of Beresteczko (1651)
  • John III Sobieski, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, victor at the Battle of Vienna (1683)
  • Maria Clementina Sobieska, queen of France, England, Scotland and Ireland
  • Michael I, king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  • Stanisław Leszczyński, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Duke of Lorraine
  • Marie Leszczyńska, Queen consort of France
  • Catherine Opalińska, queen of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Duchess of Lorraine
  • Augustus II the Strong, king of Poland, Elector of Saxony
  • Augustus III of Poland, king of Poland, Elector of Saxony
  • Maria Amalia of Saxony, consort of Carlos III, king of Spain
  • Stanisław August Poniatowski, last king of the Poland, co-author of the Constitution of 3 May 1791
  • Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (1770–1851), Princess Carignano House of Savoy

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Mieszko I (274939) (cropped).jpg|Mieszko

File:Bacciarelli - Chrobry.jpeg|Chrobry

File:Władysław Łokietek.jpg|Elbow-high

File:Boleslaus III of Poland (89920380).jpg|Wrymouth

File:Jadwiga by Bacciarelli.jpg|Jadwiga

File:Kazimierz III Wielki (76845281) (cropped).jpg|Casimir the Great

File:Jagajła. Ягайла (M. Godlewski, 1863).jpg|Jagiełło

File:Kober Anna Jagiellon in coronation robes.jpg|Jagiellonka

File:Anonymous Stephen Báthory (detail) 01.jpg|Batory

File:Zygmunt Waza Soutman.jpg|Vasa

File:John III Sobieski of Poland.PNG|Sobieski

File:Stanisław August by Marcello Bacciarelli (The Ciechanowiecki Foundation).png|Stanisław August

</gallery>

Assassins

  • Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of American President William McKinley
  • Ignacy Hryniewiecki, assassin of Tsar Alexander II of Russia
  • Eligiusz Niewiadomski, modernist painter, art critic, assassin of Polish President Gabriel Narutowicz
  • Janusz Waluś, assassin of Chris Hani

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File:I Grinevizky.jpg|Hryniewiecki

File:E Niewiadomski.jpg|Niewiadomski

</gallery>

Miscellany

  • George Adamski, controversial ufologist
  • Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, sailor
  • Franciszek Czapek, watchmaker
  • Aleksander Doba, explorer who holds the record for the longest open-water kayak voyage ever made
  • Michał Drzymała, resistance hero
  • Piotr Gawryś, contract bridge champion
  • Wincenty Gostkowski, watchmaker
  • Halina Grabowski, war hero
  • Barbara Hulanicki, fashion designer, founder of Biba
  • Piotr Iwanicki, wheelchair dancing world champion
  • Alicja Iwańska, resistance movement and anti-communist activist
  • Marek Kamiński, adventure traveler
  • Rutka Laskier, diarist, killed during the World War II Holocaust
  • Piotr Naszarkowski, engraver
  • Stefan Ossowiecki, psychic
  • Stanisław Pietkiewicz, cartographer and geographer
  • Feliks Rajmund Podkóliński, physician, soldier
  • Ludwik Rajchman, bacteriologist, founder of UNICEF
  • Czesław Słania, postage stamp and banknote engraver
  • Renia Spiegel, diarist, killed during the World War II Holocaust, known as "the Polish Anne Frank"
  • Stanisława Tomczyk, spiritualist medium, early 20th century
  • Wilfrid Michael Voynich (Michał Habdank-Wojnicz, 1865–1930), Polish revolutionary and bibliophile remembered as the eponym of the mysterious Voynich manuscript
  • Warren Winiarski, California winemaker
  • Kuba Wojewódzki, journalist, television personality, drummer, comedian, and columnist
  • Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, physician, pioneering female doctor in the United States
  • Maciej Zien, fashion designer

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File:Marek okulary1.JPG|Kamiński

File:Ludwik Rajchman.jpg|Rajchman

File:Wilfrid Voynich c1920.jpg|Voynich

File:Maria E. Zakrzewska.jpg|Zakrzewska

</gallery>

Legendary persons

  • Krakus, legendary prince and founder of Kraków
  • Lech, legendary founder of the Polish nation
  • Piast the Wheelwright (Piast Kołodziej), semi-legendary figure in prehistoric Poland (9th century); founder of the Piast dynasty
  • Popiel, semi-legendary 9th-century ruler of the western Polans; last of the Popielids
  • Lajkonik, a Kraków half-man-half-horse figure representing a Mongol invader, with his own festival after the feast of Corpus Christi
  • Our Lady of Częstochowa (known also as "the Black Madonna"), foremost of Polish religious icons
  • Abraham Prochownik, legendary Jewish figure, said to have been named prince of the western Polans after the death of Popiel in 842
  • Sarmatians, ancient proto-Persian tribe that fed the idea of Sarmatism during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
  • John Scolvus, semi-legendary sailor of the late 15th century
  • Syrenka warszawska, legendary fresh-water mermaid said to have been rescued by Vistula fishermen. Iconic symbol of Warsaw
  • Pan Twardowski, semi-legendary Faust-like sorcerer; in Polish legend, the first man on the Moon (in the 16th century)
  • Janek Wiśniewski, freedom fighter; hero of 1970 Gdynia riots

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File:Krakovia Lajkonik Zamaltzain 8599 (13619274304).jpg|Lajkonik

File:POL Warszawa Katowicka syrenka 02.jpg|Syrenka

</gallery>

Fictional characters

  • Matteusz Andrzejewski, played by Jordan Renzo, a character in Class, a British science fiction drama programme, and a spin-off of the long-running programme Doctor Who
  • Captain William Joseph B.J. Blazkowicz in Wolfenstein 3D
  • Ernst Stavro Blofeld, a villain from the James Bond series of novels and films, created by Ian Fleming
  • Bolek i Lolek, cartoon characters from a Polish children's TV animated comedy series
  • Baba Jaga, Polish version of the forest-dwelling sorceress
  • Balinski Wiktor, famous from the Polish legend "Chłopiec z dziwnym mózgiem"
  • Waldemar Daninsky, wolfman in La Marca del Hombre Lobo
  • Nicodemus Dyzma, in Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz's novel The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma
  • Jacob Jankowski, a character played by Robert Pattinson in a 2011 American romantic drama film Water for Elephants
  • Marcin Jerek, Polish-born British professor and former CIA interrogator, in the TV series NCIS, played by W. Morgan Sheppard
  • Dr. Judym, in Stefan Żeromski's novel Homeless People
  • Kajko i Kokosz
  • Florentyna Kane in The Prodigal Daughter and Shall We Tell the President?
  • Commander Keen, grandson of B.J. Blazkowicz
  • Hans Kloss (Captain Kloss), World War II secret agent in the Polish TV serial Stake larger than life
  • Kordian
  • Funky Koval, space detective
  • Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk, a singer of Polish descent played by Marilyn Monroe in Billy Wilder's 1959 romantic comedy film Some Like It Hot
  • Kowalski, a penguin in the children's film Madagascar
  • Stanley Kowalski, in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Detective Stanley Kowalski, Polish-American Chicago policeman in the 1990s Canadian television series Due South
  • Walt Kowalski, Polish-American Korean War veteran and retired Ford worker, in Clint Eastwood's 2008 film Gran Torino
  • Lucyna "Lucy" Kushinada, a netrunner of mixed Polish and Japanese descent in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
  • Ligia, heroine of Sienkiewicz's novel, Quo Vadis?
  • Man of Iron, symbol of Solidarity and title of Wajda's film
  • Koziołek Matołek, like the bear and the horse, the goat is part of Polish folklore, here in Kornel Makuszyński's rendition
  • Mike Nomad (with Steve Roper), an American adventure comic strip (1936–2004)
  • Count Olenski, estranged husband of Ellen Olenska in Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence (1920)
  • Pan Tadeusz, poetic distillation of Polish patriotism and nostalgia
  • Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski, in HBO's The Wire, went from police officer to school teacher
  • Officer Eddie Pulaski in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
  • Stefan "Steve" Radecki, a character played by Anton Walbrook in 1941 British war film Dangerous Moonlight
  • Abel Rosnovski in Kane and Abel
  • Pan Samochodzik, adventurer created by Zbigniew Nienacki
  • Paweł i Gaweł, humorous morality tale about neighbour relations, a favourite children's poem
  • Sasquatch (Dr. Walter Langkowski), Marvel superhero
  • Sierotka Marysia, archetypal abandoned girl, "Little orphan Mary", living with dwarves
  • Walter Sobchak, the "Polish Catholic" in the film The Big Lebowski
  • Silk Spectre I & II, superheroines in Watchmen
  • Stanislau, ace pilot in Blackhawk
  • Stanisław Tarkowski (Staś), protagonist of young-adult novel In Desert and Wilderness by Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz
  • Mieczysław Stilinski, also known as Stiles Stilinski, one of the main characters in American television series Teen Wolf broadcast on MTV and played by Dylan O'Brien
  • Michael Stivic, in All in the Family
  • Tadzio, a Polish boy (inspired by Władysław Moes) in Thomas Mann's novel Death in Venice as well as 1971 film adaptation of the same name by Luchino Visconti played by Björn Andrésen
  • Ijon Tichy, main protagonist in several works of Stanisław Lem such as The Star Diaries, The Futurological Congress, Peace on Earth and Observation on the Spot
  • Kasia Tomaszewski, played by Zofia Wichłacz, a character in World on Fire, a 2019 war drama miniseries broadcast on BBC One
  • Maciej Tomczyk ala Lech Wałęsa, in the 1981 film Man of Iron, directed by Andrzej Wajda
  • Pan Twardowski, a Faust-like figure of Polish legend, literature and film.
  • Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek, Polish comic book heroes

thumb|right|100px|[[Wrocław's dwarfs]]

  • Miś Uszatek, cartoon character
  • Walter Koskiusko Waldowski, the "Painless Pole" in the film MASH
  • Konrad Wallenrod, in the narrative poem by Adam Mickiewicz
  • John Paul Wiggin (Jan Paweł Wieczorek) in the Ender's Game series
  • Stanisław Wokulski, protagonist of Bolesław Prus' novel The Doll
  • Stanley Thaddeus "Wojo" Wojciehowicz, played by Max Gail, in the American television sitcom Barney Miller
  • Wrocław's dwarfs, brass manikins that first appeared on the city's pavements in 2005
  • Piotr Zak, composer in a spoof BBC documentary
  • Sophie Zawistowski, played by Meryl Streep, in Sophie's Choice based on a novel by William Styron

Models

  • Anna Anka (Anna Åberg, Anna Yeager), Swedish-American, born in Poland
  • Małgosia Bela, born in Kraków
  • Alicja Bobrowska, Miss Polonia 1957
  • Magdalena Frąckowiak, born in Gdańsk
  • Gila Golan, born in Kraków
  • Monika Jagaciak, born in Poznań
  • Anna Jagodzińska, born in Sierpc
  • Joanna Krupa, born in Warsaw
  • Anja Rubik, born in Rzeszów
  • Izabella Scorupco, born in Białystok
  • Ewa Sonnet, born in Rybnik, glamour model
  • Sasha Strunin, born in Saint Petersburg
  • Kasia Struss, born in Ciechanów
  • Francys Sudnicka, Polish-Venezuelan, born in Valencia, Venezuela
  • Karolina Wydra, Polish-American, born in Opole
  • Iga Wyrwał, born in Kalisz

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File:Malgosia Bela.jpg|Bela

File:Magdalena Frackowiak copyright Ed Kavishe.jpg|Frackowiak

File:Joanna Krupa Benchwarmer 2008.jpg|Krupa

File:Anja Rubik Copyright Ed Kavishe.JPG|Rubik

</gallery>

Athletics

  • Andrzej Badeński (1943–2008), Olympic sprinter
  • Iga Baumgart-Witan (born 1989), Olympic sprinter
  • Konrad Bukowiecki (born 1997), Olympic shot putter
  • Lidia Chojecka (born 1977), Olympic middle- and long-distance runner
  • Jerzy Chromik (1931–1987), Olympic long-distance runner
  • Teresa Ciepły (1937–2006), Olympic sprinter and hurdler
  • Sofia Ennaoui (born 1995), Olympic middle-distance runner
  • Paweł Fajdek (born 1989), Olympic hammer thrower
  • Marian Foik (1933–2005), Olympic sprinter
  • Wioletta Frankiewicz (born 1977), steeplechaser
  • Halina Górecka (born 1938), Polish and German Olympic sprinter
  • Piotr Haczek (born 1977), Olympic sprinter
  • Michał Haratyk (born 1992), Olympic shot putter
  • Zdzisław Hoffmann (born 1959), Olympic triple jumper
  • Barbara Janiszewska (1936–2000), Olympic sprinter
  • Michel Jazy (1936–2024), French Olympic middle- and long-distance runner
  • Ilana Karaszyk (born 1938), Israeli Olympic sprinter and long jumper
  • Ewa Kłobukowska (born 1946), Olympic sprinter
  • Władysław Komar (1940–1998), Olympic champion shot putter
  • Halina Konopacka (1900–1989), Polish-American Olympic champion discus thrower
  • Robert Korzeniowski (born 1968), Olympic champion racewalker
  • Władysław Kozakiewicz (born 1953), Lithuanian-born Polish Olympic champion pole vaulter
  • Łukasz Krawczuk (born 1989), Olympic sprinter
  • Elżbieta Krzesińska (1934–2015), Olympic champion long jumper
  • Jakub Krzewina (born 1989), Olympic sprinter
  • Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (1929–2003), Olympic champion steeplechaser
  • Adam Kszczot (born 1989), Olympic middle-distance runner
  • Wacław Kuchar (1897–1981), athlete
  • Janusz Kusociński (1907–1940), Olympic champion long-distance runner; murdered by the Nazis
  • Maria Kwaśniewska (1913–2007), Olympic javelin thrower
  • Marcin Lewandowski (born 1987), Olympic middle-distance runner
  • Tomasz Majewski (born 1981), Olympic champion shot putter
  • Piotr Małachowski (born 1983), Olympic discus thrower
  • Wiesław Maniak (1938–1982), Olympic sprinter
  • Bronisław Malinowski (1951–1981), Olympic champion steeplechaser
  • Robert Maćkowiak (born 1970), Olympic sprinter
  • Tamara Metal (1933–2022), Israeli Olympic high jumper and long jumper, and captain of the Israel women's national basketball team
  • Józef Noji (1909–1943), Olympic long-distance runner, murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp
  • Rafał Omelko (born 1989), Olympic sprinter
  • Wanda Panfil (born 1959), Olympic long-distance runner
  • Artur Partyka (born 1969), Olympic high jumper
  • Edmund Piątkowski (1936–2016), Olympic discus thrower
  • Marek Plawgo (born 1981), Olympic hurdler and sprinter
  • Myer Prinstein (1878–1925), Polish-American Olympic champion long-jumper and triple-jumper
  • Monika Pyrek (born 1980), Olympic pole vaulter
  • Anna Rogowska (born 1981), Olympic pole vaulter
  • Tadeusz Rut (1931–2002), Olympic hammer thrower
  • Piotr Rysiukiewicz (born 1974), Olympic sprinter
  • Edward Sarul (born 1958), shot putter
  • Janusz Sidło (1933–1993), Olympic javelin thrower
  • Kamila Skolimowska (1982–2009), Olympic champion hammer thrower
  • Irena Szewińska (1946–2018), Olympic champion sprinter
  • Józef Szmidt (1935–2024), Olympic champion triple jumper
  • Ewa Swoboda (born 1997), Olympic sprinter
  • Tadeusz Ślusarski (1950–1998), Olympic champion pole vaulter
  • Justyna Święty-Ersetic (born 1992), Olympic champion sprinter
  • Marcin Urbaś (born 1976), Olympic sprinter
  • Jadwiga Wajs (1912–1990), Olympic discus thrower
  • Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911–1980), Polish-American Olympic champion sprinter
  • Jan Werner (1946–2014), Olympic sprinter
  • Anita Włodarczyk (born 1985), Olympic champion hammer thrower
  • Paweł Wojciechowski (born 1989), Olympic pole vaulter
  • Marian Woronin (born 1956), Olympic sprinter
  • Jacek Wszoła (born 1956), Olympic champion high jumper
  • Karol Zalewski (born 1993), Olympic champion sprinter
  • Kazimierz Zimny (1935–2022), Olympic long-distance runner
  • Szymon Ziółkowski (born 1976), Olympic champion hammer thrower

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File:Robert Korzeniowski.jpg|R. Korzeniowski

File:Tomasz Majewski Pedro's Cup Łódź 2016 03.jpg|Majewski

File:Prinstein cropped.jpg|Prinstein

File:Anna Rogowska.JPG|Rogowska

File:Irena Szewinska 2012.jpg|Szewińska

File:Wajsówna.jpg|Wajs

File:Feliks Wiśnik 2020.Fencer

File:AnitaWRio2016 cropped.jpg|Włodarczyk

</gallery>

Baseball

  • Moe Drabowsky (1935–2006), Polish-born American baseball player
  • Bill Mazeroski (born 1936), American baseball player, Hall of Fame
  • Stan Musial (1920-2013), American baseball player, Hall of Fame
  • Tom Paciorek (born 1946), American baseball player

Basketball

  • Aleksander Balcerowski (born 2000), basketball player
  • Dardan Berisha (born 1988), Kosovan-Polish basketball player
  • Oded Brandwein (born 1988), Israeli-Polish basketball player
  • Aaron Cel (born 1987), French-Polish basketball player
  • Olek Czyż (born 1990), basketball player
  • Margo Dydek (1974-2011), basketball player, FIBA Hall of Fame
  • Filip Dylewicz (born 1980), basketball player
  • Tomasz Gielo (born 1993), basketball player
  • Marcin Gortat (born 1984), Polish-American National Basketball Association (NBA), Los Angeles Clippers player
  • Karol Gruszecki (born 1989), basketball player
  • Adam Hrycaniuk (born 1984), basketball player
  • Steve Javie (born 1955), American NBA referee
  • Przemek Karnowski (born 1993), basketball player
  • Thomas Kelati (born 1982), American-Polish basketball player
  • Mateusz Kostrzewski (born 1989), basketball player
  • Łukasz Koszarek (born 1984), basketball player
  • Damian Kulig (born 1987), basketball player
  • Maciej Lampe (born 1985), Polish-Swedish NBA basketball player
  • David Logan (born 1982), American-born Polish basketball player
  • Dominik Olejniczak (born 1996), basketball player
  • Mateusz Ponitka (born 1993), basketball player
  • A.J. Slaughter (born 1987), Polish-American basketball player
  • Jeremy Sochan (born 2003), Polish-American NBA player, San Antonio Spurs
  • Michał Sokołowski (born 1992), basketball player
  • Krzysztof Szubarga (born 1984), basketball player
  • Adam Waczyński (born 1989), basketball player
  • Adam Wójcik (1970-2017), basketball player

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File:20160814 Basketball ÖBV Vier-Nationen-Turnier 4428.jpg|Czyż

File:Marcin Gortat (15698879036).jpg|Gortat

File:EuroBasket 2017 Finland vs Poland 22.jpg|Ponitka

File:Wojcik Adam.jpg|Wójcik

</gallery>

Boxing

  • Tomasz Adamek
  • Aleksy Antkiewicz
  • Joe Choynski
  • Zygmunt Chychła
  • Leszek Drogosz
  • Charley Goldman, International Boxing Hall of fame
  • Andrzej Gołota
  • Janusz Gortat
  • Józef Grudzień
  • Marian Kasprzyk
  • Jerzy Kulej
  • Dariusz Michalczewski
  • Kazimierz Paździor
  • Zbigniew Pietrzykowski
  • Jerzy Rybicki
  • Feliks Stamm, coach
  • Jan Szczepański
  • Artur Szpilka
  • Henryk Średnicki
  • Izu Ugonoh
  • Krzysztof Włodarczyk
  • Tony Zale
  • Janusz Zarenkiewicz

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File:Tomasz Adamek 11.JPG|Adamek

File:Andrzej Golota 2014.jpg|Gołota

File:Jerzy Kulej 2.jpg|Kulej

File:Dariusz Michalczewski (2007).jpg|Michalczewski

</gallery>

Checkers

  • Natalia Sadowska (born 1991)

Chess

  • Izak Aloni (1905–1985), Polish-Israeli chess master
  • Izaak Appel (1905–missing), chess master
  • Arnold Aurbach (1888–1952), Polish-French chess master
  • Zdzisław Belsitzmann (1890–1920), chess master
  • Abram Blass (1895–1971), Polish-Israeli chess master
  • Agnieszka Brustman (b. 1962), woman chess grandmaster
  • Oscar Chajes (1873–1928)
  • Joseph Cukierman (1900–1941), Polish-born French grandmaster
  • Hieronim Czarnowski (1834–1902), Polish-French chess master
  • Moshe Czerniak (1910–1984), Polish-Israeli International Master
  • Arthur Dake (1910–2000), American born to Polish parents, grandmaster
  • Dawid Daniuszewski (1885–1944), chess master
  • Józef Dominik (1894–1920), chess master
  • Jan-Krzysztof Duda (b. 1998), grandmaster
  • Arthur Dunkelblum (1906–1979), Polish-Belgian International Master
  • Boruch Israel Dyner (1903–1979), Polish-Belgian-Israeli chess master
  • Hanna Ereńska (b. 1946), woman grandmaster
  • Samuel Factor (1883–1949), Polish-American chess master
  • Alexander Flamberg (1880–1926), chess master
  • Henryk Friedman (1903–1942), chess master
  • Achilles Frydman (1905–1940), chess player, died in a Nazi concentration camp
  • Paulino Frydman (1905–1982), Polish-Argentinean chess master
  • Regina Gerlecka (1913–1983), chess player
  • Edward Gerstenfeld (1915–1943), chess master, killed in the Holocaust
  • Yehuda Gruenfeld (born 1956), grandmaster
  • Izaak Grynfeld (1912-?), later known as Ignacy Branicki, Polish-born Israeli chess master
  • Róża Herman (1902–1995), Woman International Master
  • Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska, Woman International Master
  • Chaim Janowski (1868–1935), chess master
  • Dawid Janowski (1868–1927), chess player
  • Max Judd (1851–1906), American chess player
  • Bernhard Kagan (1866–1932), German chess player
  • Stanisław Kohn (1895–1940), chess master
  • George Koltanowski (1903–2000), American International Master born in Belgium to a Polish-Jewish family, set the world's blindfold record by playing 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, and set a record for playing 56 consecutive blindfold games at ten seconds per move (winning 50, drawing 6).
  • Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov (b. 1938), Polish-Serbian chess master
  • Michał Krasenkow (b. 1963), Russian-born grandmaster, moved to Poland in 1992
  • Leon Kremer (1901–1941), chess master
  • Adam Kuligowski (b. 1955), grandmaster
  • Abraham Kupchik (1892–1970), American chess master
  • Salo Landau (1903–1943), Dutch chess player, died in a Nazi concentration camp
  • Edward Lasker (1885–1981), German-American chess International Master
  • Paul Saladin Leonhardt (1877–1934), German chess master
  • Grigory Levenfish (1889–1961), Soviet grandmaster
  • Moishe Lowtzky (1881–1940), Ukrainian–Polish chess master, died in a Nazi concentration camp
  • Bartłomiej Macieja (b. 1977), grandmaster
  • Kazimierz Makarczyk (1901–1972), chess master
  • Kalikst Morawski (1859–1939), chess master
  • Stasch Mlotkowski (1881–1943), American chess master, born in the US to Polish parents
  • Piotr Murdzia (b. 1975), chess International Master
  • Miguel Najdorf (1910–1997), Polish-Argentine grandmaster
  • Menachem Oren (1903–1962), Polish-born Israeli chess player
  • Julius Perlis (1880–1913), Austrian chess player
  • Karol Piltz (1903–1939), chess master
  • Oskar Piotrowski, chess master
  • Kazimierz Plater (1915–2004), International Master
  • Henryk Pogorieły (1908–1943), chess master, murdered in the Holocaust
  • Ignatz von Popiel (1863–1941), Polish-Ukrainian chess player
  • Artur Popławski (1860–1918), chess master
  • Dawid Przepiórka (1880–1940), won the first Polish championship, murdered in the Holocaust
  • Iweta Rajlich (b. 1981), International Master and Woman Grandmaster
  • Teodor Regedziński (1894–1954), chess master
  • Samuel Reshevsky (1911–1992), Polish-American grandmaster
  • Samuel Rosenthal (1837–1902), Polish-born French chess player
  • Gersz Rotlewi (1889–1920), chess master
  • Akiba Rubinstein (1880–1961), Polish-Belgian International Grandmaster
  • Gersz Salwe (1862–1920), chess master
  • Włodzimierz Schmidt (b. 1943), grandmaster
  • Leon Schwartzmann (1887–1942), Polish–French chess master, murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp
  • Stanislaus Sittenfeld (1865–1902), Polish–French chess master
  • Monika Soćko (b. 1978), grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster
  • Franciszek Sulik (1908–1997), Polish-Australian chess master
  • Bogdan Śliwa (1922–2003), International Master
  • Dariusz Świercz (b. 1994), Polish-American grandmaster
  • Gedali Szapiro (Grzegorz Szapiro; 1929–1972), chess master
  • Savielly Tartakower (1887–1956), Polish-French International Grandmaster
  • Jean Taubenhaus (1850–1919), Polish–born French chess master
  • Oscar Tenner (1880–1948), Poland-born German–American chess master
  • Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1944–2011), Russian grandmaster
  • Alexander Wagner (1868–1942)
  • Szymon Winawer (1838–1919), chess player
  • Radosław Wojtaszek (b. 1987), grandmaster
  • Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (1963–2006), Polish-American grandmaster
  • Daniel Yanofsky (1925–2000), Canadian grandmaster
  • Józef Żabiński (1860–1928), chess master
  • Johannes Zukertort (1842–1888), Polish-born British-German chess master
  • Adolf Zytogorski (–1882), Polish-British chess master

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File:Duda und Giri 2018 Dortmund (cropped).jpg|Duda

File:Miguel Najdorf 1973.jpg|Najdorf

File:Akiba-RubinsteinC.jpg|Rubinstein

File:Monika Soćko 2013.jpg|Soćko

File:Dariusz Świercz POLch 2014.jpg|Świerszcz

File:Ksawery Tartakower.jpg|Tartakower

File:Radoslaw Wojtaszek POLch 2014.jpg|Wojtaszek

</gallery>

Climbing

  • Klemens Bachleda, Tatra guide and mountain rescuer
  • Kinga Baranowska, mountaineer
  • Andrzej Bargiel, ski mountaineer and climber
  • Leszek Cichy, high-altitude climber
  • Jerzy Kukuczka, high-altitude climber
  • Wojciech Kurtyka, high-altitude climber and rock climber
  • Aleksandra Mirosław (born 1994), Olympic champion speed climber
  • Aleksander Ostrowski, high-altitude climber and extreme skier
  • Piotr Pustelnik, high-altitude climber
  • Wanda Rutkiewicz, high-altitude climber
  • Krzysztof Wielicki, high-altitude climber
  • Andrzej Zawada, high-altitude climber

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Jerzy Kukuczka Mount Everest 1980.jpg|Kukuczka

File:2018 - Pol’and’Rock Festival - Krzysztof Wielicki 02.jpg|Wielicki

</gallery>

Cycling

  • Maciej Bodnar
  • Eugenia Bujak
  • Zenon Jaskuła
  • Justyna Kaczkowska
  • Michał Kwiatkowski
  • Czesław Lang
  • Wacław Latocha
  • Rafał Majka
  • Przemysław Niemiec
  • Katarzyna Niewiadoma
  • Mieczysław Nowicki
  • Katarzyna Pawłowska
  • Daria Pikulik
  • Paweł Poljański
  • Wojciech Pszczolarski
  • Szymon Sajnok
  • Sylwester Szmyd
  • Stanisław Szozda
  • Ryszard Szurkowski, road bicycle racing
  • Mateusz Taciak
  • Adrian Tekliński
  • Piotr Wadecki, road bicycle racing
  • Maja Włoszczowska

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Fourmies - Grand Prix de Fourmies, 6 septembre 2015 (B087).JPG|Kwiatkowski

File:Rafał Majka, Japan Cup 2012 (cropped).jpg|Majka

File:Canyon tour de france 1508615 (Katarzyna).jpg|Niewiadoma

File:UCI Track World Championships 2018 245.jpg|Sajnok

File:Ryszard Szurkowski 2.jpg|Szurkowski

File:Majawloszczowska1.jpg|Włoszczowska

</gallery>

Fencing

  • Robert Andrzejuk (born 1975), Olympic épée fencer
  • Kazimierz Barburski (1942–2016), Olympic épée fencer
  • Michał Butkiewicz (born 1942), Olympic épée fencer
  • Zbigniew Czajkowski (1921–2019), foil and sabre fencer, and coach
  • Egon Franke (1935–2022), Olympic champion foil fencer
  • Arkadiusz Godel (born 1952), Olympic champion foil fencer
  • Sylwia Gruchała (born 1981), Olympic foil fencer
  • Roman Kantor (1912–1943), Olympic épée fencer, murdered in the Majdanek concentration camp
  • Renata Knapik-Miazga (born 1988), Olympic épée fencer
  • Marcin Koniusz (born 1983), Olympic sabre fencer
  • Edward Korfanty (born 1952), Polish-born American fencing master
  • Adam Krzesiński (born 1965), Olympic foil fencer
  • Ryszard Parulski (1938–2017), Olympic foil fencer
  • Jerzy Pawłowski (1932–2005), Olympic champion sabre fencer
  • Anna Rybicka (born 1977), Olympic foil fencer
  • Ryszard Sobczak (born 1967), Olympic foil fencer
  • Aleksandra Socha (born 1982), Olympic sabre fencer
  • Rafał Sznajder (1972–2014), Olympic sabre fencer
  • Ewa Trzebińska (born 1989), Olympic épée fencer
  • Witold Woyda (1939–2008), Olympic champion foil fencer
  • Barbara Wysoczańska (born 1949), Olympic foil fencer
  • Wojciech Zabłocki (1930–2020), Olympic sabre fencer

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Chwała olimpijczykom - s.064a - Roman Kantor.tif|Kantor

File:Jerzy Pawłowski 1968.jpg|Pawłowski

File:Aleksandra Socha 2014 European Championships SFS-EQ t131715.jpg|Socha

File:Witold Woyda c1974.jpg|Woyda

</gallery>

Football

  • Zygmunt Anczok, defender
  • Henryk Apostel, coach
  • Jan Banaś, attacker
  • Jan Bednarek, defender
  • Jakub Błaszczykowski, midfielder
  • Zbigniew Boniek, midfielder, head of the Polish Football Association (PZPN)
  • Artur Boruc, goalkeeper
  • Lucjan Brychczy, midfielder
  • Andrzej Buncol, midfielder
  • Matty Cash, defender
  • Ewald Cebula, defender
  • Gerard Cieślik, midfielder
  • Lesław Ćmikiewicz, midfielder
  • Kazimierz Deyna, midfielder
  • Bartłomiej Drągowski, goalkeeper
  • Jerzy Dudek, goalkeeper
  • Ewald Dytko, midfielder
  • Łukasz Fabiański, goalkeeper
  • Robert Gadocha, attacker
  • Ludwik Gintel, defender/forward
  • Jacek Gmoch, coach
  • Jerzy Gorgoń, defender
  • Kazimierz Górski, coach
  • Kamil Grabara, goalkeeper
  • Ya'akov Grundman (Jakub Grundman' 1939-2004), midfielder and manager
  • Paweł Janas, defender, coach
  • Ireneusz Jeleń, attacker
  • Erich Juskowiak, defender
  • Józef Kałuża, attacker, coach
  • Henryk Kasperczak, midfielder, coach
  • Jakub Kiwior, defender
  • Miroslav Klose, attacker
  • Józef Klotz, defender; murdered by the Nazis
  • Raymond Kopa, attacker
  • Hubert Kostka, goalkeeper
  • Tadeusz Kuchar, midfielder, coach
  • Tomasz Kuszczak, goalkeeper
  • Grzegorz Lato, attacker
  • Robert Lewandowski, attacker
  • Jan Liberda, attacker
  • Włodzimierz Lubański, attacker
  • Józef Lustgarten, midfielder, manager
  • Stefan Majewski, defender, coach
  • Szymon Marciniak, football referee
  • Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, goalkeeper
  • Arkadiusz Milik, attacker
  • Józef Młynarczyk, goalkeeper
  • Piotr Nowak, midfielder
  • Erwin Nyc, midfielder
  • Teodor Peterek, attacker
  • Krzysztof Piątek, attacker
  • Ryszard Piec, midfielder
  • Wilhelm Piec, midfielder
  • Antoni Piechniczek, defender, coach
  • Leonard Piontek, midfielder
  • Lukas Podolski, attacker
  • Łukasz Piszczek, defender
  • Ernest Pohl, attacker
  • Fryderyk Scherfke, midfielder
  • Itzhak Schneor, defender
  • Yisha'ayahu Schwager (Jeszaja Szwagier), Olympic defender
  • Ebi Smolarek, attacker
  • Włodzimierz Smolarek, midfielder
  • Leon Sperling, forward (left wing)
  • Zygmunt Steuermann, forward
  • Karol Swiderski, forward
  • Piotr Świerczewski, midfielder
  • Grzegorz Szamotulski, goalkeeper
  • Andrzej Szarmach, attacker
  • Władysław Szczepaniak, defender
  • Wojciech Szczęsny, goalkeeper
  • Edward Szymkowiak, goalkeeper
  • Andrzej Szczypkowski (born 1971), midfielder
  • Łukasz Teodorczyk, attacker
  • Jan Tomaszewski, goalkeeper
  • Piotr Trochowski, midfielder
  • Krzysztof Warzycha, attacker
  • Ernest Wilimowski, attacker
  • Walter Winkler, defender
  • Maryan Wisnieski, attacker
  • Gerard Wodarz, attacker
  • Łukasz Załuska, goalkeeper
  • Piotr Zieliński, midfielder
  • Władysław Żmuda, defender

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:110px">

File:Jakub Błaszczykowski 2019.jpg|Błaszczykowski

File:Boniek Zbigniew.jpg|Boniek

File:Kazimierz Deyna.jpg|Deyna

File:Jerzy Dudek (cropped).jpg|Dudek

File:V.l.n.r. Lato, Boniek en trainer Kulesza, Bestanddeelnr 930-4929 (Lato cropped).jpg|Lato

File:Robert Lewandowski FCB.jpg|R. Lewandowski

File:Arkadiusz Milik 2016 (cropped).jpg|Milik

File:Wojciech Szczęsny 2018.jpg|Szczęsny

File:Aankomst Pools elftal op Schiphol 15 Tomaszewski, kop, 16 Deyna, kop, Bestanddeelnr 928-2029.jpg|Tomaszewski

</gallery>

Ice hockey

  • Mariusz Czerkawski
  • Wayne Gretzky, mixed Polish descent
  • Gordie Howe, mixed Polish descent
  • Mike Komisarek
  • Ed Olczyk
  • Krzysztof Oliwa
  • Brian Rafalski
  • Peter Sidorkiewicz, Polish-Canadian
  • Bryan Smolinski
  • Pete Stemkowski
  • Lee Stempniak
  • Daniel Tkaczuk
  • James Wisniewski
  • Wojtek Wolski, Polish-Canadian
  • Travis Zajac

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Mariusz Czerkawski.jpg|Czerkawski

File:Wojtek Wolski 1 2012-03-09.JPG|Wolski

</gallery>

Judo

  • Rafał Kubacki (born 1967), Olympic judoka
  • Waldemar Legień (born 1963), Olympic champion judoka
  • Paweł Nastula (born 1970), Olympic champion judoka

Skating

  • Karolina Bosiek, speed skater
  • Zbigniew Bródka, speed skater
  • Patrycja Maliszewska, short track speed skater
  • Elwira Seroczyńska, speed skater
  • Jan Szymański, speed skater

Skiing

  • Konrad Bartelski, Alpine ski racer
  • Bronisław Czech, Alpine ski racer
  • Piotr Fijas, ski jumper
  • Wojciech Fortuna, ski jumper
  • Krystyna Guzik, biathlete
  • Monika Hojnisz, biathlete
  • Stefan Hula, Sr., Nordic combined skier
  • Stefan Hula, Jr., ski jumper
  • Justyna Kowalczyk, cross-country skier
  • Maciej Kot, ski jumper
  • Dawid Kubacki, ski jumper
  • Józef Łuszczek, cross-country skier
  • Adam Małysz, ski jumper
  • Jan Marusarz, World War II Carpathian Mountains escort of intelligence agent Krystyna Skarbek
  • Stanisław Marusarz, ski jumper
  • Weronika Nowakowska, biathlete
  • Tomasz Sikora, biathlete
  • Monika Skinder, cross-country skiing
  • Kamil Stoch, ski jumper
  • Jan Ziobro, ski jumper
  • Piotr Żyła, ski jumper

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Kowalczyk-Trondheim09.jpg|Kowalczyk

File:Adam Malysz (2).jpg|Małysz

File:Tomasz Sikora - 21-01-2010 (cropped).jpg|Sikora

File:20170106 VST Bischofshofen 5186.jpg|Stoch

</gallery>

Swimming

  • Katarzyna Baranowska
  • Konrad Czerniak
  • Agnieszka Czopek
  • Otylia Jędrzejczak
  • Radosław Kawęcki
  • Bartosz Kizierowski
  • Michael Klim, Australian
  • Agata Korc
  • Paweł Korzeniowski
  • Daniel Kowalski, Australian
  • Sławomir Kuczko
  • Ksawery Masiuk
  • Mariusz Podkościelny
  • Mateusz Sawrymowicz
  • Lejzor Ilja Szrajbman; murdered by the Nazis in Majdanek concentration camp
  • Rafał Szukała
  • Katarzyna Wasick
  • Wojciech Wojdak
  • Artur Wojdat

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:KonradCzerniak-0137.jpg|Czerniak

File:Otylia Jędrzejczak 2014.jpg|Jędrzejczak

File:Chwała olimpijczykom - s.071 - Lejzor Szrajbman.tif|Szrajbman

</gallery>

Tennis

  • Wojciech Fibak
  • Magdalena Fręch
  • Mariusz Fyrstenberg
  • Hubert Hurkacz
  • Jerzy Janowicz
  • Klaudia Jans-Ignacik
  • Jadwiga Jędrzejowska
  • Angelique Kerber, German
  • Łukasz Kubot
  • Magda Linette
  • Sabine Lisicki, German
  • Kamil Majchrzak
  • Marcin Matkowski
  • Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), Russian-born German, Polish, and British world-top-ten tennis player
  • Michał Przysiężny
  • Agnieszka Radwańska
  • Urszula Radwańska
  • Władysław Skonecki
  • Iga Świątek
  • Caroline Wozniacki, Danish

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Hurkacz RG19 (10) (48199235282).jpg|Hurkacz

File:Kubot WM16 (1) (28136044530).jpg|Kubot

File:Agnieszka Radwanska (19027292262).jpg|A. Radwańska

File:Swiatek RG19 (1) (48199020336).jpg|Świątek

</gallery>

Volleyball

  • Zbigniew Bartman
  • Michał Bąkiewicz
  • Mateusz Bieniek
  • Agnieszka Bednarek-Kasza
  • Izabela Bełcik
  • Grzegorz Bociek
  • Monika Bociek
  • Rafał Buszek
  • Fabian Drzyzga
  • Tomasz Fornal
  • Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale
  • Piotr Gruszka
  • Krzysztof Ignaczak
  • Jakub Jarosz
  • Joanna Kaczor
  • Łukasz Kadziewicz
  • Karol Kłos
  • Jakub Kochanowski
  • Dawid Konarski
  • Grzegorz Kosok
  • Michał Kubiak
  • Bartosz Kurek
  • Bartosz Kwolek
  • Wilfredo León
  • Grzegorz Łomacz
  • Mateusz Mika
  • Joanna Mirek
  • Marcin Możdżonek
  • Agata Mróz-Olszewska
  • Dawid Murek
  • Piotr Nowakowski
  • Paweł Papke
  • Daniel Pliński
  • Magdalena Sadowska
  • Arie Selinger (born 1937)
  • Kamil Semeniuk
  • Katarzyna Skowrońska-Dolata
  • Artur Szalpuk
  • Aleksander Śliwka
  • Sebastian Świderski
  • Dorota Świeniewicz
  • Hubert Wagner
  • Anna Werblińska
  • Michał Winiarski
  • Mariusz Wlazły
  • Tomasz Wójtowicz
  • Andrzej Wrona
  • Paweł Zagumny
  • Paweł Zatorski
  • Łukasz Żygadło

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Zbigniew Bartman 2. 2010-05-29.jpg|Bartman

File:Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale 02 - FIVB World Championship European Qualification Women Łódź January 2014.jpg|Glinka

File:Piotr Gruszka - FIVB World Championship European Qualification Women Łódź January 2014.jpg|Gruszka

File:Volleyball Nations League Poland - France (28628996908).jpg|Kubiak

File:Bartosz Kurek (Legavolley 2014).jpg|Kurek

File:Katarzyna Skowrońska-Dolata 02 - FIVB World Championship European Qualification Women Łódź January 2014.jpg|Skowrońska

File:Szalpuk Artur 2018.jpg|Szalpuk

File:Mariusz Wlazły 2014 01.jpg|Wlazły

</gallery>

Weightlifting

  • Waldemar Baszanowski (1935–2011)
  • Marcin Dołęga (born 1982)
  • Ze'ev Friedman (1944–1972), flyweight weightlifter killed in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre
  • Ben Helfgott (1929–2023), Polish-born British
  • Zbigniew Kaczmarek ( 1946–2023)
  • Aleksandra Klejnowska (born 1982)
  • Szymon Kołecki (born 1981)
  • Andrzej Maszewski
  • Mieczysław Nowak
  • Norbert Ozimek
  • Ireneusz Paliński
  • Norbert Schemansky (1924–2016), American
  • Zygmunt Smalcerz
  • Marek Seweryn
  • Stanley Stanczyk (1925–1997), American
  • Agata Wróbel
  • Adrian Zieliński
  • Marian Zieliński (1929–2005)

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px">

File:Waldemar Baszanowski 1964.jpg|Baszanowski

File:Szymon Kołecki (2007).jpg|Kołecki

</gallery>

Others sports

  • Iwo Baraniewski, mixed martial arts
  • Józef Bednarski, wrestling WWF
  • Karol Bielecki, handball
  • Leszek Blanik, gymnastics
  • Jan Błachowicz, mixed martial arts
  • Maciej Chorążyk, soccer official and sports journalist
  • Janusz Centka, gliding
  • Jarek Dymek, strongman
  • Mateusz Gamrot, mixed martial arts
  • Tomasz Gollob, Motorcycle speedway World Champion
  • Andrzej Grubba, table tennis
  • Sebastian Janikowski, American football
  • Stan Javie, American football official
  • Joanna Jędrzejczyk, mixed martial arts
  • Stefan Kapłaniak, canoeing
  • Sebastian Kawa, gliding
  • Justin Koschitzke, former professional Australian rules footballer for St Kilda
  • Karolina Kowalkiewicz, mixed martial arts
  • Robert Kubica, Formula One and auto racing driver
  • Tomasz Kucharski, rowing
  • Mateusz Kusznierewicz, sailing
  • Jerzy Makula, glider aerobatics
  • Wiktor Malinowski, professional poker player
  • Piotr Markiewicz, canoeing
  • Renata Mauer, shooting
  • Przemyslaw Mazur, auto racing
  • Gene Mruczkowski, American football
  • Scott Mruczkowski, American football
  • Zofia Noceti-Klepacka, windsurfing
  • Aneta Pastuszka, canoeing
  • James Podsiadly, former professional Australian rules footballer for Adelaide and Geelong
  • Mariusz Pudzianowski, strongman
  • Ivan Putski, professional wrestler
  • Helena Rakoczy, gymnastics
  • Teresa Remiszewska (1928–2002), ocean sailor
  • Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek, modern pentathlete
  • Paul Slowinski, Muay Thai
  • Adam Smelczyński, shooting
  • Rafał Sonik, quad rally driver
  • Robert Sycz, rowing
  • Jerzy Szczakiel, Motorcycle speedway World Champion
  • Sławomir Szmal, handball
  • Marek Twardowski, canoeing
  • Roger Verey, rowing
  • Bogdan Wenta, handball
  • Sebastian Wenta, strongman, highland games
  • David Wojcinski, former professional Australian rules footballer for Geelong
  • Jerzy Wojnar, luge
  • Andrzej Wroński, wrestling
  • Józef Zapędzki, shooting
  • Sobiesław Zasada, auto racing

<gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:110px">

File:2013 WSDC Sochi - Zbigniew Brodka.JPG|Bródka

File:Joanna Jędrzejczyk.png|Jędrzejczyk

File:Sebastian Kawa piloting over the Aconcagua.JPG|Kawa

File:2014 Rallye Deutschland by 2eight 8SC0282.jpg|Kubica

File:Climbing World Championships 2018 Speed Final Rudzinska (BT0A6513).jpg|Mirosław

File:Mariusz Pudzianowski 5.JPG|Pudzianowski

</gallery>

See also

  • List of Polish Americans
  • List of Polish inventors and discoverers
  • List of Polish Jews
  • List of Polish Nobel laureates
  • Poles
  • Timeline of Polish science and technology

References