List of Polish people

Science

Physics

• Czesław Białobrzeski
• Georges Charpak, 1995 Nobel Prize
• Jan Kazimierz Danysz
• Marian Danysz
• Tomasz Dietl
• Artur Ekert, one of the inventors of quantum cryptography
• Marek Gazdzicki
• Ryszard Horodecki
• Leopold Infeld
• Aleksander Jabłoński
• Jerzy Stanisław Janicki
• Sylwester Kaliski
• Jan Eugeniusz Krysiński
• Stanislas Leibler
• Maciej Lewenstein
• Olga Malinkiewicz
• Albert A. Michelson
• Stanisław Mrozowski
• Władysław Natanson
• Witold Nazarewicz
• Henryk Niewodniczański
• Georges Nomarski
• Karol Olszewski
• Jerzy Plebański
• Jerzy Pniewski
• Nikodem Popławski
• Sylwester Porowski, blue laser
• Józef Rotblat, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize
• Stefan Rozental
• Wojciech Rubinowicz
• Maria Skłodowska 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
• Witelo, philosopher, medieval optics
• Stanley Wojcicki
• Mieczysław Wolfke
• Stanisław Lech Woronowicz
• Zygmunt Wróblewski
• Marek Żukowski
• Wojciech H. Zurek

  Chemistry

• Osman Achmatowicz
• Józef Boguski
• Kazimierz Boratyński
• Jan Czochralski, modern semiconductors
• Emil Czyrniański
• Tadeusz Estreicher, cryogenics pioneer
• Kazimierz Fajans
• Kazimierz Funk, biochemist, the concept of vitamins
• Andrzej Górak
• Antoni Grabowski
• Konstanty Hrynakowski
• Andrzej Jajszczyk
• Adolf Joszt
• Aharon Katzir, electrochemistry of biopolymers
• Wiktor Kemula
• Włodzimierz Kołos
• Stanisław Kostanecki
• Marek Gatty-Kostyal
• Ignacy Łukasiewicz, inventor of kerosene lamp
• Mieczysław Mąkosza
• Leon Marchlewski
• Bolesław Masłowski
• Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
• Mark Miodownik, materials scientist and engineer
• Ignacy Mościcki
• Marceli Nencki
• Karol Olszewski
• Krzysztof Palczewski
• Sylwester Porowski
• Tadeusz Reichstein, Nobel Prize winner
• Michał Sędziwój, Latinized as Sendivogius: alchemist, physician, discoverer of oxygen
• Maria Skłodowska 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

  Biology, medicine

• Joseph Babinski, neurologist, discoverer of the Babinski reflex
• Edmund Biernacki, physician, discoverer of erythrocyte sedimentation rate
• Czesław Bieżanko, entomologist
• Tytus Chałubiński, physician
• Napoleon Cybulski, neurophysiologist, discoverer of adrenaline
• Maria Antonina Czaplicka, anthropologist
• Jan Czekanowski, anthropologist
• Wiktor Dega, surgeon
• August Dehnel, biologist
• Jozef Dietl, physician
• Jan Dzierżon, zoologist, apiarist
• Stefan Falimierz, physician, herbalist
• Sidney Farber, pathologist and cancer biologist, founder of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Edward Flatau, neurologist
• Ludwik Fleck, microbiologist, philosopher of science
• Eva Frommer, child psychiatrist and anthroposophist
• Kazimierz Funk, coined the term vitamin
• Marian Gieszczykiewicz, physician
• Emil Godlewski, embryologist
• Samuel Goldflam, neurologist
• Adam Gruca, surgeon
• Ryszard Gryglewski, pharmacologist, physician
• Tomasz Guzik, physician
• Ludwik Hirszfeld, microbiologist
• Feliks Paweł Jarocki, zoologist
• Stefania Jabłońska, dermatologist
• Walery Jaworski, physician
• Konstanty Jelski, ornithologist
• Zbigniew Kabata, biologist
• Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, paleobiologist
• Aleksander Koj, physician, scientist
• Jerzy Konorski, neurophysiologist
• Stefan Kopec, biologist
• Hilary Koprowski, polio vaccine
• Tadeusz Krwawicz, medical pioneer
• Abraham Low, neuropsychiatrist
• Margaret Lowenfeld, paediatrician and pioneer of Sandplay Therapy
• Karol Marcinkowski, physician
• Eugène Minkowski, psychiatrist influenced by Bergson and phenomenology
• Ludwik Mlokosiewicz, botanist
• Maksymilian Nowicki, biologist
• Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, biologist
• Marek Pienkowski, immunologist
• Piotr Ponikowski, cardiologist
• Moshe Prywes, Israeli physician and educator; first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• Zbigniew Religa, cardiologist
• Józef Rostafiński, biologist
• Albert Sabin, polio vaccine; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
• Andrzej Wiktor Schally, Nobel-laureate endocrinologist
• Hanna Segal, leading Kleinian psychoanalyst
• Michael Sela, Israeli immunologist; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
• Henryk Skarżyński, otolaryngologist, audiologist, phoniatrist
• Eduard Adolf Strasburger, botanist
• Andrzej Szczeklik
• Jan Sztolcman, ornithologist
• Wacław Szybalski, physician
• Władysław Taczanowski, zoologist
• Andrzej K. Tarkowski, embryologist
• Zbylut Twardowski, physician
• Jerzy Vetulani, neuroscientist, pharmacologist and biochemist
• Józef Warszewicz, botanist
• Rudolf Weigl, typhus vaccine
• Helena Rosa Wright, physician influential in family planning
• Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, physician

  Astronomy

• Franciszek Armiński
• Tadeusz Banachiewicz
• Jan Brożek
• Albert Brudzewski
• Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish-German astronomer, known for the heliocentric theory
• Wojciech Dziembowski
• Władysław Dziewulski
• Michał Falkener
• Jan Gadomski
• Johannes Hevelius
• 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
• Konrad Rudnicki
• Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki
• Jan Śniadecki
• Andrzej Udalski
• Wiesław Wiśniewski
• Aleksander Wolszczan, first discovery of extrasolar planets
• Thomas Zebrowski
• Anna N. Żytkow

  Mathematics

• Nachman Aronszajn
• Stefan Banach
• Tadeusz Banachiewicz
• Kazimierz Bartel
• Andrzej Białynicki-Birula
• Karol Borsuk
• Jacob Bronowski
• Jan Brożek
• Meier Eidelheit
• Samuel Eilenberg
• Andrzej Grzegorczyk
• Witold Hurewicz
• Henryk Iwaniec
• Zygmunt Janiszewski
• Stanisław Jaśkowski
• Jan Jaworowski
• Mark Kac
• Stefan Kaczmarz
• Marek Karpinski, computer scientist
• Bronisław Knaster
• Kazimierz Kordylewski
• Robert Kowalski
• Zdzisław Krygowski
• Krystyna Kuperberg
• Włodzimierz Kuperberg
• Kazimierz Kuratowski
• Izabella Łaba
• Franciszek Leja
• Stanisław Leśniewski
• Adolf Lindenbaum
• Stanisław Łojasiewicz
• Antoni Łomnicki
• Jerzy Łoś
• Jan Łukasiewicz, logician, inventor of the parenthesis-free Polish Notation
• Edward Marczewski
• Józef Marcinkiewicz
• Stanisław Mazur
• Stefan Mazurkiewicz
• Jan Mikusinski
• Michał Misiurewicz
• Andrzej Mostowski
• Jan Mycielski
• Jerzy Spława-Neyman
• Otton M. Nikodym
• Wiesława Nizioł
• Andrew Odlyzko
• Władysław Orlicz
• Józef H. Przytycki
• 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
• Hugo Steinhaus
• Włodzimierz Stożek
• Wanda Szmielew
• Władysław Ślebodziński
• Ivan Śleszyński
• Jan Śniadecki
• Alfred Tarski
• :pl:Adam Henryk Toruńczyk|Adam Henryk Toruńczyk
• Stanisław Ulam, co-designer of the hydrogen bomb
• Tadeusz Ważewski
• Józef Hoene-Wroński
• Kazimierz Zarankiewicz
• Stanisław Zaremba
• Henryk Zygalski, Enigma-breaker
• Antoni Zygmund
• Kazimierz Żorawski

  Computer science

• Paul Baran
• Krzysztof Cios
• Andrzej Ehrenfeucht
• Siemion Fajtlowicz, known for his Graffiti
• :en:Tomasz Imieliński|Tomasz Imieliński
• Piotr Indyk
• Jacek Karpiński
• Marek Karpiński
• Marian Mazur
• Jan Mycielski
• Zdzislaw Pawlak
• Emil Leon Post
• Stanisław Radziszowski
• Andrew Targowski
• Jack Tramiel
• Andrzej Trybulec, Mizar system
• Stanisław Ulam
• Jan Węglarz
• Michał Zalewski

  Linguistics

• Jolanta Antas
• Jerzy Bartmiński
• Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, developed the theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations
• Andrzej Bogusławski
• Aleksander Brückner, Slavicist and Polish-language lexicographer
• :pl:Kazimierz Bulas|Kazimierz Bulas, Polish–English lexicographer
• Jan Bystroń
• Jan Czekanowski
• Andrzej Gawroński
• Grzegorz Knapski
• Władysław Kopaliński
• Onufry Kopczyński, creator of Polish-grammar terminology
• Alfred Korzybski, originator of general semantics
• Mikołaj Kruszewski
• Jerzy Kuryłowicz
• Samuel Bogumił Linde, Polish language lexicographer
• Jan Mączyński
• Halina Mierzejewska
• Jan Miodek
• Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, Polish–English lexicographer
• Anna Siewierska
• Jan Stanisławski, Polish–English lexicographer
• Antoni Józef Śmieszek
• Michel Thomas
• Zdzisław Wąsik
• Anna Wierzbicka
• L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto

  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, first submarine
• Jan Dzierzon, 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
• Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, petroleum-drilling platform inventor
• Kazimierz Proszyński, cinematic camera
• 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
• Józef Tykociński, sound film
• Stefan Tyszkiewicz, automotive and audio improvements
• Mieczysław Wolfke, precursor of holography
• Casimir Zeglen, bullet-proof vest
• Henryk Zygalski, Zygalski sheets

  Engineering

• Krzysztof Arciszewski
• Karol Adamiecki
• Mieczysław G. Bekker, first moon rover
• Georges Charpak, particle detector
• Stefan Bryła, first welded road bridge
• Romuald Cebertowicz, soil solidification
• Zdzisław Celiński
• Jerzy Dąbrowski, designer of PZL.37 Łoś bomber
• Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor
• Rudolf Gundlach, tank designer
• Kazimierz Gzowski
• Edward Jan Habich
• Tytus Maksymilian Huber
• Jacek Jędruch
• Stanisław Kierbedź
• Józef Kosacki, Polish mine detector
• Janusz Liberkowski, inventor
• Henryk Magnuski, walkie-talkie
• Ernest Malinowski, constructor of Ferrocarril Central Andino, the world's highest railway at that time
• Henry Millicer, aviation
• Ralph Modjeski, bridge designer
• Jan Nagórski, first man to fly over the North Pole
• Kazimierz Ołdakowski
• Antoni Patek, pioneer in watchmaking and a creator of Patek Philippe & Co.
• Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski
• Zygmunt Puławski, designer of PZL P.11 fighter
• Wojciech Rostafiński, NASA
• Kazimierz Siemienowicz, pioneer of rocket
• Stefan Tyszkiewicz, automotive engineer, inventor of the airport luggage trolley
• Stanisław Wigura, aviation
• Piotr Wilniewczyc, weaponry
• Franciszek Żwirko, aviation

  Social sciences

• Tadeusz Andrzejewski, archeologist, Egyptologist
• Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist, philosopher
• Stefan Błachowski, psychologist
• Maria Czaplicka, anthropologist
• Jan Władysław Dawid, psychologist
• Tomasz Drezner, Renaissance jurist
• Zygmunt Gloger, ethnographer, archaeologist, historian
• Ludwig Gumplowicz, a founder of sociology
• Norbert Guterman
• Franciszek Kasparek, jurist, professor of international law
• Oskar Kolberg, ethnographer
• Marek Kotański, psychologist
• Ludwik Krzywicki, anthropologist, economist, sociologist
• Jan Kubary, naturalist, ethnographer
• Hersch Lauterpacht, legal concept of crimes against humanity
• Raphael Lemkin, legal concept of genocide
• 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
• Jerzy Szacki, historian of ideas
• Zbigniew Szafrański, Egyptologist, archeologist
• Jacek Szmatka, sociologist
• Piotr Sztompka, sociologist
• Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński, sociologist, founder of PAN
• Florian Znaniecki, sociologist

  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
• Antoni Żabko-Potopowicz

  Other sciences

• Henryk Arctowski, explorer of the Antarctic
• Benedykt Polak, explorer
• Leon Barszczewski, explorer
• Karol Bohdanowicz, geologist
• Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski, scholar, archaeologist, professor
• Gerard Ciołek, architect and historian of gardens
• Aleksander Czekanowski, explorer of Siberia
• Jan Czerski, paleontologist, explorer of Siberia
• Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska, socialist politician, suffragist
• Kazimierz Dąbrowski, psychologist
• Helene Deutsch, psychoanalyst
• Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski, geophysicist, meteorologist, polar explorer
• Ignacy Domeyko, geologist
• Benedykt Dybowski, naturalist, explorer of Siberia
• Bronisław Grąbczewski, explorer
• Gaspar da Gama, traveller, interpreter, explorer
• Mirosław Hermaszewski, the first Polish cosmonaut
• Leonard Jaczewski, engineer, explorer of Asian Russia
• 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
• Józef Kostrzewski, archeologist, museologist
• Irena Krzywicka, feminst, writer, translator
• 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
• Halszka Osmólska, paleontologist
• Jacek Pałkiewicz, journalist and explorer, best known for discovering the sources of the Amazon River
• Michael Alfred Peszke, psychiatrist
• Jan Potocki, linguist, Egyptologist, sociologist, author of The Saragossa Manuscript
• Antoni Józef Śmieszek, Egyptologist
• Stanisław of Skarbimierz, political scientist
• Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, geologist, explorer of Australia
• Tadeusz Sulimirski, archeologist
• Józef Trzemeski, polar explorer
• Bernard Wapowski, "father of Polish cartography"
• Andrzej Wawrzyniak, diplomat, founder of the Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw
• Paweł Włodkowic, jurist
• Robert Zajonc, psychologist
• Czesław Zakaszewski, hydrologist
• Kazimierz Żurowski, archaeologist

  History

• Roman Aftanazy, historian of former Eastern Borderlands and librarian
• Szymon Askenazy, historian and diplomat
• Marcin Bielski, chronicler
• Michał Bobrzyński, historian and politician
• Józef Borzyszkowski, Kashubian historian
• Filip Callimachus
• Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
• Piotr Cywiński
• Tadeusz Czacki
• Norman Davies, a British-Polish historian
• Jan Długosz, 15th-century chronicler of Poland
• Marian Kamil Dziewanowski, Poland, Russia, modern Europe
• Karol Estreicher, father of Polish Bibliography
• Stanisław Estreicher
• Tadeusz Estreicher
• Józef Feldman
• Mieczysław Gębarowicz, art historian, museum director, custodian of Ossolineum
• Aleksander Gieysztor
• Kazimierz Godłowski, historian and archeologist
• Władysław Grabski
• Roman Grodecki
• Oskar Halecki, historian of Poland
• Marceli Handelsman, historian of Poland
• Paweł Jasienica, historian of Poland
• Jacek Jędruch
• Wincenty Kadłubek, 13th-century historian of Poland
• Józef Kasparek, constitutions; World War II era
• Stefan Kieniewicz, 19th-century Polish history
• Jerzy Kirchmayer, 1944 Warsaw Uprising
• Hugo Kołłątaj, 18th–19th-century historian, philosopher and politician
• Feliks Koneczny, Polish history, social philosophy
• Władysław Konopczyński, Polish and world history
• 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
• Stanisław Kutrzeba, Poland, Polish law, Kraków
• Gerard Labuda
• Joachim Lelewel, historian of Poland
• Jerzy Jan Lerski
• Wacław Lipiński
• Stanisław Lorentz, art historian
• Czesław Madajczyk, World War II
• Janusz Magnuski, World War II Polish and Soviet Armor
• Tadeusz Manteuffel, medievalist
• Benjamin Mazar, Israeli historian and archeologist; President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Maciej Miechowita
• 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, 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
• Stanisław Salmonowicz, historian of law
• Henryk Samsonowicz, historian specializing in medieval Poland
• Julian Stachiewicz, military historian
• Szymon Starowolski
• Dariusz Stola
• Maciej Stryjkowski, historian, writer, poet
• Tomasz Strzembosz, Polish World War II history
• Tadeusz Sulimirski, historian and archeologist
• 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
• Richard Woytak, World War II era
• Wincenty Zakrzewski, 16th-century Poland
• Adam Zamoyski
• Janusz K. Zawodny, World War II
• Marek Żukow-Karczewski, historian and journalist

  Philosophy

• Adam of Łowicz
• Edward Abramowski
• Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
• Zygmunt Bauman
• Stefan Błachowski
• Józef Maria Bocheński
• Stanisław Brzozowski
• Adam Burski
• Piotr Chmielowski
• Leon Chwistek
• August Cieszkowski
• Edward Dembowski
• Anioł Dowgird
• Adolf Dygasiński
• Michał Falkener
• Ludwik Fleck, 20th-century philosopher of science
• Józef Gołuchowski
• Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki
• Jakub Górski
• Grzegorz of Stawiszyn
• Jan Hartman
• Władysław Heinrich
• Michał Heller
• Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński
• 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
• Stanisław Leszczyński
• Stanisław Leśniewski
• Casimir Lewy
• Karol Libelt
• Wincenty Lutosławski
• Jan Łukasiewicz
• Kazimierz Łyszczyński
• Adam Mahrburg
• Marian Massonius
• Émile Meyerson
• Konstanty Michalski
• Wawrzyniec Mitzler de Kolof
• Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski
• Julian Ochorowicz
• Stefan Pawlicki
• Leon Petrażycki
• Sebastian Petrycy
• Bolesław Prus
• Adam Schaff
• Ulrich Schrade
• Stanisław Staszic
• Józef Supiński
• Józef Kalasanty Szaniawski
• Jan Szylling
• Krystyn Lach Szyrma
• Maria Szyszkowska
• Jan Śniadecki
• Jędrzej Śniadecki
• Aleksander Świętochowski
• Alfred Tarski
• Władysław Tatarkiewicz
• Józef Tischner
• Andrzej Towiański
• Bronisław Trentowski
• Kazimierz Twardowski
• Michał Twaróg of Bystrzyków
• Józef Warszawski
• Władysław Weryho
• Michał Wiszniewski
• Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
• Władysław Witwicki
• Karol Wojtyla
• Jan Woleński
• Adam Ignacy Zabellewicz
• Marian Zdziechowski
• Czesław Znamierowski
• Florian Znaniecki

  Prose literature

• Franciszka Arnsztajnowa, playwright
• S. Ansky, Bielorussian, Polish-Jewish author of The Dybbuk
• Joanna Bator, novelist, feminist
• 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, 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, 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
• Leszek Engelking, short story writer
• Felicjan Medard Faleński, poet, novelist
• Aleksander Fredro, poet, comedy writer
• Jerzy Giedroyć, legendary émigré editor
• Janusz Głowacki, playwright, nonfiction author
• Ferdynand Goetel, novelist, playwright, essayist
• Witold Gombrowicz, novelist, playwright
• Stefan Grabiński, horror writer
• Mieczysław Grydzewski, legendary editor
• Henryk Grynberg, writer
• 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
• 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, extremely prolific historical-novelist
• 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
• Jan Potocki, The Saragossa Manuscript
• Bolesław Prus, The Doll and Pharaoh
• Ksawery Pruszyński, writer and journalist
• 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
• 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
• Olga Tokarczuk, writer, psychologist, 2019 Nobel laureate
• Magdalena Tulli, novelist, translator
• Leopold Tyrmand, writer
• Meyer Wolf Weisgal, American journalist, publisher, and playwright; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
• Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
• 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

  Journalism

Poetry

• Guillaume Apollinaire,
• 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
• 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
• Anatol Stern
• Leopold Staff
• 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

  Music

• Chava Alberstein, Israeli singer-songwriter
• Piotr Anderszewski, pianist
• Stefan Askenase, pianist
• Emanuel Ax, 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
• Stan Borys, singer-songwriter
• Monika Brodka, singer
• Dariusz Brzozowski, drummer
• Grzegorz Ciechowski, composer, singer
• Fryderyk Chopin, composer
• Agnieszka Chylińska, singer-songwriter, author and television personality
• 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, 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
• Taco Hemingway, rapper
• Józef Hofmann, pianist
• Mieczysław Horszowski, pianist
• Bronisław Huberman, violinist
• Grzegorz Hyży, singer-songwriter
• Stanislas Idzikowski, ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher
• 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, pianist
• Bronisław Kaper, film composer
• Mieczysław Karłowicz, composer
• 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
• Seweryn Krajewski, singer-songwriter
• Dawid Kwiatkowski, singer-songwriter
• Rafał Kuczynski
• Hanna Kulenty, composer
• Karol Kurpiński, composer
• Lucjan Kydryński, music critic, writer
• Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist
• Teodor Leszetycki, pianist, pedagogue
• Monika Lewczuk, singer-songwriter, model
• Franciszek Lilius, composer
• Karol Lipiński, composer, virtuoso violinist
• Jan Lisiecki, pianist
• Ewelina Lisowska, singer-songwriter
• Michał Lorenc, film score composer
• Jan z Lublina, composer
• Witold Lutosławski, composer
• Paweł Mąciwoda, bassist, member of the German rock band Scorpions
• Jerzy Maksymiuk, conductor
• Ray Manzarek, musician, singer, keyboardist of The Doors
• Margaret, singer-songwriter
• Patrycja Markowska, pop rock singer
• Megitza, singer, double bass player, and composer
• Krzysztof Meyer, composer
• Aleksander Michałowski, pianist and pedagogue
• Carl Mikuli, composer
• Maciek Miernik, producer
• Marcin Mielczewski, composer
• Emil Młynarski, conductor and composer
• Stanisław Moniuszko, composer
• Moritz Moszkowski, composer
• Czesław Mozil, 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
• Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, composer
• Michał Kleofas Ogiński, composer
• Hanka Ordonówna, singer, actress, dancer
• O.S.T.R., 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
• Pezet, rapper
• Bartłomiej Pękiel, composer
• Andrzej Piaseczny, singer-songwriter, actor, and television personality
• Svika Pick, Israeli pop singer, composer
• Dawid Podsiadło, 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
• Ryszard Riedel, singer
• Maryla Rodowicz, singer
• Artur Rodziński, conductor
• Eddie Rosner, jazz, "Polish Louis Armstrong"
• Piotr Rubik, composer
• Arthur Rubinstein, pianist
• Ada Sari, opera singer
• Sarsa, singer-songwriter
• Bogusław Schaeffer, composer
• Xaver Scharwenka, composer
• Marcella Sembrich, coloratura soprano
• Kazimierz Serocki, composer
• Witold Silewicz, composer, bassist
• Józef Skrzek, composer and leader of SBB band
• Cezary Skubiszewski, Polish-Australian 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
• Władysław Szpilman, pianist
• Patryk Dominik Sztyber, guitarist, singer
• Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, concert pianist
• Karol Szymanowski, composer, pianist
• Paweł Szymański, composer
• André Tchaikowsky, pianist, composer
• Barbara Trzetrzelewska, singer
• Grzegorz Turnau, singer
• Ifi Ude, singer
• Michał Urbaniak, jazz musician
• Moshe Vilenski, 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
• Wojciech Żywny, composer, Chopin's first professional piano teacher

  Visual arts

• Magdalena Abakanowicz, sculptor
• Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, painter
• Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz, painter
• Sylwester Ambroziak, sculptor
• Chrystian Piotr Aigner, architect
• Paweł Althamer, contemporary artist
• Teodor Axentowicz, Armenian-Polish painter and rector of Krakow Academy of Fine Arts
• Marcello Bacciarelli, Italian-Polish portrait painter
• Tomasz Bagiński, computer graphics
• Balthus, 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, Polish-American painter, illustrator, designer
• Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, painter
• Walerian Borowczyk, painter, lithographer and film director
• Olga Boznańska, painter
• Józef Brandt, battle-scene painter
• Maximilian Cercha, painter and drawer
• Józef Marian Chełmoński, painter
• Józef Czapski, painter
• Tytus Czyżewski, painter, poet, art critic
• Jacenty Dędek, photographer
• Zbigniew Dłubak, painter
• Andrzej Dłużniewski, contemporary sculptor
• Xawery Dunikowski, sculptor
• Maksymilian Fajans, Jewish–Polish artist, lithographer, photographer
• Julian Fałat, painter
• Wojciech Fangor, painter
• Jakub Fontana, baroque and neoclassical architect
• Wojciech Gerson, painter
• Stefan Gierowski, painter
• Aleksander Gierymski, painter, brother of Maksymilian Gierymski
• Maksymilian Gierymski, painter
• Cyprian Godebski, sculptor
• Zygmunt Gorgolewski, architect
• Józef Gosławski, sculptor and medallist
• Artur Grottger, painter, illustrator
• Aleksander Gryglewski, interior portraits
• Władysław Hasior, sculptor, painter, stage designer
• Józef Hecht, engraver, printmaker
• Józef Holewiński, graphic artist and painter
• Władysław Horodecki, architect
• Maria Jarema, painter, sculptor
• Anna Kamieńska-Łapińska, sculptor, animated-film scenarist
• Johann Christian Kammsetzer, architect
• Tadeusz Kantor, painter, theater director
• Marta Klonowska, glass maker and sculptor
• Katarzyna Kobro, sculptor
• Roman Kochanowski, landscape painter
• Gloria Kossak, painter, poet
• Jerzy Kossak, painter
• Juliusz Kossak, painter, illustrator
• Wojciech Kossak, painter
• Katarzyna Kozyra, video artist
• Nikifor Krynicki, painter
• Alexander Kucharsky, painter
• Zofia Kulik, performer
• Teofil Kwiatkowski
• 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
• Jan Matejko, painter
• Agata Materowicz, painter, photographer, graphic designer, FIMO figurines designer and hand-maker
• Józef Mehoffer, painter
• Piotr Michałowski, painter
• Jacek Mierzejewski, painter
• Jerzy Mierzejewski, painter and pedagogue
• Ambroży Mieroszewski, Chopin's first portraitist
• Igor Mitoraj, sculptor
• Dorota Nieznalska, sculptor
• Nikifor, naive artist of Lemko origin
• Jan Piotr Norblin, painting, drawing, caricature
• Jerzy Nowosielski, painter
• Seweryn Obst, painter, illustrator, ethnographer
• Rafał Olbiński, illustrator, painter
• Roman Opałka, painter
• Aleksander Orłowski, painter
• Stanisław Julian Ostroróg, early portrait photographer, known as "Walery"
• Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostroróg, celebrated photographer son of the other Ostroróg
• Józef Pankiewicz, painter, graphic artist
• Aniela Pawlikowska, portrait painter
• Władysław Podkowiński, painter and illustrator
• Stanislaw Przespolewski, painter, sculptor
• Anna Rajecka, 18th-c. portrait painter
• Joanna Rajkowska, contemporary artist; designer of Warsaw's artificial palm tree
• Zofia Romer, painter
• Ferdynand Ruszczyc, painter, graphic artist, cartoonist, stage designer
• Henryk Rodakowski, painter
• Wilhelm Sasnal, painter
• Jan Sawka, painter, print-maker, architect, graphic designer, multi-media artist
• Johann Christian Schuch, garden designer, architect
• Kazimierz Sichulski, painter
• Jan Stanisławski, painter
• Henryk Stażewski, painter
• Zofia Stryjeńska, illustrator, painter
• Władysław Strzemiński, painter
• January Suchodolski, painter
• Józef Szajna, sculptor, stage designer, theatre director
• Stanisław Szukalski, sculptor, painter
• Arthur Szyk, illuminator, war cartoonist, book illustrator
• Wacław Szymanowski, sculptor, designer of Chopin monument in Warsaw
• Włodzimierz Tetmajer, painter
• Stanisław Tondos, painter
• Feliks Topolski, expressionist painter and draughtsman
• Roland Topor, illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker
• Zygmunt Vogel, watercolor and drawing
• Marian Walentynowicz, illustrator and comic strip pioneer
• Walenty Wańkowicz, painter
• Max Weber, painter
• Michał Weinzieher, art critic
• Wojciech Weiss, painter and draughtsman
• Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański, sculptor
• Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, painter
• Stanisław Witkiewicz, painter, architect
• Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, painter, photographer, playwright, novelist, philosopher
• Kazimierz Wojniakowski, painter
• Leon Wyczółkowski, painter
• Stanisław Wyspiański, painter
• August Zamoyski, sculptor
• Jerzy Zaruba, graphic artist, caricaturist, stage designer
• Jan Sas Zubrzycki, architect
• Marek Zulawski, painter and art theorist

  Entertainment

• Piotr Adamczyk, actor
• Piotr Andrejew, film director
• Józef Arkusz, film director
• Aniela Aszpergerowa, actress, great-grandmother of John Gielgud
• Tomasz Bagiński, BAFTA Award-winning short-animated-movie maker, nominated for an Academy Award
• Andrzej Bartkowiak, cinematographer, director, actor,
• Eugeniusz Bodo, singer and actor
• Wojciech Bogusławski, actor, theater director, playwright; "father of the Polish Theater"
• Walerian Borowczyk, film director
• Ewa Braun, Academy Award-winning set decorator, costume designer, production designer
• Zbigniew Cybulski, actor
• Elżbieta Czyżewska, actress
• Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, actress
• Ewa Demarczyk, actress, poetry singer
• Dagmara Domińczyk, actress
• Doda, actress, singer
• Paweł Edelman, cinematographer, European Film Award winner
• Katarzyna Figura, actress
• Aleksander Ford, director
• Małgorzata Foremniak, actress, starred in Avalon
• Piotr Fronczewski, actor and singer
• Janusz Gajos, actor
• Jerzy Grotowski, theatre reformer
• Loda Halama, dancer, actor
• Leontyna Halpertowa, actress
• Adam Hanuszkiewicz, actor, theater director
• Wojciech Has, film director
• Marian Hemar, songwriter, cabaret artist
• Antonina Hoffmann, actress
• Jerzy Hoffman, film director
• Agnieszka Holland, film director, nominated for Academy Awards and BAFTA Award
• Gustaw Holoubek, actor
• Miłosz Horodyski, film and television director
• Sławomir Idziak, cinematagrapher, nominated for Oscar
• Stanisław Idzikowski, ballerino and ballet master
• Stefan Jaracz, actor
• 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
• Janina Klimkiewicz, actress
• Anna Kochanowska, radio journalist and politician
• Max Kolonko, TV personality, producer, writer
• Jacek Koman, actor
• Joanna Krupa, actress and super-model
• Joanna Kulig, actress
• Kazimierz Kutz, film director
• Irena Kwiatkowska, actress
• Bogusław Linda, actor
• Tadeusz Łomnicki, actor
• Helena Modjeska, actress
• Pola Negri, actress
• Vaslav Nijinsky, Ballet dancer considered the greatest male lead of the early 20th century
• Daniel Olbrychski, actor
• Jerzy Owsiak, broadcaster
• Joanna Pacuła, actress
• Ludwika Paleta, Polish-Mexican actress
• Dominika Paleta, Polish-Mexican actress
• Paweł Pawlikowski, film director
• Cezary Pazura, actor
• Marianna Franciszka Pierożyńska, actress, opera singer
• Jan Pietrzak, satirist, cabaret performer
• Roman Polanski, award-winning film director raised and educated in Poland
• Beata Pozniak, actress, director, activist, writer, producer
• Jeremi Przybora, writer, actor and singer
• Anna Przybylska, actress
• Wojciech Pszoniak, actor of Comédie-Française
• Krzysztof Ptak, cinematographer
• Marie Rambert, hugely influential ballet pedagogue and director
• Zbigniew Rybczyński, Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker
• Lew Rywin, film producer
• Andrzej Saramonowicz, screenwriter, film director
• Leon Schiller, theatre director
• Izabella Scorupco, Polish-born Hollywood-actress and singer
• Andrzej Seweryn, actor of Comédie Française
• Jerzy Skolimowski, film director
• Przemysław Skwirczyński, cinematographer
• Piotr Sobocinski, cinematographer
• Allan Starski, Oscar-winning production designer, art director, set designer
• Yvonne Strahovski, Polish-Australian television, film, and voice actress
• Jerzy Stuhr, actor, film director
• Henryk Tomaszewski, mime
• Basia Trzetrzelewska, singer
• Andrzej Wajda, Academy Award, Golden Palm, BAFTA Award, Silver Berlin Bear, César Award and Golden Lion winning film director
• Harry Warner, Warner Bros. co-founder
• Albert Warner, Warner Bros. co-founder
• Samuel Warner, Warner Bros. co-founder
• Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress of Polish descent
• Jerzy Wasowski, radio announcer, composer, pianist, actor and director
• Michał Waszyński, film director
• Roman Wilhelmi, actor
• Dariusz Wolski, cinematographer
• Lidia Wysocka, actress
• Zbigniew Zamachowski, actor
• Krzysztof Zanussi, film director
• Michał Żebrowski, actor
• Artur Żmijewski, actor
• Andrzej Żuławski, film director

  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
• Hipolit Cegielski
• Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Antiquarian, Gallery owner, collector and philanthropist
• André Citroën, automotive industrialist
• Jack Cohen, co-founder of the Tesco retail chain
• Franciszek Czapek, co-partner in Patek, Czapek & Co.
• Henryk Orfinger, cosmetics entrepreneur
• Max Factor, Sr., 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
• 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
• Jan Kulczyk, CEO of Kulczyk Investments and richest 21st century Pole
• Henry Lowenfeld, 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
• Zofia Lubomirska, textile entrepreneur in Przeworsk
• Michael Marks, co-founder of Marks and Spencer retail chain
• Samuel Orgelbrand, editor
• Antoni Patek, co-founder of watchmakers Patek Philippe & Co.
• Antoni Protazy Potocki, banker and industrialist who developed Odessa into an international port
• Izrael Poznański, textile magnate, philanthropist
• Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics entrepreneur, one of the richest women that have ever lived
• Karol Scheibler, textile magnate
• Feliks Sobański, landowner and philanthropist
• Piotr Steinkeller, industrial pioneer, King of Zinc
• Henri Strzelecki, founder of Henri Lloyd, Ltd., sportswear manufacturer
• Stefan Tyszkiewicz, founder of Stetysz early Polish car manufacturer
• Hyppolite Wawelberg, Polish-Jewish banker and philanthropist
• Karol Wedel, Chocolatier, confectioner
• Louis Wolowski, financier co-founder of Credit Foncier de France
• Andrzej Artur Zamoyski, initiated river transportation

  Politics

• Tomasz Arciszewski, first Prime Minister of Poland in exile
• Kazimierz Feliks Badeni, count, Minister-President of Austria
• Menachem Begin,, militant Zionist, prime minister of Israel
• David Ben-Gurion, Zionist leader and first Prime Minister of Israel
• Marek Belka, former director of economic policy in the interim coalition administration of Iraq, Prime Minister of Poland
• Bolesław Bierut, leader of communist Poland
• Michał Bobrzyński, Governor of Galicia
• Anna Borucka-Cieślewicz, elected to the Sejm in 2005
• Zbigniew Brzeziński, political scientist, advisor to US President Jimmy Carter
• Matheus Butrymowicz, liberal member of the Great Sejm assembled in Warsaw
• Jerzy Buzek, Prime Minister of Poland, President of the European Parliament
• Józef Cyrankiewicz, Prime Minister of communistic Poland
• Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, prince, statesman, Prime Minister
• Ignacy Daszyński, Prime Minister of the Temporary People's Government of the Republic of Poland
• Jan Dekert, merchant, Mayor of Warsaw
• Isaac Deutscher, writer, journalist, political activist
• Roman Dmowski, nationalist politician, statesman
• Andrzej Duda, sixth President of the Third Polish Republic
• Feliks Dzierżyński, founder of Soviet State Security under the original name Cheka
• Edward Gierek, leader of communist Poland
• Władysław Gomułka, leader of communist Poland
• Ludwik Gorzkowski, politician and revolutionary activist
• Julian Gutowski, Mayor of Nowy Sącz
• Piotr Jaroszewicz, Prime Minister of communistic Poland
• Wojciech Jaruzelski, last leader of communist Poland, first President of the Third Polish Republic
• Ryszard Kaczorowski, sixth and last President of Poland in exile
• Jarosław Kaczyński, identical twin brother of Lech, leader of the Law and Justice party, Prime Minister of Poland
• Lech Kaczyński, fourth President of Third Polish Republic, died in Smolensk air crash
• Hugo Kołłątaj, co-author of Constitution of 3 May 1791
• Bronisław Komorowski, fifth President of the Third Polish Republic
• Wojciech Korfanty, leader of Silesians during the Third Silesian uprising
• Janusz Korwin-Mikke, free-market activist
• Stanisław Kot, historian, politician, diplomat
• Jan Kucharzewski, first Prime Minister of Kingdom of Poland
• Jacek Kuroń, politician, social activist
• Anna Kurska, judge, lawyer, and member of the Polish Senate
• Aleksander Kwaśniewski, third President of the Third Polish Republic
• Andrzej Lepper, leader of Samoobrona and former Vice-PM
• Herman Lieberman, lawyer and prominent Socialist politician
• Feliks Lubienski, Minister of Justice who introduced the Code Napoleon, state archives and public libraries
• Katarzyna Lubnauer, leader of Modern political party
• Rosa Luxemburg, leading Marxist theoretician
• Julian Marchlewski, Soviet politician
• Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Prime Minister of Poland
• Tadeusz Mazowiecki, politician, first Prime Minister of the Third Polish Republic
• Adam Michnik, influential journalist
• Ludwik Mierosławski, insurgent, general, Paris communard
• Stanisław Mieroszewski, member of the Imperial Council of Austria
• Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Prime Minister of Poland, Agrarian Party politician
• Karol Modzelewski, activist, politician and academic
• Jędrzej Moraczewski, first Prime Minister of II RP
• Ignacy Mościcki, third President of the Second Polish Republic
• Walery Mroczkowski, the only Polish anarchist, friend of Mikhail Bakunin
• Lewis Bernstein Namier, British politician and historian
• Gabriel Narutowicz, first President of the Second Polish Republic
• Józef Oleksy, Prime Minister of III RP, Speaker of the Sejm
• Janusz Onyszkiewicz, 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
• Jozef Maksymilian Ossolinski, Founder of Ossolineum, Poland's signal cultural patron
• Stanisław Ostrowski, third President of Poland in exile
• Ignacy Paderewski, second Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic
• Longin Pastusiak, Marshal of the Senate
• Waldemar Pawlak, Prime Minister of Poland
• Shimon Peres, President of Israel 2007–2014, Prime Minister of Israel
• Teodoro Picado Michalski, Costa Rican president, of Polish mother
• Józef Piłsudski, statesman, politician and Marshal of Poland
• Emilia Plater, revolutionary, independence leader
• Władysław Broel-Plater, independence activist, founder of Polish Museum, Rapperswil
• Alfred Józef Potocki, count, Minister-President of Austria
• Ignacy Potocki, co-author of Constitution of 3 May 1791
• Adam Pragier, leading socialist deputy, exiled minister and writer
• Władysław Raczkiewicz, first President of Poland in exile
• Edward Raczyński, fourth President of Poland in exile
• Antoni Radziwiłł, prince, the Duke-Governor of Grand Duchy of Posen
• Jozef Retinger, writer, adviser, grey eminence, founder of the Bilderberg conferences
• Adam Ronikier, count, president of the Central Welfare Council
• Kazimierz Sabbat, fifth President of Poland in exile
• Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, vice-president of European Parliament
• Władysław Sikorski, general, Prime Minister of Poland
• Radosław Sikorski, politician and former foreign minister
• Stefan Starzyński, President of Warsaw
• Władysław Studnicki, politician and publicist
• Beata Szydło, Prime Minister of Poland, 2015–2017
• Theodore de Korwin Szymanowski, conceptualised an economic union for Europe in 1885
• Róża Thun, anticommunist activist, activist for European Union
• Donald Tusk, chairman of Civic Platform; Prime Minister of Poland, 2007–14
• Kazimierz Tyszka, Minister of Railways, 1923-25, in Władysław Grabski's government
• Lech Wałęsa, trade unionist who started dismantling of the Soviet bloc, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, second President of the Third Polish Republic
• Ludwik Waryński, socialist activist in the 19th century
• Wanda Wasilewska, communist activist during World War II
• Edward Werner, born in Poland to parents of German origin; vice-Minister of Finance, and Polish diplomat during World War II
• Alexander Wielopolski, count, Marquis of Gonzaga, statesman
• Wincenty Witos, politician of the agrarian party
• Stanisław Wojciechowski, second President of the Second Polish Republic
• Walery Antoni Wróblewski, politician, insurgency commander
• August Zaleski, second President of Poland in exile
• Jan Zamoyski, chancellor and grand hetman of the crown

  Law

Diplomacy

• Władysław Bartoszewski, foreign affairs minister of III RP
• Józef Beck, foreign affairs minister of II RP
• Alois Friedrich von Brühl, Polish-Saxon diplomat, starost of Warsaw
• Matthew Bryza, American diplomat
• Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, foreign affairs minister of III RP
• Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Polish and Russian diplomat; Russian Imperial foreign minister
• Władysław Czartoryski, prince, the main diplomatic agent of the National Government
• Roman Dmowski, foreign affairs minister of II RP
• Bronisław Geremek, foreign affairs minister of III RP
• Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, count, foreign affairs minister of Austria-Hungary
• Krzysztof Grzymułtowski, diplomat and voivod of Poznań, author of the Eternal Peace Treaty with Russia
• Stanisław Janikowski, diplomat in Rome, to Holy See
• Wacław Jędrzejewicz
• Julian Klaczko, Polish-Austrian diplomat
• Stanisław Kot, historian, politician, diplomat. Polish ambassador to the Soviet Union, Italy.
• Józef Lipski, Polish ambassador to Germany
• Juliusz Łukasiewicz, Polish ambassador to the Soviet Union and France
• Ivan Maysky, Soviet diplomat
• Stefan Meller, foreign affairs minister of III RP
• Lewis Bernstein Namier, British diplomat and historian
• Andrzej Olechowski, foreign affairs minister of III RP
• Ignacy Paderewski, foreign affairs minister of II RP and third prime minister of Poland
• Stanisław Patek, foreign affairs minister of II RP
• Edward Bernard Raczyński, count, Polish ambassador to the United Kingdom and foreign affairs minister
• Adam Rapacki, foreign affairs minister of communist Poland
• Józef Retinger, advocate for a European Union
• Tadeusz Romer, foreign affairs minister of the Polish Government in Exile
• Dariusz Rosati, foreign affairs minister of III RP
• Adam Daniel Rotfeld, foreign affairs minister of III RP
• Radosław Sikorski, foreign affairs minister of III RP
• Konstanty Skirmunt, foreign affairs minister of II RP
• Aleksander Skrzyński, foreign affairs minister of II RP
• Krzysztof Skubiszewski, first foreign affairs minister of III RP
• Romuald Spasowski, Polish ambassador to the United States
• Jan Szembek, count, foreign affairs deputy secretary
• Yosef Tekoah, Israeli diplomat and President of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• Andrey Vyshinsky, Soviet jurist and diplomat
• Alexandre Joseph Count Colonna-Walewski, French foreign affairs minister
• Leon Wasilewski, foreign affairs minister of II RP
• Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski, general, Polish ambassador to Italy
• Sergey Yastrzhembsky, Russian diplomat
• August Zaleski, foreign affairs minister of II RP
• Maurycy Klemens Zamoyski, foreign affairs minister of II RP
• Josef Zieleniec, Czech foreign affairs minister

  Military

• Władysław Anders, general, military commander during the Battle of Monte Cassino
• Krzysztof Arciszewski, general of artillery of Holland, and Poland
• Józef Bem, military commander, commander-in-chief of Hungarian army
• Janusz Bokszczanin, colonel, last chief of staff of the Home Army
• Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, military commander, victor of Kircholm
• Józef Chyliński, resistance fighter
• Michał Czajkowski , Polish-Ukrainian commander-in-chief of an Ottoman Cossack brigade during the Crimean War
• Stefan Czarniecki, Field Crown Hetman of Poland
• Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, general, military commander during the Napoleonic Wars
• Jarosław Dąbrowski, military commander during the January 1863 Uprising and the Paris Commune
• Henryk Dembiński, military commander in the November uprising and the Hungarian uprising of 1849
• Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski, general, ambassador, nominated President of Poland
• Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, general, military commander in the Greater Poland Uprising
• Bolesław Bronisław Duch, World War II general
• Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, 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
• Emil August Fieldorf, general, last deputy commander-in-chief of the Home Army
• 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
• Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski, Grand Crown Hetman
• Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, 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
• Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, general, founder of the resistance movement "Polish Victory Service"
• Kazimierz J. Kasperek, most decorated Polish Navy officer of World War II
• Tadeusz Klimecki, general, the Chief of the General staff of the Polish Army
• Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, general, commander-in-chief of the Home Army, during Warsaw Uprising
• Stanisław Koniecpolski, Grand Crown Hetman
• Stanisław Kopański, general, the Chief of the General staff of the Polish Army
• 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, victor at the Battle of Chudniv
• Walenty Łukawski, captain in the Bar Confederation, abductor of King Stanisław August Poniatowski
• Stanisław Maczek, 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
• Juliusz Konstanty Ordon, officer in the November uprising
• Tadeusz Pełczyński, chief of staff of the Home Army
• 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, Polish and American military commander
• Konstantin Rokossovsky Marshal of the Soviet Union and Polish defense minister, communist
• Stefan Rowecki, general, military commander, commander-in-chief of the Armed Resistance and Home Army
• 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, a founder of the Israel Defense Forces
• Danuta Siedzikówna, medical orderly in Polish Army
• Władysław Sikorski, general, commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces and Prime Minister of Poland
• Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, general, physician and 28th Prime Minister of Poland
• 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
• Kazimierz Sosnkowski, general, Commander-in-Chief of Polish Armed Forces
• Józef Sowiński, general, hero of the November uprising
• Zygmunt Szendzielarz
• Ignacy Szymanski, veteran of November 1830 Uprising and American Civil War
• Jerzy Świrski, vice admiral in the Polish navy under British command during World War II
• Jan Tarnowski, Grand Crown Hetman, victor of Obertyn
• Jozef Unrug, German-born vice-admiral in Polish navy, imprisoned in Colditz Castle during WWII
• Maria Wittek, brigadier general, head of Women's Auxiliary Military Service
• Wojtek Perski, a Persian bear, World War II Polish II Corps enlisted soldier
• Piotr Wysocki, led the November Uprising
• Aleksandra Zagórska, lieutenant colonel, independence activist and organiser of women's military squads
• Kordian Józef Zamorski, general; chief of the Polish state police
• Jan Zamoyski, Great Chancellor of Poland and Grand Crown Hetman
• Władysław Stanisław Zamoyski, general in the Crimean War, diplomat
• Elżbieta Zawacka, general, the only woman among the Silent Unseen
• Stanisław Żółkiewski, chancellor of Poland, military commander, conqueror of Moscow, Grand Crown Hetman
• Janusz Żurakowski, World War II fighter pilot and Avro Arrow test pilot

  Intelligence

• Feliks Ankerstein, interwar covert-operations officer and deputy to Edmund Charaszkiewicz in Office 2 of the General Staff's Section II
• 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, 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
• :pl:Marian Drobik|Marian Drobik, Home Army colonel, chief of the General Staff's Section II
• 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 1919–21
• 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 ; 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
• Sergiusz Piasecki, Polish agent, covering the area of Soviet Belarus
• Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish consul-general and intelligence agent in London ; the most influential contemporary critic of German literature
• Tadeusz Schaetzel, intelligence officer, chief of the General Staff's Section II
• Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, World War II British SOE agent
• Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski, Polish Army intelligence officer whose work in North Africa facilitated Allied preparations for the 1942 Operation Torch landings
• Jerzy Sosnowski, major, a Polish spy in Germany as Georg von Sosnowski, Ritter von Nalecz
• Antoni Szymański, Polish military attaché in Berlin
• 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

  Holocaust resistance

• Irena Adamowicz
• Mordechaj Anielewicz, Warsaw Ghetto uprising
• Dawid Apfelbaum, Warsaw Ghetto uprising
• Władysław Bartoszewski
• Adolf Berman
• Anna Borkowska
• Icchak Cukierman
• Marek Edelman
• Leon Feldhendler
• 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
• 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
• Henryk Sławik, "Polish Schindler", diplomat in Hungary
• Leopold Socha, another "Polish Schindler"
• Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter
• Józef and Wiktoria Ulma
• Henryk Woliński
• Lidia Zamenhof
• Szmul Zygielbojm
• Jan and Antonina Żabiński

  Religion

• Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz, Roman Catholic archbishop of Lwów and archbishop of Prague
• Baal Shem Tov, rabbi and founder of Hasidic Judaism
• Blessed Jan Beyzym, Jesuit missionary among lepers in Madagascar
• St. Józef Bilczewski, Roman Catholic archbishop of Lwów, 1900–23
• St. Andrew Bobola, Jesuit
• 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 Chmielowski
• 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, exiled and Titular Archbishop of Tarsus
• Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Archbishop of Warsaw, 1856–1861
• Jacob Frank, Jewish messianic leader who merged 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 Lvov, 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
• 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
• Jan Łaski, Primate of Poland, 1510–1531
• Jan Łaski, 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
• :pl:Makryna Mieczysławska, influential false Uniate nun, regarded as a Tsarist plant
• Tomasz Miśkiewicz, mufti of Polish Muslims :pl:Muzułmański Związek Religijny and Imam of Białystok
• Mieczysław Mokrzycki, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lvov, since 2008
• Mikołaj Stanisław Oborski, 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, Count; converted to Judaism as Avrohom ben Avrohom, the Ger Tzedek of Vilna
• 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
• 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 Kiev, 1756–59; Bishop of Kraków, 1759–1788
• Boruch Steinberg, the 1st 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, Imam of Poland, translated portions of Qur'an into Polish
• Jozef Teodorowicz, Last Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Lwow
• 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, non-Hassidic Jewish leader, the "saintly genius from Vilnius"
• Piotr Wawrzyniak, priest, economist and activist
• Chaim Elozor Wax, rabbi
• Karol Józef Wojtyla, 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,
• Schneur Zalman, first Hasidic Rebbe of Chabad

  Nobility

Royalty

• Mieszko I, first Duke of Poland
• Doubravka of Bohemia, first Duchess of Poland
• Świętosława, 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
• 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
• Władysław III of Varna, king of Poland and Hungary, killed at the Battle of Varna
• Casimir IV Jagiellon, king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, victor in the Thirteen Years' War
• 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
• 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
• John III Sobieski, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, victor at the Battle of Vienna
• 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
• Maria Leszczyńska, consort of Louis XV, king of France
• 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 Charles 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, Princess Carignano House of Savoy

  Assassins

• Ignacy Hryniewiecki, assassin of Tsar Alexander II of Russia
• Eligiusz Niewiadomski, modernist painter, art critic, assassin of Polish President Gabriel Narutowicz

  Miscellany

• George Adamski, controversial ufologist
• Florian Ceynowa, Kashubian activist
• Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, first woman to sail solo around the world
• 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
• 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
• Feliks Rajmund Podkóliński, physician, soldier
• Anthony Radziwill, U.S. news journalist/producer
• 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, bibliophile, 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

  Legendary persons

• Krakus, legendary prince and founder of Kraków
• Lech, legendary founder of the Polish nation
• Piast the Wheelwright, semi-legendary figure in prehistoric Poland ; 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, 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
• Janek Wiśniewski, freedom fighter; hero of 1970 Gdynia riots

  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
• 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, World War II secret agent in the Polish TV serial Stake larger than life
• Kordian
• Funky Koval, space detective
• Stanley Kowalski, in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire
• Stanley Kowalski, Polish-American detective 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
• Kowalski, a penguin in the children's film Madagascar
• 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, an American adventure comic strip
• Count Olenski, estranged husband of Ellen Olenska in Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence
• Pan Tadeusz, poetic distillation of Lithuanian-Polish patriotism and nostalgia
• Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski, in HBO's The Wire, went from police officer to school teacher
• Officer Eddie Pulaski in
• 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, 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, known as Staś, one of the main protagonists in a popular young adult novel In Desert and Wilderness by Polish author and Nobel Prize-winning novelist 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
• 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
• 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 in the Ender's Game series
• Stanisław Wokulski, protagonist of Bolesław Prus' novel The Doll
• 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, born in Poland
• Małgosia Bela, born in Kraków
• Magdalena Frąckowiak, born in Gdańsk
• 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, born in Valencia, Venezuela
• Karolina Wydra, born in Opole
• Iga Wyrwał, born in Kalisz

  Sport

Athletics

• Andrzej Badeński, sprinter
• Iga Baumgart-Witan, sprinter
• Konrad Bukowiecki, shot putter
• Lidia Chojecka, athlete
• Jerzy Chromik, athlete
• Teresa Ciepły, sprinter
• Sofia Ennaoui, middle-distance runner
• Paweł Fajdek, hammer thrower
• Marian Foik, sprinter
• Wioletta Frankiewicz, steeplechaser
• Halina Górecka, sprinter
• Piotr Haczek, sprinter
• Michał Haratyk, shot putter
• Zdzisław Hoffmann, triple jumper
• Barbara Janiszewska, sprinter
• Michel Jazy, athlete
• Ilana Karaszyk, Israeli Olympic runner and long jumper
• Ewa Kłobukowska, sprinter
• Władysław Komar, shot putter
• Halina Konopacka, discus thrower
• Robert Korzeniowski, racewalker
• Władysław Kozakiewicz, pole vaulter
• Łukasz Krawczuk, athlete
• Elżbieta Krzesińska, long jumper
• Jakub Krzewina, sprinter
• Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak, athlete
• Wacław Kuchar, athlete
• Janusz Kusociński, athlete
• Maria Kwaśniewska, javelin thrower
• Adam Kszczot, athlete
• Marcin Lewandowski, athlete
• Tomasz Majewski, shot putter
• Piotr Małachowski, discus thrower
• Wiesław Maniak, sprinter
• Bronisław Malinowski, athlete
• Robert Maćkowiak, sprinter
• Tamara Metal, Israeli Olympic high jumper and long jumper, and captain of the Israel women's national basketball team
• Józef Noji, athlete
• Rafał Omelko, athlete
• Wanda Panfil, athlete
• Artur Partyka, high jumper
• Edmund Piątkowski, discus thrower
• Marek Plawgo, athlete
• Monika Pyrek, pole vaulter
• Anna Rogowska, pole vaulter
• Tadeusz Rut, hammer thrower
• Piotr Rysiukiewicz, sprinter
• Edward Sarul, shot putter
• Janusz Sidło, javelin thrower
• Kamila Skolimowska, hammer thrower
• Irena Szewińska, sprinter
• Józef Szmidt, triple jumper
• Ewa Swoboda, sprinter
• Tadeusz Ślusarski, pole vaulter
• Justyna Święty-Ersetic, sprinter
• Marcin Urbaś, sprinter
• Jadwiga Wajs, discus thrower
• Stanisława Walasiewicz, sprinter
• Jan Werner, sprinter
• Anita Włodarczyk, hammer thrower
• Paweł Wojciechowski, pole vaulter
• Marian Woronin, sprinter
• Jacek Wszoła, high jumper
• Karol Zalewski, athlete
• Kazimierz Zimny, athlete
• Szymon Ziółkowski, hammer thrower

  Basketball

• Dardan Berisha
• Olek Czyż
• Margo Dydek
• Filip Dylewicz
• Tomasz Gielo
• Marcin Gortat, NBA basketball, Los Angeles Clippers
• Karol Gruszecki
• Adam Hrycaniuk
• Przemek Karnowski
• Thomas Kelati
• Mateusz Kostrzewski
• Łukasz Koszarek
• Damian Kulig
• Maciej Lampe
• David Logan
• Mateusz Ponitka
• Krzysztof Szubarga
• Adam Waczyński
• Adam Wójcik

  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

  Checkers

• Natalia Sadowska

  Chess

• Izak Aloni
• Izaak Appel
• Arnold Aurbach
• Zdzisław Belsitzmann
• Abram Blass
• Agnieszka Brustman
• Oscar Chajes
• Josef Cukierman
• Hieronim Czarnowski
• Moshe Czerniak
• Arthur Dake, American born to Polish parents
• Dawid Daniuszewski
• Józef Dominik
• Jan-Krzysztof Duda
• Arthur Dunkelblum
• Boruch Israel Dyner
• Hanna Ereńska
• Samuel Factor
• Alexander Flamberg
• Henryk Friedman
• Achilles Frydman
• Paulino Frydman
• Regina Gerlecka
• Edward Gerstenfeld
• Róża Herman
• Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska
• Chaim Janowski
• Dawid Janowski
• Max Judd
• Bernhard Kagan
• Stanislaw Kohn
• George Koltanowski, born in Belgium to a Polish-Jewish family
• Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov
• Michał Krasenkow, Russian born, moved to Poland in 1992
• Leon Kremer
• Adam Kuligowski, awarded the title of Chess Grandmaster in 1980
• Abraham Kupchik
• Salo Landau
• Edward Lasker
• Paul Saladin Leonhardt
• Grigory Levenfish
• Moishe Lowtzky
• Bartłomiej Macieja
• Kazimierz Makarczyk
• Kalikst Morawski
• Stasch Mlotkowski, born in the United States to Polish parents
• Piotr Murdzia
• Miguel Najdorf
• Menachem Oren
• Julius Perlis
• Jusefs Petkevich
• Karol Piltz
• Oskar Piotrowski
• Kazimierz Plater
• Henryk Pogorieły
• Ignatz von Popiel
• Artur Popławski
• Dawid Przepiórka
• Iweta Rajlich
• Teodor Regedziński
• Samuel Reshevsky
• Samuel Rosenthal
• Gersz Rotlewi
• Akiba Rubinstein
• Gersz Salwe
• Włodzimierz Schmidt
• Leon Schwartzmann
• Stanislaus Sittenfeld
• Monika Soćko
• Franciszek Sulik
• Bogdan Śliwa
• Dariusz Świercz
• Savielly Tartakower
• Jean Taubenhaus
• Oscar Tenner
• Vitaly Tseshkovsky
• Alexander Wagner
• Szymon Winawer
• Radosław Wojtaszek
• Aleksander Wojtkiewicz
• Daniel Yanofsky
• Józef Żabiński
• Johannes Zukertort
• Adolf Zytogorski

  Climbing

• Klemens Bachleda, Tatra guide and mountain rescuer
• Kinga Baranowska, mountaineer
• Andrzej Bargiel, ski mountaineer and climber
• Leszek Cichy, himalaist
• Jerzy Kukuczka, himalaist
• Wojciech Kurtyka, himalaist, rock climber
• Piotr Pustelnik, himalaist
• Wanda Rutkiewicz, himalaist
• Krzysztof Wielicki, himalaist
• Andrzej Zawada, himalaist

  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
• Mateusz Taciak
• Adrian Tekliński
• Maja Włoszczowska

  Fencing

• Zbigniew Czajkowski
• Danuta Dmowska
• Egon Franke
• Sylwia Gruchała
• Roman Kantor, épée
• Edward Korfanty
• Ryszard Parulski
• Jerzy Pawłowski
• Anna Rybicka
• Ryszard Sobczak
• Aleksandra Socha
• Witold Woyda
• Barbara Wysoczańska
• Wojciech Zabłocki

  Football

• Zygmunt Anczok, defender
• Henryk Apostel, coach
• Jan Banaś, attacker
• Jan Bednarek, midfielder
• Jakub Błaszczykowski, midfielder
• Zbigniew Boniek, midfielder, head of the Polish Football Association
• Artur Boruc, goalkeeper
• Lucjan Brychczy, midfielder
• Andrzej Buncol, midfielder
• Ewald Cebula, defender
• Gerard Cieślik, midfielder
• Lesław Ćmikiewicz, midfielder
• Kazimierz Deyna, midfielder
• 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
• Paweł Janas, defender, coach
• Ireneusz Jeleń, attacker
• Erich Juskowiak, defender
• Józef Kałuża, attacker, coach
• Henryk Kasperczak, midfielder, coach
• Miroslav Klose, attacker
• Józef Klotz, defender
• 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
• 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
• Euzebiusz Smolarek, attacker
• Włodzimierz Smolarek, midfielder
• Leon Sperling, forward
• Grzegorz Szamotulski, goalkeeper
• Andrzej Szarmach, attacker
• Władysław Szczepaniak, defender
• Wojciech Szczęsny, goalkeeper
• Edward Szymkowiak, goalkeeper
• Piotr Świerczewski, midfielder
• Andrzej Szczypkowski, 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

  Ice hockey

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

  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

  Swimming

• Katarzyna Baranowska
• Konrad Czerniak
• Agnieszka Czopek
• Otylia Jędrzejczak
• Radosław Kawęcki
• Bartosz Kizierowski
• Michael Klim
• Paweł Korzeniowski
• Daniel Kowalski
• Sławomir Kuczko
• Mariusz Podkościelny
• Mateusz Sawrymowicz
• Lejzor Ilja Szrajbman
• Rafał Szukała
• Wojciech Wojdak
• Artur Wojdat
• Agata Korc

  Tennis

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

  Volleyball

• Zbigniew Bartman
• Michał Bąkiewicz
• Mateusz Bieniek
• Agnieszka Bednarek-Kasza
• Izabela Bełcik
• Grzegorz Bociek
• Monika Bociek
• Rafał Buszek
• Fabian Drzyzga
• 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
• 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

  Weightlifting

• Waldemar Baszanowski
• Marcin Dołęga
• Zbigniew Kaczmarek
• Aleksandra Klejnowska
• Szymon Kołecki
• Andrzej Maszewski
• Mieczysław Nowak
• Norbert Ozimek
• Ireneusz Paliński
• Norbert Schemansky
• Zygmunt Smalcerz
• Marek Seweryn
• Stanley Stanczyk
• Agata Wróbel
• Adrian Zieliński
• Marian Zieliński

  Others

• Joanna Jędrzejczyk, mixed martial arts
• Karol Bielecki, handball
• Leszek Blanik, gymnastics
• Karolina Bosiek, speed skater
• Zbigniew Bródka, speed skater
• Maciej Chorążyk, soccer official and sports journalist
• Janusz Centka, soaring
• Moe Drabowsky, baseball
• Jarek Dymek, strongman
• Tomasz Gollob, Motorcycle speedway World Champion
• Andrzej Grubba, table tennis
• Sebastian Janikowski, American football
• Stan Javie, American football official
• Steve Javie, National Basketball Association
• Stefan Kapłaniak, canoeing
• Sebastian Kawa, gliding
• Justin Koschitzke, former professional Australian rules footballer for St Kilda
• Rafał Kubacki, judo
• Robert Kubica, Formula One and auto racing
• Tomasz Kucharski, rowing
• Mateusz Kusznierewicz, sailing
• Waldemar Legień, judo
• Jerzy Makula, glider aerobatics
• Patrycja Maliszewska, short track speed skater
• Szymon Marciniak, football referee
• Piotr Markiewicz, canoeing
• Renata Mauer, shooting
• Bill Mazeroski, baseball
• Przemyslaw Mazur, auto racing
• Gene Mruczkowski, American football
• Scott Mruczkowski, American football
• Paweł Nastula, judo
• Zofia Noceti-Klepacka, windsurfing
• Tom Paciorek, baseball
• Aneta Pastuszka, canoeing
• James Podsiadly, former professional Australian rules footballer for Adelaide and Geelong
• Mariusz Pudzianowski, strongman
• Ivan Putski, professional wrestler
• Helena Rakoczy, gymnastics
• Elwira Seroczyńska, speed skater
• 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
• Ryszard Szurkowski, road bicycle racing
• Jan Szymański, speed skater
• Marek Twardowski, canoeing
• Roger Verey, rowing
• Piotr Wadecki, road bicycle racing
• 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