List of Famous people born in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Mirosław Szymkowiak is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a playmaker. Szymkowiak is also a former member of the Poland national football team.

Marcin Sapa is a Polish road bicycle racer, who most recently rode for BDC-Marcpol team. He turned professional in 2000 and raced with smaller teams including DHL-Author before joining Lampre–NGC for the 2009 and 2010 seasons.

Albert Brudzewski, also Albert Blar , Albert of Brudzewo or Wojciech Brudzewski was a Polish astronomer, mathematician, philosopher and diplomat.

Friedrich Leopold Goltz was a German physiologist and nephew of the writer Bogumil Goltz.

Ulli Kinalzik is a German actor, starring in many films spanning five decades.

Jakub Wujek was a Polish Jesuit, religious writer, Doctor of Theology, Vice-Chancellor of the Vilnius Academy and translator of the Bible into Polish.

Salman Schocken or Shlomo Zalman Schocken was a German Jewish publisher, and co-founder of the large Kaufhaus Schocken chain of department stores in Germany. Stripped of his citizenship and forced to sell his company by the German government, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1934, where he purchased the newspaper Haaretz. In 1940, Schocken moved to the United States, where he founded Schocken Books.

Karol Marcinkowski was a Polish physician, social activist in the Greater Poland region, supporter of the basic education programmes, organizer of the Scientific Help Society and the Poznań Bazar - the Polish mall in Poznań that included a hotel, meeting rooms, crafts and shops.