List of Famous people born in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Andrzej Krzycki herbu Kotwicz was a Renaissance Polish writer and archbishop. Krzycki wrote in Latin prose, but wrote poetry in Polish. He is often considered one of Poland's greatest humanist writers.

Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk was a German mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers. He is also notable as the doctoral advisor of Ernst Kummer.

Hugo Leichtentritt was a German-Jewish musicologist and composer who spent much of his life in the USA. His pupils include composers Leroy Robertson and Erich Walter Sternberg.

Heinrich Caro, was a German chemist.

Robert Remak was a Jewish Polish-German embryologist, physiologist, and neurologist, born in Posen, Prussia, who discovered that the origin of cells was by the division of pre-existing cells. as well as several other key discoveries.

Philipp Jaffé was a German historian and philologist. The Schwersenz native, despite discrimination against his Jewish religion, was one of the most important German medievalists of the 19th century.

Georg Max Thiele was an Imperial German Navy officer Korvettenkapitän killed during World War I. During World War I he commanded the Seventh Half Flotilla of torpedo boats, based in Flanders. His ship, Torpedoboot SMS S119, was sunk with his entire flotilla by superior British forces while on a minelaying mission in October 1914 during the Battle off Texel.

Hans Petersson was a German mathematician. He introduced the Petersson inner product and is also known for the Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture.