List of Famous people born in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke was a German Luftwaffe pilot during World War II, a fighter ace credited with 162 enemy aircraft shot down in 732 combat missions. He claimed the majority of his victories over the Eastern Front, and 25 over the Western Front, including four four-engined bombers.

Marcin Kamiński is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Schalke 04.

Jadwiga of Kalisz was a Queen of Poland by marriage to Władysław I the Elbow-high. She was the mother of the last Piast King of Poland, Casimir III.

Shimon Avidan, born Siegbert Koch, was an Israeli soldier and officer, the commander of the Givati Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Władysław Odonic was a duke of Kalisz 1207–1217, duke of Poznań 1216–1217, ruler of Ujście in 1223, ruler of Nakło from 1225, and duke of all Greater Poland 1229–1234; from 1234 until his death he was ruler over only the north and east of the Warta river.

Count Edward Raczyński, of the Nałęcz coat-of-arms was a Polish conservative politician, protector of arts, founder of the Raczyński Library in Poznań.

Zenon Grocholewski was a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church, who was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2001. He joined the Roman Curia in 1972 and served from 1999 until 2015 as Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education and Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Gregorian University.

Maria Siemionow is a Polish transplant surgeon and scientist who led a team of eight surgeons through the world's first near-total face transplant at the Cleveland Clinic in 2008. The patient, Connie Culp, a 45-year-old woman from a small town in Ohio, was exceedingly disfigured by a close range shotgun blast in 2004. The procedure took 22 hours.

Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, also known as Paul Edmund de Strzelecki, was a Polish explorer, geologist and philanthropist who in 1845 also became a British subject. He is noted for his contributions to the exploration of Australia, particularly the Snowy Mountains and Tasmania as well as climbing and naming the highest mountain on the continent – Mount Kosciuszko.

Rudolf Mosse was a German publisher and philanthropist.