List of Famous people born in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Janusz Andrzej Głowacki, better known as Janusz Głowacki or colloquially simply as Głowa, was a Polish playwright, essayist and screenwriter. Głowacki was the recipient of multiple awards and honours, including Guggenheim Fellowship, two Nike Award nominations and BAFTA Award nomination. He was awarded the Gloria Artis Gold Medal in 2005 for his contribution to Polish culture, and in 2014, the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

Tomasz Piotr Tomiak was a Polish rower. He was born in Nowy Tomyśl.

Leopold Damrosch was a German American orchestral conductor and composer.

Dominika Kulczyk is a Polish billionaire businesswoman, and the daughter of Jan Kulczyk, who was Poland's richest man. She is the co-founder and president of the Kulczyk Foundation, chair of a supervisory board of Kulczyk Holding, chair of a supervisory board of Polenergia SA, and co-founder of the Values Consulting Group. She is the author of a TV series, the Domino Effect.

Friedrich Heinrich Schur was a German mathematician who studied geometry.

Yurek Bogajevicz is a Polish film director, screenwriter, actor and producer. He directed, among others, Anna (1987), Three of Hearts (1993) and Exit in Red (1996).