List of Famous people born in Kraków, Poland

Marzena Trybała

First Name Marzena
Born on November 16, 1950 (age 75)

Marzena Trybała is a Polish actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1971.

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Ryszard Polański

First Name Ryszard
Born on November 30, 1902
Died on November 30, 1983 (aged 81)
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Jacob Joshua Falk

First Name Jacob
Last Name Falk
Born on December 19, 1680
Died on January 16, 1756 (aged 75)

Jacob Joshua Falk 1680 - January 16, 1756) was a Polish and German rabbi and Talmudist, known as the Pnei Yehoshua.

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Franciszek Macharski

First Name Franciszek
Born on May 20, 1927
Died on August 2, 2016 (aged 89)

Franciszek Macharski was a Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was appointed Archbishop of Kraków from 1978, named by Pope John Paul II to succeed him in that role. Macharski was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979, and resigned as archbishop in 2005.

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Stefan Friedmann

First Name Stefan
Last Name Friedmann
Born on September 2, 1941 (age 84)

Stefan Friedmann is a Polish actor. He has made over 40 appearances in film and television. He starred in the 1978 comedy film What Will You Do When You Catch Me?, He hosted the Miss Polski pageant.

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Jan Frycz

First Name Jan
Last Name Frycz
Born on May 15, 1954 (age 72)

Jan Frycz is a Polish screen and stage actor. He was nominated for six Polish Academy Awards, winning twice for his supporting roles in the films Pornografia (2003) and The Welts (2004).

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Jerzy Stuhr

First Name Jerzy
Born on April 18, 1947 (age 79)

Jerzy Oskar Stuhr is one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish film and theatre actors. He also works as a screenwriter, film director and drama professor. He served as the Rector of the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Kraków for two terms: from 1990 to 1996 and again from 2002 to 2008.

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Edward Ochab

First Name Edward
Last Name Ochab
Born on August 16, 1906
Died on May 1, 1989 (aged 82)

Edward Ochab was a Polish communist politician and top leader of Poland between March and October 1956.

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Sigismund II Augustus

First Name Sigismund
Born on August 1, 1520
Died on July 7, 1572 (aged 51)

Sigismund II Augustus was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. He was the first ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the last male monarch from the Jagiellonian dynasty.

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Władysław III of Poland

First Name Władysław
Died on November 10, 1444

Władysław III, also known as Władysław of Varna, was King of Poland from 1434 and King of Hungary and Croatia from 1440 until his death at the Battle of Varna.

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