List of Famous people born in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Tadeusz Reichstein was a Polish-Swiss chemist and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (1950).

Adolf Kiessling was a German philologist born in Culm. He was a specialist in the field of Roman literature.

Leopold Cohn was a German author and philologist.

Władysław Jerzy Engel is a Polish former footballer and coach.

Stanisław Gądecki is the current archbishop of Poznan, Poland. He is a Polish Roman Catholic Bishop, doctor of Theological Sciences, Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno from 1992 to 2002, and Archbishop of Poznań since 2002. He was also Deputy President of the Polish Episcopal Conference (2004-2014), and serves currently as President of the Polish Episcopal Conference from 2014 and Deputy President of the Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe from 2016.

Stefan Majewski is a retired Polish footballer and football manager. He was born in Bydgoszcz.

Andrzej Mierzejewski is a Polish retired road racing cyclist. He won the Tour de Pologne 1982, 1984 and 1988. He also competed in the road race at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Sylwester Szmyd is a Polish former professional road bicycle racer who last rode for UCI Professional Continental team CCC Development Team. Born in Bydgoszcz, Szmyd is a climber who serves as a leader in smaller stage races, and as a strong mountain domestique for his team leaders in the Grand Tours; he has completed each of the 23 Grand Tours that he has started during his career.

Stanisław Karnkowski of Junosza (1520–1603) was the Great Referendary of the Polish Crown, the Great Secretary of Poland, bishop of Włocławek (1567-1580) as well as archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland. He served during the Interrex in 1586–1587, before the coronation of Sigismund III Vasa.