List of Famous people born in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Adam Marczyński was a Polish painter. He died in Kraków. Marczyński came into his own as an artist of post-war Kraków.

Adam Holender is a Polish cinematographer, best known for his work on Midnight Cowboy.

Borys Lankosz is a Polish film director.

Dominik Kalata, SJ, was a Slovakian Roman Catholic prelate, who served as a titular bishop of Semta. Kalata was ordained as a Catholic priest on 12 August 1951 and clandestinely as bishop on 9 September 1955 by Ján Chryzostom Korec, SJ, because of the Communist Government of Czechoslovakia and the persecution of the Roman Catholic Church by the government. On 16 March 1985 he was appointed as titular bishop.

Leon Schiller or Leon Schiller de Schildenfeld was a Polish theatre and film director, as well as critic and theatre theoretician. He also wrote theatre and radio screenplays and composed music. He was born in Kraków under the Austrian rule during the foreign Partitions of Poland, to a family of Austrian origin that had been ennobled by Empress Maria Theresa.

Jakub Słowik is a Polish footballer who plays for Vegalta Sendai in the J1 League.

Adam Greenberg, A.S.C. is a retired Israeli-American cinematographer noted for his work in his native Israel and the United States, including several films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Greenberg has collaborated with numerous well-known and acclaimed filmmakers, including James Cameron, Andrew Davis, Kathryn Bigelow, David Perlov, and Ivan Reitman.

Stanisława Przybyszewska was a Polish dramatist who is mostly known for her plays about the French Revolution. Her 1929 play The Danton Case, which examines the conflict between Maximilien Robespierre and Georges Danton, is considered to be one of the most exemplary works about the Revolution, and was adapted by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda for his 1983 film Danton.

Rabbi Meshulam Zusha of Hanipol or Meshulum Zusil of Anipoli (1718–1800), Reb Zusha, Reb Zushe, The Rebbe Reb Zusha was an Orthodox rabbi and an early Hasidic luminary and well-known tzaddik. He was one of the great Hassidic Rebbes of the third generation and member of the academy circle of the Maggid of Mezeritch.