List of Famous people born in Łódź, Poland
Michał Wiśniewski
Michał Krystian Wiśniewski is a Polish pop vocalist, leader of the pop group Ich Troje, who sang for Poland at the 2003 and 2006 Eurovision Song Contests. He is famous for his characteristic red hair,but sometimes his hair was green, black and white.
Szymon Srebrnik
Szymon Srebrnik was a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor of the Chełmno extermination camp – a German Nazi death camp established in occupied Poland during World War II. Srebnik escaped after being shot in the back of his head at close range, two days before the Russians arrived in 1945. His testimony along with that of the few other witnesses was critical to prosecution of camp personnel and other Nazi officials, because of the destruction of evidence by the Germans of their mass extermination of Jews in Chełmno.
Borys Szyc
Borys Michał Szyc-Michalak is a Polish actor and musician.
Moshe-Zvi Neria
Rabbi Moshe-Zvi Neria was an Israeli educator, writer, and rosh yeshiva who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party between 1969 and 1974. Neria established and headed the Bnei Akiva yeshiva in Kfar Haroeh, and was one of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook's most influential disciples. Due to his far-reaching influence on Religious Zionism, he is known as "the father of the knit kippah generation."
Lawrence Lipton
Lawrence Lipton was a Polish-American journalist, writer, and beat poet, as well as the father of James Lipton.
Artur Brauner
Artur "Atze" Brauner was a German film producer and entrepreneur of Polish origin. He produced more than 300 films from 1946.
Andrzej Bek
Andrzej Bek is a former Polish cyclist. He won the Olympic bronze medal in the Tandem in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich along with Benedykt Kocot.
Izabella Miko
Izabella Miko is a Polish-American actress, dancer, producer, and environmental activist. She is best known for starring in the musical comedy-drama film Coyote Ugly and the music videos "Mr. Brightside" and "Miss Atomic Bomb" by The Killers. While a dance student in Poland, Miko was recruited to study at the New York City Ballet at age fifteen and later studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute. She made her American film debut in Coyote Ugly (2000), followed by a starring part in the vampire thriller The Forsaken (2001).
Zbigniew Nienacki
Zbigniew Nienacki was a pen name of Polish writer, Zbigniew Tomasz Nowicki.