List of Famous people born in Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
Borys Szyc
Borys Michał Szyc-Michalak is a Polish actor and musician.
Hanna Zdanowska
Hanna Elżbieta Zdanowska is a Polish politician. Zdanowska is a member of the Civic Platform and the current city mayor of Łódź since December 13, 2010.
Fayga Ostrower
Fayga Perla Ostrower was an engraver, painter, designer, illustrator, art theorist and university professor.
Wojciech Łazarek
Wojciech Łazarek is a Polish footballer who played as forward in the late 1950s and early 1960s and, starting in 1964, until his retirement in 2006, embarked on a 42-year career as a renowned trainer and manager entrusted, between 1986 and 1989, with the key responsibility of selecting and training players for the Poland national football team.
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Krzysztof "Kris" Matyjaszewski is a Polish-American chemist. He is the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon University Matyjaszewski is best known for the discovery of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), a novel method of polymer synthesis that has revolutionized the way macromolecules are made. In 2011 he was a co-winner of the prestigious Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
Jerzy Kosiński
Jerzy Kosiński, born Józef Lewinkopf, was a Polish-American novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English. Born in Poland, he survived World War II and, as a young man, emigrated to the U.S., where he became a citizen.
Aleksander Bardini
Aleksander Bardini was a Polish theatre and opera director, actor, notable professor at the State Theatre School in Warsaw. He appeared in 30 films between 1937 and 1994.
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.
Ingo Friedrich
Ingo Friedrich is a former German (Bavarian) Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the CSU ticket and sits with the EPP-ED Group. Friedrich holds a University degree in Economics. He was a member of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district council (1972–1996) and was the head of the CSU delegation to the European Parliament between 1992 and 1999. He has been awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit, and the Federal Cross of Merit, first class.
Mariusz Dmochowski
Mariusz Dmochowski was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 45 films and television shows between 1958 and 1992.