List of Famous people born in Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind is a Polish-American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect.
Traudl Kulikowsky
Traudl Kulikowsky is a former German film actress. Between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s she took prominent roles in a succession of East German cinema and television films.
Harry Haft
Harry Haft was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp where he boxed fellow inmates to survive. He was briefly a professional boxer in post-war Germany, and boxed as a light heavyweight in the United States from 1948–1949.
Henry Morgentaler
Henekh "Henry" Morgentaler,, was a Jewish Polish-born Canadian physician and abortion rights advocate who fought numerous legal battles aimed at expanding abortion rights in Canada. As a youth during World War II, Morgentaler was imprisoned at the Łódź Ghetto and later at the Dachau concentration camp.
Shlomo Erell
Shlomo Erell was a Major General in the IDF, and the seventh Commander of the Israeli Navy.
Kamil Majchrzak
Kamil Majchrzak is a Polish professional tennis player.
Jerzy Janowicz
Jerzy Filip Janowicz Jr. is a professional tennis player from Poland.
Maciej Rybus
Maciej Rybus is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Lokomotiv Moscow.
Jurek Becker
Jurek Becker was a Polish-born German writer, film-author and GDR dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust.
Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski was a Polish-British mathematician and historian. He is best known for developing a humanistic approach to science, and as the presenter and writer of the thirteen-part 1973 BBC television documentary series, and accompanying book, The Ascent of Man, which led to his regard as "one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals".