List of Famous people born in Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
Shmuel Flatto-Sharon
Shmuel "Samy" Flatto-Sharon was a controversial French-Israeli businessman, radio talk-show host and politician. After starting his own political party, he was a member of the Knesset between 1977 and 1981.
Witold Waszczykowski
Witold Jan Waszczykowski is a Polish politician. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2015 and 2018. Waszczykowski was a Member of the Sejm (2011–2019), and has been the Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Mariusz Stępiński
Mariusz Paweł Stępiński is a Polish footballer who plays as a striker for Serie B side Lecce on loan from Hellas Verona.
Jan Karski
Jan Karski was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–43 to the Polish Government-in-Exile and to Poland's Western Allies about the situation in German-occupied Poland. He was reporting about the state of Poland, in which there were many competing factions in the resistance, and also about Germany's destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and its operation of extermination camps on Polish soil that were murdering Jews, Poles, and others.
Martyna Trajdos
Martyna Trajdos is a German judoka competing in the women's 63 kg division. She won gold at the 2015 European Judo Championships in Baku. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the women's 63 kg division. She was defeated by Mariana Silva of Brazil in the second round. In 2020, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's 63 kg event at the 2020 European Judo Championships held in Prague, Czech Republic.
George E. Stone
George E. Stone was a Polish-born American character actor in movies, radio, and television.
Władysław Reymont
Władysław Stanisław Reymont was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi.
Andrzej Bartkowiak
Andrzej Bartkowiak, A.S.C. is a Polish cinematographer and director.
Wiesław Rudkowski
Wiesław Ksawery Rudkowski was a Polish boxer and Olympic silver medalist. He lost the gold medal match to Dieter Kottysch.
Boris Chertok
Boris Yevseyevich Chertok was a Russian electrical engineer and the control systems designer in the Soviet Union's space program, and later found employment in Roscosmos,