List of Famous people born in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Hermann von Richthofen
Hermann Freiherr von Richthofen, GCVO is a German diplomat. He is a great nephew of Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron".
Adam Wójcik
Adam Wójcik was a Polish professional basketball player. He was known as one of the all-time greats in Polish basketball. He is the second all-time leading scorer of the Polish Basketball League, with 10,087 points scored.
Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinus
Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinus was a German serial killer believed to have been responsible for poisoning her husband, aunt, and lover, and of attempting to poison her servant. Her trial led to a method of identifying arsenic poisoning.
Rudolf Bahro
Rudolf Bahro was a dissident from East Germany who, since his death, has been recognised as a philosopher, political figure and author. Bahro was a leader of the West German party The Greens, but became disenchanted with its political organization, left the party and explored spiritual approaches to sustainability.
Justine Siegemund
Justine Siegemund or Siegemundin was a renowned midwife from Lower Silesia whose Court Midwife (1690) was the more read, but not the first, female-published German obstetrical manual.
Andrzej Rudy
Andrzej Rudy is a former Polish footballer who played as a midfielder.
Claus-Wilhelm Canaris
Claus-Wilhelm Canaris was a German jurist. Until his retirement in 2005 he was professor of Private Law, Commercial law and Labour law the University of Munich.
Peter Thomas
Peter Thomas was a German composer and arranger with an active career of more than 50 years. He was known for his TV and film soundtracks such as Raumpatrouille, the Edgar Wallace movies film series, and the Jerry Cotton film series.
Horst Rosenthal
Horst Sigmund Rosenthal was a German-born French cartoonist of Jewish descent. He is best known for his 1942 French comic book Mickey au Camp de Gurs which he created while he was a prisoner at the Gurs internment camp in France during World War II. He was later transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland where he was executed.
Józef Lipski
Józef Lipski was a Polish diplomat and Ambassador to Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1939. Lipski played a key role in the foreign policy of the Second Polish Republic.