List of Famous people born in Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland
Gustav Fechner
Gustav Theodor Fechner was a German experimental psychologist,
philosopher, and physicist. An early pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics, he inspired many 20th-century scientists and philosophers. He is also credited with demonstrating the non-linear relationship between psychological sensation and the physical intensity of a stimulus via the formula: , which became known as the Weber–Fechner law.
Mirosław Piotrowski
Mirosław Mariusz Piotrowski is an independent Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He was originally elected in 2004 with the League of Polish Families, then part of the Independence and Democracy grouping. At the 2009 election, he was re-elected for Law and Justice.
Adolf Engler
Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, edited with Karl A. E. von Prantl.
Rüdiger von der Goltz
Gustav Adolf Joachim Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz was a German army general during the First World War. He commanded the Baltic Sea Division, which successfully intervened in the Finnish Civil War in the spring of 1918. Goltz stayed with his troops in Finland until December 1918 representing German interests, and in practise ruled the country as a military dictator during this period. After the Armistice of 11 November 1918, Goltz commanded the army of the Baltic German-established Government of Latvia, which in 1919 was instrumental in the defeat of the Russian Bolsheviks and their local allies in Latvia, but suffered a defeat against Estonia and was eventually unsuccessful in retaining German control over the Baltic region after the War.
Karl Ludwig Hencke
Karl Ludwig Hencke was a German amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. He is sometimes confused with Johann Franz Encke, another German astronomer.
Arthur Wiesner
Arthur Wiesner (1895–1980) was a German stage and film actor. He appeared in twenty eight films and television series.
Werner Kolhörster
Werner Heinrich Gustav Kolhörster was a German physicist and a pioneer of research into cosmic rays.
Ernst Kummer
Ernst Eduard Kummer was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics; afterwards, he taught for 10 years in a gymnasium, the German equivalent of high school, where he inspired the mathematical career of Leopold Kronecker.
Siegfried Scheffler
Richard Kunze
Richard Kunze was a German right-wing politician known for his anti-Semitism.