List of Famous people born in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Eduard Strasburger
Eduard Adolf Strasburger was a Polish-German professor and one of the most famous botanists of the 19th century.
Pavel Vyasemsky
Maria Szymanowska
Maria Szymanowska was a Polish composer and one of the first professional virtuoso pianists of the 19th century. She toured extensively throughout Europe, especially in the 1820s, before settling permanently in St. Petersburg. In the Russian imperial capital, she composed for the court, gave concerts, taught music, and ran an influential salon.
Anna Maria Jopek
Anna Maria Jopek is a Polish vocalist, songwriter, and improviser. She represented her country in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Ale jestem" and finished 11th out of 25 participating acts; and in 2002, she collaborated on an album with jazz guitarist Pat Metheny. She has received numerous awards for her music, including Michel Legrand's Personal Award in Vitebsk in 1994, as well as all of the awards for music in Poland, together with gold and platinum records.
Namanya
Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay was a Polish and Russian linguist and Slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations.
Józef Skłodowski
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski was a Polish writer, publisher, historian, journalist, scholar, painter, and author who produced more than 200 novels and 150 novellas, short stories, and art reviews, which makes him the most prolific writer in the history of Polish literature. He is best known for his epic series on the history of Poland, comprising twenty-nine novels in seventy-nine parts.
Jan Dzerzhinsky
Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska
Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska was a Polish composer.
Marie von Brühl
Marie Sophie Gräfin von Brühl ; was a member of the noble German Brühl family originating in Thuringia. In addition to her career as a patron of the arts in Berlin, she is known for editing and publishing the work of her husband Carl von Clausewitz, especially his military treatise On War.