List of Famous people born in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Edward Kłosiński
Edward Stefan Kłosiński was a Polish cinematographer.
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz is a Polish left-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland for a year from 7 February 1996 to 31 October 1997, after being defeated in the Parliamentary elections by the Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS). He was born in Warsaw.
Jerzy Stefan Stawiński
Jerzy Stefan Stawiński was a Polish screenwriter and film director. Beginning in 1957 he had written or co-written 29 films. He wrote a segment of the film Love at Twenty, which was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.
Mack Gordon
Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times in 11 years, including five consecutive years between 1940 and 1944, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know". That song has proved among his most enduring, and remains popular in films and television commercials to this day. "At Last" is another of his best-known songs.
Marek Piwowski
Marek Andrzej Piwowski is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his cult film Rejs (1970).
Teresa Lipowska
Teresa Lipowska is a Polish actress. She is best known as Barbara Mostowiak in the very popular Polish soap opera M jak miłość. Lipowska was married to late actor Tomasz Zaliwski.
Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski was a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics. He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality. His best known dictum is "The map is not the territory".
Katarzyna Adamik
Katarzyna "Kasia" Adamik is a Polish directior and storyboard artist.
Jacques Ledoux
Jacques Ledoux was a Belgian cinema specialist, curator of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium from 1948 to 1988 and the founder of the Cinema Museum in Brussels in 1962.
Tadeusz Janczar
Tadeusz Janczar was a Polish film actor. He appeared in 26 films between 1952 and 1983.