List of Famous people born in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Maja Komorowska
Maja Komorowska-Tyszkiewicz is a Polish film actress. She has appeared in over 35 films since 1970.
Dariusz Jemielniak
Dariusz Jemielniak is a full professor of management, the head of MINDS department at Kozminski University, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, a corresponding member of Polish Academy of Sciences.
Miliza Korjus
Miliza Elizabeth Korjus [militsa] was a Polish-born ethnic Estonian coloratura soprano opera singer, who later appeared in Hollywood films. Her birth year has been reported as uncertain, and ranges from 1900 to 1912, according to various sources but her daughter, Melissa Wells, is absolutely certain the year was 1909 and that her mother knew such. She later became a naturalized United States citizen. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1938 for her performance in The Great Waltz.
Piotr Cywiński
Piotr Mateusz Andrzej Cywiński is a professional historian and Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum since 2006; an active participant and frequent initiator in the Polish-Jewish and Christian-Jewish dialogue; and an ecumenist devoted to reconciliation of the various denominations among the cultures of the Kresy borderlands.
Katarzyna Woźniak
Katarzyna Bronisława Woźniak is a Polish speed skater. She is a silver and bronze medalist of the Olympic Games.
Yitzhak Gruenbaum
Yitzhak Gruenbaum was a noted leader of the Zionist movement among Polish Jewry in the interwar period and of the Yishuv in Mandatory Palestine. Gruenbaum was the first Interior Minister of the State of Israel.
Marcin Święcicki
Marcin Święcicki is a Polish politician and economist. He is a former deputy minister of economy, former minister for foreign economic relations as well as a former mayor of Warsaw.
Katarzyna Skowrońska
Katarzyna Ewa Skowrońska-Dolata is a former Polish volleyball player, a member of Poland women's national volleyball team and Italian club Foppapedretti Bergamo, double European Champion, gold medalist of Italian, Turkish, Chinese and Azeri national championships.
Anna Prucnal
Anna Prucnal is a Polish actress in both cinema and theatre, as well as a singer.
Paul Sophus Epstein
Paul Sophus Epstein was a Russian-American mathematical physicist. He was known for his contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, part of a group that included Lorentz, Einstein, Minkowski, Thomson, Rutherford, Sommerfeld, Röntgen, von Laue, Bohr, de Broglie, Ehrenfest and Schwarzschild.