List of Famous people born in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Jadwiga Chojnacka
Jadwiga Chojnacka was a Polish film actress. She appeared in more than 30 films between 1948 and 1989.
Bronisław Kaper
Bronisław Kaper was a Polish film composer who scored films and musical theater in Germany, France, and the USA. The American immigration authorities misspelled his name as Bronislau Kaper. He was also variously credited as Bronislaw Kaper, Bronislaw Kapper, Benjamin Kapper, and Edward Kane.
Piotr Paziński
Piotr Paziński is a Polish writer. He has written three books: two on James Joyce and his fiction, and a novel Pensjonat, which won the Paszport Polityki award as well as the EU Prize for Literature. He works at the Warsaw-based Jewish magazine Midrash.
Jacek Czaputowicz
Jacek Krzysztof Czaputowicz is a Polish politician and academic who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 9 January 2018 to 20 August 2020.
Edmund Baranowski
Tadeusz Kotarbiński
Tadeusz Marian Kotarbiński was a Polish philosopher, logician and ethicist.
Michał Lorenc
Michał Lorenc is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work on films Little Rose (2010), Bastard (1997), Blood and Wine (1996) and 300 Miles to Heaven (1989). He is currently considered one of the most important contemporary Polish film score composers.
Józef Pińkowski
Józef Pińkowski (
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Jerzy Andrzejewski
Jerzy Andrzejewski was a prolific Polish author. His works confront controversial moral issues such as betrayal, the Jews and Auschwitz in the wartime. His novels, Ashes and Diamonds, and Holy Week, have been made into film adaptations by the Oscar-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda. Holy Week and Ashes and Diamonds have both been translated into English. His novel The Gates of Paradise was translated into English by James Kirkup and published by Panther Books with the anglicised spelling "George Andrzeyevski".
Joachim Lelewel
Joachim Lelewel was a Polish historian, geographer, bibliographer, polyglot and politician.