List of Famous people born in Opole Voivodeship, Poland

Carl Friedländer was a German pathologist and microbiologist who helped discover the bacterial cause of pneumonia in 1882. He also first described thromboangiitis obliterans.

Countess Izabella Poniatowska was a Polish noblewoman, sister of king Stanisław Antoni Poniatowski.

Otto Thorbeck was a German lawyer and Nazi SS judge in the Hauptamt SS-Gericht.

Karolina Wydra is a Polish-American actress and model. She played Dominika Petrova on the Fox medical drama series House, and vampire Violet Mazurski on the HBO dark fantasy series True Blood. Wydra has starred in the fantasy thriller After (2012), and the science fiction film Europa Report (2013). She portrayed Detective Dianne Kubek on ABC's short-lived crime drama series Wicked City and recurred as Izel in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Joachim Frederick of (Legnica-)Brieg, was a Duke of Oława and Wołów and Brzeg and Legnica.

George III of Brieg, was a Duke of Brzeg since 1633 and Legnica-Wołów during 1653-1654.

Paweł Piotr Kukiz is a Polish politician, singer and actor. He is the leader of Kukiz'15, a non-partisan political alliance campaigning for single-member districts, and was a candidate in the 2015 presidential election, in which he received 21% of the votes in the first round of the elections, finishing third. Since 2015 Kukiz is a member of Polish parliament. He is a co-leader of the Polish Coalition.

Erich Mende was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was the leader of FDP from 1960 to 1968 and the third Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1963 to 1966.

Duchess Agnes of Württemberg was a German aristocrat and writer under the pseudonym of Angela Hohenstein.

Duke Nicholas of Württemberg was an officer in the army of the Austrian Empire.