List of Famous people born in Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland

Jan Stanisław Jankowski was a Polish politician, an important figure in the Polish civil resistance during World War II and a Government Delegate at Home. Arrested by the NKVD, he was sentenced in the Trial of the Sixteen and murdered in a Soviet prison.

Krzysztof Jurgiel is a Polish politician. He is the former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in the cabinet of Beata Szydło.

Paweł Śmiłowski is a Polish badminton player. Born in Białystok, Śmiłowski started to playing badminton at the age of six and join a local club Hubal Białystok. He was the bronze medalists at the 2017 European Junior Championships in the boys' and mixed doubles event. He won his first senior international title at the 2017 Slovak Open in the mixed doubles event partnered with Magdalena Świerczyńska.

Cezary Zamana is a former professional road racing cyclist from Ełk, Poland.

Iosif Grigor’evich Langbard, also Josef Langbard was a Soviet Belarusian architect and Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (1934).

Elimelech Weisblum of Lizhensk was a rabbi and one of the great founding Rebbes of the Hasidic movement. He was known after his hometown, Leżajsk near Rzeszów in Poland. He was part of the inner "Chevraya Kadisha" school of the Maggid Rebbe Dov Ber of Mezeritch, who became the decentralised, third generation leadership after the passing of Rebbe Dov Ber in 1772. Their dissemination to new areas of Eastern Europe led the movement's rapid revivalist expansion.

Edward Ozorowski is a Polish Roman Catholic clergyman. He served as the Auxiliary bishop in Białystok from 1979 to 2006. Ozorowski then served as the Metropolitan bishop in Białystok from 2006 to 2017. He was honored the Honorary citizenship of Wasilków in 2007, in which he was also honored for Białystok in 2014 and the Minister of National Education award.