List of Famous people born in Poland

Barbara Blida

Barbara Maria Szwajnoch
First Name Barbara
Last Name Blida
Born on December 3, 1949
Died on April 25, 2007 (aged 57)

Barbara Maria Blida, née Szwajnoch was a Polish political figure who served in the nation's Parliament (Sejm) for 16 years (1989–2005), including a stint as a member of the cabinet, and whose suicide in the midst of an investigation for corruption became front-page news in Poland as well as in a number of news outlets around the world.

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Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł

First Name Dominik
Last Name Radziwiłł
Born on January 22, 1911
Died on November 19, 1976 (aged 65)

Prince Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł was a Polish aristocrat and officer of the Polish Army.

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Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof

Ludwik Zamenhof
First Name Louis-Christophe
Born on January 23, 1925
Died on October 9, 2019 (aged 94)

Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof was a Polish-born French civil and marine engineer, specializing in the design of structural steel and concrete construction. He was a grandson of the Polish Jewish L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of the international auxiliary language Esperanto. From the 1960s until his death, Zaleski-Zamenhof lived in France.

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Arieh Sharon

Ludwik Kurzmann
First Name Arieh
Born on May 28, 1900
Died on July 24, 1984 (aged 84)

Arieh Sharon was an Israeli architect and winner of the Israel Prize for Architecture in 1962. Sharon was a critical contributor to the early architecture in Israel and the leader of the first master plan of the young state, reporting to then Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion. Sharon studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau under Walter Gropius and Hannes Meyer and on his return to Israel in 1931, started building in the International Style, better known locally as the Bauhaus style of Tel Aviv. Sharon built private houses, cinemas and in 1937 his first hospital, a field in which he specialized in his later career, planning and constructing many of the country's largest medical centers.

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Boris Chertok

First Name Boris
Last Name Chertok
Born on March 1, 1912
Died on December 14, 2011 (aged 99)

Boris Yevseyevich Chertok was a Russian electrical engineer and the control systems designer in the Soviet Union's space program, and later found employment in Roscosmos,

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Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski

First Name Michał
Last Name Czartoryski
Born on April 26, 1696
Died on August 13, 1775 (aged 79)

Prince Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski (1696–1775) was a Polish nobleman, the Duke of Klewań and Żuków, magnate, and Knight of the Order of the White Eagle. He headed Poland's Czartoryski "Familia".

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Friedrich Graf von Wrangel

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Wrangel
Died on November 2, 1877

Friedrich Heinrich Ernst Graf von Wrangel was a Generalfeldmarschall of the Prussian Army.

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Katarzyna Barbara Radziwiłł

First Name Katarzyna
Born on December 6, 1693
Died on October 16, 1730 (aged 36)

Count Jan Klemens Branicki was a Polish nobleman, magnate and Hetman, Field Crown Hetman of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth between 1735 and 1752, and Great Crown Hetman between 1752 and 1771. One of the wealthiest Polish magnates in the 18th century, owner of 12 towns, 257 villages and 17 palaces. He was the last male representative of the Branicki family.

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Ryszard Bugajski

First Name Ryszard
Born on April 27, 1943
Died on June 7, 2019 (aged 76)

Ryszard Bugajski was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed 23 films and television shows since 1972. His 1982 film Interrogation starring Krystyna Janda and Adam Ferency, described as "the most anti-Communist film in the history of Polish People's Republic" was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival after being suppressed by the Polish communist authorities for several years.

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Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz
First Name Henryk
Born on May 5, 1846
Died on November 15, 1916 (aged 70)

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz, also known by the pseudonym Litwos [ˈlitfɔs], was a Polish journalist, novelist and Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis (1896).

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