List of Famous people born in Poland

Prince Adam Stanisław Sapieha was a Polish nobleman, landlord, politician.

Claudia Ciesla is a Polish-German actress and model who works mainly in the Indian film industry. She was a contestant on the Indian reality television series Bigg Boss.

Shimon Avidan, born Siegbert Koch, was an Israeli soldier and officer, the commander of the Givati Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Count Alfred Józef Potocki was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), landowner, and a liberal-conservative monarchist Austrian politician and Prime Minister.

Hedwig of Legnica was a Polish princess and member of the Piast dynasty, in the Legnica branch. By marriage Hedwig was Duchess of Żagań.

Bolesław Bierut was a Polish politician, communist activist and leader of Communist Poland between 1947 and 1956. He was President of the State National Council from 1944 to 1947, President of Poland from 1947 to 1952, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party from 1948 to 1956 and temporarily Prime Minister of Poland from 1952 to 1954. Bierut, a self-taught man, with full knowledge and iron resolve aimed to implement the Stalinist system in Poland. However, together with Władysław Gomułka, his main rival, Bierut is chiefly responsible for the historic changes that Poland underwent in the aftermath of World War II. Unlike any of his communist successors, Bierut ruled Poland until his death.

Frederick August Charles, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen was a German general of the Napoleonic Wars and nobleman of the house of Hohenlohe.

Władysław Hugo Dionizy Steinhaus was a Jewish-Polish mathematician and educator. Steinhaus obtained his PhD under David Hilbert at Göttingen University in 1911 and later became a professor at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów, where he helped establish what later became known as the Lwów School of Mathematics. He is credited with "discovering" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he gave a notable contribution to functional analysis through the Banach–Steinhaus theorem. After World War II Steinhaus played an important part in the establishment of the mathematics department at Wrocław University and in the revival of Polish mathematics from the destruction of the war.

Balduin Baas was a German actor. He appeared in 77 films and television shows between 1956 and 2002.