List of Famous people born in Poland
Maria Wirtemberska
Princess Maria Czartoryska, also formerly known as Duchess Maria, Duchess Louis of Württemberg, was a Polish noble, writer, musician and philanthropist.
Georg von der Marwitz
Georg Cornelius Adalbert von der Marwitz was a Prussian cavalry general, who commanded several German armies during the First World War on both the Eastern and Western fronts.
Maria Dzielska
Maria Celina Dzielska was a Polish classical philologist, historian, translator, biographer of Hypatia, and political activist. She was a Professor of Ancient Roman History at Jagiellonian University.
Łukasz Teodorczyk
Łukasz Teodorczyk is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for the Belgian club Charleroi on loan from Udinese and the Poland national team.
Otto von Gierke
Otto Friedrich von Gierke was a German legal scholar and historian. In his four-volume magnum opus entitled Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht, he pioneered the study of social groups and the importance of associations in German life, which stood between the divide of private and public law. During his career at Berlin University's law department, Gierke was a leading critic of the newly drafted German Civil Code, arguing that it had been moulded in an individualistic frame that was inconsistent with German social traditions. He helped to advance the concept of social law, over the classical division of public law and private law.
Zenon Grocholewski
Zenon Grocholewski was a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church, who was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2001. He joined the Roman Curia in 1972 and served from 1999 until 2015 as Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education and Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Gregorian University.
Duke Nicholas of Württemberg
Duke Nicholas of Württemberg was an officer in the army of the Austrian Empire.
Stanley Wojcicki
Stanley George Wojcicki is a Polish American emeritus professor and former chair of the physics department at Stanford University in California, United States.
Adam Musiał
Adam Musiał was a Polish football player and later became a football manager.
Janusz Kłosiński
Janusz Kłosiński was a Polish film and theatre actor.