List of Famous people born in Poland

Prince Adam Stefan Stanisław Bonifacy Józef Sapieha was a Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Kraków. Between 1922–1923 he was a senator of the Second Polish Republic. In 1946, Pope Pius XII created him Cardinal.

Bogusław Leszczyński, count of Leszno (1614–1659) from the Leszczyński Family of Holy Roman Empire counts, was a Polish noble (szlachcic) and politician from Wielkopolska region.

Princess Gryzelda Konstancja Wiśniowiecka née Zamoyska of clan Jelita was a Polish noblewoman, known as the mother of King Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki.

Louise Henriette Wilhelmine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, was a Margravine of Brandenburg by births and by marriage a princess, and later Duchess, of Anhalt-Dessau.

Leon Sapieha (1803–1878), sometimes written as Leon Sapiega, was a Galician noble (szlachcic) and statesman.

Adolf Karl Friedrich Ludwig Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen was a Prussian nobleman, soldier, and politician. He briefly served as Minister-President of Prussia in 1862 and was succeeded by Otto von Bismarck.

Duke Friedrich Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg was a member of the House of Württemberg and a Duke of Württemberg. Paul Wilhelm was a German naturalist and explorer, who in the early 19th century, undertook several expeditions in North America, North Africa, and Australia. In 1829, he discovered the sources of the Missouri River.

Maria Siemionow is a Polish transplant surgeon and scientist who led a team of eight surgeons through the world's first near-total face transplant at the Cleveland Clinic in 2008. The patient, Connie Culp, a 45-year-old woman from a small town in Ohio, was exceedingly disfigured by a close range shotgun blast in 2004. The procedure took 22 hours.

Stanisław Koniecpolski was a Polish military commander, regarded as one of the most talented and capable in the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was also a magnate, a royal official (starosta), a castellan, a member of the Polish nobility (szlachta), and the voivode (governor) of Sandomierz from 1625 until his death. He led many successful military campaigns against rebelling Cossacks and invading Tatars. From 1618 he held the rank of Field Crown Hetman before becoming the Grand Crown Hetman, the military commander second only to the King, in 1632.