List of Famous people born in Poland
Jan Zamoyski
Jan Sariusz Zamoyski was a Polish nobleman, magnate, and the 1st ordynat of Zamość. He served as the Royal Secretary from 1565, Deputy Chancellor from 1576, Grand Chancellor of the Crown from 1578, and Great Hetman of the Crown from 1581.
Adam Zamenhof
Adam Zamenhof was a Polish physician known for his work on ophthalmology and the son of L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto. Before the Holocaust, Zamenhof had invented a device to check blind spots in the field of vision. During World War II, 6 September 1939, he was head of the Starozakonnych Hospital in Warsaw, and its director. On 1 October 1939 Zamenhof was arrested and sent to the camp in Palmiry, where he was murdered by the Nazis.
Richard Cassirer
Richard Cassirer was a German neurologist born into a Jewish family in Breslau.
Rudolf Mosse
Rudolf Mosse was a German publisher and philanthropist.
Ivan Dolgorukov
Teodor Kazimierz Czartoryski
Teodor Kazimierz Czartoryski was a bishop of Poznań and a member of the magnate family of Czartoryski in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. While he took good care of his ecclesiastical estates, he was much less involved in politics than his more famous brothers from the familia, August Aleksander Czartoryski and Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski.
Janina Korowicka
Janina Urszula Korowicka is a former Polish speed skater, who represented her native country at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. She is the mother of the German champion speed skater Anni Friesinger-Postma.
Tytus Działyński
Tytus Adam Działyński was a Polish political activist and protector of arts and a Prussian politician.
Ernestine von Wildenbruch
Prince Ferdinando, Duke of Castro
Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, The Duke of Castro was a claimant to the headship of the former Royal House of the Two Sicilies.