List of Famous people born in Poland

Jan Zamoyski

First Name Jan
Last Name Zamoyski
Born on March 19, 1542
Died on June 3, 1605 (aged 63)

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.

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Adam Zamenhof

First Name Adam
Last Name Zamenhof
Born on June 11, 1888
Died on January 29, 1940 (aged 51)

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.

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Richard Cassirer

First Name Richard
Last Name Cassirer
Born on April 23, 1868
Died on August 20, 1925 (aged 57)

Richard Cassirer was a German neurologist born into a Jewish family in Breslau.

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Rudolf Mosse

First Name Rudolf
Last Name Mosse
Born on May 8, 1843
Died on September 8, 1920 (aged 77)

Rudolf Mosse was a German publisher and philanthropist.

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Ivan Dolgorukov

First Name Ivan
Last Name Dolgorukov
Born on January 1, 1708
Died on November 19, 1739 (aged 31)
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Teodor Kazimierz Czartoryski

First Name Teodor
Born on January 1, 1704
Died on March 1, 1768 (aged 64)

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.

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Janina Korowicka

First Name Janina
Last Name Korowicka
Born on April 1, 1954 (age 72)
Height 169 cm | 5'7

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.

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Tytus Działyński

First Name Tytus
Born on December 24, 1796
Died on April 12, 1861 (aged 64)

Tytus Adam Działyński was a Polish political activist and protector of arts and a Prussian politician.

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Ernestine von Wildenbruch

First Name Ernestine
Born on October 31, 1805
Died on January 2, 1858 (aged 52)
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Prince Ferdinando, Duke of Castro

First Name Prince
Last Name Castro
Born on May 28, 1926
Died on March 20, 2008 (aged 81)

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.

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