List of Famous people born in Poland

Wolf Lepenies

First Name Wolf
Last Name Lepenies
Born on January 11, 1941 (age 85)

Wolf Lepenies is a German sociologist, political scientist, and author.

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Michael O. Rabin

First Name Michael
Last Name Rabin
Born on September 1, 1931 (age 94)

Michael Oser Rabin is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award.

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Duke Wilhelm of Württemberg

First Name Duke
Last Name Württemberg
Born on July 20, 1828
Died on November 5, 1896 (aged 68)

Duke William of Württemberg was an Austrian and Württemberg General.

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Viktor Amadeus Henckel von Donnersmarck

First Name Viktor
Born on September 15, 1727
Died on January 31, 1793 (aged 65)
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Stanislav Kosior

First Name Stanislav
Born on November 6, 1889
Died on February 26, 1939 (aged 49)

Stanisław Vikentyevich Kosior, sometimes spelled Kossior, was a Soviet politician who was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union and member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).

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Moshe-Zvi Neria

First Name Moshe-Zvi
Born on January 29, 1913
Died on December 12, 1995 (aged 82)

Rabbi Moshe-Zvi Neria was an Israeli educator, writer, and rosh yeshiva who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party between 1969 and 1974. Neria established and headed the Bnei Akiva yeshiva in Kfar Haroeh, and was one of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook's most influential disciples. Due to his far-reaching influence on Religious Zionism, he is known as "the father of the knit kippah generation."

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Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky

First Name Karl
Last Name Lichnowsky
Born on March 8, 1860
Died on February 27, 1928 (aged 67)

Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky was a German diplomat who served as ambassador to Britain during the July Crisis and who was the author of a 1916 pamphlet that deplored German diplomacy in mid-1914 which, he argued, contributed heavily to the outbreak of the First World War.

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Bogusław Linda

Bogusław Linda is a Polish actor known from films such as Psy and Tato. He appeared in Andrzej Wajda's Man of Iron and Danton and in Krzysztof Kieślowski's Blind Chance and the seventh episode of Kieślowski's Dekalog. He is regarded as one of the most popular Polish film actors.

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Teofila Reich-Ranicki

Teofila Langnas
First Name Teofila
Born on March 12, 1920
Died on April 29, 2011 (aged 91)
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Jakub Szydłowiecki

First Name Jakub
Last Name Szydłowiecki
Born on November 30, 1452
Died on January 1, 1509 (aged 56)

Jakub Szydłowiecki was a Polish nobleman and politician. In the years 1493-1501 he was Burgrave of Kraków and was a courtier of the king from 1496, Treasurer of the Crown Court in 1497, Grand Teasurer of the Crown from 1501 to 1506, and castellan and starost of Sandomierz, Sochaczew and Łęczyca.

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