List of Famous people born in Poland

Małgorzata Fornalska was a Polish communist activist and anti-Nazi resistance fighter.

Jerzy Skolimowski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol. In 1967 he was awarded the Golden Bear prize for his film Le départ. His most famous film is Deep End (1970), starring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown. He lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and occasionally acted in films. He returned to Poland, and to film making as a writer and director, after a 17-year hiatus with Cztery noce z Anną in 2008. He received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Film Festival.

Grzegorz Jerzy Turnau is a Polish composer, pianist, poet and singer. He has released eleven albums to date, including one made up of his own versions of songs by Jeremi Przybora and Jerzy Wasowski, and most have enjoyed considerable chart success.

Grażyna Szapołowska is a Polish film and theatre actress.

Euphemia of Racibórz was a Polish princess member of the House of Piast in the Racibórz branch and Dominican Prioress in Racibórz.

Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya was a leading Polish Social Democrat and later Communist politician. During WWII, she was director of the Polish language Tadeusz Kościuszko radio station, broadcasting the communist message into occupied Poland.

Joseph Kubert was a Polish-born American comic book artist, art teacher, and founder of The Kubert School. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman. He is also known for working on his own creations, such as Tor, Son of Sinbad, and the Viking Prince, and, with writer Robin Moore, the comic strip Tales of the Green Beret. Two of Kubert's sons, Andy Kubert and Adam Kubert, themselves became recognized comic book artists, as did many of Kubert's former students, including Stephen R. Bissette, Amanda Conner, Rick Veitch, Eric Shanower, Steve Lieber, and Scott Kolins.

Ludwig Traube was a German physician and co-founder of the experimental pathology in Germany.

George William, also known as George IV William ; Polish: Jerzy IV Wilhelm; 29 September 1660 – 21 November 1675) was the last Silesian duke of Legnica and Brzeg from 1672 until his death. He was the last male member of the Silesian Piast dynasty descending from Władysław II the Exile (1105–1159).