List of Famous people born in Poland

Andrzej Bart is a Polish novelist, screenwriter and film director. He is called the Polish Thomas Pynchon because he prefers "people talk about his books and films but leave him alone".

Frank Heino Damrosch was a German-born American music conductor and educator. In 1905, Damrosch founded the New York Institute of Musical Art, a predecessor of the Juilliard School.

Gisela Oechelhaeuser is a German cabaret performer and impresario with a doctorate in modern languages. Her career was adversely affected in 1999 when it was disclosed that twenty years earlier, while at university, she actively operated as a paid informer for the Ministry for State Security under the one-party German dictatorship of that time.

Cezary Skubiszewski is a Polish-born Australian film and television composer whose work has received international acclaim winning numerous awards. He has composed film scores for Red Dog, Two Hands, The Sapphires, Blessed, Death Defying Acts, Beneath Hill 60 and TV series Picnic at Hanging Rock. He is the father of actress, film director/writer Viva Bianca and composer/music producer Jan Skubiszewski.

Marie-Luise Gothein was a Prussian scholar, gardener and author.

Dagmara Domińczyk is a Polish-American actress and author. She has appeared in the films Rock Star (2001), The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), Kinsey (2004), Trust the Man (2005), Lonely Hearts (2006), Running with Scissors (2006), Higher Ground (2011), The Letter (2012), The Immigrant (2013), and Big Stone Gap (2014).