List of Famous people born in Poland

Fritz Wolfgang London was a German physicist and professor at Duke University. His fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces are today considered classic and are discussed in standard textbooks of physical chemistry. With his brother Heinz London, he made a significant contribution to understanding electromagnetic properties of superconductors with the London equations and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on five separate occasions.

Heinz Galinski was president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany from 1988 until his death in 1992.

Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times in 11 years, including five consecutive years between 1940 and 1944, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know". That song has proved among his most enduring, and remains popular in films and television commercials to this day. "At Last" is another of his best-known songs.

Grzegorz Rosiński is a Polish comic book artist. He is best known for providing the artwork for the series Thorgal.

Walther Franz Georg Bronsart von Schellendorff, Dr. jur. h.c., was a Prussian General of the Infantry à la suite, Adjutant-General to the Kaiser and King, and Prussian Minister of War.

Edward Stefan Kłosiński was a Polish cinematographer.

Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs was a Jewish-German mathematician who contributed important research in the field of linear differential equations. He was born in Moschin (Mosina) and died in Berlin, Germany. He was buried in Schöneberg in the St. Matthew's Cemetery. His grave in section H is preserved and listed as a grave of honour of the State of Berlin.

Adam Włodek was a Polish poet, editor and translator.