List of Famous people born in Poland
Hanna Suchocka
Hanna Suchocka is a Polish political figure, lawyer, professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Chair of the Constitutional Law Department, former First Vice-President and Honorary President of the Venice Commission.
Walenty Barczewski
Wojciech Marczewski
Wojciech Szczęsny Marczewski is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1968 and 2001.
Adolf Trendelenburg
Aleksander Wolszczan
Aleksander Wolszczan (
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Marek Biernacki
Marek Biernacki is a Polish lawyer and politician. Biernacki previously served as the Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Prime Minister Donald Tusk between 2013 and 2014 and the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration under the government of Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek between 1999 and 2001. He was expelled from Civic Platform in January 2018.
Józef Glemp
Józef Glemp was a Polish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Warsaw from 1981 to 2006, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1983.
Łukasz Sosin
Łukasz Sosin is Polish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Stanisław Wyspiański
Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański was a Polish playwright, painter and poet, as well as interior and furniture designer. A patriotic writer, he created a series of symbolic, national dramas within the artistic philosophy of the Young Poland Movement. Wyspiański was one of the most outstanding and multifaceted artists of his time in Poland under the foreign partitions. He successfully joined the trends of modernism with themes of the Polish folk tradition and Romantic history. Unofficially, he came to be known as the Fourth Polish Bard.