List of Famous people born in Poland

Damian Zimoń is metropolitan archbishop emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Katowice.

Chava Alberstein is an Israeli singer, lyricist, composer, and musical arranger.

Karl Otfried Müller was a German scholar and Philodorian, or admirer of ancient Sparta, who introduced the modern study of Greek mythology.

Tomasz Majewski is a Polish shot putter and a double Olympic gold medalist. He is the third shot putter to successfully defend the Olympic title, first European to do so, and the first since Parry O'Brien in 1956.

Mieczysław Czechowicz was a Polish actor. A graduate of Warsaw's State Theatrical Academy, Czechowicz played in numerous films, plays and cabarets. He worked for the National Theatre as well as other Warsaw theatres. In 1987 he was awarded the Polonia Restituta. As a movie actor, he played in such productions, as Janosik, Czterej Pancerni i Pies, Lalka, The Tin Drum, and comedies by Stanisław Bareja. Czechowicz's voice is known by almost all kids in Poland, as he voiced the friendly teddy bear in a popular cartoon Miś Uszatek.

Andrzej Bek is a former Polish cyclist. He won the Olympic bronze medal in the Tandem in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich along with Benedykt Kocot.

Joachim Lelewel was a Polish historian, geographer, bibliographer, polyglot and politician.

Hartmut Bagger is a retired German general. He served as Chief of Staff of the German Army from 1994 to 1996 and Chief of Staff of the German armed forces, the Bundeswehr, from 1996 to 1999.