List of Famous people born in Poland
Marika Domińczyk
Marika Domińczyk is a Polish-American actress who became best known in the United States for her role as Dr. Eliza Minnick on Grey's Anatomy, which she originated in its thirteenth season.
Janosch
Janosch is one of the best-known German-language children's book authors and illustrators. He was born in Hindenburg in Upper Silesia to a family of mixed German and Polish origin. He said in an interview that he is Silesian of nationality.
Alter Mojze Goldman
Alter Mojze Goldman was a Polish Jew who was active in the French Résistance during World War II.
Bartosz Kapustka
Bartosz Kapustka is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Legia Warsaw.
Wilhelm Kube
Wilhelm Kube was a Nazi official and German politician. He was an important figure in the German Christian movement during the early years of Nazi rule. During the war he became a senior official in the occupying government of the Soviet Union, achieving the rank of Generalkommissar for Weissruthenien (Belarus). He was assassinated in Minsk in 1943, triggering brutal reprisals against the citizens of Minsk.
Sidonie Werner
Sidonie Werner was a German Jewish schoolteacher and feminist based in Hamburg. She was active in the German League of Jewish Women which she founded in 1904, together with Bertha Pappenheim. In 1929, she organized the World Conference of Jewish Women in Hamburg.
Kazimierz Piechowski
Kazimierz Piechowski was a Polish engineer, a Boy Scout during the Second Polish Republic, a political prisoner of the German Nazis at Auschwitz concentration camp, a soldier of the Polish Home Army then a prisoner for seven years of the post war communist government of Poland.
Maria Andrejczyk
Maria Magdalena Andrejczyk is a Polish track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. She is the 2020 Summer Olympics silver medalist and 2015 European Junior Champion. Her personal best of 71.40 m, set in 2021, is the Polish record as well as the third best result in the history of the women's javelin throw competition.
Joachim Meisner
Joachim Meisner was a German cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was the immediate past Archbishop of Cologne, serving from 1989 until his resignation was accepted by Pope Francis in 2014. He previously served as Bishop of Berlin from 1980 to 1989, and was created a cardinal in 1983. He was widely considered to be Germany's leading conservative Roman Catholic figure.
Peter Malkin
Peter Zvi Malkin was an Israeli secret agent and member of the Mossad intelligence agency. He was part of the team that captured Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 and brought him to Israel to stand trial.