List of Famous people born in Poland
Martin Kosleck
Martin Kosleck was a German film actor. Like many other German actors, he fled when the Nazis came to power. Inspired by his deep hatred of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, Kosleck made a career in Hollywood playing villainous Nazis in films. While in the United States, he appeared in more than 80 films and television shows in a 46-year span. His icy demeanor and piercing stare on screen made him a popular choice to play Nazi villains. He portrayed Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister, five times, and also appeared as an SS trooper and a concentration camp officer.
Kamil Grosicki
Kamil Paweł Grosicki is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club West Bromwich Albion and Poland.
Jakub Świerczok
Jakub Świerczok is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for the J1 League club Nagoya Grampus Eight.
Axel Gehrke
Axel Gehrke was a German politician for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a member of the Bundestag from 2017 until 2021.
Klaus Töpfer
Klaus Töpfer is a German politician (CDU) and environmental politics expert. From 1998 to 2006 he was executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Anita Włodarczyk
Anita Włodarczyk is a Polish hammer thrower. She is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion, and the first and only woman in history to throw the hammer over 80 m; she currently holds the women's world record of 82.98 m. She is considered the greatest women’s hammer thrower of all time.
Robert Garrison
Robert Garrison was a German-Jewish film actor.
Ross Martin
Ross Martin was an American radio, voice, stage, film and television actor. Martin was best known for portraying Artemus Gordon on the CBS Western series The Wild Wild West, which aired from 1965 to 1969. He was the voice of Doctor Paul Williams in 1972's Sealab 2020, additional characters in 1973's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, and additional character voices in 1978's Jana of the Jungle.
Alice Miller
Alice Miller, born as Alicija Englard, was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher of Jewish origin, who is noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. She was also a noted public intellectual.
Przemysław Frankowski
Przemysław Frankowski is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Lens and the Poland national team.