List of Famous people born in Poland

Szczepan Wesoły

First Name Szczepan
Born on October 16, 1926
Died on August 28, 2018 (aged 91)

Szczepan Wesoły was a Polish Roman Catholic titular archbishop and auxiliary bishop.

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Adolf Engler

First Name Adolf
Last Name Engler
Born on March 25, 1844
Died on October 10, 1930 (aged 86)

Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, edited with Karl A. E. von Prantl.

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Dariusz Oko

First Name Dariusz
Born on June 3, 1960 (age 66)
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Hans Lewy

First Name Hans
Last Name Lewy
Died on August 23, 1988 (aged 18)

Hans Lewy was a Jewish German born American mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations and on the theory of functions of several complex variables.

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Fritz Houtermans

First Name Fritz
Last Name Houtermans
Born on January 22, 1903
Died on March 1, 1966 (aged 63)

Friedrich Georg "Fritz" Houtermans was a Dutch-Austrian-German atomic and nuclear physicist born in Zoppot near Danzig, West Prussia to a Dutch father, who was a wealthy banker. He was brought up in Vienna, where he was educated, and moved to Göttingen when he was 18 to study. It was in Göttingen where he obtained his Ph.D. under James Franck. Houtermans made important contributions to geochemistry and cosmochemistry.

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Stephan Cohn-Vossen

First Name Stephan
Last Name Cohn-Vossen
Born on May 28, 1902
Died on June 25, 1936 (aged 34)

Stefan Cohn-Vossen was a mathematician, who was responsible for Cohn-Vossen's inequality and the Cohn-Vossen transformation is also named for him. He proved the first version of the splitting theorem.

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Philipp Sonntag

First Name Philipp
Last Name Sonntag
Born on January 1, 1941 (age 85)
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Leon Kozłowski

First Name Leon
Last Name Kozłowski
Born on June 6, 1892
Died on May 11, 1944 (aged 51)

Leon Tadeusz Kozłowski was a Polish archaeologist, freemason and politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1934 to 1935, before being convicted and sentenced to death for Treason during World War II.

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Leo Königsberger

First Name Leo
Last Name Königsberger
Born on October 15, 1837
Died on December 15, 1921 (aged 84)

Leo Königsberger was a German mathematician, and historian of science. He is best known for his three-volume biography of Hermann von Helmholtz, which remains the standard reference on the subject.

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Wolfgang Schmieder

First Name Wolfgang
Last Name Schmieder
Born on May 29, 1901
Died on November 8, 1990 (aged 89)

Wolfgang Schmieder was a German music librarian, and musicologist.

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