List of Famous people born in Poland
Kamil Szeremeta
Kamil Szeremeta is a Polish professional boxer who held the European middleweight title from 2018 to 2019. As of June 2020, he is ranked as the world's seventh best active middleweight by The Ring and eighth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch is a cellist, and a surviving member of the Women's Orchestra in Auschwitz.
Itzhak Stern
Itzhak Stern was a Polish-Israeli Jewish Holocaust survivor who worked for Sudeten-German industrialist Oskar Schindler and assisted him in his rescue activities during the Holocaust.
Patryk Klimala
Patryk Klimala is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Celtic.
Wiesław Hartman
Wiesław Hartman was a Polish show jumping equestrian, Olympic medallist.
Arnold Zweig
Arnold Zweig was a German writer, pacifist and socialist. He is best known for his six-part cycle on World War I.
Lech Wałęsa
Lech Wałęsa is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the first democratically elected president of Poland from 1990 to 1995. A shipyard electrician by trade, he became the leader of the Solidarity movement, and led a successful pro-democratic effort which in 1989 ended the Communist rule in Poland and ushered in the end of the Cold War.
Helena Rubinstein
Helena Rubinstein was a Polish-American businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist. A cosmetics entrepreneur, she was the founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein Incorporated cosmetics company, which made her one of the world's richest women.
Ida Siekmann
Ida Siekmann was a German nurse who became the first known person to die at the Berlin Wall, only nine days after the beginning of its construction.
Haroun Tazieff
Haroun Tazieff was a Polish, Belgian and French volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books on volcanoes. He was also a government adviser and Cabinet minister.