List of Famous people born in Poland

Kamil Szeremeta

First Name Kamil
Last Name Szeremeta
Born on October 11, 1989 (age 36)
Height 176 cm | 5'9

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.

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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

First Name Anita
Last Name Lasker-Wallfisch
Born on July 17, 1925 (age 100)

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch is a cellist, and a surviving member of the Women's Orchestra in Auschwitz.

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Itzhak Stern

First Name Itzhak
Last Name Stern
Born on January 25, 1901
Died on January 1, 1969 (aged 67)

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.

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Patryk Klimala

Patryk Klimala is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Celtic.

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Wiesław Hartman

First Name Wiesław
Born on October 23, 1950
Died on November 24, 2021 (aged 71)

Wiesław Hartman was a Polish show jumping equestrian, Olympic medallist.

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Arnold Zweig

First Name Arnold
Last Name Zweig
Born on November 10, 1887
Died on November 26, 1968 (aged 81)

Arnold Zweig was a German writer, pacifist and socialist. He is best known for his six-part cycle on World War I.

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Lech Wałęsa

First Name Lech
Born on September 29, 1943 (age 82)

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.

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Helena Rubinstein

First Name Helena
Last Name Rubinstein
Died on April 1, 1965

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.

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Ida Siekmann

First Name Ida
Last Name Siekmann
Born on August 23, 1902
Died on August 22, 1961 (aged 58)

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.

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Haroun Tazieff

First Name Haroun
Last Name Tazieff
Born on May 11, 1914
Died on February 2, 1998 (aged 83)

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.

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