List of Famous people born in Poland

Gerold von Braunmühl was a senior West German diplomat who was assassinated in 1986 by the German far-left guerrilla group, the Red Army Faction (RAF).

Paul Victor Ernst Dahlke was a German stage and film actor.

Gerda Steinhoff, born in Danzig-Langfuhr, was a Schutzstaffel (SS) Nazi concentration camp overseer following the 1939 German invasion of Poland.

Adam Jezierski Ros is a Polish-Spanish actor. He is known for playing lead role in the series Física o Química as Gorka Martínez Mora.

Job Wilhelm Georg Erdmann Erwin von Witzleben was a German field marshal in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. A leading conspirator in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he was designated to become Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht in a post-Nazi regime had the plot succeeded.

Marek Perepeczko was a popular Polish movie and theatrical actor.

Jolanthe von Brandenstein, known by her pen name Leonie Ossowski, was a German writer. She also wrote under the name Jo Tiedemann. She wrote novels, including the novel for young adults Die große Flatter which was filmed as an award-winning TV play, screenplays such as for Zwei Mütter, stories and non-fiction books. Notable awards include the Hermann Kesten Medal of the Pen Centre and the Adolf-Grimme-Preis.

Magda Konopka is a Polish model and actress. She was born in Warsaw.

Georg Katzer was a German composer and teacher. The last master student of Hanns Eisler, he composed music in many genres, including works for the stage. Katzer was one of the pioneers of electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic and the founder of the first electronic-music studio in the GDR. He held leading positions in music organisations, first in the East, then in the united Germany, and received many awards, including the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic, the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the German Music Authors' Prize.

Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof was a Polish ophthalmologist, linguist and the creator of the international language Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language in the world.