List of Famous people born in Poland
Stanisław Napierała
Piotr Kochanowski
Piotr Kochanowski (1566–1620) was a Polish nobleman, poet and translator. He belonged to a family of writers. He was a son of Mikołaj Kochanowski and a nephew of Jan Kochanowski. He was born in 1566 in Sycyna. He is famous for his translations from Italian. He translated into Polish what were generally esteemed to be the two greatest modern epic poems: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso and Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata. His version of Tasso's poem served as the Polish national epic. Piotr Kochanowski was the second poet in Poland (after
Zygmunt Kamiński
Zygmunt Kamiński was the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Szczecin-Kamień, Poland.
Anna Jurkiewicz
Anna Jurkiewicz is a Polish former competitive figure skater. She is a three-time (2007–2009) Polish national champion. She qualified to the free skate at four ISU Championships — 1998 Junior Worlds in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada; 2007 Europeans in Warsaw, Poland; 2008 Europeans in Zagreb, Croatia; and 2009 Worlds in Los Angeles, California, United States;.
Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss was a German and British mathematician and theoretical physicist, pioneer of canonical quantization of field theories.
Wilhelm Behnke
Stanisław Milski
Stanisław Jan Milski (1897–1972) was a Polish actor, director, and artist manager.