List of Famous people born in Poland

Ludwig Wolff

First Name Ludwig
Last Name Wolff
Born on March 7, 1876
Died on January 1, 1958 (aged 81)
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Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier

First Name Moritz
Last Name Meier
Born on January 1, 1796
Died on December 5, 1855 (aged 59)

Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier was a German classical philologist, born at Glogau.

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Christoph Bernhard

First Name Christoph
Last Name Bernhard
Born on January 1, 1628
Died on November 14, 1692 (aged 64)

Christoph Bernhard was born in Kolberg, Pomerania, and died in Dresden. He was a German Baroque composer and musician. He studied with former Sweelinck-pupil Paul Siefert in Danzig and in Warsaw. By the age of 20 he was singing at the electoral court in Dresden under Heinrich Schütz and composed some of the music for the Master's funeral. He then spent a year in Copenhagen to study singing with Agostino Fontana.

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Eligiusz Niewiadomski

First Name Eligiusz
Born on December 1, 1869
Died on January 31, 1923 (aged 53)

Eligiusz Niewiadomski was a Polish modernist painter and art critic who sympathized with the right-wing National Democracy movement. In 1922 he assassinated Poland's first President, Gabriel Narutowicz, in his first week in office as president.

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Carl Abraham Gerhard

First Name Carl
Last Name Gerhard
Born on February 26, 1738
Died on March 9, 1821 (aged 83)
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Samuel Gottlieb Wald

First Name Samuel
Last Name Wald
Born on October 17, 1762
Died on February 22, 1828 (aged 65)
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Jakub Wujek

First Name Jakub
Last Name Wujek
Born on January 1, 1541
Died on July 27, 1597 (aged 56)

Jakub Wujek was a Polish Jesuit, religious writer, Doctor of Theology, Vice-Chancellor of the Vilnius Academy and translator of the Bible into Polish.

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Michał Matyas

First Name Michał
Last Name Matyas
Died on October 22, 1975 (aged 5)
Height 176 cm | 5'9

Michał Franciszek Mieczysław Matyas was a Polish footballer, who represented such teams as Pogoń Lwów and Polonia Bytom, as well as Poland. Among fans in Poland he was known as Myszka and in the Soviet Union he played under name of Mikhail. His real occupation was a petroleum technician.

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Ernst Friedrich Zwirner

First Name Ernst
Last Name Zwirner
Born on February 28, 1802
Died on September 22, 1861 (aged 59)

Ernst Friedrich Zwirner was an architect born at Jakobswalde [Kotlarnia] in Silesia in 1802, he died at Cologne in 1861. He studied in Breslau and Berlin, and worked at the latter place under Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

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Harry Schultz

First Name Harry
Last Name Schultz
Born on March 14, 1874
Died on September 22, 1958 (aged 84)
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