List of Famous people born in Poland

Heinrich Caro, was a German chemist.

Marcin Knackfus was a Polish–Lithuanian Neoclassical architect of German descent. Born near Warsaw, he worked in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and particularly in its capital Vilnius. He was a tutor of Laurynas Gucevičius.

Martin Agricola was a German composer of Renaissance music and a music theorist.

Siegbert Tarrasch was a German chess grandmaster. Tarrasch is considered to have been among the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Bronisław Knaster was a Polish mathematician; from 1939 a university professor in Lwów and from 1945 in Wrocław.

Arthur Moritz Schoenflies, sometimes written as Schönflies, was a German mathematician, known for his contributions to the application of group theory to crystallography, and for work in topology.

Günter Riesen was a German Nazi politician who served as Mayor of Cologne.