List of Famous people born in Poland
Tomasz Świątek
Tomasz Świątek is a Polish rower. He competed in the men's quadruple sculls event at the 1988 Summer Olympics, in which Poland won the "B" Final to finish seventh overall.
Harry Haft
Harry Haft was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp where he boxed fellow inmates to survive. He was briefly a professional boxer in post-war Germany, and boxed as a light heavyweight in the United States from 1948–1949.
Sebastian Schindzielorz
Sebastian Schindzielorz is a Polish-born German former footballer who has previously played for VfL Wolfsburg.
Gisela Hahn
Gisela Hahn is a German film actress. She has appeared in more than 40 films since 1964. She was born in Briesen.
Jerzy Brzęczek
Jerzy Józef Brzęczek is a Polish professional football manager and former player.
Mary Fairfax
Mary Elizabeth Fairfax, was a Polish-born Australian businesswoman and philanthropist. As the third wife of wealthy media proprietor Sir Warwick Fairfax, she became known as Lady Fairfax upon his knighthood in 1967. She inherited most of his vast fortune upon his death in January 1987, becoming one of Australia's richest women.
Zbigniew Religa
Zbigniew Eugeniusz Religa was a prominent Polish cardiac surgeon and politician.
Alfred Kerr
Alfred Kerr was an influential German theatre critic and essayist of Jewish descent, nicknamed the Kulturpapst.
Henry Morgentaler
Henekh "Henry" Morgentaler,, was a Jewish Polish-born Canadian physician and abortion rights advocate who fought numerous legal battles aimed at expanding abortion rights in Canada. As a youth during World War II, Morgentaler was imprisoned at the Łódź Ghetto and later at the Dachau concentration camp.
Alfred Gomolka
Alfred Gomolka was a German politician and member of the European Parliament for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He also served as the minister president of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.