List of Famous people born in Poland
Lukas Kwasniok
Lukas Kwasniok is a Polish former footballer and manager of 1. FC Saarbrücken.
Kasia Moś
Katarzyna "Kasia" Moś is a Polish singer, songwriter, and dancer. She was previously a member of The Pussycat Dolls Burlesque Revue in 2011, and in 2012, she came third in the third series of the Polish version of Must Be the Music. She represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Flashlight", and finished in 22nd place.
Harald Kujat
Harald Kujat is a retired German General of the Luftwaffe. He served as Chief of Staff of the German armed forces, the Bundeswehr, from 2000 to 2002, and as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 2002 to 2005.
Tomasz Stankiewicz
Tomasz Stankiewicz was a Polish track cyclist who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Warsaw and died in Palmiry, executed by Nazis.
Joe Greenstein
Joseph L. Greenstein, better known as The Mighty Atom, was a 20th-century strongman.
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin was a German publisher and convenor of the Munich Conference on Security Policy until 1998. A member of the von Kleist family and an officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II, his parents were active in the German resistance against Adolf Hitler. Kleist was designated to kill Hitler in a suicide attack and was the last surviving member of the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler.
Karolina Styczynska
Karolina Fortin is a Polish women's professional shogi player. She is the first non-Japanese to be awarded professional status by the Japan Shogi Association.
Jakub Józef Orliński
Jakub Józef Orliński is a Polish operatic countertenor singer.
Bascha Mika
Bascha Mika is a German journalist and publicist. From 1998 to July 2009 she was editor-in-chief of Die Tageszeitung and has held the same post at Frankfurt Rundschau since April 2014. At Die Tageszeitung, Mika was the only female editor-in-chief of a national newspaper in Germany.
Eugen Ernst
Eugen Oswald Gustav Ernst was a German Social Democrat and Socialist politician. His appointment as President of the Police of Berlin in January 1919 prompted the Spartacist uprising in Berlin.