List of Famous people born in Poland

Ewa Demarczyk

Ewa Maria Demarczyk
First Name Ewa
Last Name Demarczyk
Born on January 16, 1941
Died on August 14, 2020 (aged 79)

Ewa Maria Demarczyk was a Polish singer, generally associated with the sung poetry music genre and the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret.

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Friedrich von Ledebur

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Ledebur
Born on June 3, 1900
Died on December 25, 1986 (aged 86)

Friedrich Anton Maria Hubertus Bonifacius Graf von Ledebur-Wicheln was an actor who was known for Moby Dick (1956), Alexander the Great (1955) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1972).

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Poldek Pfefferberg

First Name Poldek
Born on March 20, 1913
Died on March 9, 2001 (aged 87)

Leopold "Poldek" Pfefferberg, also known as Leopold Page, was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor who inspired the Australian writer Thomas Keneally to write the Booker prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark, which in turn was the basis for Steven Spielberg's critically acclaimed 1993 film Schindler's List.

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Günther Anders

First Name Günther
Last Name Anders
Born on July 12, 1902
Died on December 17, 1992 (aged 90)

Günther Anders was a German philosopher, journalist, essayist and poet.

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Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski

First Name Władysław
Born on October 25, 1769
Died on September 29, 1802 (aged 32)

Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski was a Polish and French general. He is the first known Polish general of African descent.

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Thomas Blatt

First Name Thomas
Last Name Blatt
Born on April 15, 1927
Died on October 31, 2015 (aged 88)

Thomas "Toivi" Blatt was a Jewish-American Holocaust survivor, writer of mémoires, and public speaker, who at the age of 16 escaped from the Sobibór extermination camp during the uprising staged by the Jewish prisoners in October 1943. The escape was attempted by about 300 inmates, many of whom were recaptured and killed by the German search squads. Following World War II Blatt lived in the Soviet-controlled Poland until the Polish October revolution. In 1957, he emigrated to Israel, and in 1958 settled in the United States.

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Ben Wagin

First Name Ben
Last Name Wagin
Born on March 25, 1930
Died on July 28, 2021 (aged 91)

Ben Wagin was a German artist, sculptor, draughtsman, designer, performance artist, author and composer. He ran the Galerie S gallery, and founded the artists' group die Baumpaten which planted trees in cities. He created the installation The Parliament of Trees in Berlin.

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Otto Klemperer

First Name Otto
Last Name Klemperer
Born on May 14, 1885
Died on July 6, 1973 (aged 88)

Otto Nossan Klemperer was a German-born orchestral conductor and composer, described as "the last of the few really great conductors of his generation."

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Adam Nawałka

Adam Nawałka is a retired Polish football former player and current manager, who last managed Lech Poznań.

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Dominika Paleta

Dominika Paleta Paciorek de Ibarra
First Name Dominika
Born on October 23, 1972 (age 53)

Dominika Paleta is a Polish-Mexican actress.

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