List of Famous people born in Poland

Gavriil Abramovich Ilizarov was a Soviet physician, known for inventing the Ilizarov apparatus for lengthening limb bones and for the method of surgery named after him, the Ilizarov surgery.

Ignacy Mościcki was a Polish chemist, politician, and President of Poland from 1926 to 1939. He was the longest serving President in Poland's history. He was serving as the president of Poland when Germany invaded the country on 1 September 1939, starting World War II.

Patryk Chojnowski is a para table tennis player who competes for Poland. He is currently world number one in his sports class category. He is a Paralympic champion, four-time World champion and eight-time European champion.

Otto Stern was a German-American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. He was the second most nominated person for a Nobel Prize with 82 nominations in the years 1925–1945, ultimately winning in 1943.

Henryk Wojciech Kasperczak is a Polish football manager and a former player who most recently managed the Tunisia national football team.

Reinhard Glemnitz (born 27 November 1930 in Breslau, Germany is a German television actor.

Bajla Węgier, better known as Bella Darvi, was a Polish film actress and stage performer who was active in France and the United States.

Johanna Schopenhauer was the first German woman to publish books without a pseudonym, an influential literary salon host, and in the 1820s the most famous female author in Germany. Since the late 19th century, she has been known primarily for being the mother of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.

Joanna Rajkowska is a Polish contemporary artist who came onto the Polish art scene in the 1990s. Her most famous work is called "Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue", a 15-meter-tall (50-foot) artificial palm tree installed on Warsaw's Jerusalem Avenue.

Andrzej Bobola Maria Schinzel is a Polish mathematician, studying mainly number theory.