List of Famous people born in Poland

Michał Kleofas Ogiński was a Polish diplomat and politician, Grand Treasurer of Lithuania, and a senator of Tsar Alexander I. He was also a composer of early Romantic music.

Krzysztof Urbański is a Polish conductor and composer.

Ignatz Bubis, German Jewish leader, was the influential chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany from 1992 to 1999. In this capacity he led a public campaign against German antisemitism. Bubis's high profile both in Frankfurt and nationwide involved him in a number of public controversies.

Karol Bielecki is a former Polish handball player who played for the Polish national team.

Adam Piotr Bodnar is a Polish lawyer, educator, and human rights activist. He was the Polish Ombudsman for Citizen Rights from 2015 until being ousted by a decision of the Constitutional Court on 15 April 2021.

Helene Jacobs was a member of the Confessing Church and of the German Resistance against National Socialism.

Mehmed Emin Pasha was an Ottoman physician of German Jewish origin, naturalist, and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile. The Ottoman Empire conferred the title "Pasha" on him in 1886, and thereafter he was referred to as "Emin Pasha".

Yakov Springer was a wrestler and a weightlifting coach and judge, but is best known as one of the victims of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Elisabeth Adelheid Hildegard von Thadden was a German progressive educator and a resistance fighter against the Third Reich as a member of the Solf Circle. She was sentenced to death for conspiring to commit high treason and undermining the fighting forces (Wehrkraftzersetzung).

Karl Schirdewan was a German communist activist who after 1945 became a top East German politician.