List of Famous people born in Poland
Daniel Olbrychski
Daniel Marcel Olbrychski is a Polish actor best known for leading roles in several Andrzej Wajda movies and also known for playing a defector and spymaster Vassily Orlov, alongside Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie in the movie Salt.
Mateusz Damięcki
Mateusz Damięcki is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than 30 films and television shows since 1993.
Marek Ostrowski
Marek Ostrowski was a Polish footballer (defender) playing for Poland national football team in 1986 FIFA World Cup.
Jerzy Bielecki
Jerzy Bielecki was a Polish Catholic social worker, best known as one of the few inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp who managed to escape successfully. With the help of other resistance members in the camp, he escaped in 1944 together with his Jewish girlfriend, who was an inmate of Auschwitz II. In 1985 Bielecki received the Righteous Among the Nations award. He also co-founded and headed the postwar Christian Association of the Auschwitz Families.
Alfred Pringsheim
Alfred Pringsheim was a German mathematician and patron of the arts. He was born in Ohlau, Prussian Silesia and died in Zürich, Switzerland.
Kurt Pätzold
Kurt Pätzold was a German Marxist historian.
Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva
Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva was the second wife of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
Jerzy Pilch
Jerzy Pilch was a Polish writer, columnist, and journalist. Critics have compared Pilch's style to Witold Gombrowicz, Milan Kundera, or Bohumil Hrabal.
Vasily Sokolovsky
Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky was a Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II. As Georgy Zhukov's chief of staff, Sokolovsky helped plan and execute the Capture of Berlin.
Marcin Bułka
Marcin Bułka is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 2 club LB Châteauroux, on loan from Paris Saint-Germain.