List of Famous people born in Poland
Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg
Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg was a prince of the House of Württemberg and a minister for war.
Eberhard von Mackensen
Friedrich August Eberhard von Mackensen was a German general of the Wehrmacht during World War II who served as commander of the 1st Panzer Army and the 14th Army, and was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Following the war, Mackensen stood trial for war crimes before a British military tribunal in Italy where he was convicted and sentenced to death, however the sentence was later commuted and Mackensen was released in 1952, and died in West Germany in 1969.
Maciej Bodnar
Maciej Bodnar is a Polish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Bora–Hansgrohe. He is the brother of fellow racing cyclist Łukasz Bodnar.
Andrzej Szymczak
Andrzej Szymczak was a Polish handball player who competed in the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics. He was born in Konstantynów Łódzki.
Edward Sapir
Edward Sapir was an American anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States.
Uri Orlev
Uri Orlev is a Polish-born Israeli children's author and translator. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1996 for his "lasting contribution to children's literature."
Anna Jagiellon
Anna Jagiellon was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania from 1575 to 1586.
Max Simon
Max Simon was a German SS commander and war criminal during World War II. Simon was one of the first members of the SS in the early 1930s. He rose through the ranks of the SS, and became a corps commander during World War II. After the war, Simon was convicted for his role in the Marzabotto massacre.
Oscar Slater
Oscar Joseph Slater was the victim of Scotland's worst ever miscarriage of justice. Wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death, he was freed after almost two decades of hard labour at Scotland’s HM Prison Peterhead through the efforts of multiple journalists, lawyers, and writers, including Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Julius Fromm
Julius Fromm was a Polish-German entrepreneur, chemist and one of the inventors of the rubber condom and who also made several other elastomeric products such as rubber gloves and hot water bottles. Owing to his Jewish heritage, his company and personal property was stolen by the Nazis in aryanization when he left Germany for England in 1939. His legacy was not easily reclaimed by his relatives after the war however.