List of Famous people born in Poland

Günther Jerschke (1921–1997) was a German actor.

Charles I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels was a member of the House of Poděbrady. He was Duke of Münsterberg and Duke of Oels as well as Count of Kladsko. From 1519 to 1523 he held the office of the bailiff of Upper Lusatia, in 1523 he was made Obersthauptmann of Bohemia and in 1524 Landeshauptmann of Silesia.

Carl Albert Hermann Teike was a German composer who wrote over 100 military marches and twenty concert works.

Herbert Hoffmann was a German tattoo artist and photographer.

Władysław I Łokietek, in English known as the "Elbow-high" or Ladislaus the Short was the King of Poland from 1320 to 1333, and duke of several of the provinces and principalities in the preceding years. He was a member of the Piast family of rulers, son of Duke Casimir I of Kujawy, and great-grandson of High-Duke Casimir II the Just.

Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss of Köstritz, also Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss, Younger Line was a German composer.

Walter Rudolf Leistikow (1865-1908) was a German landscape painter, graphic artist, designer and art critic.

Carl Friedländer was a German pathologist and microbiologist who helped discover the bacterial cause of pneumonia in 1882. He also first described thromboangiitis obliterans.