List of Famous people born in Poland
Max Cassirer
Alicja Kwade
Alicja Kwade is a Polish-German contemporary visual artist. Her sculptures and installations focus on the subjectivity of time and space. Kwade lives and works in Berlin.
Hans-Heinrich Sixt von Armin
Hans-Heinrich Sixt von Armin was a German general during World War II who commanded several divisions. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Armin surrendered following the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943 and died in Soviet captivity on 1 April 1952. He was the son of WW I general Friedrich Bertram Sixt von Armin.
Otto Thorbeck
Otto Thorbeck was a German lawyer and Nazi SS judge in the Hauptamt SS-Gericht.
George E. Stone
George E. Stone was a Polish-born American character actor in movies, radio, and television.
Joanna Pacuła
Joanna Pacuła is a Polish-American actress and model. Born in Tomaszów Lubelski and emigrating to the United States in the early 1980s, she first gained prominence through her modeling work for Vogue. Her breakthrough performance in the 1983 film Gorky Park earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. In the years since, she established herself as a prolific character actress, appearing in numerous high-profile films and television series.
Elena Tretyakova
Elena Nikolaevna Tretyakova is a Russian singer, bassist, and a former member of the Russian girl pop group Ranetki.
Aleksander Ostrogski
Prince Aleksander Ostrogski was a Ruthenian (Ukrainian) nobleman of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Karolina Wydra
Karolina Wydra is a Polish-American actress and model. She played Dominika Petrova on the Fox medical drama series House, and vampire Violet Mazurski on the HBO dark fantasy series True Blood. Wydra has starred in the fantasy thriller After (2012), and the science fiction film Europa Report (2013). She portrayed Detective Dianne Kubek on ABC's short-lived crime drama series Wicked City and recurred as Izel in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Hieronim Florian Radziwiłł
Prince Hieronim Florian Radziwiłł Polish pronunciation (1715–1760) was a Polish–Lithuanian szlachcic.