List of Famous people born in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Józef Szmidt is a former Polish athlete.

Kalina Jędrusik was a Polish singer and actress. She performed in more than thirty films from 1953 to 1991. Jędrusik was married to writer Stanisław Dygat.

Helga Molander, was a German actress and mother of Hans Eysenck.

Kraft Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen was a Prussian general and military writer during the time of the German Empire.

Zbigniew Preisner is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski.

Artur Schnabel was an Austrian-American classical pianist, composer and pedagogue. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura. Among the 20th century's most respected and important pianists, his playing displayed marked vitality, profundity and spirituality in the Austro-German classics, particularly the works of Beethoven and Schubert.

Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler was an Austrian-born U.S. pianist.

Lucjan Antoni Brychczy is a former Polish football player who is most notable for winning four top-tier titles with Legia Warsaw, but was also a keen archer.