List of Famous people born in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Hans Krause, known by his stage name Hansi Kraus, is a German actor.

Władysław Szpilman was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on Szpilman's autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust.

Christoph Dabrowski is a German football manager of Hannover 96 and former player. He played for Werder Bremen, Arminia Bielefeld, Hannover 96 and VfL Bochum.

Henryk Marcin Broder is a Polish-born German journalist, author, and TV personality.

Richard Herrmann was a German football player. He played for the clubs 1. FC Kattowitz (1934–1945) and FSV Frankfurt (1947–1960).

Krzysztof January Krawczyk was a Polish baritone pop singer, guitarist and composer. He was the vocalist of a popular Polish band, Trubadurzy, from 1963 to 1973 when he started his solo career. He was co-founder of the Post-secondary School of Stage Art in Łódź. His creative activity in the area of music was characterized by a combination of various music genres such as rock and roll, country music and rhythm & blues. His album To co w życiu ważne reached number one on the Polish Music Charts.

Fritz Laband was a German footballer. He was born in Hindenburg.

Łukasz Piotr Piszczek is a Polish professional footballer who plays for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund. He is primarily positioned as a right back, but is capable of playing as a central defender.

Margarete Stokowski is a Polish-German writer and essayist. She is best known for her weekly essays for the magazine Spiegel Online where she writes about the current state of feminism in Germany. The numbers of clicks on her essays reach up to 900,000. The Süddeutsche Zeitung stated that she is the "loudest voice of German feminism" in 2019.

Ryszard Grzegorczyk was a Polish footballer who played as a midfielder. He made 23 appearances for the Poland national team, scoring two goals.