List of Famous people born in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Maurice Bloomfield, Ph.D., LL.D. was an Austrian-born American philologist and Sanskrit scholar.

Rudolf Herrnstadt was a German journalist and communist politician – most notable for his anti-fascist activity as an exile from the Nazi German regime in the Soviet Union during the war and as a journalist in East Germany until his death, where he and Wilhelm Zaisser represented the anti-Ulbricht wing of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) in the 1950s.

Egon Johann Franke is a Polish fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition.

Sławomir Idziak is a Polish cinematographer and director who has worked on over forty Polish and foreign films. He is especially known for his collaboration with director Krzysztof Kieślowski as well as Ridley Scott and David Yates. He is best known for his work on the fifth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Jacek Maria Majchrowski is a Polish politician and the current Mayor of the Royal Capital City of Kraków since 2002 - making longest serving in the history of the city, a lawyer and historian, and a professor at Jagiellonian University.

Alojzy Orszulik was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop.

Franciszek Pieczka is a Polish actor. A graduate of the National Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw (1954), he first made his debut in the theatre in Jelenia Góra. He won the award for Best Actor at the Polish Film Festival in 1976 for The Scar.