List of Famous people born in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Ryszard Marcin Wolny is a Polish wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.

Bogumił Kobiela was a Polish stage and film actor. He was an actor of Wybrzeże Theatre, Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw, Komedia Theatre in Warsaw, Bim-Bom student theatre, Kabaret Wagabunda and Kabaret Dudek. He suffered serious injuries in a car crash on 2 July 1969 in Buszkowo. He died eight days later in hospital in Gdańsk.

Bishop Stefan Cichy was Roman Catholic Bishop of Legnica in Poland.

Günther Friedländer was a German pharmacist, botanist, pharmacognosist, food chemist, an industrialist of medical products, and the founder of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.

Joanna Grażyna Kluzik-Rostkowska is a Polish politician and member of the Sejm for Civic Platform. She was elected for Law and Justice in 2007, but led a breakaway group in 2010 to form the more liberal Poland Comes First, of which she was leader. She resigned from the party in June 2011, joining Civic Platform following rumors. In November 2013, following a cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Kluzik-Rostkowska was appointed to head the Ministry of National Education.

Stanisław Szymecki is a Polish Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. At age 97, he is the oldest living bishop from Poland.