List of Famous people born in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Eduard Geyer
Eduard "Ede" Geyer is a German football manager and former player. He was the last manager of the East German national team.
Thomas Sobotzik
Thomas Sobotzik is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is the managing director of Kickers Offenbach.
Dariusz Wosz
Dariusz Wosz is a German professional football coach and former player who is a technical trainer for German club VfL Bochum. As a player, he played mostly as a deep-lying playmaker in midfield.
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics, the first being Marie Curie. In 1986, the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award for early-career women physicists was established in her honor.
Jerzy Pilch
Jerzy Pilch was a Polish writer, columnist, and journalist. Critics have compared Pilch's style to Witold Gombrowicz, Milan Kundera, or Bohumil Hrabal.
Hans Lammers
Hans Heinrich Lammers was a German jurist and prominent Nazi politician. From 1933 until 1945 he served as Chief of the Reich Chancellery under Adolf Hitler. During the 1948–1949 Ministries Trial, Lammers was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.
Magdalena Ogórek
Magdalena Agnieszka Ogórek is a Polish TV presenter and politician.
Katarzyna Toma
Katarzyna Toma is a Polish chess player who has represented England since 2018. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster and also works as a veterinary surgeon.
Piotr Żyła
Piotr Paweł Żyła is a Polish ski jumper. He is a member of the national team and competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He is the 2021 World Champion on the normal hill, a bronze medalist of 2017 World Championships in individual large hill event, 2017 World Champion and a two-time World Championship bronze medalist and in the team large hill event, also the two time Ski Flying World Championships bronze medalist in team.
Jan Dydak
Jan Zygmunt Dydak was a Polish amateur boxer, who won the Welterweight Bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He was born in Czeladź, Śląskie.