List of Famous people born in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Adam Matuszczyk is a Polish footballer who plays for 1. FC Düren and was a member of the Poland national team. Naturally a left midfielder, he can also be deployed as a defensive midfielder.

Franciszek Smuda is a Polish football coach and former footballer who also holds a German passport. As a player, he spent his career playing for clubs in Poland, the United States and Germany. In 1983, he turned to coaching, becoming the manager of Widzew Łódź, Wisła Kraków, Legia Warsaw and Lech Poznań, among others. He has won three Polish league titles. Since 2009 he was the manager of the Poland national football team, but resigned on 16 June 2012, following their elimination from Euro 2012.

Wilhelm Brasse was a Polish professional photographer and a prisoner in Auschwitz during World War II. He became known as the "famous photographer of Auschwitz concentration camp." His life and work were the subject of the 2005 Polish television documentary film The Portraitist (Portrecista), which first aired in the Proud to Present series on the Polish TVP1 on 1 January 2006.

Piotr Jegor was a Polish professional footballer who played for Górnik Zabrze and Odra Wodzisław Śląski in the Polish Ekstraklasa.

Przemysław I Noszak, was a Duke of Cieszyn-Bytom-Siewierz from 1358, from 1384 ruler over half of both Głogów and Ścinawa and since 1401 ruler over Toszek.

Alicja Kwade is a Polish-German contemporary visual artist. Her sculptures and installations focus on the subjectivity of time and space. Kwade lives and works in Berlin.

Bogusław Cygan was a Polish footballer (striker) who played for such a clubs as Górnik Zabrze, Stal Mielec or Lausanne Sports. Cygan was a top goalscorer of Ekstraklasa in the 1994-95 season. After his playing career he became a football coach.

Barbara Maria Blida, née Szwajnoch was a Polish political figure who served in the nation's Parliament (Sejm) for 16 years (1989–2005), including a stint as a member of the cabinet, and whose suicide in the midst of an investigation for corruption became front-page news in Poland as well as in a number of news outlets around the world.

Thomas Joachim Cichon is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.