List of Poles

Famous Polish, Polish-speaking/writing people, and people born in Poland:

Science

Banach, Stefan, (1892-1945), mathematician
Karol Borsuk (1905 - 1982), mathematician
Nicolaus Copernicus, (1473-1543), astronomer
Marie Curie, (1867-1934), scientist, Nobel Prize winner (twice), first female scientist ever
Samuel Dickstein (1851-1939), mathematician
Samuel Eilenberg, (1913-1998), mathematician
Gabriel Fahrenheit, (1686-1736), phisicist
Casimir Funk (1884-1967), biochemist
Johannes Hevelius, (1611-1687), astronomer
Witold Hurewicz, (1904-1956), mathematician
Kac, Mark(1914-1984), mathematician.
Korczak, Janusz, (1878-1942), pedagogist
Kuperberg, Krystyna, (1944-), mathematician
Kuratowski, Kazimierz, (1896-1980), mathematician
Łukasiewicz, Jan, (1878-1956), mathematician
Malinowski, Bronislaw, (1884-1942), anthropologue and ethnologue
Mandelbrot, Benoit, (1924-), mathematician
Marcinkiewicz, Jozef (1910-1940 ), mathematician
Wladyslaw Orlicz (1903-1990), mathematician
Post, Emil (1897-1954), mathematician
Marian Rejewski (1905-1980), mathematician and cryptologist
Stanislaw Saks ( -1942), mathematician
Sierpiński Wacław, (1882-1969), mathematician
Hugo Steinhaus(1887-1972), mathematician.
Strzelecki, Pawel, (1797-1873), explorer
Tarski, Alfred (1901-1983), mathematician
Ulam, Stanislaw (1909 - 1984), mathematician
Wronski, Josef (1778-1853), mathematician
Zamenhof, Ludovic L, (1859-1917), linguist
Zarankiewicz, Kazimierz (1902-1959) mathematician
Zygmund, Antoni (1900 - 1992) mathematician

Frederic Chopin, (1810-1849), composer
Krzysztof Kieslowski, (1941-1996), film director
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, (1746-1817), military commander
Stanislaw Lem, (born 1921), science-fiction writer
Andrzej Wajda, film director
Lech Walesa, (born 1943), trade unionist who started dismantling of the Soviet bloc
Wislawa Szymborska, (born 1923), poetess, Nobel Prize winner
Krystyna Skarbek (1915-1952), SOE heroine of WW II
Miguel Najdorf (1910-1997), chess player
John Paul II, (born 1920), the pope
Krzysztof Penderecki, (born 1933), composer
Jozef Pilsudski, (1867-1935), statesman, politician and marshall
Roman Polanski, film director and actor
Casimir Pulaski, military commander
Wladyslaw Reymont, (1867-1925), writer, Nobel Prize winner
Henryk Sienkiewicz, (1846-1916), writer, Nobel Prize winner
Adam Mickiewicz, (1798-1855), poet
Czeslaw Milosz, poet, Nobel Prize winner