List of Polish people

This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing people. People of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited.

Science

Physics

Chemistry

Biology, medicine

Astronomy

Mathematics

Computer science

Linguistics

Invention

Engineering

Social sciences

Economics

Other sciences

History
  • Roman Aftanazy, historian of former Eastern Borderlands and librarian
  • Szymon Askenazy, historian and diplomat
  • Marcin Bielski, chronicler
  • Michał Bobrzyński, historian and politician
  • Józef Borzyszkowski, Kashubian historian
  • Filip Callimachus
  • Alina Cała
  • Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
  • Piotr Cywiński
  • Tadeusz Czacki
  • Norman Davies, British-Polish historian
  • Małgorzata Dąbrowska, historian, Byzantist
  • Jan Długosz, 15th-century chronicler of Poland
  • Maria Dzielska
  • Marian Kamil Dziewanowski, Poland, Russia, modern Europe
  • Karol Estreicher (senior), father of Polish Bibliography
  • Stanisław Estreicher
  • Tadeusz Estreicher
  • Józef Feldman
  • Mieczysław Gębarowicz, art historian, museum director, custodian of Ossolineum
  • Aleksander Gieysztor
  • Kazimierz Godłowski, historian and archeologist
  • Władysław Grabski
  • Roman Grodecki
  • Oskar Halecki, historian of Poland
  • Marceli Handelsman, historian of Poland
  • Paweł Jasienica, historian of Poland
  • Jacek Jędruch
  • Wincenty Kadłubek, 13th-century historian of Poland
  • Józef Kasparek, constitutions; World War II era
  • Stefan Kieniewicz, 19th-century Polish history
  • Jerzy Kirchmayer, 1944 Warsaw Uprising
  • Jerzy Kolendo, archaeologist, epigraphist and historian of the Mediterranean Basin in antiquity[7]
  • Hugo Kołłątaj, 18th–19th-century historian, philosopher and politician
  • Feliks Koneczny, Polish history, social philosophy
  • Władysław Konopczyński, Polish and world history
  • Iwona Korga, historian, president of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
  • Stanisław Kot, historian, politician, diplomat
  • Władysław Kozaczuk, military history, military intelligence, World War II
  • Manfred Kridl, history of Polish culture and literature
  • Marcin Kromer, 16th-century Bishop of Warmia, secretary to two Polish kings, and historian of Poland
  • Jan Kucharzewski, historian and politician
  • Marian Kukiel, military historian and politician
  • Lucyna Kulińska
  • Ewa Kurek
  • Stanisław Kutrzeba, Poland, Polish law, Kraków
  • Gerard Labuda
  • Joachim Lelewel, historian of Poland
  • Jerzy Jan Lerski
  • Dariusz Libionka
  • Wacław Lipiński
  • Stanisław Lorentz, art historian
  • Czesław Madajczyk, World War II
  • Janusz Magnuski, World War II Polish and Soviet armor
  • Tadeusz Manteuffel, medievalist
  • Maciej Masłowski, art historian
  • Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995), Israeli historian and archeologist; President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Maciej Miechowita
  • Lidia Milka-Wieczorkiewicz
  • Karol Modzelewski
  • Stephen Mizwa
  • Teodor Narbutt,[8] Polish historian of Lithuania
  • Adam Naruszewicz,[9] 18th-century historian, participant in the Great Sejm
  • Kasper Niesiecki, Jesuit lexicographer and heraldic scholar
  • Szymon Okolski, 17th-century historian
  • Bartosz Paprocki, Polish and Czech heraldic scholar
  • Michael Alfred Peszke, Polish Armed Forces, World War II
  • Tadeusz Piotrowski, historian of Poland during World War II
  • Richard Pipes, Polish-American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union
  • Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, World War II, Polish-Jewish relations; engineer
  • Teresa Prekerowa
  • Stanisław Salmonowicz, historian of law
  • Henryk Samsonowicz, historian specializing in medieval Poland
  • Konstancja Skirmuntt
  • Julian Stachiewicz, military historian
  • Szymon Starowolski
  • Aneta Stawiszyńska
  • Dariusz Stola
  • Maciej Stryjkowski, historian, writer, poet
  • Irena Strzelecka
  • Tomasz Strzembosz, Polish World War II history
  • Tadeusz Sulimirski, historian and archeologist
  • Karol Szajnocha, historian and novelist
  • Józef Szujski
  • Zygmunt Szweykowski, Polish literature
  • Władysław Tatarkiewicz, philosophy and aesthetics
  • Rafał Taubenschlag, history of law
  • Janusz Tazbir, historian, specializing in the culture and religion of Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries
  • Józef Turowski, World War II OUN massacres of Poles
  • Adam Ulam, Polish-American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union
  • Adam Vetulani, history of law
  • Piotr S. Wandycz, Polish-American historian of Central and Eastern Europe
  • Leon Wasilewski
  • Ewa Wipszycka, historian and papyrologist
  • Richard Woytak, World War II era
  • Julia Zabłocka (1931–1993), historian, classical scholar, archaeologist
  • Wincenty Zakrzewski, 16th-century Poland
  • Adam Zamoyski
  • Janusz K. Zawodny, World War II
  • Marek Żukow-Karczewski, historian and journalist

Philosophy
See also: History of philosophy in Poland

Prose literature

Poetry

Music

Visual arts

Entertainment

Business

Politics

Diplomacy

Military

Intelligence

Holocaust resistance

Religion

Royalty
See also: List of Polish monarchs

Assassins


Miscellany

Legendary persons

Fictional characters
Wrocław's dwarfs

Models

Sport

Athletics

Basketball

Boxing

Checkers
  • Natalia Sadowska

Chess

Climbing

Cycling

Fencing

Football

Ice hockey

Skiing

Swimming

Tennis

Volleyball

Weightlifting

Others

See also

References
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