Famous People

Business

Andrew Filipowski, technology entrepreneur
Barbara Piasecka Johnson, humanitarian, philantropist, widow of J. Seward Johnson, Sr
Franciszek Jerzy Kulczycki, legendary merchant, spy, diplomat, opened the first café in Vienna in 1683
Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics industrialist
Izrael Poznanski, philanthropist, textile magnate
Max Factor, Sr., businessman and cosmetician
Michael Marks, one of the two co-founders of the retail chain Marks and Spencer
Ziggy Switkowski, the former Chief Executive Officer of Telstra

Film and Theatre

Adam Hanuszkiewicz, actor
Adam Smoluk, director, screenwriter and actor
Agnieszka Holland, film director, nominated to Academy Awards and BAFTA Award
Aleksander Ford, director
Allan Starski, Oscar winning production designer, art director, set designer
Andrzej Bartkowiak, cinematographer, director and actor
Andrzej Seweryn, actor of Comédie Française
Andrzej Wajda, Academy Award, Golden Palm, BAFTA Award, Silver Berlin Bear, César Award and Golden Lion winning film director
Andrzej Zulawski, film director
Anna Przybylska, actress
Boguslaw Linda, actor
Bronislau Kaper, Academy Award winning composer
Cezary Pazura, actor
Dagmara Dominczyk, actress
Daniel Olbrychski, actor
Dariusz Wolski, cinematographer
Eugeniusz Bodo, singer and actor
Ewa Braun, Academy Award winning set decorator, costume designer, production designer
Ewa Demarczyk, actress, poetry singer
Helena Modjeska/Modrzejewska, actress (born Helena Opid)
Izabella Scorupco, Polish-born Hollywood-actress and singer
Janusz Kaminski, two Oscars and BAFTA Award winning cinematographer and film director
Jeremi Przybora
Jerzy Grotowski, theatre reformer
Jerzy Owsiak, broadcaster
Jerzy Skolimowski, film director
Jerzy Stuhr, actor, film director
Jerzy Wasowski
Joanna Pacula, actress
Sir John Gielgud, English theatre and film actor of Polish father from szlachta
Józef Arkusz, film director
Karen O (Orzolek), the lead vocalist for the New York art punk band Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Katarzyna Figura, actress
Kazimierz Kutz, film director
Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director, nominated to Academy Awards
Krzysztof Ptak, cinematographer
Krzysztof Zanussi, film director
Ladislas Starevich properly: Wladyslaw Starewicz, film director, stop-motion animator
Lew Rywin, film producer
Lilliana Wilczkowsky, actress
Loretta Swit,Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan on M*A*S*H
Ludwika Paleta, Polish-Mexican actress
Malgorzata Foremniak, actress
Martin Kunert(born Marcin Kunert-Dziewanowski) - writer/director
Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor of Polish father from szlachta
Pawel Edelman, cinematographer, European Film Award winner
Piotr Adamczyk, actor
Piotr Andrejew, film director
Piotr Fronczewski, actor and singer
Piotr Sobocinski, cinematographer
Piotr Tokarski, actor
Pola Negri, actress
Przemyslaw Skwirczynski, cinematographer
Roman Polanski, award winning film director educated in Poland
Rudolph Maté, cinematographer and film director
Samuel "Billy" Wilder, six Oscars winning film director, screenwriter and producer
Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
Slawomir Idziak, cinematagrapher
Tadeusz Lomnicki, actor
Tomasz Baginski, BAFTA Award winning short animated movies maker, nominated to Academy Award
Waclaw Nizynski (Vaslav Nijinsky), ballet dancer and choreographer
The Warner Brothers
Wojciech Pszoniak, actor of Comedie Francaise
Zbigniew Cybulski, actor
Zbigniew Rybczynski, Oscar and Emmy Award winning filmmaker

Fine Arts

Aleksander Gierymski, painter, brother of Maksymilian Gierymski
Aleksander Orlowski, painter
Andrzej Dluzniewski
Artur Grottger, painter, illustrator
Artur Zmijewski
Christian Boltanski
Daniel Libeskind, architect
Ferdynand Ruszczyc, painter, graphic artist, cartoonist, stage designer
Henryk Rodakowski, painter
Henryk Stazewski, painter
Jacek Malczewski, painter
Jacenty Dedek, photographer
Jan de Weryha-Wysoczanski, sculptor
Jan Matejko, painter
Jan Piotr Norblin
Jan Sawka, cartoonist
Jan Zamoyski, painter
Janosch, German illustrator and writer, born in what is now Zabrze
Jerzy Kossak, painter
Jerzy Nowosielski, painter
Joanna Rajkowska
Józef Brandt, painter
Józef Marian Chelmonski, painter
Józef Pankiewicz, painter, graphic artist
Józef Szajna, sculptor, stage designer, theatre director
Julian Falat, painter
Juliusz Kossak, painter, illustrator
Katarzyna Kobro, sculptor
Katarzyna Kozyra, video artist
Korczak Ziólkowski, designer and sculptor of Crazy Horse Memorial
Krzysztof Bednarski, sculptor
Leon Wyczólkowski, painter
Magdalena Abakanowicz, sculptor
Maksymilian Gierymski, painter
Max Weber, painter
Miroslaw Balka
Nikifor Krynicki, painter
Olga Boznanska, painter
Pawel Althamer
Piotr Michalowski, painter
Rafal Olbinski, illustrator, painter
Richard (Ryszard) Tylman, painter
Roman Opalka, painter
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, painter
Stanislaw Wyspianski, painter
Stefan Gierowski, painter
Tadeusz Kantor, (1915-1990) painter, theatre director
Tamara de Lempicka, painter
Teresa Murak, sculptor
Tomasz Baginski, painter, animator, computer graphics
Tytus Czyzewski, painter, poet, art critic
Wilhelm Sasnal, painter
Wladyslaw Hasior, sculptor, painter, stage designer
Wladyslaw Kazmierczak, performance artist
Wladyslaw Podkowinski, painter and illustrator
Wladyslaw Strzeminski, painter
Wojciech Fangor, painter
Wojciech Gerson, painter
Wojciech Kossak, painter
Xawery Dunikowski, sculptor
Zbigniew Dlubak, painter
Zbigniew Lengren, cartoonist and illustrator
Zbigniew Libera
Zdzislaw Beksinski, painter
Zofia Kulik, performer
Zygmunt Gorgolewski, architect

Literature

Adolf Dygasinski, novelist
Agnieszka Lipska Baranowska, author
Aleksander Fredro, humorist, artist
Andrzej Majewski, aphorist, writer, poet
Andrzej Sapkowski, fantasy writer
Boleslaw Prus - journalist; novelist, author of The Doll and Pharaoh
Eliza Orzeszkowa, Positivist writer
Eugeniusz Zytomirski, novelist
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, writer
Franciszek Zablocki, comic dramatist and satirist
Gabriela Zapolska, novelist
Henryk Sienkiewicz, writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1905)
Ignacy Krasicki, author of Fables and Parables and of the first Polish novel
Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1966)
Jacek Dukaj, science-fiction writer
Jan Chryzostom Pasek, memoirist
Jan Potocki, author of The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Janusz A. Zajdel, science-fiction writer
Janusz Glowacki, play-writer, non-fiction writer
Jedrzej Sniadecki, terminologist, writer
Jerzy Kosinski
Joanna Siedlecka, non-fiction writer
Johannes Dantiscus (Jan Dantyszek), Latin poet and Prince-Bishop of Warmia
Joseph Conrad (Teodor Józef Korzeniowski), writer
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, writer
Józef Mackiewicz, writer, journalist
Krzysztof Piesiewicz, screenwriter and politician
Lucjan Wolanowski, writer, journalist, and traveller
Lucyna Cwierczakiewiczowa, the first Polish cook book author
Marek Hlasko, writer
Maria Dabrowska, novelist
Maria Rodziewiczówna, novelist
Olga Tokarczuk, Polish-Ukrainian writer
Pawel Huelle, essayist
Piotr Skarga, poet, writer, humanist
Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz, writer
Rene Goscinny, cartoonist
Robert Stiller, polyglot, writer, poet, translator, editor
Roger Zelazny (Zelazny), American writer of fantasy and science fiction, son of a Pole
Ryszard Kapuscinski, writer and journalist
Sergiusz Piasecki, writer
Stanislaw Lem, science-fiction writer, essayist, philosopher
Stanislaw Lubieniecki writer, astronomer
Stanislaw Wyspianski, painter and writer
Stefan Grabinski, horror writer
Stefan Zeromski, novelist
Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz, novelist
Tadeusz Konwicki
Wincenty Kadlubek political scientist, writer
Witold Gombrowicz, novelist and drama writer
Wladyslaw Reymont, writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1924)
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, author and resistance fighter

Music

Adam Darski, singer-songwriter
Adam Jarzebski, composer
Andrzej Dobrowolski, composer
Andrzej Panufnik, composer
Andrzej Wasowski, pianist
Anna Jantar, singer
Arthur Rubinstein, pianist
Barbara Trzetrzelewska, singer
Bartlomiej Pekiel, composer
Boguslaw Schaeffer, composer
Brad Wilk, American rock drummer of Polish descent
Bronislaw Kaper, film composer
Carl Mikuli, composer
Czeslaw Niemen, composer, singer-songwriter
D'arcy Wretzky, Polish-American former bassist of The Smashing Pumpkins
Edyta Bartosiewicz, singer
Edyta Górniak, singer
Franciszek Lilius, composer
Fryderyk Chopin, French father of distant Polish heritage, Polish mother, composer
Gene Krupa, jazz drummer
Grazyna Bacewicz, composer
Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki, composer
Henryk Górecki, composer
Henryk Wieniawski, composer
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist, composer
Jacek Kaczmarski, protest songwriter and singer
Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, film composer
Karol Kurpinski, composer
Karol Lipinski, composer
Karol Szymanowski, composer (Polish father, Swedish mother)
Kasia Kowalska, singer
Kayah, singer
Kazimierz Serocki, composer
Krystian Zimerman, pianist
Krzesimir Debski, composer
Krzysztof Czerwinski, conductor and organist
Krzysztof Komeda, jazz composer
Krzysztof Penderecki, composer
Krzysztof Raczkowski, drummer and percussionist
Leopold Stokowski, conductor
Leszek Mozdzer, pianist and composer
Maciek Miernik, producer
Marcin Mielczewski, composer
Maryla Rodowicz, singer
Michael Anthony (Sobolewski), Van Halen band
Michal Kleofas Oginski, composer
Mieczyslaw Horszowski, pianist
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, composer
Mikolaj Gomolka, composer
Mikolaj z Radomia, Middle Ages composer
Mikolaj Zielenski, composer
Moritz Moszkowski, composer
Natalia Kukulska, singer
Patryk Dominik Sztyber, guitarist and vocalist
Pawel Szymanski, composer
Piotr Póltorak, guitarist
Piotr Rubik, composer
Piotr Wiwczarek, guitarist and vocalist
Ray Manzarek,(Manczarek) Polish-descended American musician and co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors
Reni Jusis, singer
Stanislaw Moniuszko, composer
Stefan Kisielewski, composer, writer
Teodor Leszetycki, pianist, pedagogue
Theodor Kullak, composer
Tomasz Stanko, jazz trumpeter
Tomasz Wróblewski, bassist, guitarist, and vocalist
Urszula Dudziak, singer
Waclaw z Szamotul, composer
Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist
Witold Lutoslawski, composer
Wladyslaw Szpilman, pianist
Wojciech Kilar, composer
Xaver Scharwenka, composer
Zbigniew Preisner, composer
Zbigniew Robert Prominski, drummer and percussionist
Zygmunt Stojowski, composer

Politics

Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, prince, statesman, Prime Minister (1830-1831)
Aleksander Kwasniewski, third President of III RP (1995-2005)
Alexander Wielopolski, count, Marquis of Gonzaga, statesman
Alfred Józef Potocki, count, Minister-President of Austria (1870-1871)
Anatoly Sobczak, first post-Soviet mayor of St Petersburg
Antoni Radziwill, prince, the Duke-Governor of Grand Duchy of Posen (Poznan) (1815-1831)
August Zaleski, second President of Poland in exile (1947-1972)
Boleslaw Bierut, leader of communist Poland (1948-1956)
Dan Rostenkowski, American politician
Edward Gierek, leader of communist Poland (1970-1980)
Edward Raczynski, fourth President of Poland in exile (1979-1986)
Edward Werner, (born in Poland to parents of German origin) vice-Minister of Finance, and Polish diplomat during World War II
Feliks Dzierzynski, the founder of the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka
Gabriel Narutowicz, first President of II RP (1922)
Ignacy Daszynski, Prime Minister of the Temporary People's Government of the Republic of Poland (1918)
Ignacy Moscicki, third President of II RP (1926-1939)
Ignacy Paderewski, second Prime Minister of II RP (1919)
Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, vice-president of European Parliament (2004-2007)
Jan Kucharzewski first Prime Minister of Kingdom of Poland (1917-1918),
Janusz Korwin-Mikke, free market activist, economist
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, identical twin brother of Lech, leader of the Law and Justice party, Prime Minister of Poland (since 2006)
Jas Gawronski, Italian politician
Jedrzej Moraczewski, first Prime Minister of II RP (1918-1919)
Józef Cyrankiewicz, Prime Minister of communistic Poland (1947-1952 and 1954-1970)
Józef Pilsudski, statesman, politician and Marshal of Poland
Julian Marchlewski, Soviet politician
Kazimierz Feliks Badeni, count, Minister-President of Austria (1895-1897)
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Prime Minister of Poland (2005-2006)
Kazimierz Sabbat, fifth President of Poland in exile (1986-1989)
Lech Kaczynski, fourth President of III RP (since 2005)
Lech Walesa, trade unionist who started dismantling of the Soviet bloc, second President of III RP (1990-1995)
Lewis Bernstein Namier, British politician and historian
Ludwik Warynski, socialist activist in 19th c
Marek Belka, former director of economic policy in the interim coalition administration of Iraq & Prime Minister
Marian P. Opala, Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court
Michal Bobrzynski, Governor of Galicia (1908-1913)
Michel Poniatowski, prince, French politician
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski - Prime Minister of Peru
Piotr Jaroszewicz, Prime Minister of communistic Poland (1970-1980)
Roman Dmowski, nationalist politician, statesman
Roman Giertych, leader of the League of Polish Families
Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Ryszard Kaczorowski, sixth and last President of Poland in exile (1989-1990)
Stanislaw Kosior, Soviet politician
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Prime Minister of Poland (1943-1944), politician of the agrarian party
Stanislaw Ostrowski, third President of Poland in exile (1972-1979)
Stanislaw Wojciechowski, second President of II RP (1922-1926)
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, politician, first Prime Minister of III RP (Poland)
Tomasz Arciszewski, first Prime Minister of Poland in exile (1944-1947)
Wincenty Witos, politician of the agrarian party
Wladyslaw Gomulka, leader of communist Poland (1956-1970)
Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, first President of Poland in exile (1939-1947)
Wladyslaw Sikorski, general, Prime Minister of Poland (1939-1943)
Wojciech Jaruzelski, last leader of communist Poland (1981-1989), first President of III RP (1989-1990)
Wojciech Korfanty, leader of Silesians during the Third Silesian Uprising
Wojciech Wierzejski, vice-leader of the League of Polish Families
Zbigniew Brzezinski , political scientist, advisor to US President Jimmy Carter

Poetry

Adam Asnyk, Positivism
Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Naruszewicz, translation, history
Agnieszka Osiecka
Aleksander Wat
Anatol Stern
Andrzej Bursa
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, humanism
Antoni Slonimski
Boleslaw Lesmian
Cyprian Kamil Norwid
Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Prize in Literature (1980)
Edward Stachura
Ewa Lipska
Grazyna Miller, translation
Halina Poswiatowska
Ignacy Krasicki, Fables and Parables
Jan Brzechwa
Jan Kasprowicz, translation
Jan Kochanowski
Jan Lechon
Jan Twardowski
Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
Jeremi Przybora, songs
Julian Tuwim
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, independence activist
Juliusz Slowacki
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
Kazimierz Wierzynski
Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski
Kornel Ujejski
Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski
Leopold Staff
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
Marian Hemar
Mikolaj Rej
Piotr Czerniawski
Piotr Zbylitowski
Rafal Wojaczek
Richard (Ryszard) Tylman
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Tadeusz Rózewicz
Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel Prize in Literature (1996)
Wladyslaw Broniewski
Zbigniew Herbert
Zygmunt Krasinski

Philosophy

Alfred Tarski
August Cieszkowski
Hugo Kollataj
Josef Hoëné-Wronski
Józef Maria Bochenski
Józef Tischner
Karol Libelt
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
Kazimierz Twardowski
Leon Chwistek
Leszek Kolakowski
Maria Szyszkowska
Roman Ingarden
Stanislaw Jaskowski
Stanislaw Staszic
Tadeusz Kotarbinski
Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki
Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz
Zygmunt Bauman

Religion

Adam Stanislaw Krasinski (Bishop of Kamieniec Podolski, 1757-98)
Adam Stefan Sapieha (Bishop/Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal, 1911-51)
Albin Dunajewski (Bishop of Kraków, Cardinal, 1879-94)
Aleksander Kakowski (Archbishop of Warsaw, Cardinal)
August Czartoryski (beatified Prince)
August Hlond (Primate of Poland, 1926-48, Cardinal)
Edmund Dalbor (Primate of Poland, Cardinal, 1915-26)
Edmund Szoka (Archbishop of Detroit, Cardinal 1981-90)
Franciszek Macharski (Archbishop of Kraków, 1978-2005, Cardinal)
Henryk Jankowski (Prelate, Chaplain of "Solidarnosc")
Hugo Kollataj (priest, statesman)
Ignacy Krasicki (Primate of Poland)
Jacob Frank (Jewish messianic leader who merged Judaism and Christianity)
Jakub Uchanski (Primate of Poland, 1562-81; Interrex, 1572-73 and 1574-75)
Jan Laski (Primate of Poland, 1510-31)
Jan Puzyna (Bishop of Kraków, 1895-1911, Cardinal)
Jerzy Cardinal Radziwill (Bishop of Kraków, Cardinal, 1591-1600)
John Krol (Archbishop of Philadelphia, Cardinal, 1961-88)
Józef Glemp (Primate of Poland since 1981, Cardinal)
Kajetan Soltyk (Bishop of Kiev, 1756-59; Bishop of Kraków, 1759-88)
Karol Józef Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II, 1978-2005)
Marian Jaworski (Polish Roman-Catholic Archbishop of Lvov, since 1991, Cardinal)
Mieczyslaw Halka Ledóchowski (Primate of Poland, 1866-86, Cardinal)
Mikolaj Traba (Archbishop of Gniezno, first Primate of Poland, 1418-22)
Piotr Gamrat (Primate of Poland, 1541-45)
Piotr Wawrzyniak (priest and economist)
Piotr z Goniadza (religious writer)
Reverend Monsignor (Wawrzyniec) Lawrence Wnuk (Protonotary Apostolic)
St. Adam (Albert) Chmielowski
St. Casimir Jagiellon (grandson of King Wladyslaw II Jagiello)
St. Faustyna Kowalska (Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy)
St. Hedwig (Queen of Poland, 1384-99)
St. Hyacinth (Dominican)
St. Jan Kanty (professor at Kraków University)
St. Maksymilian Maria Kolbe (Franciscan martyr, Auschwitz 1941)
St. Raphael Kalinowski (Carmelite)
St. Stanislaus of Szczepanów (Bishop of Kraków, martyr 1079)
St. Stanislaw Kostka (Jesuit)
Stanislaus Hosius (legate to Poland, Cardinal and Prince-Bishop of Warmia)
Stanislaw Dziwisz (Archbishop of Kraków since 2005, Cardinal)
Stefan Wyszynski (Primate of Poland, Cardinal, 1948-81)
Walenty Potocki (Count; converted to Judaism as Avrohom ben Avrohom, the Ger Tzedek of Vilna; died 1749)
Zbigniew Olesnicki (Bishop of Kraków, Cardinal, statesman)

Science

Astronomy

Adam Prazmowski
Albert Brudzewski
Aleksander Wolszczan (co-discoverer of first extrasolar planets)
Bohdan Paczynski
Felicjan Kepinski
Franciszek Arminski
Jan Heweliusz (Johannes Hevelius)
Konrad Rudnicki
Marcin Poczobutt-Odlanicki
Marian Albertovich Kowalski
Mikolaj Kopernik (Nicolaus Copernicus)
Tadeusz Banachiewicz
Wieslaw Wisniewski
Wladyslaw Dziewulski

Biology

Andrew Paulukiewichz, biologist
Andrzej K. Tarkowski, embryologist
Andrzej Wiktor Schally, Nobel laureate enrocrinologist
Boleslaw Skarzynski, biologist
Eduard Adolf Strasburger (born in Poland, of German descent), botanist
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, biologist
Hilary Koprowski, biologist
Jan Sztolcman, ornithologist
Jerzy Konorski, microbiologist
Józef Rostafinski, biologist
Konstanty Jelski, ornithologist
Ludwik Mlokosiewicz, botanist
Marek Kotanski, psychologist
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, physician
Rudolf Weigl, biologist
Stefan Kopec, biologist
Tadeusz Krwawicz, medical pioneer
Wojciech Jastrzebowski, biologist
Zbigniew Religa, cardiologist
Zbylut Twardowski, physician

Chemistry

Adolf Joszt
Antoni Grabowski
Bohdan Szyszkowski
Edward Sucharda
Ignacy Lukasiewicz, inventor of kerosene lamp
Ignacy Moscicki
Jan Czochralski
Jedrzej Sniadecki
Józef Boguski
Józef Zawadzki
Karol Olszewski
Kazimierz Fajans
Kazimierz Funk
Leon Marchlewski
Marceli Nencki
Marek Gatty-Kostyal
Maria Sklodowska (Marie Curie), two Nobel Prizes
Michal Sedziwój
Roald Safran (Nobel Prize, 1981)
Stanislaw Kostanecki
Sylwester Porowski
Tadeusz Estreicher
Tadeusz Reichstein
Wiktor Kemula
Wlodzimierz Trzebiatowski
Wojciech Swietoslawski

Computer Science

Andrzej Trybulec, Mizar system
Jacek Karpinski
Jan Weglarz
Marek Karpinski
Marek Sell
Marian Mazur
Michal Zalewski
Piotr Anweiler, software
Stanislaw Radziszowski
Steve Wozniak- Polish American - Apple Computers
Wieslaw Romanowski

Economics

Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski
Hilary Minc, PRL economy
Leszek Balcerowicz, implementer of 1990s "shock therapy."
Michal Kalecki
Oskar Lange, PRL economy
Slawomir Szwedowski
Wladyslaw Grabski

Engineering

Alfred Korzybski
Avraham Stern
Edward Jan Habich
Ernest Malinowski
Henry Millicer, aviation
Henryk Magnuski
Jacek Jedruch
Jerzy Dabrowski, designer of PZL.37 Los bomber
Karol Adamiecki
Kazimierz Gzowski
Kazimierz Siemienowicz, pioneer of rocketry
Konstantin Tsiolkovski (Konstanty Ciolkowski), spaceflight pioneer
Krzysztof Arciszewski
Mieczyslaw G. Bekker, first moon rover
Piotr Wilniewczyc, weponry
Ralph Modjeski, bridges
Romuald Cebertowicz, soil solidification
Stanislaw Wigura, aviation
Stefan Bryla
Tadeusz Tanski
Tytus Maksymilian Huber
Walter Golaski
Wojciech Rostafinski, NASA
Zdzislaw Celinski
Zygmunt Pulawski, designer of PZL P.11 fighter

Invention

Bruno Abakanowicz, mathematician, engineer
Jan Szczepanik
Jozef Kosacki, mine detector
Jozef Piotrowski
Józef Tykocinski, sound film
Kazimierz Proszynski, first cinematic camera
Rudolf Gundlach, tank periscope
Stefan Drzewiecki
Stefan Kudelski, Nagra audio recorders
Tadeusz Sendzimir

Linguistics

Anna Wierzbicka
Antoni Józef Smieszek
Jan Czekanowski
Jan Miodek
Jan Niecislaw Baudouin de Courtenay
Jaroslav Rudnyckyj
Jerzy Kurylowicz
L.L. Zamenhof

Mathematics

Adolf Lindenbaum
Alfred Tarski
Andrew Odlyzko
Andrzej Bialynicki-Birula
Andrzej Mostowski
Antoni Lomnicki
Antoni Zygmund
Benoît Mandelbrot (born in Poland of Lithuanian-Jewish descent)
Bronislaw Knaster
Czeslaw Ryll-Nardzewski
Edward Marczewski
Franciszek Leja
Helena Rasiowa
Henryk Iwaniec
Henryk Zygalski
Hugo Steinhaus
Jacob Bronowski
Jan Brozek
Jan Lukasiewicz
Jan Mikusinski
Jan Sniadecki
Jerzy Los
Jerzy Rózycki
Jerzy Splawa-Neyman
Józef H. Przytycki
Józef Hoëné-Wronski
Józef Marcinkiewicz
Juliusz Schauder
Karol Borsuk
Kazimierz Bartel
Kazimierz Kordylewski
Kazimierz Kuratowski
Kazimierz Zarankiewicz
Kazimierz Zorawski
Krystyna Kuperberg
Marek Karpinski, computer scientist
Marian Rejewski
Mark Kac
Otton M. Nikodym
Piotr Smolenski, cryptographer
Robert Kowalski
Roman Sikorski
Samuel Eilenberg
Stanislaw Jaskowski
Stanislaw Lesniewski
Stanislaw Lojasiewicz
Stanislaw Mazur
Stanislaw Ruziewicz
Stanislaw Saks
Stanislaw Ulam, codesigner of hydrogen bomb with Edward Teller
Stanislaw Zaremba
Stefan Banach
Stefan Kaczmarz
Stefan Mazurkiewicz
Tadeusz Banachiewicz
Tadeusz Wazewski
Waclaw Sierpinski
Witold Hurewicz
Wladyslaw Orlicz
Wladyslaw Slebodzinski
Wlodzimierz Stozek
Yulian Sokhotski
Zdzislaw Krygowski
Zygmunt Janiszewski

Physics

Aleksander Jablonski
Czeslaw Bialobrzeski
Georges Charpak (Nobel Prize, 1995)
Georges Nomarski
James Gimzewski
Jan Kazimierz Danysz
Jerzy Pniewski
Leopold Infeld
Maria Sklodowska (Marie Curie; two Nobel Prizes)
Marian Danysz
Marian Smoluchowski (father of kinetics)
Mieczyslaw Wolfke (Polish scientist, partially of German descent)
Stanislaw Lech Woronowicz
Stanislaw Mrozowski
Sylwester Kaliski
Theodor Kaluza
Witelo (medieval philosopher and scientist, specialist in optics)
Wladyslaw Natanson
Wojciech H. Zurek
Wojciech Rubinowicz
Zygmunt Wróblewski

Social Sciences

Bronislaw Malinowski (anthropologist)
Bronislaw Pilsudski (cultural anthropologist)
Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (sociologist)
Florian Znaniecki (sociologist)
Jan Kubary (naturalist, ethnographer)
Jerzy Szacki (sociologist)
Ludwig Gumplowicz (a founder of sociology)
Maria Ossowska (sociologist)
Piotr Sztompka (sociologist)
Stanislaw Ossowski (sociologist)
Wladyslaw Markiewicz (sociologist)
Zygmunt Bauman (sociologist, philosopher)
Zygmunt Gloger (ethnographer, archeologist, historian)

Other Sciences

Antoni Józef Smieszek, Egyptologist
Antoni Kepinski, psychiatrist
Gerard Ciolek, architect and historian of gardens
Henryk Arctowski, explorer
Henryk Jordan, founding father of physical education
Henryk Lipszyc, specialist in Japanese culture, translator, ambassador of Poland in Tokyo
Ignacy Domeyko, Polish geologist
James A. Pawelczyk, NASA astronaut
Jan Potocki, linguist, Egyptologist, sociologist
Janusz Korczak, pedagogist
Józef Kostrzewski, archaeologist, museologist
Józef Rotblat (Nobel Peace Prize, 1995)
Karol J. Bobko, NASA astronaut
Karol Mysliwiec, archaeologist
Kazimierz Dabrowski, psychologist
Kazimierz Michalowski, archaeologist
Michael Alfred Peszke, psychiatrist
Miroslaw Hermaszewski, the first Polish astronaut
Pawel Edmund Strzelecki, explorer
Pawel Spiewak, Professor of Sociology, politician
Pawel Wlodkowic, scholar and lawyer
Piotr Ignacy Bienkowski, scholar, archaeologist, professor
Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist political theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary
Scott E. Parazynski, NASA astronaut
Stanislaw of Skarbimierz, political scientist
Stefan Starzynski, economist
Tadeusz Sulimirski, archaeologist