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Frédéric Chopin
Polish composer and pianist (1810–1849)
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
Lech Kaczyński
Polish politician, democratic oppositionist, ministry of justice, president of Poland (1949–2010)
Olga Tokarczuk
Polish writer and activist (1962-)
Menachem Begin
Israeli politician and former Prime Minister (1913–1992)
Bronisław Komorowski
Polish politician; President of Poland (2010–2015)
Jarosław Kaczyński
13th Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
Isaac Shamir
7th Prime Minister of Israel (1915-2012)
Irena Sendler
Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer (1910-2008)
Zygmunt Bauman
Polish philosopher and sociologist (1925-2017)
Leonid Hurwicz
Polish-American economist and mathematician (1917–2008)
Bolesław Prus
Polish novelist (1847–1912)
Joseph Rotblat
Polish-born British-naturalised physicist
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Polish writer (1904–1969)
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Polish politician and prime minister (1927-2013)
Ryszard Kapuściński
Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author (1932–2007)
Leszek Kołakowski
Philosopher, historian of ideas (1927–2009)
Alfred Tarski
Polish-American logician (1901-1983)
Julian Tuwim
Polish poet (1894–1953)
Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
Polish linguist and slavist (1845-1929)
Alpha Oumar Konaré
President of Mali (1992 to 2002)
Jan Łukasiewicz
Polish logician, mathematician, philosopher, rector of the University of Warsaw (1878–1956)
Kazimierz Kuratowski
Polish mathematician (1896–1980)
Rafał Trzaskowski
Polish politician, Mayor of Warsaw since 2018, presidential candidate for Poland in 2020 and 2025
Wacław Sierpiński
Polish mathematician
Roman Dmowski
Polish politician (1864–1939)
Krzysztof Zanussi
Polish producer and film director
Bronisław Geremek
Polish social historian and politician (1932–2008)
Leszek Engelking
Polish writer and translator (1955-2022)
Stanisław Wojciechowski
Polish scientist and politician (1869-1953)
Adam Michnik
Polish essayist and publicist (born 1946)
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Polish politician, former Prime Minister of Poland
Jan Olszewski
Polish lawyer and politician (1930–2019)
Tadeusz Borowski
Polish writer and journalist (1922-1951)
Jerzy Neyman
Polish statistician (1894-1981)
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Polish poet and solider (1921–1944)
Samuel Eilenberg
Polish mathematician (1913-1998)
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Polish author (1909–1983)
Wanda Wasilewska
Polish writer (1905-1964)
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Polish far-right politician and publicist (born 1942)
Florian Znaniecki
Polish sociologist (1882–1958)
Zofia Posmysz
Polish journalist and writer
Hilary Koprowski
Polish physician, virologist, immunologist and medical researcher (1916–2013)
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
Polish writer, World War II underground fighter, and political dissident (1919–2000)
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Polish politician
Karol Borsuk
Polish mathematician (1905–1982)
Jacek Kuroń
Polish historian and politician (1934-2004)
Mieczysław Karłowicz
Polish composer and conductor (1876-1909)
Kazimierz Sabbat
President of Poland (1913-1989)
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
Polish politician
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska
Polish paleobiologist (1925-2015)
Stanisław Leśniewski
Polish mathematician and philosopher (1886-1939)
Đuro Kurepa
Serbian mathematician (1907–1993)
Adrian Zandberg
Polish historian, politician and computer programmer
Jan Brzechwa
Polish writer (1898-1966)
Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska
Polish politician (born 1957)
Józef Bohdan Zaleski
Polish poet (1802–1886)
Emanuel Ringelblum
Polish historian (1900-1944)
Jan T. Gross
American historian and sociologist
Stefan Mazurkiewicz
Polish mathematician and cryptographer (1888-1945)