List of people from Poznań

The following is a list of people from Poznań in Poland.

Anna Anderson (1896–1984), pretender of Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia
Ryszard "Peja" Andrzejewski (born 1976), rapper
Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886–1941), German U-boat commander
Isidor Ascheim (1891–1968), painter and printmaker
Hanna Banaszak (born 1957), singer, poet
Stanisław Barańczak (1946–2014), poet
Herbert Baum (1912–1942) resistance fighter
Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017), sociologist
Hayim ben Bezalel (died 1588), rabbi
Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512 or 1526–1609), important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher
Robert Buech (1870–1949), politician
Katarzyna Bujakiewicz (born 1972), actress
Heinrich Caro (1834–1910), chemist
Hipolit Cegielski (1815–1868), businessman
Dezydery Chłapowski (1788–1848), general
August Cieszkowski (1814–1894), philosopher
Antoni Czubiński (1928–2003), historian
Leopold Damrosch (1832–1885), conductor
Kurt Demmler (1943–2009), songwriter; accused of sexual abuse he hanged himself in his jail cell
Ludwig Dessoir, (1810–1874), actor
Tomasz Dietl (born 1950), physicist
Franciszek Dobrowolski (1830–1896), theater director
Małgorzata Dydek (1974–2011), basketball player
Tytus Działyński (1796–1861), political activist
Akiva Eiger (1761–1837), Rabbi of Poznań (1815–1837)
Ewaryst Estkowski (1820–1856), teacher
Gerard Ettinger (1909–2002), designer and manufacturer of leather goods.
Krystyna Feldman (1916–2007), actress
Wojciech Fibak (born 1952), tennis player
Gerhard Flesch (1909–1948), German Nazi Gestapo and SS officer executed for war crimes
Fredrak Fraske (1872–1973), the last surviving United States veteran of the Indian Wars
Johannes Gad (1842–1926), neurophysiologist
Jean Gebser (1905–1973), human consciousness scientist
Eduard Gerhard (1795–1867), archaeologist.
Arkadiusz Głowacki (born 1979), footballer
Michał Goliński (born 1981), footballer
Friedrich Goltz (1834–1902), physiologist
Konstanty Gorski (1859–1924), composer and violinist
Kasper Goski (died 1576), Mayor of Poznań, astrologer and medical doctor
Heinrich Graetz (1817–1891) historian, wrote a history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective.
Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), Field Marshal and President of the Weimar Republic
Joanna Hoffmann-Dietrich (born 1968), artist and academic
Piotr Hofmański (born 1956), jurist and former International Criminal Court President
Samuel Holdheim (1806–1860), a German rabbi and author.
Maksymilian Jackowski (1815–1905), activist
Anna Jantar (1950–1980), a popular Polish singer, who perished in a plane crash.
Alfred Jodl (1890–1946), German WW2 military commander executed for war crimes
John Jonston (1603–1675), naturalist and physician
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (born 1954), composer
Maria and Bogdan Kalinowski, (1945–2020) & (1939–2017) filmgoing couple
Richard Kandt (1867–1918), doctor and explorer
Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz (1895–1963), historian
Marek Karpinski, computer scientist
Günther von Kluge (1882–1944), Field Marshal
Krzysztof Komeda (1931–1969), jazz musician
Leo Königsberger (1837–1921), mathematician
Kazimierz Kordylewski (1903–1981), Polish astronomer, claimed discovery of Kordylewski Clouds
Antoni Kraszewski (1797–1870), politician
Germaine Krull (1897–1985), photographer
Weronika Książkiewicz (born 1981), actress
Jakub Kucner (born 1988), male model
Gerard Labuda (1916–2010), historian
Jarosław Leitgeber (1848–1933), purveyor of Polish books under partitions
Paul Leonhardt (1877–1934), chess master
Arthur Liebehenschel (1901–1948), Nazi commandant of Auschwitz and Majdanek executed for war crimes
Karol Libelt (1807–1875), philosopher
Magda Linette (born 1992), tennis player
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937), general and politician
Karol Marcinkowski (1800–1848), physician and social activist
Władysław Markiewicz (1920–2017), sociologist
Teofil Matecki (1810–1886), philosopher
Heinrich Mendelssohn (1881–1959), building tycoon
Karl-Friedrich Merten (1905–1993), U-boat commander
Małgorzata Musierowicz (born 1945), novelist
Andrzej Niegolewski (1787–1857), colonel
Władysław Niegolewski (1814–1880), politician
Grzegorz Nowak (born 1951), conductor
Władysław Oleszczyński (1809–1866), sculptor
Catherine Opalińska (1680–1747), Queen consort of Poland, Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania
Lilli Palmer (1914–1986), actress
Janusz Pałubicki (born 1948), politician
Kazimierz Piwarski, (1903–1968), historian
Ignacy Posadzy, (1898–1984), priest
Gustaw Potworowski, (1800–1860), activist
Edward Raczyński (1786–1845), politician
Antoni Radziwiłł (1775–1833), aristocrat
Cyryl Ratajski (1875–1942), mayor of Poznań
Marian Rejewski (1905–1980), mathematician, cryptologist, Enigma code machine codebreaker
Richard Rothe (1799–1867), Lutheran theologian.
Marcin Rożek (1885–1944), sculptor and painter
Jerzy Różycki (1909–1942), cryptoanalist, Enigma codemachine codebreaker
Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915–2006), operatic and concert lyric soprano, born in Jarocin
Urszula Sipińska (born 1947), singer-songwriter, pianist and architect
Bohdan Smoleń (1947–2016), comedian and actor
Józef Struś (1510–1568), scientist and mayor of Poznań
Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki (1797–1873), Polish explorer and geologist
Anna Suszczynska (1877–1931), composer
Michał Sczaniecki (1910–1977), historian
Rafał Szukała (born 1971), butterfly swimmer
Jan Szymański (born 1989), speed skater and Olympic medalist
Mirosław Szymkowiak (born 1976) football player
Jerzy Topolski (1928–1998), historian
Lech Trzeciakowski (1931–2017), historian
Hubert Wagner (1941–2002), volleyball player and head coach of Poland men's national volleyball team
Leon Wegner (1824–1873), economist
Jan Węglarz (born 1947), computer scientist
Roman Wilhelmi (1936–1991), actor
Ray Wilson (born 1968), former vocalist of Genesis
Tommy Wiseau (born 1955), director, screenwriter, and actor, known for cult film The Room, speculated to be born here
Zygmunt Wojciechowski, (1900–1955), historian and founder of the Western Institute
Anna Wolff-Powęska (born 1941), historian
Barbara Maria Zakrzewska-Nikiporczyk (born 1946), composer
Maciej Zaremba (born 1951), a Swedish journalist
Szymon Ziółkowski (born 1976), hammer thrower, Olympic champion
Henryk Zygalski (1906–1978), cryptoanalist, Enigma codemachine codebreaker

References

"Gerard Ettinger". The Daily Telegraph. 12 August 2002. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
"Gerhard, Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 767.
Abrahams, Israel (1911). "Graetz, Heinrich" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). pp. 314–315.
"Holdheim, Samuel" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 583.
"Rothe, Richard" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 756.

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Lists of Polish people