# List of people from Gdańsk

This is a list of people from Gdańsk (Danzig).

## Early times

* Conrad Letzkau (ca. 1350 – 1411), mayor, executed by the Teutonic Knights
* Tiedemann Giese (1480–1550), bishop
* Johannes Dantiscus (1485–1548), poet, church canon and bishop
* Bernhard von Reesen (1491–1521), businessman painted by Albrecht Dürer

## 16th C

* Albrecht Giese (1524–1580), councillor and diplomat
* Caspar Schütz (c. 1540–1594), Prussian historian
* Anton Möller (1563–1611), painter
* Bartholomäus Keckermann (c.1571-1608), writer and Calvinist theologist
* Regina Basilier (1572-1631), German-Swedish merchant banker
* Philipp Clüver (1580–1622) an Early Modern geographer and historian.

## 17th C

* Constantia Zierenberg (1605–1653), a singer and musician; daughter of Danzig mayor
* Reinhold Curicke (1610-1667), jurist, historian
* Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), astronomer.
* Georg Daniel Schultz (1615–1683), painter
* Bogusław Radziwiłł (1620–1669), Prince of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Reichsfürst of the HRE, governor of Ducal Prussia
* Andreas Schlüter (1659–c.1714), architect and sculptor
* Daniel Ernst Jablonski (1660–1741) a theologian.
* Jacob Theodor Klein (1685–1759), jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat
* Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt (1685–1735) physician, naturalist, geographer
* Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736) a physicist, inventor and scientific instrument maker.
* Gottfried Lengnich (1689-1774), jurist, historian

## 18th C

* Johann Valentin Haidt (1700-1780), painter and preacher
* Daniel Gralath (1708–1767), physicist and Bürgermeister (mayor) of Danzig
* Louise Adelgunde Gottsched (1713–1762), writer
* Nikita Panin (1718–1783) a Russian statesman and political mentor to Catherine the Great.
* Sir Trevor Corry (1724-1780), diplomat; Baron of Poland; British Consul to Danzig 1745–1780
* Daniel Chodowiecki (1726–1801), artist and painter.
* Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734–1823), Prince, writer, literary and theatre critic.
* Michał Jerzy Poniatowski (1736–1794), primate of Poland
* Johann Wilhelm Archenholz (1741–1812), historian and publicist.
* Avraham Danzig (1748–1820), rabbi
* Georg Forster (1754–1794), naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary.
* Jacob Kabrun Jr. (1759-1814), merchant, book and art collector, and philanthropist
* Jakob Sigismund Beck (1761–1840) a philosopher.
* Johanna Schopenhauer (1766–1838), author; mother of Arthur Schopenhauer
* Johannes Daniel Falk (1768–1826), poet and educator.
* Antonio Casimir Cartellieri (1772–1807), composer
* Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), philosopher.

## 19th C

* Heinrich von Zastrow (1801–1875), general
* Heinrich Wilhelm Zimmerman (1805-1841), portrait painter
* Rachel Meyer (1806-1874), writer
* Joachim Marquardt (1812–1882) an historian and writer on Roman antiquities.
* Eduard Hildebrandt (1818–1868) a landscape painter.
* Ernst Förstemann (1822–1906), historian, mathematician, philologist
* Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf (1832–1891), general, writer.
* Eduard Winkelmann (1838–1896) an historian.
* Stefan Pawlicki (1839–1916), Catholic priest and philosopher
* Anna Tuschinski (1841–1939), Esperantist
* Fritz von Below (1853–1918), general
* Otto von Below (1857–1944), general
* August von Brandis (1859–1947), artist
* Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916) psychologist.
* Max Halbe (1865–1944), writer
* Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), feminist, writer and journalist
* Max Adalbert (1874–1933), actor
* Alfred Stock (1876–1946), chemist
* Carl Schuricht (1880–1967), conductor
* Marta Wittkowska (1882–1977), contralto opera singer
* Alice Wosikowski (1886–1949), politician, resistance activist
* Gerhard Rose (1896–1992), expert on tropical medicine

## 1900 - 1945

* Gerhard Krüger (1908–1994), a Nazi Party student leader
* Hermann Diamanski (1909–1976), German resistance fighter
* Alfred Zeidler (born 1909), German SS concentration camp commandant
* Mathias Goeritz (1915–1990), artist
* Alexander Salkind (1921–1997), film producer
* Wanda Klaff (1922–1946), German Nazi concentration camp overseer executed for war crimes
* Heinz-Hermann Koelle (1922–2011), German-American aeronautical and rocket engineer
* Elisabeth Becker (1923–1946), German SS concentration camp guard executed for war crimes
* Miltiades Caridis (1923–1998), conductor
* Eddi Arent (1925–2013), actor and comedian
* Meir Shamgar (1925–2019), President of the Israel Supreme Court
* Zygmunt Chychła (1926–2009), boxer
* Jack Mandelbaum (1927–2023), subject of Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
* Günter Grass (1927–2015), writer, recipient of 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature
* Henry Rosovsky (1927–2022), economist
* Zalman Shoval (born 1930), diplomat and politician
* Wolfgang Völz (1930–2018), actor and voice actor
* Ingrid van Bergen (born 1931), actress
* Jan Strelau (1931–2020), psychologist
* Jutta Meischner (born 1935), classical archeologist
* Richard Pratt (1935-2009), Australian businessman and philanthropist
* Holger Czukay (1938–2017), musician
* Wawrzyniec Samp (born 1939), sculptor and graphic artist
* Dietrich Albrecht (born 1940), football player
* Matthias Habich (born 1940), actor
* Heidrun Mohr-Mayer (1941–2014), jeweler
* Ryszard Horodecki (born 1943), physicist
* Lech Wałęsa (born 1943), politician
* Detlev Buchholz (born 1944), theoretical physicist

## Since 1945

* Józef Borzyszkowski (born 1946), historian, politician and Kashubian activist
* Krzysztof Majchrzak (born 1948), film actor
* Jacek Namieśnik (1949–2019), chemist
* Andrzej Szarmach (born 1950), football player
* Krzysztof Kolberger (1950–2011), actor
* Jan de Weryha-Wysoczanski (born 1950), sculptor
* Bogusław Jackowski (born 1950), computer scientist
* Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak (born 1951), film actress
* Jerzy Samp (born 1951), writer and historian
* Bogdan Wojciszke (born 1952), psychologist
* Maciej Żylicz (born 1953), biochemist and molecular biologist
* Tomasz Imieliński (born 1954), computer scientist
* Janusz Pawliszyn (born 1954), chemist
* Janina Ochojska (born 1955), humanitarian, social activist and astronomer, founder and director of the Polish Humanitarian Action
* Jolanta Kwaśniewska (born 1955), former First Lady of Poland
* Krzysztof Pastor (born 1956), dancer, choreographer and director of the Polish National Ballet
* Barbara Tuge-Erecińska (born 1956), diplomat
* Pawel Huelle (born 1957), writer and journalist
* Donald Tusk (born 1957), former President of the European Council & Prime Minister of Poland, journalist and historian
* Marek Kamiński (born 1964), traveler
* Paweł Adamowicz (1965–2019), politician, Mayor of Gdańsk
* Aneta Kręglicka (born 1965), model and dancer, Miss World 1989
* Grzegorz Kacała (born 15 1966), rugby player
* Giennadij Jerszow (born 1967), sculptor
* Dariusz Michalczewski (born 1968), boxer
* Mariusz Podkościelny (born 1968), freestyle swimmer and swimming coach
* Leszek Mozdzer (born 1971), jazz pianist
* Tomasz Wałdoch (born 1971), footballer
* Adam Korol (born 20 August 1974), rower and Olympic champion
* Sławomir Nowak (born 1974), former Minister of Transport & Construction
* Szymon Roginski (born 1975), photographer
* Agnieszka Chylińska (born 1976), singer-songwriter, actress, author and television personality
* Gregorz Szamotulski (born 1976), footballer
* Jarosław Wałęsa (born 1976), politician, son of Lech Wałęsa
* Adam Darski (born 1977), singer and guitarist, frontman of extreme metal band Behemoth
* Robert Kempiński (born 1977), chess grandmaster
* Tomasz Schafernaker (born 1979), Polish-British meteorologist for BBC Weather
* Jacek Dehnel (1980), writer, poet, translator and painter
* Magdalena Tul (born 1980), singer and composer
* Dawid Tomaszewski (born 1980), fashion designer
* Jakobe Mansztajn (born 1982), poet, blogger
* Magdalena Frąckowiak (born 1984), model
* Ewa Juszkiewicz (born 1984), painter
* Izu Ugonoh (born 1986), boxer and mixed martial artist
* Piotr Witkowski (born 1988), actor
* Oskar Piechota (born 1990), mixed martial artist
* Hania Rani (born 1990), pianist, composer and singer
* Moustapha M'Baye (born 1992), volleyball player
* Mateusz Biskup (born 1994), rower
* Mateusz Mach (born 1997), entrepreneur and investor
* Mikolaj Oledzki (born 1998), Rugby League player