# 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