# List of Polish people

This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing people. People of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited.

## History

* Askenazy
* Bielski
* Callimachus
* Cywiński
* Długosz
* Feldman
* Gieysztor
* Kadłubek
* Kołłątaj
* Kot
* Kromer
* Labuda
* Lelewel
* Lerski
* Manteuffel
* Miechowita
* Modzelewski
* Naruszewicz
* Peszke
* Pipes
* Pogonowski
* Samsonowicz
* Stola
* Szujski
* Vetulani
* Żagiell
* Roman Aftanazy, historian of former Eastern Borderlands and librarian
* Szymon Askenazy, historian and diplomat
* Marcin Bielski, chronicler
* Michał Bobrzyński, historian and politician
* Józef Borzyszkowski, Kashubian historian
* Filip Callimachus
* Alina Cała
* Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
* Piotr Cywiński
* Tadeusz Czacki
* Norman Davies, British-Polish historian
* Małgorzata Dąbrowska, historian, Byzantist
* Jan Długosz, 15th-century chronicler of Poland
* Maria Dzielska
* Marian Kamil Dziewanowski, Poland, Russia, modern Europe
* Karol Estreicher (senior), father of Polish Bibliography
* Stanisław Estreicher
* Tadeusz Estreicher
* Józef Feldman
* Mieczysław Gębarowicz, art historian, museum director, custodian of Ossolineum
* Aleksander Gieysztor
* Władysław Grabski
* Roman Grodecki
* Oskar Halecki, historian of Poland
* Marceli Handelsman, historian of Poland
* Paweł Jasienica, historian of Poland
* Jacek Jędruch
* Wincenty Kadłubek, 13th-century historian of Poland
* Józef Kasparek, constitutions; World War II era
* Stefan Kieniewicz, 19th-century Polish history
* Jerzy Kirchmayer, 1944 Warsaw Uprising
* Jerzy Kolendo, archaeologist, epigraphist and historian of the Mediterranean Basin in antiquity
* Hugo Kołłątaj, 18th–19th-century historian, philosopher and politician
* Feliks Koneczny, Polish history, social philosophy
* Władysław Konopczyński, Polish and world history
* Iwona Korga, historian, president of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
* Stanisław Kot, historian, politician, diplomat
* Władysław Kozaczuk, military history, military intelligence, World War II
* Manfred Kridl, history of Polish culture and literature
* Marcin Kromer, 16th-century Bishop of Warmia, secretary to two Polish kings, and historian of Poland
* Jan Kucharzewski, historian and politician
* Marian Kukiel, military historian and politician
* Lucyna Kulińska
* Ewa Kurek
* Stanisław Kutrzeba, Poland, Polish law, Kraków
* Gerard Labuda
* Joachim Lelewel, historian of Poland
* Jerzy Jan Lerski
* Dariusz Libionka
* Wacław Lipiński
* Stanisław Lorentz, art historian
* Czesław Madajczyk, World War II
* Janusz Magnuski, World War II Polish and Soviet armor
* Tadeusz Manteuffel, medievalist
* Maciej Masłowski, art historian
* Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995), Israeli historian and archeologist; President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
* Maciej Miechowita
* Lidia Milka-Wieczorkiewicz
* Karol Modzelewski
* Stephen Mizwa
* Teodor Narbutt, Polish historian of Lithuania
* Adam Naruszewicz, 18th-century historian, participant in the Great Sejm
* Kasper Niesiecki, Jesuit lexicographer and heraldic scholar
* Szymon Okolski, 17th-century historian
* Bartosz Paprocki, Polish and Czech heraldic scholar
* Michael Alfred Peszke (1932-2015), Polish Armed Forces, World War II
* Tadeusz Piotrowski, historian of Poland during World War II
* Richard Pipes, Polish-American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union
* Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, World War II, Polish-Jewish relations; engineer; lexicographer
* Teresa Prekerowa
* Stanisław Salmonowicz, historian of law
* Henryk Samsonowicz, historian specializing in medieval Poland
* Konstancja Skirmuntt
* Julian Stachiewicz, military historian
* Szymon Starowolski
* Aneta Stawiszyńska
* Dariusz Stola
* Maciej Stryjkowski, historian, writer, poet
* Irena Strzelecka
* Tomasz Strzembosz, Polish World War II history
* Karol Szajnocha, historian and novelist
* Józef Szujski
* Zygmunt Szweykowski, Polish literature
* Władysław Tatarkiewicz, philosophy and aesthetics
* Rafał Taubenschlag, history of law
* Janusz Tazbir, historian, specializing in the culture and religion of Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries
* Józef Turowski, World War II OUN massacres of Poles
* Adam Ulam, Polish-American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union
* Adam Vetulani, history of law
* Piotr S. Wandycz, Polish-American historian of Central and Eastern Europe
* Leon Wasilewski
* Ewa Wipszycka, historian and papyrologist
* Richard Woytak, World War II era
* Julia Zabłocka (1931–1993), historian, classical scholar, archaeologist
* Wincenty Zakrzewski, 16th-century Poland
* Adam Zamoyski
* Janusz K. Zawodny, World War II
* Ignacy Żagiell (1826–1891), historian of ancient Egypt
* Marek Żukow-Karczewski, historian and journalist
* Kazimierz Żurowski, archaeologist

## Fictional characters

* Matteusz Andrzejewski, played by Jordan Renzo, a character in Class, a British science fiction drama programme, and a spin-off of the long-running programme Doctor Who
* Captain William Joseph B.J. Blazkowicz in Wolfenstein 3D
* Ernst Stavro Blofeld, a villain from the James Bond series of novels and films, created by Ian Fleming
* Bolek i Lolek, cartoon characters from a Polish children's TV animated comedy series
* Baba Jaga, Polish version of the forest-dwelling sorceress
* Waldemar Daninsky, wolfman in La Marca del Hombre Lobo
* Nicodemus Dyzma, in Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz's novel The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma
* Jacob Jankowski, a character played by Robert Pattinson in a 2011 American romantic drama film Water for Elephants
* Marcin Jerek, Polish-born British professor and former CIA interrogator, in the TV series NCIS, played by W. Morgan Sheppard
* Dr. Judym, in Stefan Żeromski's novel Homeless People
* Kajko i Kokosz
* Florentyna Kane in The Prodigal Daughter and Shall We Tell the President?
* Commander Keen, grandson of B.J. Blazkowicz
* Hans Kloss (Captain Kloss), World War II secret agent in the Polish TV serial Stake larger than life
* Kordian
* Funky Koval, space detective
* Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk, a singer of Polish descent played by Marilyn Monroe in Billy Wilder's 1959 romantic comedy film Some Like It Hot
* Kowalski, a penguin in the children's film Madagascar
* Stanley Kowalski, in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire
* Detective Stanley Kowalski, Polish-American Chicago policeman in the 1990s Canadian television series Due South
* Walt Kowalski, Polish-American Korean War veteran and retired Ford worker, in Clint Eastwood's 2008 film Gran Torino
* Lucyna "Lucy" Kushinada, a netrunner of mixed Polish and Japanese descent in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
* Ligia, heroine of Sienkiewicz's novel, Quo Vadis?
* Man of Iron, symbol of Solidarity and title of Wajda's film
* Koziołek Matołek, like the bear and the horse, the goat is part of Polish folklore, here in Kornel Makuszyński's rendition
* Mike Nomad (with Steve Roper), an American adventure comic strip (1936–2004)
* Count Olenski, estranged husband of Ellen Olenska in Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence (1920)
* Pan Tadeusz, poetic distillation of Polish patriotism and nostalgia
* Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski, in HBO's The Wire, went from police officer to school teacher
* Officer Eddie Pulaski in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
* Stefan "Steve" Radecki, a character played by Anton Walbrook in 1941 British war film Dangerous Moonlight
* Abel Rosnovski in Kane and Abel
* Pan Samochodzik, adventurer created by Zbigniew Nienacki
* Paweł i Gaweł, humorous morality tale about neighbour relations, a favourite children's poem
* Sasquatch (Dr. Walter Langkowski), Marvel superhero
* Sierotka Marysia, archetypal abandoned girl, "Little orphan Mary", living with dwarves
* Walter Sobchak, the "Polish Catholic" in the film The Big Lebowski
* Silk Spectre I & II, superheroines in Watchmen
* Stanislau, ace pilot in Blackhawk
* Stanisław Tarkowski (Staś), protagonist of young-adult novel In Desert and Wilderness by Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz
* Mieczysław Stilinski, also known as Stiles Stilinski, one of the main characters in American television series Teen Wolf broadcast on MTV and played by Dylan O'Brien
* Michael Stivic, in All in the Family
* Tadzio, a Polish boy (inspired by Władysław Moes) in Thomas Mann's novel Death in Venice as well as 1971 film adaptation of the same name by Luchino Visconti played by Björn Andrésen
* Ijon Tichy, main protagonist in several works of Stanisław Lem such as The Star Diaries, The Futurological Congress, Peace on Earth and Observation on the Spot
* Kasia Tomaszewski, played by Zofia Wichłacz, a character in World on Fire, a 2019 war drama miniseries broadcast on BBC One
* Maciej Tomczyk ala Lech Wałęsa, in the 1981 film Man of Iron, directed by Andrzej Wajda
* Pan Twardowski, a Faust-like figure of Polish legend, literature and film.
* Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek, Polish comic book heroes
* Miś Uszatek, cartoon character
* Walter Koskiusko Waldowski, the "Painless Pole" in the film MASH
* Konrad Wallenrod, in the narrative poem by Adam Mickiewicz
* John Paul Wiggin (Jan Paweł Wieczorek) in the Ender's Game series
* Stanisław Wokulski, protagonist of Bolesław Prus' novel The Doll
* Stanley Thaddeus "Wojo" Wojciehowicz, played by Max Gail, in the American television sitcom Barney Miller
* Wrocław's dwarfs, brass manikins that first appeared on the city's pavements in 2005
* Piotr Zak, composer in a spoof BBC documentary
* Sophie Zawistowski, played by Meryl Streep, in Sophie's Choice based on a novel by William Styron

## Baseball

* Moe Drabowsky (1935–2006), Polish-born American baseball player
* Bill Mazeroski (born 1936), American baseball player, Hall of Fame
* Tom Paciorek (born 1946), American baseball player

## Checkers

* Natalia Sadowska (born 1991)

## Judo

* Rafał Kubacki (born 1967), Olympic judoka
* Waldemar Legień (born 1963), Olympic champion judoka
* Paweł Nastula (born 1970), Olympic champion judoka

## Skating

* Karolina Bosiek, speed skater
* Zbigniew Bródka, speed skater
* Patrycja Maliszewska, short track speed skater
* Elwira Seroczyńska, speed skater
* Jan Szymański, speed skater