page_title: Tarnowskie Góry
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Tarnowskie Góry / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Plac Wolności w Tarnowskich GórachEnglish: Wolności Square in Tarnowskie GóryDeutsch: Plac Wolności in Tarnowskie Góry 1897−1925 - Wilhelmsplatz 1939–1945 - Horst-Wessel-Platz
context_page_description: Tarnowskie Góry is a town in Silesia, southern Poland, located in the Silesian Highlands near Katowice. On the south it borders the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union, a megalopolis, the greater Silesian metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people. The population of the town is 61,422. As of 1999, it is part of Silesian Voivodeship, previously Katowice Voivodeship.
  The Historic Silver Mine of Tarnowskie Góry, a UNESCO World Heritage Site is located in the town.
context_section_description: John II the Good (1460–1532), Duke of Opole, last one of the Opole line of the Piast dynasty, co-founder of Tarnowskie Góry.
  George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1484–1543), from the House of Hohenzollern, co-founder of Tarnowskie Góry.
  George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1539–1603), from the House of Hohenzollern, who gave a coat of arms to Tarnowskie Góry.
  Rudolf von Carnall (1804–1874), engineering geologist
  Donnersmarck family, for over two centuries owners of most of the town and surrounding lands.
  Salomon Isaac (1730–1794), Jewish trade agent and mining entrepreneur, one of the founders of Upper Silesian mining and metallurgical industries
  Stefan Jurkowski (born 1948), poet, publicist, literary critic, journalist
  Donat Kirsch (born 1953), author, novelist and essayist
  Alexander Kohut (1865–1967), talmudist and orientalist, rabbi of Tarnowitz
  Andrzej Korosiewicz (born 1972), musician and poet
  Pauline Thérèse Lachmann, Countess Henckel von Donnersmarck, also known as La Païva (1819–1884), the most successful of 19th-century French courtesans
  Michał Lewek (1878–1967), Roman Catholic priest
  Bolesław Lubosz (1928–2001), poet, essayist and translator
  Martin Max (born 1968), German footballer
  Krzysztof Miller (born 1962), photographer, camera operator and filmmaker
  Paweł Musioł (1905–1943), politician, educator, publicist and historian of Silesian literature
  Jan Miodek (born 1946), linguist
  Dariusz Świercz (born 1994), chess grandmaster
  Józef Wandzik (born 1963), footballer
  Martin Websky (1824–1886), German mineralogist who discovered and described a variation of Aragonite and named it "Tarnowicyt" (from Tarnowskie Góry)
  Carl Wernicke (1848–1905), physician and neuropathologist
  Jolanta Wilk (born 1961), actress
  Klaus Wyrtki (1925–2013), geophysicist
  Łukasz Żelezny (born 1981), composer and DJ
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