page_title: Gliwice
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Gliwice / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Post in Gliwice (Poland).Polski: Zabytkowy budynek poczty głównej w Gliwicach.
context_page_description: Gliwice is a city in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland. The city is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Kłodnica river. It lies approximately 25 km west from Katowice, regional capital of the Silesian Voivodeship.
  Gliwice is the westernmost city of the Upper Silesian metropolis, a conurbation of 1.9 million people, and is the third-largest city of this area, with 178,603 permanent residents as of 2019. It also lies within the larger Upper Silesian metropolitan area which has a population of about 5.3 million people and spans across most of eastern Upper Silesia, western Lesser Poland and the Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic. It is one of the major college towns in Poland, thanks to the Silesian University of Technology, which was founded in 1945 by academics of Lwów University of Technology. Over 20,000 people study in Gliwice. Gliwice is an important industrial center of Poland. Following an economic transformation in the 1990s, Gliwice shifted from steelworks and coal mining to automotive and machine industry.
  Founded in the 13th century, Gliwice is one of the oldest settlements in Upper Silesia, with a preserved Old Town core.
context_section_description: John Baildon (1772–1846), Scottish engineer
  Horst Bienek (1930–1990), German author of novels about Upper Silesia
  William Blandowski (1822–1878), German explorer, zoologist, photographer
  Sebastian Boenisch (born 1987), Polish-German footballer who plays for the Poland national football team
  Lothar Bolz (1903–1986), German politician, foreign affairs minister of the communist German Democratic Republic
  Agata Buzek (born 1976), actress, daughter of Jerzy Buzek
  Jerzy Buzek (born 1940), professor of chemistry, Prime Minister of Poland 1997–2001, MEP since 2004 and president of European Parliament since 2009
  Ernst Degner (1931–1983), German Grand Prix motorcycle racer and designer
  Robert Dziekański, Polish immigrant to Canada who was tasered 5 times and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Vancouver International Airport
  Gottfried Bermann Fischer (1897–1995), German publisher
  Christian Ganczarski (born 1966), German citizen of Polish descent, convert to Islam and convicted terrorist
  Eugen Goldstein (1850–1930), German physicist
  Sophia Grojsman (Khodosh) (born 1945), internationally famous American perfumer
  Hans Hanke (1912–1981), German military officer (World War Two)
  Rudolf Herrnstadt (1903–1966), German communist
  Adalbert Kelm (1856–1939), architect, important for the enlargement of the town in the 1890s. Famous for the Naval Academy Mürwik in Flensburg-Mürwik.
  Wojciech Kocyan, pianist
  Włodzimierz Lubański (born 1947), Polish football player
  Zbigniew Messner (1929–2014), professor and former rector of Economic Academy in Katowice, deputy prime minister of People's Republic of Poland 1983–1985, prime minister 1985–1988
  Gustav Neumann (1838–1881), German chess player
  Lukas Podolski (born 1985), Polish-German football player
  Wojciech Pszoniak (born 1942), film and theatre actor
  Adam Matuszczyk (born 1989), Polish football player
  Tadeusz Różewicz (1921–2014), Polish poet and writer
  Zofia Rydet (1911–1997), Polish photographer
  Stanisław Sojka (born 1959), Polish musician
  Oskar Troplowitz (1863–1918), German pharmacist and owner of Beiersdorf AG, inventor of Nivea and other products
  Richard Wetz (1875–1935), German composer
  Erich Peter Wohlfarth (1924–1988), German physicist
  Leo Yankevich (1961–2018), American poet and translator
  Adam Zagajewski (born 1945), award-winning Polish poet
  Krystian Zimerman (born 1956), internationally renowned Polish pianist
  Joanna Elektrociepłownia (born 199?), Lemko graphic designer
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