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100 Notable alumni of Adam Mickiewicz University

Updated: June 22, 2026 EliteDegrees

Adam Mickiewicz University is ranked #488 in the world and #4 in Poland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Adam Mickiewicz University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Adam Mickiewicz University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Czesław Madajczyk

1. Czesław Madajczyk

1921-2008 (aged 87)
historian
Czesław Madajczyk was a Polish historian. His studies on the German occupation of Europe after 1938, and in particular on the occupation of Poland and on World War II Polish culture, are considered particularly important by the European scholarly community.
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Kurt Lück

2. Kurt Lück

1900-1942 (aged 42)
historian
Kurt Lück was a German historian and SS Obersturmbannführer. He was an ethnographer, an activist minority in Poland and lieutenant colonel in the body of SS officers, doctor of philosophical sciences.
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Aleksander Lasik

3. Aleksander Lasik

1953-. (aged 73)
historian sociologist
Aleksander Lasik is a Polish historian specializing in the history of the Schutzstaffel (SS) within German concentration camps. A professor at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, he has worked as an historian for Poland's Institute of National Remembrance.
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Witold Hensel

4. Witold Hensel

1917-2008 (aged 91)
prehistorian anthropologist medievalist university teacher politician
Witold Maria Hensel was a Polish archaeologist. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Sejm in PRL (SD, 1985–1989).
Maciej Henneberg

5. Maciej Henneberg

1949-. (aged 77)
anthropologist
Maciej Henneberg is a Polish-Australian anatomist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Adelaide and Adjunct Professor at Flinders University interested in human evolution, forensic science, human anatomy, as well as physical anthropology. From 1996 to 2021 he was Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has held various academic positions at the...
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Marek Karpinski

6. Marek Karpinski

1948-. (aged 78)
computer scientist mathematician university teacher
Marek Karpinski is a computer scientist and mathematician known for his research in the theory of algorithms and their applications, combinatorial optimization, computational complexity, and mathematical foundations. He is a recipient of several research prizes in the above areas.
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Sidonia Jędrzejewska

7. Sidonia Jędrzejewska

1975-. (aged 51)
diplomat politician
Sidonia Elżbieta Jędrzejewska is a Polish politician and MEP. She was the Undersecretary of State in the Office of the Committee for European Integration in Poland (2008–2009).
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Monika Michaliszyn

8. Monika Michaliszyn

1974-. (aged 52)
philologist diplomat linguist certified translator
Monika Iwona Michaliszyn is a Polish philologist, translator and diplomat, between 2018 and 2024 serving as a Poland ambassador to Latvia.
Wanda Wesołowska

9. Wanda Wesołowska

1950-. (aged 76)
botanist geographer biologist zoologist ornithologist
Wanda Wesołowska is a Polish zoologist known for her work with jumping spiders. She has described more species of jumping spider than any contemporary writer, and is second only to Eugène Simon in the history of arachnology. Originally a student of ornithology, she developed an interest in jumping spiders while still a student at the Siedlce University of Natural Sciences...
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Włodzimierz Kołos

10. Włodzimierz Kołos

1928-1996 (aged 68)
physicist theoretical chemist
Włodzimierz Kołos was a Polish chemist and physicist who was one of the founders of modern quantum chemistry, and pioneered accurate calculations on the electronic structure of molecules.
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Krzysztof Jassem

11. Krzysztof Jassem

1965-. (aged 61)
computer scientist bridge player
Krzysztof Jassem is a Polish bridge player.
Dmytro Anatoliyovych

12. Dmytro Anatoliyovych

1983-2024 (aged 41)
jurist politician
Dmytro Anatoliyovich Habinet was a Ukrainian jurist and politician. He was governor of Khmelnytskyi Oblast from 2019 to 2020. Habinet died on 17 December 2024, at the age of 41.
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Jadwiga Żylińska

13. Jadwiga Żylińska

1910-2009 (aged 99)
opinion journalist writer translator
Jadwiga Żylińska was a Polish author. Mainly a novelist and essayist, she also wrote the screenplay for Rozstanie (1961). Author of the historical novel based on archaeological findings from the matriarchal societies of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages Kapłanki, amazonki i czarownice (1972).
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Lech Raczak

14. Lech Raczak

1946-2020 (aged 74)
playwright film director director actor pedagogue
Lech Raczak was a Polish theatre director and theatre practitioner.
Dariusz Lipiński

15. Dariusz Lipiński

1955-. (aged 71)
physicist politician
Dariusz Tadeusz Lipiński is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 4,482 votes in 39 Poznań district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list. In the 2007 parliamentary election he got 20,695 votes and was elected for his second term in the Sejm.
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Jacek Pyl

16. Jacek Pyl

1962-. (aged 64)
Catholic deacon Catholic bishop Catholic priest
Bishop Jacek Pyl, O.M.I. is a Polish-born Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, who serves as an Auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Odesa-Simferopol and the Titular Bishop of Nova Sinna since 21 October 2006.
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Marek Woźniak

17. Marek Woźniak

1960-. (aged 66)
politician
Marek Woźniak is a Polish politician who has served as Marshal of Greater Poland Voivodeship since October 2005.
Stefan Ignar

18. Stefan Ignar

1908-1992 (aged 84)
university teacher economist politician
Stefan Ignar, who went by "Kurek" and "Sylwester",. was a Polish politician, a member of the rural movement, a soldier in the Peasants' Battalions, a full professor of economic sciences, and the chairman of the United People's Party from 1956 to 1962 and in 1981, as well as the chairman of the Central Board of the Polish-Soviet Friendship Society from...
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Jerzy Ozdowski

19. Jerzy Ozdowski

1925-1994 (aged 69)
economist
Jerzy Ozdowski was a Polish economist.
Janusz Ziółkowski

20. Janusz Ziółkowski

1924-2000 (aged 76)
politician sociologist university teacher trade unionist
Janusz Aleksander Ziółkowski was a Polish sociologist and politician. He was a professor of sociology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and briefly (in 1981) its rector. He was a Solidarity activist and participated in the Polish Round Table Agreement. He was elected a senator (1989–1991), and from 1991 to 1995 he was the Chief of The Chancellery of...
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August Chełkowski

21. August Chełkowski

1927-1999 (aged 72)
physicist politician university teacher trade unionist
August Chełkowski was a prominent Polish physicist and politician.
Krzysztof Czyżewski

22. Krzysztof Czyżewski

1958-. (aged 68)
translator poet essayist editor
Krzysztof Czyżewski is a Polish author, one of the initiators of the Borderland Foundation in Sejny, Poland.
Agnieszka Kozłowska-Rajewicz

23. Agnieszka Kozłowska-Rajewicz

1969-. (aged 57)
biologist politician
Agnieszka Kozłowska-Rajewicz is a Polish politician and biology academic, who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) during the eighth term from 2014 till 2019 representing Greater Poland. She is a member of the Civic Platform, part of the European People's Party.
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Andrzej Lesicki

24. Andrzej Lesicki

1950-. (aged 76)
biologist
Andrzej Lesicki is a Polish biologist, zoologist, malacologist and a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (AMU), in Poland. Between 2008 and 2016 he was Vice-President of AMU responsible for human resources and development and is now AMU's Rector for the term of office from 2016 until 2020.
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Arkadiusz Trochanowski

25. Arkadiusz Trochanowski

1973-. (aged 53)
Catholic deacon Catholic bishop Catholic priest
Bishop Arkadiusz Trochanowski is a Polish Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as the first eparchial bishop of the newly created Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Olsztyn–Gdańsk since 25 November 2020.
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Hélène Sparrow

26. Hélène Sparrow

1891-1970 (aged 79)
biologist university teacher head of laboratory microbiologist academic
Hélène Sparrow, was a Polish medical doctor and bacteriologist. She is best known for her work on the control of many epidemics including: typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and smallpox. Throughout the 1920s, Sparrow worked with the Polish Armed Forces at the State Institute of Hygiene in Warsaw. While at the State Institute of Hygiene, she worked vigilantly to produce the...
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Jadwiga Rotnicka

27. Jadwiga Rotnicka

1943-. (aged 83)
geographer politician
Jadwiga Kazimiera Rotnicka is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Senate of Poland (10th term) representing the constituency of Poznań.
Zygmunt Ziembiński

28. Zygmunt Ziembiński

1920-1996 (aged 76)
university teacher logician jurist
Zygmunt Ziembiński OPR, usually cited as Z. Ziembinski, was a Polish legal philosopher, logician, and one of the most prominent theoreticians of law in Poland in the second half of the 20th century.
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Katarzyna Kretkowska

29. Katarzyna Kretkowska

1958-. (aged 68)
translator
Katarzyna Maria Kretkowska is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm (9th term) representing the constituency of Poznań.
Jerzy Topolski

30. Jerzy Topolski

1928-1998 (aged 70)
historian philosopher university teacher
Jerzy Topolski was a Polish historian specializing in economic history, history of material culture, the early modern period, and theory and methodology of history. Member of Polish Academy of Sciences, professor of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, he wrote over 1.100 articles and about 30 books.
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Bolesław Filipiak

31. Bolesław Filipiak

1901-1978 (aged 77)
Catholic priest Catholic bishop judge theologian
Bolesław Filipiak was a Polish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Dean of the Roman Rota from 1967 to 1976, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1976.
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Waldemar Sługocki

32. Waldemar Sługocki

1971-. (aged 55)
university teacher political scientist politician
Waldemar Jan Sługocki, ['waldɛmar jan swuɡɔt͡ski]; born 9 September 1971 in [Sulechów]. Polish political scientist, government official and politician, from 2010 to 2011 undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Regional Development., in 2015 secretary of state in the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development, deputy to the Sejm 2011–2015., and the Senate2015-2019. President of the Civic Platform in the Lubusz...
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Jerzy Limon

33. Jerzy Limon

1950-2021 (aged 71)
literary critic university teacher writer translator literary scholar
Jerzy Limon was a Polish literary scholar, translator and writer specialising in Shakespearean and Elizabethan theatre. He initiated the creation of the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre and served as its first director.
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Stefan Kieniewicz

34. Stefan Kieniewicz

1907-1992 (aged 85)
historian archivist university teacher
Stefan Kieniewicz was a Polish historian and university professor, notable for his works on the 19th-century history of Poland. During his work at various universities he became the tutor of several generations of Polish historians and his views on the last two centuries of Poland's history remain influential in modern scholarly works.
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Dariusz Sośnicki

35. Dariusz Sośnicki

1969-. (aged 57)
editing staff poet writer translator non-fiction writer
Dariusz Sośnicki is a Polish poet. He was born in 1969 in Kalisz, and studied philosophy at the Adam Mickiewicz University. From 1994 to 1996, he edited the literary journal Nowy Nurt [New Current]. In 2001 he attended the University of Iowa on a writer's grant. He has published numerous books and his work has been translated into English and...
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Jan Szczepański

36. Jan Szczepański

1913-2004 (aged 91)
politician sociologist
Jan Szczepański was a Polish sociologist and politician. Professor of University of Łódź, its rector from 1952 to 1956. His works concentrated on theory of sociology, history of sociology, as well as studying of transformations of social structure.
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Bianka Zalewska

37. Bianka Zalewska

1979-. (aged 47)
journalist
Bianka Zalewska is a Polish humanitarian worker and journalist. She has covered the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She was awarded the International Women of Courage Award in 2023.
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Kazimierz Kordylewski

38. Kazimierz Kordylewski

1903-1981 (aged 78)
university teacher astronomer
Kazimierz Kordylewski was a Polish astronomer. He is known for his discovery of the Kordylewski clouds, two clouds of dust concentrated at the Moon's L4 and L5 Lagrange points.
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Witold Pahl

39. Witold Pahl

1961-. (aged 65)
politician
Witold Pahl is a Polish politician from the Civic Platform.
Eugeniusz Grzeszczak

40. Eugeniusz Grzeszczak

1954-. (aged 72)
politician
Eugeniusz Tomasz Grzeszczak is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 5,181 votes in 37 Konin district as a candidate from the Polish People's Party list.
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Yevhen Pobihushchyi

41. Yevhen Pobihushchyi

1901-1995 (aged 94)
military officer
Yevhen Pavlovych Pobihushchyi-Ren was a Ukrainian military commander and Axis collaborator who served as commander of the Roland Battalion and Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201, and as one of the commanders of 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician).
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Paweł Olszewski

42. Paweł Olszewski

1979-. (aged 47)
politician
Paweł Bartosz Olszewski is a Polish economist and politician, Bydgoszcz City Councillor (2002–05) and member of the Sejm (since 2005).
Sławomira Wronkowska-Jaśkiewicz

43. Sławomira Wronkowska-Jaśkiewicz

1943-. (aged 83)
jurist lawyer judge university teacher
Sławomira Kazimiera Wronkowska-Jaśkiewicz, PR is a Polish legal scholar, Professor emeritus of Jurisprudence at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She has a particular interest in legal theory, legislation, legal interpretation, legal reasoning and philosophy of law. She belongs to the Poznań school of legal theory.
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Urszula Zybura

44. Urszula Zybura

1952-. (aged 74)
Esperantist poet writer
Urszula Irena Zybura is a Polish poet, President of the Board of the Wielkopolska Branch of the Polish Writers' Union, publisher, and Esperantist.
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Andrzej Stelmachowski

45. Andrzej Stelmachowski

1925-2009 (aged 84)
politician university teacher lawyer jurist minister
Andrzej Stanisław Ksawery Stelmachowski was a Polish academic and politician.
Zbigniew Hoffmann

46. Zbigniew Hoffmann

1963-. (aged 63)
political scientist
Zbigniew Grzegorz Hoffmann is a former Polish politician who was a Voivode of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (2006–2009) and a Vice-Voivode of Greater Poland Voivodeship (2006).
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Tadeusz Zwiefka

47. Tadeusz Zwiefka

1954-. (aged 72)
journalist politician
Tadeusz Antoni Zwiefka is a Polish journalist and politician. Since 2004, member of the European Parliament.
Zbigniew Chlebowski

48. Zbigniew Chlebowski

1964-. (aged 62)
politician economist
Zbigniew Chlebowski is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 18,281 votes in 2 Wałbrzych district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list.
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Katarzyna Ueberhan

49. Katarzyna Ueberhan

1975-. (aged 51)
politician
Katarzyna Ueberhan is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm (9th term) representing the constituency of Poznań.
Natalia Tułasiewicz

50. Natalia Tułasiewicz

1906-1945 (aged 39)
pedagogue
Natalia Tułasiewicz was a Polish teacher in Poznań, Second Polish Republic, and a leader in the Catholic lay apostolate. A member of the Polish Underground State, she was murdered in a gas chamber at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Tułasiewicz was beatified in 1999 as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II.
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Ryszard Krynicki

51. Ryszard Krynicki

1943-. (aged 83)
translator poet publisher writer
Ryszard Krynicki is a Polish poet and translator, member of the Polish "New Wave" Movement. He is regarded as one of the most prominent post-war contemporary Polish poets. In 2015, he was awarded the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award as a recognition for his poetry works.
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Andrzej Mikołaj Dera

52. Andrzej Mikołaj Dera

1961-. (aged 65)
chess player politician
Andrzej Mikołaj Dera is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 7520 votes in 36 Kalisz district as a candidate from Law and Justice list.
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Krzysztof Paszyk

53. Krzysztof Paszyk

1979-. (aged 47)
politician
Krzysztof Paszyk is a Polish politician serving as minister of economic development and technology since 2024. He has been a member of the Sejm since 2015.
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Gerard Labuda

54. Gerard Labuda

1916-2010 (aged 94)
university teacher historian regional historian pedagogue medievalist
Gerard Labuda was a Polish historian whose main fields of interest were the Middle Ages and the Western Slavs. He was born in Kashubia. He lived and died in Poznań, Poland.
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Stanisława Przybyszewska

55. Stanisława Przybyszewska

1901-1935 (aged 34)
playwright screenwriter writer
Stanisława Przybyszewska was a Polish dramatist who is mostly known for her plays about the French Revolution. Her 1929 play The Danton Case, which examines the conflict between Maximilien Robespierre and Georges Danton, is considered to be one of the most exemplary works about the Revolution, and was adapted (albeit with significant ideological edits) by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda for...
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Krystyna Łybacka

56. Krystyna Łybacka

1946-2020 (aged 74)
mathematician politician
Krystyna Maria Łybacka was a Polish political figure who served in the country's national Parliament (Sejm), since 1991 to 2014 and from October 2001 to May 2004, and was a member of the cabinet, with the title of Minister of National Education.
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Jacek Tomczak

57. Jacek Tomczak

1973-. (aged 53)
notary legal counselor politician
Jacek Jerzy Tomczak is a Polish politician and lawyer. He is a member of the Sejm for Poland Comes First, having been a member for Law and Justice from 2005 to 2010.
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Iwo Byczewski

58. Iwo Byczewski

1948-. (aged 78)
diplomat jurist politician
Iwo Byczewski is a Polish diplomat. He served as Deputy Foreign Minister (1991–1995), Ambassador to Belgium and Permanent Representative to the European Union.
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Marcin Libicki

59. Marcin Libicki

1939-. (aged 87)
art historian politician
Marcin Wojciech Libicki is a Polish politician, former member of the Polish parliament (Sejm), elected for the Poznań constituency.
Jerzy Różycki

60. Jerzy Różycki

1909-1942 (aged 33)
cryptographer mathematician
Jerzy Witold Różycki was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers before and during World War II.
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Rafał Grupiński

61. Rafał Grupiński

1952-. (aged 74)
literary critic university teacher librarian politician journalist
Rafał Szymon Grupiński is a Polish politician, member of the Sejm (2005–2023) and member of the Senate since 2023. He serves in the current Senate as the Deputy Marshal.
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Józef Zych

62. Józef Zych

1938-. (aged 88)
legal counselor jurist judge politician
Józef Zych is a Polish lawyer, academic, and politician of the Polish People's Party. Between 1983 and 1991, he served as President of the National Council of Attorneys-at-law. He was Member of the Sejm for the United People's Party and the Polish People's Party from 1989 to 2015, Deputy Marshal of the Sejm for the first, second and fourth terms...
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Henryk Zygalski

63. Henryk Zygalski

1908-1978 (aged 70)
cryptographer mathematician
Henryk Zygalski was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers before and during World War II.
Bartłomiej Wróblewski

64. Bartłomiej Wróblewski

1975-. (aged 51)
politician
Bartłomiej Piotr Wróblewski is a Polish politician, lecturer and lawyer. He is a member of the Sejm from Law and Justice.
Krzysztof Skubiszewski

65. Krzysztof Skubiszewski

1926-2010 (aged 84)
diplomat judge politician
Krzysztof Jan Skubiszewski [ˈkʂɨʂtɔf skubʲiˈʂɛfskʲi] was a Polish politician, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–1993) and an established scholar in the field of international law.
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Jakub Rutnicki

66. Jakub Rutnicki

1978-. (aged 48)
politician
Jakub Adam Rutnicki is a Polish politician who has served as Minister of Sport and Tourism since 2025.
Robert Kozyra

67. Robert Kozyra

1968-. (aged 58)
journalist
Robert Tadeusz Kozyra between 1995 and 2009 was the program director and then from 2000 to 2009 executive of Radio Zet. In 2008 he founded radio Chilli Zet. In 2011 he was announced as judge on the fourth series of Poland's Got Talent where he replaced Kuba Wojewódzki.
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Andrzej Przyłębski

68. Andrzej Przyłębski

1958-. (aged 68)
translator diplomat philosopher university teacher
Andrzej Przyłębski is a Polish philosopher and the author of six books on Neo-Kantianism and hermeneutics. He served as an informer Służba Bezpieczeństwa informer (under the codename TW Wolfgang) and as ambassador to Germany from 2016 to 2022
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Michał Goleniewski

69. Michał Goleniewski

1922-1993 (aged 71)
spy
Michał Franciszek Goleniewski, also known as 'SNIPER' and 'LAVINIA', was a Polish spy and military officer.
Paweł Szałamacha

70. Paweł Szałamacha

1969-. (aged 57)
opinion journalist politician lawyer jurist legal counselor
Paweł Włodzimierz Szałamacha is a Polish politician, member of the National Bank of Poland Management Board, and a former Minister of Finance.
Adam Szejnfeld

71. Adam Szejnfeld

1958-. (aged 68)
trade unionist politician
Adam Stanisław Szejnfeld is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 26,568 votes in 38 Piła district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list.
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Stanisław Barańczak

72. Stanisław Barańczak

1946-2014 (aged 68)
trade unionist critic university teacher poet literary critic
Stanisław Barańczak was a Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer. He is perhaps most well known for his English-to-Polish translations of the dramas of William Shakespeare and of the poetry of E.E. Cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Wystan Hugh Auden, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Stearns Eliot, John Keats, Robert Frost, Edward Lear and...
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Krzysztof Grabowski

73. Krzysztof Grabowski

1965-. (aged 61)
composer guitarist singer musician
Krzysztof „Grabaż" Grabowski is a Polish poet, singer, author of lyrics and music for songs by bands Pidżama Porno, Strachy na Lachy, Ręce Do Góry and Lavina Cox.
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Jacek Jaśkowiak

74. Jacek Jaśkowiak

1964-. (aged 62)
economist athletics competitor politician
Jacek Jaśkowiak is a Polish politician and entrepreneur. He is the current mayor of the city of Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, and a member of the Civic Platform political party, in which he is considered as a part of the party's socially liberal wing.
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Marek Magierowski

75. Marek Magierowski

1971-. (aged 55)
diplomat politician journalist
Marek Grzegorz Magierowski is a Polish journalist, columnist, politician and diplomat; from 2021 to 2024 ambassador to the United States and from 2018 to 2021 ambassador to Israel.
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Grażyna Kulczyk

76. Grażyna Kulczyk

1950-. (aged 76)
entrepreneur jurist
Grażyna Maria Kulczyk is a Polish lawyer, investor, art collector and philanthropist. In 2015, she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for her contributions to Polish culture and the promotion of Polish art.
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Katarzyna Kotula

77. Katarzyna Kotula

1977-. (aged 49)
activist language teacher
Katarzyna Agata Kotula is a Polish politician, teacher, and social activist. Since 2019, she is a member of Sejm of Poland, from 2023 to 2025, she held the office of the Minister of Equality. She is a member of the New Left party, and one of the leaders of the All-Poland Women's Strike movement.
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Adam Szłapka

78. Adam Szłapka

1984-. (aged 42)
deputy political scientist politician
Adam Stanisław Szłapka is a Polish politician. He has been a member of the Sejm (Polish Parliament) for the 8th, 9th, and 10th terms (since 2015). He has served as the leader of the Modern Party (Nowoczesna) from 2019–25 and had been the Minister for European Union Affairs in Donald Tusk's third government from 2023 to 2025.
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Jan A. P. Kaczmarek

79. Jan A. P. Kaczmarek

1953-2024 (aged 71)
composer film score composer
Jan Andrzej Paweł Kaczmarek was a Polish composer. He wrote scores for more than 70 feature films and documentaries, including Finding Neverland (2004), for which he won an Oscar and a National Board of Review Award. Other notable scores were for Hachi: A Dog's Tale, Unfaithful, Evening, The Visitor, and Washington Square.
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Jerzy Waldorff

80. Jerzy Waldorff

1910-1999 (aged 89)
music critic literary critic writer
Jerzy Waldorff-Preyss of the Nabram coat of arms was a Polish media personality, public intellectual, socialite, music critic and music aficionado. He wrote over twenty books, mostly on the subject of classical music and society. Waldorff is known as "the last baron of the Polish People's Republic".
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Marek Jurek

81. Marek Jurek

1960-. (aged 66)
historian politician
Marek Jurek is a right-wing politician who was Marshal of the Sejm and Member of the European Parliament. Since 20 April 2007 he has been the leader of the aspirant party Right of the Republic. Politically, he is most known for being a Marshal of the Sejm in the years 2005–2007.
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Adam Michnik

82. Adam Michnik

1946-. (aged 80)
dissident writer politician trade unionist journalist
Adam Michnik is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, as well as co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.
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Roman Giertych

83. Roman Giertych

1971-. (aged 55)
historian lawyer politician
Roman Jacek Giertych is a Polish political figure and attorney, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Minister of National Education from 2006 to 2007.
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Dominika Kulczyk

84. Dominika Kulczyk

1977-. (aged 49)
businessperson
Dominika Kulczyk is a Polish billionaire businesswoman, and the daughter of Jan Kulczyk, who was Poland's richest man. She is the co-founder and president of the Kulczyk Foundation, chair of the supervisory board of Kulczyk Holding, chair of the supervisory board of Polenergia SA, and co-founder of the Values Consulting Group. She is the author of a TV series, the...
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Julia Przyłębska

85. Julia Przyłębska

1959-. (aged 67)
assessor consul diplomat judge
Julia Anna Przyłębska is a Polish judge, she was President of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland from December 2016 to November 2024, until she resigned.
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Beata Tadla

86. Beata Tadla

1975-. (aged 51)
journalist
Beata Edyta Tadla is a Polish radio,TV journalist as well as a TV presenter.
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański

87. Jan Nowak-Jeziorański

1914-2005 (aged 91)
political scientist social activist writer soldier politician
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański was a Polish journalist, writer, politician, social worker and patriot. He served during the Second World War as one of the most notable resistance fighters of the Home Army. He is best remembered for his work as an emissary shuttling between the commanders of the Home Army and the Polish Government in Exile in London and other Allied...
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Sebastian Kulczyk

88. Sebastian Kulczyk

1980-. (aged 46)
businessperson
Sebastian Tomasz Kulczyk is a Polish billionaire businessman, and the son of Jan Kulczyk, who was the richest man in Poland, and Grażyna Kulczyk. He is president of Kulczyk Investments and specializes in the new technology sector. As of August 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$1.6 billion.
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Jan Węglarz

89. Jan Węglarz

1947-. (aged 79)
computer scientist mathematician
Jan Węglarz is a Polish computer scientist. His current research focuses on operations research. He is the winner of the 2000 Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science.
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Jan Kulczyk

90. Jan Kulczyk

1950-2015 (aged 65)
entrepreneur jurist
Jan Jerzy Kulczyk was a Polish billionaire businessman. He was the founder and owner of Kulczyk Holding (headquartered in Warsaw) and an international investment house Kulczyk Investments (former name: Kulczyk Investment House) with headquarters in Luxembourg and offices in London and Kyiv, Ukraine. According to Forbes, Kulczyk was the richest Pole at the time of his death.
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Halina Szwarc

91. Halina Szwarc

1923-2002 (aged 79)
physician
Halina Szwarc de domo Kłąb - was a member of the Polish resistance during the Second World War, working undercover first under the pseudonym Ryszard, then Jacek II. Postwar, she became a professor of medicine in gerontology, and in 1970/1971, the prorector of the Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw.
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Arkady Fiedler

92. Arkady Fiedler

1894-1985 (aged 91)
military officer writer journalist zoologist traveler
Arkady Fiedler was a Polish writer, journalist and adventurer.
Rudolf Weigl

93. Rudolf Weigl

1883-1957 (aged 74)
physician biologist immunologist university teacher
Rudolf Stefan Jan Weigl was a Polish biologist, physician and inventor, known for creating the first effective vaccine against epidemic typhus. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine each year between 1930 and 1934, and from 1936 to 1939.
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Jakub Nowakowski

94. Jakub Nowakowski

1924-. (aged 102)
soldier zoologist
Jakub Tomasz Nowakowski, pseud. "Tomek", "Tomasz" is a Polish zoologist, participant of the Warsaw Uprising, independence conspiracy activist during World War II, and a retired major of the Polish Armed Forces.
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Elżbieta Zawacka

95. Elżbieta Zawacka

1909-2009 (aged 100)
historian military officer university teacher
Elżbieta Zawacka, known also by her war-time nom de guerre Zo, was a Polish freedom fighter during World War II, a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent, and university professor. She was promoted to brigadier general of the Polish Land Forces (after Maria Wittek the second woman to hold this rank) by President Lech Kaczyński on 3 May 2006. Sometimes called...
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Paulina Hennig-Kloska

96. Paulina Hennig-Kloska

1977-. (aged 49)
spokesperson entrepreneur politician
Paulina Hennig-Kloska is a Polish politician and entrepreneur, a Member of Parliament (Sejm) for the 8th, 9th, and 10th terms (since 2015), and the Minister of Climate and Environment in Donald Tusk's third cabinet (since 2023).
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Andrzej Pruszkowski

97. Andrzej Pruszkowski

1960-. (aged 66)
politician
Andrzej Marek Pruszkowski is a Polish Politician who formerly served as the president (mayor) of Lublin from 1998 to 2006. Member of Law and Justice.
Alice Bota

98. Alice Bota

1979-. (aged 47)
journalist writer
Alice Bota is a German journalist, presently working for the weekly Die Zeit, and a book author. Born in Poland, she studied in both Germany and Poland and focuses on topics of Eastern Europe.
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Marian Rejewski

99. Marian Rejewski

1905-1980 (aged 75)
cryptologist mathematician inventor
Marian Adam Rejewski was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who in late 1932 reconstructed the sight-unseen German military Enigma cipher machine, aided by limited documents obtained by French military intelligence.
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Zygmunt Vetulani

100. Zygmunt Vetulani

1950-. (aged 76)
computer scientist computational linguist mathematician engineer fencer
Zygmunt Michał Vetulani was a Polish diplomat and economist. He was a general consul of Rzeczpospolita in Kaliningrad, Baghdad and Rio de Janeiro.