36 Notable alumni of Gdansk University of Technology

Richard B. Hetnarski was a Polish-born American academic and translator who was a professor in the department of mechanical engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. He was an ASME Fellow since 1983 and a New York State Licensed Professional Engineer since 1976. He is best known for his contributions to the fields of Thermal Stresses and Thermoelasticity.

Ryszard Kotla is a Polish travel writer, tour guide, activist, journalist, academic teacher and lifeguard instructor at the Polish Life Saving Association. While he is an electrical engineer by education, he is considered to be a leading expert on history and tourism in Szczecin and the greater region of Western Pomerania. He is the brother of Zdzislaw Kotla and the...

Marek Władysław Dzida is a Polish professor of Gdańsk University of Technology. His fields of interest are Mechanical Engineering and Operation, and Power Engineering.

Janusz Smulko is a Polish electronics engineer, full professor of Gdańsk University of Technology. Research Interests: reliability assessment of electronic devices (electrochromic materials, supercapacitors, varistors, thin metal foil capacitors), fluctuation-enhanced sensing (various systems and sensors), gas sensing, Raman spectroscopy, noise in biological systems, signal processing. Since September 2016 – Vice-Rector for Scientific Research, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland.

Jan Kilian was a Polish politician who served as a member of the Sejm.

Zbigniew Ryszard Kozak is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 7,901 votes in 26 Gdynia district as a candidate from the Law and Justice list.

Marianna Sankiewicz-Budzyńska was a Polish electronics engineer, academic lecturer, organiser of scientific activities and education.

Wilhelm Alfons Schuler was a chemist, inventor and entrepreneur in the second half of the 20th century.

Professor Alfons Hoffmann was a Polish engineer and political activist.

Jacek M. Zurada is a Polish-American computer scientist who is a Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. His M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are from Politechnika Gdaṅska. He has held visiting appointments at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Princeton, Northeastern, and Auburn, and at overseas universities in Australia, Chile, China, France,...

Henryk Krawczyk is a professor and rector of Gdańsk University of Technology since 2008.

Wojciech Szpankowski is the Saul Rosen Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He is known for his work in analytic combinatorics, analysis of algorithms and analytic information theory. He is the director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Science of Information.

Andrzej Januszajtis was a Polish physicist, academic and politician who served as the Chairman of the City Council of Gdańsk from 1991 to 1994. Januszajtis died on 22 January 2026, at the age of 97.

Mieczysław Stefan Ostojski was the second vice-president of the World Meteorological Organization and former director general of the Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management.

Jacek Mariusz Starościak [ˈjat͡sɛk starɔɕt͡siak] was a Polish politician who was the mayor of Gdańsk from 1990 to 1991.

Jan Alfons Wyrowiński is a Polish politician and Kashubian activist. He was the chairman of Kashubian-Pomeranian Association in the period 1994–1999. He has served multiple terms in the Sejm, Senate, as well as serving as Deputy Marshal of the Senate.

Paweł Aleksander Maria Tarnowski is a Polish sailor.

Lâm Quang Mỹ was a Polish-Vietnamese poet. He studied electronics at Gdańsk University of Technology. before returning to work for the Science and Technology Research Center in Hanoi. He returned to Poland in 1989 where he completed a PhD in physics from the Physics Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Tomasz Imieliński is a Polish-American computer scientist, most known in the areas of data mining, mobile computing, data extraction, and search engine technology. He is currently a professor of computer science at Rutgers University in New Jersey, United States.

Franz Heinrich Ollendorff was an Israeli physicist.

Jan Klawiter is a Polish politician. Since 2015 he has been a member of the Sejm from the parliamentary constituency of Gdynia. He was also mayor of his hometown of Rumia for ten years.

Stanisław Sołdek was a Polish shock worker, labor leader, a Gdańsk Shipyard marker, and a graduate of the Gdańsk University of Technology.

Antoni Mężydło is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 21 October 2007, receiving 42,052 votes in the 5 Toruń district, running on the Civic Platform list. He is active in the Central European Initiative.

Jacek Namieśnik was a Polish chemist, full professor of Gdańsk University of Technology. He was head of Analytical Department (1995–2019), dean of Chemical Faculty (1996–2002, 2005–2012), rector of Gdańsk University of Technology since 1 September 2016 until his death.

Karol Tadeusz Nawrocki is a Polish historian and politician who has served as the 7th president of Poland since 2025. Previously, he served as the director of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) from 2021 to 2025, and was the director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk from 2017 to 2021.

Krzysztof Antoni Klenczon was a Polish composer, singer and guitarist, member of Czerwone Gitary (1965-1970), later Trzy Korony (1970-1972).

Michał Kalecki was a Polish Marxian economist. Over the course of his life, Kalecki worked at the London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and Warsaw School of Economics, and was an economic advisor to the governments of Poland, France, Cuba, Israel, Mexico, and India. He also served as the deputy director of the United Nations Economic...

Andrzej Gwiazda is a Polish trade unionist. A participant in the 1968 and December 1970 protests, he was one of the founders of the Free Trade Unions of the Coast and vice president of Solidarity from 1980 to 1981 before his December 1981 arrest during the martial law period.

Sylwester Kaliski was a Polish engineer, professor and military general. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).

Janusz Józef Śniadek is a Polish labor and political leader who was Chairman of Solidarity in the years 2002-2010.

Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz was a Polish naval engineer and sailor. She was the first woman to have sailed single-handed (i.e. solo) around the world, repeating the late nineteenth century accomplishment of Joshua Slocum. She sailed from the Canary Islands on 28 March 1976 and completed her solo circumnavigation near the Cape Verde Islands on 20 March 1978, having covered approximately 28,696...

Robert Abraham Esau was a German physicist.

Dariusz Drelich is a Polish businessman and politician that has served as Voivode of Pomeranian Voivodeship from 8 December 2015 to 20 December 2023.

Zygmunt Choreń is a Polish naval architect and the proprietor of the naval architectural firm Choreń Design and Consulting. He is a graduate of the Gdańsk University of Technology and the Leningrad Ship-Building Institute.

Włodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz is a Polish philosopher and political theorist.