56 Notable alumni of University of Lodz

Małgorzata Dąbrowska is a Polish historian, Byzantinist, dean of the History Department at the University of Łódź. She specializes in Byzantine studies, specifically the topics of Byzantium and the West in 13th-15th centuries, mixed marriages in the Imperial family of the Palaiologoi, rivalry between the Palaiologoi and Kantakouzenoi families, the Empire of Trebizond and the Pontus, the relationship between Kingdom...

Magdalena Śniadecka-Kotarska is the Polish Ambassador to Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. She is an ethnologist/anthropologist of culture and politics, conducting field research in Andean America devoted to ethnopolitics, native populations and gender identity.

Józef Bachórz was a Polish philologist, professor of Gdańsk University, and an expert in Polish poetry. He was the recipient of the 2003 Johannes Hevelius Award in the humanities category, Order of Polonia Restituta in 2004, as well as a number of other awards. Born on 20 September 1934, Bachórz died on 20 September 2024, his 90th birthday.

Ewa Ośniecka-Tamecka is a Polish politician, in the years from 2006 to 2007 the Secretary of State at the Office of the Committee for European Integration, since 2007, Vice-Rector of the College of Europe in Natolin (Warsaw), Poland.

Krzysztof T. Konecki is a Polish sociologist, and professor at University of Łódź. He is the editor-in-chief of Qualitative Sociology Review, and is on the executive board of the Polish Sociological Association.

Zdzisława Janowsk is a Polish economist and politician, who has served as a senator in the Senate of Poland from 1993 to 1997 and again from 2001 to 2005, and was a member of the Sejm from 2007 to 2011. She is a professor of economics at the University of Łódź, and was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta in...

Agnieszka Nagay is a Polish rifle shooter and soldier. She competed in the 50 m rifle three positions event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she placed 8th in the final. She won a bronze medal at the 2005 European Championships, and has finished 2nd (Changwon 2011) and 3rd (Munich 2008) at World Cup Events.

Paweł Lechowicz is a Polish civil servant who served as the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Kuwait.

Magdalena Majewska is a Polish journalist.

Rafał Michał Ambrozik is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Senate of Poland (10th term) representing the constituency of Piotrków Trybunalski. He was also elected to the 11th term.

Halina Abramczyk is a Polish physicist and chemist, a specialist in molecular spectroscopy and laser spectroscopy professor employed at the Lodz University of Technology.

Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka, is a Polish politician and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). She is a member of the Law and Justice Party, which is part of the Union for Europe of the Nations Group in the European Parliament. She was a member on the Committee on Regional Development and the delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. She...

Lech Bądkowski was a Polish writer, journalist, publicist and Kashubian-Pomeranian activist, a promoter of regional history and culture, co-founder and leader of the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association, and opponent of Communist rule in post-war Poland.

Włodzimierz Tomaszewski is a Polish politician who was the vice president of Łódź (2002–2010) and a member of the IX and X Sejm.

Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek is a Polish utilitarian philosopher and a university professor at the Institute of Philosophy at University of Łódź.

Jerzy Jarniewicz is a Polish poet, literary critic, translator and essayist. He was awarded the 2022 Nike Award, the most important distinction in Polish literature as well as the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis (2006).

Paweł Samecki is a Polish economist and served as the European Commissioner for Regional Policy (2009–10). He is married and has two children.

Andrzej Owczarek was a Polish politician.

Dyzma Kazimierz Gałaj was a Polish sociologist and politician.

Elżbieta Więcławska-Sauk is a Polish politician, member of Law and Justice party. She was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005.

Witold Maciej Orłowski is a Polish professor of economics. He is Director of the Warsaw University of Technology Business School and a Member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Council. Beside, he acts as Chief Economic Adviser for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Poland. In 2011 he was appointed Special Adviser (budget) to the European Commission. Currently, he is the Rector of Group of...

Joanna Katarzyna Skrzydlewska is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 11,822 votes in 9 Łódź district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list.

Stefan Michał Olszowski was a Polish politician, who was a member of Polish United Workers' Party. He served as the foreign minister of the People's Republic of Poland for two terms.

Mirosław Michał Drzewiecki is a Polish politician, representing Civic Platform. He graduated from Emilia Sczaniecka High School in Łódź, followed by his 5-year stint at the University of Łódź Department of Law, where he obtained his M.A. title. In 1989 he established his own business, which dealt with upholstery and embroidery. Then he became the owner of several restaurants. Currently,...

Joanna Agacka-Indecka was a Polish attorney, President of the Polish Bar Council from 2007 until 2010.

Ludwika Wujec was a Polish physicist, teacher, politician, and political activist. Wujec was a member of the pro-democracy dissident movement against the Polish People's Republic during the country's communist era.

Grzegorz Królikiewicz was a Polish film director, screenwriter, and pedagogue.

Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm is a Polish-born United States–based writer and academic. She obtained her Ph.D. in humanistic studies at the Warsaw University. Her works include historical biographies, the current outlook of Native Americans, autobiographical stories of her travels, Ingrid Bergman (a relative of Ziółkowska-Boehm's husband, Norman Boehm), and cats.

Cezary Stanisław Grabarczyk [t͡sɛˈzarɨ ɡraˈbart͡ʂɨk] is a Polish politician.

Kinga Maria Dunin-Horkawicz is a Polish writer, feminist, and sociologist.

Karolina Monika Pawliczak is a Polish lawyer and left wing politician. She was elected to the Sejm (9th term) representing the constituency of Kalisz in October 2019. She took her oath of office in November 2019.

Krzysztof Skiba is a Polish musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, essayist and actor. He is best known as the vocalist of the rock band, Big Cyc.

Jacek Emil Saryusz-Wolski is a Polish diplomat and PiS (Law and Justice) politician. He has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since June 2004. He served as vice president of the European Parliament (2004–2007). Saryusz-Wolski is chairman of the executive board of the “Foundation College of Europe”, in charge of the Natolin campus of the College of Europe.

Janusz Czesław Wojciechowski is a Polish politician of Law and Justice who served as European Commissioner for Agriculture in the Von der Leyen Commission I from 2019 to 2024. He previously served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2016 and as the Polish member of the European Court of Auditors from 2016 to 2019.

Krzysztof Kwiatkowski is a Polish lawyer, politician and government official who served as the Minister of Justice of Poland in Cabinet of Donald Tusk from 2009 until 2011, Public Prosecutor General from 2009 until 2010, and as President of the Supreme Audit Office (NIK) from 2013 until 2019. He was also a member of Senate (from Civic Platform) from 2007...

Tobiasz Adam Bocheński is a Polish politician affiliated with the Law and Justice party who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024. He served as voivode of Łódź from 2019 to 2023, and as voivode of Masovia in 2023.

Zbigniew Rau is a Polish politician and lawyer who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland between 2020 and 2023. He previously served as the voivode of Łódź Voivodeship from 2015 to 2019.

Iwona Elżbieta Śledzińska-Katarasińska was a Polish journalist and politician. She was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, receiving 23,119 votes in 9 Łódź district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list.

Waldemar Grzegorz Buda is a Polish politician (Law and Justice) who served as Minister of Economic Development and Technology under Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in his second cabinet from 8 April 2022 to 27 November 2023.

Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski is a Polish politician and lawyer, associate professor of law at the University of Łódź. Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the governments of Jerzy Buzek (2000–2001), Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (2005–2006) and Jarosław Kaczyński (2006–2007), deputy speaker of the Sejm of the fourth term. Member of the Sejm of the 1st (1991–1993) and of the 3rd, 4th,...

Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz was a Polish poet, essayist, dramatist, translator and literary critic. He was the recipient of the 2003 Nike Award, Poland's most important literary prize.

Łukasz Adrian Rzepecki is a Polish politician, lawyer, former parliamentarian.

Tatiana Olga Okupnik is a Polish singer, composer and songwriter. She has a characteristic, unique voice timbre. She has collaborated with musicians such as Tim Hutton, Wyclef Jean, Lenny White and was a member of Blue Café, a Polish band, where she was lead singer from the band's early years until 2005. In 2012, Okupnik joined the judging panel on...

Magda Femme is a Polish pop singer and songwriter.

Andrzej Sapkowski is a Polish fantasy writer. He is best known for his series of books The Witcher, which revolves around the eponymous monster-hunter, Geralt of Rivia. The saga has been popularized through video games, television, stage, comic books and translated into 37 languages making him the second most-translated Polish science fiction and fantasy writer after Stanisław Lem.

Leszek Kołakowski was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analysis of Marxist thought, as in his three-volume history of Marxist philosophy Main Currents of Marxism (1976). In his later work, Kołakowski increasingly focused on religious questions. In his 1986 Jefferson Lecture, he asserted that "we learn history not in order to know...

Anita Werner is a Polish television journalist, connected with TVN. She is also a former actress.

Marek Marian Belka is a Polish professor of economics and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Poland and Finance Minister of Poland in two governments. He is a former director of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) European Department and former Head of Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland). He has served as a Member of the European...

Katarzyna Anna Lubnauer is a Polish politician, feminist, mathematician and academic teacher. She is a member of the Polish Parliament and a former leader of the liberal Modern (.Nowoczesna) political party. In 2023, she was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of National Education.

Krzysztof Edward Radzikowski is a professional strongman competitor from Głowno, Poland. He has competed in 112 International strongman competitions (2nd highest in history) and has won 24 of them, making him the sixth most decorated strongman in history.

Stefan Konstanty Myszkiewicz-Niesiołowski is a Polish politician and member of the Union of European Democrats. In 1970, Niesiołowski became involved in anti-communist opposition Ruch. He was the main proponent of burning down the Lenin Museum in Poronin, for which he was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment in 1971, and was released under amnesty in 1974. In 1980, Niesiołowski joined the...

Witold Jan Waszczykowski is a Polish politician. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2015 and 2018. Waszczykowski was a Member of the Sejm (2011–2019), and has been a Member of the European Parliament to 2024.

Janusz Kowalski is a Polish politician serving as a member of the Sejm since 2019. From 2019 to 2021, he served as secretary of state of the Ministry of State Assets. From 2022 to 2023, he served as secretary of state of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Paweł Edelman is a Polish cinematographer, known for his collaborations with directors Roman Polanski and Andrzej Wajda.

Władysław Pasikowski is a Polish film director and screenwriter.