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This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing people. People of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited.
Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, the son of a Polish father and a mother who was of mixed German-Polish descent; he is also often considered a German by Germans
Alvin Gajadhur, politician, statesman, chemical engineer, and educator, the Minister of Infrastructure in 2023, the Chief Inspector of Road Transport from 2017 to 2024
Aleksandra Gajewska (born 1971), theatre director, writer, stage actress, and politician, member of the Silesian Voivodeship Sejmik (2007–2013)
Aleksandra Gajewska (born 1989), politician and businessperson, member of the Sejm (since 2019), the secretary of state of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy (since 2023), member of the Warsaw City Council (2014–2019)
Edward Gierek (1913–2001), leader of communist Poland (1970–80)
Lech Wałęsa (born 1943), trade unionist who started dismantling of the Soviet bloc, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, second President of the Third Polish Republic (1990–95)
Ludwik Waryński (1856–1889), socialist activist in the 19th century
Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski (Rygor-Słowikowski), Polish Army intelligence officer whose work in North Africa facilitated Allied preparations for the 1942 Operation Torch landings
Jerzy Sosnowski, major, Polish spy in Germany (1926–1934) as Georg von Sosnowski, Ritter von Nalecz
George Koltanowski (1903–2000), American International Master born in Belgium to a Polish-Jewish family, set the world's blindfold record by playing 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, and set a record for playing 56 consecutive blindfold games at ten seconds per move (winning 50, drawing 6).
↑Michael Church, Olav Slaymaker. Field and Theory: Lectures in Geocryology. UBC Press. 1985. p. 19.
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1234David Crowley. National Style and Nation-State: Design in Poland from the Vernacular Revival to the International Style. Manchester University Press. 1992. p. 36.