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Sergiusz Piasecki, Polish agent, covering the area of Soviet Belarus (1922–1926) Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish consul-general and intelligence agent in London (1948–1949); the most influential contemporary critic of German literature; Tadeusz Schaetzel, intelligence officer, chief of the General Staff's Section II (1926–1929)
Polish polymath Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. This is a list of Polish inventors and discoverers. The following incomplete list comprises people from Poland and of Polish origin, and also people of predominantly Polish heritage, in alphabetical order of ...
This is a list of Nobel laureates who are Poles (ethnic) or Polish (citizenship). The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind", first instituted in 1901. Since 1903, there have been eighteen Poles who were awarded nineteen Nobel Prizes.
Lists of Polish people by occupation (5 C, 26 P) + Lists of Polish women (3 P) C. Lists of people by city in Poland (7 P) Pages in category "Lists of Polish people"
Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner throughout most of Poland, though numerous dialects and a vernacular language in certain regions coexist alongside standard Polish. The most common lects in Poland are Silesian, spoken in Upper Silesia, and Kashubian, widely spoken in historic Eastern Pomerania , today in the northwestern ...
Konstanty Rokossowski (1896–1968), one of the most prominent Red Army commanders of World War II, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Marshal of Poland, Poland's Defence Minister from 1949 to 1956, born in Warsaw; Adolf Warski (1868–1937), Polish communist leader and journalist; David Shiffman (1923– 1982), Israeli Deputy Minister of Transport
10 Nov 1926 [101] Łódź: 7 Apr 2006 [101] Warsaw: Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt 30 Oct 1728 [102] Salomienka: 8 Feb 1810 Daugavpils: Emil Leon Post 11 Feb 1897 [103] [104] [4] Augustów [103] 21 Apr 1954 [103] [104] [4] New York City [103] Przemysław Prusinkiewicz 1952 [105] [106] [2] Józef Przytycki 14 Oct 1953 [107] Warsaw: Stanisław ...
Notable Polish novelists, poets, playwrights, historians and philosophers, listed in chronological order by year of birth: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.