List of people from Gdańsk

This is a list of people from Gdańsk, Poland.

Before 16th century

Conrad Letzkau (ca. 1350 – 1411), mayor, executed by the Teutonic Knights Tiedemann Giese (1480–1550), bishop Johannes Dantiscus (1485–1548), poet, church canon and bishop Bernhard von Reesen (1491–1521), businessman painted by Albrecht Dürer

16th century Albrecht Giese (1524–1580), councillor and diplomat Caspar Schütz (c. 1540–1594), Prussian historian Anton Möller (1563–1611), painter Bartholomäus Keckermann (c.1571-1608), writer and Calvinist theologist Regina Basilier (1572–1631), German-Swedish merchant banker Philipp Clüver (1580–1622) an Early Modern geographer and historian.

17th century Constantia Zierenberg (1605–1653), a singer and musician; daughter of Danzig mayor Reinhold Curicke (1610–1667), jurist, historian Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), astronomer. Georg Daniel Schultz (1615–1683), painter Bogusław Radziwiłł (1620–1669), Prince of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Reichsfürst of the HRE, governor of Ducal Prussia Andreas Schlüter (1659–c.1714), architect and sculptor Daniel Ernst Jablonski (1660–1741) a theologian. Jacob Theodor Klein (1685–1759), jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt (1685–1735) physician, naturalist, geographer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736) a physicist, inventor and scientific instrument maker. Gottfried Lengnich (1689–1774), jurist, historian

18th century Johann Valentin Haidt (1700–1780), painter and preacher Daniel Gralath (1708–1767), physicist and Bürgermeister (mayor) of Danzig Louise Adelgunde Gottsched (1713–1762), writer Nikita Panin (1718–1783) a Russian statesman and political mentor to Catherine the Great. Sir Trevor Corry (1724–1780), diplomat; Baron of Poland; British Consul to Danzig 1745–1780Bajer, Peter Paul (2012). Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries, p. 498. Brill,. Daniel Chodowiecki (1726–1801), artist and painter. Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734–1823), Prince, writer, literary and theatre critic. Michał Jerzy Poniatowski (1736–1794), primate of Poland Johann Wilhelm Archenholz (1741–1812), historian and publicist. Avraham Danzig (1748–1820), rabbi Georg Forster (1754–1794), naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary. Jacob Kabrun Jr. (1759–1814), merchant, book and art collector, and philanthropist Jakob Sigismund Beck (1761–1840) a philosopher. Johanna Schopenhauer (1766–1838), author; mother of Arthur Schopenhauer Johannes Daniel Falk (1768–1826), poet and educator. Antonio Casimir Cartellieri (1772–1807), composer Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), philosopher.

19th century Heinrich von Zastrow (1801–1875), general Heinrich Wilhelm Zimmerman (1805–1841), portrait painter Rachel Meyer (1806–1874), writer Joachim Marquardt (1812–1882) an historian and writer on Roman antiquities. Eduard Hildebrandt (1818–1868) a landscape painter. Ernst Förstemann (1822–1906), historian, mathematician, philologist Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf (1832–1891), general, writer. Eduard Winkelmann (1838–1896) an historian. Stefan Pawlicki (1839–1916), Catholic priest and philosopher Anna Tuschinski (1841–1939), Esperantist Fritz von Below (1853–1918), general Otto von Below (1857–1944), general August von Brandis (1859–1947), artist Hugo Münsterberg (1863–1916) psychologist. Max Halbe (1865–1944), writer Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), feminist, writer and journalist Max Adalbert (1874–1933), actor Alfred Stock (1876–1946), chemist Carl Schuricht (1880–1967), conductor Marta Wittkowska (1882–1977), contralto opera singer Alice Wosikowski (1886–1949), politician, resistance activist Gerhard Rose (1896–1992), expert on tropical medicine

1900-1945 Gerhard Krüger (1908–1994), a Nazi Party student leader Hermann Diamanski (1909–1976), German resistance fighter Alfred Zeidler (born 1909), German SS concentration camp commandant Mathias Goeritz (1915–1990), artist Alexander Salkind (1921–1997), film producer Wanda Klaff (1922–1946), German Nazi concentration camp overseer executed for war crimes Heinz-Hermann Koelle (1922–2011), German-American aeronautical and rocket engineer Elisabeth Becker (1923–1946), German SS concentration camp guard executed for war crimes Miltiades Caridis (1923–1998), conductor Eddi Arent (1925–2013), actor and comedian Meir Shamgar (1925–2019), President of the Israel Supreme Court Zygmunt Chychła (1926–2009), boxer Jack Mandelbaum (1927–2023), subject of Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps Günter Grass (1927–2015), writer, recipient of 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature Henry Rosovsky (1927–2022), economist Zalman Shoval (born 1930), Israeli banker, politician and diplomat Wolfgang Völz (1930–2018), actor and voice actor Ingrid van Bergen (1931–2025), actress Jan Strelau (1931–2020), psychologist Jutta Meischner (born 1935), classical archeologist Richard Pratt (1935–2009), Australian businessman and philanthropist Holger Czukay (1938–2017), musician Wawrzyniec Samp (born 1939), sculptor and graphic artist Dietrich Albrecht (born 1940), football player Matthias Habich (born 1940), actor Heidrun Mohr-Mayer (1941–2014), jeweler Ryszard Horodecki (born 1943), physicist Lech Wałęsa (born 1943), politician Detlev Buchholz (born 1944), theoretical physicist

Since 1945 Mariola Grażyna Antczak (born 1970), data scientist Józef Borzyszkowski (born 1946), historian, politician and Kashubian activist Krzysztof Majchrzak (born 1948), film actor Jacek Namieśnik (1949–2019), chemist Andrzej Szarmach (born 1950), football player Krzysztof Kolberger (1950–2011), actor Jan de Weryha-Wysoczanski (born 1950), sculptor Bogusław Jackowski (born 1950), computer scientist Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak (1951–2025), film actress Jerzy Samp (born 1951), writer and historian Bogdan Wojciszke (born 1952), psychologist Maciej Żylicz (born 1953), biochemist and molecular biologist Tomasz Imieliński (born 1954), computer scientist Janusz Pawliszyn (born 1954), chemist Janina Ochojska (born 1955), humanitarian, social activist and astronomer, founder and director of the Polish Humanitarian Action Jolanta Kwaśniewska (born 1955), former First Lady of Poland Krzysztof Pastor (born 1956), dancer, choreographer and director of the Polish National Ballet Barbara Tuge-Erecińska (born 1956), diplomat Pawel Huelle (born 1957), writer and journalist Donald Tusk (born 1957), former President of the European Council & Prime Minister of Poland, journalist and historian Marek Kamiński (born 1964), traveler Paweł Adamowicz (1965–2019), politician, Mayor of Gdańsk Aneta Kręglicka (born 1965), model and dancer, Miss World 1989 Grzegorz Kacała (born 1966), rugby player Giennadij Jerszow (born 1967), sculptor Dariusz Michalczewski (born 1968), boxer Mariusz Podkościelny (born 1968), freestyle swimmer and swimming coach Leszek Mozdzer (born 1971), jazz pianist Tomasz Wałdoch (born 1971), footballer Adam Korol (born 1974), rower and politician Sławomir Nowak (born 1974), former Minister of Transport & Construction Szymon Roginski (born 1975), photographer Agnieszka Chylińska (born 1976), singer-songwriter, actress, author and television personality Gregorz Szamotulski (born 1976), footballer Jarosław Wałęsa (born 1976), politician, son of Lech Wałęsa Adam Darski (born 1977), singer and guitarist, frontman of extreme metal band Behemoth Robert Kempiński (born 1977), chess grandmaster Tomasz Schafernaker (born 1979), Polish-British meteorologist for BBC Weather Jacek Dehnel (born 1980), writer, poet, translator and painter Magdalena Tul (born 1980), singer and composer Dawid Tomaszewski (born 1980), fashion designer Jakobe Mansztajn (born 1982), poet, blogger Karol Nawrocki (born 1983), Polish historian and current president Magdalena Frąckowiak (born 1984), model Ewa Juszkiewicz (born 1984), painter Aleksandra Kosiorek (born 1985), politician and jurist Izu Ugonoh (born 1986), boxer and mixed martial artist Piotr Witkowski (born 1988), actor Oskar Piechota (born 1990), mixed martial artist Hania Rani (born 1990), pianist, composer and singer Jakub Pachocki (born 1991), computer scientist Moustapha M'Baye (born 1992), volleyball player Mateusz Biskup (born 1994), rower Mateusz Mach (born 1997), entrepreneur and investor Mikolaj Oledzki (born 1998), Rugby League player Martyna Łukasik (born 1999), volleyball player Abelard Giza (born 1980), Polish comedian, writer, filmmaker, and actor

See also Notable members of the Jewish community in Gdańsk

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