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List of Poles

Famous Polish or Polish-speaking/writing people:

Stefan Banach, (1892-1945), mathematician
Frederic Chopin, (1810-1849), composer
Nicolaus Copernicus, (in , 1473-1543), astronomer
Marie Curie, (1867-1934), scientist, Nobel Prize winner (twice)
Krzysztof Kieslowski, (1941-1996), film director
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, (1746-1817), military commander
Stanislaw Lem, (born 1921), science-fiction writer
Adam Mickiewicz, (1798-1855), poet
Czeslaw Milosz, poet, Nobel Prize winner
Lech Walesa, (born 1943), trade unionist who started dismantling of the Soviet bloc
John Paul II, (born 1920), the pope
Krzysztof Penderecki, (born 1933), composer
Jozef Pilsudski, (1867-1935), statesman, politician and marshall
Roman Polanski, film director and actor
Casimir Pulaski, military commander
Wladyslaw Reymont, (1867-1925), writer, Nobel Prize winner
Henryk Sienkiewicz, (1846-1916), writer, Nobel Prize winner
Waclaw Sierpinski, (1882-1969), mathematician
Wislawa Szymborska, (born 1923), poetess, Nobel Prize winner
Alfred Tarski, (1902-1983), mathematician
Andrzej Wajda, film director