Famous People
- John Baildon, Scottish engineer
- Richard Fritz Behrendt, German sociologist
- Horst Bienek, German author of novels about Upper Silesia
- Wolfgang Bittner, German author
- William Blandowski, zoologist, photographer
- Lothar Bolz, foreign affairs minister of the communist German Democratic Republic
- Adeltraut Thienel (Hayes), Actress, Socialite, Artiste, Dressmaker
- Agata Buzek, actress, daughter of Jerzy Buzek
- Jerzy Buzek, professor of chemistry, prime minister of Poland 1997–2001, MEP since 2004 and president of European Parliament since 2009
- Walther Busse von Colbe, German economist
- Ernst Degner, German Grand Prix motorcycle racer and designer
- Gottfried Bermann Fischer, German publisher
- Christian Ganczarski, convert to Islam and convicted terrorist
- Eugen Goldstein, German scientist
- Katarzyna Groniec, vocalist
- Hans Hanke, German military officer (World War Two).
- Alfred Hauptmann, German psychiatrist and neurologist of Jewish origin
- Rudolf Herrnstadt, German communist
- Hans Kneifel, German author
- Wojciech Kocyan, pianist
- Richard Kubus, German football player
- Emanuel Larisch, German communist politician
- Paul Latussek, Vice-president of the Association of German expellees (1992–2001)
- Jerzy Lewczyński, photographer
- Monika Lindner, director of the Austrian television ORF
- Zbigniew Messner, professor and former rector of Economic Academy in Katowice, deputy prime minister of People's Republic of Poland 1983–1985, prime minister 1985–1988
- Gustav Neumann, German chess player
- Lukas Podolski, German (Polish born) football player
- Adam Matuszczyk, Polish football player
- Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and writer
- Zofia Rydet, photographer
- Stanisław Sojka, musician
- Oskar Troplowitz, pharmacist and owner of Nivea skin creams
- Agnes Wabnitz, feminist
- Richard Wetz, composer
- Erich Peter Wohlfarth, German physicist
- Leo Yankevich, poet and translator
- Adam Zagajewski, poet
- Krystian Zimerman, Polish born, internationally famous pianist
- Christoph Zöpel, German politician (SPD)
- Sebastian Boenisch, Polish-German footballer who plays for the Poland national football team
- Sophia Grojsman (Khodosh), internationally famous USA perfumer
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or people:
“Hunger makes you restless. You dream about food—not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother’s milk singing to your bloodstream.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1953)
“What lies behind facts like these: that so recently one could not have said Scott was not perfect without earning at least sorrowful disapproval; that a year after the Gang of Four were perfect, they were villains; that in the fifties in the United States a nothing-man called McCarthy was able to intimidate and terrorise sane and sensible people, but that in the sixties young people summoned before similar committees simply laughed.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)