List of People From Galicia (Eastern Europe) (modern Period) - A~F

A~F

• Roman Abraham, general of the Polish Army, born in Lviv
• Eliezer Adler, the founder of the Jewish Community in Gateshead, England, born in Stanislau
• Shmuel Agnon, Jewish writer, the founder of modern Israeli Hebrew literature, born in Buchach
• Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, philosopher and logician, born in Ternopil
• Izak Aloni (born Izak Schächter), Polish-Israeli chess master, born in Lviv
• Antin Angelovych, the first Greek Catholic metropolitan of Lviv (1808–14), born in Hryniv, near Bibrka
• Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz, Count, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lvov (1815–33), and Archbishop of Prague (1833–38), born in Cracow
• Alicia Appleman-Jurman, Jewish American writer, raised from the age of five in Buchach
• Yehudah Arazi, Mossad commander, born in Lviv
• Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss), Pakistan's ambassador to UN, born in Lviv
• Daniel Auster, the first Hebrew mayor of Jerusalem, born in Stanislau
• Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist, born in Zavalov, near Pidhaytsi
• Jacob Avigdor, last Chief Rabbi of Drohobych, born in Tyrawa Wołoska, near Sanok
• Emanuel Ax, Jewish American pianist, born in Lviv
• Baal Shem Tov (Yisroel ben Eliezer), the founder of Hasidism
• Yosef Babad, rabbi and posek, born in Przeworsk
• Kazimierz Feliks Badeni, Count, Minister-President of Austria (1895–97)
• Meir Balaban, historian, born in Lviv
• Adolph Baller, Austrian-American pianist, born in Brody
• Oswald Balzer, historian, born in Khodoriv, near Zidichov
• Stefan Banach, eminent mathematician, born in Cracow
• Stepan Bandera, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, born in Uhryniv Staryi, near Kalush
• Iuliu Barasch, physician and writer, born in Brody
• Kazimierz Bartel, Prime Minister of Poland, born in Lviv
• Oleksander Barvinsky, Ukrainian politician, born in Shliakhnyntsi, near Ternopil
• Eugeniusz Baziak, Archbishop of Lvov and Apostolic Administrator of Cracow, born in Ternopil
• Józef Bem, Polish general, national hero of Poland and Hungary, born in Tarnów
• Alexander Beliavsky, Ukrainian-Slovenian chess master, born in Lviv
• Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian-British actress, born in Drohobych
• St. Józef Bilczewski, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lviv, born in Wilamowice, near Kęty
• Josef Samuel Bloch, Austrian rabbi and deputy, born in Dukla
• Michał Bobrzyński, Governor of Galicia (1908–13), born in Cracow
• Mieczysław Boruta-Spiechowicz, Polish general, born in Rzeszów
• Naftule Brandwein, klezmer clarinetist, born in Przemyslany
• Berl Broder (born Berl Margulis), Jewish singer, born in Brody
• Aleksander Brückner, distinguished Polish slavist and historian of literature, born in Berezhany
• Martin Buber, Jewish philosopher, lived in Lviv
• Solomon Buber, Jewish scholar, born in Lviv
• Nykyta Budka, the first Ukrainian Canadian Greek Catholic bishop, born in Dobromirka
• Arthur Frank Burns, American economist, born in Stanislau
• Zvi Hirsch Chajes, Talmudic scholar, born in Brody
• Oscar Chajes, Austrian-American chess master, born in Brody
• Georges Charpak, French physicist (Nobel Prize in 1992), born in Dubrovytsia
• Leon Chwistek, painter, logician, philosopher, born in Cracow
• Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor, born in Kniaże, near Stanislau
• Ignacy Daszyński, Polish politician, born in Zbarazh
• Isaac Deutscher, Polish-British political activist and historian, born in Chrzanów
• Józef Dominik, Polish chess master, born in Dobczyce
• Michael Dorfman, Yiddish and Hebrew writer, born in Lviv
• Albin Dunajewski, Roman Catholic Bishop of Cracow and Cardinal, born in Stanislau
• Arthur Dunkelblum, Belgian chess master, born in Cracow
• Elimelech of Lizhensk, great Hasidic rebbe and tzadik
• Isaac Erter, Hebrew language writer, born in Janischok
• Józef Feldman, historian, born in Przemyśl
• Ida Fink, Israeli writer, born in Zbarazh
• Salo Flohr, Czech-Ukrainian chess master, born in Horodenka
• Jacob Frank, Jewish messianic claimant who combined Judaism and Christianity
• Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer, born in Nahuevychi, near Drohobych
• Petro Franko, Ukrainian educator, born in Nahuevychi, near Drohobych
• Karl Emil Franzos, Austrian writer, born in Chortkiv
• Aleksander Fredro, Polish writer, born in Surochów, near Jaroslav
• Amalia Freud (born Amalia Nathansohn), the mother of Sigmund Freud, born in Brody
• Mikhail Fridman, Russian banker of Jewish descent from Lviv
• Filip Friedman, historian, born in Lviv
• Henryk Friedman, chess master from Lviv
• Yisroel Friedman, Hasidic Rebbe of Ruzhin