Notable Residents
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), astronomer, administrator, and town commander
- Johannes von Leysen (1310–1388), town founder
- Johannes Knolleisen (+1511), German academic and provider of academic stipends
- Lucas David (1503–1583), German historian of Prussia
- Karl Roensch (1858–1921), industrialist, city governmental official
- Hugo Haase (1863–1919), German politician, jurist and pacifist
- Franz Justus Rarkowski (1873–1950), military bishop (1938–45)
- August Trunz (1875–1963), founder of the Prussica-Sammlung Trunz
- Hubert Hönnekes (1880–1947), teacher at Kopernikus-Schule, member of East Prussian Landtag (provincial assembly), member of the German Reichstag (national parliament) 1930–1933
- Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953), German-Jewish architect who fled the Nazis
- Olga Desmond (1891–1964), dancer and actress
- Kurd von Bülow (1899–1971), geologist
- Klaus-Joachim Zülch (1910–1988), neuro scientist
- Günter Wand (1912–2002), conductor
- Georg Hermanowski (1918–1993), author, translator
- Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski (1922–2005), politician
- Curt Lowens (*1925), German actor
- Leonhard Pohl (*1929), gymnast
- Maximilian Kaller from 1930–1947 Bishop of Ermland
- Wolfgang Milde (*1934), library director, handwriting specialist
- Wolf Lepenies (*1941), sociologist, political scientist and author
- Georg Schimanski, camera man
- Kurt Baluses soccer player and trainer of VFB Stuttgart
- Ulrich Schrade (1943–2009), German-Polish philosopher and pedagogue
- Mamed Khalidov (*1980-), Best Middleweight MMA fighter in Poland
- Aslambek Saidov(*1984-), Best Welterweight MMA fighter in Poland
- Marian Bublewicz (1950–1993), Polish rally and racing driver of the 80s and 90s
- Juliusz Machulski (*1955), director
- Izabela Trojanowska (*1955), actress and singer
- Krzysztof Hołowczyc (*1962), rally driver
- Artur Wojdat (*1968), swimmer
- Józef Glemp (*1929), from 1979–1981 Bishop of Warmia, seat at Olsztyn
- Wojciech Grzyb (*1981), volleyball player
- Tomasz Zahorski soccer player
- Piotr "Peter" Wiwczarek (*1965), guitarist and vocalist, frontman for the death metal band Vader.
- Adrian Mierzejewski (* 1986), footballer
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