Famous Residents
See also category: People from Opole- Władysław Opolczyk, count palatine of Poland 1378
- Edwin von Drenkmann (1826–1904), famous German lawyer
- Paul Kleinert (1837–1920), German theologian
- Emin Pasha (born Eduard Schnitzer) (1840–1892), explorer and governor of Africa
- Jan Kasprowicz (1860–1926), poet
- Ferdinand von Prondzynski, 19th century Prussian general, whose direct descendant Ferdinand von Prondzynski is Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland
- Bronisław Koraszewski (1863–1924), Polish activist, founder of Gazeta Opolska
- Oscar Slater (1872–1948), German/Scottish victim of miscarriage of justice
- Jakub Kania (1872–1957), Polish poet and writer, soldier in the Silesian Uprisings
- Leo Baeck (1873–1956), rabbi
- Szymon Koszyk (1891–1972), reporter, teacher and Polish activist from Opole
- Karol Musioł (1902–1983), president of Opole, founder of the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole
- Joachim Prinz (1902, Bierdzan – 1988), rabbi, born here
- Edmund Osmańczyk (1913–1989), reporter, politician (6 times elected to the sejm and once to the senat)
- Rochus Misch (1917-still alive), communications' chief of the Reichskanzlei and member of the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler
- Jerzy Grotowski (1933–1999), theater director
- Jerzy Buzek (born 1940), academic and politician, President of the European Parliament, former Prime Minister of Poland
- Chester Marcol (born 1949), American Football Placekicker for the Green Bay Packers
- Bolesław Polnar (born 1952), graphic artist and painter
- Andrzej Jerzy Lech (born 1955), artist and photographer
- Anna Brzezińska (born 1971), fantasy writer
- Miroslav Klose (born 1978), football player (playing in the German national football team)
- Krzysztof Szramiak (born 1984), Polish weightlifter
- Marcin Pontus (born 1985), football player
- see also: Dukes of Opole
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or residents:
“What climbs the stair?
Nothing that common women ponder on
If you are worth my hope! Neither Content
Nor satisfied Conscience, but that great family
Some ancient famous authors misrepresent,
The Proud Furies each with her torch on high.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)