- Alexander Schimmelfennig (1824–1865), American Civil War general
- Morris D. Rosenbaum (1831–1885), businessman
- Adolf Martens (1850–1914), metallurgist
- Hugo Hergesell (1859–1938), meteorologist
- Walter Leistikow (1865–1908), painter
- Julius Gehl (1869–1945), vice president of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig
- Martin Gorecki, (1871–?) brewery worker and Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
- Friedrich August Eberhard von Mackensen (1889–1969), German general one of 882 recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
- Mieczysław Garsztka (1896–1919), aviator
- Hermann Maaß (1897–1944), German Resistance fighter
- Kurt Tank (1898–1983), aerospace engineer
- Marian Rejewski (1905–1980), mathematician and cryptologist
- Teodor Kocerka (1927–1999), rower
- Edmund Michał Piszcz (born 1929), archbishop
- Jan Rulewski (born 1944), politician
- Jan Kulczyk (born 1950), businessman
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- Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (born 1951), Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
- Grażyna Szapołowska (born 1953), film actress
- Marian Sypniewski (born 1955), fencer
- Zbigniew Boniek (born 1956), football player
- Stefan Majewski (born 1956), football player
- Janusz Turowski (born 1961), football coach
- Radosław Sikorski (born 1963), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
- Mirosław Chmara (born 1964), pole vaulter
- Jacek Gollob (born 1969), speedway rider
- Katarzyna Radtke (born 1969), race walker
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- Alicja Pęczak (born 1970), swimmer
- Sebastian Chmara (born 1971), decathlete
- Tomasz Gollob (born 1971), speedway rider
- Vivian Schmitt (born 1978), pornographic actress
- Sylwester Szmyd (born 1978), cyclist (road)
- Paweł Olszewski (born 1979), politician
- Wojciech Łobodziński (born 1982), football player
- Michał Winiarski (born 1983), volleyball player
- Beata Mikołajczyk (born 1985), canoer
- Paweł Wojciechowski (born 1989), pole vaulter
- Marcin Jaskulski (born 1977), journalist
- Patryk Dudek (born 1992, Speedway Rider
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