Famous Lipka Tatar Descendants
- Charles Bronson - Lithuanian American actor whose father was a Lipka Tatar, born in Druskininkai (Druskienik)
- Aleksander Romanowicz - general of cavalry in Russian Imperial Army and Polish Army.
- Henryk Sienkiewicz - Polish Nobel Prize-winning novelist.; on his father's side deriving from the Lipka Tatars
- Aleksander Sulkiewicz - Polish politician of Tatar ethnicity, activist in socialist and independence movements and one of the co-founders of Polish Socialist Party
- Martha Stewart - US business magnate. Her maternal Lipka Tatar background was unearthed in an episode of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
Two distantly related members of the Abakanowicz family
- Bruno Abakanowicz - mathematician, inventor and electrical engineer whose family was of distant Lipka Tatar origin.
- Magdalena Abakanowicz - Polish artist whose family is of distant Tatar origin.
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