Famous People
The following is a list of notable personalities born or living in the city.
- Kiejstut Bereźnicki, painter
- Janusz Christa, comic book author
- Winfried Glatzeder, German actor
- Lech Kaczyński, former President of Poland
- Wojciech Kasperski, filmmaker, film director, writer
- Klaus Kinski, German actor
- Seweryn Krajewski, composer, pop-singer
- Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, statesman, economist
- Janusz Lewandowski, politician, economist, Commissioner for Budgetary Affairs of the European Commission
- Leszek Możdżer, jazz musician and composer
- Anton Plenikowski, politician
- Carl Maria Splett, bishop of Danzig
- Fritz Houtermans, physicist
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