Notable People
- Jan Nepomucen Głowacki, considered the father of Polish school of landscape painting, was the first to devote an entire series of works to Tatra Mountains
- Daniel Speer, Baroque composer and writer
- Stanisław Staszic
- Ludwig Greiner identified Gerlachovský Peak as the summit of the Tatras and Carpathians
- Seweryn Goszczyński, Polish Romantic poet who escaped there from the Austrian invader
- Ludwik Zejszner
- Tytus Chałubiński, founder of the Polish Tatra Society
- Adam Asnyk, poet and dramatist, one of the first members of the Tatra Society
- Walery Eljasz-Radzikowski
- Stanisław Witkiewicz
- Władysław Zamoyski
- Oswald Balzer
- Jan Kasprowicz
- Franciszek Nowicki
- Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
- Mariusz Zaruski
- Mieczysław Karłowicz
- Władysław Orkan
- Karol Szymanowski
- Mieczysław Szczuka
- Kornel Makuszyński
- Ruth Hale (alpinist)
- Władysław Hasior
- Jan Długosz (mountaineer)
- William Horwood's novel Wolves of Time largely takes place in the Tatra mountains
- Göran Wahlenberg
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