Lives connected to places
- #1
Marie CuriePolish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
- #2
Frédéric ChopinFrédéric Chopin — classical composer
- #3
Günter GrassGerman novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)
- #4
Henryk SienkiewiczPolish writer, novelist, journalist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize laureate (1846–1916)
- #5
Wisława SzymborskaPolish poet, Nobel Prize winner (1923–2012)
- #6
Isaac Bashevis SingerPolish-American writer (1904–1991)
- #7
Maria Goeppert MayerGerman-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)
- #8
Olga TokarczukPolish writer and activist
- #9
Benoit MandelbrotPolish-born, French and American mathematician
- #10
Billy WilderAustrian-born American filmmaker and screenwriter (1906-2002)
- #11
Arthur RubinsteinPolish-American classical pianist (1887-1982)
- #12
Krzysztof KieślowskiPolish film director and screenwriter (1941–1996)
- #13
Zygmunt BaumanPolish philosopher and sociologist (1925-2017)
- #14
Irena SendlerPolish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer (1910-2008)
- #15
Tadeusz ReichsteinPolish-Swiss chemist (1897-1996)
- #16
Q160359Polish racing and rally driver (born 1984)
- #17
Andrzej SapkowskiPolish novelist
- #18
Bolesław PrusPolish novelist (1847–1912)
- #19
Alfred DöblinGerman expressionist novelist (1878–1957)
- #20
Georg ForsterGerman naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary (1754-1794)