List of people from Gdańsk

This is a list of people from Gdańsk (Danzig).

Early times

• Conrad Letzkau (ca. 1350 – 1411), mayor, executed by the Teutonic Knights
• Tiedemann Giese (1480–1550), bishop
• Johannes Dantiscus (1485–1548), poet, church canon and bishop
• Bernhard von Reesen (1491–1521), businessman painted by Albrecht Dürer

16th C

• Albrecht Giese (1524–1580), councillor and diplomat
• Caspar Schütz (c. 1540–1594), Prussian historian
• Anton Möller (1563–1611), painter
• Bartholomäus Keckermann (c.1571-1608), writer and Calvinist theologist
• Regina Basilier (1572–1631), German-Swedish merchant banker
• Philipp Clüver (1580–1622) an Early Modern geographer and historian.

17th C

• Constantia Zierenberg (1605–1653), a singer and musician; daughter of Danzig mayor
• Reinhold Curicke (1610–1667), jurist, historian
• Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), astronomer.
• Georg Daniel Schultz (1615–1683), painter
• Bogusław Radziwiłł (1620–1669), Prince of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Reichsfürst of the HRE, governor of Ducal Prussia
• Andreas Schlüter (1659–c.1714), architect and sculptor
• Daniel Ernst Jablonski (1660–1741) a theologian.
• Jacob Theodor Klein (1685–1759), jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat
• Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt (1685–1735) physician, naturalist, geographer
• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736) a physicist, inventor and scientific instrument maker.
• Gottfried Lengnich (1689–1774), jurist, historian

18th C

• Johann Valentin Haidt (1700–1780), painter and preacher
• Daniel Gralath (1708–1767), physicist and Bürgermeister (mayor) of Danzig
• Louise Adelgunde Gottsched (1713–1762), writer
• Nikita Panin (1718–1783) a Russian statesman and political mentor to Catherine the Great.
• Sir Trevor Corry (1724–1780), diplomat; Baron of Poland; British Consul to Danzig 1745–1780
• Daniel Chodowiecki (1726–1801), artist and painter.
• Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734–1823), Prince, writer, literary and theatre critic.
• Michał Jerzy Poniatowski (1736–1794), primate of Poland
• Johann Wilhelm Archenholz (1741–1812), historian and publicist.
• Avraham Danzig (1748–1820), rabbi
• Georg Forster (1754–1794), naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary.
• Jacob Kabrun Jr. (1759–1814), merchant, book and art collector, and philanthropist
• Jakob Sigismund Beck (1761–1840) a philosopher.
• Johanna Schopenhauer (1766–1838), author; mother of Arthur Schopenhauer
• Johannes Daniel Falk (1768–1826), poet and educator.
• Antonio Casimir Cartellieri (1772–1807), composer
• Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), philosopher.

19th C

• Heinrich von Zastrow (1801–1875), general
• Heinrich Wilhelm Zimmerman (1805–1841), portrait painter
• Rachel Meyer (1806–1874), writer
• Joachim Marquardt (1812–1882) an historian and writer on Roman antiquities.
• Eduard Hildebrandt (1818–1868) a landscape painter.
• Ernst Förstemann (1822–1906), historian, mathematician, philologist
• Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf (1832–1891), general, writer.
• Eduard Winkelmann (1838–1896) an historian.
• Stefan Pawlicki (1839–1916), Catholic priest and philosopher
• Anna Tuschinski (1841–1939), Esperantist
• Fritz von Below (1853–1918), general
• Otto von Below (1857–1944), general
• August von Brandis (1859–1947), artist
• Hugo Münsterberg (1863–1916) psychologist.
• Max Halbe (1865–1944), writer
• Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), feminist, writer and journalist
• Max Adalbert (1874–1933), actor
• Alfred Stock (1876–1946), chemist
• Carl Schuricht (1880–1967), conductor
• Marta Wittkowska (1882–1977), contralto opera singer
• Alice Wosikowski (1886–1949), politician, resistance activist
• Gerhard Rose (1896–1992), expert on tropical medicine

1900 - 1945

• Gerhard Krüger (1908–1994), a Nazi Party student leader
• Hermann Diamanski (1909–1976), German resistance fighter
• Alfred Zeidler (born 1909), German SS concentration camp commandant
• Mathias Goeritz (1915–1990), artist
• Alexander Salkind (1921–1997), film producer
• Wanda Klaff (1922–1946), German Nazi concentration camp overseer executed for war crimes
• Heinz-Hermann Koelle (1922–2011), German-American aeronautical and rocket engineer
• Elisabeth Becker (1923–1946), German SS concentration camp guard executed for war crimes
• Miltiades Caridis (1923–1998), conductor
• Eddi Arent (1925–2013), actor and comedian
• Meir Shamgar (1925–2019), President of the Israel Supreme Court
• Zygmunt Chychła (1926–2009), boxer
• Jack Mandelbaum (1927–2023), subject of Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
• Günter Grass (1927–2015), writer, recipient of 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Henry Rosovsky (1927–2022), economist
• Zalman Shoval (born 1930), Israeli banker, politician and diplomat
• Wolfgang Völz (1930–2018), actor and voice actor
• Ingrid van Bergen (1931–2025), actress
• Jan Strelau (1931–2020), psychologist
• Jutta Meischner (born 1935), classical archeologist
• Richard Pratt (1935–2009), Australian businessman and philanthropist
• Holger Czukay (1938–2017), musician
• Wawrzyniec Samp (born 1939), sculptor and graphic artist
• Dietrich Albrecht (born 1940), football player
• Matthias Habich (born 1940), actor
• Heidrun Mohr-Mayer (1941–2014), jeweler
• Ryszard Horodecki (born 1943), physicist
• Lech Wałęsa (born 1943), politician
• Detlev Buchholz (born 1944), theoretical physicist

Since 1945

• Mariola Grażyna Antczak (born 1970), data scientist
• Józef Borzyszkowski (born 1946), historian, politician and Kashubian activist
• Krzysztof Majchrzak (born 1948), film actor
• Jacek Namieśnik (1949–2019), chemist
• Andrzej Szarmach (born 1950), football player
• Krzysztof Kolberger (1950–2011), actor
• Jan de Weryha-Wysoczanski (born 1950), sculptor
• Bogusław Jackowski (born 1950), computer scientist
• Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak (1951–2025), film actress
• Jerzy Samp (born 1951), writer and historian
• Bogdan Wojciszke (born 1952), psychologist
• Maciej Å»ylicz (born 1953), biochemist and molecular biologist
• Tomasz Imieliński (born 1954), computer scientist
• Janusz Pawliszyn (born 1954), chemist
• Janina Ochojska (born 1955), humanitarian, social activist and astronomer, founder and director of the Polish Humanitarian Action
• Jolanta Kwaśniewska (born 1955), former First Lady of Poland
• Krzysztof Pastor (born 1956), dancer, choreographer and director of the Polish National Ballet
• Barbara Tuge-Erecińska (born 1956), diplomat
• Pawel Huelle (born 1957), writer and journalist
• Donald Tusk (born 1957), former President of the European Council & Prime Minister of Poland, journalist and historian
• Marek Kamiński (born 1964), traveler
• Paweł Adamowicz (1965–2019), politician, Mayor of Gdańsk
• Aneta Kręglicka (born 1965), model and dancer, Miss World 1989
• Grzegorz Kacała (born 1966), rugby player
• Giennadij Jerszow (born 1967), sculptor
• Dariusz Michalczewski (born 1968), boxer
• Mariusz Podkościelny (born 1968), freestyle swimmer and swimming coach
• Leszek Mozdzer (born 1971), jazz pianist
• Tomasz Wałdoch (born 1971), footballer
• Adam Korol (born 1974), rower and politician
• Sławomir Nowak (born 1974), former Minister of Transport & Construction
• Szymon Roginski (born 1975), photographer
• Agnieszka Chylińska (born 1976), singer-songwriter, actress, author and television personality
• Gregorz Szamotulski (born 1976), footballer
• Jarosław Wałęsa (born 1976), politician, son of Lech Wałęsa
• Adam Darski (born 1977), singer and guitarist, frontman of extreme metal band Behemoth
• Robert Kempiński (born 1977), chess grandmaster
• Tomasz Schafernaker (born 1979), Polish-British meteorologist for BBC Weather
• Jacek Dehnel (born 1980), writer, poet, translator and painter
• Magdalena Tul (born 1980), singer and composer
• Dawid Tomaszewski (born 1980), fashion designer
• Jakobe Mansztajn (born 1982), poet, blogger
• Karol Nawrocki (born 1983), Polish historian and president-elect
• Magdalena Frąckowiak (born 1984), model
• Ewa Juszkiewicz (born 1984), painter
• Izu Ugonoh (born 1986), boxer and mixed martial artist
• Piotr Witkowski (born 1988), actor
• Oskar Piechota (born 1990), mixed martial artist
• Hania Rani (born 1990), pianist, composer and singer
• Moustapha M'Baye (born 1992), volleyball player
• Mateusz Biskup (born 1994), rower
• Mateusz Mach (born 1997), entrepreneur and investor
• Mikolaj Oledzki (born 1998), Rugby League player
• Martyna Łukasik (born 1999), volleyball player

See also

• Notable members of the Jewish community in Gdańsk

References