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KRAKOW

Most Famous People Born in Krakow, Poland

Notable people
1,084
Peak decade
1970s
Median birth year
1926
Most distinctive
Rabbi 10.7×

Poland's former royal capital shows the shape of that history in its stats. The 10.7× rabbi over-index is the pre-war Kazimierz Jewish quarter; the painter and composer bumps trace the Young Poland movement around Jan Matejko and Stanisław Wyspiański; and the mathematician index is the Lwów-Warsaw school of Stefan Banach and the generation that followed him into the logic seminars on Floriańska Street.

Through the Centuries

One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Krakow during each.

What Krakow Is Known For

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Football is Krakow's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (116).

Krakow over-indexes on rabbi10.7× the global rate.

Krakow under-produces politician — only 0.5× the global rate.

  1. Football116
  2. Painter72
  3. Actor61
  4. Politician61
  5. Historian32
  6. Composer30
  7. Writer30
  8. Poet21
  1. Rabbi1310.7×
  2. Pianist186.2×
  3. Historian322.8×
  4. Painter722.5×
  5. Officer162.2×
  6. Composer302.1×
  7. Mathematician112.0×
  8. Diplomat121.9×
  1. Politician610.5×
  2. Singer150.7×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Krakow's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

1500155016001650170017501800185019001950
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Showing 35 of 1,084 notable people

0008 MAGNATE

Helena Rubinstein

1872 - 1965

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0023 PIANIST

Josef Hofmann

1876 - 1957

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0062 POET

Mordechai Gebirtig

1877 - 1942

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0080 SCULPTOR

Xawery Dunikowski

1875 - 1964

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0122 POET

Lucjan Rydel

1870 - 1918

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0146 POLITICIAN

Stanisław Haller

1872 - 1940

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0190 DUCHESS

Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1879–1962)

1879 - 1962

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0192 COMPOSER

Henryk Opieński

1870 - 1942

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0231 CHEMIST

Tadeusz Estreicher

1871 - 1952

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0252 DIPLOMAT

Władysław Wróblewski

1875 - 1951

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0256 PIANIST

Severin Eisenberger

1879 - 1945

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0272 HISTORIAN

Stanisław Kutrzeba

1876 - 1946

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0321 ZOOLOGIST

Michał Marian Siedlecki

1873 - 1940

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0350 PSYCHOLOGIST

Rudolf Maria Holzapfel

1874 - 1930

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0482 WRITER

Rafael Schermann

1874 - 1940

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0532 FILM

Heinrich Nebenzahl

1870 - 1938

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0537 PAINTER

Artur Markowicz

1872 - 1934

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0616 ESSAYIST

Adolf Nowaczyński

1876 - 1944

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0629 HEBRAIST

Bernard Friedberg

1876 - 1961

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0637 LAWYER

Zygmunt Marek

1872 - 1931

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0651 CHEF

Franciszek Trześniewski

1878 - 1949

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0708 WRITER

Sophie Brzeska

1873 - 1925

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0721 AUTHOR

Saul Raphael Landau

1870 - 1943

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0735 MISSING

Rosalie Ścibor-Rylska

1871 - 1951

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0797 POLITICIAN

Josef Strasser

1870 - 1935

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0819 ART HISTORIAN

Feliks Kopera

1871 - 1952

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0836 WRITER

Maria Estreicherówna

1876 - 1966

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0837 BANK

Stanisław Sebastian Lubomirski

1875 - 1932

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0887 ACADEMIC

Jonas Fränkel

1879 - 1965

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0897 BIOLOGIST

Filip Eisenberg

1876 - 1942

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0968 CELLIST

Hans Kronold

1872 - 1922

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1028 RABBI

Markus Rottenberg

1872 - 1944

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1042 RABBI

Tzvi Hirsch Horowitz

1872 - 1945

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1046 POLITICIAN

Helene Bauer

1871 - 1942

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1066 ACTOR

Solomon Liebgold

1877 - 1942

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