50.0611° N, 19.9372° E
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.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Krakow during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Krakow Is Known For
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Football is Krakow's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (116).
Krakow over-indexes on rabbi — 10.7× the global rate.
Krakow under-produces politician — only 0.5× the global rate.
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.
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Edward Ochab
1906 - 1989
Andrzej Olechowski
Born 1947
Jan Rokita
Born 1959
Zbigniew Ziobro
Born 1970
Róża Thun
Born 1954
Bogdan Klich
Born 1960
Stanisław Haller
1872 - 1940
Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł (1669–1719)
1669 - 1719
Bogusław Sonik
Born 1953
Dariusz Szwed
Born 1967
Haim Landau
1916 - 1981
Alexander Joseph Sulkowski
1695 - 1762
Zbigniew Wassermann
1949 - 2010
Jadwiga Emilewicz
Born 1974
Ryszard Terlecki
Born 1949
Sidonia Jędrzejewska
Born 1975
Yohanan Bader
1901 - 1994
Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz
Born 1981
Stanisław Kulczyński
1895 - 1975
Barbara Bubula
Born 1963
Elżbieta Bińczycka
Born 1955
Mikołaj Budzanowski
Born 1971
Maria Rygier
1885 - 1953
Andrzej Lubomirski
1862 - 1953
Andrzej Maria Gołaś
Born 1946
Jarosław Guzy
Born 1955
Bronisław Cieślak
Born 1943
Stanisław Żółtek
Born 1956
Bolesław Drobner
1883 - 1968
Jerzy Miller (politician)
Born 1952
Michał Wójcik
Born 1971
Chaim Levanon
1899 - 1986
Brygida Kuźniak
Born 1966
Bogusław Sobczak
Born 1979
Bogdan Pęk
Born 1953
Tomasz Szczypiński
Born 1953
Pinhas Scheinman
1912 - 1999
Emil Wojtaszek
1927 - 2017
Łukasz Gibała
Born 1977
Monika Ryniak
Born 1960
Leopold Rutowicz
Born 1932
Antoni Jan Goetz
1895 - 1962
Mordechai Ofer
1924 - 1971
Andrzej Gałażewski
Born 1944
Ludwik Gorzkowski
1811 - 1857
Josef Strasser
1870 - 1935
Eberhard Schulte-Wissermann
Born 1942
Hillel Seidel
1920 - 1999
Stanisław Mieroszowski
1827 - 1900
Rafał Bochenek
Born 1986
Jan Ziobro (politician)
Born 1989
Elżbieta Achinger
Born 1957
Justynian Szczytt (1740–1824)
1740 - 1824
Reuven Feldman
1899 - 1990
Zvi Weinberg
1935 - 2006
Helene Bauer
1871 - 1942
Maciej Biesiadecki
1864 - 1935
Julian Gutowski
1823 - 1890
Jürgen Guttenberger
Born 1941
Ernst Ritter (Mediziner)
1888 - 1981
Ludwig zu Windisch-Grätz
1882 - 1968