51.7769° N, 19.4547° E

LODZ

Most Famous People Born in Lodz, Poland

Notable people

723

Peak decade

1920s

Median birth year

1936

Most distinctive

Dancer 18.2×

Before the war Łódź was a textile boom town stitched together by Polish, Jewish and German mill owners; afterward it became the country's cinematic capital, the Łódź Film School factory where Polanski, Wajda and Kieślowski learned the craft. The Dancer count runs at better than eighteen times the national baseline, and a thick Pianist and Chemist bench hints at the bourgeois conservatory culture that somehow survived the smokestacks.