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.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Lodz during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Lodz Is Known For
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Football is Lodz's biggest profession — 9% of all notables (66).
Lodz over-indexes on dancer — 18.2× the global rate.
Lodz under-produces politician — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Lodz's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Film & TV
- Writing
- Science
- Music
- Art & Design
- Other
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Stanisław Mikulski
1929 - 2014
Jack Tramiel
1928 - 2012
Jan Machulski
1928 - 2008
Robert Zajonc
1923 - 2008
Henry Morgentaler
1923 - 2013
Karl Dedecius
1921 - 2016
Michalina Wisłocka
1921 - 2005
Zvi Zamir
Born 1925
Zbigniew Nienacki
1929 - 1994
Mary Berg
1924 - 2013
Fayga Ostrower
1920 - 2001
Lea Koenig
Born 1929
Alina Margolis-Edelman
1922 - 2008
Jerzy Pomianowski
1921 - 2016
Janusz Kłosiński
1920 - 2017
Shlomo Erell
1920 - 2018
Ben Abraham
1924 - 2015
Rywka Lipszyc
1929 - 1945
Teofila Reich-Ranicki
1920 - 2011
Chava Rosenfarb
1923 - 2011
Bat-Sheva Dagan
Born 1925
Maurice Calka
1921 - 1999
Miłosz Magin
1929 - 1999
Harry Freedman
1922 - 2005
Stanisław Trepczyński
1924 - 2002
Franciszek Walicki
1921 - 2015
Noach Flug
1925 - 2011
K.S. Karol
1924 - 2014
Ludwik Jerzy Kern
1920 - 2010
Avraham Verdiger
1921 - 2013
Shamai Haber
1922 - 1995
Halina Szwarc
1923 - 2002
Wiesława Mazurkiewicz
Born 1925
Halina Machulska
Born 1929
Jacob Goldberg
1924 - 2011
Tadeusz Andrzejewski
1923 - 1961
Tadeusz Pluciński
1926 - 2019
Abram Cytryn
1927 - 1944
Zdzisław Pawlak
1926 - 2006
Ryszard Torzecki
1925 - 2003
Edwin Marian
1928 - 2018
Rafael Vardi
1922 - 2016
Tadeusz Ulatowski
1923 - 2012
Wanda Sieradzka de Ruig
1922 - 2008
Abraham Cykiert
1926 - 2009
Marian P. Opala
1921 - 2010
Sara Rus
Born 1927
Kazimierz Chodakowski
1929 - 2017
Esther Wertheimer
Born 1926
Czesław Chruszczewski
1922 - 1982
Aleksander Henryk Laks
1926 - 2015
Benon Liberski
1926 - 1983
Marek Sart
1926 - 2010
Nina Einhorn
1925 - 2002
Georg Süßmann
1928 - 2017
Ruth Minsky Sender
Born 1926
Zenia Larsson
1922 - 2007
Izaak Grynfeld
Born 1920
Tova Ben Zvi
Born 1928
Isabelle Choko
Born 1928
Stella Zylbersztajn-Tzur
Born 1925
Bronisław Kierzkowski
1924 - 1993
Sabina Citron
Born 1928
Zenon Płoszaj
1924 - 2003
Léon Goldberg
1924 - 1944
Kurt Kelm
1925 - 2009
Joseph Friedenson
1922 - 2013
Leon Weintraub
Born 1926
Bruno Bergner
1923 - 1995
Mira Hamermesh
1923 - 2012
Bruno Predel
1928 - 2007
Élie Buzyn
Born 1929
Zdzisław Studziński
1922 - 1976
Haïm Lipsky
1922 - 2017
Richard Kriese
1925 - 2019
Kurt Georg Hausmann
1921 - 2004
Mira Teeman
1926 - 2008
Ludmilla Pfefferberg
1920 - 2008
Mirosław Jan Stasik
Born 1929
Jack Fuchs
Born 1924
Fabian Gerson
1926 - 2011
Gerd Löffler (Politiker, 1927)
1927 - 2004
Edgar Jassmann
1927 - 1983
Joseph S. Kutrzeba
1927 - 2013
Horst Bauer (Architekt)
Born 1928
Marcel Weyland
Born 1927
Tauba Katzenstein
1925 - 2020
Paul Samuel Auszenkier
1924 - 2012
Roman Kent
Born 1929