52.2300° N, 21.0111° E
WARSAW
Most Famous People Born in Warsaw, Poland
- Notable people
- 2,811
- Peak decade
- 1900s
- Median birth year
- 1926
- Most distinctive
- Chess 7.5×
A city that keeps having to rebuild its memory. Warsaw's distinctive professions are chess masters, fencers, mathematicians, physicists, and rowers — a combination that maps almost exactly onto the Jewish and intellectual life that the city lost in the 1940s and never fully recovered. The dataset's most famous Varsovian was born in 1867 and left at twenty-four; many of the rest of the brightest names share some version of that biography.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Warsaw during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Warsaw Is Known For
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Actor is Warsaw's biggest profession — 9% of all notables (254).
Warsaw over-indexes on chess — 7.5× the global rate.
Warsaw under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Warsaw's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Robert Lewandowski
Born 1988
Wojciech Szczęsny
Born 1990
Michał Żewłakow
Born 1976
Michał Żyro
Born 1992
Jakub Kosecki
Born 1990
Michał Kucharczyk
Born 1991
Wojciech Kowalczyk
Born 1972
Cezary Wilk
Born 1986
Paweł Kieszek
Born 1984
Dariusz Dziekanowski
Born 1962
Janusz Wójcik
1953 - 2017
Stanisław Terlecki
1955 - 2017
Daniel Sikorski
Born 1987
Maciej Szczęsny
Born 1965
Jacek Kazimierski
Born 1959
Mateusz Możdżeń
Born 1991
Maciej Jankowski
Born 1990
Krzysztof Nowak
1975 - 2005
Antoni Łukasiewicz
Born 1983
Dariusz Wdowczyk
Born 1962
Daniel Bogusz
Born 1974
Marcin Kuś
Born 1981
Władysław Szczepaniak
1910 - 1979
Wojciech Szymanek
Born 1982
Mateusz Wieteska
Born 1997
Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz
1911 - 1943
Piotr Czachowski
Born 1966
Łukasz Piątek
Born 1985
Tomasz Jarzębowski
Born 1978
Michał Listkiewicz
Born 1953
Adam Dźwigała
Born 1995
Marcin Smoliński
Born 1985
Rafał Leszczyński (footballer)
Born 1992
Aleksander Jagiełło
Born 1995
Konrad Jałocha
Born 1991
Kamil Mazek
Born 1994
Andrew Ornoch
Born 1985
Rafał Makowski
Born 1996
Edmund Zientara
1929 - 2010
Adrian Paluchowski
Born 1987
Marcin Borski
Born 1973
Krzysztof Baran (footballer, born 1960)
Born 1960
Jakub Szumski
Born 1992
Piotr Rocki
1974 - 2020
Maciej Tataj
Born 1980
Leszek Iwanicki
Born 1959
Jakub Arak
Born 1995
Maciej Śliwowski
Born 1967
Maciej Górski (footballer)
Born 1990
Krzysztof Bąk
Born 1982
Adam Chrzanowski
Born 1999
Daniel Mąka
Born 1988
Piotr Petasz
Born 1984
Ryszard Kulesza
1931 - 2008
Patryk Mikita
Born 1993
Mateusz Cichocki
Born 1992
Henryk Przeździecki
1909 - 1977
Dariusz Dźwigała
Born 1969
Kazimierz Materski
1906 - 1971
Sylwester Patejuk
Born 1982
Bartek Pacuszka
Born 1990
Mateusz Żyro
Born 1998
Radosław Pruchnik
Born 1986
Damian Gąska
Born 1996
Max Stryjek
Born 1996
Bartłomiej Kalinkowski
Born 1994
Piotr Rowicki
Born 1970
Robert Gubiec
Born 1979
Michał Pulkowski
Born 1979
Jarosław Nowicki
Born 1961
Edward Brzozowski
1920 - 1983
Greg Wojt
Born 1985
Norbert Misiak
Born 1994
Maksymilian Banaszewski
Born 1995
Aleksander Szenajch
1904 - 1987
Marek Jakóbczak
1969 - 2014
Ludwik Sobolewski (Sportfunktionär)
1925 - 2008
Henryk Grzybowski
1934 - 2012
Zdzisław Gierwatowski
1920 - 2005
Kazimierz Piontkowski
1903 - 1938
Damian Jaroń
Born 1990
Michał Pytkowski
Born 1989
Stanisław Fołtyn
1936 - 2003
Marek Filipczak
Born 1960
Ousmane Tounkara
Born 1973
Maciej Rybaczuk
Born 1983
Arkadiusz Najemski
Born 1996
Remigiusz Trawiński
Born 1958
Piotr Misztal (footballer)
Born 1987
Bartłomiej Fogler
Born 1985