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WROCLAW

Most Famous People Born in Wroclaw, Poland

Notable people

2,376

Peak decade

1920s

Median birth year

1900

Most distinctive

Theologian 4.9×

A city that changed countries after 1945, and whose bench still reads like two cities layered on top of each other. Wroclaw's distinctive professions — theologians, authors, botanists, chemists, mathematicians, physicians — belong almost entirely to the pre-war German Breslau, a Silesian university town whose famous sons were Max Born, Fritz Haber, Bonhoeffer, and Edith Stein. The 19th-century bar is one of the heaviest in Eastern Europe, and almost none of that bench survived into the postwar Polish city.