Top 30 most important and famous people from Poland - Statistics

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Female physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, two times winner of Nobel Prize Marie Curie
87%
Pope from 1978 to 2005 Pope John Paul II/Karol Józef Wojtyła
87%
The greatest composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period Fryderyk Chopin
86%
Renaissance polymath and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center Nicolaus Copernicus
84%
Footballer who played in Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich and Barcelona Robert Lewandowski
76%
Statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1983, who served as President of Poland between 1990 and 1995 Lech Wałęsa
73%
Director of The Pianist and Chinatown, winner of Academy Award in 2003 Roman Polański
71%
President from 2015 Andrzej Duda
59%
Writer, known for his best-seller Quo Vadis, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz
50%
Writer, key figure in Polish Romanticism, he is one of Poland's Three Bards, considered Poland's greatest poet Adam Mickiewicz
48%
Footballer of 1980s, legend of Juventus. Current UEFA vice-president Zbigniew Boniek
47%
Painter, key exponent of XIX century history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history Jan Matejko
44%
Statesman who served as the Chief of State from 1918 to 1922 and First Marshal of Poland Józef Piłsudski
43%
Female poet, author of Some Like Poetry, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996 Wisława Szymborska
42%
Writer, one of the Three Bards, a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of modern Polish drama Juliusz Słowacki
39%
Female writer, author of Flights, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018 Olga Tokarczuk
37%
Writer, author of Rescue, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 Czesław Miłosz
33%
Director, known for his trilogy of war films consisting of A Generation, Kanał and Ashes and Diamonds Andrzej Wajda
32%
Doctor known as the creator of Esperanto L. L. Zamenhof
28%
Priest and friar, died in the German death camp of Auschwitz Maximilian Kolbe
26%
Female revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist. Member of the Spartacus League Rosa Luxemburg
23%
Female sprinter, 7 times winner of Olympic medals, only athlete in history to have held the world record in the 100 m, the 200 m and the 400 m Irena Szewińska
22%
Director of Dekalog and The Double Life of Veronique Krzysztof Kieślowski
21%
Star of the silent and golden era of Hollywood, known for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles and was acknowledged as a sex symbol Pola Negri
21%
Romantic poet, one of the Three Bards Zygmunt Krasiński
18%
Writer, one of the second generation of romantics, author of A Funeral Rhapsody in Memory of General Bem Cyprian Norwid
17%
One of the greatest pianists of all time Arthur Rubinstein
9%
Female mystic, who had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy Faustina Kowalska
9%
Philosopher, social theorist, who wrote about issues of modernity, the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity Zygmunt Bauman
6%
Logician, known for his work on model theory, metamathematics, and algebraic logic Alfred Tarski
3%
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