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From the [[Middle Ages]] until the [[Holocaust]], [[Polish Jews]] comprised an appreciable part of [[Poland]]'s population.  The [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], known for its [[Warsaw Confederation|religious tolerance]]<ref name="Hugh">Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, ''From Counter-Reformation to Glorious Revolution'', University of Chicago Press 1992, page 51. Quote: "Poland, at that time, was the most tolerant country in Europe." Also in ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=W_LvAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Poland,+at+that+time,+was+the+most+tolerant+country+in+Europe%22 Britain and the Netherlands]'' by S. Groenveld, Michael J. Wintle; and in ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=jEIqAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Poland,+at+that+time,+was+the+most+tolerant+country+in+Europe%22 The exchange of ideas]'' (Walburg Instituut, 1994).</ref> and described as ''[[Heaven for the nobles, Purgatory for the townspeople, Hell for the peasants, and Paradise for the Jews|Paradisus Judaeorum]]'' ([[Latin]] for "[[Paradise]] of the Jews"),<ref name="Haumannp30">{{Cite book|last=Haumann|first=Heiko|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ypcWuuGVvX8C&pg=PA30|title=A History of East European Jews|date=2002-01-01|publisher=Central European University Press|isbn=9789639241268|page=30}}</ref><ref name="Gellerp20">{{cite book|last=Geller|first=Ewa|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mlNuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20|title=Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe|publisher=Springer|year=2018|isbn=9783319924809|editor1-last=Moskalewicz|editor1-first=Marcin|page=20 (13–26)|chapter=Yiddish 'Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum" from Early Modern Poland: A Humanistic Symbiosis of Latin Medicine and Jewish Thought|editor2-last=Caumanns|editor2-first=Ute|editor3-last=Dross|editor3-first=Fritz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Despard|first=Matthew K.|date=2015-01-02|title=In Search of a Polish Past|journal=Jewish Quarterly|volume=62|issue=1|pages=40–43|doi=10.1080/0449010x.2015.1010393|issn=0449-010X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rosenfeld|first=Gavriel D.|date=September 2016|title=Mixed Metaphors in Muranów: Holocaust Memory and Architectural Meaning at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews|journal=Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust|volume=30|issue=3|pages=258–273|doi=10.1080/23256249.2016.1242550|s2cid=191753083|issn=2325-6249}}</ref><ref name="Elphick2019">{{cite book|author=Daniel Elphick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5KCsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18|title=Music behind the Iron Curtain: Weinberg and his Polish Contemporaries|date=3 October 2019|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-49367-3|page=18}}</ref> had attracted tens of thousands of Jews who fled persecution from other European countries. Poland was a major spiritual and cultural center for [[Ashkenazi Jews]].

At the start of the [[Second World War]], Poland had the largest Jewish population in the world (over 3.3 million, some 10% of the general Polish population).<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Poland.html|title = Poland Virtual Jewish History Tour|website = Jewish Virtual Library|publisher = American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise}}</ref>  The vast majority were murdered under the Nazi "[[Final Solution]]" mass-extermination program in [[the Holocaust in Poland]] during the German occupation; only 369,000 (11%) of Poland's Jews survived the War.

The list below includes persons of Jewish faith or ancestry.

==Historical figures==
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===Politicians===
* [[Menachem Begin]] (1913–1992), Israeli prime minister, Nobel Laureate, 1978 (born in Poland)<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1978/begin-bio.html Menachem Begin – Biography<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[David Ben-Gurion]] (1886–1973), Israeli prime minister (born in Poland)<ref>[http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/History/FormerPrimeMinister/bengur.htm David Ben-Gurion The First Prime Minister<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Jakub Berman]] (1901–1984), Polish communist, Secretary of PUWP (Polish United Workers' Party), in charge of State Security Services (Urząd Bezpieczeństwa, UB), the largest and the most notorious secret police force in the history of the People's Republic of Poland,
* [[Sala Burton]] (1925–1987), American politician<ref>[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burton.html#R9M0IRBIH The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Burton<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Adam Czerniaków]] (1880–1942), member of Warsaw Municipal Council; Polish Senator; head of the Jewish Council under the Nazi Germans; committed suicide when the Germans requested that the children will be deported
* [[Ludwik Dorn]] (1954–2022), Polish politician, a speaker of the Sejm<ref>[http://www.przekroj.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=427&Itemid=50 PRZEKRÓJ - Trzeci Kaczyński<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Bronisław Geremek]] (1932–2008), Polish social historian, politician and former Minister of Foreign Affairs
* [[Shlomo Goren]] (1917–1994), Chief Rabbi of the Military Rabbinate of the IDF
* [[Anna Komorowska]] (b. 1953), [[First Lady of Poland]] between 2010 and 2015
* [[Julian Klaczko]] (1825–1906), Polish politician<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08665a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: Julian Klaczko<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Agata Kornhauser-Duda]] (b. 1972), [[First Lady of Poland]] from 2015, Jewish grandfather, not Jewish in faith 
* [[Herman Lieberman]] (1870–1941), Polish lawyer, politician and former Minister of Justice
* [[Stefan Meller]] (1942–2008), Polish diplomat, academician and former Minister of Foreign Affairs
* [[Adam Michnik]], Polish historian, essayist
* [[David Miliband]] (b. 1965), British foreign affairs minister<ref>[http://www.rp.pl/artykul/2,327162_Polski_rod_brytyjskiego_ministra.html RP.pl: David Miliband]</ref>
* [[Ed Miliband]] (b. 1969), British politician, [[Leader of the Labour Party (UK)|Leader of the Labour Party]] and Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015
* [[Lewis Bernstein Namier]] (1888–1960), British politician<ref>[http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0834786.html Factmonster: Namier]</ref>
* [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] (b. 1949), Prime Minister of Israel; father was from Warsaw
* [[Shimon Peres]] (1923–2016), Israeli prime minister and president, Nobel Prize laureate (1994)<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1994/peres-bio.html Shimon Peres – Biography<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Adam Daniel Rotfeld]] (b. 1938), Polish researcher, diplomat, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs
* [[Yitzhak Shamir]] (1915–2012), Israeli prime minister (born in Poland)<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9067108/Yitzhak-Shamir Yitzhak Shamir – Britannica Online Encyclopedia<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Zalman Shazar]] (1889–1974), Israeli President 1963 to 1973
* [[Stanisław Stroński]] (1882–1955), Polish politician<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lib.umd.edu/SLSES/donors/autobio.html |title=Notes for an Autobiography<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2006-12-20 |archive-date=2012-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205044745/http://www.lib.umd.edu/SLSES/donors/autobio.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> (of Jewish descent)
* [[Jerzy Urban]] (1933–2022), politician, journalist, editor-in-chief of the weekly ''[[NIE (weekly magazine)|NIE]]''
* [[Samuel A. Weiss]] (1902–1977), American politician<ref>[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/R9M0JGXLK Looking for The Political Graveyard?<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Shevah Weiss]] (1935–2023), political scientist, former Deputy [[Speaker of the Knesset]]
* [[Vladimir Zhirinovsky]] (1946–2022), Russian politician, founder and the leader of the [[Liberal Democratic Party of Russia]]

===Others===
[[File:Powazki wrzesien 4.JPG|thumb|right|240px|Graves of Polish Jews among the fallen soldiers of the [[Invasion of Poland|Polish Defensive War]] of 1939; [[Powązki Cemetery]], [[Warsaw]]]]
* [[Mordechai Anielewicz]] (1919–1943), leader of [[Jewish Combat Organization]] in World War II
* [[Chajka]] (??–1871), mistress of Polish king [[Stanisław August Poniatowski]]
* [[Morris Cohen (adventurer)|Morris Cohen]] (1887–1970), aide to Chinese leader [[Sun Yat-sen]]
* [[Icchak Cukierman]] (1915–1981), leader of the [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]] and fighter of [[Warsaw Uprising]]
* [[Dora Diamant]] (1898–1952), lover of [[Franz Kafka]]<ref>[http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=7381 Canadian Jewish News]</ref>
* [[Israel Epstein]] (1915–2005), naturalized Chinese journalist and author
* [[Anatol Fejgin]], commander of the Stalinist political police
* [[Paweł Finder]], leader of the [[Polish Workers' Party]] (1943-1944)
* [[Gaspar da Gama]] (1444–ca.1510), traveler, interpreter<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/GaspardaGama.html Gaspar da Gama<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Bolesław Gebert]], Soviet agent in the United States
* [[Konstanty Gebert]], Polish journalist
* [[Zofia Gomułkowa]], wife of [[Władysław Gomułka]]
* [[Adam Humer]], Stalinist official
* [[Berek Joselewicz]], commanded the first Jewish military formation in modern history
* [[Marion Kozak]], political activist and human rights campaigner (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Jews for Justice for Palestinians, Independent Jewish Voices), mother of David and Ed Miliband. 
* [[Meyer Lansky]], American organized crime figure
* Sir [[Hersch Lauterpacht]], British judge<ref>[http://www.ejil.org/journal/Vol8/No2/art6.html#P4_35 Tributes to Sir Hersch Lauterpacht<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050905221046/http://ejil.org/journal/Vol8/No2/art6.html |date=2005-09-05 }}</ref>
* [[Rosa Luxemburg]] (1871–1919), [[Marxism|Marxist]] revolutionary<ref>{{cite web|title=Rosa Luxemburg: More Than a Revolutionary| author=Annette Insdorf| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3DD1331F932A05756C0A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print| work=The New York Times| date=1987-05-31}}</ref>
* [[John Monash]], Australian general
* [[Walenty Potocki]], Polish count who converted to Judaism
* [[Marcel Reich-Ranicki]], German literary critic
* [[Sonia Rykiel]], French fashion designer
* [[Józef Światło]], Stalinist interrogator
* [[Leopold Unger]], journalist, columnist, and essayist
* [[Ben Weider]], Canadian businessman
* [[Joe Weider]], Canadian bodybuilder and entrepreneur
* [[Janusz Weiss]], journalist and television personality
* [[Helena Wolińska-Brus]], Stalinist prosecutor, wife of [[Włodzimierz Brus]]
* [[L. L. Zamenhof]], physician, inventor, and writer; creator of Esperanto

===Sovereign Polish Armed Forces===
* [[Berek Joselewicz]] (1764–1809), Polish-Jewish Colonel in the Polish Legions of Napoleon's armies
* [[Bernard Mond]] (1887–1957), member of the Austrio—Hungarian Army, 1914–1918; Polish soldier and officer, 1918–1939; sent to POW camp by the Germans; finished his career in the rank of [[Brigade General]] and, in command of the [[6th Infantry Division (Poland)]], fought against the Germans in 1939
* [[Poldek Pfefferberg]] (1913–2001), Polish soldier in 1939 saved from death by his [[sergeant major]]; Holocaust survivor; a man who inspired the book that the film ''Schindler's List'' was based on
* [[Baruch Steinberg]] (1897–1940), Chief Rabbi of the Polish Armed Forces, murdered by the Soviet NKVD

==Religious figures==
* [[Philip Ferdinand]], professor of Hebrew<ref>''[[Concise Dictionary of National Biography]]'': born in Poland of Jewish parents</ref>
* [[Christian David Ginsburg]] (1831–1914), Hebraist, converted to Christianity<ref>British ''[[Dictionary of National Biography]]''</ref>
* [[Ridley Haim Herschell]] (1807–1864), missionary; moved to England<ref name="ReferenceA">Concise ''[[Dictionary of National Biography]]''</ref>

===Rabbis===
* Rabbi [[Jacob ben Wolf Kranz]], preacher (meggid) from Dubno
* [[Rabbi Aaron Hart]] (1670–1756), rabbi<ref>[http://bible.tmtm.com/wiki/HART%2C_AARON_%28Jewish_Encyclopedia%29 ''Jewish Encyclopedia''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928105726/http://bible.tmtm.com/wiki/HART%2C_AARON_%28Jewish_Encyclopedia%29 |date=2008-09-28 }}</ref>
* Rabbi [[Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm]]<ref>[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5642-elijah-ba-al-shem-of-chelm Jewish Encyclopedia: Elijah Ba'al Shem]</ref> (1550–1583), co-signer of the [[Agunah]] laws; chief rabbi of [[Chelm]]
* Rabbi [[Menachem Ziemba]], Warsaw Rabbinate
* Rabbi [[Kalonymus Kalman Shapira]]
* Rabbi [[Yitzchak Meir Alter]] (1798 – March 10, 1866), also known as the ''Chiddushei HaRim''. First Gerrer Rebbe
* Rabbi [[Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter]] (1847–1905), also known as the ''Sfas Emes''. Gerrer Rebbe from 1870 to 1905.
* Rabbi [[Avraham Mordechai Alter]] (December 25, 1866 – June 3, 1948), also known as the ''Imrei Emes''. Gerrer Rebbe from 1905 to 1948.
* Rabbi [[Yisrael Alter]] (October 12, 1895 – February 20, 1977), also known as the ''Beis Yisroel''. Gerrer Rebbe from 1948 to 1977.
* Rabbi [[Simchah Bunim Alter]] (April 6, 1898 – August 6, 1992), also known as the ''Lev Simcha''. Gerrer Rebbe from 1977 to 1992.
* Rabbi [[Pinchas Menachem Alter]] (June 9, 1926 – March 7, 1996), also known as the ''Pnei Menachem''. Gerrer Rebbe from 1992 to 1996.
* Rabbi [[Yaakov Aryeh Alter]] (b. 1939), Gerrer Rebbe from 1996 to the present
* Rabbi [[Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin|Chanoch Heynekh HaKohen Levin of Aleksander]] (1798 – March 21, 1870)
* Rabbi [[Meir Shapiro]] (March 3, 1887 – October 27, 1933), rabbi of [[Lublin]], founder of [[Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin]], and creator of [[Daf Yomi]]

==Academics==

=== Economists ===
* [[Włodzimierz Brus]]
* [[Roman Frydman]]
* [[Henryk Grossman]]
* [[Leonid Hurwicz]], Nobel Prize winner (2007)
* [[Michał Kalecki]]
* [[Ludwik Maurycy Landau|Ludwik Landau]]
* [[Hilary Minc]] (1905–1974)
* [[Paul Rosenstein-Rodan]]

=== Mathematicians ===
* [[Nachman Aronszajn]]
* [[Herman Auerbach]]
* [[Salomon Bochner]]
* [[Samuel Dickstein (mathematician)|Samuel Dickstein]]
* [[Samuel Eilenberg]]
* [[Siemion Fajtlowicz]]
* [[Salo Finkelstein]]
* [[Mark Kac]]
* [[Bronisław Knaster]]
* [[Włodzimierz Kuperberg]]
* [[Kazimierz Kuratowski]]
* [[Leon Lichtenstein]]
* [[Adolf Lindenbaum]]
* [[Szolem Mandelbrojt]]
* [[Benoit Mandelbrot]]
* [[Edward Marczewski]]
* [[Andrzej Mostowski]]
* [[Emil Leon Post]]
* [[Mojżesz Presburger]]
* [[Stanislaw Saks]]
* [[Juliusz Schauder]]
* [[Hayyim Selig Slonimski]]
* [[Hugo Steinhaus]]
* [[Alfred Tarski]]
* [[Henryk Toruńczyk]]
* [[Stanislaw Ulam]]

===Philosophers===
* [[Henri Bergson]]
* [[Alain Finkielkraut]]
* [[Jan Hartman (philosopher)|Jan Hartman]]
* [[Morris Lazerowitz]]
* [[Casimir Lewy]]
* [[Mieczysław Maneli]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Crosswhite |first1=James |title=Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom |date=2013 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |isbn=978-0226016344 |pages=48–49}}</ref>
* [[Émile Meyerson]]
* [[Ralph Miliband]]
* [[Adam Schaff]]

=== Sciences ===
* [[Zygmunt Bauman]], sociologist
* [[Leslie Brent]], immunologist 
* [[Georges Charpak]], physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1992)
* [[Kasimir Fajans]], physicist 
* [[Jan T. Gross]], (Christian mother, Jewish father) sociologist and historian
* [[Ludwik Hirszfeld]], microbiologist and scientist
* [[Roald Hoffmann]] (b. 1937), chemist and writer; Nobel Prize winner (1981)
* [[Leopold Infeld]], physicist 
* [[Hilary Koprowski]], immunologist 
* [[Abraham Lempel]], computer scientist 
* [[Albert Abraham Michelson]]<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html Jewish Nobel Prize Winners]</ref> (1852–1931), physicist; Nobel Prize winner (1907)
* [[Itzhak Nener]], jurist
* [[Moshe Prywes]] (1914–1998), Israeli physician and educator; first President of [[Ben-Gurion University of the Negev]]
* [[Isidor Isaac Rabi]], physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1944)
* [[Ludwik Rajchman]], Polish bacteriologist; first Chairman of [[UNICEF]] 
* [[Tadeus Reichstein]], chemist, Nobel Prize winner (1950)
* [[Józef Rotblat]], physicist, nuclear disarmament activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner (1995)
* [[Albert Sabin]], inventor of the oral [[polio]] vaccine 
* [[Paweł Śpiewak]], sociologist, historian, politician and director of the [[Jewish Historical Institute]]
* [[Ary Sternfeld]], founder of astronautics

==Historians==
* [[Szymon Askenazy]]
* [[Artur Eisenbach]]
* [[Emanuel Ringelblum]]
* [[Jacob Talmon]] (1916–1980), historian; made [[aliyah]] to Israel<ref>''[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]]'', Jacob Talmon</ref>
* [[Adam Ulam]]

==Cultural figures==

===Artists===
* [[Jankel Adler]], Polish-Jewish painter
* [[Adolf Behrman]], Polish-Jewish painter
* [[Henryk Berlewi]], Polish-Jewish painter<ref>[http://yiddish.haifa.ac.il/tmr/tmr09/tmr09005.htm The Mendele Review: Yiddish Literature and Language]</ref>
* [[Alexander Bogen]], painter, sculptor, stage designer, book illustrator and a commander [[jewish partisan|partisan]] during [[World War II]]
* [[Aniela Cukier]], Polish-Jewish painter
* [[Karl Duldig]], Polish-Jewish sculptor
* [[Jacob Epstein]], American-British sculptor
* [[Samuel Finkelstein]], Polish-Jewish oil painter
* [[Enrico Glicenstein]], Polish-Jewish-American sculptor
* [[Chaim Goldberg]], Polish-Jewish artist, painter, sculptor and engraver
* [[René Goscinny]], French comics editor and writer
* [[Itshak Holtz]] (1925-2018), painter; immigrated to Israel<ref>Richard McBee, [http://www.jewishpress.com/sections/itshak-holtz-jewish-genre-painting/2003/07/04/ “Itshak Holtz: Jewish Genre Painting,”] ''[[The Jewish Press]]'', July 4, 2003.</ref>
* [[Mayer Kirshenblatt]] (1916-2009), artist<ref>Kirshenblatt, Mayer and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. They called me Mayer July: Painted memories of a Jewish childhood in Poland before the Holocaust. University of California Press. Los Angeles:2007.</ref>
* [[Paul Kor]], Israeli painter, graphic designer, author and illustrator
* [[Felix Lembersky]] (1913-1970), painter and theater stage designer
* [[Arthur Szyk]], book illustrator and political artist 
* [[Feliks Topolski]], painter, illustrator, graphic artist 
* [[Alfred Wolmark]] (1887-1961), painter; immigrated to England<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
* [[Maurycy Gottlieb]], Polish-Jewish painter and protégé of [[Jan Matejko]]

===Musicians===
* [[Arthur Balsam]], violinist and pedagogue born in [[Warsaw]] and trained in [[Łódź]]
* [[Mike Brant]], Israeli pop star; mother was Bronia Rosenberg, originally from Łódź in Poland; father was Fishel Brand, from Biłgoraj in Poland
* [[Grzegorz Fitelberg]], composer and conductor; born in Dvinsk, Latvia
* [[Jerzy Fitelberg]], composer; born in Warsaw, Poland; immigrated to the United States
* [[Russ Freeman (pianist)]], bebop jazz pianist and composer; father born in Poland
* [[Szymon Goldberg]], conductor and violinist; born in [[Włocławek]], [[Congress Poland]]
* [[Benny Goodman]], band leader; parents born in Poland
* [[George Henschel]] (1850-1934), musician; immigrated to England<ref>British Concise ''[[Dictionary of National Biography]]''</ref>
* [[Mieczysław Horszowski]], pianist, born in Lwow
* [[Jan Kiepura]] (1902-1966), actor and singer; immigrated to the United States<ref>[http://www.imagemogul.com/im/ae0020c.html Stars of David Audio Encyclopedia]</ref> (Jewish mother)
* [[Paul Kletzki]] (1900-1973), composer and conductor
* [[:de:Slawomir Kowalinski|Slawomir Kowalinski]] (born 1965), polish pianist and composer<ref>{{Citation |title=Slawomir Kowalinski |date=2022-02-25 |url=https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slawomir_Kowalinski&oldid=220585183 |work=Wikipedia |language=de |access-date=2022-03-19}}</ref>
* [[Wanda Landowska]] (5 July 1879 - 16 August 1959), harpsichordist
* [[Geddy Lee]] vocalist and bassist for [[Rush (band)]], (Parents born in Poland)
* [[Jerzy Petersburski]] (1895-1979)
* [[Moriz Rosenthal]], pianist, born in Lwow
* [[Eddie Rosner]] (26 May 1910 - 8 August 1976)
* [[Arthur Rubinstein]], pianist
* [[Isaac Stern]], violinist
* [[Henryk Szeryng]] (1918-1988), violinist; immigrated to Mexico<ref>[http://www.diapozytyw.pl/pl/site/ludzie/henryk_szeryng Dia-Pozytyw: Ludzie Sylwetki Biografie<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Władysław Szpilman]], pianist and subject of the [[Roman Polanski]] film ''[[The Pianist (2002 film)|The Pianist]]''
* [[Maria Szymanowska]], pianist and composer
* [[Henryk Wars]] (1902-1977), composer; immigrated to the United States<ref>[http://www.diapozytyw.pl/pl/site/ludzie/henryk_wars Dia-Pozytyw: Ludzie Sylwetki Biografie<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Henryk Wieniawski]]

===Screen and stage===
* [[Feliks Falk]] (born 1941)
* [[Aleksander Ford]] (1908-1980), film director<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Ford_Aleksander|title=YIVO &#124; Ford, Aleksander}}</ref>
* [[Joseph Green (actor)|Joseph Green]] (1900-1996), Polish-American film actor and director<ref name="yivoencyclopedia.org">Hoberman, J. "Cinema." YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe 2 August 2010.<http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Cinema>. Accessed 7 July 2012.</ref>
* [[Jerzy Hoffman]] (born 1932), film director and screenwriter<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Cinema|title=YIVO &#124; Cinema}}</ref>
* [[Agnieszka Holland]] (born 1948), [[film director]] and writer (Jewish father)<ref name=nytimes>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7DE153BF93BA3575BC0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 | work=The New York Times | title=Holland Without a Country | first=Roger | last=Cohen | date=1993-08-08 | access-date=2011-09-13}}</ref>
* [[Boris Kaufman]] (1887-1980), cinematographer; immigrated to the United States; brother of Mikhail Kaufman and Dziga Vertov<ref>[https://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/3.4.04/cinema.html Jewish Film Festival<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Mikhail Kaufman]] (1897-1980), cinematographer and photographer; immigrated to the Soviet Union; brother of Boris Kaufman and Dziga Vertov<ref>[https://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/3.4.04/cinema.html Jewish Film Festival<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Lydia Kindermann]] (1892–1953), opera singer, emigrated to Argentina
* [[Krzysztof Kowalewski]] (1937-2021), film, television, theatre and radio actor, comedian<ref>[https://zyciorysy.info/krzysztof-kowalewski/ Zyciorysy.info: Krzysztof Kowalewski]</ref>
* [[Marcel Łoziński]] (born 1940)
*[[Andrzej Munk]] (1921-1961), film director and screenwriter, one of the creators of the Polish Film School
* [[Roman Polanski]] (born 1933), Polish-French film director (Jewish father, half-Jewish mother)<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000591/bio IMDb: Roman Polanski]</ref>
* [[Marie Rambert]] (1888-1982), ballet dancer and teacher; immigrated to England<ref>[http://www.jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rambert-marie Jewish Women's Archive]</ref>
* [[Piotr Skrzynecki]], cabaret director (Jewish mother)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.teatry.art.pl/!osobistosci/skrzynecki.htm |title=Piotr Skrzynecki<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2006-11-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061208132842/http://www.teatry.art.pl/!osobistosci/skrzynecki.htm |archive-date=2006-12-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Jerzy Toeplitz]] (1909-1995), film educator, director, writer<ref>"British Express Concern About Fate of Jerzy Toeplitz, Polish Film Figure." Jewish Telegraphic Agency 20 May 1968.</ref>
* [[Konrad Tom]] (1887-1957), actor, writer, singer and director working in theater and film<ref name="yivoencyclopedia.org"/>
* [[Dziga Vertov]], film director; immigrated to the Soviet Union; brother of [[Boris Kaufman]] and [[Mikhail Kaufman]]<ref>[https://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/3.4.04/cinema.html Jewish Film Festival<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Michał Waszyński]] (1904-1965), film and theater director; film producer<ref>Samuel Blumenfeld, L'homme qui voulait être prince: les vies imaginaires de Michal Waszynski (Paris: B. Grasset, 2006).</ref>
*[[Michał Znicz]], born Michał Feiertag, (1888-1943), stage and film actor

==Writers and poets==

===Polish-language===
* [[Rokhl Auerbakh]], writer and essayist
* [[Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński]]
* [[Roman Brandstaetter]], writer and poet<ref>[http://www.diapozytyw.pl/pl/site/ludzie/roman_brandstaetter Dia-Pozytyw: Ludzie Sylwetki Biografie<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Kazimierz Brandys]] (1916-2000), writer<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9016225 Kazimierz Brandys – Britannica Online Encyclopedia<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Marian Brandys]], writer and screenwriter
* [[Jan Brzechwa]]
*[[Gusta Dawidson Draenger]] (1917-1943), journalist, diarist
* [[Zuzanna Ginczanka]]
* [[Agnieszka Graff]], writer and feminist
* [[Marian Hemar]]
* [[Janusz Korczak]], writer
* [[Henryka Łazowertówna]]
* [[Bolesław Leśmian]] (1877-1937), poet (Jewish ancestry)<ref>[http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Lesmian_Boles%C5%82aw YIVO: Boleslaw Lesmian]</ref>
* [[Teodor Parnicki]] (1908-1988), writer (Jewish mother)<ref>[http://www.republika.pl/kkozuchow/list_tp_jg.html List Teodora Parnickiego do Jerzego Giedroycia<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Tadeusz Różewicz]] (Jewish mother)
* [[Bruno Schulz]], writer
* [[Antoni Slonimski]]
* [[Anatol Stern]] (1899-1968), poet<ref>[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]], art. Stern, Anatol</ref>
* [[Robert Stiller]] (1928-2016), writer and prolific translator into Polish from English, German and other languages
* [[Władysław Szlengel]]
* [[Włodzimierz Szymanowicz]] (Jewish father)
* [[Julian Tuwim]] (1894-1953), poet
* [[Leopold Tyrmand]] (1920-1985), writer<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/frum/frum031903.asp David Frum on National Review Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Aleksander Wat]] (1900-1967), poet<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Aleksander-Wat-Life-Art-Iconoclast/dp/0300064063 Aleksander Wat: Life and Art of an Iconoclast]</ref>
* [[Józef Wittlin]], poet<ref>[http://www.diapozytyw.pl/pl/site/ludzie/jozef_wittlin Dia-Pozytyw: Ludzie Sylwetki Biografie<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Bogdan-Dawid Wojdowski]] (1930-1994), writer

===[[Yiddish|Yiddish-language]]===
* [[Sholem Asch]] (1880-1957), novelist and essayist<ref name="Classical Yiddish Authors"/>
* [[Rokhl Auerbakh]] (1903-1976), writer and essayist
* [[Isaac ben Saul Chmelniker Candia]] (fl. 19th-century)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3962-candia-isaac-b-saul-chmelniker|title=Candia, Isaac B. Saul Chmelniker - JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com|access-date=2017-09-05}}</ref>
* [[Solomon Ettinger]] (1802-1856), playwright and poet<ref name="Classical Yiddish Authors">[http://sites.google.com/site/kopjikinternational/yiddish-authors Classical Yiddish Authors]</ref>
* [[Isaac Leib Peretz]] (1852-1915), author and playwright<ref>[http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/warsaw/w_pages/warsaw_stories_peretz.html Warsaw Stories: Peretz]</ref>
* [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]] (1902-1991), author<ref name="Classical Yiddish Authors"/>
* [[Abraham Sutzkever]] (1913-2010), poet, immigrated to Israel<ref name="Classical Yiddish Authors"/>
* [[Aleksander Zederbaum]] (1816-1893), journalist<ref>[http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Zederbaum_Aleksander YIVO: Aleksander Zederbaum]</ref>

==Business figures==
* [[Arthur Belfer]], founder of the Belco Petroleum Corporation
* [[Józef Blass]]
* [[André Citroën]], industrialist, engineer and founder of [[Citroën]]
* [[Max Factor, Sr.]] (born Maksymilian Faktorowicz), founder of [[Max Factor|Max Factor & Company]]; half-brother of Prohibition-era [[Jewish-American organized crime|gangster]] [[John Factor]] (born Iakov Faktorowicz)
* [[Jona Goldrich]] (born Jona Goldreich), L.A.-based real estate developer
* [[Samuel Goldwyn]] (1879-1974; born Szmuel Gelbfisz), founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood
* [[Helal Hassenfeld]] and [[Henry Hassenfeld]], co-founders of [[Hasbro]] (originally Hassenfeld Brothers)
* [[Joanna Hoffman]], marketing executive, one of the original members of both the Apple Computer Macintosh team and the NeXT team
* [[Leopold Julian Kronenberg]] (1849-1937), banker<ref>[http://www.diapozytyw.pl/pl/site/ludzie/leopold_kronenberg Dia-Pozytyw: Ludzie Sylwetki Biografie<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Henry Lowenfeld]], impresario, brewer who emigrated to England
* [[Henry Orenstein]] (1925-2021), American poker player and entrepreneur<ref>[http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000024.html Tom Gross Mideast Media Archive: Henry Orenstein]</ref>
* [[Samuel Orgelbrand]] (1810-1896), printer and publisher<ref>[http://www.diapozytyw.pl/pl/site/ludzie/samuel_orgelbrand Dia-Pozytyw: Ludzie Sylwetki Biografie<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Max Ratner]] (born Meyer Ratowczer), real estate developer, co-founder of [[Forest City Enterprises]]
* [[Helena Rubinstein]] (born Chaja Rubinstein), cosmetics entrepreneur, founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein Incorporated cosmetics company
* [[Jack Tramiel]] (1928-2012), businessman and founder of [[Commodore International]]
* [[Warner Bros.]] (born Wonsal)
** [[Albert Warner]] (1884-1967)
** [[Harry Warner]] (1881-1958)
** [[Jack L. Warner]] (1892-1978)
** [[Sam Warner]] (1887-1927)
* [[Sam Zell]] (Shmuel Zielonka), billionaire businessman [[Equity International]], lawyer and philanthropist

==Sports==
===Baseball===
*[[Moe Drabowsky]]
* [[Harry Feldman]]

===Chess===

* [[Izaak Appel]]
* [[Abram Blass]]
* [[Moshe Czerniak]]
* [[Henryk Friedman]]
* [[Paulin Frydman]]
* [[Miguel Najdorf]]
* [[Dawid Przepiórka]]
* [[Gersz Rotlewi]]
* [[Akiba Rubinstein]]
* [[Gersz Salwe]]
* [[Siegbert Tarrasch]]
* [[Ksawery Tartakower|Savielly Tartakower]]<ref>''[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]]''; immigrated to France</ref> (1887-1956)
* [[Szymon Winawer]]
* [[Daniel Yanofsky]]
* [[Johannes Zukertort]]

===Fencing===

* [[Roman Kantor]], épée, [[Nordic countries|Nordic]] champion and Soviet champion; murdered by the Nazis

===Football===

* [[Ludwik Gintel]], Poland national team<ref name=sporting>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_Si5OP6cjkC&q=%22ludwik+gintel%22+jewish&pg=PA17 |title=Jews and the Sporting Life: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII  |author= Ezra Mendelsohn |publisher= Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-538291-4|year= 2009|access-date=December 24, 2010}}</ref>
* [[Avram Grant|Abraham "Avram" Grant]] (born 1955), football manager of various football clubs and national teams (e.g. [[Chelsea F.C.]], [[Israel national football team|Israel]], [[Ghana national football team]])
* [[Józef Klotz]], Poland national team; murdered by the Nazis<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eurojewcong.org/ejc/news.php?id_article=5604 |author=Eldad Beck |title=Anti-Semitism feared ahead of Euro 2012 |publisher=[[European Jewish Congress]] |date=August 9, 2010 |access-date=December 24, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120731004503/http://www.eurojewcong.org/ejc/news.php?id_article=5604 |archive-date=July 31, 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Józef Lustgarten]], spent 17 years in the [[Gulag]]
* [[Leon Sperling]] (1900-1941), left wing, Polish national team; murdered by the Nazis in the [[Lemberg Ghetto]]
* [[Zygmunt Steuermann]], centre forward, Polish national team (two matches, four goals); died in December 1941 in the Lemberg Ghetto
* [[Ben Lederman]], American-born, midfield, [[Raków Częstochowa]]

===Professional wrestling===

* [[Chris Masters|Chris Mordetzky]], American professional wrestler, known for his time in [[World Wrestling Entertainment]] under the ring name Chris Masters

===Swimming===

* [[Ilja Szrajbman|Lejzor Ilja Szrajbman]], Olympic 4×200-m freestyle relay; murdered by the Nazis in [[Majdanek concentration camp]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/DP/lib00153,0EAF44D611BD8AC2.html |author=Tom Archdeacon |title=Memories never dim from Games of Shame; Message of "Nazi Olympics'still vital |work= The Denver Post|date=April 26, 1998 |access-date=December 24, 2010}}</ref>

===Track and field===

* [[Myer Prinstein]], Olympic long-jumper from [[Szczuczyn]], Poland
* [[Irena Szewińska]], sprinter and long jumper; world records in 100-m, 200-m, and 400-m; three-time Olympic champion, plus four medals (for a total of seven Olympic medals)
* [[Jadwiga Wajs]], two world records (discus); Olympic silver and bronze (discus)

===Weightlifting===

* [[Ben Helfgott]], Polish-born, three-time British champion (lightweight), three-time Maccabiah champion; survived [[Buchenwald]] and [[Theresienstadt]]; all but one family member was murdered by the Nazis

==Holocaust survivors==
{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
* [[Nelly Ben-Or]]
* [[Tauba Biterman]]
* [[Zahava Burack]]
* [[Yehiel De-Nur]]
* [[David Faber (author)|David Faber]]
* [[Leon Feldhendler]]
* [[Joseph Friedenson]]
* [[Tuviah Friedman]]
* [[Roman Frister]]
* [[Rena Kornreich Gelissen]]
* [[Ben-Zion Gold]]
* [[Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam]]
* [[Anna Heilman]]
* [[Alicia Appleman-Jurman]]
* [[Natalia Karp]]
* [[Gerda Weissmann Klein]]
* [[Jerzy Kosinski]]
* [[Yisrael Lau]]
* [[Zvia Lubetkin]]
* [[Henryk Mandelbaum]]
* [[Jack Mandelbaum]]
* [[Kitty Hart-Moxon]]
* [[David Olère]]
* [[Leopold Pfefferberg]]
* [[Philip Riteman]]
* [[Josef Rosensaft]]
* [[Israel Shahak]]
* [[Mike Staner]]
* [[Alina Szapocznikow]]
* [[Władysław Szpilman]]
* [[Emanuel Tanay]]
* [[Menachem Mendel Taub]]
* [[Jack Tramiel]]
* [[Ernst Wiechert]]
* [[Meir Wilchek]]
}}

==See also== 
{{Portal|Judaism|Poland}}
* [[History of the Jews in Poland]]
* [[Israel–Poland relations]]
* [[List of Galician Jews]]
* [[List of Jews]]
* [[List of people from Galicia (modern period)]]
* [[List of Poles]]

==References==
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