List of people from Gdańsk

This is a list of people from Gdańsk (Danzig).

Early times

 * Conrad Letzkau (ca. 1350 – 1411), mayor, executed by the Teutonic Knights
 * Tiedemann Giese (1480–1550), bishop
 * Johannes Dantiscus (1485–1548), poet, church canon and bishop
 * Bernhard von Reesen (1491–1521), businessman painted by Albrecht Dürer

16th C

 * Albrecht Giese (1524–1580), councillor and diplomat
 * Caspar Schütz (c. 1540–1594), Prussian historian
 * Anton Möller (1563–1611), painter
 * Bartholomäus Keckermann (c.1571-1608), writer and Calvinist theologist
 * Regina Basilier (1572-1631), German-Swedish merchant banker
 * Philipp Clüver (1580–1622) an Early Modern geographer and historian.



17th C

 * Constantia Zierenberg (1605–1653), a singer and musician; daughter of Danzig mayor
 * Reinhold Curicke (1610-1667), jurist, historian
 * Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), astronomer.
 * Georg Daniel Schultz (1615–1683), painter
 * Bogusław Radziwiłł (1620–1669), Prince of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Reichsfürst of the HRE, governor of Ducal Prussia
 * Andreas Schlüter (1659–c.1714), architect and sculptor
 * Daniel Ernst Jablonski (1660–1741) a theologian.
 * Jacob Theodor Klein (1685–1759), jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat
 * Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt (1685–1735) physician, naturalist, geographer
 * Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736) a physicist, inventor and scientific instrument maker.
 * Gottfried Lengnich (1689-1774), jurist, historian



18th C

 * Johann Valentin Haidt (1700-1780), painter and preacher
 * Daniel Gralath (1708–1767), physicist and Bürgermeister (mayor) of Danzig
 * Louise Adelgunde Gottsched (1713–1762), writer
 * Nikita Panin (1718–1783) a Russian statesman and political mentor to Catherine the Great.
 * Sir Trevor Corry (1724-1780), diplomat; Baron of Poland; British Consul to Danzig 1745–1780
 * Daniel Chodowiecki (1726–1801), artist and painter.
 * Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734–1823), Prince, writer, literary and theatre critic.
 * Michał Jerzy Poniatowski (1736–1794), primate of Poland
 * Johann Wilhelm Archenholz (1741–1812), historian and publicist.
 * Avraham Danzig (1748–1820), rabbi
 * Georg Forster (1754–1794), naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary.
 * Jacob Kabrun Jr. (1759-1814), merchant, book and art collector, and philanthropist
 * Jakob Sigismund Beck (1761–1840) a philosopher.
 * Johanna Schopenhauer (1766–1838), author; mother of Arthur Schopenhauer
 * Johannes Daniel Falk (1768–1826), poet and educator.
 * Antonio Casimir Cartellieri (1772–1807), composer
 * Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), philosopher.



19th C

 * Heinrich von Zastrow (1801–1875), general
 * Heinrich Wilhelm Zimmerman (1805-1841), portrait painter
 * Rachel Meyer (1806-1874), writer
 * Joachim Marquardt (1812–1882) an historian and writer on Roman antiquities.
 * Eduard Hildebrandt (1818–1868) a landscape painter.
 * Ernst Förstemann (1822–1906), historian, mathematician, philologist
 * Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf (1832–1891), general, writer.
 * Eduard Winkelmann (1838–1896) an historian.
 * Stefan Pawlicki (1839–1916), Catholic priest and philosopher
 * Anna Tuschinski (1841–1939), Esperantist
 * Fritz von Below (1853–1918), general
 * Otto von Below (1857–1944), general
 * August von Brandis (1859–1947), artist
 * Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916) psychologist.
 * Max Halbe (1865–1944), writer
 * Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), feminist, writer and journalist
 * Max Adalbert (1874–1933), actor
 * Alfred Stock (1876–1946), chemist
 * Carl Schuricht (1880–1967), conductor
 * Marta Wittkowska (1882–1977), contralto opera singer
 * Alice Wosikowski (1886–1949), politician, resistance activist
 * Gerhard Rose (1896–1992), expert on tropical medicine



1900 - 1945

 * Gerhard Krüger (1908–1994), a Nazi Party student leader
 * Hermann Diamanski (1909–1976), German resistance fighter
 * Alfred Zeidler (born 1909), German SS concentration camp commandant
 * Mathias Goeritz (1915–1990), artist
 * Alexander Salkind (1921–1997), film producer
 * Wanda Klaff (1922–1946), German Nazi concentration camp overseer executed for war crimes
 * Heinz-Hermann Koelle (1922–2011), German-American aeronautical and rocket engineer
 * Elisabeth Becker (1923–1946), German SS concentration camp guard executed for war crimes
 * Miltiades Caridis (1923–1998), conductor
 * Eddi Arent (1925–2013), actor and comedian
 * Meir Shamgar (1925–2019), President of the Israel Supreme Court
 * Zygmunt Chychła (1926–2009), boxer
 * Jack Mandelbaum (1927–2023), subject of Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
 * Günter Grass (1927–2015), writer, recipient of 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * Henry Rosovsky (1927–2022), economist
 * Zalman Shoval (born 1930), diplomat and politician
 * Wolfgang Völz (1930–2018), actor and voice actor
 * Ingrid van Bergen (born 1931), actress
 * Jan Strelau (1931–2020), psychologist
 * Jutta Meischner (born 1935), classical archeologist
 * Richard Pratt (1935-2009), Australian businessman and philanthropist
 * Holger Czukay (1938–2017), musician
 * Wawrzyniec Samp (born 1939), sculptor and graphic artist
 * Matthias Habich (born 1940), actor
 * Heidrun Mohr-Mayer (1941–2014), jeweler
 * Ryszard Horodecki (born 1943), physicist
 * Lech Wałęsa (born 1943), politician
 * Detlev Buchholz (born 1944), theoretical physicist

Since 1945

 * Józef Borzyszkowski (born 1946), historian, politician and Kashubian activist
 * Krzysztof Majchrzak (born 1948), film actor
 * Jacek Namieśnik (1949–2019), chemist
 * Andrzej Szarmach (born 1950), football player
 * Krzysztof Kolberger (1950–2011), actor
 * Jan de Weryha-Wysoczanski (born 1950), sculptor
 * Bogusław Jackowski (born 1950), computer scientist
 * Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak (born 1951), film actress
 * Jerzy Samp (born 1951), writer and historian
 * Bogdan Wojciszke (born 1952), psychologist
 * Maciej Żylicz (born 1953), biochemist and molecular biologist
 * Tomasz Imieliński (born 1954), computer scientist
 * Janusz Pawliszyn (born 1954), chemist
 * Janina Ochojska (born 1955), humanitarian, social activist and astronomer, founder and director of the Polish Humanitarian Action
 * Jolanta Kwaśniewska (born 1955), former First Lady of Poland
 * Krzysztof Pastor (born 1956), dancer, choreographer and director of the Polish National Ballet
 * Barbara Tuge-Erecińska (born 1956), diplomat
 * Pawel Huelle (born 1957), writer and journalist
 * Donald Tusk (born 1957), former President of the European Council & Prime Minister of Poland, journalist and historian
 * Marek Kamiński (born 1964), traveler
 * Paweł Adamowicz (1965–2019), politician, Mayor of Gdańsk
 * Aneta Kręglicka (born 1965), model and dancer, Miss World 1989
 * Grzegorz Kacała (born 15 1966), rugby player
 * Giennadij Jerszow (born 1967), sculptor
 * Dariusz Michalczewski (born 1968), boxer
 * Mariusz Podkościelny (born 1968), freestyle swimmer and swimming coach
 * Leszek Mozdzer (born 1971), jazz pianist
 * Tomasz Wałdoch (born 1971), footballer
 * Adam Korol (born 20 August 1974), rower and Olympic champion
 * Sławomir Nowak (born 1974), former Minister of Transport & Construction
 * Szymon Roginski (born 1975), photographer
 * Agnieszka Chylińska (born 1976), singer-songwriter, actress, author and television personality
 * Gregorz Szamotulski (born 1976), footballer
 * Jarosław Wałęsa (born 1976), politician, son of Lech Wałęsa
 * Adam Darski (born 1977), singer and guitarist, frontman of extreme metal band Behemoth
 * Robert Kempiński (born 1977), chess grandmaster
 * Tomasz Schafernaker (born 1979), Polish-British meteorologist for BBC Weather
 * Jacek Dehnel (1980), writer, poet, translator and painter
 * Magdalena Tul (born 1980), singer and composer
 * Dawid Tomaszewski (born 1980), fashion designer
 * Jakobe Mansztajn (born 1982), poet, blogger
 * Magdalena Frąckowiak (born 1984), model
 * Ewa Juszkiewicz (born 1984), painter
 * Izu Ugonoh (born 1986), boxer and mixed martial artist
 * Piotr Witkowski (born 1988), actor
 * Oskar Piechota (born 1990), mixed martial artist
 * Hania Rani (born 1990), pianist, composer and singer
 * Moustapha M'Baye (born 1992), volleyball player
 * Mateusz Biskup (born 1994), rower
 * Mateusz Mach (born 1997), entrepreneur and investor
 * Mikolaj Oledzki (born 1998), Rugby League player