List of people from Poznań

The following is a list of people from Poznań in Poland.




 * Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki (1797–1873), Polish explorer and geologist
 * Akiva Eiger (1761–1837), Rabbi of Poznań (1815–1837)
 * Alfred Jodl (1890–1946), German WW2 military commander executed for war crimes
 * Andrzej Niegolewski (1787–1857), colonel
 * Anna Anderson (1896–1984), pretender of Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia
 * Anna Jantar (1950–1980), a popular Polish singer, who perished in a plane crash.
 * Anna Suszczynska (1877–1931), composer
 * Anna Wolff-Powęska (born 1941), historian
 * Antoni Czubiński (1928–2003), historian
 * Antoni Kraszewski (1797–1870), politician
 * Antoni Radziwiłł (1775–1833), aristocrat
 * Arkadiusz Głowacki (born 1979), footballer
 * Arthur Liebehenschel (1901–1948), Nazi commandant of Auschwitz and Majdanek executed for war crimes
 * August Cieszkowski (1814–1894), philosopher
 * Barbara Maria Zakrzewska-Nikiporczyk (born 1946), composer
 * Bohdan Smoleń (1947–2016), comedian and actor
 * Catherine Opalińska (1680–1747), Queen consort of Poland, Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania
 * Cyryl Ratajski (1875–1942), mayor of Poznań
 * Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915–2006), operatic and concert lyric soprano, born in Jarocin
 * Dezydery Chłapowski (1788–1848), general
 * Eduard Gerhard (1795–1867), archaeologist.
 * Edward Raczyński (1786–1845), politician
 * Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937), general and politician
 * Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz (1895–1963), historian
 * Ewaryst Estkowski (1820–1856), teacher
 * Franciszek Dobrowolski (1830–1896), theater director
 * Fredrak Fraske (1872–1973), the last surviving United States veteran of the Indian Wars
 * Friedrich Goltz (1834–1902), physiologist
 * Gerard Ettinger (1909–2002), designer and manufacturer of leather goods.
 * Gerard Labuda (1916–2010), historian
 * Gerhard Flesch (1909–1948), German Nazi Gestapo and SS officer executed for war crimes
 * Germaine Krull (1897–1985), photographer
 * Grzegorz Nowak (born 1951), conductor
 * Gustaw Potworowski, (1800–1860), activist
 * Günther von Kluge (1882–1944), Field Marshal
 * Hanna Banaszak (born 1957), singer, poet
 * Hayim ben Bezalel (died 1588), rabbi
 * Heinrich Caro (1834–1910), chemist
 * Heinrich Graetz (1817–1891) historian, wrote a history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective.
 * Heinrich Mendelssohn (1881–1959), building tycoon
 * Henryk Zygalski (1906–1978), cryptoanalist, Enigma codemachine codebreaker
 * Herbert Baum (1912–1942) resistance fighter
 * Hipolit Cegielski (1815–1868), businessman
 * Hubert Wagner (1941–2002), volleyball player and head coach of Poland men's national volleyball team
 * Ignacy Posadzy, (1898–1984), priest
 * Isidor Ascheim (1891–1968), painter and printmaker
 * Jakub Kucner (born 1988), male model
 * Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (born 1954), composer
 * Jan Szymański (born 1989), speed skater and Olympic medalist
 * Jan Węglarz (born 1947), computer scientist
 * Janusz Pałubicki (born 1948), politician
 * Jarosław Leitgeber (1848–1933), purveyor of Polish books under partitions
 * Jean Gebser (1905–1973), human consciousness scientist
 * Jerzy Różycki (1909–1942), cryptoanalist, Enigma codemachine codebreaker
 * Jerzy Topolski (1928–1998), historian
 * Joanna Hoffmann-Dietrich (born 1968), artist and academic
 * Johannes Gad (1842–1926), neurophysiologist
 * John Jonston (1603–1675), naturalist and physician
 * Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512 or 1526–1609), important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher
 * Józef Struś (1510–1568), scientist and mayor of Poznań
 * Karl-Friedrich Merten (1905–1993), U-boat commander
 * Karol Libelt (1807–1875), philosopher
 * Karol Marcinkowski (1800–1848), physician and social activist
 * Kasper Goski (died 1576), Mayor of Poznań, astrologer and medical doctor
 * Katarzyna Bujakiewicz (born 1972), actress
 * Kazimierz Kordylewski (1903–1981), Polish astronomer, claimed discovery of Kordylewski Clouds
 * Kazimierz Piwarski, (1903–1968), historian
 * Konstanty Gorski (1859–1924), composer and violinist
 * Krystyna Feldman (1916–2007), actress
 * Krzysztof Komeda (1931–1969), jazz musician
 * Kurt Demmler (1943–2009), songwriter; accused of sexual abuse he hanged himself in his jail cell
 * Lech Trzeciakowski (1931–2017), historian
 * Leo Königsberger (1837–1921), mathematician
 * Leon Wegner (1824–1873), economist
 * Leopold Damrosch (1832–1885), conductor
 * Lilli Palmer (1914–1986), actress
 * Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886–1941), German U-boat commander
 * Ludwig Dessoir, (1810–1874), actor
 * Maciej Zaremba (born 1951), a Swedish journalist
 * Magda Linette (born 1992), tennis player
 * Maksymilian Jackowski (1815–1905), activist
 * Marcin Rożek (1885–1944), sculptor and painter
 * Marek Karpinski, computer scientist
 * Małgorzata Dydek (1974–2011), basketball player
 * Maria and Bogdan Kalinowski, (1945–2020) & (1939–2017) filmgoing couple
 * Marian Rejewski (1905–1980), cryptoanalist, Enigma codemachine codebreaker
 * Małgorzata Musierowicz (born 1945), novelist
 * Michał Goliński (born 1981), footballer
 * Michał Sczaniecki (1910–1977), historian
 * Mirosław Szymkowiak (born 1976) football player
 * Paul Leonhardt (1877–1934), chess master
 * Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), Field Marshal and President of the Weimar Republic
 * Ryszard "Peja" Andrzejewski (born 1976), rapper
 * Piotr Hofmański (born 1956), jurist and current International Criminal Court President
 * Rafał Szukała (born 1971), butterfly swimmer
 * Ray Wilson (born 1968), former vocalist of Genesis
 * Richard Kandt (1867–1918), doctor and explorer
 * Richard Rothe (1799–1867), Lutheran theologian.
 * Robert Buech (1870–1949), politician
 * Roman Wilhelmi (1936–1991), actor
 * Samuel Holdheim (1806–1860), a German rabbi and author.
 * Stanisław Barańczak (1946–2014), poet
 * Szymon Ziółkowski (born 1976), hammer thrower, Olympic champion
 * Teofil Matecki (1810–1886), philosopher
 * Tomasz Dietl (born 1950), physicist
 * Tommy Wiseau (born 1955), director, screenwriter, and actor, known for cult film The Room, speculated to be born here
 * Tytus Działyński (1796–1861), political activist
 * Urszula Sipińska (born 1947), singer-songwriter, pianist and architect
 * Weronika Książkiewicz (born 1981), actress
 * Wojciech Fibak (born 1952), tennis player
 * Władysław Markiewicz (1920–2017), sociologist
 * Władysław Niegolewski (1814–1880), politician
 * Władysław Oleszczyński (1809–1866), sculptor
 * Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017), sociologist
 * Zygmunt Wojciechowski, (1900–1955), historian and founder of the Western Institute