List of people from Gdańsk

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

Johannes Hevelius

Daniel Schultz

Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski

Arthur Schopenhauer

Günter Grass

Meir Shamgar

Dariusz Michalczewski

Donald Tusk

Jolanta Kwaśniewska

Magdalena Frąckowiak

Leszek Możdżer

• 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 (born 1490), businessman painted by Albrecht Dürer
• 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
• Constantia Czirenberg/Zierenberg (1605–1653), daughter of Danzig mayor, married to Sigmund Kerschenstein in 1628
• 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
• Jacob Theodor Klein (1685–1759), jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat
• Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt (1685–1735) physician, naturalist, geographer
• Gottfried Lengnich (1689-1774), jurist, historian
• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), physicist and engineer
• Johann Valentin Haidt (1700-1780), painter and preacher
• Daniel Gralath (1708–1767), physicist and Bürgermeister (mayor) of Danzig
• Louise Adelgunde Gottsched (1713–1762), writer
• Sir Trevor Corry (1724-1780), British diplomat; Baron of Poland; British Consul to Danzig 1745–1780[1]
• Daniel Chodowiecki (1726–1801), artist painter
• Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734–1823), prince
• 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
• 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
• Heinrich von Zastrow, (1801–1875), general
• Rachel Meyer (1806-1874), writer
• Ernst Förstemann (1822–1906), historian, mathematician, philologist
• Stefan Pawlicki (1839–1916), Catholic priest and philosopher
• Otto von Below (1857–1944), general
• Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf (1832–1891), general, writer
• Fritz von Below (1853–1918), 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
• Gerhard Krüger (1908–1994)
• 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 (born 1926), 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 (born 1927), 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
• 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
• Józef Borzyszkowski (born 1946), historian, politician, founder of the Kashubian Institute in Gdańsk
• 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
• 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
• 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), President of the European Council, former 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
• 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 Waldoch (born 1971), footballer
• Adam Korol (born 20 August 1974), rower and Olympic champion
• Sławomir Nowak (born 1974), former Minister of Transport, Construction and Marine Economy of Poland
• 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
• Magdalena Tul (born 1980), singer and composer
• Dawid Tomaszewski (born 1980), fashion designer
• Jakobe Mansztajn (born 1982), poet, blogger
• Magdalena Frackowiak (born 1984), model
• Izu Ugonoh (born 1986), boxer and mixed martial artist
• Oskar Piechota (born 1990), mixed martial artist
• Mateusz Biskup (born 1994), rower
• Mateusz Mach (born 1997), entrepreneur and investor
• Mikolaj Oledzki (born 1998), Rugby League player