- Jarosław Hampel
Jarosław "Jarek" Hampel is a Polish Speedway rider and a participant of the FIM Speedway Grand Prix in 2006. He received his speedway license in 1998 with the Polish team Polonia Piła, although he first started racing on a mini-track in Pawłowice, close to the city of Leszno.
- Krzysztof Kasprzak
Krzysztof Kasprzak - a Polish motorcycle speedway rider; World and European champion. In 2005 Krzysztof Kasprzak became World Under-21 speedway champion. He has been a wild card rider in three Speedway Grand Prix, in 2004 at Bydgoszcz and in 2005 and 2006 at Wrocław. In 2005 Kasprzak won European Pairs Championship and Team Junior World Championship U-21. He is a son of former Polish national speedway team member Zenon Kasprzak.
- Lech Janerka
Lech Janerka is a Polish composer and bassist. In the 1980s he was leader of a notable Polish post-punk/new wave band called Klaus Mitffoch from Wrocław.
- Bogdan Zdrojewski
Bogdan Zdrojewski is a Polish politician who was the first president of Wrocław after the fall of communism in Poland, and held the seat in the years 1990 to 2001. Afterwards, he has been a senator and member of the Polish Sejm
- Maria Peszek
Maria Peszek is a Polish actress, singer and songwriter. She was born in Wrocław, Poland into a family of actors. She debuted in a theatrical adaptation of "Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass" in 1995 at Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Kraków. She graduated from acting school in Kraków in 1996. Since her appearance in "Dom Juan" in 1996 she became associated with Studio Theatre in Warsaw.
- Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski
Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 46736 votes in 3 Wrocław district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list. He was also a member of Sejm 1991-1993, Sejm 1997-2001, and Sejm 2001-2005.
- Marek Hłasko
Marek Hłasko – a writer and a famous figure of Polish post-war literature.
- Beata Kempa
Beata Kempa is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 5378 votes in 3 Wrocław district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.
- Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful Polish writers of her generation, particularly noted for the hallmark mythical tone of her writing. Before starting her literary career, from 1980 Tokarczuk trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw. During her studies, she volunteered in an asylum for adolescents with behavioural problems. After her graduation in 1985, she moved first to Wrocław and later to Wałbrzych, …
- Roman Polko
Brigadier General Roman Polko is a Polish Army officer, commander of "GROM". Polko graduated from the"Tadeusz Kościuszko Land Forces Military Academy" in Wrocław. He served in a reconnaissance unit in Dziwnowo, then in the "1st Special Regiment" in Lubliniec, as commander of commando groups. From 1992 until 1994 he took part in the UNPROFOR peace mission in former Yugoslavia. In 1994 Polko began to study at the "Academy of National Defence" in Warsaw, …
- Leon Kieres
Leon Kieres is a Polish historian. He was the president of a Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (Institute of National Remembrance) (8 June 2000 - 22 December 2005). Leon Kieres was born on May 25, 1948 in Kolonia Zielona, Poland. He graduated from the University of Wrocław, the Department of Law. Since 1971 he has been working as an academic teacher at the Department of Law and Administration at the University of Wrocław.
- Henryk Gulbinowicz
Cardinal Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz (17 october, 1923 in Szukiszki near Wilno, Poland (now Lithuania)) is member of the clergy of Białystok, Archbishop emeritus of Wrocław and Cardinal Priest. He entered the archdiocesan seminary where he completed his secondary studies, before being transferred to Białystok. He was ordained by Archbishop Romuald Jalbrzykowski on 18 June 1950, and was an associate pastor at Szudzialowo.
- Henryk Tomaszewski
Henryk Tomaszewski aka Heinrich Karl Koenig was a mime artist and theatre director, born in Poznań, Poland. He settled in Cracow in 1945 to study theatre after the end of World War II during which he studied at Iwo Gall's Theatre Studio from 1945 to 1947 and ballet under Feliks Parnell. Tomaszewski left Parnell's company in 1949 and resettled in Wrocław, where he taught ballet and began to develop his concepts in mime.
- Adam Asnyk
Adam Asnyk, was a Polish poet and dramatist. Born September 11, 1838 in Kalisz to a szlachta family, he was educated for a heir of his family's estate. As such he received education at the Institute of Agriculture and Forestry in Marymont and then the Medical Surgeon School in Warsaw. He continued his studies abroad in Breslau, Paris and Heidelberg. In 1862 he returned to Congress Poland and took part in the January Uprising against Russia.
- Edith Stein
Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 - August 9, 1942) was a philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died at Auschwitz. In 1922, she converted to Christianity, was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church and was received into the Discalced Carmelite Order in 1934. She was canonized as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (her Carmelite monastic name) by Pope John Paul II in 1998; however, she is still often referred to, …
- Dawid Jackiewicz
Dawid Jackiewicz is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 12362 votes in 3 Wrocław district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.He killed innocent man a few months ago.
- Jan Borysewicz
Jan Borysewicz is the co-founder and guitar player for Lady Pank, a Polish rock band and composes most of their music.
- Henryk Iv Probus
Henry, nicknamed "Probus" (Latin for "righteous"; 1258? - 1290) became Duke "Heinrich von Breslau" of the Silesian territory of Wrocław circa 1270, and senior prince of Poland from 1288 until his death in 1290. His cousin Venceslaus II of Bohemia inherited his territory upon his death.
- Aleksandra Natalli-Świat
Aleksandra Natalli-Świat is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 5068 votes in 3 Wrocław district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.
- Ewa Wolak
Ewa Wolak is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 3465 votes in 3 Wrocław district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list.
- Paul McCreesh
Paul McCreesh is an English conductor. Paul McCreesh is founder and artistic director of the Gabrieli Consort & Players, with whom he has established himself at the highest level in the period instrument field; he is recognised for his authoritative and innovative performances on the concert platform and the opera house. He is director of the Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Wrocław, Poland.
- Janusz Dobrosz
Janusz Dobrosz is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 14655 votes in 3 Wrocław district, candidating from Liga Polskich Rodzin list. He was also a member of PRL Sejm 1989-1991, Sejm 1993-1997, Sejm 1997-2001, and Sejm 2001-2005.
- Eugeniusz Dębski
Eugeniusz Dębski is a Polish science-fiction writer and translator of Russian literature. Born January 26, 1952 in Truskawiec, early in his life he moved to Wrocław where he graduated from the Russian faculty of the Wrocław University. He is known primarily as the author of numerous novels (mostly S-f and fantasy), and several hundred short stories, published in some of the most renown Polish journals, among them Fantastyka, Nowa Fantastyka, Science-Fiction, …
- Janusz Krasoń
Janusz Krasoń is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 15,162 votes in 3 Wrocław district, candidating from Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej list. He was also a member of Sejm 2001-2005.
- Angelus Silesius
Angelus Silesius, a German mystic-poet, was born in Breslau, Silesia. His family name was Johann Scheffler, but he is generally known by the pseudonym Angelus Silesius, under which he published his poems and which marks the country of his birth. His father moved from Krakow in 1618 and became a citizen of Breslau, Johann was brought up a Lutheran and educated as scientist and physician. He was at first physician to the duke of Württemberg-Oels, …
- Jonasz Kofta
Jonasz Kofta was a Polish songwriter and poet. The Kofta family came to Warsaw after the Second World War and later lived in Wrocław and Poznań. The Jonasz's father was a Jew. In 1961 Kofta received his Matura in High School of Arts in Poznań and apparently began to study painting in Warsaw. By this time he had began to write poetry and cabaret numbers. Together with Adam Kreczmar and Jan Pietrzak he opened in 1962 the student cabaret club "Hybrydy" in Warsaw.
- Arnold Buzdygan
Arnold Buzdygan was born September 9, 1968. He is a Polish entrepreneur, computer graphics designer, and a well-known, controversial figure of the Polish Usenet. In the years 1997-2003 he was the CEO of ASTEC SA in Wrocław, a small ISP. Currently he's the CEO of "Elita.pl", a 3D production house. In 2002, he founded STI, an Internet-based authors' association that requested tantiems on various copyrighted materials, including Usenet posts, …
- Jarosław Duda
Jarosław Duda is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 5901 votes in 3 Wrocław district, candidating from the Platforma Obywatelska list. He was also a member of Sejm 2001-2005.
- Rafał Kubacki
Rafał Kubacki is a Polish judoka. He is known from his role as Ursus (Lygia's huge bodyguard) in "Quo Vadis" (2001 film) directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. He has also entered politics; first as a member of the "Samoobrona" (self-defense), he now represents Polish People's Party (PSL). He has been unsuccessful in his bid to be the president (mayor) of Wrocław.
- Jan Styka
Jan Styka was an ethnic Polish-born painter noted for producing large historical and Christian religion panoramas. Styka, son of an officer in Austria-Hungary, attended school in his native Lemberg (L'viv Lwów) then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, …
- Otto Stern
Otto Stern was a German physicist and Nobel laureate. Stern was born in Sohrau (Żory) in the German Empire's Kingdom of Prussia (now in Poland) and studied at Breslau (Wrocław) in Lower Silesia. Stern completed his studies at the University of Breslau in 1912 with a doctor's degree in physical chemistry. He then followed Albert Einstein to Charles University in Prague and in later to ETH Zurich.
- Jerzy Szacki
Jerzy Ryszard Szacki (b. 6 February 1929, Warsaw) is a Polish sociologist and historian of ideas, and emeritus professor of the University of Warsaw. After World War II, worked for the Polish Telephone Authority, first as a locksmith, later in a desk job. In 1948, he began to study sociology at the University of Warsaw.
- Friedrich Bergius
Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from lignite coal. Berigus was born near Breslau (Wrocław), within the German Empire's Prussian Province of Silesia. He and Carl Bosch won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1931 in recognition of their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods. After World War II, he moved to Argentina, where he died in 1949.
- Aldona Młyńczak
Aldona Młyńczak is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 2903 votes in 3 Wrocław district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list.
- Andrzej Jerzy Lech
Andrzej Jerzy Lech - Born January 22, 1955 in Wrocław, Poland, is a Polish artist, photographer. In the years 1981-1984 hi studied at the Faculty of Fine Art Photography at the School of Visual Arts in Ostrava, the Czech Republic, in the workshop of Borek Sousedik. In 1983 hi became known as the main creator of the elementary photography movement, related to the minimalist stance. His exhibit from the same year, titled "60 Gates", …
- Wanda Rutkiewicz
Wanda Rutkiewicz was born on February 4, 1943 in Plungiany, Poland (today Lithuania). She died either on May 12 or May 13, 1992, while climbing Kangchenjunga. After World War II the Soviet Union annexed the eastern parts of Poland so her family moved to Wrocław in western Poland where she graduated as electrical engineer. Wanda Rutkiewicz (pron. "van"-dah root-"kie"-vitch) is regarded as one of the greatest woman mountaineers ever.
- Roger Moorhouse
Roger Moorhouse is a British historian and author. Though born in Stockport, Cheshire, he was raised in Hertfordshire and was educated at Berkhamsted School. Inspired by the East European revolutions of 1989, he enrolled in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of London University in 1990 to study history and politics. He graduated with an MA in 1994 and has since studied at the universities of Düsseldorf and Strathclyde.
- Daniel Harrwitz
Daniel Harrwitz was a Jewish German chess master. Harrwitz was born in Breslau (Wrocław) in the Prussian Province of Silesia. He established his reputation in Paris, particularly as a player of blindfold games. He lost a match in England to Howard Staunton in 1846, and drew a match with Adolf Anderssen in Germany in 1848. Harrwitz lived in England from 1849 and founded the British Chess Review.
- Reinhard Selten
Reinhard Selten is a German economist. Selten was born in Breslau (Wrocław) in Lower Silesia, now in Poland. For his work in game theory, Selten won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (shared with John Harsanyi and John Nash). He is also well known for his work in bounded rationality, and can be considered as one of the founding fathers of experimental economics. He developed an example of a game called Selten's Horse because of its extensive form representation.
- Piotr Włostowic
Piotr Włostowic, also known as Peter Wlast, "Włost" or "Piotr Włast Dunin"), from a Danish family, was a Silesian noble, castellan of Wroclaw/Breslau, and a ruler ("możnowładca") of part of Silesia. From 1117 he was voivode ("palatyn") of the king of Poland, Bolesław III Wrymouth. Part of the Łabędzie family, and son of Włostowic, he is likely to have been related to older princes of Silesia.