Ben-Gurion, David (Plonsk)
Prime Minister of Israel (1949-53 and 1955-63)
Famous People from Poland
From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:
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Chopin, Frederic (Warsaw) (Zelazowa Wola)
Romantic Polish-French piano composer of piano etudes and so on -
Copernicus, Nicolas (Torun)
Astronomer known for figuring out that the sun is the center of our solar system -
Curie, Marie (Warsaw)
Discoverer of radium and polonium -
Haber, Fritz (Wroclaw)
The German chemist who made fertilizer and poison gas in World War I -
Kinski, Klaus (Zoppot (now Sopot))
Star of Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God -
Lem, Stanislaw (Lwów)
The author of Solaris -
Pawlikowski, Pawel (Warsaw)
The writer/director of the film 'Cold War' -
Peres, Shimon (Vishneva)
The 8th prime minister of Israel -
Pope John Paul II (Wadowice)
History's first Polish pope -
Pulaski, Casimir (Warka-Winiary)
Polish general of the Revolutionary War -
Shamir, Yitzhak (Ruzinoy)
Prime Minister of Israel, 1983-1984 and 1986-1992 -
Walesa, Lech (Popowo)
Trade union activist who became president of Poland -
Walsh, Stella (Wierchownen)
The female Olympic sprinter who turned out to be a man -
Wilder, Billy (Sucha)
Director of Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot -
Wrobel, Magdalena (Gdansk)
Wonderbra pitchwoman -
Zamenhof, Ludwig Lazarus (Bialystok)
The inventor of the language Esperanto