Lists of Gedanian natives
List of famous people born in the city;(which on Wikipedia is referred to as Gdańsk for periods of time before 1308 and after 1945, and Danzig for the period between 1308 and 1945):
- Johannes Dantiscus, 1485, poet, church canon and bishop
- Bernhard von Reesen, 1490
- Albrecht Giese IV, 1524
- Anton van Obberghen, 1543, architect
- Anton Möller, 1563, painter
- Raynold Curicke, 1610-1667, jurist, historian
- Johannes Hevelius, 1611, astronomer
- Georg Daniel Schultz, 1615
- Bogusław Radziwiłł, 1620, Prince of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, of HRE, governor of Ducal Prussia, also (Reichsfürst) of HRE
- Andreas Schlüter, 1660
- Jacob Theodor Klein, 1685
- Gottfried Lengnich, 1689-1774, jurist, historian
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, 1686-1736, physicist and engineer
- Daniel Gralath, 1708
- Louise Adelgunde Gottsched, 1713
- Daniel Chodowiecki, 1726, artist painter
- Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, 1734, prince
- Michał Jerzy Poniatowski, 1736, primate of Poland
- Johann Wilhelm Archenholz, 1741
- Georg Forster, 1754
- Johanna Schopenhauer, 1766
- Johannes Daniel Falk, 1768
- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788
- Max Halbe, 1865
- Brunon Zwarra, b. 1919
- Günter Grass, b. 1927, writer and philosopher
- Vera Klement, b. 1929, painter
- Herlind Kasner, née Jentzsch, mother of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, b. 1928.
- Holger Czukay, b. 1938, musician
- Wawrzyniec Samp, b. 1939, sculptor and graphic artist
- Matthias Habich, b. 1940, actor
- Ryszard Grodnicki, b. 1947, painter, photographer
- Andrzej Szarmach, b. 1950, football player
- Krzysztof Kolberger, b. 1950, actor
- Jan de Weryha-Wysoczanski, b. 1950, sculptor
- Jerzy Samp, b. 1951, writer and historian
- Jolanta Kwaśniewska, b 1955, former first lady
- Paweł Huelle, b. 1957, writer and journalist
- Donald Tusk, b. 1957, politician, journalist and historian
- Marek Kamiński, b. 1964, traveller
- Paweł Adamowicz, b. 1965, politician
- Dariusz Michalczewski, b. 1968, boxer
- Mariusz Podkoscielny, b. 1968, freestyle swimmer and swimming coach
- David Obozowik, b. 1980, Polish artist and model currently living in Los Angeles