List of people from Gdańsk
This is a list of people from Gdańsk (Danzig).
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- Conrad Letzkau, d. 1412, mayor, executed by the Teutonic Knights
- Tiedemann Giese, 1480, bishop
- Johannes Dantiscus, 1485, poet, church canon and bishop
- Bernhard von Reesen, 1490, businessman painted by Albrecht Dürer
- Albrecht Giese, 1524, councillor and diplomat
- Caspar Schütz, ca. 1540 Eisleben-1594 Danzig, Prussian historian
- Anton Möller, 1563, painter
- Bartholomäus Keckermann (c. 1571-1608), writer and Calvinist theologist
- Regina Basilier (1572-1631), German-Swedish merchant banker
- Constantia Czirenberg/Zierenberg, born 1605, daughter of Danzig mayor, married to Sigmund Kerschenstein in 1628
- Reinhold Curicke, 1610-1667, jurist, historian
- Johannes Hevelius, 1611, astronomer
- Georg Daniel Schultz, 1615, painter
- Bogusław Radziwiłł, 1620, Prince of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Reichsfürst of the HRE, governor of Ducal Prussia
- Andreas Schlüter, 1660, architect and sculptor
- Jacob Theodor Klein, 1685, jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat
- Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt, 1685 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, physicist and Bürgermeister (mayor) of Danzig
- Louise Adelgunde Gottsched, 1713, writer
- Sir Trevor Corry (1724-1780), British diplomat; Baron of Poland; British Consul to Danzig 1745–1780[1]
- Daniel Chodowiecki, 1726, artist painter
- Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, 1734, prince
- Michał Jerzy Poniatowski, 1736, primate of Poland
- Johann Wilhelm Archenholz, 1741, historian and publicist
- Avraham Danzig, 1748, rabbi
- Georg Forster, 1754, naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary
- Jacob Kabrun Jr. (1759-1814), merchant, book and art collector, and philanthropist
- Johanna Schopenhauer, 1766, author; mother of Arthur Schopenhauer
- Johannes Daniel Falk, 1768, poet and educator
- Antonio Casimir Cartellieri, 1772, composer
- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788, philosopher
- Heinrich von Zastrow, (1801-1875), general
- Rachel Meyer (1806-1874), writer
- Ernst Förstemann, 1822, historian, mathematician, philologist
- Otto von Below, 1823
- Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf, 1832, general, writer
- Fritz von Below, 1853-1918
- August von Brandis (1859-1947), artist
- Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916) psychologist
- Max Halbe, 1865, writer
- Max Adalbert (1874-1933), actor
- Alfred Stock (1876-1946), chemist
- Carl Schuricht (1880-1967), conductor
- 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, b. 1923
- Eddi Arent, b. 1925, actor and comedian
- Meir Shamgar, b. 1925, President of the Israel Supreme Court
- Jack Mandelbaum, b. 1926, subject of Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
- Günter Grass, b. 1927, writer, recipient of 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Henry Rosovsky, b. 1927, economist
- Zalman Shoval, b. 1930, diplomat and politician
- Wolfgang Völz, b. 1930, actor and voice actor
- Jutta Meischner, b. 1935, classical archeologist
- Holger Czukay, b. 1938, musician
- Wawrzyniec Samp, b. 1939, sculptor and graphic artist
- Matthias Habich, b. 1940, actor
- Heidrun Mohr-Mayer, b. 1941, jeweler
- Józef Borzyszkowski, b. 1946, historian, politician, founder of the Kashubian Institute in Gdańsk
- 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
- Tomasz Imieliński, b. 1954, computer scientist
- Jolanta Kwaśniewska, b. 1955, former First Lady of Poland
- Krzysztof Pastor, b. 1956, dancer, choreographer and director of the Polish National Ballet
- Pawel Huelle, b. 1957, writer and journalist
- Donald Tusk, b. 1957, President of the European Council, former Prime Minister of Poland, journalist and historian
- Marek Kamiński, b. 1964, traveler
- Paweł Adamowicz (1965-2019), politician
- Aneta Kręglicka, b. 1965, Miss World 1989
- Dariusz Michalczewski, b. 1968, boxer
- Mariusz Podkościelny, b. 1968, freestyle swimmer and swimming coach
- Leszek Mozdzer, b. 1971, jazz pianist
- Tomasz Waldoch, b. 1971, footballer
- Sławomir Nowak, b. 1974, former Minister of Transport, Construction and Marine Economy of Poland
- Gregorz Szamotulski, b. 1976, footballer
- Jakobe Mansztajn, b. 1982, poet, blogger
- Adam Darski, b. 1977, singer and guitarist
- Magdalena Frackowiak, b. 1984, model
- Izu Ugonoh, b. 1986, boxer
- Mikolaj Oledzki, b. 1998, Rugby League player.
See also
References
- ^ Bajer, Peter Paul (2012). Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries, p. 498. Brill,. ISBN 9004210652