List of personalities of the city of Łódź
The following list contains personalities born in Łódź , listed chronologically by year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities born in Łódź
Group of figures 'Three Factory Owners': Ludwik Grohman, Karl Wilhelm Scheibler , Izrael Poznański on Piotrkowska Street
To 1900
- Louis Geyer (1805–1869), manufacturer
- Willibald Hentschel (1858–1947), natural scientist and writer
- Samuel Hirszenberg (1865–1908), painter
- Nikodem Caro (1871-1935), chemist
- Tadeusz Miciński (1873-1918), writer
- Otto Pippel (1878–1960), German painter
- Roman Becker (1879–1949), German politician, member of the Reichstag
- Mieczysław Broński (1882–1938), social democrat, author and Soviet diplomat
- Paul Radin (1883-1959), anthropologist
- Chaim Müntz (1884–1956), mathematician
- Tadeusz Nalepiński (1885–1918), poet and writer
- Heinrich Wagner (1886–1945), German politician, member of the state parliament (KPD)
- Alexander Falzmann (1887–1942), clergyman and concentration camp victim
- Artur Rubinstein (1887–1982), pianist
- Franziska Baumgarten-Tramer (1889–1970), industrial psychologist and university teacher
- Oskar Seipold (1889–1966), communist politician
- Jadwiga Szmidt (1889–1940), pioneer of radioactivity and electrical engineering research
- Berta Schäfer (1890–1945), resistance fighter at the time of National Socialism
- Joseph Hecht (1891–1951), painter and graphic artist
- Karol Hiller (1891–1939), painter, graphic artist and photographer
- Marcel Słodki (1892–1943), painter, graphic artist and set designer
- Teodor Regedziński (1894–1954), chess player
- Arthur Szyk (1894–1951), artist
- Julian Tuwim (1894–1953), writer
- Theodore Abel (1896–1988), sociologist
- Alexandre Tansman (1897–1986), composer
- Lena Amsel (1898–1929), dancer and actress
- Morice Lipsi (1898–1986), French sculptor of Polish descent
- Rudolph Loewenstein (1898–1976), psychoanalyst
- Michał Kalecki (1899–1970), economist
- George Him (1900–1982), Polish-British graphic artist
- Paul Kletzki (1900–1973), born Paweł Klecki , conductor and composer
- William Perlberg (1900–1968), American film producer
- Abraham Plessner (1900–1961), mathematician
20th century
1901 to 1920
- Roman Cycowski (1901–1998), baritone with the Berliner Ensemble Comedian Harmonists
- Willy Zielke (1902–1989), photographer, director, cameraman, film editor and producer
- Casimir Oberfeld (1903–1945) Polish-French composer
- Stefan Rozental (1903–1994), nuclear physicist
- Ludwik Starski (1903–1984), screenwriter, songwriter and author
- George E. Stone (1903-1967), actor
- Adam Sznaidmil (1903–1943), member of the General Jewish Workers' Union
- Leon Großvogel (1904–1943), Comintern functionary and resistance fighter
- Witold Hurewicz (1904–1956), mathematician
- Karola Bloch (1905–1994), architect and publicist, communist and activist
- Günter Victor Schulz (1905–1999), chemist
- Zofia Poznańska (1906–1942), resistance fighter
- Leon Radzinowicz (1906–1999), criminologist
- Marian Spychalski (1906–1980), politician
- Władysław Eiger (1907–1991), composer
- Cäcilie Thiermann-Heise (1907–1986), graphic artist, painter and draftsman
- Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974), mathematician and biologist
- Max Diamant (1908–1992), journalist and trade unionist
- Zenon Kliszko (1908–1989), politician
- Józef Rotblat (1908–2005), Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969), composer
- Artur Pusz (1909–?), Track cyclist
- Hugo Karl Schmidt (1909–2009), pastor and author
- Olga Iliwicka-Dąbrowska (1910–1979), pianist and music teacher
- Jeremi Kubicki (1911–1938), painter
- Roman Kantor (1912–1943), fencer
- Henryk Trzonek (1912–1943), violist
- Boris Evsejewitsch Tschertok (1912–2011), Russian missile designer
- Aleksander Bardini (1913–1995), theater director and actor
- Maria Kwaśniewska (1913–2007), track and field athlete
- Mieczysław Moczar (1913–1986), politician
- Evsey D. Domar (1914-1997), economist
- Stefania Grodzieńska (1914–2010), dancer, columnist, radio announcer and actress
- Jan Karski (1914–2000), officer and courier in the Polish Home Army
- Wladislav Ostrowski (1914–?), Concentration camp prisoner
- Roman Ryterband (1914–1979), composer, conductor and pianist
- Michel Thomas (1914–2005), polyglot, linguist and language teacher
- Harry Hahn (1915–2003), chemist at the University of Hohenheim
- Karl Hemfler (1915–1995), lawyer, administrative officer and politician
- Alfred Orda (1915-2004), opera singer
- Bolesław Piasecki (1915–1979), politician, lawyer and officer
- Josef Schleifstein (1915–1992), philosopher, politician and Marxist theorist
- Henryka Słomczewska (1915–1998), long jumper
- Kazimierz Brandys (1916-2000), writer
- Serge Silberman (1917–2003), film producer
- Niuta Tajtelbaum (1917–1943), resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Artur Brauner (1918–2019), German film producer
- Władysław Kędra (1918–1968), pianist and music teacher
- Hanna Segal (1918–2011), psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and university professor
- Schlomo Arel (1920–2018), Israeli military
- Fayga Ostrower (1920–2001), painter and graphic artist
- Ludwik Jerzy Kern (1920–2010), writer, journalist and literary translator
1921 to 1940
- Karl Dedecius (1921–2016), writer and translator
- Marian Opala (1921-2010), Polish-American lawyer
- Franciszek Walicki (1921–2015), music journalist, publicist and songwriter
- Michalina Wisłocka (1921–2005), gynecologist, cytodiagnostic and sexologist
- Czesław Chruszczewski (1922–1982), journalist and writer
- Harry Freedman (1922–2005), Canadian composer, English horn player and music teacher
- Bruno Bergner (1923–1995), German painter and commercial artist
- Henry Morgentaler (1923–2013), doctor
- Robert Zajonc (1923–2008), professor of psychology
- Jacob Goldberg (1924–2011), historian of Eastern European history
- Zenon Płoszaj (1924–2003), violinist and music teacher
- Stanisław Trepczyński (1924–2002), politician and diplomat
- Noach Flug (1925–2011), Polish-Israeli economist, diplomat and Holocaust survivor
- Kurt Kelm (1925–2009), translator
- Richard Kriese (1925–2019), Baptist federal evangelist
- Fabian Gerson (1926–2011), Polish-Swiss chemist
- Esther Wertheimer (1926–2016), Polish-Canadian sculptor
- Edgar Jassmann (1927–1983), chemist
- Jan Machulski (1928–2008), actor
- Edwin Marian (1928–2018), director, author and actor
- Bruno Predel (1928–2007), German chemist
- Hilde Rosenberg (1928–2019), Hamburg original and victim of Nazi persecution
- Georg Süssmann (1928–2017), physicist
- Jack Tramiel (1928–2012), Polish-American entrepreneur and computer pioneer
- Kazimierz Chodakowski (1929–2017), ice hockey player
- Roman Kent (* 1929), President of the International Auschwitz Committee
- Lia Koenig (* 1929), Israeli actress
- Miłosz Magin (1929–1999), Polish-French pianist and composer
- Stanisław Mikulski (1929-2014), actor
- Barbara Hesse-Bukowska (1930–2013), pianist and piano teacher
- Dieter Doll (1930–2005), German mathematician
- Rajmund Ambroziak (1932–1996), pianist and conductor
- Sid Spindler (1932-2008), politician
- Jerzy Kosiński (1933-1991), writers (Being there, dt. Being There)
- Witold Leszczyński (1933–2007), film director, photographer and screenwriter
- Jerzy Urban (* 1933), writer, journalist and government spokesman
- Kurt Bergmann (* 1934), German electrical engineer and university professor
- Jürgen Friedenberg (1934–2012), journalist and book author
- Jadwiga Barańska (born 1935), actress
- Norbert Langhoff (* 1935), German engineer, scientist and entrepreneur
- Longin Pastusiak (* 1935), politician, historian and political scientist
- Sigram Schindler (* 1936), university lecturer and entrepreneur
- Klaus Weber (1936–2016), university professor, biochemist and molecular biologist
- Jurek Becker (1937–1997), writer, screenwriter and GDR dissident
- Alfred Förster (1937–2018), engineer and politician
- Jan Kudra (* 1937), racing cyclist
- Richard Eckert (* 1938), former member of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg (republican)
- Jerzy Skolimowski (* 1938), film director and actor
- Jerzy Grzegorzewski (1939–2005), theater director
- Heinrich Herrmanns (* 1939), theologian
- Zdzisława Janowska (* 1940), politician
- Ursula Keller (* 1940), journalist, dramaturge and author
- Genya Ravan (born 1940), rock singer
1941 to 1960
- Rudolf Hartmetz (1941–2007), photographer
- Bronisław Kazimierz Przybylski (1941–2011), composer and music teacher
- Hannes Zerbe (* 1941), composer and pianist
- Peter Berlin (* 1942), draftsman, photographer and porn actor
- Helene Kynast (* 1942), children's and youth author
- Helga Rosenbaum (* 1942), local politician
- Mirosława Sarna (born 1942), athlete
- Joachim von Ungern-Sternberg (* 1942), lawyer, former judge at the Federal Court of Justice D.
- Udo Steinke (1942–1999), writer
- Horst Wildemann (* 1942), professor of economics
- Czesław Bartkowski (* 1943), jazz musician
- Edwin Peter Brandt (* 1943), Baptist pastor and director of the theological seminar of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches
- Günter Kahl (* 1943), German journalist
- Włodzimierz Korcz (* 1943), composer
- Traudl Kulikowsky (* 1943), actress
- Hans-Werner Sahm (* 1943), painter
- Manfred Salzgeber (1943–1994), person of German film, founder of film distribution
- Günther Schanz (* 1943), German economist
- Wlodek Gulgowski (* 1944), jazz and fusion musician, film composer
- Joachim Häger (1944–2008), judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- Werner Heise (1944–2013) German mathematician
- Josef Joffe (* 1944), German journalist
- Wojciech Marczewski (* 1944), film director
- Andrzej Niemczyk (1944-2016), volleyball coach
- Günther Rechn (* 1944), painter and graphic artist
- Kurt Seibert (* 1944), pianist and chamber musician
- Peter Zahn (1944–2001), politician
- Eva María Zuk (1945–2017), Mexican pianist
- Jerzy Axer (* 1946), literary historian and classical philologist
- Piotr Fronczewski (* 1946), actor
- Janusz Kotliński (* 1946), track cyclist and world champion
- Daniel Libeskind (* 1946), American architect
- Wiesław Rudkowski (1946-2016), boxer
- Bronisław Świderski (* 1946), prose writer and essayist
- Eleonora Bergman (* 1947), architectural historian
- Jacek Bierezin (1947–1993), poet and opponent
- Peter Paul Koprowski (* 1947), Canadian composer, pianist, conductor and music teacher
- Wojciech Michniewski (* 1947), composer and conductor
- Andrzej Sapkowski (* 1948), writer
- Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (* 1948), politician
- Bogdan Dowlasz (* 1949), accordionist, music teacher and composer
- Urszula Krupa (* 1949), doctor and politician
- Zbigniew Rybczyński (* 1949), experimental filmmaker and cameraman
- Golda Tencer (* 1949), actress, singer and director
- Andrzej Bartkowiak (* 1950), cameraman and film director
- Andrzej Bek (* 1951), track cyclist and cycling trainer
- Grażyna Długołęcka (born 1951), actress
- Włodzimierz Nykiel (* 1951), Rector of the University of Łódź
- Piotr Pustelnik (* 1951), extreme mountaineer
- Marek Belka (* 1952), head of the Polish central bank and former prime minister
- Stanislaw Fraczyk (* 1952), Polish-Austrian table tennis player
- Jerzy Jurek Jaruga (* 1952), cameraman, set designer, film author and media designer
- Krzysztof Baszczyński (* 1953), politician
- Jacek Chmielnik (1953–2007), actor, theater director and playwright
- Małgorzata Potocka (* 1953), actress, film director and producer
- Bronisław Maj (* 1953), poet, essayist and translator
- Jerzy Potz (1953–2000), ice hockey player and coach
- Kinga Dunin (* 1954), literary critic, writer and publicist
- Marek Dziuba (* 1955), football player
- Cezary Harasimowicz (* 1955), screenwriter and actor
- Mirosław Drzewiecki (* 1956), Minister of Sport of the Republic of Poland
- Mirosław Orzechowski (* 1957), politician, publicist, journalist and member of parliament
- Andrzej Udalski (* 1957), astrophysicist
- Paweł Edelman (* 1958), cameraman
- Paweł Samecki (* 1958), economist and politician
- Piotr Sobociński (1958–2001), cameraman
- Władysław Pasikowski (* 1959), director and screenwriter
- Hanna Zdanowska (* 1959), politician
- Cezary Grabarczyk (* 1960), politician, Minister for Infrastructure
- Tomasz Lenczewski (* 1960), genealogist, author, lawyer and antiquarian
1961 to 1980
- Radzisław Kordek (* 1962), pathologist
- Sławomir Chałaśkiewicz (born 1963), football player
- Konrad Krajewski (* 1963), papal almsman and cardinal to the curia
- Maciej Walczak (* 1963), instrumentalist, composer and developer of software for multimedia projects
- Manuela Gretkowska (* 1964), writer, screenwriter, publicist and founder of the women's party
- Piotr Trzaskalski (* 1964), film director
- Małgorzata Chodakowska (* 1965), sculptor
- Jacek Ziober (* 1965), soccer player and coach
- Grzegorz Filipowski (* 1966), figure skater
- Mariusz Grzebalski (* 1969), poet and prose writer
- Witold Kubala (* 1970), football player
- Jarosław Jagiełło (* 1971), politician
- Tomasz Wieszczycki (* 1971), football player
- Sławomir Zamuszko (* 1973), violist, composer and music teacher
- Igor Sypniewski (* 1974), football player
- Marcin Zając (* 1975), football player
- Małgorzata Pskit (* 1976), hurdler
- Joanna Skrzydlewska (* 1977), politician, member of the European Parliament
- Mandaryna (* 1978), dancer, choreographer, actress and pop singer
- Izabela Szolc (* 1978), writer
- Marek Saganowski (* 1978), football player
- Marcin Bosak (* 1979), actor
- OSTR (* 1980 as Adam Ostrowski ), rapper
1981 to 2000
- Izabella Miko (* 1981), actress
- Euzebiusz "Ebi" Smolarek (* 1981), football player
- Paweł Golański (* 1982), football player
- Rafał Grzelak (* 1982), football player
- Jarosław Hampel (* 1982), world motorcycle speedway star
- Radosław Matusiak (* 1982), football player
- Daniel Dąbrowski (born 1983), athlete
- Dawid Olejniczak (* 1983), tennis player
- Marcin Gortat (* 1984), basketball player
- Jakub Rzeźniczak (* 1986), football player
- Jerzy Janowicz (* 1990), tennis player
- Mikołaj Zwoliński (* 1991), football player
- Ala Boratyn (* 1992), singer ( Blog 27 )
- Karolina Karasiewicz (* 1992), racing cyclist
- Magdalena Fręch (* 1997), tennis player
Honorary citizen
- Artur Brauner (1918–2019), film producer
- Karl Dedecius (1921–2016), translator of Polish and Russian literature
- Kazimierz Dejmek (1924–2002), theater director
- Marek Edelman (1919–2009), commander of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
- Jan Karski (1914–2000), officer and courier in the Polish Home Army
- Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
- Jan Machulski (1928–2008), actor
- Stefan Miecznikowski (1921–2004), chaplain of Solidarność
- Arnold Mostowicz (1914–2002), writer
- Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935), marshal and politician
- Roman Polański (* 1933), film director and actor
- Josef Rudnick (1917–2009), German entrepreneur and politician (CDU)
- Albert Thomas (1878–1932), French socialist politician
- Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016), film director
- Władysław Ziółek (* 1935), Archbishop
Other personalities associated with the city
- Hans Biebow (1902–1947), head of the Łódź / Litzmannstadt ghetto and executed in Łódź
- Ludwik Grohman (1826–1889), textile entrepreneur
- Krzysztof Kieślowski , film director
- Tadeusz Kotarbiński , mathematician
- Oskar Kossmann , diplomat and Eastern researcher
- Sally Perel (* 1925), Holocaust survivor, lived in Lodz for a while and looked in vain for his parents in the ghetto
- Izrael Poznański (1833–1900), textile entrepreneur
- Chaim Rumkowski (1877–1944), chairman of the Judenrat in the Łódź / Litzmannstadt ghetto
- Karl Wilhelm Scheibler (1820–1881), one of the city's most important industrialists
- Josef Spickermann (1870–1947), member of the Sejm for the German minority in Poland
- Ludwig Wolff the Elder Ä. (1859–1923), member of the Sejm for the German minority in Poland
- Ludwig Wolff the Elder J. (1908–1988), member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP