List of personalities from the city of Białystok

The following list contains people who were born in the Polish city ​​of Białystok , as well as those who lived and worked there for a time. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Białystok

Until 1950

• Clara Angermann (1754 – after 1809), artist embroiderer
• Moritz von Lavergne-Peguilhen (1801–1870), Prussian politician
• Otto Schumann (1805–1869), German judge in East Prussia and member of the Prussian House of Representatives
• Carl Maximilian Grüel (1807–1874), German lawyer and politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
• Hermann Schumann (1808–1889), German pastor in East Prussia, member of the Prussian House of Representatives
• Chajim Slonimski (1810–1904), Polish Hebrew academic writer and journalist
• Paul von Lilienfeld (1829–1903), sociologist and statesman
• Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (1859–1917), founder of the international language Esperanto
• Hermann Friedmann (1873–1957), philosopher
• Erwin Hasbach (1875–1970), German-Polish politician
• Maxim Litvinov (1876–1951), Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs 1930–1939
• Ossip Dymow (1878-1959), writer
• Max Weber (1881–1961), painter
• Alexandra Exter (1882–1949), Ukrainian painter
• Jakow Perelman (1882–1942), Russian author
• Elieser Sukenik (1889–1953), Israeli archaeologist
• Dsiga Wertow (1896–1954), Soviet filmmaker
• Simon Segal (1898–1969), painter at the Ecole de Paris
• Mischa Spoliansky (1898–1985), composer
• Albert Sabin (1906–1993), Polish-American (further) developer of the polio vaccine
• Salomeja Helfer (1916–2011), Soviet-Russian architect and urban planner
• Ryszard Kaczorowski (1919–2010), last Polish President in exile and victim of the plane crash near Smolensk
• Aleksandar Flaker (1924-2010), Yugoslav and Croatian literary scholar
• Menahem Stern (1925–1989), Israeli classical philologist and historian
• Helena Bohle-Szacki (1928–2011), Holocaust survivor, fashion designer and artist
• Jan Lenica (1928–2001), graphic artist
• Roman Malinowski (* 1935), economist and politician
• Wiktor Osiatyński (1945–2017), legal scholar, sociologist and civil rights activist
• Barbara Czarniawska (* 1948) Professor at the University of Gothenburg

From 1951

• Miron Chodakowski (1957–2010), Archbishop of the Polish Orthodox Church and victim of the plane crash near Smolensk
• Andrzej Zglejszewski (* 1961), Auxiliary Bishop in Rockville Center
• Andrzej Cisowski (* 1962), painter and graphic artist
• Krzysztof Smorszczewski (* 1963), track and field athlete and Paralympics winner
• Robert Tyszkiewicz (* 1963), politician, member of the Sejm
• Jacek Bayer (* 1964), soccer player
• Jarosław Gierejkiewicz (* 1965), football player
• Kayah , actually Katarzyna Rooijens (* 1967), singer
• Małgorzata Roszkowska (* 1967), judoka
• Jarosław Matwiejuk (* 1968), politician
• Iwona Mironiuk (* 1969), pianist
• Izabella Scorupco (* 1970), Polish-Swedish actress
• Paweł Sydor (* 1970), composer
• Jacek Żalek (* 1973), politician
• Marek Citko (* 1974), football player
• Tomasz Frankowski (* 1974), football player
• Piotr Janicki (* 1974), poet
• Piotr Bobras (* 1977), chess grandmaster
• Damian Raczkowski (* 1975), politician
• Ignacy Karpowicz (* 1976), prose writer and literary critic
• Radosław Sobolewski (* 1976), football player
• Tomasz Bagiński (* 1976), film director and producer
• Katarzyna Bonda (* 1977), writer and journalist
• Wojciech Kowalewski (* 1977), football player
• Karolina Cicha (* 1979), musician, actress, literary scholar
• Igor Lewczuk (* 1985), football player
• Maciej Bielecki (* 1987), track cyclist
• Grzegorz Sandomierski (* 1989), football player
• Kamil Szeremeta (* 1989), boxer
• Bartosz Bielenia (* 1992), film and theater actor
• Damian Czykier (* 1992), athlete
• Daria Zabawska (* 1995), discus thrower
• Klaudia Kardasz (* 1996), track and field athlete
• Bartłomiej Drągowski (* 1997), Polish football goalkeeper
• Bartłomiej Żynel (* 1998), football player

Personalities who worked in Białystok

• Christian Friedrich Wutstrack (approx. 1764 – approx. 1809/1813), historian and writer, worked around 1798 as chamber secretary in Białystok.
• Ivan Helda , a Belarusian major, lived here from 1921 to 1939 and was executed here in 1946
• Edward Kisiel , first bishop and archbishop of Białystok