List of personalities of the city of Gdansk

This list shows people connected to the city of Gdansk in chronological order.

Honorary citizen

mayor

Sons and Daughters of the City of Gdansk

12th - 17th centuries

Johannes Hevelius
(1611–1687)

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736)

Swantopolk II. (1195–1266), Duke of East Pomerania, founder of the German settlement
Johann Ferber (1430–1501), Mayor of Gdansk
Christoph Beyer (1458–1518), merchant, councilor and chronicler
Eberhard Ferber (1463–1529), Mayor of Danzig
Mauritius Ferber (1471–1537), Catholic theologian and Bishop of Warmia
Tiedemann Giese (1480–1550), Catholic theologian and Bishop of Warmia
Johannes Dantiscus (1485–1548), Bishop of Kulm and Warmia, diplomat and poet
Constantin Ferber (1520–1588), Mayor of Gdansk
Hans Weinreich († 1559/60), printer in Danzig
Jacob Knade († 1564), first Reformation preacher in Danzig
Albrecht Giese (1524–1580), councilor and diplomat
Johannes Mathesius the Younger (1544–1607), German physician and university professor
Willem van den Blocke (1550–1628), sculptor and architect
Martin Gruneweg (1562 - around 1618), merchant and Dominican monk
Anton Möller (1563–1611), painter
Hans Strackwitz (1567–1642), builder of the Marienkirche in Danzig
Joachim Oelhaf (1570–1630), doctor
Abraham van den Blocke (1572–1628), architect and sculptor
Izaak van den Blocke (1572–1626), painter
Daniel Dilger (1572–1645), Lutheran pastor at St. Katharinen and St. Marien, defender of Arnds
Gasparan (* 1573, † unb.), Seaman
Reinhold Kleinfeld (1575–1628), city secretary and diplomat
Konstantin Fiedler (1579–1644), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, superintendent in Rostock
Peter Crüger (1580–1639), philologist, astronomer and mathematician
Paul Siefert (1586–1666), organist and composer
Peter Oelhaf (1599–1654), lawyer and historian
Johann Botsack (1600–1674), Lutheran theologian
Nathanael Dilger (1604–1679), Lutheran court preacher, son of Daniel
Reinhold Curicke (1610–1667), lawyer and historian from Danzig
Jeremias Falck (1610–1667), painter, portrait by Willem Blaeu
Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), brewer, astronomer, city councilor, cousin von Hecker
Georg von Strackwitz (1614–1675), son of Hans Strackwitz, also a master builder
Daniel Schultz (1615–1683), painter
Kaspar Förster the Younger (1616–1673), singer, conductor and composer
Bogusław Radziwiłł (1620–1669), Lithuanian prince, governor in the Duchy of Prussia
Daniel Haderschleeff (around 1623 - 1675), physician
Johann Hecker (1625–1675), astronomer in Danzig, cousin of Hevelius
Johann Balthasar Erben (1626–1686), conductor and composer
Salomon Adler (1630–1709), painter, important portraitist in Bergamo and Milan
Israel Conradi (1634–1715), doctor, philosopher, poet and naturalist
Jakob Breyne (1637–1697), botanist
Heinrich Linck (1638–1717), pharmacist and founder of a natural history cabinet
Reinhold Pauli (1638–1682), Reformed theologian, preacher and university professor
Samuel Andreae (1640–1699), Lutheran theologian
Johann Jacob Döbel (the elder) (1640–1684), German doctor
Johann Christoph Rosteuscher (1657–1708), Protestant theologian and philologist
Andreas Austen (1658–1703), Reformed theologian, Graecist and Orientalist
Andreas Schlüter (1659 / 60–1714), architect and sculptor
Georg Pasch (1661–1707), ethnologist, logician and Lutheran theologian
Martin von Neugebauer (1670–1758), Swedish diplomat, Chancellor in Swedish Pomerania
Philipp Sauerland (1677 - around 1760), German painter
Johann Philipp Breyne (1680–1764), botanist, paleontologist and zoologist
Karl Leonhard Gottlieb Ehler (1685–1753), politician and astronomer
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), physicist and instrument maker
Gottfried Lengnich (1689–1774), lawyer and historian
Johann Jacob Mascov (1689–1761), Saxon lawyer
Andreas Charitius (1690–1741), Lutheran theologian
Gottfried Mascov (1698–1760), legal scholar

18th century

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Friedrich Groschuff (1701–1784), philologist
Gottfried Reyger (1704–1788), botanist and naturalist
Daniel Gralath (1708–1767), physicist and mayor of Gdansk
Jacob Wessel (1710–1780), painter
Joachim Samuel Weickmann (1712 / 14–1774), Lutheran theologian
Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched (1713–1762), writer
Gottlieb Wernsdorf I. (1717–1774), pedagogue, rhetorician and author
Johann Conrad Eichhorn (1718–1790), pastor and zoologist
Nikita Panin (1718–1783), Russian Foreign Minister under Tsarina Catherine II.
Johann Bücher (1721–1785), Lutheran theologian
Georg Simon Löhlein (1725–1781), musician and composer
Johann Gottfried Reyger (1725–1793), last mayor of the Free City of Danzig
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki (1726–1801), engraver, graphic artist and illustrator
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg , also Johann Theophilus Goldberg (1727–1756), harpsichordist and organist of the Baroque and 1733–46 pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Uphagen (1731–1802), ship owner, merchant and bibliophile collector
Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734–1823), Field Marshal
Jan Mikołaj Chodkiewicz (1738–1781), Polish-Lithuanian nobleman of Ruthenian origin
Daniel Ernst Wagner (1739–?), Private scholar and author of historical works
Daniel Gralath the Younger (1739–1809), legal scholar and local historian from Danzig
Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz (1741–1812), historian and publicist
Carl Gottlieb Strauss (1743–1790), professor at the academic high school in Danzig
Francis de Rottenburg (1757–1832), general and military writer in the British service
Johanna Schopenhauer (1766–1838), writer
Johann Christian Aycke (1766–1854), administrative officer in Danzig and natural scientist
Christian Gottlieb Konopack (1767–1841), legal scholar
Henriette Baranius (1768–1853), actress and opera singer
Johannes Daniel Falk (1768–1826), theologian and writer
Antonio Casimir Cartellieri (1772–1807), composer
Jakob Friedrich von Rüchel-Kleist (1778–1848), Prussian infantry general, governor and honorary citizen
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), philosopher
Karl Groddeck (1794–1877), politician, Lord Mayor of Gdansk
Rudolf von Horn (1798–1863), Lieutenant General
Karl Schnaase (1798–1875), lawyer and art historian
Wilhelm Schumacher (1800–1837), writer and newspaper publisher

19th century

1801-1850

Karl Edmund Robert Alberti (1801–1870), clergyman, educator, composer and author
Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Buckow (1801–1864), German-Austrian organ builder
Otto Friedrich Gruppe (1804–1876), philosopher, classical philologist and publicist
Rahel Meyer (1806–1874), writer
Werner von Selchow (1806–1884), politician, Prussian Minister of Agriculture
Robert von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1807–1873), Prussian general
Michael von Rautenberg-Klinski (1808-1884), MdHdA
Richard Roepell (1808-1893), historian and politician
Meyer Michaelson (around 1810 - around 1865), genre and portrait painter of the Düsseldorf School
Joachim Marquardt (1812–1882), high school teacher and historian
Aaron Bernstein (1812-1884), writer
Hermann Friedrich Waesemann (1813–1879), architect
August Hermann Ewerbeck (1816–1860), writer, member of the League of the Just
Carl Heinrich Ludwig von Schaper (1816–1885), manor owner, MdR
Richard Krieger (1818–1906), councilor and member of the Reichstag
Friedrich Engel (1821–1890), architect
Heinrich von Rosenzweig (1821–1893), Prussian general of the infantry and governor of Cologne
Ernst Förstemann (1822–1906), archivist, librarian and historian
Eduard von Jachmann (1822–1887), Vice Admiral
Carl Rudolf Pfahl (1822–1901), administrative lawyer in Prussia
Ludwig Giersberg (1824–1883), architect and construction clerk
Carl Eggert (1824–1903), MdR
Ernestine Friedrichsen (1824-1892), genre painter
Friedrich Wilhelm Schirrmacher (1824–1904), historian
Ludwig Pietsch (1824–1911), painter and art writer
Richard Fischer (1826–1870), landscape painter
Friedrich Meyer (1826–1888), MdR
Ludwig August Clericus (1827–1892), heraldist, sphragistician and genealogist
Theodor Wilhelm Lesse (1827–1904), lawyer, MdR
Robert Koenig (1828–1900), teacher, writer and magazine editor
Moritz Becker (1830–1901), mining entrepreneur in East Prussia
Reinhold Boie (1831–1907), politician, Lord Mayor of Bromberg and member of the Prussian manor house
Ernst Dircksen (1831–1899), railway architect
Max Abraham (1831–1900), music publisher
Leo von Graß-Klanin (1832–1917), large landowner, politician, member of the Prussian mansion
Paul Bronsart von Schellendorff (1832–1891), Prussian general, minister of war
Albrecht Nagel (1833–1895), ophthalmologist and university professor
Walther Bronsart von Schellendorff (1833–1914), Prussian general, minister of war, member of the Prussian manor house
Georg Theodor Schirrmacher (1833–1864), architect
Richard Faltin (1835–1918), composer, organist, music teacher and collector of Finnish folk music
Emil Jacobsen (1836–1911), chemist and writer
Johannes Trojan (1837-1915), writer
Samuel Kokosky (1838–1899), journalist and social democrat
Eduard Winkelmann (1838–1896), historian
Brigitte Augusti (1839–1930), author
Carl Lucke (1840–1914), landlord and member of the German Reichstag
Emil Hartwich (1843–1886), judge and sports educator
Richard Metzdorff (1844–1919), theater conductor and composer
Arthur Brunsich von Brun (1845–1938), General of the Infantry
Franz Johannes von Rottenburg (1845–1907), lawyer and diplomat
Max Perlbach (1848–1921), librarian and historian
Paul von Breitenbach (1850–1930), Prussian minister
Carl Fürstenberg (1850–1933), banker, director of the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft
John Koch (1850–1934), literary scholar

1851-1875

Fritz von Below (1853–1918), Prussian general
Robert Davidsohn (1853–1937), historian
Emil Treptow (1854–1935), mining expert
Hugo Conwentz (1855–1922), botanist and conservationist
Ernst Grenz (1855–1921), former, trade union official, MdR
Richard Gromsch (1855–1910), senior naval construction officer and port construction director in Tsingtao and Danzig
Clara Anhuth (1856–1941), writer
Otto Joel (1856–1916), banking specialist
Carl William Klawitter (1856–1929), shipyard owner
Georg Fuchs (1856–1939), infantry general
Otto von Below (1857–1944), General of the Infantry
Robert Gehrke (1857–?), Architect
Adolf Hofrichter (1857–1916), editor, functionary and politician
Rudolf von Schoen-Angerer (1857–1943), administrative lawyer
Franz Gustav von Wandel (1858–1921), General of the Infantry
Johannes Oscar Schubert (1859–1947), mathematician, physicist, geodesist and meteorologist
Ernst Schultz (1862–1919), mathematician, teacher in West Prussia, Dortmund and Duisburg
Felix Benjamin Ahrens (1863–1910), chemist
Hugo Münsterberg (1863–1916), German-American psychologist and philosopher
Paul Scheerbart (1863–1915), writer
Emil Kronke (1865–1938), composer
Max Halbe (1865–1944), writer
Paul Kumm (1866–1927), botanist and prehistorian
Richard Lipinski (1867–1936), trade unionist and politician
Katharina Kloss (1867–1945), teacher and politician
Bruno Ehrlich (1868–1945), teacher and local history researcher
Paul Wilski (1868–1939), geodesist
Richard Abegg (1869–1910), chemist
Alfred Flatow (1869–1942), gymnast, Olympic champion and Nazi victim
Moritz Liepmann (1869–1928), criminologist at the University of Hamburg
Otto von Bronk (1872–1951), physicist and television pioneer
Gustav Lindemann (1872–1960), theater manager and director
Agnes Schultheiß (1873–1959), teacher, linguist and city councilor in Ulm
Max Adalbert (1874–1933), actor
Franz Schroeder (1874–1948), politician
Marie Baum (1874–1964), social politician, member of the Reichstag

1876-1900

Paul Scharfe (1876–1942), SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS
Alfred Stock (1876–1946), chemist
Wilhelm Liepmann (1878–1939), professor of gynecology and obstetrics in Berlin, then Spain and from 1933 in Turkey
Walter Reek (1878–1933), politician (SPD), member of the Weimar National Assembly
Max Behrendt (1879–1938), German politician, Senator in Danzig (SPD)
Lothar Barck (1880–1957), political scientist
Paul Enderling (1880–1938), writer and translator
Waldemar Koehne (1880–1938), Reich judge
Kurt Brenkendorf (1882–1941), silent film actor
Herbert Assmann (1882–1950), physician
Erich Dombrowski (1882–1972), journalist and writer
Felix Meseck (1883–1955), painter and graphic artist
Hermann Baden (1883–1962), chairman of the GDR Jewish community
John Graudenz (1884–1942), press photographer
Felix Raschke (1884–1957), politician (KPD / SED)
Kurt Feyerabend (1885–1939), architect
Max Herrmann (1885–1915), sprinter
Hans Ludwig (1885–1964), racing cyclist
Ulrich Leman (1885–1988), painter
Paul Malachinski (1885–1971), politician (KPD / SED)
Hans Walter Schmidt (1885–1974), writer
Richard Baltzer (1886–1945), officer, lieutenant general and major general of the state police
Artur Golke (1886–1938), politician
Kurt Poll (1886–1943), District Administrator in East Prussia and in the Free City of Danzig
Alice Wosikowski (1886–1949), politician
August Momber (1886–1969), actor and director
Hans Schmauch (1887–1966), regional historian of Warmia
Lisbeth Glaeser-Wilken (1887–1977), actress and teacher, wife of the actor Paul Albert Glaeser-Wilken

Lisbeth Wirtson
(1887–1977)
Arthur Hoffmann (1887–1932), track and field athlete
Walter Wittke (1887–1955), General
Ernst Morwitz (1887–1971), lawyer, writer, Germanist and Senate President
Ernst Gall (1888–1958), art historian and monument conservator
Elsa Faber von Bockelmann (1890–1980), writer and fairy tale poet
Walter Sutkowski (1890–1983), sculptor
Helmut Brümmer-Patzig (1890–1984), submarine commander
Edgar Wöhlisch (1890–1960), professor of physiology in Heidelberg and from 1932 to 1957 in Würzburg
Heinz Kraschutzki (1891–1982), naval officer, pacifist, prison officer and publicist
Alexander Abt (1892–1970), major general
Paul Herrmann (1892–1974), major general
Friedrich Stephan (1892–1945), Lieutenant General
Hermann Balck (1893–1982), officer
Paul Ehmke (1893–1973), doctor and freemason
Erich Keyser (1893–1968), historian
Gerhard Beckmann (1893–1976), Richter, Member of the Bundestag
Joachim von Tresckow (1894–1958), Lieutenant General
Egmont Zechlin (1896–1992), historian
Helene Kreft (1897–1974), politician (KPD / SPD)
Friedrich Werner (1897–1955), senior church councilor, German Christian
Odilo Braun (1899–1981), Dominican priest, member of the committee for religious affairs of the German Bishops' Conference
Paula Heimann (1899–1982), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
Alexander von Pfuhlstein (1899–1976), major general
Fritz Weigle (1899–1966), historian
Walter Franz Uhsadel (1900–1985), theologian

20th century

1901-1920

Herbert Fröhlich (1901–?), German musician
Erich Großmann (1902–1948), physician, SS leader and Senator for Public Health of the Free City of Danzig
Hans Hohlwein (1902–1996), German theologian and German-Christian senior consistorial councilor of the German Evangelical Church
Axel Ivers (1902–1964), German actor, theater director, radio play speaker, playwright and translator
Georg Zoch (1902–1944), German screenwriter, film director and author
Emil Hirschfeld (1903–1968), German athlete
Theo M. Landmann (1903–1978), German glass painter
Helmuth Naudé (1904–1943), German modern pentathlete
Traute Rose (1904–1997), German actress and singer
Willy Sommerfeld (1904–2007), German silent film pianist
Semi Joseph Begun (1905–1995), electrical engineer and pioneer of magnetic recording
Kurt Herholz (1905–1983), German communist politician and trade unionist
Willy Lütcke (1905–1982), German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
Hans Zander (1905–1985), violinist and composer
Bruno Gröning (1906–1959), spiritual healer
Erwin Metzke (1906–1956), German philosopher
Käte Voelkner (1906–1943), German resistance fighter in the Résistance
Hans Baatz (1906–1996), gynecologist and spa doctor in Bad Pyrmont
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (1907–2007), German-American geneticist
Erich Henschke (1907–1988), German resistance fighter against Spanish fascism
Rudi Knees (1907–1982), German motorcycle racer
John Pauls (1908–1946), German SS Oberscharführer in the Stutthof concentration camp
Johannes Post (1908–1948), German Gestapo employee, SS-Sturmbannführer and commandant of the Nordmark labor education camp
Hans Wocke (1908–1967?), Aircraft designer
Hermann Wendt (1909–1940), military historian
Hermann Diamanski (1909–1976), resistance fighter against National Socialism
Albin Sawatzki (1909–1945), German engineer
Eberhard Achterberg (1910–1983), German religious scholar and journalist
Martin Damß (1910–1962), German author
Hans Ulrich Roll (1910-2000), German meteorologist
Hans Rüdiger (1910–1964), politician in the GDR (NDPD)
Irene Wosikowski (1910–1944), resistance fighter in the Résistance
Erich Kruzycki (1911–1993), German athlete
Hans Vogt (1911–1992), composer
Hans Eller (1912–1943), German rower
Horst Korsching (1912–1998), nuclear physicist
Moshe Landau (1912–2011), Israeli lawyer
Ursula Sigismund (1912-2004), writer
Leo Bardischewski (1914–1995), actor and voice actor
Heinz Hoffmann (1914–2008), educator, swimmer and swimming coach
Helmut Kronsbein (1914–1991), soccer player and coach
Ernst Oldenburg (1914–1992), painter and sculptor
Mathias Goeritz (1915–1990), painter, sculptor, architect
Henryk Hubertus Jabłoński (1915–1989), Polish composer and music teacher
Stanislaus-Edmund Szydzik (1915–2001), Catholic clergyman, student and academic chaplain
Erich Eltermann (1916–1991), politician (SPD)
Peter Goldbaum (1916–1981), producer, director and screenwriter
Konrad Onasch (1916–2007), church historian
Liselotte Eder (1922–1993), mother of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, actress
Max Archimowitz (1920–2000), politician (SPD)
Wolfgang Rothe (1920–1974), German Romance scholar and linguist
Rosemarie Springer , b. Lorenz (1920–2019), German dressage rider

1921-1940

Heinz Brauer (1921-2004), German soccer player and coach
Alexander Salkind (1921–1997), film producer
Hans Jürgen Geerdts (1922–1989), writer
Manfred Kandt (1922–1992), painter, sculptor and architect
Wanda Klaff (1922–1946), German concentration camp guard
Stephan Pfürtner (1922–2012), moral theologian
Miltiades Caridis (1923–1998), conductor
Hans-Alexander Drechsler (1923-2002), German politician (SPD)
Käte Jaenicke (1923–2002), actress
Georg Sturmowski (1923–2017), German politician
Peter Weiss (1924–1981), German sculptor
Joachim Scholz (* 1924), author of contemporary witness reports
Eddi Arent (1925–2013), actor, comedian
Werner Fischer (1925–1998), German politician (NPD)
Herbert W. Kapitzki (1925–2005), graphic artist
Heinz Hermann Koelle (1925–2011), German-American rocket engineer
Frank Meisler (1925–2018), German-British-Israeli architect and sculptor
Zvi H. Rosen (1925–2014), Israeli philosopher
Meir Shamgar (1925–2019), Israeli lawyer and President of the Israeli Supreme Court
Ruth Schmitz-Ehmke (1925–2007), German art historian and monument conservator
Peter Böhlke (* 1926), actor
Ursula Happe (* 1926), swimmer
Klaus Kinski (1926–1991), actor
Bruno Koschmider (1926–2000), German restaurateur
Heinz Treuke (* 1926), actor
Eberhard Bitzer (1927–1963), German journalist
Hanno Blaschke (1927–2017), singer and professor of singing
Hans Derben (1927–2009), German politician (CDU)
Horst Ehmke (1927-2017), German politician (SPD)
Günter Grass (1927–2015), writer and Nobel Prize for Literature
Hildegard Krug (1927–2012), German writer
Roman Legien (1927-2015), German politician (CDU)
Zygmunt Józef Pawłowicz (1927-2010), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Danzig
Wolfgang Boehm (1928–2018), German mathematician
Hans-Lothar Fauth (1928–2012), German restaurateur and local politician (CDU), honorary citizen of Danzig
Hanna-Renate Laurien (1928-2010), German politician (CDU)
Hans-Hartwig Ruthenberg (1928–1980), agricultural scientist
Georg Harder (1929–1985), Professor of Dialectical and Historical Materialism at the Franz-Mehring-Institute of the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig
Wolfgang Heinrichs (1929–1994), economist
Rutka Laskier (1929–1943), victim of the Holocaust
Ulrich Rembold (1929–2002), engineer and information scientist
Lothar Freund (1930–2010), German lawyer
Zalman Shoval (* 1930), Israeli politician, diplomat and banker
Wolfgang Völz (1930–2018), actor
Ingrid van Bergen (* 1931), actress
Erhard Krack (1931–2000), German politician in the GDR (SED), Lord Mayor of East Berlin
Karl-Heinz Reinfandt (* 1932), German musicologist and music teacher in Kiel
Thomas Reschke (* 1932), German translator
Irenäus Wolfgang Totzke (1932–2013), German theologian and monk
Peter Gorsen (1933–2017), art scholar
Ingmar Zeisberg (* 1933), actress
Helga Haase (1934–1989), speed skater
Johannes Habich (* 1934), art historian and monument conservator
Dieter Wien (* 1934), actor
Hans-Georg Wolters (1934–2017), German doctor and politician
Wolfgang Kirchner (* 1935), writer and screenwriter
Dieter W. Leitner (* 1935), journalist, type artist and book designer
Manfred Rexin (1935–2017), German reporter and contemporary historian
Uta Szyszkowitz (* 1935), literary translator
Renate Küster (* 1936), cabaret artist, actress and voice actress
Werner Liebrecht (1936–2011), German politician (SPD)
Hans Andree (* 1937), university lecturer and professor
Georg Martin Lange (1937–2020), German television director, copywriter and book author
Günter Kiefer-Lerch (1937–2014), German painter and graphic artist
Avi Pazner (* 1937), Israeli diplomat
Andrzej Pelczar (1937–2010), mathematician and university professor
Heinz Rennhack (* 1937), actor
Dieter Schanz (* 1937), German politician (SPD)
Friedrich Karl Waechter (1937–2005), caricaturist
Holger Czukay (1938–2017), German musician
Jörg-Peter Ewert (* 1938), German neurophysiologist
Henneke Gülzow (1938–1997), German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and professor of church and dogma history
Wolfgang Jansen (1938–1988), German actor
Win Labuda (* 1938), German researcher, photographer and entrepreneur
Hermann Salomon (1938–2020), track and field athlete, Olympic participant and sports scientist
Dietrich Wiebe (1938–2009), German geographer and politician (SPD)
Wolfhard Liegmann (1939–2008), journalist
Rupert Neudeck (1939–2016), journalist, co-founder of Cap Anamur
Dietrich Ratzke (* 1939), journalist and media manager
Ewald Schneidewind (* 1939), German enduro athlete
Harry Zörnack (* 1939), handball player
Matthias Habich (* 1940), actor
Thomas Kielinger (* 1940), journalist
Rupert von Plottnitz (* 1940), German lawyer and politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)

1941-1960

Peter Busch (* 1941), German politician (CDU)
Adolf Hoffmann (* 1941), German building researcher and university professor
Eberhard Neumann-Redlin von Meding (* 1941), gynecologist, Königsberg historian and musician
Christian Ziewer (* 1941), German director and screenwriter
Christiane Blumhoff (* 1942), German folk actress
Manfred Gertzki (1942–1973), killed on the Berlin Wall
Dieter Hoffmann (1942–2016), track and field athlete and Olympic participant
Hartmut Perschau (* 1942), German politician (CDU)
Angela Plöger (* 1942), German translator
Hans-Achim Roll (* 1942), Ministerial Director in the Federal Chancellery
Dagmar Scherf (* 1942), German author
Wolfgang Schillkowski (* 1942), high jumper
Fritz von Korff (* 1943), German general
Dörthe Krause-Kümmell (1943–1995), nurse and teacher for care professions
Wolf-Dietrich Berg (1944-2004), German actor
Jürgen Zürbig (1944–2014), German chemist and developer of the truck catalytic converter
Roman Jabłoński (* 1945), cellist and music teacher
Konstanty Andrzej Kulka (* 1947), violinist
Jacek Starościak (* 1947), Mayor of Gdańsk, diplomat
Adam Jankowski (* 1948), Austrian painter
Stefan Chwin (* 1949), writer
Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka (1950–2010), politician
Krzysztof Kolberger (1950–2011), actor and theater director
Antoni Reiter (1950–1986), judoka
Andrzej Szarmach (born 1950), football player
Piotr Szulkin (1950–2018), film director, screenwriter and film producer
Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański (* 1950), sculptor
Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak (* 1951), actress
Bogdan Lis (* 1952), politician
Aleksander Hall (* 1953), historian and politician
Jerzy Owsiak (* 1953), political activist
Dorota Stalińska (* 1953), actress and member of the Voivodeship Congress
Krzysztof Węgrzyn (* 1953), violinist and university professor
Jolanta Kwaśniewska (* 1955), entrepreneur and President's wife
Janina Ochojska (* 1955), humanitarian activist
Liliana Komorowska (* 1956), Polish-Canadian actress
Piotr Nathan (* 1956), visual artist
Donald Tusk (* 1957), politician
Katarzyna Hall (* 1957), politician
Leszek Krowicki (* 1957), handball player and coach
Paweł Huelle (* 1957), writer
Grażyna Wolszczak (* 1958), actress
Sławomir Rybicki (* 1960), politician, member of the Sejm

1961-1980

Paweł Adamowicz
(1965-2019)

Mariola Brillowska (* 1961), visual artist
Mirosław Adamczyk (* 1962), Roman Catholic Archbishop and diplomat
Ewa Dąbrowska (* 1963), linguist
Jacek Karnowski (* 1963), mayor of Sopot
Joanna Majdan (* 1964), judoka
Paweł Adamowicz (1965–2019), Mayor 1998–2019
Zbigniew Zieliński (* 1965), auxiliary bishop in Danzig
Jacek Kurski (* 1966), journalist and politician
Mikołaj Trzaska (* 1966), jazz musician
Robert Ciborowski (* 1967), economist
Greg Kuperberg (* 1967), mathematician
Krzysztof Lisek (* 1967), entrepreneur and politician
Marcin Sendecki (* 1967), poet, publicist and translator
Dariusz Michalczewski (* 1968), boxer
Tomasz Arabski (* 1968), member of the Polish Council of Ministers
Cezary Siess (* 1968), fencer
Radosław Michalski (* 1969), football player
Monika Depta (* 1970), orienteer
Waldemar Malak (1970-1992), weightlifter
Magdalena Parys (* 1971), German-Polish author
Tomasz Wałdoch (* 1971), football player
Adam Korol (* 1974), rower
Sławomir Nowak (* 1974), politician
Piotr Murdzia (* 1975), chess player and world champion in solving chess problems
Grzegorz Szamotulski (* 1976), football goalkeeper
Robert Kempiński (* 1977), chess master
Maciej Śledziecki (* 1977), composer
Adam Borzęcki (* 1978), ice hockey player
Marlene Jablonski (* 1978), German author
Jarosław Bieniuk (* 1979), football player
Aleksandra Dulkiewicz (* 1979), mayor since 2019

Magdalena Mroczkiewicz (* 1979), fencer

1981-2000

Jakobe Mansztajn (* 1982), poet and blogger
Łukasz Wójt (* 1982), German-Polish swimmer
Klaudia Jans (* 1984), tennis player
Marta Stobba (* 1986), national soccer player
Matthias Zera (* 1987), actor
Damian Kostrzewa (* 1988), handball player
Natalia Partyka (* 1989), table tennis player
Daria Pogorzelec (* 1990), judoka
Paweł Niewrzawa (* 1992), handball player
Mateusz Biskup (* 1994), rower
Alexander Karachun (* 1995), German-Belarusian ice hockey player

Personalities associated with Danzig

Pavao Skalić
(1534-1575)

Michael Küchmeister von Sternberg (1360 / 70–1423), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order; died in Danzig
Paul Beneke (≈ 1420–1480), privateer captain and councilor
Konrad Baumgarten (fl. 1498/99), first printer in Gdansk
Martin Tretter (fl. 1505/06), printer
Karl Bastard von Geldern (1507 / 08–1568), maréchal de camp and war captain of the city of Danzig
Johann Placotomus (1514–1577), physician and educator
Giovanni Bernardino Bonifacio (1517–1597), Italian count, humanist, book collector, librarian and founder of the Gdansk City Library 1591–1596
Erhardus Sperber (1529–1608), theological writer
Achatius Cureus (1531–1594), author and poet
Pavao Skalić (1534–1575), Croatian humanist, priest and polymath; died in Danzig during a trip to Prussia
Caspar Schütz (1540–1594), historian
Johann Martini (1558–1629), German schoolboy, rector of the Marienschule zu Danzig from 1603 to 1629
Anton Möller (1563–1611), painter and graphic artist, "Painter of Danzig"
Andreas Hakenberger (1574–1627), composer and conductor
Martin Opitz (1597–1639), baroque poet
Ludwig Wichtendal the Younger (* ≈ 1600), German bronze caster
Johann Peter Titz (1619–1689), German educator, poet and poet
Andreas Stech (1635–1697), baroque painter
Abraham Calov (1612–1686), 1643 rector of the Danzig grammar school, mathematician, theologian
Jacob Theodor Klein (1685–1759), Prussian jurist and historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat
Michael Christoph Hanow (Hanov) (1695–1773), mathematician, historian, meteorologist
Gottlieb Wernsdorf I. (1717–1774), educator and author
Christoph Cölestin Mrongovius (1764–1855), Protestant pastor, writer, philosopher, linguist and translator
Alexander Gibsone (1770–1836), Scottish wholesale merchant in Danzig
Eduard Ferdinand Geiseler (1781–1837), German pharmacist, doctor and botanist, head of the Gdansk City Hospital
Wilhelm August Förstemann (1791–1836), German mathematician and educator
Julius Mugler (1872–1933), German naval chief construction officer and mechanical engineering operations director
Paul Albert Glaeser-Wilken (1874–1942), actor and director; worked at the Danzig City Theater from 1905 to 1909
Erwin Liek (1878–1935), doctor and publicist
Arno Schmidt (historian) (1879–1967), German historian and folklorist; worked in Gdansk from 1908 to 1945
Franz Josef Wothe (1910–1994), pastor in Danzig; after the war apostolic visitor for the expelled Gdańsk Catholics
Lech Bądkowski (1920–1984), writer, journalist and politician