List of personalities from the city of Elbląg
This list contains personalities who were born or worked in the city of Elbląg .
Honorary citizen
1800-1945
- Edward Carstenn (1886–1957), high school teacher, regional historian and university teacher
- Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945), politician
- Adolf Ernst von Ernsthausen (1827–1894), administrative lawyer and politician
- Hermann Göring (1893–1946), politician
- Ferdinand Schichau (1814–1896), mechanical engineer, entrepreneur and founder of the Schichau-Werke
- Georg Steenke (1801–1884), hydraulic engineer and construction clerk
- Max Toeppen (1822-1893), high school teacher
Since 1946
- Marian Biskup (1922–2012), historian
- Gerhard Jürgen Blum-Kwiatkowski (1930–2015), artist
- Henryk Iwaniec (* 1947), mathematician
- Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
- President Lech Wałęsa (* 1943), politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Born in the city
1300-1500
- Henry III. Sorbom (* around 1340–1401), bishop of Warmia
1501-1850
- Georg Kleefeld (1522–1576), Mayor of Danzig
- Hans von Bodeck (1582–1658), diplomat and chancellor in Brandenburg-Prussia
- Samuel Hartlib (1600–1662), scientist and educator in England
- Israel Hoppe (1601–1679), German mayor and historian
- Gustav Adolf von Baudissin (1626–1695), royal Danish lieutenant general, Oldenburg privy councilor
- Friedrich Hoffmann (1627–1673), poet, rector at the Elbingen grammar school
- Peter Sohren (around 1630 – around 1692), cantor and teacher at the Elbingen grammar school
- Daniel Bärholz (1641–1688), councilor, poet
- Christoph Porsch (1652–1713), Evangelical Lutheran theologian and poet
- Isaac Feyerabend (1654–1724), mayor
- Christian Wernicke (1661–1725), epigrammatist
- Christian Renatus Braun (1714–1782), lawyer and university professor
- Johann Ernst Schubert (1717–1774), German Protestant theologian
- Gottfried Achenwall (1719–1772), historian and lawyer
- August Ferdinand von Arnauld de la Perière (1786–1863), Prussian lieutenant general
- Wilhelm Baum (1799–1883), doctor and first honorary citizen of Danzig
- Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht (1800–1876), lawyer, belonged to the Göttingen Seven
- Bruno Erhard Abegg (1803–1848), politician, lawyer, police chief of Königsberg
- Johann Benjamin Groß (1809–1848), cellist and composer
- Hieronymus Truhn (1811–1886), composer
- Hermann Haase (1814–1871), politician
- Ferdinand Schichau (1814–1896), founder of the Schichau works in Elbing and Danzig
- Julius Dickert (1816–1896), member of the Reichstag
- August Fricke (1827–1895), architect
- Adolf Richard Stellmacher (1831–1907), Reich judge
- Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann (1831–1911), architect
- Joseph Kolberg SJ (1832–1893), Jesuit, mathematician and geographer
- Emil Berenz (1833–1907), shipowner, merchant
- Heinrich Alfred Reinick (1836–1907), administrative officer, district administrator and senior administrative judge
- Hermann Schaper (1840–1905), general physician, director of the Charité
- Wilhelm Housselle (1841–1910), architect and master railroad builder
- Hermann Baumgart (1843–1926), literary historian
- Emil Zimmermann (philologist) (1850–1915), Latinist, high school teacher in East Prussia
- Armin Wegner (1850–1917), architect
1851-1900
- Albert Zimmermann (1854–1925), classical philologist
- Franz Komnick (1857–1938), founder of the Komnick Automobile Works
- Hermann Schirmacher (1857–1925), German lawyer, judge at the Imperial Court
- Max Georg Zimmermann (1861–1919), art historian
- Max Gabriel (1861–1942), composer and conductor
- Louis Arthur Kickton (1861-1940), chemist
- Julius Levin (1862–1935), physician, writer and violin maker
- Albert Patry (1864–1938), actor
- Reinhold Felderhoff (1865–1919), sculptor
- Hans Goltz (1873–1927), art dealer and pioneer of modern art
- Max Hein-Neufeldt (1874–1953), late German impressionist painter
- Paul Emil Gabel (1875–1938), painter and draftsman
- Fritz Litten (1873–1940), lawyer and university professor in Königsberg
- Heinrich Splieth (1877–1929), sculptor
- Paul Fechter (1880–1958), Germanist, theater critic, editor and writer
- Erich Wiens (1883–1940), journalist
- Hans Boltz (1883–1947), geodesist
- Georg Bessau (1884–1944), physician
- Albrecht Schaeffer (1885–1950), writer
- Hans Fechter (1885–1955), naval officer, most recently admiral (engineer) of the Reichsmarine
- Richard Gronau (1886–1964), painter
- Werner Contag (1892–1967), construction clerk
- Hans Leistikow (1892–1962), graphic artist
- Grete Leistikow (1893–1989), photographer
- Lotte Pulewka (1893–1966), socialist
- Paul Pulewka (1896–1989), pharmacist and toxicologist
- Else Reventlow (1897–1984), teacher and women's rights activist
- Alfred Arndt (1898–1976), architect and Bauhaus master
- Max Reimann (1898–1977), German politician, chairman of the KPD until 1956
- Hasso von Etzdorf (1900–1989), diplomat
1901-1945
- Kurt Huhn (1902–1976), writer
- Erich Brost (1903–1995), editor
- Paul Dargel (1903–?), German politician ( NSDAP )
- Hellmut Draws-Tychsen (1904–1973), writer
- Heinz von Schumann (1911–1993), organist and choir director
- Günter Kuhnke (1912–1990), German admiral
- Ilse Collignon (1913–2003), German journalist, literary agent and author
- Ursula Kuhn-Jakubczyk (* 1925), writer
- Heinz Friese (1926–1998), Herborn city original
- Lieselott Enders (1927–2009), German archivist and historian
- Tilly Boesche-Zacharow (* 1928), German writer
- Gerhard Jürgen Blum-Kwiatkowski (1930–2015), German artist, honorary citizen
- Horst-Günter Gregor (1938–1995), German swimming athlete
- Michael Krupp (* 1938), German theologian and Judaist
- Ursula Karusseit (1939–2019), German actress
- Marie-Luise Salden (* 1939), German visual artist and museum educator
- Rudolf Werner (* 1941), journalist and filmmaker
- Bernd Neumann (* 1942), German politician, Minister of State for Culture
- Ortwin Runde (* 1944), German politician
Since 1946
- Adam Giersz (* 1947), Polish Minister for Sport and Tourism
- Władysław Popielarski (* 1950), Polish handball player
- Zenon Licznerski (* 1954), Polish athlete and Olympic medalist
- Tadeusz Naguszewski (* 1954), Polish doctor and politician
- Peter Blum (* 1964), German painter and graphic artist
- Piotr Wadecki (* 1973), Polish racing cyclist
- Marcin Burkhardt (* 1983), Polish football player
- Radosław Wojtaszek (* 1987), Polish chess grandmaster
Wrought in the city
1200-1945
- Anselm von Meißen died in Elbing in 1278, bishop of Warmia
- Ambrosius Feierabend (around 1490 – after 1553), pastor and reformer
- Jan Amos Comenius (1592–1670), worked 1642–1648 in Elbing as a textbook author and teacher
- Johannes Duraeus (1595 / 1596–1680), preacher of the English community
- Christian Jacob Koitsch (1671–1734, Elbing), pietistic theologian and hymn poet
- Johann Friedrich Endersch (1705–1769), imperial cartographer
- Georg Steenke (1801–1884), builder of the Oberland Canal, honorary citizen of Elbing
- Johann Ludwig Hinrichs (1818–1901), co-founder of the German Baptist congregations
- Max Toeppen (1822-1893) historian, was Rector of the Elbing Grammar School from 1882-1893
- Heinrich Josef Splieth (1842–1894), from 1870 to 1894 wood carving workshop in Spieringstrasse
- Ernst Hake (1844–1925), architect and post-builder, high school graduate from the Elbingen high school
- Heinrich Elditt (1846–1909), Lord Mayor of Elbing, member of the Prussian manor house
- Hermann Sudermann (1857–1928), writer and playwright, attended the city's secondary school
- Kurt Wildhagen (1871–1949), writer
- Paul Albert Glaeser-Wilken (1874–1942), director and actor
- Fritz Wildhagen (1878–1956), painter
- Theodor Lockemann (1885–1945), librarian, head of the city archive
- Bruno Satori-Neumann (1886–1943), theater scholar
- Lisbeth Wirtson (1887–1977), actress, made her debut in 1910 in Elbing
- Siegbert Neufeld (1891–1971), district rabbi and local historian