List of personalities of the city of Poznan
This list includes the sons and daughters of the city Poznan (Poznań) and other personalities who have worked in Poznan.
sons and daughters of the town
The people in the table below were born in Poznań. They are listed chronologically according to the year of birth.
| Born | Died | Surname | Position or profession |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1257 | 1296 | Przemysł II. | Senior Duke, King of Poland |
| 1286 | 1335 | Elisabeth Richza of Poland | Queen of Bohemia and Poland |
| 1554 | 1602 | Jan Brandt | Theologian and composer |
| 1778 | 1853 | Joseph Marie Vronsky | Polish philosopher and mathematician |
| 1786 | 1845 | Edward Raczyński | Polish nobleman, founder of the Raczynski Library |
| 1788 | 1874 | Atanazy Raczyński | Polish nobleman and Prussian diplomat |
| 1794 | 1874 | Gotthilf Berger | German philanthropist |
| 1794 | 1863 | Ferdinand von Goetze | Prussian lieutenant general |
| 1795 | 1867 | Eduard Gerhard | German archaeologist |
| 1797 | 1878 | Friedrich von Dankbahr | Prussian general of the infantry, governor of Koenigsberg |
| 1797 | 1873 | Paul Edmund de Strzelecki | Polish explorer and explorer |
| 1798 | 1885 | Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk | German mathematician and astronomer |
| 1805 | 1888 | Fritz von Diederichs | Higher government councilor and member of the German Reichstag |
| 1807 | 1863 | Karl Franzewitsch Albrecht | German-Russian composer |
| 1810 | 1874 | Ludwig Dessoir | German actor |
| 1811 | 1880 | Johann Friedrich Krummnow | German settler, preacher and missionary in Australia |
| 1815 | 1865 | Robert Remak | German zoologist, physiologist and neurologist |
| 1821 | 1901 | Otto von Diest | German district administrator, politician and publicist |
| 1822 | 1902 | Stanislaus von Chlapowski | Prussian politician, member of the Prussian manor house |
| 1827 | 1917 | Bernhard Baumeister | German actor |
| 1830 | 1911 | Paul von Zglinicki | Prussian general of the artillery |
| 1832 | 1905 | Emil Cohn | German publisher |
| 1832 | 1885 | Leopold Damrosch | German-American conductor and composer |
| 1834 | 1910 | Heinrich Caro | German chemist |
| 1834 | 1902 | Friedrich Goltz | German physiologist |
| 1836 | 1888 | Napoleon Xaver von Mankowski | Manor owner and member of the Reichstag |
| 1837 | 1921 | Leo Koenigsberger | German mathematician |
| 1841 | 1917 | Hugo Prince of Radolin | Prussian diplomat, politician, member of the Prussian manor house |
| 1842 | 1926 | Johannes Gad | German neurophysiologist and author |
| 1844 | 1915 | Paul foot | Lord Mayor of the City of Kiel and member of the Prussian manor house |
| 1844 | 1927 | Wilhelm Filehne | German pharmacologist and university professor |
| 1847 | 1934 | Paul von Hindenburg | German Field Marshal General and second Reich President during the Weimar Republic |
| 1851 | 1939 | Otto von Schwerin | Prussian lieutenant general, commander of the 10th Cavalry Brigade |
| 1852 | 1925 | Kazimierz Morawski | Polish philologist, historian and translator |
| 1854 | 1941 | Max Kretzer | German writer |
| 1854 | 1910 | Raphael Löwenfeld | German theater director and Slavist |
| 1854 | 1891 | Samuel Löwenfeld | German historian |
| 1855 | 1940 | Erich Brodmann | German judge at the Reichsgericht |
| 1855 | before 1941 | Hugo Kindler | German architect and contractor |
| 1857 | 1927 | Alfred Holzbock | German journalist, editor and writer |
| 1858 | 1930 | Ernst Conrad | Judge at the Imperial Court of Leipzig |
| 1859 | 1909 | Max Jaffé | German surgeon |
| 1860 | 1932 | Sidonie Werner | German social politician |
| 1861 | after 1920 | Maximilian Gerhardt | German philologist and politician, Mayor of Halberstadt |
| 1861 | 1944 | Wolfgang Heine | Prussian Minister of Justice |
| 1862 | 1933 | Hermann von Gottschall | German chess player |
| 1863 | 1908 | Georg Adler | German political scientist |
| 1864 | 1942 | Stanislaus Fuchs | German actor and director |
| 1864 | 1946 | Lucian Scherman | German indologist and museum director |
| 1865 | 1933 | Jean Paul Ertel | German composer |
| 1866 | 1944 | Hermann Kube | German horticultural artist; took over the management of the municipal garden administration for four years in 1898 |
| 1867 | 1918 | Richard Kandt | German doctor and Africa explorer |
| 1868 | 1942 | Julius Moses | German politician (USPD, SPD), member of the Reichstag and doctor |
| 1869 | 1945 | Paul Grabein | German journalist, writer and civil servant |
| 1870 | 1939 | Berthold Heymann | German politician (SPD) |
| 1871 | 1943 | Friedrich Pincus | German ophthalmologist |
| 1872 | 1925 | Otto Walter | German lawyer and writer |
| 1873 | 1936 | Alfons Fischer | German physician, social hygienist and health politician |
| 1873 | 1934 | Hans Erdmann Franz Stosch-Sarrasani | German dressage clown, founder and owner of the Sarrasani circus |
| 1874 | 1948 | Felix Krueger | Psychologist and philosopher, professor at the University of Leipzig |
| 1875 | 1942 | Manass Neumark | German rabbi |
| 1876 | 1952 | Elisabeth Wolff-Zimmermann | German painter |
| 1877 | 1934 | Paul Saladin Leonhardt | German chess player |
| 1877 | 1959 | Ernst Otto | Pedagogue, rector of the Karl Ferdinand University |
| 1879 | 1956 | Gustav Oelsner | German architect and urban planner |
| 1880 | 1973 | Fritz Homeyer | German Germanist and antiquarian |
| 1880 | 1960 | Clemens Schmalstich | Composer and conductor |
| 1881 | 1959 | Heinrich Mendelssohn | German building contractor |
| 1882 | 1944 | Günther von Kluge | German Army Officer and Field Marshal General in the Third Reich |
| 1885 | 1950 | Kurt Witte | German classical philologist |
| 1886 | 1941 | Lothar by Arnauld de la Perière | German naval officer and vice admiral in World War II |
| 1887 | 1944 | Hildegard Margis | German women's rights activist, author and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| 1888 | 1976 | Walther Mitzka | German linguist |
| 1889 | 1971 | Franz Hoffmann | German administrative lawyer |
| 1890 | 1977 | Georg Wüst | German oceanographer |
| 1891 | 1949 | Wilhelm von Massow | German archaeologist |
| 1891 | 1954 | Herbert Bührke | German lawyer; President of the regional church office in Kiel |
| 1892 | 1962 | Walther Kühn | German politician (FDP) |
| 1893 | 1972 | Artur Wypochowicz | German anti-fascist and local politician |
| 1894 | 1985 | Arkady Fiedler | Polish biologist, journalist and writer |
| 1894 | 1944 | Fritz Smoschewer | German lawyer |
| 1895 | 1952 | Arthur Lisowsky | German economist, professor at the St. Gallen Commercial College |
| 1895 | 1963 | Ernst Kantorowicz | German historian, professor at the University of Frankfurt, Berkeley and Princeton |
| 1896 | 1944 | Herbert-Ernst Vahl | German officer, SS brigade leader and major general of the Waffen SS |
| 1897 | 1984 | Wolfgang Pickert | German officer, most recently general of the anti-aircraft artillery of the German Air Force |
| 1898 | 1986 | Martin David | German-Dutch legal historian of the Orient and papyrologist |
| 1898 | 1978 | Martin Berger | Captain and nautical instructor |
| 1899 | 1940 | Józef Stogowski | Polish ice hockey goalkeeper |
| 1900 | 1973 | Erich Katz | Musicologist, organist and composer; emigrated to the USA |
| 1901 | 1948 | Arthur Liebehenschel | German National Socialist, SS officer and camp commandant |
| 1901 | 1991 | Walter Wagner | German lawyer, Federal Prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice |
| 1904 | 1990 | Ingeborg Engelhardt | German writer |
| 1904 | 1987 | Konrad von Oppen | German politician (CDU) |
| 1904 | 1995 | Hans Reschke | German politician (NSDAP, independent), Lord Mayor of Mannheim |
| 1905 | 1973 | Jean Gebser | German philosopher, consciousness researcher, author and translator |
| 1905 | 1970 | Günther Hoffmann-Schoenborn | German officer, major general |
| 1905 | 1999 | Robert Kuhn | Sculptor, painter and graphic artist |
| 1906 | 1981 | Friedrich Karl Kaul | German lawyer, university professor and writer from the GDR |
| 1907 | 1981 | Theodore Roszak | American sculptor |
| 1908 | 1963 | Zygmunt Heljasz | Polish shot putter and discus thrower |
| 1908 | 1941 | Otto-Henning Nebe | German Protestant theologian |
| 1908 | 1991 | Herbert Sandberg | German graphic artist and caricaturist, member of the GDR Academy of Arts |
| 1908 | 2002 | Hanni Ullmann | German-Israeli educator |
| 1909 | 1977 | Theodor von Mutius | German naval officer |
| 1909 | 1986 | Heinz Brandt | Communist resistance fighter, SED functionary, victim of the GDR justice system, founding member of the Greens |
| 1909 | 1988 | Hans Kruger | Agricultural inspector, SS-Hauptsturmführer |
| 1909 | 1989 | Ruth Michaelis | German contralto and music professor |
| 1909 | 1995 | Hans-Jürgen Nierentz | German writer and television director during the National Socialist era |
| 1910 | 2005 | Thyra Hamann-Hartmann | German textile artist, art teacher and image maker |
| 1910 | 1975 | Jan Kluj | Polish cyclist |
| 1910 | 1974 | Margarete Wittkowski | German politician (SED) and economist |
| 1911 | 2014 | Wanda Błeńska | Polish missionary and doctor for lepers in Uganda |
| 1911 | 1996 | Konrad Zweigert | German legal scholar, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court |
| 1912 | 2003 | Martin Ezekiel | German Protestant pastor and hymn poet |
| 1913 | 2001 | Götz von Houwald | German diplomat, ethnologist and historian |
| 1913 | 1994 | Gottfried Sello | German art historian and critic |
| 1914 | 1947 | Friedrich Entress | German SS medics in various concentration and extermination camps |
| 1914 | 1983 | Roman Jankowiak | Polish conductor and music teacher |
| 1914 | 1986 | Lilli Palmer | German actress and author |
| 1915 | 2005 | Herwig Collmann | Flotilla admiral of the German Navy |
| 1915 | 1943 | Henner Henkel | German tennis player |
| 1919 | 2001 | Henryk Tomaszewski | Polish mime artist, dancer and actor |
| 1922 | 2015 | Andrzej Koszewski | Composer, musicologist and music teacher |
| 1924 | 2017 | Łucja Burzyńska | Polish theater and film actress |
| 1925 | 2017 | Zygmunt Bauman | British-Polish sociologist and philosopher |
| 1925 | Hartmut von Hentig | German educationalist, educator and author | |
| 1925 | Leon Piesowocki | Polish painter and printmaker | |
| 1925 | Zdzisław Tranda | Polish Evangelical Reformed theologian and Bishop of the Reformed Church in Poland | |
| 1926 | 2007 | Conrad Drzewiecki | Polish ballet dancer and choreographer |
| 1928 | 2017 | Lech Ordon | Polish actor |
| 1928 | 1974 | Witold Zegalski | Polish writer |
| 1930 | 2016 | Włodzimierz Odojewski | Polish writer |
| 1930 | 2008 | Halszka Osmólska | Polish paleontologist |
| 1931 | 1969 | Krzysztof Komeda | Polish jazz musician and composer |
| 1932 | 2000 | Ernst Guenter Erich Kaschik | Namibian economist and mayor of Windhoek (1974-76) |
| 1932 | 2019 | Wanda Warska | Polish jazz and chanson singer |
| 1934 | Helena Łazarska | Polish opera singer and vocal teacher | |
| 1935 | 2018 | Jerzy Milian | Polish jazz musician and composer |
| 1935 | 2019 | Juliusz Paetz | Polish clergyman, Archbishop of Poznan |
| 1936 | 1991 | Roman Wilhelmi | Polish actor |
| 1938 | 2003 | Christfried Berger | German Protestant theologian |
| 1938 | 2017 | Janusz Głowacki | Polish writer and playwright |
| 1939 | 2019 | Piotr Kołodziejczyk | Polish admiral and politician |
| 1940 | Brigitte Burmeister | German literary scholar and writer | |
| 1940 | Horst Alsleben | German civil engineer in the preservation of monuments | |
| 1941 | Hartmut Behrsing | German musician and composer | |
| 1941 | 2015 | Wilhelm Opitz von Boberfeld | Agricultural scientist and university professor |
| 1941 | Günther Koch | German radio reporter | |
| 1941 | Dirck Leimert | Judge at the Federal Court of Justice | |
| 1942 | 2003 | Rolf Rilinger | historian |
| 1943 | Kay Borowsky | Poet, translator of Russian and French world literature | |
| 1943 | 2009 | Kurt Demmler | German songwriter and lyricist of many GDR rock bands |
| 1943 | Burkhard Glaetzner | German oboist and conductor | |
| 1943 | Włodzimierz Schmidt | Polish chess master | |
| 1943 | Karin von Schweder-Schreiner | German translator | |
| 1943 | Paul Georg Lankisch | German gastroenterologist | |
| 1944 | Eduard Berger | Protestant theologian and bishop of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church (1990–2001) | |
| 1944 | Wilfried Gerke | German author | |
| 1944 | Herfried Mencke | German composer, organist and cantor | |
| 1944 | Hagen Müller | German politician (SPD) | |
| 1945 | Hubertus Schmoldt | German politician (SPD) and chairman of the union IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE) | |
| 1946 | Stanislaw Barańczak | Poet, translator and literary scholar | |
| 1946 | Lech Raczak | Actor, director and theater scholar | |
| 1947 | Romuald Kujawski | Clergyman, Bishop of Porto Nacional in Brazil | |
| 1948 | Zbigniew Górny | Composer and conductor | |
| 1948 | Izabella Gustowska | Multimedia artist | |
| 1948 | Paweł Jarzębski | Jazz musician | |
| 1949 | Marek Jędraszewski | Clergyman, Archbishop of Krakow | |
| 1949 | Andrzej Byrt | diplomat | |
| 1949 | Ewa Wycichowska | Ballet dancer and choreographer | |
| 1950 | 1980 | Anna Jantar | Pop singer |
| 1950 | Grażyna Kulczyk | Entrepreneur and art patron | |
| 1951 | Maria Elikowska-Winkler | Sorbian teacher and journalist | |
| 1952 | Wojciech Fibak | Tennis player | |
| 1952 | Mariusz Kruk | Painter and installation artist | |
| 1955 | Piotr Bikont | Director, actor, journalist and theater manager | |
| 1955 | Danuta Gwizdalanka | Musicologist | |
| 1955 | Tommy Wiseau | Actor, screenwriter and director | |
| 1959 | Maciej Żukowski | Economist, Rector of Poznan University of Economics | |
| 1962 | Przemysław Czapliński | Literary historian, literary critic and essayist | |
| 1964 | Piotr Kępiński | Poet, literary critic and essayist | |
| 1965 | Tomasz Kaluzny | opera singer | |
| 1971 | Rafał Szukała | swimmer | |
| 1972 | Katarzyna Bujakiewicz | actress | |
| 1973 | Krzysztof Ratajczyk | Soccer player | |
| 1975 | Joanna Jesse | Polish-German artist | |
| 1976 | Peja | rapper | |
| 1976 | Miroslaw Szymkowiak | Soccer player | |
| 1976 | Szymon Ziółkowski | Track and field athlete and Olympic champion | |
| 1976 | Maciej Żurawski | Soccer player | |
| 1977 | Artur Wichniarek | Soccer player | |
| 1978 | Malina Ebert | actress | |
| 1978 | Magdalena Grzybowska | Tennis player | |
| 1978 | Michał Kałwa | Ski racer | |
| 1982 | Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk | Politician | |
| 1983 | Wacław Zimpel | Jazz musician | |
| 1983 | Żaneta Glanc | Track and field athlete | |
| 1987 | Filip Burkhardt | Soccer player | |
| 1988 | Magdalena Łapaj | Saxophonist | |
| 1989 | Sylwia Grzeszczak | Pop singer | |
| 1991 | Katarzyna Piter | Tennis player | |
| 1992 | Magda Linette | Tennis player | |
| 1994 | Monika Jagaciak | Model | |
| 1998 | Robert Gumny | Soccer player |
Personalities who have worked in the city
- Georg Israel (around 1505–1588), preacher of the Bohemian Brethren community and their first senior for Poland
- Gustav von Rauch (1774–1841), general of the infantry and general inspector of all Prussian fortresses; Overall management of the expansion of the Posen Fortress , later Prussian Minister of War
- Johann Leopold von Brese-Winiary (1787–1878), major and fortress builder; Architect of the Posen Fortress, later Lieutenant General and Inspector General of all Prussian fortresses
- Moritz von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1795–1885), colonel and fortress builder; Architect of the Poznan Fortress, later General of the Infantry and General Inspector of all Prussian fortresses
- Teodor Żychliński (1830–1909), journalist, genealogist and heraldist
- Albert Polzin (1870–1954), organ builder
- Carl Fredrich (1871–1930), archaeologist and teacher
- Franciszek Raszeja (1896–1942), doctor and university professor
- Włodzimierz Dworzaczek (1905–1988), historian
- Georg Segler (1906–1978), agricultural scientist, engineer, author and inventor