The List of recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta includes notable recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta sorted by their profession.
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Where possible it also lists their country of origin and order grade. People highly distinguished in more than one field have duplicate entries.
Kunst
edit- Marian Konieczny — Polish sculptor
- Władysław T. Benda — Polish-American artist
- Olga Boznańska — Polish painter
- Bohdan Butenko — Polish cartoonist
- Józef Hen - Polish novelist (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Ryszard Horowitz — Polish-American photographer
- Countess Karolina Lanckorońska — Polish art historian and collector
- Kazimierz Ostrowski — Polish painter (Officer's Cross)
- Jerzy Zaruba — Polish graphic artist (Knight's Cross; Officer's Cross)
- Adam Kossowski — Polish painter and muralist
- Boleslaw Jan Czedekowski — Polish portrait painter
Business and economics
edit- Grzegorz Kołodko — Finance Minister of Poland (Commander's Cross)
- Edward Szczepanik — Polish economist and Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile (Knight's Cross)
- Klemens Stefan Sielecki — Engineer and technical director of Fablok (Knight's Cross)
- Henry Hilary Chmielinski — President of the Hanover Bank and Trust (Boston, Massachusetts) and founder of the Polish Daily Courier (Boston) (Knight's Cross)
- Grzegorz Hajdarowicz — Polish entrepreneur, film producer, publisher (Knight's Cross)
- Stanisław Zybała — Polish economist, activist, and organization co-founder[1]
Bildung
edit- Benon Bromberek — Polish educator, Professor of Pedagogical Sciences (Knight's Cross, 1977)
- Jakub Chlebowski — Polish medical educator
- Alicja Derkowska — Polish mathematician
- Maria Dobrowolska — Polish educator (Commander's Cross)
- Władysław Dworaczek — Polish educator (Knight's Cross)
- Wojciech Falkowski — Vice-Chancellor of the Polish University Abroad (2002–2011), psychiatrist, and painter (Officer's Cross)
- Lili Pohlmann — Holocaust survivor and educator (Commander's Cross)
- Anna Radziwiłł — Polish educator, Minister of Education (Commander's Cross)
- Michael Hewitt-Gleeson — Australian scholar (Officer's Cross)
- Margaret Schlauch — American scholar, naturalized Polish (Officer's Cross)
- Czesław Strumiłło — Polish scientist in the field of chemistry, founder of the theory of drying (Commander's Cross)
- Kazimierz Lisiecki — Polish educator (Officer's Cross)
- Leonard Weber — Polish educator, beekeeper
- Anna Żarnowska — Polish historian (Officer's Cross)
- Anna Sitarska Polish librarian and University Teacher
Film
edit- Józef Arkusz — Polish film director (Officer's Cross)
- Stanisław Brudny - Polish actor
- Sylwester Chęciński — Polish film director (Grand Cross, posthumous; Commander's Cross with Star; Commander's Cross)
- Bronisław Cieślak — Polish actor, politician and journalist, member of the Sejm
- Anna Dymna — Polish actress (Commander's Cross)
- Krystyna Feldman — Polish actress (Commander's Cross)
- Piotr Fronczewski — Polish actor
- Ignacy Gogolewski — Polish actor (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Wiesław Gołas — Polish actor (Grand Cross, posthumous)
- Mikołaj Grabowski - Polish actor (Officer's Cross)
- Stefania Grodzieńska - Polish actress (Commander's Cross)
- Jerzy Gruza — Polish director (Commander's Cross, posthumous)
- Jerzy Hoffman — Polish film director (Grand Cross)
- Gustaw Holoubek — Polish actor (Knight's Cross; Commander's Cross with Star; Grand Cross)
- Krystyna Janda — Polish actress (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Alina Janowska - Polish actress (Commander's Cross with Star, Commander's Cross)
- Krzysztof Jasiński - Polish film director (Commander's Cross with Star, Commander's Cross)
- Kazimierz Kaczor — Polish actor (Grand Cross)
- Jerzy Kamas — Polish actor (Officer's Cross)
- Emilian Kamiński - Polish actor (Commander's Cross with Star, posthumous, Officer's Cross)
- Emil Karewicz — Polish actor (Commander's Cross, posthumous)
- Jerzy Kawalerowicz - Polish film director (Grand Cross)
- Jan Kobuszewski — Polish actor (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Jan Kociniak — Polish actor
- Krzysztof Kolberger — Polish actor (Commander's Cross, posthumous)
- Wiesław Komasa - Polish actor (Officer's Cross)
- Maja Komorowska — Polish actress (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross)
- Paweł Królikowski — Polish actor (Commander's Cross, posthumous)
- Irena Kwiatkowska — Polish actress (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Jan Machulski — Polish actor
- Juliusz Machulski — Polish director
- Zdzisław Maklakiewicz — Polish actor
- Janusz Morgenstern — Polish director (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Daniel Olbrychski — Polish actor (Commander's Cross)
- Marian Opania — Polish actor (Officer's Cross)
- Franciszek Pieczka — Polish actor (Grand Cross; Commander's Cross with Star)
- Wojciech Pszoniak — Polish actor (Commander's Cross)
- Andrzej Seweryn — Polish actor (Commander's Cross)
- Bohdan Smoleń — Polish actor
- Jerzy Stuhr — Polish actor (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Danuta Szaflarska - Polish actress (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross with Star)
- Jerzy Trela — Polish actor (Commander's Cross with Star; Commander's Cross)
- Jerzy Turek - Polish actor (Officer's Cross, posthumous)
- Beata Tyszkiewicz - Polish actress (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Andrzej Wajda — Polish film director (Grand Cross)
- Lidia Wysocka — Polish actress (Officer's Cross)
- Krystyna Zachwatowicz — Polish actress and costume designer (Knight's Cross)
- Stanisław Zaczyk — Polish actor
- Janusz Zakrzeński — Polish actor (Commander's Cross, posthumous)
- Krzysztof Zanussi — Polish film director (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Zbigniew Zapasiewicz — Polish actor (Grand Cross, posthumous)
- Magdalena Zawadzka — Polish actress
- Jerzy Zelnik - Polish actor
Literature
edit- Jerzy Andrzejewski — Polish author, Ashes and Diamonds (Commander's Cross)
- Józef Białynia Chołodecki — Polish author and historian
- Ernest Bryll - Polish poet, author, translator (Commander's Cross)
- Maria Dąbrowska — Polish writer novelist and journalist
- Adam Galis — Wartime Radio Speaker, author, translator, poet, Bryły (Commander's Cross)
- Julia Hartwig - Polish poet (Grand Cross)
- Andrzej Kijowski - Polish writer (Commander's Cross)
- Janusz Korczak — Polish Jewish author and educator
- Mirosława Maria Kruszewska — Polish author, Polacy w Ameryce (Cavalier's Cross)
- Stanisław Kutrzeba — Polish author and historian
- Jan Józef Lipski — Polish author and historian (Grand Cross)
- Richard C. Lukas — American author and historian
- Józef Mackiewicz — Polish writer (Commander's Cross)
- Sławomir Mrożek - Polish writer
- Wiesław Myśliwski - Polish writer (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Hanna Ożogowska — Polish novelist and poet (Knight's Cross)
- Robert Stiller — Polish translator
- Bohdan Urbankowski - Polish poet (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Piotr S. Wandycz — Polish American author and historian
- Józef Weyssenhoff — Polish writer, novelist, poet, literary critic, publisher (Officer's Cross)
- Adam Zagajewski — Polish poet (Commander's Cross)
- Jan Andrzej Zakrzewski — Polish journalist and writer
- Andrzej Zaniewski — Polish writer, novelist, poet, songwriter (Officer's Cross)[2]
- Antoni Matuszkiewicz — Polish poet, prose writer, playwright, journalist (Officer's Cross)
Military
edit- Franciszek Alter — Polish general
- Władysław Anders — Commander of the Polish Armed Forces in the West (Commander's Cross)
- Hamazasp Babadzhanian — Soviet-Armenian military commander
- Stefan Bałuk - Polish general(Grand Cross, posthumous)
- Tasker H. Bliss — American Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army
- Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko — Polish general (Officer's Cross)
- Władysław Bortnowski — Polish general (Commander's Cross; Officer's Cross)
- Omar Bradley — American General of the Army
- Leonid Brezhnev — Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet politician (Grand Cross)
- Tadeusz Buk - Polish general (Commander's Cross, posthumous)
- Edmund Charaszkiewicz — Polish military intelligence officer
- Antoni Chruściel — Commander of all Polish armed forces of the Warsaw Uprising (Grand Cross, posthumous)
- Frederick Edwards Collins — British admiral, commanding Gibraltar.
- Victor Crutchley — British admiral
- Hieronim Dekutowski — One of commanders of Wolnosc i Niezawislosc (Grand Cross)
- John Dill — British field marshal
- Bolesław Bronisław Duch — Polish general (Officer's Cross)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — 34th President of the United States, Supreme Allied Commander (Chévalier, 1945)[3]
- Franciszek Gągor — Polish general (Grand Cross, posthumous)
- Wanda Gertz — Polish resistance fighter
- Kazimierz Gilarski - Polish general (Commander's Cross, posthumous)
- William Remsburg Grove — American Colonel, for relief efforts in 1919
- Józef Haller de Hallenburg — Polish general (Commander's Cross)
- William Holmes — British general (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Wilm Hosenfeld — German officer (Commander's Cross)
- Norman Hulbert — British officer
- Ludwik Idzikowski — Polish aviator and pioneer (Officer's Cross)
- Sergěj Ingr, Minister of National Defense in the Czechoslovak government-in-exile during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Grand Cross)
- Wacław Jędrzejewicz — Polish soldier and diplomat (Grand Cross; Officer's Cross)
- Wojciech Kania — Polish officer
- Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski — Polish general and resistance fighter (Commander's Cross; Officer's Cross)
- Jan Karcz — Polish officer (Officer's Cross)
- Andrzej Karweta - Polish admiral (Commander's Cross, posthumous)
- Deryck William Kingwell — Air Commodore of the Royal Australian Air Force
- Adam Koc — Polish officer (Officer's Cross)
- Stanisław Komornicki - Polish general (Grand Cross)
- Piotr Konieczka — Polish soldier (posthumous)
- Stanisław Kopański — Polish general (Grand Cross; Officer's Cross)
- Franciszek Kornicki — Polish fighter pilot (Commander's Cross)
- Józef Kowalski — Polish supercentenarian and second-to-last veteran from the Polish-Soviet war 1919–1921
- Władysław Kozaczuk — Polish officer and historian (Knight's Cross)
- Roman Krzyżelewski — Polish admiral (Commander's Cross; Officer's Cross; Knight's Cross)
- Włodzimierz Kubala — Polish colonel, military attorney (Commander's Cross)
- Tadeusz Kutrzeba — Polish general (Commander's Cross; Knight's Cross)
- Bronisław Kwiatkowski - Polish general (Commander's Cross , posthumous)
- Witold Łokuciewski — Polish fighter ace (Commander's Cross; Knight's Cross)
- Douglas MacArthur — American Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers
- Mason MacFarlane — British Major-General, Governor of Gibraltar
- Peyton C. March — U.S. Army Chief of Staff
- Wacław Micuta — Participant in the Warsaw Uprising, UN diplomat (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Joseph T. McNarney — American general (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Martin Dunbar-Nasmith — British officer
- Adam Nieniewski — Polish officer (Officer's Cross)
- Mieczyslaw Oziewicz — RAF Warrant Officer (Commander's Cross)[4][5]
- Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski — Polish officer
- Earle E. Partridge — American general
- Hubert Perring — British officer, for services to No. 303 Squadron
- Sławomir Petelicki — Polish commander of GROM (Commander's Cross; Officer's Cross)
- Witold Pilecki — Polish resistance fighter
- Stanley George Culliford — New Zealand pilot, for services during Operation Motyl
- Jadwiga Piłsudska — Polish aviator, daughter of Józef Piłsudski
- Józef Piłsudski — Prime Minister of Poland, first marshal, Chief of State
- Jan Pirog — Polish soldier (Knight's Cross)
- Ryszard Piotrowski — Polish Major, Armija Krajowa
- Ryszard Polanski — Knight's cross
- Stanisław Popławski — Polish general (Grand Cross; Commander's Cross with Star; Commander's Cross)
- Arthur John Power — British admiral
- Alexander Pokryshkin — Soviet WWII ace pilot
- Wacław Przeździecki — Polish officer (Commander's Cross)
- Władysław Raginis — Polish officer (Grand Cross)
- Stefan Rowecki — Polish general (Knight's Cross)
- Wilhelm Orlik-Rueckemann — Polish general and military pioneer (Commander's Cross)
- Edward Rydz-Śmigły — Marshal of Poland
- Jan Rządkowski — Polish general
- W. A. J. Satchell — Group Captain, for outstanding services to the Polish Air Force during World War II
- Danuta Siedzikówna — Polish nurse
- Władysław Sikorski — General, Prime Minister of Poland, Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile
- Jan Sobczyński — Polish painter and soldier
- Stanisław Sosabowski — Polish general
- Mieczysław Stachowiak - Polish general
- Arthur Stanley-Clarke — British officer
- Włodzimierz Steyer — Polish admiral (Commander's Cross; Officer's Cross)
- Charles Pelot Summerall — American general, president of The Citadel (Grand Cross)
- Zygmunt Szendzielarz — Polish commander of the 5th Vilnian Home Army Brigade (Grand Cross)
- Stefan Sznuk — Polish general (Commander's Cross)
- Henryk Szumski — Polish general
- Antoni Szylling — Polish general
- Carl Edelhjelm — Swedish officer
- Josip Broz Tito — Marshal of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav politician (Grand Crosses, twice awarded)
- Rodoljub Čolaković — Yugoslav partisan and politician
- Tōgō Heihachirō — Japanese admiral
- Władysław Wejtko — Polish general (Commander's Cross)
- Harold Edward Whittingham — British Air Marshal (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski — Polish general (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Ryszard Winowski — Polish colonel (Commander's Cross)
- Stanislaw Robert Wlosok-Nawarski — Polish Air Force pilot during World War II
- Józef Zając — Polish general
- Mariusz Zaruski — Polish general (Grand Cross)
- Czesław Zawilski — Polish corporal during World War II
- Georgy Zhukov — Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet politician (Commander's Cross with Star)
Music
edit- Ewa Bandrowska-Turska — Coloratura soprano and music educator (Officer's Cross)[6]
- Piotr Beczała — Polish tenor
- Rafał Blechacz — Polish pianist
- Ewa Demarczyk — Polish singer (Commander's Cross with Star, Commander's Cross)
- Marek Grechuta — Polish singer (Commander's Cross)
- Jan Hoffman — Polish pianist and music educator (Officer and Commander's Cross with Star)
- Maciej Jaskiewicz — Polish-Canadian conductor
- Wojciech Karolak — Polish musician (Knight's Cross)
- Wojciech Kilar — Polish composer (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross with Star)
- Wladimir Jan Kochanski — Polish-American pianist
- Maria Koterbska — Polish singer
- Sławomir Kowalewski — Polish musician and singer
- Krzysztof Krawczyk — Polish musician and singer
- Marian Lichtman — Polish musician and singer
- Zofia Lissa — Polish musicologist (Knight's Cross)[7]
- Jerzy Matuszkiewicz — Polish music composer (Commander's Cross)
- Wojciech Młynarski — Polish poet and singer (Commander's Cross)
- Włodzimierz Nahorny — Polish musician
- Tadeusz Nalepa — Polish composer and guitarist
- Jan Pietrzak — Polish singer, actor (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross)
- Jerzy Połomski — Polish singer
- Andrzej Rozbicki — Polish conductor
- Arthur Rubinstein — Polish-American Jewish pianist (Knight's Cross)
- Tomasz Stańko — Polish jazzman
- Władysław Szpilman — Polish-Jewish composer and pianist, protagonist of The Pianist (Commander's Cross)
- Robert Szreder — Polish violinist
- Antoinette Szumowska — Polish pianist, for relief efforts in 1920, awarded by Ignacy Jan Paderewski (Officer's Cross)
- Stanisław Wisłocki — Polish pianist and conductor
- Zbigniew Wodecki — Polish musician, singer and composer
- Krystian Zimerman — Polish pianist (Commander's Cross with Star)[8]
- Teresa Żylis-Gara — Polish opera singer
Politics
edit- Paweł Adamowicz - Polish lawyer, local government official, politician
- Władysław Bartoszewski — Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Józefa Bramowska — Polish politician
- Edvard Beneš — Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, 1925
- Leonid Brezhnev — Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet politician (Grand Cross)
- Krystyna Bochenek — Polish politician and journalist (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Adam Bromke — Professor of International Affairs, statesman (Grand Cross)
- Andrzej Butkiewicz — Political activist and co-founder of the Student Solidarity Committee (Knight's Cross)
- Andrzej Byrt — Polish diplomat (Officer's Cross; Commander's Cross)
- Wiesław Chrzanowski - Polish lawyer, politician, member of the Sejm, Marshal of the Sejm (Grand Cross)
- Andrzej Czuma — Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland
- Leszek Deptuła — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Grzegorz Dolniak — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Waldemar Dubaniowski — Polish diplomat, civil servant, secretary of state and Chief of the Cabinet of the President of Poland
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — President of the United States of America, Supreme Allied Commander (Chévalier, 1945)[3]
- Zhou Enlai — Premier of the People's Republic of China (Grand Cross, 1954)
- Osvaldo Dorticos — President of Cuba (Grand Cross, 1973)[9]
- Fidel Castro — Prime Minister of Cuba (Grand Cross, 1973)[9]
- Jolanta Fedak — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Tadeusz Ferenc — Polish politician
- Grażyna Gęsicka — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Mieczysław Gil — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Zyta Gilowska — Polish economist and politician
- Henryk Goryszewski - Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Przemysław Gosiewski — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Bernard Hausner — Polish diplomat and member of the Sejm
- Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Henryk Józewski — Polish artist and politician
- Marek Jurek — Polish politician, member of the Sejm, Marshal of the Sejm (Commander's Cross)
- Mariusz Kamiński — Polish politician, head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau (Commander's Cross)
- Sebastian Karpiniuk — Polish politician
- Teresa Klimek — Co-founder of the local branch of the Catholic Intellectuals Club and executive on the regional branch of Solidarity (Knight's Cross)[10]
- Leo Krzycki — Polish-American unionist and activist, awarded by Bolesław Bierut (1946)
- Jerzy Kulczycki - Polish publisher and bookseller in London
- Jan Kułakowski — Polish politician, member of the European Parliament (Commander's Cross with Star)
- János Esterházy — Most prominent ethnic Hungarian politician in former Czechoslovakia[citation needed]
- Andrzej Kern — Polish politician and lawyer, member of the Sejm
- John Lesinski Sr. — American congressman
- Jan Lityński — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Aleksander Małachowski - Polish politician (Grand Cross)
- Léon Noël — French ambassador and politician (Grand Cross)
- Jan Nowak-Jeziorański — Polish resistance fighter and activist, Radio Free Europe
- Piotr Nowina-Konopka — Polish politician (Officer's Cross)
- Alvin E. O'Konski — American member of Congress
- Józef Oleksy - Polish politician , Prime Minister of Poland
- Andrzej Ostoja-Owsiany - Polish politician, member of the Sejm (Commander's Cross)
- Alvin M. Owsley — American politician
- Andrzej Papierz — Polish diplomat[11]
- Józef Piłsudski — Prime Minister of Poland, first marshal, Chief of State
- Adam Piłsudski — Polish senator
- Walerian Piotrowski - Polish lawyer (Grand Cross)
- Krzysztof Putra — Polish politician, member of the Sejm and a senator
- Condoleezza Rice — 66th US Secretary of State, stateswoman
- Marek Rocki — Polish econometrist and politician (Knight's Cross)
- Jan Rulewski — Polish politician, activist of solidarity, member of the Sejm (1991–2001) and a senator (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross)
- Arkadiusz Rybicki — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Ryszard Musielak — Activist of solidarity (Commander's Cross)
- Józef Oleksy — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Maciej Płażyński — Polish politician (Grand Cross, posthumous)
- Michał Seweryński — Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education (Knight's Cross)
- Władysław Sikorski — General, Prime Minister of Poland, Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile
- Mário Soares — Prime Minister and President of Portugal
- Władysław Stasiak — Polish senior official and politician
- Edward Szczepanik — Polish economist and Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile (Knight's Cross)
- Aleksander Szczygło — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Jolanta Szczypińska — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Jerzy Szmajdziński — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz — Polish lawyer, politician, member of the Sejm
- Adam Szostkiewicz — Polish author and journalist (Officer's Cross)[12]
- Josip Broz Tito — Marshal of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav politician (Grand Crosses, twice awarded)
- Izabela Tomaszewska — Polish director of protocol
- Lech Wałęsa — President of Poland, Nobel Peace Prize winner (Knight's Cross)
- Zbigniew Wassermann — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Wiesław Woda — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Edward Wojtas — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Henryk Wujec — Polish politician, member of the Sejm
- Stanisław Zając — Polish politician and lawyer
- Piotr Paweł Morta — Polish political activist, economist, activist in underground "Solidarity" (Officer's Cross)
- Paweł Kempka — Polish lawyer, national activist, and local government official
Religion
edit- Stanisław Dziwisz — Polish Catholic Cardinal (Grand Cross)
- Edward Frankowski — Polish Catholic Bishop (Grand Cross)
- Sławoj Leszek Głódź — Polish Catholic Archbishop (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Andrzeja Górska — Polish nun (Commander's Cross)
- Zenon Grocholewski — Polish Catholic Cardinal (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Roman Indrzejczyk - Polish priest (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski — Polish priest (Commander's Cross)
- Marian Jaworski — Polish Catholic Cardinal
- Ignacy Jeż — Polish Catholic Bishop (Grand Cross)
- Michał Józefczyk — Polish priest
- Józef Kowalczyk — Polish Archbishop (Grand Cross)
- Adam Kozłowiecki — Polish Catholic Cardinal (Grand Cross)
- Wojciech Lemański — Polish priest
- Franciszek Macharski — Polish Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Kraków (Grand Cross)
- Henryk Muszyński — Polish Archbishop (Grand Cross)
- James Norris — European Director, War Relief Services, National Catholic Welfare Conference (USA); assisted In resettlement of thousands of Polish refugees in Post-World War II era. (Knight Commander, 20 July 1949).
- Tadeusz Pieronek — Polish Bishop (Grand Cross)
- Tadeusz Płoski — Polish Catholic Bishop (Commander's Cross)
- Jan Sikorski - Polish priest (Grand Cross)
- Lawrence Wnuk — Polish priest
Royalty
edit- Adam Karol Czartoryski — Polish prince
- Amha Selassie of Ethiopia — Last emperor of Ethiopia
- Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia — Emperor of Ethiopia
Science and engineering
edit- Ryszard Bartel — Polish aviation pioneer (Knight's Cross)
- Gerard Ciołek — Polish architect and historian of parks and gardens (Knight's Cross)
- Seweryn Chajtman — Polish scientist, engineer, teacher of the Industrial Management (Commander's Cross)
- Jan Chodorowski — Polish materials science engineer (Officer's Cross)
- Tadeusz Chyliński — Polish airplane constructor (Knight's Cross)
- Ewa Damek — Polish mathematician (Knight's Cross)
- Ryszard Jurkowski — Polish architect and urban planner (Officer's Cross)
- Zbigniew Kabata — Polish parasitologist (Grand Cross)
- Krzysztof Kazimierz Miller— Polish architect and urbanist (Knight's Cross)
- Stanisław Mrozowski — Polish-American physicist
- Jan Nagórski — Polish aviation pioneer
- Marian Rejewski — Polish mathematician, breaker of the Enigma cipher (Grand Cross)
- Zbigniew Religa - Polish cardiac surgeon (Grand Cross)
- Tadeusz Sendzimir — Polish-American inventor (Officer's Cross)
- Czesław Strumiłło — Professor of Chemical and Process Engineering (Commander's Cross)
- Mirosław Vitali — Polish prosthetics pioneer
- Kazimierz Żorawski — Polish mathematician (Commander's Cross)
- Halina Leszczynska— Professor of Chemistry (Officer's Cross)
- Czeslaw Olech — Polish mathematician (Commander's Cross)
- Aniela Chałubińska — Polish geographer and geologist
- Andrzej Chmielewski — Professor of Chemistry (Officer's Cross)
- Marek Jan Sadowski — Professor of Physics (Officer's Cross)
- Zdzisław Skupień — Polish mathematician (Knight's Cross)
- Roman Antoszewski — Polish plant physiologist (Knight's Cross)
- Witold Abramowicz — Polish scientist, professor of economics (Knight's Cross)
- Marcin Kacprzak — Polish doctor, educator, pedagogue, publicist, pioneer of social medicine[13]
- Władysław Tryliński — Polish engineer and inventor (Officer's Cross, 1923)[14]
- Michał Gryziński — Polish nuclear physicist (Chevalier's Cross)[15]
- Andrzej Zakrzewski - Polish historian, lawyer, politician (Grand Cross)
- Marian Zembala - Polish cardiac surgeon (Commander's Cross)
Sport
edit- Leo Beenhakker — Dutch football trainer — Poland national football team coach (Officer's Cross)
- Jakub Błaszczykowski — Polish football player (Commander's Cross)
- Zbigniew Boniek — Polish football player
- Marek Cieślak — Polish speedway rider (Knight's Cross)
- Gerard Cieślik - Polish football player
- Czesław Cybulski — Polish athletics coach (Commander's Cross)
- Mariusz Czerkawski — Polish ice hockey player
- Adela Dankowska — Polish glider pilot
- Kazimierz Deyna — Polish football player
- Małgorzata Dydek — Polish basketball player
- Wojciech Fortuna — Polish ski jumper
- Kazimierz Górski — Polish football coach (Grand Cross, posthumous; Commander's Cross with Star; Commander's Cross)
- Marian Kasprzyk - Polish boxer (Commander's Cross)
- Ewa Kłobukowska - Polish athletic (Commander's Cross)
- Robert Korzeniowski - Polish racewalker (Commander's Cross)
- Justyna Kowalczyk - Polish cross-country skier (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Jerzy Kulej - Polish boxer (Commander's Cross)
- Wacław Kuźmicki — Polish decathlete (Knight's Cross)
- Czesław Lang — Polish cyclist
- Grzegorz Lato — Polish football player
- Waldemar Legień — Polish judoka (Officer's Cross)
- Robert Lewandowski — Polish football player (Commander's Cross)
- Włodzimierz Lubański — Polish football player
- Agata Mróz-Olszewska — Polish volleyball player (posthumous, not accepted by her husband)
- Pelagia Majewska — Polish glider pilot
- Adam Małysz — Polish ski jumper (Officer's Cross; Commander's Cross, Commander's Cross with Star)
- Natalia Partyka — Polish table tennis player (Commander's Cross with Star, Knight's Cross; Officer's Cross)
- Katarzyna Rogowiec — Polish paralympian
- Alfred Smoczyk — Polish speedway rider (Officer's Cross)
- Włodzimierz Smolarek — Polish football player (Officer's Cross posthumous)
- Kamil Stoch — Polish ski jumper (Officer's Cross)
- Irena Szewińska — Polish athletic (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross with Star)
- Ryszard Szurkowski — Polish cyclist (Grand Cross, posthumous, Commander's Cross with Star)
- Antoni Szymanowski — Polish football player
- Tomasz Świątek — Polish rower (Officer's Cross)[16]
- Denis Urubko — Russian-Polish alpinist
- Bogdan Wenta — Polish handball player
- Anita Włodarczyk — Polish athletic (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Adam Wójcik — Polish basketball player
- Teresa Zarzeczańska-Różańska - Polish swimmer
- Piotr Żyła - Polish ski jumper
Other
edit- Fernand Auberjonois — Swiss-American journalist
- Irena Anders — Polish actress, widow of General Władysław Anders (Commander's Cross)
- Jerzy Bahr — Polish diplomat
- Edmund Baranowski — Warsaw insurgent (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Stanisław Bednarek — RAF aircraft engineer, "for his work dedicated to end the war and contribution to democracy" (2022)
- Zygmunt Broniarek - Polish journalist (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Helena Cehak-Holubowiczowa – Polish archaeologist
- Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska — Founder of scouting in Poland
- Jadwiga Falkowska — Activist
- Stefan Franczak (pl:Stefan Franczak) — Jesuit monk, clematis breeder (Commander's Cross, 2009)[17]
- Zbigniew Galperyn — Warsaw insurgent
- Mirosław Hermaszewski — Polish cosmonaut, fighter plane pilot, and Polish Air Force officer (Commander's Cross)
- Jerzy Jachowicz — Polish journalist (Commander's Cross)
- Anna Jakubowska — Warsaw insurgent
- Karolina Kaczorowska — Widow of Ryszard Kaczorowski, the last President of the Republic of Poland in exile (Commander's Cross)
- Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski — Journalist and writer (Commander's Cross).
- Lucjan Kydryński — Journalist and writer
- Tomasz Lis - Polish journalist
- Eugeniusz Lokajski — Warsaw insurgent
- Franciszek Malinowski — Journalist (Officer's Cross)
- Jacek Maziarski — Polish journalist and politician (Commander's Cross)
- Marie Mattingly Meloney — U.S. journalist who raised $1 million to buy radium for Marie Curie's laboratory
- Edward Miszczak - Polish journalist
- Maciej Orłoś — Polish journalist
- Edwin B. Parker – American diplomat and arbiter[18]
- Simcha Rotem — Fighter in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Grand Cross)
- Maciej Rybiński — Polish publicist
- Irena Sendler — Polish humanitarian who saved the lives of 2,500 Jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Ryszard Siwiec — Protester
- Krzysztof Skowroński - Polish journalist
- Reinhold Smyczek — Polish émigré activist, "for the work dedicated to independence and national treasure"
- Damian Soból - Polish volunteer
- Włodzimierz Szaranowicz — Polish sport commentator
- Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski — Warsaw insurgent (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross with Star)
- Ludwika Wawrzyńska — Hero (Commander's Cross)
- Simon Wiesenthal — Austrian Jewish "Nazi-hunter"
- Tadeusz Wrona — Pilot
- Sugihara Chiune — Japanese vice consul in Lithuania during World War II
- Foster Furcolo — American politician involved in international investigation of Katyn massacre
- Anna Sabbat — Widow of Kazimierz Sabbat, President of the Republic of Poland in exile (Commander's Cross)
- Adam Strzembosz - Polish lawyer (Grand Cross)
- Anna Stupnicka-Bando — Helped Jews in World War II (2008)
- Dariusz Szpakowski — Polish sport commentator
- Eugeniusz Szyfner — Helped Jews in World War II (2016)
- Bohdan Tomaszewski — Polish sport commentator (Commander's Cross)
- Anna Walentynowicz - Polish social activist
- Bogusław Wołoszański — Polish journalist, politician, member of the Sejm
- Paweł Zarzeczny - Polish journalist
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