List of people from Gdańsk
This is a list of people from Gdańsk (Danzig).
- Conrad Letzkau, d. 1412, mayor, executed by the Teutonic Knights
- Tiedemann Giese, 1480, bishop
- Johannes Dantiscus, 1485, poet, church canon and bishop
- Bernhard von Reesen, 1490, businessman painted by Albrecht Dürer
- Albrecht Giese, 1524, councilman and diplomat
- Caspar Schütz, ca. 1540 Eisleben - 1594 Danzig, Prussian historian
- Anton Möller, 1563, painter
- Bartholomäus Keckermann, c. 1571 - 1608, writer and Calvinist theologist
- Adam Wiebe Von Harlingen, c, 1584 - 1653, Royal Engineer
- Constantia Czirenberg/Zierenberg, born 1605, daughter of Danzig mayor, married to Sigmund Kerschenstein in 1628
- Reinhold Curicke, 1610-1667, jurist, historian
- Johannes Hevelius, 1611, astronomer
- Georg Daniel Schultz, 1615, painter
- Bogusław Radziwiłł, 1620, Prince of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Reichsfürst of the HRE, governor of Ducal Prussia
- Andreas Schlüter, 1660, architect and sculptor
- Jacob Theodor Klein, 1685, jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat
- Gottfried Lengnich, 1689-1774, jurist, historian
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, 1686-1736, physicist and engineer
- Daniel Gralath, 1708, physicist and Bürgermeister (mayor) of Danzig
- Louise Adelgunde Gottsched, 1713, writer
- Sir Trevor Corry, 1724–1780, British diplomat; Baron of Poland; British Consul to Danzig 1745–1780[1]
- Daniel Chodowiecki, 1726, artist painter
- Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, 1734, prince
- Michał Jerzy Poniatowski, 1736, primate of Poland
- Johann Wilhelm Archenholz, 1741, historian and publicist
- Avraham Danzig, 1748, rabbi
- Georg Forster, 1754, naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary
- Jacob Kabrun Jr., 1759-1814, merchant, book and art collector, and philanthropist
- Johanna Schopenhauer, 1766, author; mother of Arthur Schopenhauer
- Johannes Daniel Falk, 1768, poet and educator
- Antonio Casimir Cartellieri, 1772, composer
- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788, philosopher
- Ernst Förstemann, 1822, historian, mathematician, philologist
- Otto von Below, 1823
- Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf, 1832, general, writer
- Fritz von Below, 1853-1918
- August von Brandis, 1859-1947, artist
- Max Halbe, 1865, writer
- Max Adalbert, 1874-1933, actor
- Alfred Stock, 1876-1946, chemist
- Carl Schuricht, 1880-1967, conductor
- Gerhard Rose, 1896-1992, expert on tropical medicine
- Gerhard Krüger, 1908-1994
- Mathias Goeritz, 1915-1990 artist
- Alexander Salkind, 1921-1997, film producer
- Heinz-Hermann Koelle, b. 1922, German-American aeronautical and rocket engineer
- Miltiades Caridis, b. 1923
- Eddi Arent, b. 1925, actor and comedian
- Meir Shamgar, b. 1925, President of the Israel Supreme Court
- Jack Mandelbaum, b. 1926, subject of Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
- Günter Grass, b. 1927, writer, recipient of 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Henry Rosovsky, b. 1927, economist
- Zalman Shoval, b. 1930, diplomat and politician
- Wolfgang Völz, b. 1930, actor and voice actor
- Jutta Meischner, b. 1935, classical archeologist
- Holger Czukay, b. 1938, musician
- Wawrzyniec Samp, b. 1939, sculptor and graphic artist
- Matthias Habich, b. 1940, actor
- Heidrun Mohr-Mayer, b. 1941, jeweller
- Józef Borzyszkowski, b. 1946, historian, politician, founder of the Kashubian Institute in Gdańsk
- Ryszard Grodnicki, b. 1947, painter, photographer
- Andrzej Szarmach, b. 1950, football player
- Krzysztof Kolberger, b. 1950, actor
- Jan de Weryha-Wysoczanski, b. 1950, sculptor
- Jerzy Samp, b. 1951, writer and historian
- Jolanta Kwaśniewska, b 1955, former first lady
- Pawel Huelle, b. 1957, writer and journalist
- Donald Tusk, b. 1957, President of the European Council; Polish Prime Minister; journalist and historian
- Marek Kamiński, b. 1964, traveller
- Paweł Adamowicz, b. 1965, politician
- Aneta Kręglicka, b. 1965, Miss World 1989
- Dariusz Michalczewski, b. 1968, boxer
- Mariusz Podkościelny, b. 1968, freestyle swimmer and swimming coach
- Malgorzata Mazewska, b. 1968, breaststroke swimmer
- Leszek Mozdzer, b. 1971, jazz pianist
- Tomasz Waldoch, b. 1971, footballer
- Kamila Zielinski, b. 1974, fashion designer
- Gregorz Szamotulski, b. 1976, footballer
- Jakobe Mansztajn, b. 1982, poet, blogger
- Izabelle Volfulani, b. 1984, entertainer
- Behemoth, blackened death metal band
See also
References
- ^ Bajer, Peter Paul (2012). Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries, p. 498. Brill,. ISBN 9004210652