Poland
FAMOUS POLISH PEOPLE
Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła)
He is the most famous Polish person around the
world. He was born in a city close to Krakow, and
the Polish people are really proud and grateful for
the pope.
Poland is a very catholic country – 87,6% according
to our buddy Wikipedia – so it’s natural that they
feel very proud of having a Polish pope.
Besides being a religious leader, the pope also had
political influence, and used it in order to help put-
ting an end to the communism era in Poland.
In Krakow, there is a place called Bishop’s Palace
(Pałac Biskupi) where the pope used to stay while
visiting the city.
In this building there is a window from where the
pope used to bless and talk to his followers. Nowa-
days, this window has a picture of the pope in his
honor.
Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikołaj Kopernik)
Roman Polański
Polański is a famous
Polish film director, and
Oscar winner due to his
direction in the movie
The Pianist.
Even though he was
born in Paris, his fam-
ily has Polish and Jew-
ish roots, and in 1937
they moved back to
Poland, when Polanski
was only 4 years old.
Polański has Polish citi-
zenship.
Copernicus was a math-
ematician and astronomer
that proposed a heliocen-
tric model of the universe,
i.e. a model where the Sun
would be the center of the
universe, not the Earth as
it was imagined by then.
He was born in the city of
Toruń, in Poland.
In Warsaw there is even a
museum with his name –
Copernicus Science Centre
(Centrum Nauki Kopernik).
Robert Lewandowski
Football fans – or soccer fans for the Americans – for sure already knew that
Lewandowski is Polish.
He is Poland’s greatest football idol, and also the greatest striker of Polish na-
tional team’s history.
Football is a good form of connection between different nations, that’s why
whenever I tell someone that I live in Poland, they say: Lewandowski!
He is indeed the most famous Polish football player out there.