List of people from Wrocław

Coat of arms of Wrocław

This list includes people who were born in or lived in Wrocław after 1945. For a list of notable residents before 1945, see List of people from Breslau.

  • Jan Borysewicz - guitar player, composer, leader of the rock band Lady Pank
  • Leszek Czarnecki - businessman and billionaire
  • Artur Ekert - physicist
  • Władysław Frasyniuk - politician
  • Jolanta Fraszyńska, actress
  • Robert Fudali - sole member of black metal band Graveland
  • Waldemar Fydrych - alias "Major"; artist, founder of the Orange Alternative happening movement
  • Eugeniusz Geppert - painter
  • Kamil Giżycki - writer and traveler
  • Jerzy Grotowski - theatre director and theatrical avant-garde figure
  • Mirosław Hermaszewski - cosmonaut
  • Ludwik Hirszfeld - microbiologist, co-discover of the inheritance of the BO blood type
  • Marek Hłasko - novelist, writer
  • Hubert Hurkacz - tennis player
  • Klaudia Jachira - politician and comedian
  • Lech Janerka - singer, musician and composer
  • Ewa Klonowski - forensic anthropologist
  • Aleksandr Ivanovich Korolyov - vice-president of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
  • Urszula Kozioł - poet
  • Marek Krajewski - writer
  • Wojciech Kurtyka - mountain climber
  • Aleksandra Kurzak - opera singer
  • Olaf Lubaszenko - actor and film director
  • Jan Łopuszański - physicist
  • Mata - rapper
  • Mateusz Morawiecki - politician, Prime Minister of Poland
  • Rafał Omelko - athlete
  • Piotr Ponikowski - cardiologist
  • Barbara Rogowska - comedian actress and comic
  • Tadeusz Różewicz - poet and writer
  • Wanda Rutkiewicz - mountaineer
  • Selma Nicklass-Kempner - soprano
  • Andrzej Sekuła - cinematographer and film director
  • Hugo Steinhaus - mathematician
  • Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski - chemist and physicist
  • Michał Witkowski - writer
  • Rafał Wojaczek - poet
  • Dagmara Wozniak (born 1988) - Polish-American U.S. Olympic sabre fencer
  • Maciej Żurowski - historian of French literature, translator, Romanist