List of people from Wrocław
People born in Wrocław.
Before 1945
- Alois Alzheimer a psychiatrist and neuropathologist, discovered Alzheimer's disease
- Paul Amman, German physician and botanist.
- Günther Anders a German-Austrian Jewish émigré, philosopher, essayist and journalist.
- Adolf Anderssen a German chess master.
- Đorđe Andrejević-Kun, a Serbian painter and academic.
- Heinz Arndt, an Australian economist
- Leopold Auerbach, a German anatomist and neuropathologist
- Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis, a Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer.
- Bertha Badt-Strauss, a German writer and Zionist.
- Boleslaw Barlog, a German stage, film and opera director
- Erhard Bauschke, a German jazz and light music reedist and bandleader.
- Max Berg, a German architect and urban planner, designed the Centennial Hall
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran clergyman, leader of the resistance against Nazism
- Max Born, a German physicist and mathematician, developed quantum mechanics
- August Borsig, a German businessman who made steam engines
- Ernst Cassirer, a German philosopher, main interests: Epistemology & aesthetics
- Hendrik Claudius, painter and apothecary
- Ferdinand Cohn, a biologist, a founder of modern bacteriology and microbiology.
- Richard Courant, a German American mathematician, wrote What Is Mathematics?
- Harri Czepuck, a German journalist.
- Walter Damrosch, an American conductor and composer.
- John Gunther Dean, an American diplomat, the United States ambassador to five nations.
- Johann Dzierzon, a Polish beekeeper, discovered parthenogenesis in bees.
- Hermann von Eichhorn, a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall during WWI.
- Norbert Elias, a German/British sociologist, worked on civilizing/decivilizing processes.
- Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein, a Prussian General der Infanterie
- Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde (1873–1942
After 1945
- 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, former Prime Minister of Poland
- Rafał Omelko - athlete
- Piotr Ponikowski - cardiologist
- 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 - Polish-American U.S. Olympic sabre fencer
- Maciej Żurowski - historian of French literature, translator, Romanist