Polish Uruguayans
A Polish Uruguayan is a Uruguayan citizen of full or partial Polish ancestry.
The Polish arrived in Uruguay at the end of the 19th century. The most recent figure is from the 2011 Uruguayan census, which revealed 497 people who declared Poland as their country of birth. Other sources claim around 5,000 Poles in Uruguay. Similar to neighboring country Argentina, often, Poles came when the Germans and the Russians ruled Poland and so were known as "Germans" or "Russians".
Most Polish Uruguayans belong to the Roman Catholic Church; they have their own chapel in the Atahualpa neighbourhood. There is also a significant Polish Jewish minority.
Polish Uruguayans have two important institutions: the Polish Society Marshal Joseph Pilsudsky, established in 1915, and the Uruguayan Polish Union, established in 1935, both associated with USOPAL.
Notable Polish Uruguayans
;Arts- José Serebrier, conductor and composer
- Daniel Hendler, film, television, and theatre actor
- Jan Łukasiewicz, architect
- Jan Kobylański, businessman
- Ida Holz, engineer, computer scientist, professor, and researcher
- Chil Rajchman, Holocaust survivor and entrepreneur
- Pedro Steinbruch, entrepreneur
- Eduardo Dluzniewski, football referee
- Daniel Fedorczuk, football referee
- Ariel Krasouski, footballer
- Francisco Majewski, footballer
- Juan Carlos Masnik, footballer
- Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, footballer
- Hernán Petryk, footballer
- Gustavo Szczygielski, basketball player
- Marcelo Tulbovitz, football trainer
- Matías Vitkieviez, footballer
- The sisters Paulina, Luisa, Inés, and Clotilde Luisi, prominent feminists, all daughters of Josefina Janicki
- Freddy Nieuchowicz, radio host and entertainer known by his stage name Orlando Petinatti
- Wacław Radecki, psychological professor
- Camila Rajchman, singer and television personality
- Lucía Topolansky, politician and First Lady