List of Famous people born in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Jan Błachowicz

First Name Jan
Last Name Błachowicz
Born on February 24, 1983 (age 41)
Height 187 cm | 6'2

Jan Maciej Błachowicz is a Polish professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Light Heavyweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the current UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. A professional since 2007, he also competed for KSW and is the former KSW Light Heavyweight Champion. He is the second Polish champion in UFC history, after Joanna Jędrzejczyk and the first male Polish champion. As of January 25, 2021, he is #14 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings.

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Lukas Podolski

Łukasz Józef Podolski
First Name Lukas
Last Name Podolski
Born on June 4, 1985 (age 38)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Lukas Josef Podolski is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Turkish team Antalyaspor. Famed for his powerful and accurate left foot, he is known for his explosive shot, technique and probing attacks from the left side.

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Hanna Schygulla

First Name Hanna
Last Name Schygulla
Born on December 25, 1943 (age 80)

Hanna Schygulla is a German actress and chanson singer. Associated with the theater and film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, for whom she first worked in 1965, she was active in the New German Cinema. She won the 1979 Berlin Silver Bear for Best Actress for Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun, and the 1983 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the Marco Ferreri film The Story of Piera.

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Kamil Durczok

First Name Kamil
Last Name Durczok
Born on March 6, 1968
Died on November 16, 2021 (aged 53)

Kamil Sebastian Durczok was a Polish journalist, Editor-in-Chief and presenter of TVN newscast Fakty TVN.

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Lydia Benecke

First Name Lydia
Last Name Benecke
Born on October 31, 1982 (age 41)

Lydia Benecke is a German criminal psychologist and writer of popular science non-fiction.

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Ludwig Guttmann

First Name Ludwig
Last Name Guttmann
Born on July 3, 1899
Died on March 18, 1980 (aged 80)

Sir Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann was a German-born British neurologist who established the Paralympic Games in England. A Jewish doctor, who had fled Nazi Germany just before the start of the Second World War, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of organised physical activities for people with a disability.

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Arkadiusz Milik

Arkadiusz Krystian Milik

Arkadiusz Krystian "Arek" Milik, is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Olympique de Marseille, on loan from Napoli, and the Poland national team.

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Eugene Lazowski

First Name Eugene
Born on January 1, 1913
Died on December 16, 2006 (aged 93)

Eugene Lazowski born Eugeniusz Sławomir Łazowski was a Polish medical doctor who saved thousands of people during World War II by creating a fake epidemic which played on German phobias about hygiene. He also used his position as a doctor treating people travelling through a nearby train station to conceal his supply of medicine to Jews in the local Ghetto, which backed on to his home. By doing this, he risked the German death penalty, which was applied to Poles who helped Jews in the Holocaust.

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Jakub Błaszczykowski

First Name Jakub
Last Name Błaszczykowski
Born on December 14, 1985 (age 38)
Height 176 cm | 5'9

Jakub Błaszczykowski is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Wisła Kraków and the Poland national team, businessman and the Wisła Kraków's owner. He started his professional football at Wisła Kraków establishing himself at a young age. In 2007, he joined Borussia Dortmund, where he spent the majority of his career, making over 250 appearances and winning two Bundesliga titles, two DFL-Supercups, and one DFB-Pokal.

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Kamil Glik

Kamil Jacek Glik
First Name Kamil
Last Name Glik
Born on February 3, 1988 (age 36)
Height 190 cm | 6'3

Kamil Jacek Glik is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Italian club Benevento and the Poland national team.

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