List of people from Silesia explained

This is a list of notable people from Silesia.

Nobel laureates

Alphabetical order

A

B

pl, de, translator and poet
de

C

de, chess master

D

pl, colonel
pl, blues vocalist
pl, count

E

pl, physician

F

pl, politician
de (1858–1917), industrialist

G

pl, sculptor
de, merchant and manufacturer
de, soccer player
pl, businessman, co-founder of Katowice
pl, architect
pl, (Johanna Gräfin von Schaffgotsch); de, industrialist
pl, politician

H

pl, composer
de, neurologist
(św. Jadwiga Śląska), Duchess of Silesia (1174–1243)
pl, poet
pl, de, writer
de, historian
poet and actor
szl, politician, co-founder of Katowice
(św. Jacek Odrowąż), Dominican friar, called the Apostle of the North

I

pl, merchant

J

de, politician
pl, theatre director

K

pl, historian
pl, classical philologist
pl, playwright, theatre director
pl, politician
de, handball player
pl, film director
de, social scientist
de, historian
de, historian
pl, soccer player
architect
de (December 27, 1905, † October 19, 1950), politician
alpine and high-altitude climber
sv, historian and archeologist

L

pl, historian
de, writer
pl, writer and painter
pl, poet
de, lawyer and politician
de, politician
de, screenwriter
pl, businessman

M

de, colonel
priest, missionary man and Indonesian public figure.
pl, soccer player
pl, linguist
cs, writer

N

O

pl, naïve painter

P

cs, pl, historian

R

pl, politician
pl, industrialist and poet

S

de, industrialist

de, politician
de, pl, writer
de, writer
pl, writer
de
de, painter
de, pan flute musician
pl, publicist

T

pl, writer

U

de, philosopher and sociologist
de, writer
de, politician

V

sv, writer

W

pl, actor and poet
pl, painter and writer
de, mineralogist
de, industrialist
de, industrialist
de, diakonissa
pl, politician
de, historian

Y

Z

cs, historian
cs, poet
pl, military officer and politician

The major Silesian cities

Literature

See also

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