Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie,known simply as Marie Curie,was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize,the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice,and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Her husband,Pierre Curie,was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize,making them the first married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was,in 1906,the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.
Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office. She previously served as Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union from 2000 to 2018. During her chancellorship,Merkel was frequently referred to as the de facto leader of the European Union (EU) and the most powerful woman in the world.
Aleksander Kwaśniewski is a Polish politician and journalist. He served as the president of Poland from 1995 to 2005. His tenure as President was marked by modernization of Poland,rapid economic growth,the drafting of a new Polish Constitution (1997),and the accession of Poland to NATO (1999) and the European Union (2004). In 2004,he brokered a pro-democratic agreement during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine.
Erika Steinbach is a German right-wing politician. She previously served as a member of the Bundestag from 1990 until 2017.
Agnieszka Holland is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter,best known for her cultural and political contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as an assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda,and emigrated to France shortly before the 1981 imposition of the martial law in Poland.
Diane Kruger is a German actress. Early in her career,she gained worldwide recognition and received the Trophée Chopard from the Cannes Film Festival.
Dagmara Domińczyk is a Polish-born actress. She has appeared in the films Rock Star (2001),The Count of Monte Cristo (2002),Kinsey (2004),Trust the Man (2005),Lonely Hearts (2006),Running with Scissors (2006),Higher Ground (2011),The Letter (2012),The Immigrant (2013),Big Stone Gap (2014),A Woman,a Part (2016),The Assistant (2019),The Lost Daughter (2021),Bottoms (2023),and Priscilla (2023). Domińczyk also had a main role in the HBO comedy-drama television series Succession (2018–2023).
Maria Bello is an American actress and producer. Her first major film role was in 1998's Permanent Midnight. She followed this with a range of supporting and leading parts in films such as Payback (1999),Coyote Ugly (2000),The Cooler (2003),Secret Window (2004),Assault on Precinct 13,A History of Violence,Thank You for Smoking,World Trade Center (2006),The Jane Austen Book Club (2007),The Mummy:Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008),Grown Ups (2010),Prisoners (2013),and Lights Out (2016).
Jan Andrzej PawełKaczmarek was a Polish composer. He wrote scores for more than 70 feature films and documentaries,including Finding Neverland (2004),for which he won an Oscar and a National Board of Review Award. Other notable scores were for Hachi:A Dog's Tale,Unfaithful,Evening,The Visitor,and Washington Square.
Poland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 26 times since its debut in 1994. The Polish participant broadcaster in the contest is Telewizja Polska (TVP).
Dorota Aqualiteja Rabczewska,known professionally as Doda,is a Polish singer-songwriter,producer,actress and television personality. A three-time MTV Europe Music Award winner,she is among the most successful Polish artists in terms of number of prizes won. She has received multiple certifications from the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry for the sales of her albums and singles in Poland. Her best known songs include "Nie daj się","Dżaga","Szansa","Znak pokoju","2 bajki","Fake Love","Melodia ta" and the chart-topping and Diamond-certified single "Nim zajdzie słońce" with Smolasty.
Zyta Janina Gilowska was a Polish economist,academic,and politician.
Justyna Maria Kowalczyk-Tekieli is a Polish cross-country skier who has been competing since 2000. Kowalczyk is a double Olympic Champion and a double World Champion. She is also the only skier to win the Tour de Ski four times in a row and one of two female skiers to win the FIS Cross-Country World Cup three times in a row. Kowalczyk holds the all-time record for wins in the Tour de Ski with 14,and had 29 podiums in total. She also won the Vasaloppet women's edition in 2015. She was voted the Polish Sports Personality of the Year a record five times.
Małgorzata Maria Gosiewska served as the Deputy Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland 2019–2023. She was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005,getting 4,251 votes in 19 Warsaw district as a candidate from the Law and Justice party list.
Małgorzata Maria Kidawa-Błońska is a Polish politician,film producer,and sociologist currently serving as Marshal of the Senate. She was Marshal of the Sejm from 25 June 2015 to 11 November 2015 at the end of the Seventh term's composition of the lower house,after which being voted a Deputy Marshal of the Eighth and Ninth term,each time nominated by the opposition party Civic Platform,under the marshalcy of Marek Kuchciński and Elżbieta Witek,respectively. She is first to serve as the chairperson of both houses of the Polish Parliament.
Ewa Bożena Kopacz is a Polish politician who has served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament since 2019. She previously was Marshal of the Sejm from 2011 to 2014,the first woman to hold the office,as well as Prime Minister of Poland from 2014 to 2015. In addition,Kopacz was Minister of Health from 2007 until 2011. Since 2001,she has been a member of Civic Platform,which she chaired from 2014 to 2016. Kopacz succeeded Donald Tusk as prime minister,becoming the second woman to hold the office after Hanna Suchocka (1992–1993). Her term as prime minister ended on 16 November 2015,when she was succeeded by Beata Szydło.
Elżbieta Barbara Witek is a Polish conservative politician of the Law and Justice party. Historian,history teacher by profession. Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland for the 8th and 9th parliamentary terms from 2019 to 2023.
Cornelia Pieper is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP). She currently serves as German consul general in Gdańsk,Poland.
Krystyna Jolanta Janda is a Polish film and theatre actress,director,and singer. She is best known internationally for playing leading roles in several films by Polish film director Andrzej Wajda,including Man of Marble and Man of Iron. She is widely considered one of the most popular and successful Polish actresses of her generation and an icon of Polish cinema.
Róża Maria Thun,is a Polish politician,more usually known as Róża Thun than by her formal style of Countess and from 1990 her style changed to Princess.
