Art

• Marian Konieczny
  Marian Konieczny
  Marian Konieczny is a Polish sculptor.A 1954 graduate of the Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie in Kraków, Konieczny was a student of Xawery Dunikowski. He was a professor and rector of the Academy from 1972 to 1981. Konieczny is the sculptor of many notable monuments, such as the Warsaw Nike ,...
  
   — Polish sculptor
• Olga Boznańska
  Olga Boznanska
  Olga Boznańska , was a Polish painter.Daughter of railway engineer Adam Nowina Boznański and Eugenia Mondan. Boznańska learned drawing from Józef Siedlecki and Kazimierz Pochwalski and studied at the Adrian Baraniecki School for Women. From 1886-1890 she studied in private schools of Karl...
  
   — Polish painter
• Countess Karolina Lanckorońska
  Countess Karolina Lanckoronska
  Countess Karolina Maria Adelajda Franciszka Ksawera Małgorzata Edina Lanckorońska was a Polish World War II resistance fighter, historian and art historian.-Life:...
  
   — Polish art historian and collector
• Kazimierz Ostrowski
  Kazimierz Ostrowski
  Kazimierz Ostrowski was a Polish painter.-Biography:Kazimierz Ostrowski was born on February 14, 1917 in Berlin. In 1920 his family moved to Poznań...
  
   — Polish painter (Officer's Cross)
• Jerzy Zaruba
  Jerzy Zaruba
  Jerzy Zaruba was a Polish graphic artist, stage scenographer and caricaturist; author of satirical drawings, political crèches and illustrations for books and magazines...
  
   — Polish graphic artist (Knight's Cross, Officer's Cross)
• Adam Kossowski
  Adam Kossowski
  Adam Kossowski was a Polish artist, born in Nowy Sacz, notable for his works for the Catholic Church in England, where he arrived in 1943 as a refugee from Soviet labor camps and was invited in 1944 to join the Guild of Catholic Artists and Craftsmen.-Life in Poland:In 1923, uncertain about a...
  
   — Polish painter and muralist

Business and Economics

• Grzegorz Kołodko — Finance Minister of Poland (Commander's Cross)
• Edward Szczepanik
  Edward Szczepanik
  Edward Franciszek Szczepanik, was a Polish economist and the last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile...
  
   — Polish economist and Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile
  Polish government in Exile
  The Polish government-in-exile, formally known as the Government of the Republic of Poland in Exile , was the government in exile of Poland formed in the aftermath of the Invasion of Poland of September 1939, and the subsequent occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, which...
  
   (Knight's Cross)
• Klemens Stefan Sielecki
  Klemens Stefan Sielecki
  Klemens Stefan Sielecki was a Polish engineer and technical director of the first Polish Locomotive Factory Fablok in Chrzanów in the post-war years until 1964....
  
   — Engineer and technical director of Fablok
  Fablok
  Fablok is a Polish manufacturer of steam locomotives, based in Chrzanów. Until 1947 the official name was The First Factory of Locomotives in Poland Ltd. , Fablok being a widely used syllabic abbreviation of Fabryka Lokomotyw. It is now named "BUMAR - FABLOK S.A. "...
  
   (Knight's Cross)

Education

• Władysław Dworaczek — Polish educator (Knight's Cross)
• Anna Radziwiłł — Polish educator, Minister of Education (Commander's Cross)

Film

• Józef Arkusz
  Józef Arkusz
  Józef Arkusz was a Polish film director and producer of over 70 educational films.Józef Arkusz was born on March 18, 1921 in Peratyn, Poland . His family moved to Lviv in the early 1930s...
  
   — Polish film director (Officer's Cross)
• Gustaw Holoubek
  Gustaw Holoubek
  Gustaw Holoubek was a Polish actor, director, member of the Polish Sejm, and a senator.Holoubek participated in the September Campaign and was a prisoner of war during the Nazi German Occupation of Poland...
  
   — Polish actor (Knight's Cross, Commander's Cross with Star, Grand Cross)
• Lidia Wysocka
  Lidia Wysocka
  Lidia Wysocka was a Polish stage, film and voice actress, singer, cabaret performer and creative director, theatre director and costume designer, editorialist.-Filmography:...
  
   — Polish actress (Officer's Cross)
• Krystyna Zachwatowicz
  Krystyna Zachwatowicz
  Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda , born Krystyna Zachwatowicz, is a Polish scenographer, costume designer and actress. She is a daughter of architect and restorer Jan Zachwatowicz and Maria Chodźko h. Kościesza, and wife of film director Andrzej Wajda. Member of the Polish Film Academy. She is a...
  
   — Polish actress and costume designer (Knight's Cross)
• Jerzy Stuhr
  Jerzy Stuhr
  Jerzy Stuhr is one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors. He also works as a screenwriter, film director and drama professor...
  
   — Polish actor
• Stanisław Zaczyk — Polish actor

Literature

• Jerzy Andrzejewski
  Jerzy Andrzejewski
  Jerzy Andrzejewski was a prolific Polish author. His novels, Ashes and Diamonds , and Holy Week , have been made into film adaptations by the Oscar-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda...
  
   — Polish author, Ashes and Diamonds (Commander's Cross)
• Józef Białynia Chołodecki — Polish author and historian
• Janusz Korczak
  Janusz Korczak
  Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit was a Polish-Jewish children's author, and pediatrician known as Pan Doktor or Stary Doktor...
  
   — Polish Jewish author and educator
• Stanisław Kutrzeba — Polish author and historian
• Jan Józef Lipski
  Jan Józef Lipski
  Jan Józef Lipski was a Polish critic and literature historian, socialist politician, and notable Freemason . As a soldier of the Home Army , he fought in the Warsaw Uprising...
  
   — Polish author and historian (Grand Cross)
• Richard C. Lukas
  Richard C. Lukas
  Richard C. Lukas is an American historian and author of numerous books and articles on Polish history and Polish-Jewish relations. He is recognized as a leading authority on Poland during World War II....
  
   — American author and historian
• Józef Mackiewicz
  Jozef Mackiewicz
  Józef Mackiewicz was a Polish writer and commentator. He staunchly opposed communism, referring to himself as "anticommunist by nationality".- Life and career :...
  
   – Polish writer (Commander's Cross)
• Hanna Ożogowska
  Hanna Ozogowska
  Hanna Ożogowska was a Polish novelist, a poet and a Russian literature translator. She graduated from Special Pedagogy Institute and Pedagogy Faculty of Free Polish University . She debuted in 1932 in a weekly magazine Płomyk as a child literature author. She worked in secondary schooling in Łódź...
  
   — Polish novelist and poet (Knight's Cross)
• Robert Stiller
  Robert Stiller
  Robert Reuven Stiller is a Polish polyglot, writer, poet, translator and editor.-Life :Stiller was born in Warsaw, Poland, to Polish parents and spent his early childhood in what is now Belarus...
  
   — Polish translator
• Piotr S. Wandycz
  Piotr S. Wandycz
  Piotr Stefan Wandycz is a Polish-American historian, President of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, and professor emeritus at Yale University, specializing in Eastern and Central European history.-Life:...
  
   — Polish American author and historian
• Jan Andrzej Zakrzewski
  Jan Andrzej Zakrzewski
  Jan Andrzej Zakrzewski was a Polish journalist, writer, translator. Member of the Stowarzyszenie Dziennikarzy Polskich, Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich, International PEN...
  
   — Polish journalist and writer

Military

• Franciszek Alter
  Franciszek Alter
  Franciszek Alter was a Polish general.-Career:Franciszek Alter began his career as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, reaching the rank of captain. He fought in the Polish Army during the Polish-Soviet War. He was promoted to general in March 1939...
  
   — Polish general
• Władysław Anders — commander of the Polish Armed Forces in the West
  Polish Armed Forces in the West
  Polish Armed Forces in the West refers to the Polish military formations formed to fight alongside the Western Allies against Nazi Germany and its allies...
  
   (Commander's Cross)
• Tasker H. Bliss
  Tasker H. Bliss
  Tasker Howard Bliss GCMG was Chief of Staff of the United States Army from September 22, 1917 until May 18, 1918.-Biography:...
  
   — American Chief of Staff of the US Army
• O.L Bodenhamer — National Commander of The American Legion
• Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko
  Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko
  Zygmunt Piotr Bohusz-Szyszko was a Polish general. During World War I he served in the Imperial Russian army....
  
   — Polish general (Officer's Cross)
• Władysław Bortnowski — Polish general (Commander's Cross, Officer's Cross)
• Omar Bradley
  Omar Bradley
  Omar Nelson Bradley was a senior U.S. Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army in the United States Army...
  
   — American General of the Army
  General of the Army
  General of the Army is a military rank used in some countries to denote a senior military leader, usually a General in command of a nation's Army. It may also be the title given to a General who commands an Army in the field....
  
  
• Edmund Charaszkiewicz
  Edmund Charaszkiewicz
  Edmund Kalikst Eugeniusz Charaszkiewicz was a Polish military intelligence officer who specialized in clandestine warfare. Between the World Wars, he helped establish Poland's interbellum borders in conflicts over territory with Poland's neighbors....
  
   — Polish military intelligence officer
• Antoni Chruściel
  Antoni Chrusciel
  Gen. Antoni Chruściel was a Polish military officer and a general of the Polish Army. He is best known as the de facto commander of all the armed forces of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, as well as Home Army's chief of staff.-Early life:...
  
   — commander of all Polsih armed forces of the Warsaw Uprising
  Warsaw Uprising
  The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army , to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. The rebellion was timed to coincide with the Soviet Union's Red Army approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces...
  
   (Grand Cross)
• Victor Crutchley — British admiral
• Hieronim Dekutowski
  Hieronim Dekutowski
  Hieronim Dekutowski was a Polish boyscout and soldier, who fought in Polish September Campaign, was a member of the elite forces Cichociemni, fought in the Home Army and after World War II, fought the communist regime as one of commanders of Wolnosc i Niezawislosc.- Early years :Dekutowski was...
  
   — one of commanders of Wolnosc i Niezawislosc
  Wolnosc i Niezawislosc
  Zrzeszenie Wolność i Niezawisłość WiN was a Polish underground anti-communist organisation founded on September 2, 1945 and active to 1952....
  
   (Grand Cross)
• John Dill
  John Dill
  Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill, GCB, CMG, DSO was a British commander in World War I and World War II. From May 1940 to December 1941 he was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, and subsequently in Washington, as Chief of the British Joint Staff...
  
   — British Field Marshal
• Bolesław Bronisław Duch — Polish general (Officer's Cross)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
  
   — President of the United States of America, Supreme Allied Commander
• Wanda Gertz
  Wanda Gertz
  Wanda Gertz codename: Lena, Kazik was a Polish major and soldier of the Armia Krajowa....
  
   — Polish resistance fighter
• Józef Haller de Hallenburg
  Józef Haller de Hallenburg
  Józef Haller de Hallenburg was a Lieutenant General of the Polish Army, legionary in Polish Legions, harcmistrz , the President of The Polish Scouting and Guiding Association , political and social activist, Stanisław Haller de Hallenburg's cousin.Haller was born in Jurczyce...
  
   — Polish general (Commander's Cross)
• William Holmes — British general (Commander's Cross with Star)
• Wilm Hosenfeld
  Wilm Hosenfeld
  Wilhelm Adalbert Hosenfeld , originally a teacher, was a German Army officer who rose to the rank of Hauptmann by the end of the war. He helped to hide or rescue several Poles, including Jews, in Nazi-occupied Poland, and is perhaps most remembered for helping Polish-Jewish pianist and composer...
  
   — German officer (Commander's Cross)
• Norman Hulbert
  Norman Hulbert
  Wing Commander Sir Norman John Hulbert, DL was a British company director, Royal Air Force officer and politician who served as a Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party for nearly thirty years. Early in his career, he was an advocate of closer relations with Nazi Germany but he served in...
  
   — British officer
• Ludwik Idzikowski
  Ludwik Idzikowski
  Ludwik Idzikowski was a Polish military aviator. He died during a transatlantic flight trial.-Early life and service:Ludwik Idzikowski was born in Warsaw. He started mining studies in Liege, Belgium....
  
   — Polish aviator and pioneer (Officer's Cross)
• Wacław Jędrzejewicz — Polish soldier and diplomat (Grand Cross, Officer's Cross)
• Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski — Polish general and resistance fighter (Commander's Cross, Officer's Cross)
• Jan Karcz
  Jan Karcz
  Jan Karcz was a Polish Army Colonel, posthumously promoted to the rank of a Brigadier General.During the Second World War he was murdered in the German concentration camp Auschwitz....
  
   — Polish officer (Officer's Cross)
• Adam Koc
  Adam Koc
  Adam Ignacy Koc was a Polish politician, soldier and journalist.-Honours and awards:...
  
   — Polish officer (Officer's Cross)
• Stanisław Kopański — Polish general (Grand Cross, Officer's Cross)
• Józef Kowalski
  Józef Kowalski
  Józef Kowalski is, at age 111, thought to be Poland's oldest living man. He is thought to be the oldest verified military veteran in the world, following the death of Gertrude Noone. He is also the only living verified veteran of the 1919-1921 Polish-Soviet War. Kowalski served in the 22nd Uhlan...
  
   — Polish supercentenarian
  Supercentenarian
  A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....
  
   and last veteran from the Polish-Soviet war
  Polish-Soviet War
  The Polish–Soviet War was an armed conflict between Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine and the Second Polish Republic and the Ukrainian People's Republic—four states in post–World War I Europe...
  
   1919-1921
• Władysław Kozaczuk — Polish officer and historian (Knight's Cross)
• Roman Krzyżelewski
  Roman Krzyzelewski
  Roman Krzyżelewski was the commander-in-chief of the Polish Navy between October 2003 and November 2007.-Honours and awards:...
  
   — Polish admiral (Commander's Cross, Officer's Cross, Knight's Cross)
• Tadeusz Kutrzeba
  Tadeusz Kutrzeba
  Tadeusz Kutrzeba was an army general of the Second Polish Republic.Kutrzeba was born in Kraków, then part of Austria-Hungary...
  
   — Polish general (Commander's Cross, Knight's Cross)
• Witold Łokuciewski — Polish fighter ace (Commander's Cross, Knight's Cross)
• Douglas MacArthur
  Douglas MacArthur
  General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the...
  
   — American Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces
• Peyton C. March
  Peyton C. March
  Peyton Conway March was an American soldier and Army Chief of Staff.March was the son of Francis Andrew March, considered the principal founder of modern comparative linguistics in Anglo-Saxon and one of the first professors to advocate and teach English in colleges and universities...
  
   — US Army Chief of Staff
• Wacław Micuta
  Wacław Micuta
  Wacław Micuta, also known as Wacek was a Polish economist, functionary of the United Nations and a soldier – participant in the Polish September Campaign and a commander of one of two Polish tanks in the Warsaw Uprising with the rank of first lieutenant.-Life:Micuta was born to a...
  
   — participant in the Warsaw Uprising, UN diplomat (Commander's Cross with Star)
• Joseph T. McNarney
  Joseph T. McNarney
  Joseph Taggart McNarney was a United States Army Air Forces general officer who served as Military Governor of occupied Germany.-Early years:...
  
   — American general (Commander's Cross with Star)
• Martin Dunbar-Nasmith — British officer
• Adam Nieniewski
  Adam Nieniewski
  Colonel Adam Nieniewski was a Polish military commander, an officer of the Polish Army and a veteran of World War I, Polish-Bolshevik War and World War II.- Biography :...
  
   — Polish officer (Officer's Cross)
• Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski
  Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski
  Jerzy Casimir Pajaczkowski-Dydynski was thought to be the UK's oldest man at the time of his death at the age of 111 and one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War living in the UK. The army veteran died at a nursing home in Cumbria...
  
   — Polish officer
• Earle E. Partridge
  Earle E. Partridge
  Earle Everard "Pat" Partridge was an United States Air Force general.Partridge enlisted in the United States Army in July 1918 at Fort Slocum, New York, and was assigned to the 5th Engineer Training Regiment...
  
   — American general
• Hubert Perring — British officer, for services to 303 Squadron
• Sławomir Petelicki — Polish commander of GROM
  GROM
  GROM is one of five special forces units of the Polish Armed Forces. It was officially activated on July 8, 1990...
  
   (Commander's Cross, Officer's Cross)
• Witold Pilecki
  Witold Pilecki
  Witold Pilecki was a soldier of the Second Polish Republic, the founder of the Secret Polish Army resistance group and a member of the Home Army...
  
   — Polish resistance fighter
• Stanley George Culliford — New Zealand Pilot, for services during Operation Motyl.
• Jadwiga Piłsudska — Polish aviator, daughter of Józef Piłsudski
• Józef Piłsudski — Prime Minister of Poland, First Marshal, Chief of State
• Stanisław Popławski — Polish general (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross with Star, Commander's Cross)
• Arthur John Power — British admiral
• Wacław Przeździecki — Polish officer (Commander's Cross)
• Władysław Raginis — Polish officer (Grand Cross)
• Stefan Rowecki
  Stefan Rowecki
  Stefan Paweł Rowecki was a Polish general, journalist and the leader of the Armia Krajowa. He was murdered by the Gestapo in prison, probably on the direct order of Heinrich Himmler.-Life:Rowecki was born in Piotrków Trybunalski...
  
   — Polish general (Knight's Cross)
• Wilhelm Orlik-Rueckemann
  Wilhelm Orlik-Rueckemann
  Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann was a Polish general, military commander and one of the pioneers of armoured warfare in Poland.- Early life :...
  
   — Polish general and military pioneer (Commander's Cross)
• Edward Rydz-Śmigły — Marshal of Poland
  Marshal of Poland
  Marshal of Poland is the highest rank in the Polish Army. It has been granted to only six officers. At present, this rank is equivalent to a Field Marshal or General of the Army in other NATO armies.-History:...
  
  
• Jan Rządkowski
  Jan Rzadkowski
  Jan Rządkowski was a Polish military officer and a General of the Polish Army. He is best known as the commanding officer of the 1st Lithuanian-Belarusian Division during the Polish-Bolshevik War and then the commander of the armed forces of the Republic of Central Lithuania.Jan Piotr Rządkowski...
  
   — Polish general
• Danuta Siedzikówna
  Danuta Siedzikówna
  Danuta Siedzikówna was a medical orderly in the 4th Squadron of the 5th Wilno Brigade of the Polish Home Army...
  
   — Polish nurse
• Władysław Sikorski — general, Prime Minister of Poland, Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile
• Jan Sobczyński
  Jan Sobczynski
  Jan Sobczynski – Polish painter, born to Polish immigrants on 14 June 1918 in New York, USA, died 27 May 2007, Warsaw, Poland.After his mother's death, Sobczynski left the United States and was raised by his aunt in Poland...
  
   — Polish painter and soldier
• Stanisław Sosabowski — Polish general
• Włodzimierz Steyer — Polish admiral (Commander's Cross, Officer's Cross)
• Zygmunt Szendzielarz
  Zygmunt Szendzielarz
  Zygmunt Szendzielarz was commander of the Polish 5th Wilno Home Army Brigade.-Early life:...
  
   — Polish commander of the 5th Vilnian Home Army Brigade (Grand Cross)
• Stefan Sznuk
  Stefan Sznuk
  Stefan Sznuk, OC was a pioneering Polish aviator, as well as an Air Force Major-General and was among the first to join the new Polish Air Force in 1919.Born in Warsaw, he was educated at the Warsaw University of Technology....
  
   — Polish general (Commander's Cross)
• Antoni Szylling
  Antoni Szylling
  Antoni Szylling was a Polish general, considered, along with Generals Wiktor Thommée and Stanisław Maczek, to have been one of the most successful Polish Army commanders during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.-Biography:...
  
   — Polish general
• Władysław Wejtko — Polish general (Commander's Cross)
• Józef Zając
  Józef Zajac
  Józef Ludwik Zając was a Polish general and pilot.-Biography:Born on 14 March 1891 in Rzeszów, Józef Zając studied at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, graduating with a PhD in philosophy in 1915...
  
   — Polish general
• Mariusz Zaruski
  Mariusz Zaruski
  Mariusz Zaruski was a Brigadier-General in the Polish Army, a pioneer of Polish sports yachting, an outstanding climber of the winter and caves of Tatra Mountains...
  
   — Polish general (Grand Cross)
• Włodzimierz Kubala - Polish colonel, military attorney. (Commander's Cross)

Music

• Wojciech Karolak
  Wojciech Karolak
  Wojciech Karolak is a notable Hammond B-3 organ player who refers to himself as "an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician, born by mistake in Middle Europe". He has also played saxophone and piano professionally.In 1958, he started working with the band the 'Jazz Believers' playing alto...
  
   — Polish musician (Knight's Cross)
• Wojciech Kilar
  Wojciech Kilar
  Wojciech Kilar ; b. 17 July 1932 in Lwów, Poland) is a Polish classical and film music composer.-Biography:Wojciech Kilar is one of Poland’s esteemed composers. Born in 1932 in Lwów . His father was a gynecologist and his mother was a theater actress...
  
   — Polish composer (Grand Cross)
• Arthur Rubinstein
  Arthur Rubinstein
  Arthur Rubinstein KBE was a Polish-American pianist. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music of a variety of composers...
  
   — Polish American Jewish pianist (Knight's Cross)
• Wladimir Jan Kochanski
  Wladimir Jan Kochanski
  Wladimir Jan Kochanski is a Juilliard-trained, Texas-born, American concert pianist of Polish ancestry. He is well-known not only for his virtuosity on the piano but for his entertaining and informative humor in concert.-Career Notes:...
  
   — Polish American pianist
• Tadeusz Nalepa
  Tadeusz Nalepa
  Tadeusz Nalepa – was a Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist.-Career:Nalepa graduated from the Music Academy in Rzeszów in the departments of violin, clarinet and contrabass...
  
   — Polish composer and guitarist
• Władysław Szpilman — Polish Jewish composer and pianist, protagonist of The Pianist

Politics

• Władysław Bartoszewski — Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (Commander's Cross with Star)
• Andrzej Butkiewicz
  Andrzej Butkiewicz
  Andrzej Butkiewicz was a political activist opposing Communism in Poland during the 1970s and 1980s, imprisoned for his role in the Solidarity movement.-Biography:...
  
   — Political activist and co-founder of the Student Solidarity Committee (Knight's Cross)
• Adam Bromke — Professor of International Affairs— Statesman (Grand Cross)
• Andrzej Czuma
  Andrzej Czuma
  Andrzej Czuma is a Polish politician, lawyer and historian, an activist of the Polish anti-Communist opposition in the Polish People's Republic. Oppressed and imprisoned by the Communist authorities. In the 1980s he left for the USA where he became an activist in the community of Polish expats....
  
   — Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
  
   — President of the United States of America, Supreme Allied Commander
• Henryk Józewski
  Henryk Józewski
  Henryk Józewski was a Polish visual artist, politician, a member of government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, later an administrator during the Second Polish Republic....
  
   — Polish artist and politician
• Mariusz Kamiński
  Mariusz Kaminski
  Mariusz Kamiński was the head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau in Poland until November 2009. Earlier he was a member of Sejm elected on September 25, 2005 getting 9142 votes in 19 Warsaw district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.He was also a member of Sejm 1997-2001 and Sejm...
  
   — Polish politician, head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau
  Central Anticorruption Bureau
  The Central Anticorruption Bureau is a division of the Polish government, reporting to the Prime Minister of Poland, responsible for addressing corruption in Poland. Located in Warsaw, the CBA has been in operation since 24 July 2006, having been activated by the June 2006 Central Anticorruption...
  
   (Commander's Cross)
• Jan Kułakowski — Polish politician, member of the European Parliament
  European Parliament
  The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...
  
   (Commander's Cross with Star)
• János Esterházy
  János Esterházy
  Count János Esterházy a member of the House of Esterházy was the most prominent ethnic Hungarian politician in former Czechoslovakia...
  
   — most prominent ethnic Hungarian politician in former Czechoslovakia
  Czechoslovakia
  Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
  
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• John Lesinski, Sr.
  John Lesinski, Sr.
  John Lesinski, Sr. was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He was the father of John Lesinski, Jr., who took his seat in the United States House of Representatives upon his father's death....
  
   — American congressman
• Léon Noël
  Leon Noel
  Léon Philippe Jules Arthur Noël was a French diplomat, politician and historian.-Biography:He is the son of Jules Noël, conseiller d'Etat, and Cécile Burchard-Bélaváry. He received a Doctor of Laws in 1912 and then became Conseiller d'État...
  
   (1888-1987), French ambassador and politician (Grand Cross).
• Jan Nowak-Jeziorański
  Jan Nowak-Jezioranski
  Jan Nowak-Jeziorański was a Polish journalist, writer, politician, social worker and patriot. He served during the Second World War as one of the most notable resistance fighters of the Home Army...
  
   — Polish resistance fighter and activist, Radio Free Europe
  Radio Free Europe
  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a broadcaster funded by the U.S. Congress that provides news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East "where the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed"...
  
  
• Piotr Nowina-Konopka
  Piotr Nowina-Konopka
  Piotr Nowina-Konopka is a Polish academic and politician.-Academia:Konopka studied at the Sopot School of Economics, Gdańsk University, where he gained an MSc and a PhD in economics...
  
   — Polish politician (Officer's Cross)
• Alvin M. Owsley
  Alvin M. Owsley
  Alvin Mansfield Owsley was an American diplomat, lawyer, and soldier.-Personal life:Owsley was born and raised in Denton, Texas, son of Alvin Clark and Sallie Owsley. He remained in Texas with his family while working for his elementary and secondary education, and also while attending a term at...
  
   — American politician
• Józef Piłsudski — Prime Minister of Poland, First Marshal, Chief of State
• Adam Piłsudski — Polish senator
• Marek Rocki
  Marek Rocki
  Professor Marek Dariusz Rocki is a Polish econometrist, former Rector of Szkoła Główna Handlowa and currently a senator for Civic Platform.- Academic career :...
  
   — Polish economometrist and politician (Knight's Cross)
• Jan Rulewski
  Jan Rulewski
  Jan Rulewski is a Polish politician, activist of Solidarity; a Member of the Polish Sejm and a Senator .He was in charge of the Bydgoszcz region of Solidarity...
  
   — Polish politician, activist of Solidarity; a Member of the Polish Sejm (1991-2001) and a Senator. (Commander's Cross)
• Michał Seweryński — Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education (Knight's Cross)
• Władysław Sikorski — general, Prime Minister of Poland, Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile
• Mário Soares
  Mário Soares
  Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL, KE , Portuguese politician, served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996.-Family:...
  
   — Prime Minister and President of Portugal
  Portugal
  Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
  
  
• Edward Szczepanik
  Edward Szczepanik
  Edward Franciszek Szczepanik, was a Polish economist and the last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile...
  
   — Polish economist and Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile
  Polish government in Exile
  The Polish government-in-exile, formally known as the Government of the Republic of Poland in Exile , was the government in exile of Poland formed in the aftermath of the Invasion of Poland of September 1939, and the subsequent occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, which...
  
   (Knight's Cross)
• Lech Wałęsa
  Lech Wałęsa
  Lech Wałęsa is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist. A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity , the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland between 1990 and 95.Wałęsa was an electrician...
  
   — President of Poland, Nobel Peace Prize
  Nobel Peace Prize
  The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
  
   winner (Knight's Cross)

Religion

• Andrzeja Górska
  Andrzeja Górska
  Andrzeja Górska, whose birth name was Maria Stefania Górska was a Polish Roman Catholic nun. She was born in Łódź. Gorska served as the abbess, or Mother Superior, of the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, who are more commonly known as the Grey Ursulines...
  
   — Polish nun (Commander's Cross)
• Ignacy Jeż
  Ignacy Jez
  Ignacy Ludwik Jeż was the Latin Rite Catholic Bishop Emeritus of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, located in Poland....
  
   — Polish Catholic Bishop
• Lawrence Wnuk
  Lawrence Wnuk
  Lawrence Anthony Wnuk, O.Ont was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and Protonotary Apostolic.He grew up in a Catholic and patriotic Polish family...
  
   — Polish priest
• Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski
  Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski
  Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski is a Polish Roman Catholic and Armenian Catholic priest, author and activist...
  
   — Polish priest

Royalty

• Adam Karol Czartoryski
  Adam Karol Czartoryski
  Prince Adam Karol Jezus Maria Józef Franciszek Salezy and all the Saints Czartoryski, es. Adán Carlos Jesús María José Francisco de Sales y todos los Santos Czartoryski-Bórbon Krasinski y Orléans is a Polish-Spanish aristocrat, the creator of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation, and a patron of the...
  
   — Polish prince
• Amha Selassie of Ethiopia
  Amha Selassie of Ethiopia
  Amha Selassie, GCMG, GCVO, GBE was the last Emperor of Ethiopia. First proclaimed Emperor during the unsuccessful coup attempt by the Imperial Guards against his father Haile Selassie I in December 1960, he initially went along with this proclamation under duress. The coup collapsed within days...
  
   — last emperor of Ethiopia
  Ethiopia
  Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
  
  
• Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
  Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
  Haile Selassie I , born Tafari Makonnen, was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974...
  
   — emperor of Ethiopia

Science and Engineering

• Ryszard Bartel
  Ryszard Bartel
  Ryszard Bartel was a Polish engineer, aircraft designer and aviator, one of Poland's aviation pioneers.Bartel was born in Sławniów village near Pilica. He was interested in aviation from his youth, and in 1911 he built his own gliders capable of short flights...
  
   — Polish aviation pioneer (Knight's Cross)
• Gerard Ciołek — Polish architect and historian of parks and gardens (Knight's Cross)
• Jan Chodorowski — Polish materials science engineer (Officer's Cross)
• Tadeusz Chyliński
  Tadeusz Chylinski
  Tadeusz Chylinski – was a Polish airplane designer and constructor, a researcher at the Institute of Aviation in Warsaw. Specialist strength of aircraft structures.-Before World War II:...
  
   — Polish airplane constructor (Knight's Cross)
• Zbigniew Kabata
  Zbigniew Kabata
  Zbigniew 'Bobo' Kabata, CM is a highly respected parasitologist, veteran of the Polish Armia Krajowa during World War II, poet, fisherman, translator and scientific administrator.-Early life:...
  
   — Polish parasitologist (Grand Cross)
• Stanisław Mrozowski — Polish-American physicist
• Jan Nagórski
  Jan Nagórski
  Jan Nagórski , also known by his Russified name of Ivan Nagurski was a Polish engineer and pioneer of aviation, the first person to fly an airplane in the Arctic and the first aviator to perform a loop with a flying boat....
  
   — Polish aviation pioneer
• Marian Rejewski
  Marian Rejewski
  Marian Adam Rejewski was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who in 1932 solved the plugboard-equipped Enigma machine, the main cipher device used by Germany...
  
   — Polish mathematician, breaker of the Enigma cipher (Grand Cross)
• Tadeusz Sendzimir
  Tadeusz Sendzimir
  Tadeusz Sendzimir of Ostoja coat of arms was a Polish engineer and inventor of international renown with 120 patents in mining and metallurgy, 73 of which were awarded to him in the United States.His name has been given to revolutionary methods of processing steel and metals used in every...
  
   — Polish-American inventor (Officer's Cross)
• Czesław Strumiłło — Professor of Chemical and Process Engineering (Commander's Cross)
• Mirosław Vitali — Polish prosthetics pioneer
• Kazimierz Żorawski
  Kazimierz Zorawski
  Kazimierz Żorawski was a Polish mathematician. His work earned him an honored place in mathematics alongside such Polish mathematicians as Wojciech Brudzewski, Jan Brożek , Nicolas Copernicus, Samuel Dickstein, Stefan Banach, Stefan Bergman, Marian Rejewski, Stanisław Zaremba and Witold...
  
   — Polish mathematician (Commander's Cross)
• Halina Leszczynska— Professor of Chemistry (Officer's Cross)
• Czeslaw Olech — Polish mathematician (Commander's Cross)

Sport

• Leo Beenhakker
  Leo Beenhakker
  Leo Beenhakker is an international Dutch football coach, who is the current Sports Director of Újpest FC.- Coaching career :...
  
   — Dutch
  Netherlands
  The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
  
   football trainer — Polish national football team coach
• Marek Cieślak
  Marek Cieslak
  Marek Kazimierz Cieślak is a former Polish speedway rider and a current speedway coach.In 2007 he was a manager of Poland national team. Poland won Speedway World Cup and Team U-21 World Championship...
  
   — Polish speedway
  Motorcycle speedway
  Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually...
  
   rider (Knight's Cross)
• Mariusz Czerkawski
  Mariusz Czerkawski
  Mariusz Czerkawski is a retired Polish ice hockey player. He played for the Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oilers, New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League . In addition to playing in the NHL, Czerkawski played for several different European-based teams...
  
   — Polish ice hockey
  Ice hockey
  Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
  
   player
• Kazimierz Górski
  Kazimierz Górski
  Kazimierz Klaudiusz Górski was a coach of Poland national football team and honorary president of Polish Football Union . He was also a football player, capped once for Poland....
  
   — Polish football coach (Grand Cross — posthumously; Commander's Cross with Star; Commander's Cross)
• Wacław Kuźmicki
  Wacław Kuźmicki
  Wacław Kuźmicki is a Polish decathlete who competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he finished 16th in a field of 35 competitors. He was born in Osiedle Bacieczki, Białystok and attended the Warsaw School of Economics from 1945-1949...
  
   — Polish decathlete (Knight's Cross)
• Katarzyna Rogowiec
  Katarzyna Rogowiec
  Katarzyna Rogowiec is a Polish Paralympian. She won two gold medals at the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin in cross-country skiing, and also competes at the highest levels in biathlon ....
  
   — Polish paralympian
  Paralympian
  A Paralympian is an athlete who has participated in the Paralympic Games.A Paralympic athlete has a physical disability. The disability can be amputation, spinal cord injuries, visual impairment or cerebral palsy. An exception is the sighted guides for athletes with a visual impairment...
  
  
• Bogdan Wenta
  Bogdan Wenta
  Bogdan Wenta . He was one of the best players in history of Polish handball and was also considered one of the best players in the World of late 80's and early 90's.-Club career:...
  
   — Polish handball player
• Waldemar Legien
  Waldemar Legien
  Waldemar Legień is a retired Polish judoka. He is the manager of Racing Club de France in Paris.He won two Olympic gold medals in different weight classes, in 1988 and 1992.For his sport achievements, he received:...
  
   — Polish judoka (Officer's Cross)
• Agata Mróz-Olszewska — Polish volleyball player (posthumously, not accepted by her husband)
• Adam Małysz — Polish ski jumper (Officer's Cross and Commander's Cross)

Other

• Fernand Auberjonois
  Fernand Auberjonois
  Fernand Auberjonois was a highly respected journalist who worked as the foreign correspondent of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade. Throughout most of the Cold War, Auberjonois was one of the most admired American reporters based in London...
  
   — Swiss-American journalist
• Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska — founder of scouting in Poland
• Jadwiga Falkowska
  Jadwiga Falkowska
  Jadwiga Falkowska codename: Jaga, Zdzisława, Ludwika, Zaleska was a Polish teacher, social activist, Scoutmaster and one of the founders of Girl Scouting in Poland....
  
   — activist
• Brother Stefan Franczak — Jesuit monk, clematis breeder
• Lucjan Kydryński
  Lucjan Kydryński
  Lucjan Kydryński was Polish journalist and writer, radio and TV program host....
  
   (2006) — journalist and writer
• Marie Mattingly Meloney
  Marie Mattingly Meloney
  Marie Mattingly Meloney , who used Mrs. William B. Meloney as her professional and social name, was "one of the leading woman journalists of the United States," a magazine editor and a socialite who in the 1920s organized a fund drive to buy radium for Marie Curie and began a movement for better...
  
   — U.S. journalist who raised $1 million to buy radium for Marie Curie's laboratory
• Ryszard Siwiec
  Ryszard Siwiec
  Ryszard Siwiec was a Polish accountant, teacher and former Home Army soldier who was the first person to commit suicide by self-immolation in protest against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.- Self-Immolation :...
  
   — protester
• Ludwika Wawrzyńska
  Ludwika Wawrzynska
  Ludwika Wawrzyńska was a Polish teacher who worked at an elementary school in Warsaw. On February 8, 1955 she rescued four children from a burning house where they had been locked by their parents as they were leaving for work. She died ten days later, on February 18, from severe burns.Wawrzyńska...
  
   — hero (Commander's Cross)
• Simon Wiesenthal
  Simon Wiesenthal
  Simon Wiesenthal KBE was an Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter....
  
  — Austrian Jewish "Nazi-hunter"