Pierniki Polski Cukier Toruń – basketball club, which is competing in the Polish Basketball League (men premier league in Poland), two times runners-up, whose home ground is the Arena Toruń Energa Katarzynki Toruń – basketball club, competing in the Basket Liga Kobiet (women premier league in Poland), finishing 3rd in 2010, 2012, 2015, whose home ground is the Arena Toruń Angels Toruń – American football – Polish American Football League First Division Nestle-Pacyfic – cycling Toruński Klub Bowlingowy – bowling Budowlani Toruń – volleyball (women premier league in Poland), whose home ground is the Arena Toruń UKS Budowlanka Toruń – volleyball Toruński KS – defunct Polish football club, co-founders of the Polish football league The E11 European long distance path for hikers passes through Toruń Notable people Notable residents of Toruń include: Filippo Buonaccorsi (1437–1496), Italian humanist, writer, and diplomat Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), Renaissance polymath and astronomer. Anna Vasa of Sweden (1568–1625), Polish and Swedish princess Bartholomeus Strobel (1591–1650), Baroque painter Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (1755–1830), German physician and anatomist Samuel Linde (1771–1847), linguist, librarian, and lexicographer of the Polish language Fryderyk Skarbek (1792–1866), economist, novelist, historian, social activist, administrator, politician, and penologist Zvi Hirsch Kalischer (1795–1874), Orthodox rabbi Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849), composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period. Julie Wolfthorn (1864–1944), German painter Władysław Dziewulski (1878–1962), astronomer and mathematician. Hermann Rauschning (1887–1982), German conservative reactionary Roman Ingarden (1893–1970), philosopher Lotte Jacobi (1896–1990), American portrait photographer and photojournalist Elżbieta Zawacka (1909–2009), university professor, scouting instructor, SOE agent, and a freedom fighter during World War II Tony Halik (1921–1998), film operator, documentary filmmaker, travel writer, traveller, explorer, and polyglot Kazimierz Serocki (1922–1981), composer Bodo Tümmler (born 1943), German middle-distance runner Aleksander Wolszczan (born 1946), astronomer Bogusław Linda (born 1952), actor Michał Zaleski (born 1952), politician Jadwiga Rappé (born 1952), operatic contralto Waldemar Fydrych (born 1953), Polish activist, leader of the Orange Alternative movement Jerzy Wenderlich (born 1954), politician Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus (born 1972), politician Piotr Głowacki (born 1980), actor Tomasz Wasilewski (born 1980), film director and screenwriter Olga Bołądź (born 1984), actress Adrian Kubicki (born 1987), Consul General of the Republic of Poland in New York City Sport Teresa Weyna (born 1950), ice dancer Tomasz Warczachowski (born 1974), footballer Michał Gołaś (born 1984), road bicycle racer Adam Waczyński (born 1989), basketball player Michał Kwiatkowski (born 1990), road bicycle racer Katarzyna Zillmann (born 1995), rower Jakub Piotrowski (born 1997), footballer International relations