Jerzy Porębski (born 1957), film producer and screenwriter Zbigniew Preisner (born 1955), film score composer Renata Przemyk (born 1966), singer and songwriter Aneta Sablik (born 1989), singer-songwriter Franz Sauer (1894–1962), organist Oswald Seeliger (1858–1908), German zoologist Kriss Sheridan (born 1989), Polish-American singer, songwriter, actor, model and traveler Josef Strzygowski (1862–1941), Polish-Austrian art historian Jan Szarek (1936–2020), bishop of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland Sabina Wojtala (born 1981), figure skater Jakub Wolny (born 1995), ski jumper Aleksander Zawadzki (1798–1868), Polish naturalist Emil Zegadłowicz (1888–1941), poet, prose writer, novelist, playwright and translator Sigmund Zeisler (1860–1931), German-Jewish lawyer Wojciech Zurek (born 1951), theoretical physicist International relations Twin towns – sister cities Bielsko-Biała is twinned with: Acre, Israel Baia Mare, Romania Besançon, France Berdyansk, Ukraine Frýdek-Místek, Czech Republic Grand Rapids, United States Kirklees, United Kingdom Kragujevac, Serbia Nyíregyháza, Hungary Szolnok, Hungary Tienen, Belgium Třinec, Czech Republic Ustka, Poland Wolfsburg, Germany Žilina, Slovakia See also Bielsko-Biała Museum Bolek and Lolek Jews in Bielsko-Biała Sfera shopping mall Upper Silesian metropolitan area References External links Official website Bielsko - Aerial photos Bielsko-Biała Museum Jewish Community of Bielsko-Biała on Virtual Shtetl City counties of Poland Cities and towns in Silesian Voivodeship 1312 establishments in Europe Populated places established in 1951 Kraków Voivodeship (14th century – 1795) Populated places in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Silesian Voivodeship (1920–1939) Kraków Voivodeship (1919–1939) Shtetls Holocaust locations in Poland 14th-century establishments in Poland Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust