Janina David, born Janina Dawidowicz (born 1930), writer and Holocaust survivor Solomon Eger (1785–1852), rabbi Agaton Giller (1831–1887), patriotic activist Stefan Giller (1833–1918), poet, an epigone of the Polish Romanticism Cyprian Godebski (1765–1809), freedom fighter and poet Avraham Gombiner (1635–1682), Jewish rabbi and scholar Adam Hofman (born 1980), politician Simon Horontchik (1889–1939), Polish-Yiddish novelist and short story writer Julian Klemczyński (1807–1851), composer Augustyn Kordecki (1603–1673), prior of the Jasna Góra Monastery and hero of The Deluge Alfred Kowalski (1849–1915), painter Yehiel Krize (1908–1968) Polish-born Israeli painter Jerzy Kryszak (born 1950), actor Theodor Meron (born 1930), Polish-born American president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and judge in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Bonawentura Niemojowski (1787–1835), journalist Wincenty Niemojowski (1784–1834), journalist Ladislaus Pilars de Pilar (1874–1952), poet Leopold Pilichowski (1869–1933), realist painter Zofia Poznańska (1906–1942), anti-Nazi resistance fighter Adolph Moses Radin (1848–1909), rabbi Stanisław Saks (1897–1942), mathematician, member of the Polish Underground State, killed by the Gestapo Wojciech Siemion (1928–2010), actor and director Zdzisława Sośnicka (born 1945), singer Mischa Spoliansky (1898–1985), composer Jerzy Świrski (1882–1959), vice admiral Alina Szapocznikow (1926–1973), sculptor and Holocaust survivor Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński (1861–1896), traveler and explorer Stanislaw Szymanski (1862–1944), factory manager, industrialist, and activist Alicja Tchórz (born 1992), swimmer Marta Walczykiewicz (born 1987), sprint canoer, Olympic medalist Chaim Elozor Wax (1822–1889), Hasidic rabbi and philanthropist Stanisław Wojciechowski (1869–1953), president of Poland Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski (born 1936), musician Iga Wyrwał (born 1989), glamour model Eve Zaremba (born 1930), Polish-born Canadian writer International relations Twin towns — Sister cities Kalisz is twinned with: See also History of the Jews in Kalisz Kalisz Department (Polish: Departament Kaliski): a unit of administrative division and local government in Polish Duchy of Warsaw in years 1807–1815 Kaliszanie References External links www.kalisz.pl Jewish Encyclopedia: "Kalisz” by Herman Rosenthal, Judah Eisenstein, and J. G. Lipman (1906). Kalisz 9th-century establishments in Europe Kalisz Shtetls Kalisz Governorate Poznań Voivodeship (1921–1939) Holocaust locations in Poland