Chris Zylka (born 1985), actor; maternal grandfather of Polish descent Architects John S. Flizikowski (1868–1934), prominent Chicago architect Frank Gehry (born 1929), Canadian-born of Polish Jewish descent; California architect Norman Jaffe (1932–1993), architect widely noted for his contemporary residential architecture Daniel Libeskind (born 1946), Polish-born architect Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (born 1950), Polish American leader of the New Urbanism movement Witold Rybczynski (born 1943), Scottish-born architect, author and professor; later based in Canada and the United States Artists Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930–2020), painter, sculptor, and printmaker Joseph Bakos (aka Jozef Bakos; 1891–1977), Southwestern artist Władysław T. Benda (1873–1948), painter and illustrator Hedwig Gorski (born 1949), performance poet and avant-garde artist Frank Kozik, graphic artist who has worked with Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Melvins, The Offspring and Butthole Surfers; runs Man's Ruin Records Tamara de Lempicka (1898–1980), art deco artist Jan Lorenc (born 1954), photographer and designer Jozef Mazur (1897–1970), painter and stained glass artist Rafał Olbiński (born 1945), artist Ed Paschke (1939–2004), artist Miroslaw Rogala (born 1954), video artist Theodore Roszak (1907–1981), sculptor Jan Sawka (1946–2012), painter, sculptor, printmaker, stage design, and set design Kesha Sebert (born 1987), singer David Seymour (1911–1956), Polish-born photographer and photojournalist Julian Stanczak (1928–2017), painter Stanisław Szukalski (1893–1987), painter, sculptor and pseudoscientific historian Arthur Szyk (1894–1951), political cartoonist Jack Tworkov (1900–1982), painter Piotr Uklański, artist and photographer Jurek Wajdowicz (born 1951), photographer, artist and graphic designer Max Weber (1881–1961), Polish-born Expressionist painter Krzysztof Wodiczko (born 1943), artist Korczak Ziolkowski (1908–1982), sculptor of Crazy Horse Memorial Authors George Adamski (1891–1965), author Douglas Blazek (born 1941), poet and editor Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), writer Virginia C. Bulat (1938–1986), author and historian Mark Z. Danielewski (born 1966), author (House of Leaves) Stuart Dybek (born 1942), poet, writer Marie Ferrarella (born 1948), author Hedwig Gorski (born 1949), performance poet, avant-garde artist John Guzlowski (born 1948), poet/novelist/essayist, author (Echoes of Tattered Tongues, Suitcase Charlie) Christopher Kasparek (born 1945), author, historian, translator Chuck Klosterman (born 1972), author with German and Polish ancestry Lelord Kordel (1904–2001), author of books on nutrition and healthy living Jerzy Kosinski (1933–1991), novelist Chris Kuzneski (born 1969), best-selling author of multiple thrillers (Sign of the Cross, The Lost Throne) Richard C. Lukas (born 1937), author, historian and freelance writer Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004), Nobel Prize–winning poet, prose writer, essayist and translator Andrew Nagorski (born 1947), non-fiction/fiction author and award-winning senior editor of Newsweek magazine Michael