Gromee (born 1978), DJ, remixer, and music producer Ludwika Paleta (born 1978), Polish Mexican actress and model Joanna Liszowska (born 1978), actress Mirosław Spiżak (born 1979), football player Mariusz Wach (born 1979), professional boxer Piotr Bagnicki (born 1980), football player Piotr Giza (born 1980), football player Marcin Wasilewski (born 1980), football player Maciej Iwański (born 1981), football player Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz (born 1981), physician and politician Chris Pozniak (born 1981), football player Radosław Zawrotniak (born 1981), fencer (born 1983), composer and conductor Daria Werbowy (born 1983), fashion model Maciej Bębenek (born 1984), football player (born 1984), poet, literary critic, and Romance philologist Robert Kubica (born 1984), racing driver Tomasz Marczyński (born 1984), road racing cyclist Piotr Polczak (born 1986), football player Michał Pazdan (born 1987), football player (born 1988), swimmer Agnieszka Radwańska (born 1989), tennis player Tomasz Fornal (born 1997), volleyball player Jan-Krzysztof Duda (born 1998), chess grandmaster Notable people with connections to Krakow Until 1800 Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030–1079), Bishop of Krakow Hyacinth of Poland (1183–1257), Dominican priest and missionary János Thurzó (1437–1508), entrepreneur and mining engineer Nicolaus Cracoviensis (?–1550), composer Veit Stoss (Polish: Wit Stwosz; (1447–1553), sculptor Jacob Pollak (around 1460–1541), rabbi, founder of Talmudic yeshiva in Krakow Nicolaus Copernicus (Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik; 1473–1543), studied here Hans von Kulmbach (1480–1522), German artist Israel ben Josef (around 1500 – 1568), founder of the Remah Synagogue Joshua Höschel ben Joseph (around 1578 – 1648), rabbi Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller (around 1579 – 1654), rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heschel (1595–1663), rabbi Augustus II (1670–1733), crowned King of Poland in Krakow, Head of State of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. (1685–1745), composer and conductor After 1801 Ludwik Karol Teichmann (1823–1895), anatomist Emil Czyrniański (1824–1888), chemist Maurycy Gottlieb (1856–1879), Jewish Polish painter Stanisław Zaremba (1863–1942), mathematician and engineer Dagny Juel (1867–1901), Norwegian writer Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935), Marshal and politician Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868–1927), writer Ozjasz Thon (1870–1936), rabbi in Krakow, Zionist Georg Trakl (1887–1914), expressionist Ivo Andric (1892–1975), writer, diplomat, politician, and winner of 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature (1857–1940), Imperial and Royal lieutenant field marshal, military commander of Krakow from 1915 to 1918 Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), entrepreneur Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004), poet and winner of 1980 Nobel prize in Literature Pope John Paul II (1920–2005), born as Karol Wojtyła in Wadowice, Bishop of Krakow Stanisław Lem (1921–2006), philosopher, essayist and science-fiction author Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012), poet, essayist, translator, and winner of 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature (1928–1995), organist and