American architect Karl Dominik (born 1980), China's first Chinese speaking Polish actor Marek Edelman (1919/1922–2009), Holocaust survivor, one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Solidarity activist, Polish politician, human rights activist Jacob Eisner (born 1947), Israeli basketball player Max Factor Sr. (1877–1938), businessman, founder of the Max Factor cosmetics company Dov Freiberg (1927–2008), Holocaust survivor and writer Magdalena Fręch (born 1997), tennis player Joseph Friedenson (1922–2013), Holocaust survivor and writer Piotr Fronczewski (born 1946), Polish actor Maciej Golubiewski (born 1976), Polish political scientist and diplomat, Consul General at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City Marcin Gortat (born 1984), NBA basketball player for the Washington Wizards Mendel Grossman (1913–1945), Łódź ghetto photographer Józef Hecht (1891–1951), engraver and printmaker Jerzy Janowicz (born 1990), tennis player Josef Joffe (born 1944), journalist Michał Kalecki (1899–1970), Marxian economist, "one of the most distinguished economists of the 20th century" Roman Kantor (1912–1943), épée fencer, Nordic champion and Soviet champion; killed by the Nazis Jan Karski (1914–2000), diplomat and anti-nazi resistant Aharon Katzir (1914–1972), Israeli pioneer in study of electrochemistry of biopolymers; killed in Lod Airport Massacre Lea Koenig (born 1929), Israeli actress Paul Klecki (1900–1973), conductor Katarzyna Kobro (1898–1951), sculptor Tomasz Konieczny (born 1972), opera singer Jerzy Kosinski (1933–1991), writer Jan Kowalewski (1892–1965), cryptologist who broke Soviet military codes, and ciphers during the Polish-Soviet War Karolina Kowalkiewicz (born 1985), UFC Strawweight Title challenger Feliks W. Kres (born 1966), fantasy writer Anna Lewandowska (born 1988), karateka and nutrition expert Nathan Lewin, Washington, D.C. attorney Daniel Libeskind (born 1946), architect Tadeusz Miciński (1873–1918), poet Stanisław Mikulski (1929–2014), actor Ruth Minsky Sender (born 1926), author and survivor Zew Wawa Morejno (1916–2011), Chief Rabbi Henry Morgentaler (1923–2013), physician Konstantin Petrovich Nechaev (1883–1946), White movement leader and mercenary commander in China Zbigniew Nienacki (1929–1994), writer Marek Olędzki (born 1951), archaeologist Marian P. Opala (1921–2010), Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Adam Ostrowski (born 1980), better known as O.S.T.R., rapper Adam Palma (born 1974), Polish-British guitarist and teacher Władysław Pasikowski (born 1959), film director Roman Polanski (born 1933), cinema director, Oscar and Golden Palm winner Piotr Pustelnik (born 1951), alpine and high-altitude climber, the 20th man to climb all 14 eight-thousanders. Ze'ev Raban (1890–1970), Israeli painter and sculptor Adolph Moses Radin (1848–1909), rabbi Damian Radowicz (born 1989), footballer Władysław Reymont (1867–1925), writer, Nobel Prize winner Joseph Rotblat (1908–2005), physicist, Nobel Prize winner Stefan Rozental (1903–1994), nuclear