List of people from Danzig

List of people from Danzig (Gdańsk) from the period 1308 to 1945.

For people born after 1945, see List of people from Gdańsk

Tiedemann Giese, 1480 , bishop
Johannes Dantiscus, 1485, poet, church canon and bishop
Bernhard von Reesen, 1490, business man painted by Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Giese, 1524, councilman and diplomat
Caspar Schütz (ca. 1540 Eisleben - 1594 Danzig), Prussian Historian
Anton van Obberghen, 1543, architect
Anton Möller, 1563, painter
Bartholomäus Keckermann c. 1571 - c. 1609, writer and Calvinist theologist
Sigmund Kerschenstein, born 1603, Calvinist, married to musician Constantia Zierenberg
Constantia Czirenberg/Zierenberg, born 1605, daughter of Danzig mayor, married to Sigmund Kerschenstein in 1628
Reinhold Curicke, 1610-1667, jurist, historian
Johannes Hevelius, 1611, astronomer
Georg Daniel Schultz, 1615, painter
Bogusław Radziwiłł, 1620, Prince of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Reichsfürst of the HRE, governor of Ducal Prussia
Andreas Schlüter, 1660, architect and sculptor
Jacob Theodor Klein, 1685, jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat
Gottfried Lengnich, 1689-1774, jurist, historian
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, 1686-1736, physicist and engineer
Michael Christoph Hanow (1695 Zamborst, Pomerania - 1773 Danzig), mathematician, since 1717 Rector of the Gymnasium Danzig, meteorologist, historian, scientist
Daniel Gralath, 1708, physicist and Bürgermeister (mayor) of Danzig
Louise Adelgunde Gottsched, 1713, writer
Daniel Chodowiecki, 1726, artist painter
Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, 1734, prince
Michał Jerzy Poniatowski, 1736, primate of Poland
Johann Wilhelm Archenholz, 1741, historian and publicist
Avraham Danzig, 1748, rabbi
Georg Forster, 1754, naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary
Jacob Kabrun Jr. 1759-1814 books and art collector, philanthropist
Johanna Schopenhauer, 1766, author and mother of Arthur Schopenhauer
Johannes Daniel Falk, 1768, poet and educator
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788, philosopher
Otto von Below, 1823
Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf 1832, general, writer
Fritz von Below, 1853-1918
Max Halbe, 1865, writer
Max Adalbert 1874-1933, actor
Alfred Stock, 1876-1946, chemist
Gerhard Rose, 1896-1992, expert on tropical medicine
Ernst Rudolf Adolf Kuster, 1903
Gerhard Krüger, 1908-1994
Henryk Hubertus Jabłoński, 1915-1989, composer
Mathias Goeritz, 1915-1990 artist
Brunon Zwarra, b. 1919, writer
Alexander Salkind, 1921-1997, film producer
Heinz-Hermann Koelle, b. 1922, German-American aeronautical and rocket engineer.
Miltiades Caridis, b. 1923
Eddi Arent, b. 1925, actor and comedian
Jack Mandelbaum, b. 1926, subject of Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
Günter Grass, b. 1927, writer and philosopher
Henry Rosovsky, b. 1927, economist
Herlind Kasner née Jent(z)sch, b. 1928 (possibly in Elbing [1]), mother of German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Vera Klement, b. 1929, painter
Zalman Shoval, b. 1930, diplomat and politician
Wolfgang Völz, b. 1930, actor and voice actor (
Holger Czukay, b. 1938, musician
Wawrzyniec Samp, b. 1939, sculptor and graphic artist
Matthias Habich, b. 1940, actor

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