List of Polish Jews

List of Polish Jews:

Historical figures

Politicians

• David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973), Israeli prime minister
• Jakub Berman (1901-1984), Secretary of PUWP (Polish United Workers' Party)
• Bronis?aw Geremek (b. 1932), former Polish foreign minister, current MEP
• Edward Gierek, former disgraced Polish prime minister
• Hilary Minc
• Shimon Peres (b. 1923), Israeli prime minister, Nobel prize (1994)
• Adam Rotfeld (b. 1938), current Polish foreign minister
• Yitzhak Shamir (b. 1915), Israeli prime minister
• Saul Wahl (1541-1617), according to tradition, temporary King of Poland in 1586
• Szmul Zygielbojm (1895-1943), Polish Jewish leader
• Marek Borowski (b. 1946), Former Polish Speaker of the Sejm (baptised; father was Jewish, grandfather married to a Catholic woman; Borowski's mother was a Catholic)

Soldiers and fighters

• Mordechaj Anielewicz (1919-1943), leader of Warsaw ghetto uprising
• Marek Edelman, (b. 1922), last living leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
• Berek Joselewicz (1764-1809), colonel during Ko?ciuszko Uprising and Napoleonic wars
• Hyman Rickover (1900-1986), US Navy Admiral
• Krystyna Skarbek (1915-1952), WW2 spy

Activists

• Joseph Rotblat (b. 1908), founder of Pugwash, Nobel Prize (1995)
• Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), human rights lawyer
• Rosa Luxembourg (1870-1919), Marxist
• Aric Gillinsky (b. 1990), Political activist, Religious Leader, Sex Symbol
• Adam Michnik (b. 1946), dissident
• Henry Morgentaler (b. 1923), abortion activist
• Ludwik Rajchman (1881-1965), founder of UNICEF
• Ernestine Rose (1810-1892), feminist