List of people living or working in Gdańsk
- List of people living or working in Gdańsk
List of people living or working in Danzig/Gdańsk without having been born there:
* Michael Küchmeister von Sternberg (1370-1423) Grand Master of Teutonic Order
* Erhardus Sperber, (1529-1608), theological author
* Achatius Cureus (1531-1594), author, lyricist
* Caspar Schütz (1540-1594), historian of Danzig
* Martin Opitz (1597-1639), poet
* Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664), German lyric poet and dramatist
* Andreas Stech (1635-1699) artist
* Abraham Calov, in 1643 rector of the Academic Danzig Gymnasium, mathematician, theologist
* Michael Christoph Hanow (Hanov) (1695-1773), mathematician, historian, meteorologist, scientist
* Gottlieb Wernsdorf I. () (1717-1774), author, teacher at Danzig Gymnasium
* Christoph Cölestin Mrongovius (1764-1855), Protestant pastor
* Edward O'Rourke (1876-1943), became in 1925 the first bishop of the Free City of Danzig
* Lech Wałęsa (born 1943), trade unions activist, politician, president of Poland (1990–1995)
* Jacek Kaczmarski (1957-2004), songwriter, poet and author
See also
*List of people from Danzig
*List of people from Gdańsk
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