This is a list of people from Gdańsk (Danzig).
Conrad Letzkau, d. 1412, mayor, executed by the Teutonic Knights
Tiedemann Giese, 1480, bishop
Johannes Dantiscus, 1485, poet, church canon and bishop
Bernhard von Reesen, 1490, businessman painted by Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Giese, 1524, councilman and diplomat
Caspar Schütz, ca. 1540 Eisleben-1594 Danzig, Prussian historian
Anton Möller, 1563, painter
Bartholomäus Keckermann (c. 1571-1608), writer and Calvinist theologist
Adam Wiebe Von Harlingen (c. 1584-1653), Royal Engineer
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
Daniel Gralath, 1708, physicist and Bürgermeister (mayor) of Danzig
Louise Adelgunde Gottsched, 1713, writer
Sir Trevor Corry (1724-1780), British diplomat; Baron of Poland; British Consul to Danzig 1745–1780
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), merchant, book and art collector, and philanthropist
Johanna Schopenhauer, 1766, author; mother of Arthur Schopenhauer
Johannes Daniel Falk, 1768, poet and educator
Antonio Casimir Cartellieri, 1772, composer
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788, philosopher
Rachel Meyer (1806-1874), writer
Ernst Förstemann, 1822, historian, mathematician, philologist
Otto von Below, 1823
Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf, 1832, general, writer
Fritz von Below, 1853-1918
August von Brandis (1859-1947), artist
Max Halbe, 1865, writer
Max Adalbert (1874-1933), actor
Alfred Stock (1876-1946), chemist
Carl Schuricht (1880-1967), conductor
Gerhard Rose (1896-1992), expert on tropical medicine
Gerhard Krüger (1908-1994)
Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990), artist
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
Meir Shamgar, b. 1925, President of the Israel Supreme Court
Jack Mandelbaum, b. 1926, subject of Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
Günter Grass, b. 1927, writer, recipient of 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature
Henry Rosovsky, b. 1927, economist
Zalman Shoval, b. 1930, diplomat and politician
Wolfgang Völz, b. 1930, actor and voice actor
Jutta Meischner, b. 1935, classical archeologist
Holger Czukay, b. 1938, musician
Wawrzyniec Samp, b. 1939, sculptor and graphic artist
Matthias Habich, b. 1940, actor
Heidrun Mohr-Mayer, b. 1941, jeweler
Józef Borzyszkowski, b. 1946, historian, politician, founder of the Kashubian Institute in Gdańsk
Andrzej Szarmach, b. 1950, football player
Krzysztof Kolberger, b. 1950, actor
Jan de Weryha-Wysoczanski, b. 1950, sculptor
Jerzy Samp, b. 1951, writer and historian
Tomasz Imieliński, b. 1954, computer scientist
Jolanta Kwaśniewska, b. 1955, former first lady
Pawel Huelle, b. 1957, writer and journalist
Donald Tusk, b. 1957, President of the European Council; Polish Prime Minister; journalist and historian
Marek Kamiński, b. 1964, traveler
Paweł Adamowicz, b. 1965, politician
Aneta Kręglicka, b. 1965, Miss World 1989
Dariusz Michalczewski, b. 1968, boxer
Mariusz Podkościelny, b. 1968, freestyle swimmer and swimming coach
Leszek Mozdzer, b. 1971, jazz pianist
Tomasz Waldoch, b. 1971, footballer
Gregorz Szamotulski, b. 1976, footballer
Jakobe Mansztajn, b. 1982, poet, blogger
Behemoth, blackened death metal band
Adam Darski, b. 1977, singer and guitarist
