Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Cuyavia y Pomerania
Hermann Löns
Hermann Löns was a German journalist and writer. He is most famous as "The Poet of the Heath" for his novels and poems celebrating the people and landscape of the North German moors, particularly the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony. Löns is well known in Germany for his famous folksongs. He was also a hunter, natural historian and conservationist. Despite being well over the normal recruitment age, Löns enlisted and was killed in World War I and his purported remains were later used by the German government for celebratory purposes.
Hilde Zadek
Hilde Zadek fue una soprano alemana de nacionalidad israelí.
Kurt Schumacher
Kurt Schumacher fue un político alemán, presidente del Partido Socialdemócrata de Alemania (SPD) durante el periodo posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial y líder de la oposición en el Bundestag al gobierno Adenauer hasta su fallecimiento.
Chana Gitla Kowalska
Chana (Anna) Kowalska Winogora (1899–c.1942) was a Polish painter and journalist whose artworks reflect her rural origins. While in Paris during the German occupation, she was active in Jewish Communist organizations and wrote about art in local journals. Active in the French Resistance, she was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Auschwitz in July 1942.
Michael Otto
Michael Otto, es la cabeza del grupo alemán Otto Group, la mayor compañía del mundo de venta por correo, con 24.000.000.000 dólares en ventas en el año fiscal 2003. Gracias a un incremento del 30% en las ventas por Internet el año pasado, Otto también mantiene su posición como el segundo minorista más grande de la Web, detrás de Amazon.com. Es hijo del empresario hamburgués Werner Otto.
Zbigniew Boniek
Zbigniew Kazimierz Boniek es un exfutbolista internacional polaco, considerado uno de los mejores futbolistas polacos de todos los tiempos. Forma parte de la lista FIFA 100 elaborada por Pelé, en la que figuran los mejores jugadores de la historia del fútbol.
Justus Frantz
Justus Frantz es un pianista alemán, director de orquesta y personalidad televisiva.
Nikolaus von Halem
Nikolaus Christoph von Halem fue un abogado y empresario alemán, miembro de la resistencia contra el Nazismo.
Werner Henke
Werner Henke was the commander of U-515 in the Battle of the Atlantic of World War II. U-515 was sunk by the US task group 22.3, commanded by Daniel V. Gallery on 9 April 1944 and Henke was captured along with about 40 of his crew. He was shot and killed while attempting to escape from the POW interrogation center in Fort Hunt, Virginia in the United States.
Joanna Rajkowska
Joanna Rajkowska is a Polish contemporary artist who came onto the Polish art scene in the 1990s. Her most famous work is called "Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue", a 15-meter-tall (50-foot) artificial palm tree installed on Warsaw's Jerusalem Avenue.