List of Polish People - Military

Military

  • Władysław Anders, general, military commander during the Battle of Monte Cassino (1944)
  • Dawid Apfelbaum, Polish Army lieutenant; commander of the Jewish Military Union (backed by Home Army) in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943)
  • Krzysztof Arciszewski, general of artillery of Holland (1639), and Poland (1646).
  • Józef Bem, military commander, commander-in-chief of Hungarian army (1849)
  • Janusz Bokszczanin, colonel, last chief of staff of the Home Army (1944–1945)
  • Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, military commander, victor from Kircholm (1605)
  • Michał Czajkowski (Sadyk Pasha), (1804–86), Polish-Ukrainian commander-in-chief of an Ottoman Cossack brigade during the Crimean War (1853–56)
  • Stefan Czarniecki, Field Crown Hetman of Poland (1665)
  • Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, general, military commander during the Napoleonic Wars
  • Jarosław Dąbrowski, military commander during the January Uprising (1863), and the Paris Commune (1871)
  • Henryk Dembiński, military commander in the November Uprising and the Hungarian uprising of 1849
  • Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski, general, ambassador, nominated President of Poland (1939)
  • Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, general, military commander in the Greater Poland Uprising (1919)
  • Bolesław Bronisław Duch, World War II general
  • Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski (1894–2005), Polish soldier in World War I and in the 1920–21 Polish-Soviet War. At his death, he was the oldest man in the United Kingdom (111 years old).
  • Emil August Fieldorf, general, last deputy commander-in-chief of the Home Army (1944–1945)
  • Józef Haller, politician, commander of the Polish Army in France during World War I
  • Stanisław Haller, general, was murdered by the NKVD in the Katyn massacre in 1940.
  • Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski, Grand Crown Hetman (1682/3-1702)
  • Jan Nowak-Jezioranski (1913–2005), Polish journalist and World War II hero.
  • Berek Joselewicz, Polish-Jewish colonel in the Kościuszko Uprising and in Napoleon's Polish Legions; commanded the first Jewish military formation in modern history
  • Mikołaj Kamieniecki, first Grand Crown Hetman of Poland (1503–1515)
  • Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, general, founder of the resistance movement "Polish Victory Service" (September 27, 1939)
  • Kazimierz J. Kasperek, most decorated Polish Navy officer of World War II
  • Tadeusz Klimecki, general, the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army (1941–1943)
  • Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, general, commander-in-chief of the Home Army (1943–1944), during Warsaw Uprising (1944)
  • Stanisław Koniecpolski, Grand Crown Hetman (1632–46)
  • Stanisław Kopański, general, the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army (1943–1946).
  • Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish and American commander, general and revolutionist.
  • Jan Kozietulski, colonel, commander during the Napoleonic Wars
  • Wincenty Krasiński
  • Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski, Polish Union general in the American Civil War
  • Marian Kukiel, World War II general, historian
  • Franciszek Latinik, general, military governor of Warsaw during the Battle of Warsaw
  • Aleksander Lisowski, commander of 17th-century Lisowczycy.
  • Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, Prince, Field Crown Hetman (1657–1664), victor from the Battle of Chudniv (Cudnów) (1660)
  • Walenty Łukawski, captain in the Bar Confederation, abductor of King Stanisław August Poniatowski








  • Stanisław Maczek, (1892–1994), commander of the Polish Armored Division, later commander-in-chief of Polish forces in exile after World War II
  • Erich von Manstein (born Fritz-Erich von Lewinski – Brochwicz coat of arms), German (Prussian) Field Marshal
  • Bernard Mond, Polish—Jewish general
  • Mieczyslaw Norwid-Neugebauer, general and minister from Polish—Jewish family
  • Leopold Okulicki, general, last commander-in-chief of the Home Army (1944–1945)
  • Juliusz Konstanty Ordon, officer in the November Uprising (1830–31)
  • Tadeusz Pełczyński, chief of staff of the Home Army (ZWZ/AK) (1941–1944)
  • Jadwiga Piłsudska
  • Emilia Plater, Countess, heroine of the November 1830 Uprising
  • Józef Poniatowski, prince, Polish general and marshal of France
  • Kazimierz Pułaski (Casimir Pulaski), Polish and American military commander
  • Hyman G. Rickover, U.S. Navy Admiral, Father of the Nuclear Navy
  • Konstantin Rokossovsky, (born Konstanty Rokossowski) Marshal of the Soviet Union and Polish defense minister, communist
  • Stefan Rowecki, general, military commander, commander-in-chief of the Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ) (1940–1942) and Home Army (AK) (1942–1943)
  • Edward Rowny, U.S. Army general
  • Edward Rydz-Śmigły, marshal, military commander, successful in the Polish-Soviet War, C-i-C of the Polish Army in the Invasion of Poland (1939)
  • Yitzhak Sadeh (born Isaac Landsberg; 1890-1952), a founder of the Israel Defense Forces
  • John Shalikashvili, retired United States Army general
  • Danuta Siedzikówna, (1928–1946), medical orderly in Polish Army
  • Władysław Sikorski, general, commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces and Prime Minister of Poland (1939–1943)
  • Piotr Skuratowicz, general of the Polish Army, was murdered by the NKVD in the Katyn massacre
  • Stanisław Sosabowski, commander of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, which saw action at the Battle of Arnhem during Operation Market Garden (1944)
  • Kazimierz Sosnkowski, general, Commander-in-Chief of Polish Armed Forces (1943–1944)
  • Józef Sowiński, general, hero of the November Uprising (1830–31)
  • Zygmunt Szendzielarz ("Łupaszko")
  • Stanisław Szeptycki, general
  • Jan Tarnowski, Grand Crown Hetman (1527–1561), victor of Obertyn (1531)
  • Stanisław Tatar, general
  • Józef Wybicki
  • Piotr Wysocki, led the November Uprising (1830)
  • Kordian Józef Zamorski, general; chief of the Polish state police (1935–39)
  • Jan Zamoyski, Great Chancellor of Poland (1578–1605) and Grand Crown Hetman (1581–1605)
  • Elżbieta Zawacka, general, the only woman among the Cichociemni (Silent dark ones of Polish Army)
  • Stanisław Żółkiewski, chancellor of Poland, military commander, conqueror of Moscow (1610), Grand Crown Hetman (1613–1620)
  • Janusz Żurakowski, World War II fighter pilot and Avro Arrow test pilot









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