List of Polish People - Politics

Politics

• Wiktor Alter
• Tomasz Arciszewski, first Prime Minister of Poland in exile (1944–1947)
• Kazimierz Feliks Badeni, count, Minister-President of Austria (1895–1897)
• Menachem Begin Israeli politician and Prime Minister (1913–1992)
• David Ben-Gurion, Zionist leader and first Prime Minister of Israel (1886–1973)
• Marek Belka, former director of economic policy in the interim coalition administration of Iraq, Prime Minister of Poland (2004–2005)
• Bolesław Bierut, leader of communist Poland (1948–1956)
• Michał Bobrzyński, Governor of Galicia (1908–1913)
• Zbigniew Brzeziński, political scientist, advisor to US President Jimmy Carter.
• Józef Cyrankiewicz, Prime Minister of communistic Poland (1947–1952 and 1954–1970)
• Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, prince, statesman, Prime Minister (1830–1831)
• Ignacy Daszyński, Prime Minister of the Temporary People's Government of the Republic of Poland (1918)
• Jan Dekert, merchant, Mayor of Warsaw (1789–1791)
• Roman Dmowski, nationalist politician, statesman
• Feliks Dzierżyński, the founder of the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka
• Marek Edelman
• Henryk Ehrlich
• Tytus Filipowicz
• Jaś Gawroński, Italian politician
• Edward Gierek, leader of communist Poland (1970–1980)
• Agaton Giller
• Władysław Gomułka, leader of communist Poland (1956–1970)
• Michał Hruszewski, first President of Ukraine (1918)
• Piotr Jaroszewicz, Prime Minister of communistic Poland (1970–1980)
• Wojciech Jaruzelski, last leader of communist Poland (1981–1989), first President of the Third Polish Republic (1989–1990)
• Janusz Jędrzejewicz
• Henryk Józewski
• Ryszard Kaczorowski, sixth and last President of Poland in exile (1989–1990)
• Jarosław Kaczyński, identical twin brother of Lech, leader of the Law and Justice party, Prime Minister of Poland (2006–2007)
• Lech Kaczyński, fourth President of the Third Polish Republic (2005–2010), "first President of the Fourth Polish Republic", died in Smolensk air crash
• Hugo Kołłątaj, co-author of Constitution of May 3, 1791
• Bronisław Komorowski, fifth President of the Third Polish Republic (since 2010)
• Wojciech Korfanty, leader of Silesians during the Third Silesian Uprising
• Janusz Korwin-Mikke, free-market activist
• Stanisław Kosior, Soviet politician
• Tadeusz Kościuszko
• Jan Kucharzewski, first Prime Minister of Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918),
• Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Prime Minister of Peru (2005–2006)
• Jacek Kuroń, politician, social activist
• Aleksander Kwaśniewski, third President of the Third Polish Republic (1995–2005)
• Andrzej Lepper, leader of Samoobrona and former Vice-PM
• Herman Lieberman
• Stanisław Mackiewicz
• Julian Marchlewski, Soviet politician
• Tadeusz Mazowiecki, politician, first Prime Minister of the Third Polish Republic (Poland)
• Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, the second chairman of the OGPU (1926–34)
• Teodoro Picado Michalski, President of Costa Rica (1944–1948)
• Adam Michnik
• Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Prime Minister of Poland (1943–1944), politician of the agrarian party
• Jędrzej Moraczewski, first Prime Minister of II RP (1918–1919)
• Ignacy Mościcki, third President (1926–39) of the Second Polish Republic
• Edmund Muskie, American politician
• Lewis Bernstein Namier, British politician and historian
• Gabriel Narutowicz, first President of the Second Polish Republic (1922)
• Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
• Josef Olechowski, Polish senator, lawyer and counter-espionage role in pre World War II.
• Janusz Onyszkiewicz
• Marian P. Opala, Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court
• Stanisław Ostrowski, third President of Poland in exile (1972–1979)
• Ignacy Paderewski, second Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic (1919)
• Longin Pastusiak, Marshal of the Senat 2001–2005
• Waldemar Pawlak, Prime Minister of Poland (1992 and 1993–95)
• Józef Piłsudski, statesman, politician and Marshal of Poland
• Władysław Broel-Plater, independence activist, founder of Polish Museum, Rapperswil
• Axel Poniatowski, prince, French politician
• Michel Poniatowski, prince, French politician
• Alfred Józef Potocki, count, Minister-President of Austria (1870–1871)
• Ignacy Potocki, co-author of Constitution of May 3, 1791
• Adam Próchnik
• Władysław Raczkiewicz, first President of Poland in exile (1939–1947)
• Edward Raczyński, fourth President of Poland in exile (1979–1986)
• Iveta Radičová, Prime Minister of Slovakia (since 2010)
• Antoni Radziwiłł, prince, the Duke-Governor of Grand Duchy of Posen (Poznań) (1815–1831)
• Zbigniew Romaszewski
• Adam Ronikier, count, president of the Central Welfare Council (1916–1918) and (1940–1943)
• Dan Rostenkowski, American politician
• Kazimierz Sabbat, fifth President of Poland in exile (1986–1989)
• Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, vice-president of European Parliament (2004–2007)
• Władysław Sikorski, general, Prime Minister of Poland (1939–1943)
• Walery Sławek
• Anatoly Sobczak, first post-Soviet mayor of St Petersburg
• Stefan Starzyński, President of Warsaw (1934–1939)
• Andrzej Stelmachowski
• Władysław Studnicki, politician and publicist
• Donald Tusk, chairman of the Civic Platform, Prime Minister of Poland (since 2007)
• Lech Wałęsa, trade unionist who started dismantling of the Soviet bloc, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, second President of the Third Polish Republic (1990–1995)
• Ludwik Waryński, socialist activist in 19th c.
• Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
• Edward Werner, (born in Poland to parents of German origin) vice-Minister of Finance, and Polish diplomat during World War II
• Alexander Wielopolski, count, Marquis of Gonzaga, statesman
• Wincenty Witos, politician of the agrarian party
• Stanisław Wojciechowski, second President of the Second Polish Republic (1922–1926)
• Tadeusz Wróblewski
• Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine (since 2010)
• August Zaleski, second President of Poland in exile (1947–1972)
• Andrzej Artur Zamoyski
• Jan Zamoyski, chancellor and grand hetman of the crown (1542–1605)