Poland

Wlodzimierz Lubanski 

Born in Gliwice in 1947. With national team he won a gold medal in Olympic games in 1972 as a captain of a team.  After he ended his career he went to Belgium and he has been living there till today. Football player, multiple representative of Poland, Olympic champion. In Polish colors he played 75 official international matches, shooting 48 goals.

Jerzy Kukuczka

(24 March 1948 in Katowice – 24 October 1989 Lhotse) - was a Polish alpinist and high-altitude climber. Born in Katowice, his family origin is Goral. On 18 September 1987, he became the second man, after Reinhold Messner, to climb all fourteen eight-thousenders in the world. He is the first man who made the first winter ascents of three eight-thousanders:  Dhaulagiri with Andrzej Czok in 1985, Kanchenjunga with Krzysztof Wielicki in 1986 and Annapurna I with Artur Hajzer in 1987. He is the only climber to have ascended four of the eight-thousanders during winter.  Along with Tadeusz Piotrowski, Kukuczka established a new route on K2 (the so-called "Polish Line"), which no one has ever repeated.

Jak Kiepura

(May 16, 1902 – August 15, 1966) was an acclaimed Polish singer (tenor) and actor. Jan Kiepura was born in Sosnowiec, Poland, the son of Miriam (née Neuman), a former professional singer, and Franciszek Kiepura, a baker and grocery owner. His mother was Jewish. He had a brother, Władysław later known as a Ladis Kiepura. He was probably the most famous Polish musician between first and second world war.

Lech Wałęsa 

Born 29 September 1943 is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, philanthropist and human-rights activist. A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet Block’s first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995.