List of Leopolitans

The inhabitants of Lviv, Ukraine (Polish: Lwów; German: Lemberg) are commonly known in English as Leopolitans (from the Neo-Latin name for the city, Leopolis). The following is a list of notable Leopolitans.

Stefan Banach

Ivan Franko

Mykhailo Hrushevsky

Stanisław Lem

Ludwig von Mises

Ignacy Mościcki

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Leopold Staff

Stanisław Ulam

Simon Wiesenthal

A Maria Abashova, ballet dancer Roman Abraham, general of the Polish army Pavlo Arie, screenwriter and playwright Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, logician and philosopher Spirydion Albański, football goalkeeper of the Poland National Team Zofia Albinowska-Minkiewiczowa, painter Stanislaw Albinowski, economist, columnist and journalist Bohdan Ihor Antonych, poet Stefan Askenase (1896–1985), pianist Szymon Askenazy, historian and politician, founder of the Lwów-Warsaw historical school Muhammad Asad, translator of Quran into English (born in Lemberg as Leopold Weiss) Herman Auerbach, mathematician Emanuel Ax, American pianist Teodor Axentowicz, painter Erwin Axer, actor and theatre professor B Oswald Balzer, law historian, rector of the Lwów University (1895–1896), founder of the Society for Support of Polish Science in Lwów (Tow. dla Popierania Nauki Pol. we Lwowie), the first scientific organisation in the city Stefan Banach, mathematician Yuri Bashmet, viola soloist Kazimierz Bartel, mathematician and politician, prime minister of Poland (1926–1930) Adolf Beck (1863–1942), physiologist Joseph Beer (1908–1987), composer Alexander Beliavsky, chess grandmaster Józef Bem, Polish and Hungarian national hero Saint Józef Bilczewski, Archbishop of Lviv and a Catholic saint Szymon Okolski (1580–1653), a historian, specialist in heraldry, provincial of the Dominican Order Fabian Birkowski, writer, preacher Wojciech Bobowski (1610–1675), dragoman and musician in the Ottoman Empire, translated the Bible into Ottoman Turkish Wojciech Bogusławski, composer Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, general of the Polish army, commander-in-chief of the Home Army Mieczysław Boruta-Spiechowicz, general of the Polish army Naftali Botwin, political militant and labor activist Michał Boym (ca. 1612–1659), Jesuit missionary in China, known for his travels and writings Heinrich Gottfried von Bretschneider, German satirical writer Julia Brystiger, political militant, member of the security apparatus of the Polish People's Republic Jan Brzoza, writer, publicist Martin Buber, philosopher Solomon Buber, banker and philosopher C Leopold Caro, economist and lawyer Emmanuil Chekalyuk, petroleum engineer Vyacheslav Chornovil, politician Taras Chubay, leader of Ukrainian rock band Plach Yeremiji Jan Czekanowski, anthropologist Anna Czekanowska-Kuklińska, musicologist and ethnographer Eugeniusz Czerwiński, Polish architect D Danylo of Halych, 1st King of Galicia, founder of city Andrzej Dobrowolski, composer Hryhoriy Dolenko, petroleum geologist, academician Danylo Ishutin, professional Dota 2 eSports player, affiliated with the team Natus Vincere E Max Ettinger, composer F Ludwik Fleck, biologist Aleksander Ford, film director Ivan Franko, poet and linguist, reformer of the Ukrainian language Mikhail Fridman, Russian oligarch Filip Friedman, Holocaust researcher Ivan Fedorov, founder of book printing in Russia and Ukraine Count Aleksander Fredro, comedy writer G Mieczysław Gębarowicz, scientist and art historian, director of the Ossolineum Institute during World War II Eugeniusz Geppert, painter Franciszek Ksawery Godebski, director of the Ossolineum and father to Cyprian Godebski, renowned sculptor Julian Godlewski, businessman and philanthropist Maksymilian Goldstein, a pre-war Judaica collector, director of the Lviv Jewish Museum, and owner of a privately-maintained museum Georgiy R. Gongadze, journalist kidnapped and murdered in 2000 Zygmunt Gorgolewski, architect, constructor of the Grand Theatre in Lwów (currently the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet) Kazimierz Górski, football coach Uri Zvi Greenberg, poet Artur Grottger, late romanticist painter H Yaroslav Halan, anti-fascist playwright and publicist Bernard Hausner (1874–1938), rabbi, diplomat and member of the Sejm Zbigniew Herbert, poet Mykhailo Hrushevsky, first president of the Ukrainian People's Republic Lyubomyr Huzar, Cardinal, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Mieczyslaw Horszowski, pianist I Vasyl Ivanchuk, chess grandmaster Volodymyr Ivasyuk, composer Danylo "Dendi" Ishutin, professional eSports player K Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski, painter Bertha Kalich, actress Vera Kamsha, fantasy writer Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, general Stanisław Kasznica, resistance soldier Wojciech Kilar, composer Lubka Kolessa, pianist Yevhen Konovalets, Ukrainian nationalist leader Maria Konopnicka, writer Ihor Kobrin, film director Juliusz Kossak, painter Ihor Kozhan, Ukrainian archivist, cultural and public figure Jan Krukowiecki, general Solomiya Krushelnytska, opera singer Tadeusz Krwawicz, ophthalmologist Jerzy Kulczycki, civil engineer and activist publisher and bookseller Jacek Kuroń, freedom fighter and politician (Solidarity, KOR) Vilém Kurz, pianist, professor at the Lwów State Conservatory Ilona Kurzowa, pianist Wacław Kuchar, talented athlete, multiple champion of Poland in various sports L Stanisław Jerzy Lec, poet and aphorist Stanisław Lem, science fiction writer and futurist Stanisław Leśniewski, philosopher and logician Stanisław I Leszczyński (1677–1766), twice King of Poland. Antoni Łomnicki, mathematician Roman Longschamps de Berier, lawyer, last rector of the Jan Kazimierz University Alfred J. Lotka, mathematician, physical chemist, statistician, biophysicist, author of predator-prey model Yuriy Loutseiko, guitarist in Smerichka and Vatra Ignacy Łukasiewicz, engineer, pioneer of oil industry Jan Łukasiewicz, philosopher and logician Oleh Luzhnyi, former professional footballer M Stanisław Maczek, Polish World War II general, Commander Allied (Polish) 1st Armoured Division in Western Europe Kornel Makuszyński, writer of books for children Michael Malice, Author, political commentator, Anarchist Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer of detective stories Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer, author of Venus in Furs Kazimierz Michałowski, Egyptologist, founder of Nubiology Krystyna Mihułka, author Ludwig von Mises, free-market economist (born in Lemberg) Richard von Mises, mathematician (younger brother of Ludwig, also born in Lemberg) Izydor Modelski, Polish Lieutenant General and spy Iryna Morykvas, Ukrainian illustrator, artist, writer Sigmund Mogulesko, Yiddish singer and actor Ignacy Mościcki, chemist and President of Poland (1926–1939) Andrzej Mostowski, mathematician Gabriela Moyseowicz, composer and pianist Paul Muni, actor Ana Muzičuk, chess grandmaster N Joseph Saul Nathanson, leading rabbinical authority of the 19th century Joanna Nittenberg, journalist O Aaron ha-Levi Oettingen, Eighteenth century Galician rabbi Janusz Onyszkiewicz, politician, Vice President of the European Parliament Stanisław Ostrowski, Polish politician, best known for serving as the last Polish Mayor of Lwów and third President of Poland in exile. P Jan Parandowski, writer Jakub Karol Parnas, biochemist Teodor Parnicki, historian Aniela Pawlikowska, painter Aaron ben Phinehas, member of rabbinical college of Lemberg Leon Piniński, politician, lawyer and art historian Wojciech Pszoniak, actor Witold Pyrkosz, modern Polish actor R Karl Radek, international Communist figure Samuel Judah Löb Rapoport (1790–1867), prominent Austrian rabbi. Leon Reich (1879–1929), lawyer and member of the Sejm of Poland Wilhelm Reich, American psychiatrist Eugeniusz Romer, geographer and geologist Lillian Roxon, writer Roman Rozdolsky, economist and political revolutionary Ruslana, pop singer S Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, journalist and BDSM writer whose surname originated the term "masochism" Henryk Samsonowicz, historian Iryna Senyk (1926-2009), poet, nurse, political dissident Filip Schleicher (1870-1932), Polish-Jewish lawyer, deputy mayor from 1913 to 1927 Larisa Shepitko, Soviet film director. Andrey Sheptytsky, head of the Ukrainian Church through both the world wars Roman Shukhevych, general of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army Iva Sidash, Ukrainian street and documentary photographer Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski, hetman Stanisław Skrowaczewski, composer Myroslav Skoryk, composer, Hero of Ukraine Natalka Sniadanko, Ukrainian writer, journalist, translator Wacław Sobieski, historian Leopold Staff, poet Hugo Steinhaus, mathematician Zygmunt Steuermann (1899–1941), Polish football player Julian Stryjkowski, writer Roman Svintsitskyi (born 1981), former Ukrainian professional footballer Jan Szeliga ( ? — 1636), wandering book printer Moritz Szeps, journalist Wacław Szybalski, medical researcher T Alfred Tarski, logician Władysław Tatarkiewicz, historian of philosophy Kazimierz Twardowski, philosopher, founder of Lwów-Warsaw philosophical school U Stanisław Marcin Ulam, mathematician Adam Ulam, historian V Yuri Velykanovych, journalist, volunteer of the International Brigades Elena Vesnina, professional tennis player, multiple Olympic medallist W Jan Wasiewicz, soccer player of the Poland National Team Rudolf Weigl, scientist, inventor of the typhus vaccine Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter Wanda Wasilewska, writer Y Grigoriy Alekseyevich Yavlinskiy, politician Z Julian Zachariewicz, architect and rector of the Lwów University Adam Zagajewski, poet Gabriela Zapolska, writer Andrzej Żuławski, film director Jozef J. Zwislocki, physicist and neuroscientist

See also

• People from L'viv (Category:)