List of people from Gdańsk

• Conrad Letzkau, d. 1412, mayor, executed by the Teutonic Knights
• Tiedemann Giese, 1480, bishop
• Johannes Dantiscus, 1485, poet, church canon and bishop
• Bernhard von Reesen, 1490, businessman painted by Albrecht Dürer
• Albrecht Giese, 1524, councillor and diplomat
• Caspar Schütz, ca. 1540 Eisleben-1594 Danzig, Prussian historian
• Anton Möller, 1563, painter
• Bartholomäus Keckermann, writer and Calvinist theologist
• Regina Basilier, German-Swedish merchant banker
• Constantia Czirenberg/Zierenberg, born 1605, daughter of Danzig mayor, married to Sigmund Kerschenstein in 1628
• Reinhold Curicke, 1610-1667, jurist, historian
• Johannes Hevelius, 1611, astronomer
• Georg Daniel Schultz, 1615, painter
• Bogusław Radziwiłł, 1620, Prince of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Reichsfürst of the HRE, governor of Ducal Prussia
• Andreas Schlüter, 1660, architect and sculptor
• Jacob Theodor Klein, 1685, jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat
• Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt, 1685 physician, naturalist, geographer
• Gottfried Lengnich, jurist, historian
• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist and engineer
• Johann Valentin Haidt, painter and preacher
• Daniel Gralath, 1708, physicist and Bürgermeister of Danzig
• Louise Adelgunde Gottsched, 1713, writer
• Sir Trevor Corry, British diplomat; Baron of Poland; British Consul to Danzig 1745–1780
• Daniel Chodowiecki, 1726, artist painter
• Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, 1734, prince
• Michał Jerzy Poniatowski, 1736, primate of Poland
• Johann Wilhelm Archenholz, 1741, historian and publicist
• Avraham Danzig, 1748, rabbi
• Georg Forster, 1754, naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary
• Jacob Kabrun Jr., merchant, book and art collector, and philanthropist
• Johanna Schopenhauer, 1766, author; mother of Arthur Schopenhauer
• Johannes Daniel Falk, 1768, poet and educator
• Antonio Casimir Cartellieri, 1772, composer
• Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788, philosopher
• Heinrich von Zastrow,, general
• Rachel Meyer, writer
• Ernst Förstemann, 1822, historian, mathematician, philologist
• Otto von Below, 1823
• Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf, 1832, general, writer
• Fritz von Below, 1853-1918
• August von Brandis, artist
• Hugo Münsterberg psychologist
• Max Halbe, 1865, writer
• Max Adalbert, actor
• Alfred Stock, chemist
• Carl Schuricht, conductor
• Alice Wosikowski, politician, resistance activist
• Gerhard Rose, expert on tropical medicine
• Gerhard Krüger
• Alfred Zeidler, German SS concentration camp commandant
• Mathias Goeritz, artist
• Alexander Salkind, film producer
• Wanda Klaff, German Nazi concentration camp overseer executed for war crimes
• Heinz-Hermann Koelle, German-American aeronautical and rocket engineer
• Elisabeth Becker, German SS concentration camp guard executed for war crimes
• Miltiades Caridis, b. 1923
• Eddi Arent, b. 1925, actor and comedian
• Meir Shamgar, b. 1925, President of the Israel Supreme Court
• Jack Mandelbaum, b. 1926, subject of Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
• Günter Grass, b. 1927, writer, recipient of 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Henry Rosovsky, b. 1927, economist
• Zalman Shoval, b. 1930, diplomat and politician
• Wolfgang Völz, b. 1930, actor and voice actor
• Jutta Meischner, b. 1935, classical archeologist
• Holger Czukay, b. 1938, musician
• Wawrzyniec Samp, b. 1939, sculptor and graphic artist
• Matthias Habich, b. 1940, actor
• Heidrun Mohr-Mayer, b. 1941, jeweler
• Józef Borzyszkowski, b. 1946, historian, politician, founder of the Kashubian Institute in Gdańsk
• Andrzej Szarmach, b. 1950, football player
• Krzysztof Kolberger, b. 1950, actor
• Jan de Weryha-Wysoczanski, b. 1950, sculptor
• Jerzy Samp, b. 1951, writer and historian
• Tomasz Imieliński, b. 1954, computer scientist
• Jolanta Kwaśniewska, b. 1955, former First Lady of Poland
• Krzysztof Pastor, b. 1956, dancer, choreographer and director of the Polish National Ballet
• Pawel Huelle, b. 1957, writer and journalist
• Donald Tusk, b. 1957, President of the European Council, former Prime Minister of Poland, journalist and historian
• Marek Kamiński, b. 1964, traveler
• Paweł Adamowicz, politician
• Aneta Kręglicka, b. 1965, Miss World 1989
• Dariusz Michalczewski, b. 1968, boxer
• Mariusz Podkościelny, b. 1968, freestyle swimmer and swimming coach
• Leszek Mozdzer, b. 1971, jazz pianist
• Tomasz Waldoch, b. 1971, footballer
• Sławomir Nowak, b. 1974, former Minister of Transport, Construction and Marine Economy of Poland
• Gregorz Szamotulski, b. 1976, footballer
• Jakobe Mansztajn, b. 1982, poet, blogger
• Adam Darski, b. 1977, singer and guitarist
• Magdalena Frackowiak, b. 1984, model
• Izu Ugonoh, b. 1986, boxer
• Mikolaj Oledzki, b. 1998, Rugby League player.