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Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 9th June 2022 Economist, doctor of law, politician. She was born in Warsaw. She is a daughter of an insurgent who took part in the Warsaw Uprising. In 1980, she co-created the structures of NSZZ "Solidarność" at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. After the parliamentary elections of 1989, she held the position of an expert on administration, economy and banking law for both chambers of the...

Prof. Andrzej Rzepliński Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 10th June 2021 Born on 26 November 1949 in Ciechanów. In 1971 graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw, and then became an articled clerk at the County Prosecutor’s Office in Garwolin. Obtained a PhD in Criminology in 1978 and a post-doctoral degree in 1990. Full Professor since 2000. His professional career was associated with the University of Warsaw, where he became the head of the Department of...

Jolanta Brzeska Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 10th June 2021 Born on 25 January 1947 in Warsaw. Social activist and co-founder of the Warsaw Tenants’ Association. In 2006 by a restitution of property decision, the townhouse at 9 Nabielaka St., which was home to Jolanta Brzeska, became property of new owners, and the attorney representing the former owners’ heirs terminated her tenancy agreement. From then on stalking, rent charge increases and property seizure attempts began. In 2007...

prof. Wiesław Wysocki Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 18th June 2020 Born in 1950 in Łowicz. Went to the Defenders of Hel 5th General Secondary School in Gdańsk. Graduated in history from the Catholic University of Lublin, specialising in the History of the Church, and Polish Philology at the University of Łódź. Completed his doctoral studies in 1981 at the Academy of Catholic Theology (today Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University) and also obtained a postdoctoral degree. Became...

prof. Andrzej Rottermund Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 18th June 2020 Born in 1941 in Warsaw. Graduated from the University of Warsaw in 1964, where he obtained his doctoral and postdoctoral degrees, and in 1990 was conferred the title of Professor of Humanities. Author of over 100 books, articles and essays, mainly concerning 18th and 19th century art. Specialises in early-modern and 19th century art and culture, links between art and courtly ceremonies, the works of Bernardo...

Prof. Wojciech Noszczyk Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 18th June 2020 Scientist, Full Professor of Medicine, surgeon. Born in 1935 in Warsaw. His father Henryk Noszczyk, Officer of the Polish Army and associate professor at the Surgery Clinic of the University of Warsaw, died in Katyń. Graduated from the Medical University of Warsaw in 1960. After a residency in the City Hospital at Kasprzaka St. began work at the 4th Surgery Clinic of the Medical University of Warsaw. In...

prof. Władysław Findeisen Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 18th June 2020 Born in 1926 in Poznań. In 1944, under secret schooling, he passed his Matura exam in the Stanisław Staszic General Secondary School in Warsaw and joined the Home Army. Took part in the Warsaw Uprising, fighting in the Śródmieście and Mokotów Districts. Captured and taken to a stalag and returned to Poland in 1945. That year he began his studies at the Faculty of Telecommunications of the Warsaw University...

Olga Tokarczuk Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 18th June 2020 Born in 1962 in Sulechów. She graduated in psychology from the University of Warsaw. Author of novels The Journey of the Book People (1993), E.E. (1995), Primeval & Other Times (1996), House of Day, House of Night (1998), Final Stories (2004), Anna In in the Tombs of the World (2006), Flights (2007), Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009), The Books of Jacob (2014), short story collections The Wardrobe (1998)...

Herbert Clark Hoover, (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. from November 1921. American politician, U.S. President, Republican Party activist. The well-known humanitarian activist for many years helped Poland after it regained independence. He became famous as an organiser of aid to civilians during the First World War. Until July 1919 the American Relief Administration, led by him, provided food assistance for 10 million people,...

Mr Paweł Pawlikowski Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 30th May 2019 He wrote and directed Ida (2013), the first Polish film to win an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He teaches at the National Film School in the UK and the Wajda Film School in Warsaw. He began his directorial career with documentaries, making several important films (including ones commissioned by the BBC), for which he received an Emmy International, Prix Italia and dozens of other awards. He considers...