• Michael Küchmeister von Sternberg (1370-1423) Grand Master of Teutonic Order
• Erhardus Sperber, (1529-1608), theological author
• Achatius Cureus (1531-1594), author, lyricist
• Caspar Schütz (1540-1594), historian of Danzig
• Martin Opitz (1597-1639), poet
• Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664), German lyric poet and dramatist
• Andreas Stech (1635-1699) artist
• Abraham Calov, in 1643 rector of the Academic Danzig Gymnasium, mathematician, theologist
• Michael Christoph Hanow (Hanov) (1695-1773), mathematician, historian, meteorologist, scientist
• Gottlieb Wernsdorf I. (Gottlieb Wernsdorf I.) (1717-1774), author, teacher at Danzig Gymnasium
• Christoph Cölestin Mrongovius (1764-1855), Protestant pastor
• Edward O'Rourke (1876-1943), became in 1925 the first bishop of the Free City of Danzig
• Lech Wałęsa (born 1943), trade unions activist, politician, president of Poland (1990–1995)
• Jacek Kaczmarski (1957-2004), songwriter, poet and author

See also

• List of people from Danzig
• List of people from Gdańsk