People from Gdańsk

Magdalena Frąckowiak (born 6 October 1984) is a Polish model and jewelry designer who began appearing on international runways in 2006.

Rut "Rutka" Laskier (June 12, 1929–1943) was a Jewish Polish diarist who is best known for her 1943 diary chronicling the three months of her life during the Holocaust in Poland. She was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943 at the age of fourteen. Her manuscript, authenticated by Holocaust scholars and survivors, was published in the Polish language for the first time ever in early 2006. It has been compared to the diary of Anne Frank.

Gerda Steinhoff (January 29, 1922 – July 4, 1946) born in Danzig-Langfuhr, was a Schutzstaffel (SS) Nazi concentration camp overseer following the 1939 German invasion of Poland.

Jolanta Kwaśniewska (née Konty, born 3 June 1955) is a Polish lawyer and charity activist who was First Lady of Poland between 1995 and 2005, as the wife of the then President Aleksander Kwaśniewski.

Filip Andrzej Bobek (born 9 October 1980 in Gdańsk) is a Polish actor, best known for his role of the main love interest in BrzydUla.

Agnieszka Barbara Chylińska (born May 23, 1976, in Gdańsk) is a Polish singer-songwriter and actress, author and television personality.

Daria Widawska (born 1 May 1977 in Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish actress.

Karina Krawczyk (born 5 August 1971) is a German actress and occasionally works as a fashion model.

Ingrid van Bergen ( born 15 June 1931) is a German film actress. She has appeared in 100 films since 1954. She was born in Free City of Danzig, today Gdańsk, Poland.

Beata Poźniak (born 30 April 1960) is a Polish-American actress, film director, poet, painter and an Earphones Award-winning narrator. She is also a human rights activist who introduced the first bill in the history of US Congress to officially recognize International Women's Day in the United States.