Editing Sosnowiec (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Kiepura, Jan 0.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Jan Kiepura]]]]
[[File:Władysław Szpilman.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|[[Władysław Szpilman]]]]

*[[Ignaz von Szyszylowicz]] (1857–1910), Polish botanist
*[[Shlomo Chanoch Rabinowicz]] (1882–1942), fourth and last Rebbe of the Radomsk Hasidic dynasty<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishpressads.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=38878 |title=Radomsker Rebbe's Yahrzeit |work=[[The Jewish Press]] |last=Tannenbaum |first=Rabbi Gershon |date=7 April 2009 |access-date=9 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615210441/http://www.jewishpressads.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=38878 |archive-date=15 June 2012 }}</ref>
*[[Jacek Mierzejewski]] (1883–1925), Polish painter
*[[Shlomo Sztencl]] (1884–1919), Polish Orthodox Jewish rabbi<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Sosnowiec/Sosnowiec.html |title=The Book of Sosnowiec and the Surrounding Region in Zaglebie |page=142 |volume=1 |location=Tel Aviv |first=Me'ir Shymon |last=Gashury|year=1974|publisher=Sosnowiec Societies in Israel and the United States, France and other countries}}</ref>
*[[Władysław Szafer]] (1886–1970), Polish botanist and palaeobotanist
*[[Zbigniew Babiński]] (1896–1940), Polish military and sports aviator
*[[Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft]] (1915–2005), Orthodox Jewish Rabbi
*[[Jan Kiepura]] (1902–1966), Polish singer and actor
*[[Paul Godwin]] (1902–1982), Polish-German violinist
*[[Jędrzej Giertych]] (1903–1992), Polish politician
*[[Maus|Władysław Spiegelman]] (1906–1982), father of [[Art Spiegelman]]
*[[Yehiel De-Nur|Yehiel Feiner]] (1909–2001), the widely translated writer of Holocaust novels known by his pseudonym Ka-Tzetnik
*[[Władysław Szpilman]] (1911–2000), Polish pianist and classical composer, widely known as the central figure in the 2002 [[Roman Polanski]] film ''[[The Pianist (2002 film)|The Pianist]]''
*[[Edward Gierek]] (1913–2001), Polish communist politician; [[General Secretary of the Communist Party|first secretary]] of the ruling [[Polish United Workers' Party]] (PZPR) 
*[[Haim Hefer]] (1925–2012), Israeli poet and songwriter
*[[Stanisław Jaros]] (1932–1963), Polish anti-communist activist
*[[Krystyna Czajkowska]] (born 1936), Polish volleyball player
*[[Jacek M. Zurada]] (born 1944), Polish engineer
*[[James Spigelman]] (born 1946), Australian judge who served as Chief Justice of New South Wales from 1998 to 2011
*[[Jacek Majchrowski]] (born 1947), Polish politician and historian, [[Mayor of Kraków]]
*[[Magdalena Piekorz]] (born 1974), Polish film director and screenwriter
*[[Piotr Łukasiewicz (diplomat)|Piotr Łukasiewicz]] (born 1974) is a Polish diplomat
*[[Łukasz Simlat]] (born 1977), Polish actor
*[[Joanna Krupa]] (born 1979), Polish-American model, actress and animal rights activist
*[[Marcin Drzymont]] (born 1981), Polish footballer<ref>{{90minut|2697}}</ref>
*[[Marcin Koniusz]] (born 1983), Polish sabre fencer
*[[Daria Gosek-Popiołek]] (born 1985), Polish politician 
*[[Eugen Polanski]] (born 1986), Polish footballer
*[[Łukasz Litewka]] (born 1989), Polish politician
*[[Paula Kania]] (born 1992), Polish tennis player
*[[Szwedzki]], street artist, active since 2000