Editing Opole (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:JanKasprowicz1901 (cropped).jpg|thumb|130px|[[Jan Kasprowicz]]]]
[[File:2016209185719 2016-07-27 Champions for Charity - Sven - 1D X - 0149 - DV3P4742 mod.jpg|thumb|130px|[[Miroslav Klose]]]]
[[File:Remigiusz_Mroz.jpg|thumb|130px|[[Remigiusz Mróz]]]]
{{Category see also|People from Opole}}
<!-- Only persons with existing Wikipedia articles that show cited connection to Opole should be included; this list should be arranged and kept in alphabetical order by surname -->
{{div col}}
* [[Leo Baeck]] (1873–1956), rabbi
* [[Anna Brzezińska (writer)|Anna Brzezińska]] (born 1971), [[Fantasy|fantasy writer]]
* [[Jerzy Buzek]] (born 1940), academic and politician, [[President of the European Parliament]], former [[Prime Minister of Poland]]
* [[Jan Fethke]] (1903–1980), film director
* [[Damian Grabowski]] (born 1980), mixed martial artist
* [[Jerzy Grotowski]] (1933–1999), theater director
* [[Danuta Jazłowiecka]] (born 1957), politician
* [[Jakub Kania (poet)|Jakub Kania]] (1872–1957), Polish poet and writer, soldier in the [[Silesian Uprisings]]
* [[Jan Kasprowicz]] (1860–1926), poet
* [[Paul Kleinert]] (1837–1920), German theologian
* [[Miroslav Klose]] (born 1978), football player (playing in the [[Germany national football team]])
* [[Bronisław Koraszewski]] (1863–1924), Polish activist, founder of ''Gazeta Opolska''
* [[Szymon Koszyk]] (1891–1972), reporter, teacher and Polish activist from Opole
* [[Andrzej Jerzy Lech]] (born 1955), artist and photographer
* [[Simon Bar Jona Madelka]] (before 1550–{{circa|1598}}), Czech composer
* [[Chester Marcol]] (born 1949), [[American football]] placekicker for the [[Green Bay Packers]]
* [[Rochus Misch]] (1917–2013), communications' chief of the [[Reich Chancellery|Reichskanzlei]] and member of the [[1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler|Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler]]
* [[Jacek Morajko]] (born 1981), cyclist
* [[Remigiusz Mróz]] (born 1987), writer
* [[Marcin Ociepa]] (born 1984), politician
* [[Edmund Osmańczyk]] (1913–1989), reporter, politician (6 times elected to the [[sejm]] and once to the [[senate]])
* [[Emin Pasha]] (born ''Eduard Schnitzer'') (1840–1892), explorer and governor of Africa
* [[Bolesław Polnar]] (born 1952), [[Graphic designer|graphic artist]] and painter
* [[Joachim Prinz]] (1902–1988), rabbi, born here
* [[Oscar Slater]] (1872–1948), German/Scottish victim of miscarriage of justice
* [[Krzysztof Szramiak]] (born 1984), Polish weightlifter
* [[Maksymilian Szuber]] (born 2002), Polish-German ice hockey player
* [[Bronisław Trentowski]] (1808–1869), Polish philosopher, pedagogist and journalist 
* [[Vladislaus II of Opole]], count palatine of Poland 1378
* [[Karolina Wydra]] (born 1981), actress
* [[Piotr Zioła]] (born 1995), rock singer
{{div col end}}