Editing Gliwice (section)

==Notable people==
* [[John Baildon]] (1772–1846), Scottish engineer
* [[Helmut Bartuschek]] (1905–1984), translator and poet
* [[Horst Bienek]] (1930–1990), German author of novels about [[Upper Silesia]]
* [[William Blandowski]] (1822–1878), German explorer, zoologist, photographer
* [[Sebastian Boenisch]] (born 1987), Polish-German footballer who plays for the [[Poland national football team]]
* [[Lothar Bolz]] (1903–1986), German politician, foreign affairs minister of the communist [[German Democratic Republic]]
* [[Agata Buzek]] (born 1976), Polish actress, daughter of [[Jerzy Buzek]]
* [[Jerzy Buzek]] (born 1940), professor of chemistry, [[Prime Minister of Poland]] 1997–2001, [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]] since 2004 and president of [[European Parliament]] since 2009
* [[Ernst Degner]] (1931–1983), German Grand Prix motorcycle racer and designer
* [[Robert Dziekański]], Polish immigrant to Canada who was tasered 5 times and killed by the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] at [[Vancouver International Airport]] 
* [[Gottfried Bermann Fischer]] (1897–1995), German publisher
* [[Christian Ganczarski]] (born 1966), German citizen of Polish descent, convert to [[Islam]] and convicted terrorist
* [[Eugen Goldstein]] (1850–1930), German physicist
* [[Sophia Grojsman]] (Khodosh) (born 1945), internationally famous American perfumer
* [[Hans Hanke]] (1912–1981), German military officer (World War Two)
* [[Rudolf Herrnstadt]] (1903–1966), German [[journalist]]
* Adalbert Kelm (1856–1939), architect, important for the enlargement of the town in the 1890s.<ref>Jolanta Rusinowska –Trojca: [https://www.baufachinformation.de/dissertation/St%C3%A4dtebau-und-Wohnarchitektur-des-19/2006069021444 Städtebau und Wohnarchitektur des 19. Jahrhunderts in Gleiwitz (Gliwice)]. Bonn, 2005. p. 48</ref> Famous for the [[Naval Academy Mürwik]] in [[Flensburg]]-[[Mürwik]].
* [[Wojciech Kocyan]], Polish pianist
* [[Włodzimierz Lubański]] (born 1947), Polish football player
* [[Adam Matuszczyk]] (born 1989), Polish football player
* [[Zbigniew Messner]] (1929–2014), professor and former rector of Economic Academy in Katowice, deputy prime minister of [[People's Republic of Poland]] 1983–1985, prime minister 1985–1988
* [[Gustav Neumann]] (1838–1881), German chess player
* [[Lukas Podolski]] (born 1985), Polish-German football player
* [[Wojciech Pszoniak]] (1942–2020), Polish film and theatre actor
* [[Tadeusz Różewicz]] (1921–2014), Polish poet and writer
* [[Zofia Rydet]] (1911–1997), Polish photographer
* [[Stanisław Sojka]] (born 1959), Polish musician
* [[Oscar Troplowitz|Oskar Troplowitz]] (1863–1918), German pharmacist and owner of [[Beiersdorf]] AG, inventor of [[Nivea]] and other products
* [[Richard Wetz]] (1875–1935), German composer
* [[Erich Peter Wohlfarth]] (1924–1988), German physicist
* [[Leo Yankevich]] (1961–2018), American poet and translator
* [[Adam Zagajewski]] (1945–2021), Polish poet
* [[Krystian Zimerman]] (born 1956), Polish pianist and conductor