Editing Toruń (section)

== Notable people ==
Notable residents of Toruń include:
[[File:Toruń (DerHexer) 2010-07-17 050.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Nicolaus Copernicus Monument, Toruń|Nicolaus Copernicus Monument]] at the Old Market Square (''Rynek Staromiejski'')]]
[[File:Torun pomnik Lindego.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Samuel Linde]] Monument]]
[[File:Bołądź Olga.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Olga Bołądź]]]]
* [[Filippo Buonaccorsi]] (1437–1496), Italian humanist, writer, and diplomat
* [[Nicolaus Copernicus]] (1473–1543), Renaissance [[polymath]] and [[astronomer]]<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Copernicus, Nicolaus | volume= 7 |last1= Clerke |first1= Agnes Mary |author1-link= Agnes Mary Clerke | pages = 100&ndash;101 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Anna Vasa of Sweden]] (1568–1625), Polish and Swedish princess
* [[Bartholomeus Strobel]] (1591–1650), Baroque painter 
* [[Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring]] (1755–1830), German physician and anatomist
* [[Samuel Linde]] (1771–1847), linguist, librarian, and lexicographer of the [[Polish language]]
* [[Fryderyk Skarbek]] (1792–1866), economist, novelist, historian, social activist, administrator, politician, and penologist
* [[Zvi Hirsch Kalischer]] (1795–1874), rabbi
* [[Frédéric Chopin]] (1810–1849), composer and virtuoso pianist of the [[Romantic music|Romantic]] period<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Chopin, Frederic François | volume= 6 | page = 268 |short= 1}}</ref> 
* [[Salomon Kalischer]] (1845–1924), German composer, pianist, and physicist
* [[Hartwig Hirschfeld]]  (1854–1934), British Orientalist, bibliographer, and educator
* [[Moritz Baerwald]] (1860–1919), German lawyer and politician
* [[Julie Wolfthorn]] (1864–1944), German painter, killed in the [[Theresienstadt concentration camp]]
* [[Berthold Oppenheim]] (1867–1942), rabbi murdered in the [[Treblinka extermination camp]] 
* [[Władysław Dziewulski]] (1878–1962), astronomer and mathematician
* [[Henryk Kuna]] (c.1885–1945), sculptor
* [[Hermann Rauschning]] (1887–1982), German conservative reactionary politician and author
* [[Karl Böttcher]] (1889–1973), Nazi German general who received the [[Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross]] of [[Nazi Germany]]
* [[Paul Hinkler]] (1892–1945), prominent member of the Nazi Party, high-ranking Nazi police official
* [[Roman Ingarden]] (1893–1970), philosopher 
* [[Kurt Chill]] (1895–1976), Nazi German general who received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany
* [[Lotte Jacobi]] (1896–1990), American portrait photographer and photojournalist
* [[Arthur Finger]] (1898–1945), Nazi German general who received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany
* [[Elżbieta Zawacka]] (1909–2009), university professor, scouting instructor, SOE agent, and a freedom fighter during [[World War II]]
* [[Hans Walter Zech‐Nenntwich]] (1916–after 1964), member of the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] at the [[Mauthausen concentration camp]], convicted of mass killings of 5,200 Jews while with the [[SS Cavalry Brigade]]
* [[Rudy Sternberg]], Baron Plurenden (1917–1978), British industrialist and farmer
* [[Tony Halik]] (1921–1998), film operator, documentary filmmaker, travel writer, traveller, explorer, and polyglot 
* [[Kazimierz Serocki]] (1922–1981), composer 
* [[Sigmund Sobolewski]] (1923–2017), Catholic Holocaust survivor, opponent of [[Holocaust denial]]
* [[Aleksander Wolszczan]] (born 1946), astronomer
* [[Bogusław Linda]] (born 1952), actor
* [[Michał Zaleski]] (born 1952), politician
* [[Jadwiga Rappé]] (born 1952), operatic contralto
* [[Waldemar Fydrych]] (born 1953), Polish activist, leader of the [[Orange Alternative]] movement
* [[Jerzy Wenderlich]] (born 1954), politician
* [[Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus]] (born 1972), politician
* [[Piotr Głowacki]] (born 1980), actor
* [[Tomasz Wasilewski]] (born 1980), film director and screenwriter
* [[Olga Bołądź]] (born 1984), actress
* [[Adrian Kubicki]] (born 1987), [[Polish Consulate General, New York City|Consul General of the Republic of Poland in New York City]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.pl/web/usa-en/consul-general-new-york|title=Consul General in New York - Poland in US |website=Poland in US - Gov.pl website}}</ref>
* [[Sławomir Mentzen]] (Born 1986) Leader of Polish right wing political party [[Confederation Liberty and Independence]]

=== Sport ===

[[File:Katarzyna Zillmann - Polish rower on water.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Katarzyna Zillmann]]]]
* [[Bodo Tümmler]] (born 1943), German Olympic middle-distance runner
* [[Teresa Weyna]] (born 1950), ice dancer
* [[Tomasz Warczachowski]] (born 1974), footballer
* [[Michał Gołaś]] (born 1984), road bicycle racer
* [[Adam Waczyński]] (born 1989), basketball player
* [[Michał Kwiatkowski]] (born 1990), road bicycle racer
* [[Hanna Łyczbińska]] (born 1990), Olympic fencer
* [[Martyna Jelińska]] (born 1992), Olympic fencer
* [[Katarzyna Zillmann]] (born 1995), Olympic rower
* [[Jakub Piotrowski]] (born 1997), footballer