Editing Bielsko-Biała (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:U Dudziak.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Urszula Dudziak]]]]
[[File:SelmaKurz.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Selma Kurz]]]]
[[File:Zbigniew Preisner.JPG|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Zbigniew Preisner]]]]
[[File:Wojciech H. Zurek.gif|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Wojciech H. Zurek]]]]
{{further|Category:People from Bielsko-Biała}}

* [[Shlomo Avineri]] (born 1933), political scientist and philosopher, professor at the [[Hebrew University]]
* [[Wilhelm Bachner]] (1912-1991, engineer and Holocaust survivior
* [[Carl Josef Bayer]] (1847–1904), chemist who invented the [[Bayer process]]
* [[Maurice Bloomfield]] (1855–1928), philologist and [[Sanskrit]] scholar
* [[Peter Michal Bohúň]] (1822–1879), painter
* [[Heinrich Conried]] (1855–1909), theatrical manager and director
* [[Marek Dopierała]] (born 1960), sprint canoeist, two-time Olympic medallist
* [[Urszula Dudziak]] (born 1943), jazz vocalist
* [[Piotr Fijas]] (born 1958), ski jumper, all-time parallel style world record holder
* [[Mateusz Gamrot]] (born 1990), mixed martial artist
* [[Alfred Hetschko]] (1898–1967), music educator
* [[Adolf Hyła]] (1897–1965), painter and art teacher, known for painting the most popular version of the [[Divine Mercy image]]
* [[Jolanta Januchta]] (born 1955), middle-distance runner
* [[Małgorzata Klimek]] (born 1957), mathematical physicist
* [[Sławomir Kołodziej]] (born 1961), mathematician
* [[Jacek Koman]] (born 1956), actor and singer
* [[Maria Koterbska]] (born 1924), singer
* [[Jan Kotrč]] (1862–1943), chess master, chess publisher and chess problem composer
* [[Alfred von Kropatschek]] (1838–1911), weapons designer and general of the Austro-Hungarian Army
* [[Selma Kurz]] (1874–1933), opera singer, [[dramatic coloratura soprano]]
* [[Jacek Lech]] (1947–2007), singer
* [[Przemysław Lechowski]] (born 1977), classical pianist
* [[Piotr Łącz]] (born 1998), boxer
* [[Karl Olma]] (1914–2001), writer and popularist of the [[Alzenau dialect]]
* [[Tadeusz Pietrzykowski]] (1917–1991), boxer and soldier, known as the "boxing champion of Auschwitz"
* [[Radosław Piwowarski]] (born 1948), film director, screenwriter and actor
* [[Zbigniew Preisner]] (born 1955), film score composer best known for his work with [[Krzysztof Kieślowski]]
* [[Renata Przemyk]] (born 1966), singer and songwriter
* [[Aneta Sablik]] (born 1989), singer and songwriter
* [[Artur Schnabel]] (1882–1951), classical pianist, composer and pedagogue
* [[Hugo von Seeliger]] (1849–1924), astronomer
* [[Oswald Seeliger]] (1858–1908), zoologist
* [[Kriss Sheridan]] (born 1989), singer, songwriter, actor, model and traveler
* [[Jan Smeterlin]] (1892-1967), world-famous concert pianist specializing in Chopin
* [[Bohdan Smoleń]] (1947–2016), comedian, singer and actor
* [[Josef Strzygowski]] (1862–1941), art historian
* [[Jan Szarek]] (1936–2020), bishop of the [[Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland]]
* [[Gerda Weissmann Klein]] (1924–2022), Holocaust survivor, writer and human rights activist
* [[Sabina Wojtala]] (born 1981), figure skater
* [[Karol Wojtyła (senior)|Karol Wojtyła]] (1879–1941), Austro-Hungarian and Polish army officer, father of [[Pope John Paul II]]
* [[Jakub Wolny]] (born 1995), ski jumper
* [[Aleksander Zawadzki (naturalist)|Aleksander Zawadzki]] (1798–1868), Polish naturalist
* [[Emil Zegadłowicz]] (1888–1941), poet, prose writer, novelist, playwright and translator
* [[Sigmund Zeisler]] (1860–1931), lawyer, known for his defense of radicals in Chicago in the 1880s
* [[Wojciech H. Zurek]] (born 1951), theoretical physicist and a leading authority on [[Quantum mechanics|quantum theory]]