Editing Białystok (section)

==Notable residents==
[[File:1908-kl-t-zamenhof.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.7|[[L. L. Zamenhof]], the creator of [[Esperanto]]]]
{{main|List of people from Białystok}}
{{category see also|People from Białystok}}

Over the centuries, a number of people from Białystok have been prominent in the fields of science, language, politics, religion, sports, finance, visual arts and performing arts. This environment was created in the mid-eighteenth century by the patronage of [[Jan Klemens Branicki]] for the arts and sciences.<ref name=biaman/> These include [[Ryszard Kaczorowski]], last [[Polish government-in-exile|émigré]] [[President of the Republic of Poland]],<ref name="TPIB0">{{Cite book
| last = Stachura
| first = Peter D.
| author-link = Peter D. Stachura
| title = The Poles in Britain 1940–2000
| publisher = Frank Cass
| volume = 1358
| edition = Paperback First
| location = London
| year = 2004
| page = 45
| isbn = 0-7146-8444-9 }}</ref> [[L. L. Zamenhof]], the creator of Esperanto,<ref>{{cite web
| title = Jewish Heritage Trail in Białystok
| date = 25 July 2009
| url = http://szlak.uwb.edu.pl/sites.html
| access-date = 2009-07-25
| language = pl
| archive-date = 2019-12-29
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191229153645/http://szlak.uwb.edu.pl/sites.html
| url-status = live
 }}</ref> [[Albert Sabin]], co-developer of the [[polio vaccine]],<ref>{{cite journal
| last = Horaud
| first = F
| date = December 1993
| title = Albert B. Sabin and the development of oral poliovaccine
| journal = Biologicals
| volume = 21
| issue = 4
| pages = 311–6
| pmid = 8024745
| doi = 10.1006/biol.1993.1089 }}</ref> [[Izabella Scorupco]], actress,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.starshub.com/izabella_scorupco.htm|title=Profile/Biography of Izabella Scorupco|access-date=2011-01-25|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716132131/http://www.starshub.com/izabella_scorupco.htm|archive-date=2011-07-16}}</ref> [[Max Weber (artist)|Max Weber]], painter.<ref>{{Cite book
| last = North
| first = P.
| title = Max Weber: the cubist decade, 1910–1920
| location = Atlanta
| publisher = High Museum of Art
| year = 1991}}</ref> [[Tomasz Bagiński]] illustrator, animator and director [[Oscars|Oscar]] nominee in 2002 for ''[[The Cathedral (2002 film)|The Cathedral]]''. [[Leo Melamed]] pioneered creation of the [[International Monetary Market]] and [[financial futures]].