Lviv Lvov Lwow Lemberg Famous PeopleWhen, in 1998, I first started collecting names of famous Leopolitans, I was amazed that my hometown has given rise to many more people, notable in literature, arts, sciences, philosophy and so on, than would be expected for a city of such modest size and population. Many of those people were 'famous everywhere but there city hometown'.The names at the right comprise a list of people who were born in Lvov-Lviv-Lwow-Lemberg or whose activities were closely related to this city. Any list of such people is certain to be incomplete, but let's try.. Click on any name (at the right) to view photo, biography and other related information. Wikipedia has 2 much bigger lists of famous people who have called this city home List of famous Leopolitans and Famous People from Lviv |
Muhammad Asad Emanuel Ax Stefan Banach Yuri Bashmet Alexander Beliavsky Martin Buber Viktor Chukarin Albert Franz Doppler Ivan Fedorov Ludwik Fleck Leo Fuchs (Laybl Springer) Danilo Galitsky Maurice Goldhaber Zbigniew Herbert Lubka Kolessa Salomea Krushelnytska Stanislaw Lem Volodymyr Levytsky Johann Lhotsky Lotka Alfred James Jan Lukasiewicz Alexandra Marinina Alexius Meinong Ludwig von Mises Richard von Mises Andrzej Mostowski Paul Muni Karl Radek Rose Rand-wik Redl Alfred-wik Roman Rosdolsky-wik Moriz Rosenthal-wik Leopold Sacher-Masoch Juliusz Schauder Tadeusz Sendzimir Volodimir Shayan Andrey Sheptytsky Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Louis Sohn Adam Bruno Ulam Stanislaw Marcin Ulam Weegee (Arthur Fellig) Simon Wiesenthal Grigory Yavlinsky-wik Adam Zagajewski-wik |
