What is Poland famous for?

Answer 1

It is famous for;the best pope in the world was from Poland.His name was John Poul the second in polish Jan Paweł II.And also the statio of a mermied is in Kraków.I was there.

Poland is also famous for Nicolas Copernicus who was the first man to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.

Another vary famous person is Frédéric François Chopin, christened Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, he was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist, and was one of the great masters of Romantic Music. He was born in Zelazowa Wola,( near to the capital of Poland - Warsaw), to French father, and Polish mother.

Marie Skłodowska Curie (born in Warsaw) Her achievements include the creation of a theory of radioactivity (a term she coined), techniques for isolating radioae isotopes, and the discovery of two new elements, polonioum and radium. Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms (cancers), using radioactive isotopes.

Wislawa Szymborska: Poet. She won the 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Czeslaw Milosz: poet and writer, won Nobel prize for literature. (1980)

Lech Walesa: Some average polish worker who organized a labor movement in Poland, won Nobel Peace Prize (1983)

Roman Polanski: film director, famous for Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and other movies

Ignacy Jan Paderewski: pianist, composer and statesman, loved by the American audience, played an important role in establishing free Poland after the World War I, Prime Minister.

And... for being attacked by the Nazis/SS/Germany whatever you want to call it at the beginning of WW2