Poland

Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner known for ironic precision in exploring fragments of human reality

Prussian-German field marshal of the German Empire and statesman who served as President of Germany, known for leading the Imperial German Army during World War I and appointing Adolf Hitler as Chancellor

Polish resistance fighter and clinical nurse specialist who, as head of the children's section of Żegota, rescued approximately 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II

Polish science fiction author, philosopher, and futurologist, globally renowned for his novel Solaris and his satirical insights into humanity's future

Polish film director, screenwriter, and politician, recipient of an Honorary Oscar and Palme d'Or, known for his war film trilogy: A Generation, Kanał, and Ashes and Diamonds

Visionary Polish film director and screenwriter known for Dekalog, The Double Life of Veronique, and the Three Colours trilogy

Prolific Hungarian mathematician known for solving numerous open problems in discrete mathematics, graph theory, and number theory