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Alexander Danieliuk-Stefanski was a Polish communist politician, active in Poland and in the Soviet Union. From 1931 to 1936, he oversaw the activities of Romanian communists in exile to the Soviet Union, and served as General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party (PCdR). During the period, he was seconded by Elena Filipescu, who was also his lover.

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Adam Doboszyński was a soldier of the Polish Army, writer, anti-Semitic right-wing politician, and a social activist. Born in 1904 in Kraków, he was murdered by the Communist secret services in 1949, in the notorious Mokotów Prison in Warsaw.

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Major Adam Lazarowicz was a Polish military officer who played a prominent role in the Polish resistance movement in the German-occupied Poland in the Second World War.

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Kazimierz Leski, nom de guerre Bradl, was a Polish engineer, co-designer of the Polish submarines ORP Sęp (1938) and ORP Orzeł, a fighter pilot, and an officer in World War II Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence.

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Adam Mohuczy (1891–1953) was a Polish Navy officer. Captain of several ships and squadrons, Counter Admiral from 1946 and Chief of Staff and Commander of the Polish Navy from 1945–1947. In 1949 arrested by Polish secret police, accused of sabotage, tortured. He died in prison in 1953. In 1957 he was rehabilitated.

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Stefan Adolf Mossor was a Polish general. Member of the Polish Legions. 1928 - 1930 studied at École Supérieure de Guerre in Paris. In the Second Polish Republic he reached the rank of the lieutenant colonel. Taken prisoner by the Germans during the invasion of Poland.

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Zdzisław Najmrodzki was a thief who operated in 1970s and 1980s Poland and was one of the era's most famous criminals. His 29 escapes from law-enforcement authorities and prisons included jumping from a train, jumping from a barred courthouse window, and walking out of a Citizens' Militia (police) headquarters dressed as a police officer.

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Szczepan Ścibior was a Polish soldier, pilot, and patriot.

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Kazimierz Stanisław Świtalski was a Polish politician, diplomat, soldier, military officer in the Polish Legions and 18th Prime Minister of Poland between April and December 1929.

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Zygmunt Szendzielarz was the commander of the Polish 5th Wilno Brigade of the Home Army, nom de guerre "Łupaszka". He fought against the Red Army after the end of the Second World War. During the Red Army occupation he was falsely accused of crimes, in order to slander the cursed soldiers and consolidating the rule of the communists. After the fall of communism, in 1993, Szendzielarz was rehabilitated and declared innocent of all charges.[1] On 2007 Polish president Lech Kaczyński posthumously awarded Szendzielarz with the order of Polonia Restituta.[6] He was executed in the notorious Mokotów Prison as one of the anti-communist so-called Cursed soldiers following the Soviet takeover of Poland at the end of World War II.

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Stanisław Tatar nom de guerre "Stanisław Tabor" was a Polish Army colonel in the interwar period and, during World War II, one of the commanders of Armia Krajowa, Polish resistance movement. He was appointed brigade general in 1943 and half-a-year later flew from occupied Poland to London.