WWładysław Ludwik Anczyc was a Polish poet, playwright, publisher, translator and folk activist.
WLeonard Borejko Chodźko (1800–1871) was a Polish historian, geographer, cartographer, publisher, archivist, and activist of Poland's post-November-1830-Uprising Great Emigration.
WMirosław Chojecki is a Polish publisher and film producer. He was an activist in the democratic anti-communist opposition during the period of the People's Republic of Poland.
WJózef Cyrek was a Polish writer and Roman Catholic clergyman, member of the Society of Jesus involved in the religious publishing industry, who shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland was arrested by the Gestapo, imprisoned at several places of detention, and lastly deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he was murdered.
WKazimierz Dembowski was a Polish Roman Catholic clergyman and member of the Society of Jesus involved in the religious publishing industry, who shortly after the German invasion of Poland was arrested by the Gestapo, imprisoned at several places of detention, and lastly deported to the Dachau concentration camp where he was murdered in a gas chamber. He is among 122 Polish martyrs whose beatification process was advanced in 2003.
WJohann Haller or Jan Haller (1463–1525) is considered one of the first commercial printers in Poland.
WKarol Aleksander Boromeusz Hoffman was a Polish political writer, historian, lawyer and publisher.
WWitold Hulewicz (1895–1941) was a Polish poet, literary critic, translator and publisher. Best known for his translations of German language literature, including most of the published works of his personal friend Rainer Maria Rilke, Hulewicz was also one of the pioneers of radio in Poland: he was the first director of the Wilno-based Polish Radio Wilno, one of the most popular Polish radio stations of the 1920s and 1930s. He also published numerous literary and artistic journals. Arrested by the Germans during World War II as part of their AB-Aktion, Witold Hulewicz was murdered at Palmiry in 1941.
WRyszard Krynicki is a Polish poet and translator, member of the Polish "New Wave" Movement. He is regarded as one of the most prominent post-war contemporary Polish poets. In 2015, he was awarded the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award as a recognition for his poetry works.
WJarosław Saturnin Leitgeber was a Polish writer, bookseller and publisher. His brother, also a book bookseller and publisher, Mieczysław Antoni Leitgeber, inspired his career. Jarosław got his experience by working with his brother, interrupted only by military service in 1869.
WYakov Lidski was a Warsaw-based Jewish bookseller and publisher, pioneer of Yiddish literature publishing. Founder of “Progress” publishing house, which was the first to publish modern Yiddish literature, and co-founder and owner of the important publishing syndicate “Central.”
WStefan Melak was a Polish activist and journalist. He was head of the Katyn Committee.
WVera Michalski-Hoffmann is a Swiss billionaire, significant shareholder of Roche Holding and publisher. She is the president of several publishing houses in Switzerland, France and Poland, grouped together in a holding company, Libella SA, based in Lausanne. She founded the Jan Michalski Foundation in Montricher.
WMarek Jerzy Minakowski is a Polish philosopher, historian, genealogist, doctor of humanities, publisher, blogger, and YouTuber. He founded the Wielka Genealogia Minakowskiego ; and cofounded and is first marszałek (chairman) of Stowarzyszenie Potomków Sejmu Wielkiego.
WMateusz Jakub Morawiecki is a Polish economist, historian, and politician who has been the Prime Minister of Poland since December 2017. He previously served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Beata Szydło as Deputy Prime Minister from 2015 to 2017, Minister of Finance from 2016 to 2018, and Minister of Development between 2015 and 2018. Prior to his political appointment, Morawiecki had an extensive business career.
WJakub Mortkowicz was a Polish book publisher and bookseller.
WAleksander Narcyz Przezdziecki was a Polish historian and publisher.
WSamuel Orgelbrand was one of the most prominent Polish-Jewish printers, booksellers, and publishers of the 19th century. He is best known as the initiator, organizer, and publisher of the Encyklopedia Powszechna, or "Orgelbrand's Encyclopedia", the first modern Polish encyclopedia.
WKonrad Prószyński, pen name Kazimierz Promyk, was a Polish writer, editor, author of primers (textbooks), editor-in-chief of Gazeta Świąteczna ; the founder of secret Society for National Education under foreign Partitions, and the author of well received Pictorial Literacy (1879) primer. He was father of a Polish inventor Kazimierz Prószyński.
WMarek Marceli Józef Jan Chrzciciel Tarczewski was a Polish lawyer, official and attorney who defended Polish conspirators, as well as publisher and freemason.
WFlorian Ungler and Kasper Hochfeder were printers from Bavaria that after 1510 became pioneers of printing and publishing in the Polish language.1512 Introductio in Ptolomei Cosmographiam, with maps of America 1513 Biernat of Lublin's Raj duszny or Hortulus Animae, was considered the first book printed entirely in Polish. It is, in fact, the second. 1514 Orthographia seu modus recte scribendi et legendi Polonicum idioma quam utilissimus, the first Grammar of Polish language
WMelchior Wańkowicz was a Polish army officer, popular writer, political journalist and publisher. He is most famous for his reporting for the Polish Armed Forces in the West during World War II and writing a book about the battle of Monte Cassino.
WJan Kazimierz Wilczyński or Jonas Kazimieras Vilčinskis (1806–1885) was a Polish medical doctor, collector and publisher. He was known for publishing the "Album de Wilna".
WSamuel Ludwik Zasadius or Zasadyus, Sassadius was a Polish religious writer, pastor and author of popular sermons and prayer-books. He was also known for propagating Polishness in Cieszyn Silesia.
WJózef Zawadzki (1781–1838) was a Polish pressman, publisher, typographer and bibliophile, one of the most prominent Polish publishers in the 19th century. He was the founder of the Zawadzki Press and was the official publisher of Vilnius University. He published 851 books, mostly in Polish language, but also in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Lithuanian.
WTeofil Żebrawski (1800–1887) was a Polish mathematician, bibliographer, architect, biologist, archeologist, cartographer and geodesist; an erudite and polymath. Pioneer of the modern Polish mathematical bibliography.