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Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (listen) is a Polish liberal politician and economist. A leading figure of the Gdańsk-based Liberal Democratic Congress in the early 1990s, Bielecki served as Prime Minister of Poland for most of 1991. In his post-political career, Bielecki served as president of Bank Pekao between 2003 and 2010, and served as the president of the Polish Institute of International Affairs between 2009 and 2015. Since the early 2000s, Bielecki has been a member of the Civic Platform party. In 2010, the Warsaw Business Journal described Bielecki as one of the most respected economists in Poland.

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Eugeniusz Czykwin is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 14181 votes in 24 Białystok district, candidating from Democratic Left Alliance list.

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Józefa Maria Hennelowa was a Polish publicist, journalist, columnist, Catholic intellectual, and politician. As a journalist, she spent more than seven decades as a reporter and editor at Tygodnik Powszechny, a Catholic weekly newspaper headquartered in Krakow. Hennelowa also served in the Sejm, the lower house of the Parliament of Poland, from 1989 until 1993 during the country's transition from communism to democracy.

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Marek Jurek is a right-wing politician and a Member of the European Parliament. Since 20 April 2007 he has been the leader of the aspirant party Right of the Republic. Politically, he is most known for being a Marshal of the Sejm in the years 2005–2007.

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Mikołaj Kozakiewicz was a Polish politician, publicist and sociologist.

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Olga Teresa Krzyżanowska was a Polish politician who served as a Senator of Poland and a Member of the Sejm from 1989 to 2005. During World War II, she was part of the Gray Ranks, which led to her being awarded the Cross of Valour for her efforts. After World War II, she attended Gdańsk Medical University, and graduated from there in 1952 with a focus in internal and occupational diseases. After spending a decade in hospitals, in 1962 Krzyżanowska became head of the Provincial Industrial Hospital in Gdańsk, and remained in that role until 1989.

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Adam Michnik is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza.

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Marian Odon Orzechowski was a Polish politician and a former member of the Polish Communist Party. He served as foreign minister of the People's Republic of Poland from 1985 to 1988.

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Janusz Walerian Pańko was a Polish lawyer, and professor of legal science. An activist of the democratic opposition during the People's Republic of Poland, a member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, he died while serving as president of NIK, Poland's Supreme Audit Office, under suspicious circumstances.

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Marcin Święcicki is a Polish politician and economist. He is a former deputy minister of economy, former minister for foreign economic relations as well as a former mayor of Warsaw.