Notable Residents
- Georg Kleefeld (1522–1576), mayor of Danzig
- Hans von Bodeck (1582–1658), diplomat and Chancellor of Brandenburg
- John Amos Comenius (1592–1670), educator
- Samuel Hartlib (ca. 1600-1662), teacher and scientist
- Daniel Bärholz (1641–1688) Elbing councilman and Baroque poet
- Christian Wernicke (1661–1725), epigrammist and diplomat
- Johann Friedrich Endersch (1705–1769), mathematician geographer
- Gottfried Achenwall (1719–1772), statistician
- Frederick Henrich Weissenfels (1728–1806), soldier, American Revolution in New York
- Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht (1800–1876), lawyer, member of Göttinger Sieben
- Bruno Erhard Abegg (1803–1848), statesman of Königsberg
- Ferdinand Schichau (1814–1896), founder of the Schichau-Werke in Elbing and Danzig
- John Prince-Smith (1809–1874), liberal economist and politician in Germany
- Johannes Kohtz (1843–1918), German chess player
- Paul Pulewka (1896–1989) German pharmacologist
- Max Reimann (1898–1977), president of the Communist Party of Germany
- Erich Brost (1903–1995) publisher
- Günter Kuhnke (1912–1990), Admiral
- Hans-Dieter Lange (1926–2012), journalist
- Bernd Neumann (born 1942), Minister of Culture of Germany since 2005
- Ortwin Runde (born 1944), mayor of Hamburg from 1997 to 2001.
- Andrzej Sakson (born 1950), sociologist and director of the Western Institute
- Henryk Iwaniec (born 1947), mathematician
- Wojciech Cejrowski (born 1964), journalist, writer
- Adam Fedoruk (born 1966), footballer
- Ewa Białołęcka (born 1967), fantasy writer
- Piotr Wadecki (born 1973), cyclist
- Maciej Bykowski (born 1977), footballer
- Adam Wadecki (born 1977), cyclist
- Dominika Figurska (born 1978), actress
- Radosław Wojtaszek (born 1987), chess player
- Monika Fijalkowska ??? (born 1989), supermodel
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