The following is a list of Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 general

General

A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....

s, that is the people who held the rank of general, as well as those who acted as de facto generals by commanding a division or brigade.

Note that until the Partitions of Poland

Partitions of Poland

The Partitions of Poland or Partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in the second half of the 18th century and ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland for 123 years...

 of late 18th century the rank of general as such was mostly (though not exclusively) reserved for commanders of artillery, while large tactical units (equivalent of divisions) were usually commanded by hetman

Hetman

Hetman was the title of the second-highest military commander in 15th- to 18th-century Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which together, from 1569 to 1795, comprised the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, or Rzeczpospolita....

s and voivodes.

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a dualistic state of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch. It was the largest and one of the most populous countries of 16th- and 17th‑century Europe with some and a multi-ethnic population of 11 million at its peak in the early 17th century...

• Mikołaj Abramowicz
• Krzysztof Arciszewski
  Krzysztof Arciszewski
  Krzysztof Arciszewski Krzysztof Arciszewski Krzysztof Arciszewski (December 9, 1592 in Rogalin – April 7, 1656 near Gdańsk (Danzig), Poland, was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic), military officer, engineer, and ethnographer. General of artillery of Holland, and Poland ....
  
  
• Józef Bielak
• Franciszek Ksawery Branicki
  Franciszek Ksawery Branicki
  Count Franciszek Ksawery Branicki was a Polish nobleman of the Korczak coat of arms, magnate and one of the leaders of the Targowica Confederation....
  
  
• Alojzy Brühl
• August Aleksander Czartoryski
  August Aleksander Czartoryski
  Prince August Aleksander Czartoryski was a Polish-Lithuanian noble , magnate, and founder of the family fortune.August became Major-General of the Polish Army in 1729, voivode of the Ruthenian Voivodship in 1731, General Starost of Podolia in 1750–1758, and a Knight of Malta...
  
  
• Ignacy Działyński
• Subchan Ghazi aga
• Wincenty Korwin Gosiewski
  Wincenty Korwin Gosiewski
  Wincenty Korwin Gosiewski was a Polish-Lithuanian politician and military commander, a notable member of the szlachta.-Life:...
  
  
• Józef Judycki
  Józef Judycki
  Józef Judycki was a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth noble. Marshal of the Lithuanian Tribunal in 1777, Lithuanian Great Guard from 1776, Lithuanian Great Quartermaster from 1774. Commander of Lithuanian army during the Polish-Russian War of 1792...
  
  
• Krzysztof Korycki
• Tadeusz Kościuszko
  Tadeusz Kosciuszko
  Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko was a Polish–Lithuanian and American general and military leader during the Kościuszko Uprising. He is a national hero of Poland, Lithuania, the United States and Belarus...
  
  
• Antoni Benedykt Lubomirski
  Antoni Benedykt Lubomirski
  Prince Antoni Benedykt Konstanty Lubomirski was a Polish szlachcic.Owner of Połonne, Międzyrzecz and Miropol. General Major of the Crown Army, Lieutenant General since 1753, Great Sword-bearer of the Crown since 1754....
  
  
• Jerzy Ignacy Lubomirski
  Jerzy Ignacy Lubomirski
  Prince Jerzy Ignacy Lubomirski was a Polish nobleman . Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded on August 3, 1727....
  
  
• Marcin Lubomirski
• Michał Lubomirski
• Andrzej Mokronowski
  Andrzej Mokronowski
  Andrzej Mokronowski was a notable member of the Polish szlachta, politician and general of the Polish Army. Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded in 1776.He was voivode of Masovian Voivodship since 1781...
  
  
• Fryderyk Józef Moszyński
  Fryderyk Józef Moszynski
  Fryderyk Józef Jan Kanty Moszyński of Nałęcz Coat of Arms was a noble in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He held the offices of Referendary of Lithuania, Great Secretary of Lithuania and Great Marshal of the Crown.A grandson of former king of Poland, August II the Strong, he was educated in...
  
  
• Józef Orłowski
• Piotr Ożarowski
  Piotr Ozarowski
  Piotr Ożarowski was a Polish noble , politic and military commander. Member of the infamous Confederation of Targowica, he reached the offices of Great Crown Hetman and castellan of Wojnice....
  
  
• Józef Poniatowski
• Kazimierz Poniatowski
  Kazimierz Poniatowski
  Prince Kazimierz Poniatowski, born Count Kazimierz Poniatowski was a Polish Szlachcic, podkomorzy wielki koronny , generał wojsk koronnych. Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded on August 3, 1744 in Warsaw.He was Great Podkomorzy of the Crown in 1742-1773 and General of the Crown Army...
  
  
• Stanisław Poniatowski
• Stanisław Kostka Potocki
• Szczęsny Potocki
• Zygmunt Przyjemski
  Zygmunt Przyjemski
  Zygmunt Przyjemski of Rawicz was a Polish military commander and a member of the administration of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. A general of artillery and, at the same time, the Field Writer of the Crown, he was taken captive by the Cossacks in the Battle of Batoh, in which he commanded the...
  
  
• Stanisław Mateusz Rzewuski
• Aleksander Michał Sapieha
• Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha
  Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha
  Prince Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha was a Polish-Lithuanian noble .Kazimierz Sapieha was educated at the Knight School in Warsaw from 1767 until 1791, and served as Artillery General of Lithuania, from 1773 to 1793...
  
  
• Kazimierz Siemienowicz
  Kazimierz Siemienowicz
  Kazimierz Siemienowicz , was a Polish-Lithuanian general of artillery, gunsmith, military engineer, artillery specialist and pioneer of rocketry. Born in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, he served the armies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a federation of Poland and the Grand Duchy, and in the...
  
  
• Michał Stachurski
  Michał Stachurski
  Michał Stachurski is a Polish professional football player who currently plays for KSZO Ostrowiec.-External links:...
  
  
• Samuel Świderski
• Jan Tarło
• Michał Wielhorski
• Ludwik Wirtemberg
  Duke Louis of Württemberg
  Duke Louis of Württemberg was the second son of Friedrich II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg and Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt...
  
  
• Jan de Witte
  Jan de Witte
  Jan de Witte was a Polish military engineer, professional officer and architect of Dutch descent. The author of, among others, the Dominican church in Lwów and the Carmelite monastery in Berdyczów , he was also the military commandant of the fortress at Kamieniec Podolski .-Personal...
  
  
• Michał Zabiełło
• Szymon Zabiełło

Kościuszko Uprising

Kosciuszko Uprising

The Kościuszko Uprising was an uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in Poland, Belarus and Lithuania in 1794...

• Jan August Cichocki
  Jan August Cichocki
  Jan August Cichocki was a Polish military officer and a general of the Polish Army, notable for his service in the Warsaw Uprising . Thanks to a scholarship funded by Alois Bruhl, Cichocki studied artillery tactics in Dresden. Upon his return to Poland, he co-authored the military reforms of...
  
  
• Jan Henryk Dąbrowski
  Jan Henryk Dabrowski
  -Biography:Dąbrowski was born to Jan Michal Dąbrowski and Sophie née von Lettow in Pierzchów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth He grew up in Hoyerswerda, Electorate of Saxony, where his father served as a Colonel in the Saxon army...
  
  
• Krystian Godfryd Deybel de Hammerau
  Krystian Godfryd Deybel de Hammerau
  Krystian Godfryd Deybel de Hammerau was a Polish military commander and a general of artillery. He fought during the Warsaw Uprising of 1794 and commanded the artillery of Kościuszko's Uprising....
  
  
• Jakub Jasiński
  Jakub Jasinski
  Jakub Jasiński was a Polish-Lithuanian general, and a Polish poet of Enlightenment. He participated in the War in Defence of the Constitution in 1792, was an enemy of the Targowica Confederation and organized an action against its supporters in Vilnius...
  
  
• Andrzej Karwowski
• Józef Kopeć
• Tadeusz Kościuszko
  Tadeusz Kosciuszko
  Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko was a Polish–Lithuanian and American general and military leader during the Kościuszko Uprising. He is a national hero of Poland, Lithuania, the United States and Belarus...
  
  
• Antoni Madaliński
  Antoni Madalinski
  Antoni Madaliński – Polish Lieutenant General, commander of 1st Greater Polish National Cavalry Brigade during Kościuszko Uprising....
  
  
• Stanisław Mokronowski
• Józef Orłowski
• Józef Poniatowski
• Eustachy Sanguszko
• Wojciech Strasz
• Tomasz Wawrzecki
  Tomasz Wawrzecki
  Tomasz Wawrzecki was a distinguished Polish politician and military commander, a general of the Polish Army. During Kościuszko's Uprising in Warsaw he succeeded Tadeusz Kościuszko as the commander of the Polish forces...
  
  
• Michał Wielhorski
• Stanisław Wodzicki
• Józef Zajączek
  Józef Zajaczek
  Prince Józef Zajączek , was a Polish general and politician.His first important military post was that of an aide-de-camp to hetman Franciszek Ksawery Branicki...
  
  

Duchy of Warsaw

Duchy of Warsaw

The Duchy of Warsaw was a Polish state established by Napoleon I in 1807 from the Polish lands ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia under the terms of the Treaties of Tilsit. The duchy was held in personal union by one of Napoleon's allies, King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony...

 

• Wincenty Aksamitowski
• Łukasz Biegański
• Józef Chłopicki
• Michał Cichocki
• Jan Henryk Dąbrowski
  Jan Henryk Dabrowski
  -Biography:Dąbrowski was born to Jan Michal Dąbrowski and Sophie née von Lettow in Pierzchów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth He grew up in Hoyerswerda, Electorate of Saxony, where his father served as a Colonel in the Saxon army...
  
  
• Jan Michał Dąbrowski
• Ludwik Mateusz Dembowski
  Ludwik Mateusz Dembowski
  Ludwik Mateusz Dembowski , was a Polish general and traveler.After the fall of the Kościuszko Uprising went to France. He served in Polish Legions under Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, with the French Army sent to Santo Domingo....
  
  
• Dominik Dziewanowski
• Sykstus Estko
• Hipolit Falkowski
• Stanisław Fiszer
• Wilhelm Fiszer
• Romuald Giedroyć
• Ignacy Giełgud
• Józef Grabiński
• Michał Grabowski
• Stefan Grabowski
• Maurycy Hauke
• Kajetan Hebdowski
• Ludwik Kamieniecki
• Michał Ignacy Kamieński
• Krzysztof Karwicki
• Stanisław Klicki
• Karol Kniaziewicz
  Karol Kniaziewicz
  Baron Karol Otto Kniaziewicz was a Polish general and political activist....
  
  
• Jakub Komierowski
• Jan Konopka
  Jan Konopka
  Jan Konopka was a lieutenant in the Kościuszko Uprising, captain of the Polish Legions in Italy, regiment commander in the Legion of the Vistula, as well as general of the French Army and the Duchy of Warsaw...
  
  
• Antoni Almikar Kosiński
• Józef Kossakowski
• Ksawery Kossecki
• Izydor Krasiński
• Wincenty Krasiński
  Wincenty Krasinski
  Count Wincenty Krasiński was a Polish nobleman , political activist and military leader.He was the father of Zygmunt Krasiński, one of Poland's Three Bards—Poland's greatest romantic poets.-Life:...
  
  
• Ludwik Kropiński
• Jan Krukowiecki
  Jan Krukowiecki
  Count Jan Stefan Krukowiecki was a Polish general and chairman of the Polish National Government during the November Uprising and general during Napoleonic Wars fighting in the troops of Napoleon.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Zygmunt Kurnatowski
  Zygmunt Kurnatowski
  Zygmunt Aleksander Kurnatowski . He was a count and Polish noble of the Łodzia coat of arms. He was a Major General in the army of Kingdom of Poland....
  
  
• Walenty Kwaśniewski
• Józef Łazowski
• Tomasz Łubieński
  Tomasz Łubieński
  Tomasz Łubieński, comte de Pomian was a brigadier general in the Polish army, senator, landowner in Kalisz and businessman. Hoping to liberate Poland, he fought on the French side in the Napoleonic Wars, fighting at Essling, , , , , and , for which Napoleon made him a baron de l'Empire...
  
  
• Józef Benedykt Łączyński
• Kazimierz Małachowski
• Stanisław Małachowski
• Wojciech Męciński
• Stanisław Mielżyński
• Ernest Jan Karol Mirbach
• Franciszek Morawski
• Karol Morawski
• Józef Niemojewski
  Józef Niemojewski
  Józef Niemojewski was a Brigadier General of the Duchy of Warsaw, Major General of the Polish insurrectionist forces in Wielkopolska during the Greater Poland Uprising and the Kościuszko Uprising, Brigadier General in the Grande Armée of Napoleon Bonaparte and elected starosta of Śrem...
  
  
• Ksawery Niesiołowski
• Ludwik Pac
• Czesław Pakosz
• Franciszek Paszkowski
• Jean Baptiste Pelletier
• Michał Pełczyński
• Michał Piotrowski
• Józef Poniatowski
• Stanisław Potocki
• Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł
• Józef Rautenstrauch
• Aleksander Rożniecki
• Eustachy Sanguszko
• Julian Sierawski
• Paweł Skórzewski
  Paweł Skórzewski
  Paweł Skórzewski was Polish Brigadier General of the Duchy of Warsaw, a member of the Bar Confederation, a delegate to the Polish Sejm, senator of the Kingdom of Poland and wojewoda of Kalisz.-References:...
  
  
• Michał Sokolnicki
• Antoni Paweł Sułkowski
  Antoni Paweł Sułkowski
  Prince Antoni Paweł Sułkowski , of the Sułkowski family, was a Polish division general and later overall commander of the armed forces of the Duchy of Warsaw.-Napoleonic Wars:He began his military service in 1806 during the Wielkopolska Uprising when he personally funded the...
  
  
• Józef Toliński
• Kazimierz Turno
• Tadeusz Tyszkiewicz
• Jan Nepomucen Umiński
• Józef Wasilewski
• Jan Weyssenhoff
• Józef Wielhorski
  Józef Wielhorski
  Józef Wielhorski was a Polish general.As an officer he fought in the Polish-Russian War of 1792 and later, as a colonel, in the Kościuszko Uprising. Tadeusz Kościuszko sent him to revolutionary France with the goal of obtaining help from the Committee of Public Safety, his requests for a French...
  
  
• Stanisław Wojczyński
• Jan Henryk Wołodkowicz
• Józef Zajączek
  Józef Zajaczek
  Prince Józef Zajączek , was a Polish general and politician.His first important military post was that of an aide-de-camp to hetman Franciszek Ksawery Branicki...
  
  
• Edward Żółtowski

November 1830 Uprising

November Uprising

The November Uprising , Polish–Russian War 1830–31 also known as the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in Warsaw when the young Polish officers from the local Army of the Congress...

 

• Józef Bem
  Józef Bem
  Józef Zachariasz Bem was a Polish general, an Ottoman Pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European nationalisms...
  
  
• Dezydery Chłapowski
• Józef Chłopicki
• Wojciech Chrzanowski
  Wojciech Chrzanowski
  Wojciech Chrzanowski was a Polish general who participated in Napoleon's Russian campaign and in the battles of Leipzig, Paris, and Waterloo. After Napoleon's final defeat he served in the national army of Poland, and was under Hans Karl von Diebitsch in Turkey in 1828/29...
  
  
• Henryk Dembiński
  Henryk Dembinski
  Henryk Dembiński was a Polish engineer, traveler and general.Dembiński was born in Strzałków, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 1809 he entered the Polish army of the Duchy of Warsaw and took part in most of the Napoleonic campaigns in the East. Among others, he took part in the Battle of Leipzig in...
  
  
• Ludwik Kicki
• Ignacy Prądzyński
  Ignacy Pradzynski
  Ignacy Prądzyński was a Polish military commander and a general of the Polish Army. A veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, he was one of the most successful Polish commanders of the November Uprising against Russia....
  
  
• Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł
• Maciej Rybiński
  Maciej Rybinski
  Maciej Rybiński , Polish general, last chief of State of November Uprising....
  
  
• Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki
  Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki
  Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki was a Polish general, Commander-in-Chief of the November Uprising .He was born in Żebrak, Siedlce County in 1787. After completing his education at the Lwów University, he entered the Polish Legion formed in the Duchy of Warsaw, as a common soldier and won his lieutenancy at...
  
  
• Józef Longin Sowiński
• Franciszek Żymirski

January 1863 Uprising

January Uprising

The January Uprising was an uprising in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Russian Empire...

 

• Stanisław Brzózka
• Józef Cieszkowski
• Dionizy Czachowski
  Dionizy Czachowski
  Dionizy Feliks Czachowski was a Polish general and commander of the Sandomierz Voivodeship during the January Uprising in Congress Poland....
  
  
• Józef Hauke-Bosak
  Józef Hauke-Bosak
  Count Józef Hauke-Bosak was a Polish general in the January Uprising, and commander of the Polish army in Lesser Poland, the closest collaborator of rebellion leader Romuald Traugutt. He fought many successful battles against the Russians in this region. He fled Poland after the Uprising collapsed...
  
  
• Michał Heidenreich
• Antoni Jeziorański
• Apolinary Kurowski
• Marian Langiewicz
  Marian Langiewicz
  Marian Langiewicz, full name Marian Antoni Melchior Langiewicz , was a Polish patriot notable as a military leader of the January Uprising in 1863.-Biography:He was born in the province of Posen, his father being the local doctor...
  
  
• Ludwik Mierosławski
• Zygmunt Padlewski
  Zygmunt Padlewski
  Zygmunt Padlewski was a Polish insurgent who participated in the January Uprising.-Early years:Padlewski was born in a mansion in Czerniawka Mała, Russian-partitioned Poland on January 1, 1836. His father, Władysław, took part in the November Uprising...
  
  
• Zygmunt Sierakowski
• Romuald Traugutt
  Romuald Traugutt
  Romuald Traugutt was a Polish general and war hero, best known for commanding the January Uprising. From October 1863 to August 1864 he was Dictator of Insurrection. He headed the Polish national government from October 17, 1863 to April 20, 1864, and was president of its Foreign Affairs...
  
  
• Walery Antoni Wróblewski
• Józef Wysocki
  Józef Wysocki (general)
  Józef Wysocki was a Polish general, soldier in the November Uprising of 1830, the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the January Uprising of 1863....
  
  
• Władysław Zbyszewski

World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, Polish-Soviet War

Polish-Soviet War

The Polish–Soviet War was an armed conflict between Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine and the Second Polish Republic and the Ukrainian People's Republic—four states in post–World War I Europe...

 and national uprisings of the period

• Franciszek Aleksandrowicz
• Zachariasz Bakradze
• Leon Berbecki
  Leon Berbecki
  Leon Berbecki was a Polish army officer, who fought in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I with the Imperial Russian Army. Following the foundation of the Second Polish Republic, Berbecki served in the Polish Army.- Early life :Peter Leon Berbecki, born on a farm in Kalinowszczyzna in what is...
  
  
• Stefan Dąb-Biernacki
  Stefan Dab-Biernacki
  Stefan Dąb-Biernacki was a Polish general.Members of the Polish Legions in World War I, fought in the Polish-Soviet War commanding regiments and later 1DPLeg...
  
  
• Henryk Karol Korab-Bobkowski
• Louis Bonin
• Jerzy Dunin-Borkowski
• Józef Dunin-Borkowski
• Tadeusz Bylewski
• Aleksander Czcheidze
• Walerian Czuma
  Walerian Czuma
  Walerian Czuma was a Polish general and military commander. He is notable for his command over a Polish unit in Siberia during the Russian Civil War and the commander of the defence of Warsaw during the siege of that city in 1939.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mieczysław Dąbkowski
• Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski
• Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer
  Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer
  Gustaw Konstanty Orlicz-Dreszer was a Polish general, and a political and social activist.Before World War I, Orlicz-Dreszer was involved in pro-independence activities in partitioned Poland. In 1914-17 he served in the 1st Brigade of the Polish Legions. He was arrested during the Oath Crisis...
  
  
• Karol Durski-Trzaska
  Karol Durski-Trzaska
  Karol Durski-Trzaska was an officer in Austro-Hungarian Army and later, Polish Army. Reached the rank of Lieutenant General in Austrian-Hungarian Army; commander of Austrian Polish Legions in World War I from 23 September 1914 to December 1915. Transferred to reserve afterwards...
  
  
• Andrzej Galica
• Władysław Glass
• Roman Górecki
• Kazimierz Grudzielski
• Józef Haller de Hallenburg
  Józef Haller de Hallenburg
  Józef Haller de Hallenburg was a Lieutenant General of the Polish Army, legionary in Polish Legions, harcmistrz , the President of The Polish Scouting and Guiding Association , political and social activist, Stanisław Haller de Hallenburg's cousin.Haller was born in Jurczyce...
  
  
• Stanisław Haller de Hallenburg
• Eugeniusz de Henning-Michaelis
• Kazimierz Horoszkiewicz
• Stefan Hubicki
• Marian Żegota-Januszajtis
• Albin Jasinski
• Tadeusz Jastrzębski
• Tadeusz Kasprzycki
  Tadeusz Kasprzycki
  Tadeusz Kasprzycki was a member of the Polish Legions in First World War, general of the Polish Army from 1929 and Minister of Military Affairs of Poland from 1935 to 1939....
  
  
• Roman Gozdawa-Kawecki
• Daniel Konarzewski
• Tadeusz Kutrzeba
  Tadeusz Kutrzeba
  Tadeusz Kutrzeba was an army general of the Second Polish Republic.Kutrzeba was born in Kraków, then part of Austria-Hungary...
  
  
• Gustaw Kuchinka
• Bolesław Kraupa
• Karol Kraus
• Aleksander Karnicki
• Franciszek Krajowski
  Franciszek Krajowski
  Franciszek Krajowski was a Czech-Poles military officer and a General of the Polish Army.He started his career in the Austro-Hungarian Army....
  
  
• Franciszek Latinik
  Franciszek Latinik
  Franciszek Ksawery Latinik was a Polish general.He graduated from the cadets school in Kraków and since 1882 served in the Austro-Hungarian Army...
  
  
• Aleksander Litwinowicz
  Aleksander Litwinowicz
  Aleksander Litwinowicz was a Polish general. Member of Polish independence organizations before World War I, member of the Polish Legions during the war. Promoted to general in 1924...
  
  
• Kazimierz Ładoś
• Gustaw Macewicz
• Mikołaj Majewski
• Stefan Majewski
  Stefan Majewski
  Stefan Majewski is a retired Polish soccer player and subsequently a football manager who recently was the interim manager of the Polish national team.-Career:...
  
  
• Julian Malczewski
• Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki
  Józef Dowbor-Musnicki
  Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki was a Polish military officer and commander, serving with the Imperial Russian and then Polish armies...
  
  
• Henryk Minkiewicz
  Henryk Minkiewicz
  Henryk Minkiewicz was a Polish socialist politician and a General of the Polish Army. Former commander of the Border Defence Corps, he was among the Polish officers murdered in the Katyń massacre.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jan Mischke
• Józef Piłsudski
• Kazimierz Pławski
• Eugeniusz Pogorzelski
  Eugeniusz Pogorzelski
  Eugeniusz Pogorzelski was a Polish military officer. Serving in the rank of Generał dywizji, he was the commanding officer of the Polish 7th Infantry Division during the Kiev Offensive of the Polish-Bolshevik War....
  
  
• Olgierd Pożerski
• Władysław Belina-Prażmowski
• Stanisław Puchalski
• Kazimierz Raszewski
• Bolesław Roja
• Aleksander Romanowicz
  Aleksander Romanowicz
  Aleksander Romanowicz was a general of cavalry in both Russian Imperial Army and Polish Army. Born April 1, 1871 in his family estate Olekszyszki , in 1890 he graduated from the Russian Army Cadet Corps in Polotsk, then entered the Officer’s School of Cavalry, becoming in 1892 a professional...
  
  
• Jan Romer
  Jan Romer
  Jan Romer was an Austrian and Polish general. Studied in Mödling and joined the Austro-Hungarian Army. During the First World War fought at the battle of Limanowa and battle of Gorlice , was wounded twice. Later he joined the newly recreated Polish Army. During Polish-Ukrainian War he fought in...
  
  
• Eugeniusz Romiszewski
• Modest Romiszewski
  Modest Romiszewski
  Modest Romiszewski was born in Warsaw on 1861-02-29. Son of Russian army general Władysław Romiszewski and Anna Dżakeli. Reached the rank of general in 1913. Since 1918-12-29 general in the Polish army . A military theorist, transferred to reserve on 1921-05-06. Died on 1930-10-07 in Warsaw,...
  
  
• Stanisław Rouppert
• Tadeusz Rozwadowski
• Juliusz Rómmel
  Juliusz Rómmel
  Juliusz Karol Wilhelm Józef Rómmel was a Polish military commander and a general of the Polish Army. During the Polish-Bolshevik War, he gained great fame for achieving a decisive victory in the Battle of Komarów, the largest cavalry engagement of the 20th century...
  
  
• Wacław Rudoszański-Iwaszkiewicz
• Józef Rybak
• Edward Śmigły-Rydz
• Bolesław Bohusz-Siestrzeńcewicz
• Władysław Sikorski
• Leonard Skierski
  Leonard Skierski
  Leonard Skierski was a Polish military officer and a general of the Imperial Russian Army and then the Polish Army. A veteran of World War I and the Polish-Bolshevik War, he was one of fourteen Polish generals to be murdered by the NKVD in the Katyn massacre of 1940.-Biography:Leonard Skierski was...
  
  
• Julian Stachiewicz
  Julian Stachiewicz
  Brigadier General Julian Stachiewicz was a Polish Army officer and a historian and writer.-Life:Julian Stachiewicz was the brother of General Wacław Stachiewicz....
  
  
• Stanisław Szeptycki
• Józef Świętorzecki
• Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski
• Władysław Wejtko
• Mieczysław Windakiewicz
• Jerzy Wołkowicki
• Sergiusz Zahorski
• Zygmunt Zieliński
• Lucjan Żeligowski
  Lucjan Zeligowski
  Lucjan Żeligowski , was a Polish general, and veteran of World War I, the Polish-Soviet War and World War II. He is mostly remembered for his role in Żeligowski's Mutiny and as head of a short-lived Republic of Central Lithuania.-Biography:...
  
  

Polish high-ranking officers who served abroad

• Józef Bem
  Józef Bem
  Józef Zachariasz Bem was a Polish general, an Ottoman Pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European nationalisms...
  
  
• Jan Dąbrowski
• Wiktor Grzesicki
• Henryk Wierusz-Kowalski
• Adam Nowotny
• Maurycy Schmidt
• Tadeusz Unrug
• Antoni Zdrojewski

World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

• Roman Abraham
  Roman Abraham
  Roman Abraham was a Polish cavalry general, commander of Wielkopolska Cavalry Brigade during German and Soviet Invasion of Poland in September 1939, in Battle of Bzura commander of Polish cavalry ....
  
  
• Franciszek Alter
  Franciszek Alter
  Franciszek Alter was a Polish general.-Career:Franciszek Alter began his career as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, reaching the rank of captain. He fought in the Polish Army during the Polish-Soviet War. He was promoted to general in March 1939...
  
  
• Władysław Anders
• Zygmunt Berling
  Zygmunt Berling
  Zygmunt Henryk Berling was a Polish general and politician. He fought for the independence of Poland in the early 20th century. During Second World War he was sentenced to death in absentia for desertion from the Polish Army of General Władysław Anders...
  
  
• Leon Billewicz
  Leon Billewicz
  Leon Billewicz was a Polish officer and a General of the Polish Army. Initially serving with the Imperial Russian Army, in November 1918 he joined the Polish forces. In the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1919-1920 he commanded the Polish 13th Infantry Brigade. In 1919 he was promoted to the rank of...
  
  
• Ludwik Bittner (Halik or Halka)
• Karol Bogucki
• Bronisław Bohatyrewicz
• Mikołaj Bołtuć
• Ottokar Brzoza-Brzezina
• Władysław Bończa-Uzdowski
• Władysław Bortnowski
• Mieczysław Boruta-Spiechowicz
• Adam Brzechwa-Ajdukiewicz
• Stanisław Burghardt-Bukacki
• Leopold Cehak
• Antoni Chruściel
  Antoni Chrusciel
  Gen. Antoni Chruściel was a Polish military officer and a general of the Polish Army. He is best known as the de facto commander of all the armed forces of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, as well as Home Army's chief of staff.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jan Chmurowicz
• Walerian Czuma
  Walerian Czuma
  Walerian Czuma was a Polish general and military commander. He is notable for his command over a Polish unit in Siberia during the Russian Civil War and the commander of the defence of Warsaw during the siege of that city in 1939.-Biography:...
  
  
• Stefan Dąb-Biernacki
  Stefan Dab-Biernacki
  Stefan Dąb-Biernacki was a Polish general.Members of the Polish Legions in World War I, fought in the Polish-Soviet War commanding regiments and later 1DPLeg...
  
  
• Stanisław Dąbek (posthumously)
• Mieczysław Dąbkowski
• Franciszek Dindorf-Ankowicz
• Juliusz Drapella
• Rudolf Dreszer
• Konstanty Drucki-Lubecki
• Bolesław Bronisław Duch
• Kazimierz Dworak
• Leopold Engel-Ragis
• Adam Epler
• Kazimierz Fabrycy
  Kazimierz Fabrycy
  Kazimierz Fabrycy was a Polish general. Fabrycy was a member of the Polish Legions in World War I, and fought in the Polish Soviet War. He was the Viceminister of military affairs from 1926 to 1934, and commander of several infantry divisions during the interwar period in the Second Polish Republic...
  
  
• August Emil Fieldorf (Nil)
• Julian Filipowicz
• Janusz Gąsiorowski
• Józef Giza
• Kazimierz Glabisz
• Janusz Głuchowski
• Czesław Jarnuszkiewicz
• Jan Jur-Gorzechowski
• Władysław Jędrzejewski
• Władysław Kalkus
• Maksymilian Milan-Kamski
• Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski
• Jan Karcz
  Jan Karcz
  Jan Karcz was a Polish Army Colonel, posthumously promoted to the rank of a Brigadier General.During the Second World War he was murdered in the German concentration camp Auschwitz....
  
  
• Jan Wojciech Kiwerski
• Franciszek Kleeberg
  Franciszek Kleeberg
  Franciszek Kleeberg was a Polish general. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army before joining the Polish Legions in World War I and later the Polish Army. During the German Invasion of Poland he commanded Independent Operational Group Polesie...
  
  
• Tadeusz Klimecki
  Tadeusz Klimecki
  Tadeusz Klimecki - Lieutenant of the Imperial and Royal Army, Brigadier General of the Polish Army, Chief of Polish General Staff.-Early life and service in the Imperial and Royal Army:...
  
  
• Aleksander Kowalewski
• Ludwik Kmicic-Skrzyński
• Edmund Knoll-Kownacki
  Edmund Knoll-Kownacki
  Gen.bryg. Edmund Stanisław Knoll-Kownacki was a Polish military officer and a high-ranking commander of the Polish Army.-Youth:...
  
  
• Stanisław Kopański
• Stefan Kossecki
• Wincenty Kowalski
  Wincenty Kowalski
  Wincenty Kowalski was a Polish military commander and a general of the Polish Army. A veteran of both the World War I and World War II, he fought in all the inter-war conflicts of Poland...
  
  
• Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
  Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
  General Count Tadeusz Komorowski , better known by the name Bór-Komorowski was a Polish military leader....
  
  
• Alojzy Wir-Konas
  Alojzy Wir-Konas
  Alojzy Wir-Konas was a Polish military commander and a Colonel of the Polish Army. Divisional commander during the Invasion of Poland, he was murdered in the Katyn massacre....
  
  
• Tadeusz Kossakowski
• Jan Kruszewski
• Marian Kukiel
  Marian Kukiel
  Marian Włodzimierz Kukiel pseudonym: Marek Kąkol, Stach Zawierucha was a Polish general, historian, social and political activist....
  
  
• Józef Kustroń
  Józef Kustroń
  Józef Rudolf Kustroń was a Brigadier General of the Polish Army in the Second Polish Republic, commandant of the 21st Mountain Infantry Division.-Early life:Kustroń spent his childhood in the southern town of Nowy Sącz, where his family had settled...
  
  
• Tadeusz Kutrzeba
  Tadeusz Kutrzeba
  Tadeusz Kutrzeba was an army general of the Second Polish Republic.Kutrzeba was born in Kraków, then part of Austria-Hungary...
  
  
• Józef Kwaciszewski
• Stanisław Kwaśniewski
• Władysław Langner
• Wilhelm Liszka-Lawicz
• Gustaw Łowczowski
• Mieczysław Maciejowski
• Stanisław Maczek
• Juliusz Tarnawa-Malczewski
• Stanisław Kostka Miller
• Czesław Młot-Fijałkowski
• Izydor Modelski
• Bernard Mond
  Bernard Mond
  Bernard Stanisław Mond , son of Maurycy and Salomea Spanier, was a Jewish general of Polish Army in the interwar period. He fought in First World War, Polish-Ukrainian War, Polish-Soviet War and Second World War.In November 1918 he commanded the "Citadel" section during the defence of Lwów...
  
  
• Witold Dzierżykraj-Morawski
  Witold Dzierzykraj-Morawski
  Witold Dzierżykraj-Morawski was a Polish military commander, diplomat and a Colonel of the Polish Army.Witold Dzierżykraj-Morawski was born in 1895 in his family's manor in Oporów near Krummensee, Province of Posen, German Empire. At the age of 15 he inherited the manor and the surrounding village...
  
   (posthumously)
• Stefan Mossor
  Stefan Mossor
  Stefan Mossor was a Polish general. Member of the Polish Legions. In the Second Polish Republic he reached the rank of the colonel. Taken prisoner by the Germans during the invasion of Poland. Joined the Ludowe Wojsko Polskie after the war; was involved in the Operation Vistula...
  
  
• Aleksander Narbut-Łuczyński
• Mieczyslaw Norwid-Neugebauer
  Mieczyslaw Norwid-Neugebauer
  Mieczyslaw Norwid-Neugebauer was a minister in the interwar Polish government, and a major general in the Polish Army.-Life:...
  
  
• Roman Odzierzyński
  Roman Odzierzynski
  Roman Odzierzyński was prime minister in the Polish Government in Exile....
  
  
• Leopold Okulicki
  Leopold Okulicki
  General Leopold Okulicki was a General of the Polish Army and the last commander of the anti-German underground Home Army during World War II. He was murdered after the war by the Soviet NKVD....
  
  
• Brunon Olbrycht
• Józef Olszyna-Wilczynski
  Józef Olszyna-Wilczynski
  Józef Konstanty Olszyna-Wilczyński was a Polish general and one of the high-ranking commanders of the Polish Army. A veteran of World War I, Polish-Ukrainian War and the Polish-Bolshevik War, he was murdered by the Soviets during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.-Early life:Józef Wilczyński was...
  
  
• Kazimierz Orlik-Łukoski
• Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann
• Michał Ostrowski
• Ignacy Oziewicz
  Ignacy Oziewicz
  Ignacy Oziewicz was a Polish military general. During the First World War, he served in the Russian Tsarist army in various NCO and officers' posts. In 1919, he joined the Polish Army....
  
  
• Gustaw Paszkiewicz
• Henryk Krok-Paszkowski
• Stefan Pawlikowski (posthumously)
• Tadeusz Pełczyński
• Zygmunt Piasecki
• Konrad Piekarski
• Tadeusz Piskor
  Tadeusz Piskor
  Tadeusz Piskor was a Polish Army general.Before World War I, he was a member of Polish pro-independence organizations. During World War I he served in the Polish Legions, and subsequently fought in the 1919–21 Polish-Soviet War....
  
  
• Konstanty Plisowski
  Konstanty Plisowski
  Konstanty Plisowski was a Polish general and military commander. He is known as the commander in the Battles of Jazłowiec and Brześć. He was murdered by the Soviets in the Katyn Massacre.- Biography :...
  
  
• Zygmunt Podhorski
• Bolesław Popowicz
• Władysław Powierza
• Bronisław Prugar-Ketling
• Mikołaj Prus-Więckowski
• Emil Przedrzymirski-Krukowicz
• Wacław Jan Przeździecki
• Zdzisław Przyjałkowski
• Bronisław Rakowski
• Ludomił Rayski (air forces)
• Stefan Rowecki
  Stefan Rowecki
  Stefan Paweł Rowecki was a Polish general, journalist and the leader of the Armia Krajowa. He was murdered by the Gestapo in prison, probably on the direct order of Heinrich Himmler.-Life:Rowecki was born in Piotrków Trybunalski...
  
  
• Klemens Rudnicki
• Juliusz Rómmel
  Juliusz Rómmel
  Juliusz Karol Wilhelm Józef Rómmel was a Polish military commander and a general of the Polish Army. During the Polish-Bolshevik War, he gained great fame for achieving a decisive victory in the Battle of Komarów, the largest cavalry engagement of the 20th century...
  
  
• Edward Rydz-Śmigły (Marshal of Poland
  Marshal of Poland
  Marshal of Poland is the highest rank in the Polish Army. It has been granted to only six officers. At present, this rank is equivalent to a Field Marshal or General of the Army in other NATO armies.-History:...
  
  )
• Mieczysław Ryś-Trojanowski
• Kazimierz Sawicki
• Wacław Scewola-Wieczorkiewicz
• Kazimierz Schally
• Franciszek Sikorski
• Władysław Sikorski
• Leonard Skierski
  Leonard Skierski
  Leonard Skierski was a Polish military officer and a general of the Imperial Russian Army and then the Polish Army. A veteran of World War I and the Polish-Bolshevik War, he was one of fourteen Polish generals to be murdered by the NKVD in the Katyn massacre of 1940.-Biography:Leonard Skierski was...
  
  
• Stanisław Grzmot-Skotnicki
• Piotr Skuratowicz
  Piotr Skuratowicz
  Piotr Skuratowicz was a Polish military commander and a General of the Polish Army. A renowned cavalryman, he was arrested by the NKVD and murdered in the Katyn massacre....
  
  
• Stanisław Skwarczyński
• Felicjan Sławoj-Składkowski
• Aleksander Szychowski
• Antoni Szymański
  Antoni Szymanski
  Antoni Szymański was a Polish Army general.-Life:As a Prussian citizen, he fought on the Western Front during World War I ....
  
  
• Jan Jagmin-Sadowski
  Jan Jagmin-Sadowski
  Jan Jagmin-Sadowski , was a general of the Polish Army, having served in World War One as a member of Józef Piłsudski's legions, as well as commanding Polish forces during the invasion of Poland in 1939....
  
  
• Marian Smoleński
• Mieczysław Smorawiński
• Stanisław Sosabowski
• Kazimierz Sosnkowski
  Kazimierz Sosnkowski
  Kazimierz Sosnkowski was a Polish independence fighter, politician and Polish Army general.-Life:Sosnkowski served successively as founder and first commander of Związek Walki Czynnej , chief of staff of the 1st Brigade of the Polish Legions, Polish minister of military affairs, vice-president of...
  
  
• Wacław Stachiewicz
• Kazimierz Strzemię-Marczyński
• Nikodem Sulik
  Nikodem Sulik
  Nikodem Sulik-Sarnowski, who used the noms de guerre "Jodko", "Jod", "Karol", and "Sarnowski" , was an officer of the Russian Imperial Army, and Generał brygady of the Polish Army.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bolesław Szarecki
• Antoni Szylling
  Antoni Szylling
  Antoni Szylling was a Polish general, considered, along with Generals Wiktor Thommée and Stanisław Maczek, to have been one of the most successful Polish Army commanders during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.-Biography:...
  
  
• Władysław Szyszko-Bohusz
• Stanisław Świtalski
• Stanisław Taczak
• Stanisław Tatar
• Wiktor Thommée
  Wiktor Thommée
  Wiktor Thommée was a Polish military commander and a Brigadier General of the Polish Army. A veteran of the Great War and the Russian Civil War, he is best known for his command over Piotrków Operational Group and the battle of the Bzura during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.- Early life :Wiktor...
  
  
• Marian Turowski
• Józef Werobej
• Józef Wiatr
• Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski
• Kazimierz Wiśniowski
• Franciszek Wład
  Franciszek Wład
  Franciszek Sewerin Wład was a Polish brigadier general. From 1930 until the German invasion of Poland, he commanded the 14th Infantry Division and died in the battle of Bzura on 18 September....
  
  
• Jerzy Wołkowicki
• Józef Ludwik Zając
• Mariusz Zaruski
  Mariusz Zaruski
  Mariusz Zaruski was a Brigadier-General in the Polish Army, a pioneer of Polish sports yachting, an outstanding climber of the winter and caves of Tatra Mountains...
  
  
• Ferdynand Zarzycki
  Ferdynand Zarzycki
  Ferdynand Zarzycki was a Polish general and politician. He fought in the Polish Legions in World War I. From 1933 to 1934 he was a Minister of Trade and Industry in the Polish government. He retired in 1934....
  
  
• Elżbieta Zawacka
  Elzbieta Zawacka
  Elżbieta Zawacka , known also by her war-time nom de guerre Zo, was a Polish university professor, scouting instructor, SOE agent and a freedom fighter during World War II. She was also a Brigadier General of the Polish Army , promoted by President Lech Kaczyński on May 3, 2006...
  
  
• Antoni Zdrojewski
• Karol Ziemski
  Karol Ziemski
  Karol Ziemski was a general of the Polish Army, participant of the Polish September Campaign and the Warsaw Uprising, officer of the Home Army.He was born on May 24, 1895 in the village of Nasutow, Lubartów county...
  
  
• Juliusz Zulauf
  Juliusz Zulauf
  Juliusz Zulauf was a Polish Army major general . A recipient of the Virtuti Militari, he fought with distinction during World War I, the Polish-Ukrainian War, the Polish-Soviet War, and the 1939 invasion of Poland.Juliusz Zulauf was born in Lwów, then the capital of Austro-Hungarian Galicia...
  
  
• Marian Żegota-Januszajtis
• Eugeniusz Żongołłowicz

Polish People's Republic

People's Republic of Poland

The People's Republic of Poland was the official name of Poland from 1952 to 1990. Although the Soviet Union took control of the country immediately after the liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944, the name of the state was not changed until eight years later...

• Józef Baryła
• Bronisław Jan Bednarz
• Zygmunt Berling
  Zygmunt Berling
  Zygmunt Henryk Berling was a Polish general and politician. He fought for the independence of Poland in the early 20th century. During Second World War he was sentenced to death in absentia for desertion from the Polish Army of General Władysław Anders...
  
  
• Wojciech Bewziuk
• Mieczysław Bień
• Marian Bondzior
• Jerzy Bordziłowski
• Edmund Buła
• Heliodor Cepa
• Jan Czapla
• Adam Czaplewski
• Bolesław Czarniawski
• Zbigniew Czerwiński
  Zbigniew Czerwinski
  Zbigniew Czerwiński may refer to:* Zbigniew Czerwiński , Polish motorcycle speedway rider* Zbigniew Czerwiński, Polish general* Zbigniew Czerwiński, 2006 member of the Greater Poland Regional Assembly...
  
  
• Mieczysław Dębicki
• Jerzy Dymkowski
• Tadeusz Dziekan
• Rudolf Dzipanov
• Stanisław Grodzki
• Mieczysław Grudzień
• Franciszek Herman
• Mirosław Hermaszewski
• Władysław Hermaszewski
• Tadeusz Hupałowski
• Henryk Jabłoński
• Wacław Jagas
• Michał Jakubik
• Wojciech Jaruzelski
  Wojciech Jaruzelski
  Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski is a retired Polish military officer and Communist politician. He was the last Communist leader of Poland from 1981 to 1989, Prime Minister from 1981 to 1985 and the country's head of state from 1985 to 1990. He was also the last commander-in-chief of the Polish People's...
  
  
• Antoni Jasiński
• Franciszek Kamiński
  Franciszek Kaminski
  Franciszek Kamiński was a Polish general and activist of the peasant movement....
  
  
• Józef Kamiński
• Jerzy Kirchmayer
  Jerzy Kirchmayer
  Jerzy Maria Kirchmayer was a Polish historian and military commander, a brigadier general of the Polish Army and one of the first historians of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.-Life:...
  
  
• Czesław Kiszczak
• Henryk Koczara
• Władysław Korczyc
• Tytus Krawczyc
• Stanisław Kruczek
• Bronisław Kuriata
• Józef Kuropieska
• Jerzy Łagoda
• Edward Łańcucki
• Henryk Michałowski
• Walenty Nowak
• Zbigniew Ohanowicz
• Stanisław Okęcki
• Stefan Orliński
• Roman Paszkowski
• Borys Pigarewicz
• Czesław Piotrowski
• Władysław Polański
• Fiodor Połynin
• Stanisław Popławski
• Edward Poradko
• Bronisław Półturzycki
• Jan Puławski
• Otton Roczniok
• Aleksander Romeyko
• Edwin Rozłubirski
• Marian Ryba
• Florian Siwicki
  Florian Siwicki
  Florian Siwicki is a Polish military officer, diplomat and a communist politician, as well as a General of the Polish Army . Throughout his career he held a number of posts, including military attaché in China, commanding officer of the 2nd Polish Army during the invasion of Czechoslovakia in...
  
  
• Stanisław Skalski
• Franciszek Skibiński
• Włodzimierz Sokorski
  Włodzimierz Sokorski
  Włodzimierz Sokorski was a Polish communist official, writer, military journalist and eventually a Brigadier General in the Soviet-dominated People's Republic of Poland...
  
  
• Marian Spychalski
  Marian Spychalski
  Marian "Marek" Spychalski was a Polish architect, military commander, and communist politician.Born to a working-class family in Łódź, he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology in 1931...
  
  
• Tadeusz Szaciło
• Karol Świerczewski
  Karol Swierczewski
  Karol Wacław Świerczewski was a Pole who became a Soviet military officer and a general. He served as a general in the service of the Soviet Union, Republican Spain, and the Soviet sponsored Polish Provisional Government of National Unity after World War II.- Life :Karol Świerczewski grew up in...
  
  
• Stanisław Tatar
• Tadeusz Tuczapski
• Józef Użycki
• Aleksander Waszkiewicz
  Aleksander Waszkiewicz
  Major General Aleksander Waszkiewicz was a Russian officer of the Polish descent.He served in the Red Army as commander of the 793rd Rifle Regiment during 1942-1944 and later as Deputy Commander of the 116th Rifle Division in 1944...
  
  
• Czesław Waryszak
• Wiktor Ziemiński
• Jerzy Ziętek
  Jerzy Zietek
  Jerzy Ziętek was a Polish politician and general. A Silesian Insurrectionist in his youth, during the Second World War he joined the Polish armed forces in the U.S.S.R and later became an important politician representing Silesia in the People's Republic of Poland.- Biography :Jerzy Ziętek was...
  
  
• Michał Żymierski

Contemporary Poland

• Janusz Adamczak
• Andrzej Ameljańczyk
• Andrzej Andrzejewski
  Andrzej Andrzejewski
  Andrzej Piotr Andrzejewski was a Brigadier General of the Polish Air Force who died in the military plane crash in Mirosławiec along with other officers, among whom he was the highest ranking....
  
  
• Stanisław Babiak
• Bolesław Balcerowicz
• Tadeusz Bałachowicz
• Andrzej Baran
• Jan Baraniecki
• Bolesław Baranowski
• Jerzy Baranowski
• Jacek Bartoszcze
• Roman Baszuk
• Tadeusz Bazydło
• Jarosław Bielecki
• Zbigniew Bielewicz
• Mieczysław Bieniek
• Czesław Borowski
• Aleksander Bortnowski
• Zenon Bryk
• Józef Buczyński
• bp Mirosław Miron-Chodakowski
• Józef Chmiel
• Zbigniew Chruściński
• Leszek Chyła
• Mieczysław Cieniuch (current Chief of Staff of the Polish Army)
• Witold Cieślewski
• Zbigniew Cieślik
• Wincenty Cybulski
• Fryderyk Czekaj
• Stanisław Czepielik
• Piotr Czerwiński
• Zygmunt Dominikowski
• Marek Dukaczewski
• Zygmunt Duleba
• Andrzej Dulęba
• Roman Dysarz
• Józef Dziechciarz
• Henryk Dziewiątka
• Kazimierz Dziok
• Andrzej Ekiert
• Stanisław Filipiak
• Józef Flis
• Zbigniew Galec
• Franciszek Gągor
  Franciszek Gągor
  Franciszek Gągor was a Polish general, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces between 2006 and 2010....
  
   (former Chief of Staff of the Polish Army)
• Jerzy Gil
• Kazimierz Głowacki
• Zbigniew Głowienka
• bp Sławoj Leszek Głódź
• Janusz Godyń
• Zdzisław Goral
• Jerzy Gotowała
• Benedykt Grobelny
• Edward Gruszka
• Ryszard Gruszka
• Brunon Herrmann
• bp Michał Sawa-Hrycuniak
• Edward Hyra
• Roman Iwaszkiewicz
• Bolesław Izydorczyk
• Zbigniew Jabłoński
• Michał Jackiewicz
• Kazimierz Jaklewicz
• Janusz Jakubowski
• Zygmunt Jasik
• Tadeusz Jauer
• Tadeusz Jemioło
• Józef Jodłowski
• Krzysztof Juniec
• Mieczysław Kaczmarek
• Władysław Karcz
• Mieczysław Karus
• Jan Kempara
• Roman Klecha
• Jan Klejszmit
• Roman Kloc
• Marian Kolczyński
• January Komański
• Leon Komornicki
• Antoni Komorowski
• Janusz Konieczny
• Lech Konopka
• Stanisław Koziej
• Michał Krauze
• Stanisław Krysiński
• Marcin Krzywoszyński
• Wojciech Kubiak
• Józef Kuczak
• Alfons Kupis
• Jerzy Kurczewski
• Tadeusz Kuziora
• Bronisław Kwiatkowski
  Bronisław Kwiatkowski
  Lieutenant General Bronisław Kwiatkowski was a Polish military figure, Commander of the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command...
  
  
• Ryszard Lackner
• Janusz Lalka
• Andrzej Lelewski
• Andrzej Lewandowski
• Zbigniew Lewandowski
• Julian Lewiński
• Piotr Luśnia
• Franciszek Macioła
• Kazimierz Madej
• Marian Mainda
• Gustaw Maj
• Julian Maj
• Lech Majewski
• Piotr Makarewicz
• Marek Maruszyński
• Włodzimierz Michalski
• Ryszard Michałowski
• Henryk Mika
• Czesław Mikrut
• Roman Misztal
• Bronisław Młodziejowski
• Ryszard Muszyński
• Kazimierz Nalaskowski
• Paweł Nowak
• Stanisław Nowakowicz
• Marek Ojrzanowski
• Marian Oleksiak
• Ryszard Olszewski
• Janusz Ornatowski
• Krzysztof Owczarek
• Bogusław Pacek
• Krzysztof Pajewski
• Janusz Palus
• Jerzy Paszkowski
• Edward Pawlica
• Bronisław Peikert
• Czesław Piątas (former Chief of Staff of the Polish Army)
• Tadeusz Pieciukiewicz
• Andrzej Pietrzyk
• Edward Pietrzyk
  Edward Pietrzyk
  Generał broni Edward Pietrzyk is a Polish military officer, diplomat and general in the Polish Army. A former commander-in-chief of the Polish Land Forces, he was appointed to be Poland's ambassador to Iraq in April 2007....
  
  
• Andrzej Piotrowski
• Roman Polko
  Roman Polko
  Major General dr Roman Polko is a Polish Army officer, acting chief of Biuro Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego , former commander of "GROM", doctor of military science studies, speciality: management....
  
  
• Aleksander Poniewierka
• Franciszek Puchała
• Andrzej Ratajczak
• Romuald Ratajczak
• Adam Rębacz
• Marian Robełek
• Tadeusz Rusak
• Józef Rzemień
• Władysław Saczonek
• Zygmunt Sadowski
• Marek Samarcew
• Bogusław Samol
• Włodzimierz Sąsiadek
• Kazimierz Sikorski
• Krzysztof Skarbowski
• Henryk Skarżyński
  Henryk Skarżyński
  Henryk Skarzynski is a Polish doctor otolaryngologist, audiologist and phoniatrist, creator and director of Warsaw Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing and International Centre of Hearing and Speech in Kajetany....
  
  
• Waldemar Skrzypczak
• Zygmunt Skuza
• Jerzy Słowiński
• Edmund Smakulski
• Bogusław Smólski
• Zenon Smutniak
• Janusz Sobolewski
• Marian Sobolewski
• Ryszard Sorokosz
• Walerian Sowa
• Mieczysław Stachowiak
• Stanisław Stańko
• Lech Stefaniak
• Jan Szałaj
• Henryk Szumski
• Zbigniew Szura
• Edward Szwagrzyk
• Krzysztof Szymański
• Witold Szymański
• Andrzej Szymonik
• Henryk Tacik
• Stanisław Targosz
• Kazimierz Tomaszewski
• Aleksander Topczak
• Andrzej Trybusz
• Andrzej Tyszkiewicz
• Leszek Ulandowski
• Witold Urbanowicz
  Witold Urbanowicz
  Witold Urbanowicz was a Polish fighter ace of the Second World War. According to the official record, Witold Urbanowicz was the second highest-scoring Polish fighter ace, with 17 confirmed wartime kills and 1 probable, not counting his pre-war victory...
  
  
• Antoni Walczak
• Zdzisław Walczewski
• Mieczysław Walentynowicz
• Jan Waliszkiewicz
• Zenon Werner
• Zdzisław Wijas
• Kazimierz Wilczewski
• Tadeusz Wilecki
• Grzegorz Wiśniewski
• Ryszard Jan Wiśniewski
• Alfred Wojciechowski
• Wojciech Wojciechowski
• Stanisław Woźniak
• Zbigniew Zalewski
• Jerzy Zatoński
• Włodzimierz Zieliński
• Ryszard Żuchowski
• Franciszek Żygis
• Maciej Żytecki

Some notable Polish officers below the rank of general

• płk. Edward Dojan-Surówka
• płk. Antoni Szacki
• płk. Jerzy Leszczynsky-Ziętek
• płk. Tadeusz Wyrwa-Furgalski
• ppłk. Jan Wojciech Kiwerski (Oliwa)
• ppłk. Aleksander Krzyżanowski
  Aleksander Krzyzanowski
  Aleksander "Wilk" Krzyżanowski was a Polish officer, major, member of the Polish resistance movement in World War II and Commandant of the Armia Krajowa in the Vilnius Region.- Biography :...
  
   (Wilk, Jan Kulczycki)
• mjr Arkadiusz Kups
• mjr Henryk Dobrzański
  Henryk Dobrzanski
  Major Henryk Dobrzański aka "Hubal" was a Polish soldier, sportsman and partisan. He was the first guerrilla commander of the Second World War in Europe.-Early life and career:...
  
   (Hubal)
• mjr Walerian Łukasiński
• mjr Henryk Sucharski
  Henryk Sucharski
  Henryk Sucharski was a Polish military officer and a major in the Polish Army. At the outbreak of World War II, he was one of the commanders of the Westerplatte position in Danzig, which troops under his command defended for seven days against overwhelming odds. Sucharski survived the war and was...
  
  
• mjr Zygmunt Szendzielarz
  Zygmunt Szendzielarz
  Zygmunt Szendzielarz was commander of the Polish 5th Wilno Home Army Brigade.-Early life:...
  
  
• kpt. Władysław Raginis

See also

• Hetmans of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  Hetmans of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  Hetmans of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth were the highest-ranking military officers, second only to the King, in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The first Polish title of Grand Crown Hetman was created in 1505. The title of hetman was given to the leader of Polish Army and till 1581 it was...
  
  
• Offices in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

External links

• List of active generals on page of Polish Ministry of National Defence