The List of recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta includes notable recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta sorted by their profession.
Where possible it also lists their country of origin and order grade. People highly distinguished in more than one field have duplicate entries.
Art Marian Konieczny — Polish sculptor Władysław T. Benda — Polish-American artist Olga Boznańska — Polish painter Bohdan Butenko — Polish cartoonist Józef Hen - Polish novelist (Commander's Cross with Star) Ryszard Horowitz — Polish-American photographer Countess Karolina Lanckorońska — Polish art historian and collector Kazimierz Ostrowski — Polish painter (Officer's Cross) Jerzy Zaruba — Polish graphic artist (Knight's Cross; Officer's Cross) Adam Kossowski — Polish painter and muralist Boleslaw Jan Czedekowski — Polish portrait painter
Business and economics Grzegorz Kołodko — Finance Minister of Poland (Commander's Cross) Edward Szczepanik — Polish economist and Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile (Knight's Cross) Klemens Stefan Sielecki — Engineer and technical director of Fablok (Knight's Cross) Henry Hilary Chmielinski — President of the Hanover Bank and Trust (Boston, Massachusetts) and founder of the Polish Daily Courier (Boston) (Knight's Cross) Grzegorz Hajdarowicz — Polish entrepreneur, film producer, publisher (Knight's Cross) Stanisław Zybała — Polish economist, activist, and organization co-founderPaństwowe Muzeum na Majdanku, Więźniowie Józef Hozer — Polish professor of economics, specialising in econometrics, statistics, and real estate appraisal.
Education Benon Bromberek — Polish educator, Professor of Pedagogical Sciences (Knight's Cross, 1977) Jakub Chlebowski — Polish medical educator Alicja Derkowska — Polish mathematician Maria Dobrowolska — Polish educator (Commander's Cross) Władysław Dworaczek — Polish educator (Knight's Cross) Janina Dziarnowska — writer, translator and expert of Soviet literature Wojciech Falkowski — Vice-Chancellor of the Polish University Abroad (2002–2011), psychiatrist, and painter (Officer's Cross) Helen Infeld — American-born educator (Knight's Cross) Lili Pohlmann — Holocaust survivor and educator (Commander's Cross) Anna Radziwiłł — Polish educator, Minister of Education (Commander's Cross) Michael Hewitt-Gleeson — Australian scholar (Officer's Cross) Margaret Schlauch — American scholar, naturalized Polish (Officer's Cross) Czesław Strumiłło — Polish scientist in the field of chemistry, founder of the theory of drying (Commander's Cross) Kazimierz Lisiecki — Polish educator (Officer's Cross) Leonard Weber — Polish educator, beekeeper Anna Żarnowska — Polish historian (Officer's Cross) Anna Sitarska Polish librarian and University Teacher Leon Starkiewicz — Polish teacher, founder, and long-time principal of the Municipal Gymnasium in Łódź (Knight's Cross)
Film Józef Arkusz — Polish film director (Officer's Cross) Ewa Błaszczyk – Polish actress (Officer's Cross) Stanisław Brudny - Polish actor Stanisława Celińska – Polish actress, singer (Commander's Cross with Star, posthumous) Sylwester Chęciński — Polish film director (Grand Cross, posthumous; Commander's Cross with Star; Commander's Cross) Bronisław Cieślak — Polish actor, politician and journalist, member of the Sejm Anna Dymna — Polish actress (Commander's Cross) Jan Englert – Polish actor (Commander's Cross) Krystyna Feldman — Polish actress (Commander's Cross) Piotr Fronczewski — Polish actor (Officer's Cross) Jan Frycz – Polish actor (Officer's Cross) Ignacy Gogolewski — Polish actor (Commander's Cross with Star) Wiesław Gołas — Polish actor (Grand Cross, posthumous) Mikołaj Grabowski - Polish actor (Officer's Cross) Stefania Grodzieńska - Polish actress (Commander's Cross) Jerzy Gruza — Polish director (Commander's Cross, posthumous) Jerzy Hoffman — Polish film director (Grand Cross) Gustaw Holoubek — Polish actor (Knight's Cross; Commander's Cross with Star; Grand Cross) Krystyna Janda — Polish actress (Commander's Cross with Star) Alina Janowska - Polish actress (Commander's Cross with Star, Commander's Cross) Krzysztof Jasiński - Polish film director (Commander's Cross with Star, Commander's Cross) Kazimierz Kaczor — Polish actor (Grand Cross) Jerzy Kamas — Polish actor (Officer's Cross) Emilian Kamiński - Polish actor (Commander's Cross with Star, posthumous, Officer's Cross) Emil Karewicz — Polish actor (Commander's Cross, posthumous) Jerzy Kawalerowicz - Polish film director (Grand Cross) Jan Kobuszewski — Polish actor (Commander's Cross with Star) Jan Kociniak — Polish actor Krzysztof Kolberger — Polish actor (Commander's Cross, posthumous) Wiesław Komasa - Polish actor (Officer's Cross) Maja Komorowska — Polish actress (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross) Paweł Królikowski — Polish actor (Commander's Cross, posthumous) Irena Kwiatkowska — Polish actress (Commander's Cross with Star) Jan Machulski — Polish actor Juliusz Machulski — Polish director Zdzisław Maklakiewicz — Polish actor Janusz Morgenstern — Polish director (Commander's Cross with Star) Daniel Olbrychski — Polish actor (Commander's Cross) Marian Opania — Polish actor (Officer's Cross) Franciszek Pieczka — Polish actor (Grand Cross; Commander's Cross with Star) Wojciech Pszoniak — Polish actor (Commander's Cross) Andrzej Seweryn — Polish actor (Commander's Cross) Bohdan Smoleń — Polish actor Jerzy Stuhr — Polish actor (Commander's Cross with Star) Danuta Szaflarska - Polish actress (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross with Star) Jerzy Trela — Polish actor (Commander's Cross with Star; Commander's Cross) Jerzy Turek - Polish actor (Officer's Cross, posthumous) Beata Tyszkiewicz - Polish actress (Commander's Cross with Star) Andrzej Wajda — Polish film director (Grand Cross) Lidia Wysocka — Polish actress (Officer's Cross) Krystyna Zachwatowicz — Polish actress and costume designer (Knight's Cross) Stanisław Zaczyk — Polish actor Janusz Zakrzeński — Polish actor (Commander's Cross, posthumous) Krzysztof Zanussi — Polish film director (Commander's Cross with Star) Zbigniew Zapasiewicz — Polish actor (Grand Cross, posthumous) Magdalena Zawadzka — Polish actress Jerzy Zelnik - Polish actor
Literature Jerzy Andrzejewski — Polish author, Ashes and Diamonds (Commander's Cross) Józef Białynia Chołodecki — Polish author and historian Ernest Bryll - Polish poet, author, translator (Commander's Cross) Maria Dąbrowska — Polish writer novelist and journalist Adam Galis — Wartime Radio Speaker, author, translator, poet, Bryły (Commander's Cross) Julia Hartwig - Polish poet (Grand Cross) Andrzej Kijowski - Polish writer (Commander's Cross) Janusz Korczak — Polish Jewish author and educator Mirosława Maria Kruszewska — Polish author, Polacy w Ameryce (Cavalier's Cross) Stanisław Kutrzeba — Polish author and historian Jan Józef Lipski — Polish author and historian (Grand Cross) Richard C. Lukas — American author and historian Józef Mackiewicz — Polish writer (Commander's Cross) Sławomir Mrożek - Polish writer Wiesław Myśliwski - Polish writer (Commander's Cross with Star) Hanna Ożogowska — Polish novelist and poet (Knight's Cross) Robert Stiller — Polish translator Bohdan Urbankowski - Polish poet (Commander's Cross with Star) Piotr S. Wandycz — Polish American author and historian Józef Weyssenhoff — Polish writer, novelist, poet, literary critic, publisher (Officer's Cross) Adam Zagajewski — Polish poet (Commander's Cross) Jan Andrzej Zakrzewski — Polish journalist and writer Andrzej Zaniewski — Polish writer, novelist, poet, songwriter (Officer's Cross) Antoni Matuszkiewicz — Polish poet, prose writer, playwright, journalist (Officer's Cross)
Military
Alicja Abczyńska – Polish nurse Stefan Bukowski — Polish Colonel (Knight's Cross) Franciszek Alter — Polish general Władysław Anders — Commander of the Polish Armed Forces in the West (Commander's Cross) Hamazasp Babadzhanian — Soviet-Armenian military commander Stefan Bałuk - Polish general (Grand Cross, posthumous) Tasker H. Bliss — American Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko — Polish general (Officer's Cross) Władysław Bortnowski — Polish general (Commander's Cross; Officer's Cross) Omar Bradley — American General of the Army Leonid Brezhnev — Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet politician (Grand Cross) Tadeusz Buk - Polish general (Commander's Cross, posthumous) Edmund Charaszkiewicz — Polish military intelligence officer Antoni Chruściel — Commander of all Polish armed forces of the Warsaw Uprising (Grand Cross, posthumous) Frederick Edwards Collins — British admiral, commanding Gibraltar. Victor Crutchley — British admiral Hieronim Dekutowski — One of commanders of Wolnosc i Niezawislosc (Grand Cross) John Dill — British field marshal Bolesław Bronisław Duch — Polish general (Officer's Cross) Dwight D. Eisenhower — 34th President of the United States, Supreme Allied Commander (Chévalier, 1945) Franciszek Gągor — Polish general (Grand Cross, posthumous) Wanda Gertz — Polish resistance fighter Kazimierz Gilarski - Polish general (Commander's Cross, posthumous) William Remsburg Grove — American Colonel, for relief efforts in 1919 Józef Haller de Hallenburg — Polish general (Commander's Cross) William Holmes — British general (Commander's Cross with Star) Wilm Hosenfeld — German officer (Commander's Cross) Norman Hulbert — British officer Ludwik Idzikowski — Polish aviator and pioneer (Officer's Cross) Sergěj Ingr, Minister of National Defense in the Czechoslovak government-in-exile during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Grand Cross) Wacław Jędrzejewicz — Polish soldier and diplomat (Grand Cross; Officer's Cross) Wojciech Kania — Polish officer Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski — Polish general and resistance fighter (Commander's Cross; Officer's Cross) Jan Karcz — Polish officer (Officer's Cross) Andrzej Karweta - Polish admiral (Commander's Cross, posthumous) Deryck William Kingwell — Air Commodore of the Royal Australian Air Force Adam Koc — Polish officer (Officer's Cross) Stanisław Komornicki - Polish general (Grand Cross) Piotr Konieczka — Polish soldier (posthumous) Stanisław Kopański — Polish general (Grand Cross; Officer's Cross) Franciszek Kornicki — Polish fighter pilot (Commander's Cross) Józef Kowalski — Polish supercentenarian and second-to-last veteran from the Polish-Soviet war 1919–1921 Władysław Kozaczuk — Polish officer and historian (Knight's Cross) Roman Krzyżelewski — Polish admiral (Commander's Cross; Officer's Cross; Knight's Cross) Włodzimierz Kubala — Polish colonel, military attorney (Commander's Cross) Tadeusz Kutrzeba — Polish general (Commander's Cross; Knight's Cross) Bronisław Kwiatkowski - Polish general (Commander's Cross, posthumous) Witold Łokuciewski — Polish fighter ace (Commander's Cross; Knight's Cross) Douglas MacArthur — American Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers Mason MacFarlane — British Major-General, Governor of Gibraltar Peyton C. March — U.S. Army Chief of Staff Wacław Micuta — Participant in the Warsaw Uprising, UN diplomat (Commander's Cross with Star) Joseph T. McNarney — American general (Commander's Cross with Star) Martin Dunbar-Nasmith — British officer Adam Nieniewski — Polish officer (Officer's Cross) Mieczyslaw Oziewicz — RAF Warrant Officer (Commander's Cross) Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski — Polish officer Earle E. Partridge — American general Hubert Perring — British officer, for services to No. 303 Squadron Sławomir Petelicki — Polish commander of GROM (Commander's Cross; Officer's Cross) Witold Pilecki — Polish resistance fighter Stanley George Culliford — New Zealand pilot, for services during Operation Motyl Jadwiga Piłsudska — Polish aviator, daughter of Józef Piłsudski Józef Piłsudski — Prime Minister of Poland, first marshal, Chief of State Jan Pirog — Polish soldier (Knight's Cross) Ryszard Piotrowski — Polish Major, Armija Krajowa Ryszard Polanski — Knight's cross