Recipients of the honorary citizenship of Warsaw (), in order of date of presentation.
List DateNameNotes1918Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935)Statesman, Chief of State (1918–1922), First Marshal of Poland (from 1920) and the de facto leader (1926–35) of the Second Polish Republic 1919Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941)Pianist and composer, a spokesman for Polish independence, Prime Minister of PolandJózef Haller (1873–1960)Lieutenant general of the Polish Army, political and social activist1920Maxime Weygand (1867–1965)French military commander in World War I and World War II Lucjan Żeligowski (1865–1947)Polish general, politician, military commander and veteran of World War I, the Polish-Soviet War and World War II1921Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)American engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st president of the United States (1929–1933)1923Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929)French general and military theorist, the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War1924Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867–1934)Physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, a two-time Nobel Prize laureate1929Eugenia Kierbedź (1855–1946)Social activist and philanthropist1992Stanisław Broniewski (1915–2000)Economist, Chief Scouts of the Gray Ranks and Second lieutenant of the Home Army during the World War II Aleksander Gieysztor (1916–1999)Medievalist historianJanina Porczyńska (1927–2009)Art collector, co-founder of the Museum of John Paul II CollectionZbigniew Porczyński (1919–1998)Art collector, co-founder of the Museum of John Paul II CollectionJerzy Waldorff (1910–1999)Media personality, public intellectual and music critic1993Jan Podolski (1904–1998)Engineer, recipient of an honorary doctorate from the Warsaw University of Technology, a proponent for the construction of the Warsaw MetroSue Ryder (1924–2000)British volunteer with Special Operations Executive in the Second World War, who afterwards led many charitable organisations, notably the charity named in her honour1994Juliusz Wiktor Gomulicki (1909–2006)Essayist and varsavianist1995Stanisław Jankowski (1911–2002)Polish resistance fighter during World War II, and an architect who played a prominent role in the post-war reconstruction of WarsawKazimierz Leski (1912–2000)Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and an officer in World War II Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence1996John Paul II (1920–2005)Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 to 20051999Władysław Bartoszewski (1922–2015)Politician, social activist, journalist, writer and historianRyszard Kaczorowski (1919–2010)Statesman, the last President of Poland in exile (1989–1990)Franciszek Kamiński (1902–2000)Polish generalStefan Starzyński (1893–1939)Statesman, economist, military officer and Mayor of Warsaw before and during the Siege of 19392000Józef Glemp (1929–2013)Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Warsaw from 1981 to 20062001Marek Edelman (1919–2009)Political and social activist and cardiologist, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising2003Jan Nowak-Jeziorański (1914–2005)Journalist, writer, politician and social worker; head of the Polish section of Radio free EuropeZdzisław Peszkowski (1918–2007)Polish Roman Catholic priest and one of the survivors of the Katyn massacreMarek Kwiatkowski (1930–2016)Historian of art2004Kazimierz Jan Majdański (1916–2007)Polish Roman Catholic BishopJerzy Majewski (1925–2019)Engineer and politician, Mayor of Warsaw (1967–1982)Kazimierz Romaniuk (1927–2025)Polish Roman Catholic priest, and professor of biblical studiesSzymon Szurmiej (1923−2014)Actor, director, and general manager of the Ester Rachel Kamińska and Ida Kamińska State Jewish Theater in Warsaw2005Sławoj Leszek Głódź (born 1945)Polish prelate of the Catholic Church and Archbishop of Gdańsk since 2008Norman Davies (born 1939)British-Polish historian2006Wacław Karłowicz (1907−2007)Polish Roman Catholic priest, chaplain during the Warsaw UprisingZofia Korbońska (1915−2010)Resistance fighter and journalistBarbara Wachowicz (1937–2018)Writer, journalist, photographer and publicist 2007Janusz Brochowicz-Lewiński (1920–2017)Home Army officer during World War II Wiesław Chrzanowski (1923–2012)Lawyer and politician, Home Army soldierCzesław Cywiński (1926–2010)President of the Association of Home Army SoldiersHilary Koprowski (1916–2013)Virologist and immunologist who demonstrated the world's first effective live polio vaccineIrena Sendler (1910–2008)Humanitarian, social worker, and nurse who served in the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw and saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Holocaust, recognised by the State of Israel as Righteous Among the NationsLech Wałęsa (born 1943)Statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, leader of the Solidarity Movement, the first democratically elected president of Poland from 1990 to 19952008Simcha Rotem (1924–2018)Polish-Israeli veteran, member of the Jewish underground in Warsaw, one of the last two surviving Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Uprising and the last surviving fighter from the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto UprisingZbigniew Ścibor-Rylski (1917–2018)Polish brigadier general and aviator, participant of the Warsaw Uprising during the World War IIStefan Bałuk (1914–2014)Polish general and photographerErwin Axer (1917–2012)Theatre director, writer and university professorJózef Zawitkowski (born 1938)Polish Roman Catholic priest, poet and composer2009Dalajlama XIV (born 1935)Tibetan religious leaderWitold Pilecki (1901–1948)Polish cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader, author of Pilecki's ReportTadeusz Mazowiecki (1927–2013)Author, journalist, philanthropist and Christian-democratic politician, one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime minister since 1946Michał Jan Sumiński (1915–2011)Traveller, zoologist and journalist 2010Lech Kaczyński (1949–2010)Lawyer, Mayor of Warsaw and the President of Poland (2005–2010)Ziuta Hartman (1922–2015)Resistance fighter during World War IIAleksander Kwaśniewski (born 1954)Polish politician and journalist, President of Poland from 1995 to 2005Henryk Skarżyński (born 1954)Physician and audiologist, founder of the World Hearing Center in Kajetany Maria Stypułkowska-Chojecka (1926–2016)Pedagogue, resistance activist during World War II 2011Lidia Korsakówna (1934–2013)Theater and film actressJerzy Buzek (born 1940)Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament from Poland, Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001, President of the European Parliament between 2009 and 2012Henryk Hoser (1942–2021)Polish prelate of the Catholic Church2012Witold Kieżun (1922–2021)Polish economist, former soldier of the Home Army – the Polish resistance movement against German occupation during World War II, participant of the Warsaw uprising and prisoner in the Soviet GulagsSławomir Pietras (born 1943)Theatre directorJerzy Regulski (1924–2015)Economist and politician Stanisław Wyganowski (1919–2017)Economist and urbanist, Mayor of Warsaw from 1990 to 1994 2013Maria Janion (1926–2020)Scholar, critic and theoretician of literature as well as feministIrena Santor (born 1934)Singer, musical performer and actressZbigniew Romaszewski (1940–2014)Politician and human rights activist2014Jan Olszewski (1930–2019)Polish conservative lawyer and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Poland for five months between December 1991 and early June 1992Jerzy Owsiak (born 1953)Journalist and social campaigner, founder of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (WOSP)Mieczysław Szostek (1933–2021)Physician and Professor of Medical Sciences as well as politician2015Andrzej Wajda (1926–2016)Academy Award-winning film and theatre directorHenryk Samsonowicz (1930–2021)Historian specializing in medieval Poland, writer, and professor of the University of Warsaw2016Adam Strzembosz (born 1930)Lawyer, judge, first President of the Supreme Court of Poland (1990–1998)2017Daniel Olbrychski (born 1945)ActorWanda Traczyk-Stawska (born 1927)Psychologist, resistance activist during World War II, participant of the Warsaw UprisingWiesław Johann (born 1939)Lawyer and journalist, Constitutional Tribunal judge2018Halina Birenbaum (born 1929)Holocaust survivor, writer, poet, translator and activistKrystyna Budnicka (born 1932)Social activist, founder of the Children of the Holocaust AssociationMarian Turski (1926–2025)Historian and journalist Anna Jakubowska (1875–1948)Pedagogue and social activist Janina Ochojska (born 1955)Astronomer, humanitarian and social activist, Member of the European Parliament (2019–present), founder and director of the Polish Humanitarian Action (1992–present)Anna Trzeciakowska (born 1927)Translator of American and English literatureWojciech Roszkowski (born 1947)Economic historian and writer2019Paweł Adamowicz (1965–2019)Polish politician and lawyer, mayor of the city of GdańskHalina Jędrzejewska (born 1926)Physician and resistance fighter during the Warsaw UprisingJerzy Majkowski (1928–2019)Member of the Polish Underground during the Second World War, participant of the Warsaw UprisingPaweł Pawlikowski (born 1957)Academy-Award-winning film director2020Olga Tokarczuk (born 1962)Writer, activist, psychologist, public intellectual and Nobel Prize laureateWładysław Findeisen (1926–2023)Politician, engineer, Professor of Technical Sciences, rector of the Warsaw University of TechnologyWojciech Noszczyk (born 1935)Scientist, Professor of Medical Sciences and surgeonAndrzej Rottermund (born 1941)Historian of art and museologist, Professor of Humanities, director of the Royal Castle in Warsaw (1991–2015)Wiesław Jan Wysocki (born 1950)Historian, academic teacher and social activist2021Jolanta Brzeska (1947–2011) activist Andrzej Rzepliński (born 1949) lawyer, Professor of Jurisprudence, human rights expert2022 Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (born 1952) politician and lawyer, former Mayor of Warsaw Vitali Klitschko (born 1971) politician and former professional boxer, Mayor of Kyiv2023 Janusz Dorosiewicz (born 1939) film producer, architect and social activist Juliusz Kulesza (1928–2025) writer and graphic artist
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