University of Warsaw

(Pałac Kazimierzowski) – the seat of the rector and the Senate;

Kazimierzowski Palace

(Pałac Uruskich) – left side of main gate entrance, houses the Department of Geography and Regional Studies

Uruski Palace

the Old Library (Stary BUW) – since recent refurbishment, a secondary lecture building;

the Main School (Szkoła Główna) – former seat of the Main School until the , later the faculty of biology; now, since its refurbishment, the seat of the Institute of archaeology;

January 1863 Uprising

– the main lecture hall, with seats for several hundred students.

Auditorium Maximum

In 's 1961 novel Thunderball, the ninth book in the James Bond series, one of the main characters, Ernst Stavro Blofeld who is the head of the global criminal organisation SPECTRE, is said to be a graduate of the University of Warsaw.^[30]

Ian Fleming

In 2016, the issued commemorative stamps on the 200th anniversary of the founding of the university depicting the Column Hall of the building of the Faculty of History.^[31]

Polish Post

(1927–2000), paleontologist

Franciszek Adamczak

(1909–1983), author

Jerzy Andrzejewski

(1865-1935), Polish jurist, historian, educator, first Polish representative to the League of Nations

Szymon Askenazy

(1921–1944), poet, Home Army soldier killed in the Warsaw Uprising

Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński

(1913–1992), 6th Prime Minister of Israel (1977–1983), Nobel Peace Prize winner (1978)

Menachem Begin

(born 1977), fashion model and actress

Małgosia Bela

(born 1956), writer, historian of literature, essayist and translator, Nike Award winner (2012)

Marek Bieńczyk

(born 1977), lawyer, human rights activist, Polish Ombudsman, Minister of Justice

Adam Bodnar

(1922–1951), poet, writer

Tadeusz Borowski

(1916–2000), writer

Kazimierz Brandys

(1898–1966), poet, author

Jan Brzechwa

(born 1946), Danish physicist, recipient of 2020 Max Planck Medal

Andrzej Buras

(1810–1849), pianist, composer

Frédéric Chopin

(born 1950), politician, Prime Minister of Poland (1996–1997), Marshal of the Sejm (2005)

Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz

(born 1950), physicist

Tomasz Dietl

(1864–1939), politician, statesman

Roman Dmowski

(1936–2016), geophysicist

Adam Dziewonski

(1913–1998), mathematician, computer scientist, art collector

Samuel Eilenberg

(born 1962), sociologist

Barbara Engelking

(1911–1944), communist leader of French resistance

Joseph Epstein

(born 1944) lawyer, judge, former First President of the Supreme Court of Poland

Lech Gardocki

(1947–2022), mathematical physicist

Krzysztof Gawędzki

(born 1956), nuclear physicist

Marek Gazdzicki

(1932–2008), historian, politician

Bronisław Geremek

(born 1952), lawyer, first President of the Supreme Court of Poland

Małgorzata Gersdorf

(born 1939), biologist

Maciej Gliwicz

(1904–1969), writer

Witold Gombrowicz

(born 1962), Polish-Canadian professor of history

Jan Grabowski

(born 1952), politician, President of the National Bank of Poland (1992–2001), Mayor of Warsaw (2006–2018)

Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz

(born 1947), historian, writer, Princeton University professor

Jan T. Gross

computer scientist, data analyst

Jarek Gryz

(born 1990), rapper, songwriter, and musician

Taco Hemingway

(1919–2000), journalist, writer, Gulag survivor

Gustaw Herling-Grudziński

(born 1928), Polish-American engineer

Richard B. Hetnarski

(1917–2008), economist, mathematician, Nobel Prize in Economics (2007)

Leonid Hurwicz

(1926–2020), literary critic

Maria Janion

(born 1963) fashion designer, journalist, daughter of former Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski

Monika Jaruzelska

(1930–2018), historian of ideas, anti-communist activist

Jerzy Jedlicki

(born 1949), politician, Prime Minister of Poland (2006–2007)

Jarosław Kaczyński

(1949–2010), politician, Mayor of Warsaw (2002–2005), President of Poland (2005–2010)

Lech Kaczyński

(born 1936), lawyer, businessman, and former Polish Minister of Justice

Andrzej Kalwas

(1903–1978), writer, leader of Polish Scouting and Guiding Association

Aleksander Kamiński

(1932–2007), writer and journalist

Ryszard Kapuściński

(1876–1909), composer and conductor

Mieczysław Karłowicz

(1914–2000), Polish resistance fighter

Jan Karski

(born 1957), politician, lawyer, and sociologist, 14th Marshal of the Sejm

Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska

pharmacologist, 2019 Massry Prize winner

Ryszard Kole

(1925–2015), paleobiologist

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska

(1927–2009), philosopher, historian of philosophy

Leszek Kołakowski

(born 1952), politician, Marshal of the Sejm (2007–2010), 5th President of Poland (2010–2015)

Bronisław Komorowski

(born 1946), 3rd President of Mali (1992–2002)

Alpha Oumar Konaré

(1916–2013), virologist and immunologist

Hilary Koprowski

(born 1942), conservative-liberal politician and journalist

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

(1942–2002), psychologist and streetworker

Marek Kotański

(1934–2004), historian, author, social worker, and politician

Jacek Kuroń

(born 1948), mathematician

Irena Lasiecka

(born 1957), literary scholar and historian

Jacek Leociak

(1814–1884), painter, illustrator and art critic

Aleksander Lesser

(born 1955), theoretical physicist

Maciej Lewenstein

(1926–1991), literature historian, politician

Jan Józef Lipski

(born 1940), lawyer, first Polish Ombudsman for Citizen Rights

Ewa Łętowska

(born 1982), physicist

Olga Malinkiewicz

(1927–2013), author, social worker, journalist, Prime Minister of Poland (1989–1991)

Tadeusz Mazowiecki

(born 1946), journalist, historian, public intellectual

Adam Michnik

(1937–2019), historian, politician

Karol Modzelewski

(1894–1981), mathematician, statistician, University of California professor

Jerzy Neyman

(1930-2019), lawyer, politician, Prime Minister of Poland (1991–1992)

Jan Olszewski

(born 1937), politician

Janusz Onyszkiewicz

(1896–1974), sociologist

Maria Ossowska

(1940–2007), astronomer

Bohdan Paczyński

(born 1976), sociologist and political scientist

Rafał Pankowski

(born 1935), politician, Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland (2001–2005)

Longin Pastusiak

(1915–1979), politician

Bolesław Piasecki

(born 1945), lawyer, screenwriter

Krzysztof Piesiewicz

(born 1936), writer, journalist and screenwriter, Nike Award winner (2011)

Marian Pilot

(1913–1989), physicist

Jerzy Pniewski

(1914–1998), Israeli physician and educator; first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Moshe Prywes

(born 1940), political scientist, New York University professor

Adam Przeworski

(1847–1912), writer

Bolesław Prus

(1868-1928), Russian and Soviet jurist, historian and academic.

Mikhail Reisner

(1900–1944), historian, founder Emanuel Ringelblum Archives of Warsaw Ghetto^[32]

Emanuel Ringelblum

(1910–1996), precursor of prenatal medicine

Ireneusz Roszkowski

(1908–2005), physicist, Nobel Peace Prize (1995)

Józef Rotblat

(born 1968), astronomer and astrophysicist

Agata Różańska

(1915–2012), 7th Prime Minister of Israel (1983–1984 and 1986–1992)

Yitzhak Shamir

(1882–1969), mathematician

Wacław Sierpiński

(born 1951), physicist

Andrzej Sobolewski

(1890-1971) Russian émigré jurist, historian, academic

Alexander Soloviev

(born 1969), Russian writer, biologist, journalist for the media

Dmitry Strelnikoff

(born 1966), literary critic, feminist, LGBT rights activist, television personality

Kazimiera Szczuka

(born 1970), art critic and curator

Adam Szymczyk

(born 1957), philosopher and feminist

Magdalena Środa

(1902–1982), logician, mathematician, member of the Lwów-Warsaw school of logic

Alfred Tarski

(1886–1980), philosopher, historian of esthetics

Władysław Tatarkiewicz

(born 1962), writer, essayist, psychologist, Nobel Prize in Literature (2018)

Olga Tokarczuk

(1955–2010) governmental protocol official and archaeologist

Izabela Tomaszewska

(born 1972), politician, academic teacher, Mayor of Warsaw

Rafał Trzaskowski

(1894–1953), poet and writer

Julian Tuwim

(born 1957), astronomer and astrophysicist

Andrzej Udalski

(1876-1947), Ukrainian economist, academic, active in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union.

Kostiantyn Voblyi

(born 1933), experimental physicist

Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski

(1938–1985), physicist and science-fiction writer

Janusz A. Zajdel

(1859–1917), physician, inventor of Esperanto

Ludwik Zamenhof

(1961–2017), sports journalist, columnist and TV personality

Paweł Zarzeczny

(1944–2011), poet, writer, translator of Leonard Cohen's works

Maciej Zembaty

(born 1988), computer scientist, co-founder of OpenAI

Wojciech Zaremba

(born 1964), writer

Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz

(1882–1958), philosopher and sociologist

Florian Znaniecki

(born 1947), astrophysicist

Anna N. Żytkow

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Main building of Warsaw University (Rostov-on-Don)

Official website

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