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3.1 Famous people born, living or working in Warsaw
Monument to Kopernik by Bertel Thorvaldsen
- Eugeniusz Bodo (1899-1943?), singer and actor
- Zbigniew Brzezinski (b. 1928), political scientist, advisor of US president Jimmy Carter
- Fryderyk Chopin, (1810-1849), one of the greatest Polish composers
- Marie Curie, (1867-1934), pioneer researcher into radioactivity
- Lucyna Cwierczakiewiczowa (1829-1901), the first Polish cook book author
- Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), novelist and drama writer
- Agnieszka Holland (b. 1948), film director
- Jacek Kaczmarski, (1957-2004), songwriter, poet and author
- Lech Kaczynski, (b. 1949), politician, Solidarity activist
- Ryszard Kapuscinski (b. 1932), writer and journalist
- Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941-1996), film director
- Ryszard Kuklinski (1930-2004), CIA spy during the Cold War
- Janusz Kusocinski (1907-1940), athlete, winner at 1932 Summer Olimpics
- Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), painter
- Witold Lutoslawski, (1913-1994), composer
- Wladyslaw Reymont (1867-1925), writer, Nobel Prize winner
- Stefan Starzynski (1893-1943?), president of Warsaw 1934-1939, murdered by Germans
- Wladyslaw Szpilman, (1911-2000), composer and author of The Pianist
- Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz aka Witkacy (1885-1939), writer and painter
- Janusz A. Zajdel (1938-1995), science-fiction writer
4 Population
4.1 Historical population
- 1700: 30,000 (estimated)
- 1792: 120,000
- 1800: 63,400
- 1830: 139,700
- 1850: 163,600
- 1882: 383,000
- 1900: 686,000
- 1925: 1,003,000
- 1939: 1,300,000
- 1945: 422,000 (in September)
- 1956: 1,000,000
- 1960: 1,139,200
- 1970: 1,315,600
- 1975: 1,436,100
- 1980: 1,596,100
- 1990: 1,611,800
- 2002: 1,707,100 ( after incorporating Wesola )
- 2004: 1,676.600 ( urban agglomeration 2,400,000 )
5 Municipal Government
5.1 Administrative division
Warsaw is a municipal powiat and is further divided in 18 distinct entities (called dzielnica) with their own administrative bodies. Each of the dzielnica is divided into neighborhoods which are not officially recognized by the city but known by most Varsovians. The best known neigborhoods are Stare Miasto and Nowe Miasto
in the Sródmiescie dzielnica.
Notable suburbs include:
German 1988 map of Warsaw
