This list includes people who were born in or lived in Wrocław after 1945. For a list of famous residents before 1945, see List of notable people from Breslau. * Jan Borysewicz - guitar player, composer, leader of the rock band Lady Pank * Robert Fudali - sole member of black metal band Graveland * Waldemar Fydrych - alias "Major"; artist, founder of the Orange Alternative happening movement * Eugeniusz Geppert - painter * Kamil Giżycki - writer and traveler * Jerzy Grotowski - theatre director and theatrical avant-garde figure * Mirosław Hermaszewski - cosmonaut * Ludwik Hirszfeld - microbiologist, co-discover of the inheritance of the BO blood type * Marek Hłasko - novelist, writer * Lech Janerka - singer, musician and composer * Aleksandr Ivanovich Korolyov - vice