List of people from Suwałki
Over the centuries Suwałki has produced a number of persons who have provided unique contributions to the fields of science, language, politics, religion, sports, visual arts and performing arts. A list of recent notable persons includes, but is not limited to: Jacob ben Moses Bachrach (1824-1896) - noted apologist of Rabbinic Judaism Marian Borzęcki (1889-1942) - lawyer, politician, lawyer, Chief of the State Police (Policja Państwowa) Jerzy Dąbrowski - Polish Army lieutenant colonel of cavalry, "Zagonczyk". Władysław Dąbrowski - a major in the cavalry of the Polish Army, "Zagonczyk" partisan commander in Vilnius in 1919-1920 Zalman Gradowski (1910–1944), secret diarist at Auschwitz-Birkenau Josef Hassid (1923–1950), violinist Edmund Kessler - Colonel in the General Staff of the Army of the Russian Empire and the Polish Army Adam Koc (1891–1969), soldier, politician and journalist Maria Konopnicka (1842–1910), a poet, a novelist, a writer for children and youth, a translator, journalist and critic Mieczysław Mackiewicz (1880–1954), general Henryk Minkiewicz (1880–1940), General of the Polish Army, killed in the Katyn Massacre a Polish socialist politician and a General of the Polish Army. Member of the Medical Faculty of the Jagiellonian University and, simultaneously, Faculty of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. Former commander