List of szlachta

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a semi-confederated, semi-federated monarchic republic from 1569 until 1795, comprising the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

These families would receive non-hereditary 'central' and Land dignities and titles under the Commonwealth law that forbade (with minor exceptions) any hereditary legal distinctions within the peerage.

They would later be 'approximated' to honorary hereditary titles in the Partition period with little real-power privileges but would still be venerated among the Polish upper class and the rest of the society as 'senatorial', 'palatinal', 'castellanial' or "dignitarial' families.

For the list of lesser known but still notable Polish noble families, see the corresponding category All names are given first in the singular, then (parenthetically) in the plural.

Listed below are prominent szlachta of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, by century and year of birth.