Paweł Czarnota (born 14 April 1988) is a Polish chess grandmaster.

Paweł Czarnota is six time Polish Junior Chess Championship winner in different age categories.

In 2005 he won European Youth Chess Championship under the age of 18 in Herceg Novi and Rubinstein Memorial in Polanica-Zdrój.

[1] In 2009 Paweł Czarnota shared 1st place in the tournament Cracovia (Kraków) and won the Polish Student Chess Championship in Poznan.

His sister Dorota Czarnota is a chess player who holds the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title (2005).