Zofia Kuratowska (20 July 1931 – 8 June 1999) was a Polish doctor, politician, and diplomat of Jewish descent.

After the war ended, she graduated from the Medical University of Warsaw with a specialty in hematology, and became a doctor.

[2] During the HIV/AIDS epidemic throughout the 1980s, the government turned to Kuratowska, working with her to prevent the spread of the virus despite having blacklisted her earlier in the decade due to her Solidarity activism.

[3] In 1989, she took part in the Polish Round Table Agreement, and from there ran for the Senate in the first democratic elections.

[5] After her term ended in 1997, she was nominated to be the ambassador to South Africa, where she spent the rest of her life, dying in 1999.