President of Poland
Heads of the Polish state:
- Second Republic - Druga Rzeczpospolita (1918 - 1939 as President - Prezydent)
- Jozef Pilsudski (14.11.1918 - 9.12.1922 as Chief of State - Naczelnik Panstwa)
- Gabriel Narutowicz (9 - 16.12.1922)
- Stanislaw Wojciechowski (12.1922 - 05.1926)
- Ignacy Moscicki (1926 - 09.1939)
- Polish Government in Exile - Rzad Polski na Wychodzstwie (1939 - 1991 as President - Prezydent)
- Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz (1939 - 1947)
- August Zaleski (1947 - 1972)
- Stanislaw Ostrowski (1972 - 1979)
- Edward Raczynski (1979 - 1986)
- Kazimierz Sabbat (1986 - 1989)
- Ryszard Kaczorowski (1989 - 1991; resigned after the election of Lech Walesa)
- Communistic Second Republic - Polska Ludowa (1944 - 1952)
- Boleslaw Bierut (1944 - 1947 as President of National Country Council - Prezydent Krajowej Rady Narodowej; 1947 - 1952 as President - Prezydent)
- People's Republic of Poland - Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa (1952 - 1989 as President of Council of State - Przewodniczacy Rady Panstwa)
- Aleksander Zawadzki (1952 - 1964)
- Edward Ochab (1964 - 1968)
- Marian Spychalski (1968 - 1970)
- Jozef Cyrankiewicz (1970 - 1972)
- Henryk Jablonski (1972 - 1985)
- Wojciech Jaruzelski (1985 - 1989)