This is a list of the prime ministers of Poland. The Prime Minister of Poland is both the leader of the cabinet and the head of government of Poland.

Colour key (for political parties):
  National-Democratic Party (SDN)
  Party of the National Right (SPN)
  Independent

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Portrait			Name (Birth–Death)	Entered office	Left office	Political party	Cabinet
1			Jan Kucharzewski (1876–1952)	26 November 1917	27 February 1918	Independent	Kucharzewski
–			Antoni Ponikowski (1878–1949)	27 February 1918	4 April 1918	National-Democratic Party	Ponikowski (provisional)
2			Jan Kanty Steczkowski (1862–1929)	4 April 1918	23 October 1918	Party of the National Right	Steczkowski
3			Józef Świeżyński (1868–1948)	23 October 1918	3 November 1918	National-Democratic Party	Świeżyński
–			Władysław Wróblewski (1875–1951)	3 November 1918	14 November 1918	Independent	Wróblewski (provisional)

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Colour key (for political parties):
  Polish Socialist Party (PPS)

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Portrait			Name (Birth–Death)	Entered office	Left office	Political party	Cabinet
1			Ignacy Daszyński (1866–1936)	7 November 1918	14 November 1918	Polish Socialist Party	Provisional People's Government of the Republic of Poland

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Note: Until 11 November, Daszyński was Prime Minister in the Polish People's Republic, based at Lublin, in the territory occupied by Austrian troops. On 11 November, he was invited to form a national government but failed and resigned three days later.

Colour key (for political parties):
  Polish Socialist Party (PPS)
  Polish People's Party "Piast" (PSL Piast)
  Popular National Union (ZLN)
  Polish Christian Democratic Party (PSChD)
  Party of the National Right (SPN)
  Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government (BBWR)
  Independent

After the German conquest of Poland, a Polish government-in-exile was formed under the protection of France and Britain. The government was recognised by the United Kingdom and the United States until 5 July 1945, when the Western Allies accepted Joseph Stalin's communist government. By the end of 1946, the government-in-exile had lost recognition by all but a handful of independent nations. Despite this, it continued in London until the election of Lech Wałęsa as President of the Republic of Poland in December 1990.

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No.	Portrait	Name (born–died)	Term of office			Political party		Cabinet	Ref.
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Władysław Sikorski (1881–1943)	30 September 1939	19 July 1940	293 days		Independent	Sikorski II
2		August Zaleski (1883–1972)	19 July 1940	25 July 1940	6 days		Independent		[1]
1		Władysław Sikorski (1881–1943)	25 July 1940	4 July 1943 †	2 years, 344 days		Independent	Sikorski III	[1]
3		Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1901–1966)	14 July 1943	24 November 1944	1 year, 133 days		Polish People's Party	Mikołajczyk
4		Tomasz Arciszewski (1877–1955)	29 November 1944	25 July 1945 (lost recognition by major Allied powers)	238 days		Polish Socialist Party	Arciszewski

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Prime Ministers of the Government-in-Exile (with little or no international recognition, 1945–1990)

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No.	Portrait	Name (born–died)	Term of office			Political party		Cabinet	Ref.
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
4		Tomasz Arciszewski (1877–1955)	25 July 1945	2 July 1947	1 year, 342 days		Polish Socialist Party	Arciszewski
5		Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895–1966)	2 July 1947	10 February 1949	1 year, 223 days		Independent	Bór-Komorowski
6		Tadeusz Tomaszewski (1881–1950)	7 April 1949	25 September 1950	1 year, 171 days		Independent	Tomaszewski
7		Roman Odzierzyński (1892–1975)	25 December 1950	8 December 1953	3 years, 74 days		Independent	Odzierzyński
8		Jerzy Hryniewski (1895–1978)	18 January 1954	13 May 1954	115 days		Polish Independence League [pl]	Hryniewski
9		Stanisław Mackiewicz (1896–1966)	8 June 1954	21 June 1955	1 year, 13 days		Independent	Mackiewicz
10		Hugon Hanke (1904–1964)	8 August 1955	10 September 1955	33 days		Labour Faction	Hanke
11		Antoni Pająk (1893–1965)	10 September 1955	14 June 1965	9 years, 277 days		Polish Socialist Party	Pająk I–II
12		Aleksander Zawisza (1896–1977)	25 June 1965	9 June 1970	4 years, 349 days		Independent	Zawisza I–II–III
13		Zygmunt Muchniewski (1896–1979)	20 July 1970	13 July 1972	1 year, 359 days		Labour Faction	Muchniewski
14		Alfred Urbański (1899–1983)	18 July 1972	15 July 1976	3 years, 363 days		Polish Socialist Party	Urbański I–II
15		Kazimierz Sabbat (1913–1989)	5 August 1976	8 April 1986	9 years, 246 days		Independent	Sabbat I–II–III–IV
16		Edward Szczepanik (1915–2005)	8 April 1986	22 December 1990	4 years, 258 days		Independent	Szczepanik I–II

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Colour key (for political parties):
  Polish Socialist Party (PPS)
  Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR)
  Solidarity Citizens' Committee (KO‘S')

Political parties

Christian Democrats

  Polish People's Party (2)
  Solidarity Electoral Action (1)

Conservatives

  Centre Agreement / Law and Justice (5)

Liberals

  Solidarity Citizens' Committee / Democratic Union (2)
  Liberal Democratic Congress (1)
  Civic Platform (3)

Social Democrats

  Social Democracy / Democratic Left Alliance (4)

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Portrait		Name Sejm District (Birth–Death)	Tenure			Ministerial offices held as prime minister	Party	Government	Sejm (Election)	President (Term)
			Took office	Left office	Duration
		Tadeusz Mazowiecki None (1927–2013)	24 August 1989	4 January 1991	1 year, 134 days	–	Solidarity Citizens' Committee	Mazowiecki (KO‘S'–ZSL–PZPR–SD)	Contract (1989)	1	President Wojciech Jaruzelski (1989–1990)
							Democratic Union
										2	President Lech Wałęsa (1990–1995)
		Jan Krzysztof Bielecki Gdańsk - 21 (born 1951)	4 January 1991	6 December 1991	337 days	–	Liberal Democratic Congress	Bielecki (KLD–ZChN–PC–SD)
		Jan Olszewski Warsaw - 17 (1930–2019)	6 December 1991	5 June 1992 (no confidence vote)	183 days	–	Centre Agreement	Olszewski (PC–ZChN–PSL.PL)	I (1991)
		Waldemar Pawlak Płock - 3 (born 1959)	5 June 1992	11 July 1992	37 days	–	Polish People's Party	Pawlak I
		Hanna Suchocka Poznań - 18 (born 1946)	11 July 1992	26 October 1993	1 year, 108 days	–	Democratic Union	Suchocka (UD–KLD–ZChN–PChD– PPPP–PSL.PL)
		Waldemar Pawlak Płock - 34 (born 1959)	26 October 1993	7 March 1995	1 year, 133 days	–	Polish People's Party	Pawlak II (SLD–PSL–BBWR)	II (1993)
		Józef Oleksy Siedlce - 39 (1946–2015)	7 March 1995	7 February 1996	338 days	–	Social Democracy	Oleksy (SLD–PSL)
										3	President Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1995–2005)
		Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz Białystok - 4 (born 1950)	7 February 1996	31 October 1997	1 year, 267 days	Chairman of the European Integration Committee (1996–1997)		Cimoszewicz (SLD–PSL)
		Jerzy Buzek Gliwice - 17 (born 1940)	31 October 1997	19 October 2001	3 years, 354 days	Chairman of the European Integration Committee (1998–2001)	Solidarity Electoral Action	Buzek (AWS–UW)	III (1997)
		Leszek Miller Łódź - 9 (born 1946)	19 October 2001	2 May 2004	2 years, 197 days	Chairman of the European Integration Committee	Democratic Left Alliance	Miller (SLD–UP–PSL)	IV (2001)
		Marek Belka None (born 1952)	2 May 2004	11 June 2004	1 year, 183 days	Chairman of the European Integration Committee Minister of Sport (2005)		Belka I (SLD–UP)
			11 June 2004	31 October 2005				Belka II (SLD–UP)
		Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz Zielona Góra - 8 (born 1959)	31 October 2005	14 July 2006	257 days	Chairman of the European Integration Committee (2006)	Law and Justice	Marcinkiewicz (PiS–SRP–LPR)	V (2005)
										4	President Lech Kaczyński (2005–2010)
		Jarosław Kaczyński Warsaw - 19 (born 1949)	14 July 2006	16 November 2007	1 year, 126 days	–		Kaczyński (PiS–SRP–LPR)
		Donald Tusk Warsaw - 19 (born 1957)	16 November 2007	18 November 2011	6 years, 311 days	Chairman of the European Integration Committee (2007–2009)	Civic Platform	Tusk I (PO–PSL)	VI (2007)
										5	President Bronisław Komorowski (2010–2015)
			18 November 2011	22 September 2014				Tusk II (PO–PSL)	VII (2011)
		Ewa Kopacz Warsaw - 17 (born 1956)	22 September 2014	16 November 2015	1 year, 56 days	–		Kopacz (PO–PSL)
6							President Andrzej Duda (2015–present)
			Beata Szydło Chrzanów - 12 (born 1963)	16 November 2015	11 December 2017	2 years, 26 days		–	Law and Justice	Szydło	VIII (2015)
			Mateusz Morawiecki None (until 2019) Katowice II - 31 (from 2019) (born 1968)	11 December 2017	15 November 2019	6 years, 3 days		Minister of Development (2017–2018), Finance (2017–2018), Sport (2019), Digital Affairs (2020–2023)		Morawiecki I
				15 November 2019	27 November 2023					Morawiecki II	IX (2019)
				27 November 2023	13 December 2023					Morawiecki III	X (2023)
			Donald Tusk Warsaw - 19 (born 1957)	13 December 2023	Incumbent	125 days		–	Civic Platform	Tusk III (KO–PSL-PL2050–NL)

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¹ Invited to form a government by the President, but failed to form a government and resigned

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