Field Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, first chief of state (1918-1922) and dictator (1926-1935) of renascent Poland, and founder of its armed forces.
A man that many Poles hold responsible for winning the country its independence in 1918.
Regarded as a political and military hero he did more than most to free Poland from the shackles of Russian control;
His biggest success was in 1920 when he beat off the Bolshevik hordes at the gates of Warsaw, inadvertently saving a battered post-war Europe from being flooded by the rampant Soviets.
The monument at the square bearing Pilsudski's name was unveiled in 1995.