Będzin borders the cities of Sosnowiec, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Czeladź, Siemianowice Śląskie, and Wojkowice, as well as the village of Psary.
Hermann Nunberg (January 23, 1884 - May 20, 1970) was a psychoanalyst and neurologist born in Będzin, Poland.
Dariusz Pawlusiński (born November 24, 1977 in Będzin) is a Polish midfielder who plays for LKS Nieciecza.
He was injured by gunfire during the escape but walked back to Będzin, where he was captured again, given 250 lashes and confined to a chicken cage, before being sent to Auschwitz and several other concentration camps until he was sent on a death march to Bergen-Belsen, where he was liberated on April 15, 1945.
Soon after the Rebbe's announcement, eight yeshivas were opened – in Będzin, Podgórz, Kshanov, Valbaram, Ushpazin, Czanstechav, Łódź and Kraków.
The group expanded from Łódź to many other towns in the Russian partition of Poland: Warsaw, Częstochowa, Kraków, Radom, Kielce, Sosnowiec, Będzin, Ostrów, Kalisz, Żyrardów and Zgierz.
Wojkowice borders the gmina of Bobrowniki, and the towns of Bedzin (the district of Grodziec), Siemianowice Slaskie (the district of Przelajka), and Piekary Śląskie (the districts of Dąbrowka Wielka and Brzozowice-Kamien).