It was created in the 1950s from an initiative of local politician Jerzy Ziętek to restore an industrially-devastated piece of land in the middle of a highly urbanized area.
Jerzy Grotowski | Stanisław Jerzy Lec | Jerzy Skolimowski | Jerzy Buzek | Adam Jerzy Czartoryski | Jerzy Wasowski | Jerzy Stuhr | Jerzy Neyman | Jerzy Kosiński | Jerzy Bończak | Jerzy Żuławski | Jerzy Maksymiuk | Jerzy Różycki | Jerzy Kukuczka | Jerzy Kosinski | Jerzy Kłoczowski | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Jerzy Hoffman | Stefan Jerzy Zweig | Michał Jerzy Poniatowski | Jerzy Ziętek | Jerzy Zaruba | Jerzy Waldorff | Jerzy Treder | Jerzy Strzelczyk | Jerzy Sterczyński | Jerzy Rzedowski | Jerzy Robert Nowak | Jerzy Popiełuszko | Jerzy Petersburski |
General Jerzy Ziętek, namegiver of the Rondo, and Wojciech Korfanty, namegiver of one of the streets that crosses it, were named as the two most important Silesian persons in the 20th century by the Gazeta Wyborcza, with Korfanty coming in first and Ziętek second.