During the second half of the 19th century, a significant number of Jewish families from the region began migrating to Syracuse, New York, including the renowned Shubert theatrical family.
Alicja Jadwiga Kotowska (Born November 20, 1899 in Warsaw – died November 11, 1939 near Piaśnica Wielka) was a Polish nun, head of the Resurrectionist convent in Wejherowo between 1934 and 1939, and a blessed of the Roman Catholic Church and a martyr killed by the German Nazis in 1939 in the Mass murders in Piaśnica.
He founded the town of Wejherowo and in it, the Kalwaria Wejherowska chapel complex (fulfilling an oath he took when he nearly died during the Smolensk War at Biała in 1634).
From 1947 to 1953 Szlaga attended elementary school in Gdynia and then went attended Collegium Leoninum in Wejherowo and Collegium Marianum in Pelplin.
Lusin, German name of Luzino, a village in Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in Poland
Piaśnica Wielka is a small Kashubian village located around 10 km from Wejherowo.
Rafał Siemaszko (born September 11, 1986 in Wejherowo) is a Polish footballer who plays as a forward for II Liga club Gryf Wejherowo
It is a part of the Kashubian Tricity (Rumia, Reda, Wejherowo) and a suburb part of the metropolitan area of the Tricity.