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Stanislav Nyenashev
Stanislav Nyenashev (born 18 March 1934), Soviet Azerbaijani hammer thrower; set the ratified world record of 64.05 m in Baku on 12 December 1954, an early four-turn thrower who was never selected for a Soviet international team.
Stanislav P. Mikheev
Stanislav P. Mikheev, born Stanislav Pavlovich Mikheev (Станислав Павлович Михеев), was a Soviet and Russian particle physicist who proposed the MSW neutrino effect with Alexei Smirnov in 1985.
Stanislav Petrov (Станислав Евграфович Петров)
Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (Станислав Евграфович Петров), Soviet Air Defense lieutenant colonel; duty officer at Serpukhov-15 who judged the 26 September 1983 Oko false missile alarm a malfunction, averting possible nuclear retaliation.
Stanislav Petukhov
Stanislav Afanasyevich Petukhov (Станислав Афанасьевич Петухов), born 19 August 1937 in Moscow, is a Soviet ice hockey forward-defender, Dynamo Moscow 1956–68, Olympic champion 1964 and bronze medalist 1960, later Dynamo coach.
Stanislav Pozdnyakov
Stanislav Pozdnyakov (Станислав Алексеевич Поздняков), born 1973, Russian sabre fencer, four-time Olympic champion (1992, 1996, 2000) and ten-time world champion; president of the Russian Olympic Committee 2018–2024, resigned October 2024.
Stanislav S. Zakharenko
Stanislav S. Zakharenko is a neuroscientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis who directs the Division of Neural Circuits and Behavior and studies the auditory thalamus.
Stanislav Seman
Stanislav Seman, Slovak goalkeeper born 1952 in Kosice, Lokomotiva Kosice (242 league games, 71 clean sheets), won 1980 Moscow Olympic gold with Czechoslovakia playing all six matches, plus Euro 1980 bronze and 1982 World Cup; 15 caps.
Stanislav Smirnov
Stanislav Smirnov is a Russian mathematician, professor at the University of Geneva since 2003, who won the 2010 Fields Medal for proving conformal invariance of percolation.
Stanislav Stepashkin
Stanislav Stepashkin (Станислав Иванович Степашкин), Soviet amateur boxer, 1964 Tokyo Olympic featherweight gold medalist, twice European champion (1963, 1965), record 193 wins in 204 bouts, later a national-team coach.
Stanislav Stoyanov (Bulgarian politician)
Stanislav Stoyanov is a Bulgarian politician and Member of the European Parliament since July 2024 for the Revival party, serving as Vice-Chair of the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group.
Stanislav Y. Shvartsman
Stanislav Y. Shvartsman is a Princeton professor of molecular biology who studies the quantitative biology of developing tissues, combining fruit fly experiments with mathematical and computational modeling.
Stanislavski's system
Stanislavski's system (Станиславского система), also called the Stanislavski Method or Method of Physical Actions, is Konstantin Stanislavski's theory and methodology of stage acting, developed at the Moscow Art Theatre from 1906 to 1938 around the art of experiencing.
Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł
Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł (1914–1976), Polish prince, diplomat, and London property financier; Polish Red Cross delegate and chargé d'affaires at the League of Nations in Geneva, filed the 1943 Katyn Red Cross note, and was brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy through his marriage to Lee Bouvier.
Stanisław Antoni Szczuka
Stanisław Antoni Szczuka (about 1654–1710) was a Polish-Lithuanian statesman who rose from middling nobility to become Vice-Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1699, serving Kings Jan III Sobieski, Augustus II, and Stanisław Leszczyński.
Stanisław August Poniatowski
Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732–1798), last king of Poland 1764–1795, Catherine II's former lover, reformer behind the Cadet Corps, Commission of National Education, and Constitution of 3 May 1791; abdicated 1795, died in St Petersburg exile.
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, known as Witkacy, was a Polish painter, playwright, and philosopher, a central figure of the interwar avant-garde who wrote more than thirty plays.
Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski
Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski (1634–1702) was a Polish magnate and Grand Crown Hetman who led the hussar charge at Chocim in 1673 and commanded at the relief of Vienna in 1683.
Stanislaw Karnkowski
Stanisław Karnkowski (1520–1603) was a Polish Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Włocławek from 1567 and as archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland from 1581.
Stanisław Konarski
Stanisław Konarski, born Hieronim Konarski (1700 to 1773), was a Polish Piarist priest and educational reformer who founded the Collegium Nobilium in Warsaw and wrote against the liberum veto.
Stanisław Koniecpolski
Stanisław Koniecpolski (1593 or 1594–1646) was a Polish magnate and Grand Crown Hetman of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, best known for defeating King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden at Trzciana in 1629.
Stanisław Krystyn Zaremba
Stanisław Krystyn Zaremba (1903–1990) was a Polish mathematician, son of mathematician Stanisław Zaremba, who worked in numerical analysis and number theory and posed Zaremba's conjecture on continued fractions.
Stanisław Kwapień
Stanisław Kwapień (born 1942) is a Polish mathematician at the University of Warsaw, best known for his 1972 theorem that type 2 and cotype 2 characterize Hilbert spaces.
Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Lem (1921–2006), Polish novelist, futurologist and critic, author of Solaris and The Cyberiad; most translated Polish writer, over 40 languages, 30–45 million copies; 2021 Year of Lem centenary.
Stanisław Leszczyński
Stanisław Leszczyński (1677–1766) was twice elected king of Poland, in 1704 and 1733, and ended his life as duke of Lorraine and father-in-law of Louis XV.
Stanisław Łojasiewicz
Stanisław Łojasiewicz (1926–2002) was a Polish mathematician at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, known for the Łojasiewicz inequality, semianalytic geometry, and solving Schwartz's division problem for distributions.
Stanisław Maczek
Stanisław Maczek (1892–1994) was a Polish general who commanded the 1st Armoured Division in the Normandy campaign and the liberation of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
Stanisław Małachowski
Stanisław Małachowski (1736–1809) was a Polish statesman, marshal of the Four-Year Sejm (1788–1792), and a principal author of the Constitution of 3 May 1791, Europe's first modern written constitution.
Stanisław Mazur
Stanisław Mazur (Stanisław Mieczysław Mazur, 1905–1981) was a Polish mathematician in functional analysis, a student of Stefan Banach, known for the Mazur–Ulam theorem and the Banach–Mazur distance.
Stanisław Mikołajczyk
Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1901–1966) was a Polish agrarian politician who served as prime minister of the government-in-exile from 1943 to 1944, then led the legal PSL opposition in postwar Poland.
Stanislaw Noakowski
Stanisław Noakowski (1867–1928) was a Polish architect and graphic artist who built almost nothing, remembered for thousands of drawings of imaginary architecture in historical styles.