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Stanisław Ruziewicz
Stanisław Ruziewicz (1889–1941) was a Polish mathematician of the Lwów School of Mathematics, professor at Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów and namesake of the Ruziewicz problem on invariant measures on spheres.
Stanisław Saks
Stanisław Saks was a Polish mathematician of the Lwów–Warsaw school known for the Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem, the Banach–Saks property, and his classic Theory of the Integral; he was murdered in 1942.
Stanisław Sosabowski
Stanisław Sosabowski was a Polish brigadier general who created the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade and led it at Arnhem during Operation Market Garden in 1944.
Stanisław Staszic
Stanisław Staszic (1755–1826) was a Polish priest, geologist, and political writer of the Enlightenment, called the father of Polish geology for drawing the first geological map of Poland.
Stanisław Szeptycki
Stanisław Szeptycki (1867–1950) was a Polish count and general who commanded the Polish Legions, led the Polish General Staff, and served as Minister of Military Affairs.
Stanisław Szukalski
Stanisław Szukalski (1893–1987), also Stach z Warty, Polish sculptor of the Chicago Renaissance; Grand Prix at 1925 Paris; led Szczep Rogate Serce; later created Zermatism and Protong; rediscovered via DiCaprio's Netflix film Struggle.
Stanisław Tyszka
Stanisław Tyszka is a Polish politician of the Confederation Liberty and Independence party, a Member of the European Parliament since 2024 and co-chair of its Europe of Sovereign Nations Group.
Stanisław Ulam
Stanisław Ulam was a Polish-American mathematician who joined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in 1943 and is known for the Teller–Ulam hydrogen bomb design and the Monte Carlo method.
Stanisław Wojciechowski
Stanisław Wojciechowski was a Polish politician and economist who served as the second President of Poland from 1922 until his resignation after the May Coup of 1926.
Stanisław Wyspiański
Stanisław Wyspiański (1869–1907) was a Polish playwright, poet, painter, and stained-glass designer active in Kraków, a leading figure of Young Poland whose drama Wesele remains a fixture of the Polish stage.
Stanisław Żółkiewski
Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547–1620) was a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth hetman and chancellor, best known for defeating a far larger Muscovite army at Kłuszyn in 1610 and entering Moscow.
Stanisława Walasiewicz
Stanisława Walasiewicz, also Stella Walsh (Stefania Wałasiewicz), Polish-American sprinter; 1932 Olympic 100 m gold (11.9) and 1936 silver; 200 m world record 23.6 until 1960; shot dead in Cleveland, 1980.
Stanisławów Voivodeship
Stanisławów Voivodeship (Ukrainian: Станіславівське воєводство) was an administrative unit of the Second Polish Republic from 1920 to 1939, covering southeastern borderlands with its capital at Stanisławów, today Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.
Stanitsa
Stanitsa (станица, stanytsia) was the principal administrative-territorial unit of the Cossack hosts of the Russian Empire, grouping villages and hamlets under an elected ataman until 1920.
Stankonia
Stankonia: OutKast's fourth studio album, released October 31, 2000 on LaFace, recorded at the duo's Atlanta studio of the same name; Grammy-winning, 5x Platinum, with B.O.B., Ms. Jackson, and So Fresh, So Clean.
Stanlake Samkange
Stanlake Samkange (1922–1988) was a Zimbabwean journalist, historian, novelist, and nationalist politician whose 1966 novel On Trial for My Country was the first English novel published by a Black Zimbabwean.
Stanley (vehicle)
Stanley is a driverless Volkswagen Touareg SUV built by Stanford's team under Sebastian Thrun that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and its $2 million prize.
Stanley A. Bastian
Stanley A. Bastian, born Stanley Allen Bastian in 1958, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Washington, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2014.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Stanley A. McChrystal, retired U.S. Army four-star general; former JSOC commander and ISAF commander in Afghanistan; resigned in 2010 after Rolling Stone's 'The Runaway General'; now leads McChrystal Group and teaches at Yale.
Stanley Adair Cain
Stanley Adair Cain (1902–1995) was an American plant ecologist and conservationist, president of the Ecological Society of America and the first ecologist to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
Stanley Armour Dunham
Stanley Armour Dunham (1918–1992), Barack Obama's maternal grandfather, Kansas-born WWII Army sergeant under Patton, furniture salesman, who with wife Madelyn Payne Dunham raised Obama in Honolulu from age ten.
Stanley Atcitty
Stanley Atcitty is an American electrical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories who works on grid energy storage and received the Presidential Early Career Award from President Obama in 2012.
Stanley B. Kater
Stanley B. Kater is a retired cellular and molecular neuroscientist who worked at Iowa, Colorado State, and Utah, showing that calcium levels in the growth cone steer developing nerve fibers.
Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley B. Prusiner, born in 1942, is an American biochemist and neurologist at UCSF who discovered and named prions, winning the 1997 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Stanley Backer
Stanley Backer (1920–2003) was an American textile engineer and MIT professor who led its Fibers and Polymers Laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Stanley Bacon
Stanley Vivian Bacon (1885–1952), British wrestler, won freestyle middleweight gold at the 1908 London Olympics, beating George de Relwyskow 2-0; competed again in 1912 and 1920.
Stanley Baker
Stanley Baker (William Stanley Baker, 1928–1976), Welsh actor and producer of Zulu, Hell Drivers, and The Guns of Navarone; knighted 1976, died of lung cancer aged 48.
Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947), British Conservative statesman, three-time prime minister (1923–24, 1924–29, 1935–37) and party leader 1923–37; handled the 1926 General Strike and 1936 abdication crisis, later unfairly branded a 'Guilty Man'.
Stanley Barber
Stanley Arthur Barber (1921–2002) was a Canadian-born soil scientist who spent his career at Purdue University, building a mechanistic model of nutrient uptake by plant roots.
Stanley Baum
Stanley Baum was an American radiologist at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the first interventional radiologists in the United States, chairing Penn's radiology department from 1975 to 1996.