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Władysław Anders
Władysław Anders was a Polish general who led the 1942 evacuation of the Polish army from the Soviet Union and commanded the Polish II Corps in Italy.
Władysław Bartoszewski
Władysław Bartoszewski (1922–2015) was a Polish historian, journalist, and politician who co-founded the wartime Council for Aid to Jews Żegota and twice served as Poland's foreign minister.
Władysław Gomułka
Władysław Gomułka was a Polish communist politician who led the Polish Workers' Party from 1943, returned to power during the Polish October of 1956, and ruled until December 1970.
Władysław I the Elbow-high
Władysław I the Elbow-high (Władysław I Łokietek, also called the Short) was the Piast duke of Kuyavia who reunited the Polish lands and reigned as King of Poland from 1320 to 1333.
Władysław II Jagiełło
Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila), Grand Duke of Lithuania who became king of Poland in 1386 via marriage to Jadwiga after the Union of Kréva; won Grunwald 1410 against the Teutonic Order, fought for his sons' hereditary succession, and faced the 1429 Coronation Tempest.
Władysław II the Exile
Władysław II the Exile (Polish: Władysław II Wygnaniec, 1105–1159) was the first senior prince of divided Poland from 1138 until his expulsion by his half-brothers in 1146.
Władysław IV Vasa
Władysław IV Vasa, also Ladislaus IV, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania 1632–1648, grandson of Catherine Jagiellon; victor of Smolensk 1634, military and artillery reformer, opera patron, and claimant to the Swedish throne.
Władysław Komar
Władysław Komar (1940–1998), Polish shot putter nicknamed King Kong, Olympic gold medalist at Munich 1972 with 21.18 m, 14-time Polish champion, later actor, killed in a 1998 car crash.
Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz
Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz is a Polish politician and physician serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence since 2023, and leader of the Polish People's Party since 2015.
Władysław Kozakiewicz
Władysław Kozakiewicz, Polish pole vaulter born 1953 in Šalčininkai, Lithuania; 1980 Moscow Olympic champion with world record 5.78 m, famous for the defiant "gest Kozakiewicza" at the Soviet crowd; later emigrated to West Germany.
Władysław Raczkiewicz
Władysław Raczkiewicz was a Polish lawyer and statesman who served as the first President of the Polish government-in-exile, from 30 September 1939 until his death in 1947.
Władysław Reymont
Władysław Stanisław Reymont (born Rejment, 1867–1925), Polish novelist of the Young Poland period and 1924 Nobel laureate in Literature for the four-volume peasant epic Chłopi (The Peasants); also wrote Ziemia obiecana and Komediantka.
Władysław Sikorski
Władysław Sikorski (1881–1943), Polish general and statesman, twice Prime Minister including head of the WWII government-in-exile and Commander-in-Chief; signed the 1941 Sikorski–Majski pact; died in the 1943 Gibraltar Liberator crash.
Władysław Strzemiński
Władysław Strzemiński (1893–1952) was a Polish painter, theorist, and teacher who created Unism, led the Łódź museum's modern art collection, and co-founded the city's art school.
Władysław Syrokomla
Władysław Syrokomla, the pen name of Ludwik Kondratowicz (1823–1862), was a Polish-language Romantic poet and translator who lived in present-day Belarus and Lithuania and wrote the verse tales called gawędy.
Władysław Szpilman
Władysław Szpilman (1911–2000), Polish Radio pianist and composer of about 500 songs, survived the Warsaw Ghetto and Wilm Hosenfeld; his 1946 memoir, partly written by Jerzy Waldorff, became Polanski's The Pianist.
WLED
WLED is open-source firmware for the ESP32 and ESP8266 microcontrollers that controls addressable LED strips, such as WS2812B, over Wi-Fi through a web interface and JSON, HTTP, UDP, and MQTT APIs.
Wlnsvey Campos
Wlnsvey Campos is an American Democratic politician who represents Oregon State Senate District 18, elected in 2022 after serving in the Oregon House of Representatives from 2020.
Włodzimierz Czarzasty
Włodzimierz Czarzasty (born 1960, in Warsaw) is a Polish politician serving as Marshal of the Sejm and chairman of the New Left, part of the governing coalition.
Włodzimierz Lubanski
Włodzimierz Lubański (Włodek), Polish striker born 1947 in Gliwice; Górnik Zabrze legend (234 matches, 155 goals, 7 titles), 1972 Olympic gold captain, Poland's record scorer (48 goals in 75 caps) until Lewandowski.
Włodzimierz Sadalski
Włodzimierz Sadalski (born 1949, Poznań), nicknamed "Lala" and "Sandał", Polish volleyball setter; world champion 1974 and Olympic gold medalist 1976 with Płomień Milowice, later player-coach and Finland national coach, then PZPS development director.
Włodzimierz Skalik
Włodzimierz Skalik (born 1959) is a Polish politician and pilot who has led the Confederation of the Polish Crown caucus in the Sejm since 2025.
Włodzimierz Zawadzki
Włodzimierz Zawadzki, Polish Greco-Roman wrestler nicknamed "Diabeł", born 1967 in Polany; Olympic featherweight gold at Atlanta 1996, four-time Olympian, three-time European champion, later national coach.
WLS-TV
WLS-TV, also known as ABC 7 Chicago, is an ABC-owned television station in Chicago that signed on as WENR-TV in 1948 and has led local news since 1986.
WLW (AM)
WLW is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio, broadcasting on 700 AM at 50,000 watts, owned by iHeartMedia and flagship of the Cincinnati Reds radio network.
WM Entertainment
WM Entertainment (WM 엔터테인먼트) is a South Korean entertainment agency founded in 2008, known for B1A4, Oh My Girl, and ONF, and acquired by RBW in 2021.
WM Motor (威马汽车)
WM Motor (威马汽车), selling electric vehicles under the Weltmeister brand, is a Shanghai-based company founded by Freeman Shen in 2015 that entered bankruptcy reorganization in late 2023.
WM Technology
WM Technology is an American cannabis technology company headquartered in Irvine, California, that operates the Weedmaps marketplace and went public in 2021 under the ticker MAPS.
Wm. Howard Arnold
Wm. Howard Arnold, or William Howard Arnold Jr., was an American nuclear engineer who led the reactor physics design of Westinghouse's first commercial pressurized water reactors.
Wm. Theodore de Bary
Wm. Theodore de Bary (1919–2017) was an American sinologist at Columbia University who established Neo-Confucian studies in the United States and wrote more than thirty books.