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Stanislaus Zbyszko
Stanislaus Zbyszko (Jan Stanisław Cyganiewicz, 1879-1967), Polish wrestler, three-time world heavyweight champion, drew with Gotch and Gama, staged the 1925 double cross, and acted in Night and the City.
Stanislav Cherchesov (Станислав Саламович Черчесов)
Stanislav Cherchesov (Станислав Саламович Черчесов), born 1963 in Alagir, is a Russian football manager and former USSR/CIS/Russia goalkeeper who coached Russia to the 2018 World Cup quarter-finals and now manages Akhmat Grozny.
Stanislav Donets
Stanislav Donets (Станислав Юрьевич Донец), Russian backstroke swimmer born 1983 in Dimitrovgrad; three-time short course world champion, eleven-time European short course champion, and former short course world record holder in the 100 m backstroke and 4x100 m medley relay.
Stanislav Drobyshevsky
Stanislav Drobyshevsky (Станислав Владимирович Дробышевский) is a Russian anthropologist and associate professor at Moscow State University, scientific editor of Antropogenez.ru, and a leading popularizer of human evolution.
Stanislav Hoffman
Stanislav Hoffman (born 1945, Prague) is a Czechoslovak retired runner, 1500 m bronze medalist at the 1967 European Indoor Games, with personal bests of 3:39.1 (1500 m), 13:28.2 (5000 m), and 28:21.8 (10,000 m).
Stanislav Jungwirth
Stanislav Jungwirth (1930–1986), Czechoslovak middle-distance runner; set 1000 m (2:21.2, 1952) and 1500 m (3:38.1, 1957, first under 3:40) world records, 1954 European 1500 m bronze, two-time Olympian.
Stanislav Kosior
Stanislav Kosior (Станислав Викентьевич Косиор) was a Soviet party official of Polish origin who led the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1928 to 1938, during collectivization and the famine.
Stanislav Kulinchenko
Stanislav Kulinchenko (born 1971) is a retired Russian handball playmaker who won Olympic gold at Sydney 2000, the 1997 world title, and the 1996 European championship with Russia.
Stanislav Lusk
Stanislav Lusk (1931–1987), Czechoslovak rower from Třeboň; Olympic gold in coxed four at Helsinki 1952, bronze in eights at Rome 1960, three Games, later coach and driver.
Stanislav Meshcherskikh
Stanislav Meshcherskikh (Станислав Николаевич Мещерских, born 1949, Revda) is a Soviet middle-distance runner; he won the 1971 European indoor 4x800 m relay in world-record 7:17.8 and the 1972 USSR indoor 600 m title.
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.