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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.
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.