List of Famous people named Wladyslaw

Similar names: Wladyslawa. Here are some famous Wladyslaws:

Władysław Szpilman

First Name Władysław
Born on December 5, 1911
Died on July 6, 2000 (aged 88)

Władysław Szpilman was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on Szpilman's autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust.

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Władysław Kozakiewicz

First Name Władysław
Born on December 8, 1953 (age 70)
Born in Lithuania
Height 187 cm | 6'2

Władysław Kozakiewicz is a retired Polish athlete who specialised in the pole vault. He is best known for winning the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and the bras d'honneur gesture which he showed to the hostile Soviet crowd. In Poland, where the gesture was viewed as a symbol of resistance against Soviet dominance, it became known as "Kozakiewicz's gesture". In addition, he won several medals at continental level, won two Summer Universiades and broke the pole vault world record three times, twice outdoors and once indoors. He is also a ten-time Polish champion.

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Władysław IV Vasa

First Name Władysław
Born on June 9, 1595
Died on May 20, 1648 (aged 52)

Władysław IV Vasa or Ladislaus IV of Poland was King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and titular King of Sweden, who ruled from 1632 until his death in 1648. Władysław IV was the eldest son of Sigismund III Vasa and his wife, Anna Habsburg of Austria.

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Władysław II Jagiełło

First Name Władysław
Born on January 1, 1362
Died on June 1, 1434 (aged 72)

Jogaila, later Władysław II Jagiełło was the Grand Duke of Lithuania (1377–1434) and then the King of Poland (1386–1434), first alongside his wife Jadwiga until 1399, and then sole King of Poland. He ruled in Lithuania from 1377. Born a pagan, in 1386 he converted to Catholicism and was baptized as Władysław in Kraków, married the young Queen Jadwiga, and was crowned King of Poland as Władysław II Jagiełło. In 1387 he converted Lithuania to Christianity. His own reign in Poland started in 1399, upon the death of King Jadwiga, and lasted a further thirty-five years and laid the foundation for the centuries-long Polish–Lithuanian union. He was a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland that bears his name and was previously also known as the Gediminid dynasty in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The dynasty ruled both states until 1572, and became one of the most influential dynasties in late medieval and early modern Europe. During his reign, the Polish-Lithuanian state was the largest state in the Christian world.

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Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski

First Name Władysław
Born on October 25, 1769
Died on September 29, 1802 (aged 32)

Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski was a Polish and French general. He is the first known Polish general of African descent.

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Władysław II the Exile

First Name Władysław
Born on January 1, 1105
Died on May 30, 1159 (aged 54)

Vladislaus II the Exile was the high duke of Poland and duke of Silesia from 1138 until his expulsion in 1146. He is the progenitor of the Silesian Piasts.

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Władysław Grzegorz Branicki

First Name Władysław
Born on February 13, 1783
Died on August 15, 1843 (aged 60)
Born in Russia

Count Władysław Grzegorz Branicki was a Polish nobleman, senator and general in the Russian military. He was a putative grandson of Catherine the Great, through his maternal line.

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Władysław I the Elbow-high

First Name Władysław
Died on March 2, 1333

Władysław I Łokietek, in English known as the "Elbow-high" or Ladislaus the Short was the King of Poland from 1320 to 1333, and duke of several of the provinces and principalities in the preceding years. He was a member of the Piast family of rulers, son of Duke Casimir I of Kujawy, and great-grandson of High-Duke Casimir II the Just.

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Władysław I of Masovia

First Name Władysław
Born on November 30, 1388
Died on December 12, 1455 (aged 67)

Władysław I of Płock, was a Polish prince member of the House of Piast from the Masovian branch. He was a Duke of Płock, Rawa Mazowiecka, Gostynin, Sochaczew, Belz, Płońsk, Zawkrze and Wizna during 1426-1434 jointly with his brothers, after the division of the paternal inheritance between him and his brothers in 1434, sole ruler over Płock, Płońsk, Wizna and Zawkrze; in 1442 he reunited all their patrimony.

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Władysław III Spindleshanks

First Name Władysław
Born on January 1, 1165
Died on November 3, 1231 (aged 66)

Władysław III Spindleshanks, of the Piast Dynasty, was Duke of Greater Poland, High Duke of Poland and Duke of Kraków during 1202–1206 and 1228–1231, Duke of Kalisz during 1202–1206, ruler of Lubusz during 1206–1210 and 1218–1225, and ruler over Gniezno during 1216–1217.

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