Leading Figures in History

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Władysław III of Poland

b. 1424

Monarch of Poland-Lithuania (1434–1444); King of Hungary and Croatia (1440–1444)

Władysław IV Vasa

Ruler of Poland–Lithuania from 1632 to 1648

Władysław Kędra

b. 1918

Polish pianist

Władysław Komar

Polish athletics competitor (1940–1998)

Władysław Reymont

b. 1867

Polish novelist (1867–1925)

Władysław Sikorski

Polish military and political leader (1881–1943)

Władysław Szpilman

Polish pianist, composer and Holocaust survivor (1911–2000)

Władysław Witwicki

b. 1878

Polish polymath

Władysław Żmuda

b. 1954

Topics referred to by the same term

Wlodimir Ledóchowski

b. 1866

Superior General of the Society of Jesus from 1915 to 1942

Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz

b. 1950

Prime Minister of Poland from 1996 to 1997

Wojciech Fibak

b. 1952

Polish tennis player (born 1952)

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Leader of Poland from 1981 to 1989

Wojciech Kilar

b. 1932

Polish composer (1932–2013)

Wojciech Leśnikowski

American architect

Wojciech Szczęsny

b. 1990

Polish footballer (born 1990)

Woldemar Bargiel

b. 1828

German composer (1828–1897)

Woldemar Voigt

b. 1850

German mathematician and physicist (1850–1919)

Wole Soyinka

b. 1934

Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist

Wolf Biermann

b. 1936

German singer-songwriter (born 1936)

Wolf Huber

Austro-German painter, printmaker and architect

Wolf Kahn

b. 1927

German-born American painter (1927–2020)

Wolf Rüdiger Hess

German architect

Wolf V. Vishniac

b. 1922

American microbiologist (1922–1973)