Bearers include Władysław Bakałowicz (1833 - 1903), a Polish painter;
Władysław Reymont (1868 - 1925), a Polish author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924;
Władysław Szpilman (1911 - 2000), a Polish pianist, composer, and memoirist (the protagonist of the Roman Polański film The Pianist).
