Stanisław Kierbedź (Russian: Станислав Валерианович Кербедз, Lithuanian: Stanislovas Kerbedis 1810–1899) was a Polish railway engineer.

[1][2] He designed and supervised the construction of dozens of bridges, railway lines, ports and other objects in Central and Eastern Europe.

Stanisław Kierbedź[note 1] was born on 10 March 1810 into a Polish[2]-Lithuanian[5] landowning family (Ślepowron coat of arms) on the estate of Naudvaris [lt] near Panevėžys.

He visited Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France (including in Paris at the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees), England (with classes at the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Newcastle upon Tyne), Belgium and the Netherlands.

[6] On the opening day of the bridge, on 6 (18) November 1850, Kierbedź was awarded a specially stamped medal and promoted General-Mayor (Major-General).

[1] Stanislaw Kierbedź was deputy head of technical matters on the Bridge Construction Board along with General-Adjutant Count Paul Demetrius Kotzebue.

Kierbedź was promoted General-Leytenant (Lieutenant-General) in 1868 and given the civil rank of Privy Councillor (equivalent to German Geheimrat).

After many years of work, in 1889 he was decorated with the Order of St. Vladimir, 1st Class, and awarded honorary memberships in: A scholarship in his name was also funded by the Warsaw University of Technology.

Kierbedź and his second wife, Maria Janowskis (3 [15] February 1832 - 21 October [3 November] 1915, Warsaw) were the parents of six children:[7] In 1876 Eugenia married her first cousin, Stanisław (Russian: Stanislav Ippolitovich Kerbedz; 28 May [9 June] 1844, St. Petersburg - 14 [27] November 1910, St. Petersburg), the son of her father's younger brother Hippolit (3 [15 August 1817 - 19 June [1 July] 1858).

[8][9] Eugenia and Stanisław were the parents of a daughter, Felicia Ella (Russian: Felitsy; 1888–1963); married first (circa 1900) Waldemar Tyszkiewicz (1877, Kraków - 1934) and second (1940) Adam Romer (5 January 1892, Neutitschen, Austria-Hungary [now Nový Jičín, Czech Republic] - 1965); no issue.