Władysław Roman Orlicz (May 24, 1903 – August 9, 1990) was a Polish mathematician of Lwów School of Mathematics.
His youngest brother died in the Polish-Soviet War, the eldest perished in the Stutthof concentration camp.
When it became clear in early 1945 that Lemberg would no longer belong to Poland, Orlicz went back to Poznań.
He also worked at the State Institute of Mathematics, which was incorporated into the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1952.
[3] Orlicz was awarded the Stefan Banach Prize by the Polish Mathematical Society in 1948.