Wawrzyniec Benzelstjerna Engeström (1829–1910) was a Polish activist, poet, translator and notable advocate of Polish–Swedish cooperation.

[1] In 1863, he moved to Warsaw and then to Lwów, where he organized a press office on behalf of the Polish National Government during the January Uprising.

[1] He published political brochures in Polish and French, and was arrested by the Austrians in July 1863.

[2] In 1877, he sold his Rakowo estate as he was prohibited from returning to the Russian Partition of Poland.

[3] He co-founded the Działyński Palace fine arts collection, and initiated the construction of a monument to Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski in Poznań.