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This name was very common in 1900s Polish communities in America. It was widely Americanized into "Walter"— I'm guessing because the 'W', 'l/ł', and 't/d' are similar enough sounding consonants in the same order in both names, plus the 'a' sound in both is pretty similar if not the same. I've also seen it in the form "Ladislaus", though this was moreso an alternate rendering of "Władysław" for record-keeping, as opposed to actually being the name used day-to-day by Polish-Americans.
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Wladyslaw Szpilman was a famous Polish pianist and composer who survived the holocaust, who the film The Pianist is based on.
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Wladyslaw Reymont (1867-1925) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. His major work was "The Peasants".
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This name for me is very special, it was the name of my beautiful Polish grandfather, who I miss so much. Anyway in England where he came to settle after the war, his new frinds and colleagues gave him the name "Tony" as it was easier to pronounce! What a crime! Wladyslaw was so much grander than that.
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It seems to be a variant of Wieslaw or Wieslawa and these are often interchangeable and similiarly has Wladislaw and Wladislawa as it's male and female versions. When angry (which was often :)) my mother-in-law would also use the diminutions: Wladka and Wladja when referring to my then girlfriend.
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