Włodzimierz Adam Kolanowski (11 August 1913 – 31 March 1944) was a Polish Vickers Wellington bomber “Observer and Captain” flying from England when he was taken prisoner during the Second World War. He is notable for the part he took in the 'Great Escape' from the Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp in March 1944 and as one of the men recaptured and subsequently shot by the Gestapo.