Stefan Sznuk, OC (1896 – May 6, 1986) was a pioneering Polish aviator, as well as an Air Force Major-General and was among the first to join the new Polish Air Force in 1919. Born in Warsaw, he was educated at the Warsaw University of Technology. He fought in World War I for Imperial Russia and later, after the Russian revolution, with the counterrevolutionary White Russians. In 1970, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He died on 1986-05-06 in Ottawa, and was buried in the Notre-Dame Cemetery (Ottawa).