Wacław Rzewuski (1705–1779) was a Polish drama writer and poet as well as a military commander and a Grand Crown Hetman. As a notable nobleman and magnate, Rzewuski held a number of important posts in the administration of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Since 1778 he was the castellan of Kraków and the voivode of Kraków Voivodship. At the end of his life he was also the starost of Chełm, Ułany, Romanów, Dolina, Drohobycz and Kruszwica. He was also the great-grandfather of Ewelina Hańska, wife of French author Honoré de Balzac.