Ludwik Szymon Gutakowski of the Gutak coat of arms (28 October 1738 - 1 December 1811 in Warsaw) was the second Prime Minister of Poland , and the President of the Council of State and of the Cabinet.

He was educated at the Collegium Nobilium in Warsaw , an elite boarding school. He was a chamberlain to both Augustus III and to Stanisław August Poniatowski because his family had supported the latterking's election, but this was only an honorary position. ^[1] In the 1770s, he participated in diplomatic excursion to Saint Petersburg and to London . In 1778, he became a member of the Permanent Council and in the following year briefly stood in for Ignacy Potocki as the Marshal when he was unavailable. He was an envoy at the Four-Year Sejm , at which he supported the Constitution of 3 May . Later, however, he participated in the Russian-led Confederation of Targowica , which was opposed to the Constitution. ^[2] As part of the anti-Russian Ko?ciuszko Uprising , he was a member of the Supreme National Council . In November 1806, he was chosen to greet Joachim Murat upon his arrival in Warsaw.

With Teresa Sobolewska, he had one son, Wacław Gutakowski , born 7 March 1790, an adjutant of Aleksandr I , and through his marriage to Jozefa Grudzi?ska, sister of Joanna Grudzi?ska , the brother-in-law of his brother the Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich . ^[3]

In 1780, he was given the Order of St. Stanislaus . ^[4]

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