Chris Polian (fl. 2013), son of Bill; American football executive
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Brian Polian (born 1974), another son of Bill; American football coach
Polian was fired by owner Jim Irsay after the Colts finished with a 2–14 record in the 2011 season.
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In 1997, Polian was hired as President and decided to build through the draft as the Colts would have the number 1 overall pick for 1998; the Colts picked Peyton Manning.
The Russian scholar Pavel Polian in 2001 published an account of the deportations during the Soviet era, Against Their Will, Polian's study detailed the Soviet statistics on the employment of German civilian labor during the Stalin era.