Bohumil is a
Slavic male given name. Means "favoured by God" from the Slavic elements bog ''god'' and mil ''favour''. Pronounced ''baw-huw-MIL''. Nicknames are Bob, Bobby, Bohouš, Bohoušek, Bohuš, Mila, Milek, Bogie, Boga, Bozha. Another forms are
Bogumił, Bogomil, Bogolyub. Feminine version is Bohumila, Bogumiła, Bogumila and Bogomila.
Name Days
*Czech: ''3 October''
*Slovak: ''3 March''
*Polish: ''13 January'', ''18 January'', ''26 February'', ''10 June'' or ''3 November''
Famous bearers
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Bogumilus
Bogumilus, in Polish Bogumił Piotr, (also known as Bogimilus and Theophilus)[Bohumil Makovsky
Bohumil (Boh) Makovsky (September 23, 1878 – June 12, 1950) was a band director and head of the Department of Music at Oklahoma A&M College (now known as Oklahoma State University) from 1915 to 1945. He is considered "the Guiding Spirit" of Ka ...]
, Czech American band leader
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Bohumil Hrabal
Bohumil Hrabal (; 28 March 1914 – 3 February 1997) was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century.
Early life
Hrabal was born in Židenice (suburb of Brno) on 28 March 1914, in what was then the province ...
, Czech writer
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Bohumil Brhel
Bohumil "Bo" Brhel is a Czech speedway rider and he won the 2001 Individual European Champion title. He won the Czechoslovakian title on six occasions
Career
World Final Appearances
* 1989 - Munich, Olympic Stadium - 16th - 1pt
*1994 - Voje ...
, Czech speedway rider
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Bohumil Mořkovský
Bohumil Mořkovský (December 14, 1899 – July 16, 1928) was a Czech gymnast who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in Valašské Meziříčí, Moravia. He died less than a month before he co ...
, Czech gymnast
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Bohumil Kudrna
Bohumil Kudrna (15 March 1920 – 11 February 1991) was a Czechoslovak flatwater and slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals with Jan Brzák-Felix in the C-2 1 ...
, Czechoslovak flatwater canoer
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Bohumil Janoušek
Bohumil Janoušek (or Bob Janousek; born 7 September 1937) is a Czech rower who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1960 Summer Olympics and in the 1964 Summer Olympics, and later moved to Britain as a rowing coach and then a boat-builder.
He ...
, Czech rower
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Bohumil Golián, Slovak former volleyball player
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Bohumil Němeček
Bohumil Němeček (2 January 1938 – 3 May 2010) was a Czechoslovak welterweight
Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like Muay Thai, taekwondo, ...
, Czechoslovak welterweight boxer
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Bohumil Kafka
Bohumil Kafka (14 February 1878 in Nová Paka – 24 November 1942 in Prague) was a Czech sculptor and pedagogue.
He studied in Prague with sculptor Josef Václav Myslbek before moving to Vienna and then Paris to continue his studies. He worked ...
, Czech sculptor and pedagogue
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Bohumil Shimek, Naturalist, conservationist and professor
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, Czech poet, translator, publicist and literary scientist
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Bohumil Stasa, Former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
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Bohumil Modrý
Bohumil Modrý (24 September 1916 – 21 July 1963) was a goaltender for the Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team which won the silver medal at the 1948 Olympics and the 2 gold medals - at the 1947 World Championship and at the 1 ...
, Czech ice hockey player
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Bohumil Kubišta
Bohumil Kubišta (21 August 1884 in Vlčkovice, Bohemia – 27 November 1918 in Prague)Chilvers, Ian, and John Glaves-Smith. "Kubišta, Bohumil." in ''A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art''. Oxford University Press, 2009. Oxford Reference ...
, Czech painter and art critic
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Bohumil Veselý
Bohumil Veselý (born 18 June 1945) is a retired Czech footballer.
During his career he played for AC Sparta Prague. He earned 26 caps for the Czechoslovakia national football team, and participated in the 1970 FIFA World Cup
The 1970 FIFA ...
, Czech footballer
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Bohumil Kučera, Czech physicist
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Bohumil Müller
Bohumil Müller (30 June 1915 – 7 November 1987) was a religious leader of Jehovah's Witnesses in Czechoslovakia during World War II and the communist period, when their activities were banned by the Nazis and later by the communists. He spent ...
, An underground leader
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Bohumil Durdis
Bohumil Durdis (1 March 1903, in Prague – 16 March 1983, in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Czech weightlifter who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1924 Summer Olympics
The 1924 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), offici ...
, Czech weightlifter
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, Czech former handball player
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Bohumil Doležal
Bohumil Doležal (born January 17, 1940), is a Czech literary critic, politician and former dissident. He was a political advisor to Václav Klaus, the former Czech prime minister.
Doležal was born in Prague, and graduated in 1962 after studying ...
, Czech literary critic
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Bohumil Laušman
Bohumil Laušman (30 August 1903, Žumberk, Kingdom of Bohemia – 9 May 1963, Prague) was a Czech Social Democratic politician.
During World War II he was in exile in Great Britain, where he was a member of the Czechoslovak government in exile ...
, Czech social Democratic
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Bogumił Kobiela
Bogumił Kobiela (31 May 1931 – 10 July 1969) was a Polish stage and film actor. He was an actor of , Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw, Komedia Theatre in Warsaw, Bim-Bom student theatre, Kabaret Wagabunda and Kabaret Dudek. He suffered serious i ...
, Polish film actor
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Bohumila Kapplová
Bohumila Kapplová (born September 27, 1944) is a former Czechoslovak slalom canoeist who competed in the 1960s and 1970s. She finished eighth in the K-1 event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, ...
, Czech Olympic canoer
See also
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Slavic names
Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic countries.
The main types of Slavic names:
* Two-basic names, often ending in mir/měr (''Ostromir/měr'', ''Tihomir/měr'', '' Němir/měr''), *voldъ (''Vsevolod'', ...
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Bogomil (name)
Bogomil (Cyrillic: Богомил, also Bogumił in Polish, Bohumil in Czech and Slovak) is a Bulgarian given name of Slavic origin. It is composed of the Slavic words 'bog' (god) and 'mil' (dear) and means 'Dear to God'.
Its feminine equivalent ...
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Bogomilism
Bogomilism (Bulgarian and Macedonian: ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", bogumilstvo, богумилство) was a Christian neo-Gnostic or dualist sect founded in the First Bulgarian Empire by the priest Bogomil during the reign of Tsar Pete ...
External links
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