Ladislav is a Czech, Slovak and

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variant of the Slavic name Vladislav. The female form of this name is Ladislava.

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occasionally links ''Ladislav'' with the Slavic goddess Lada.

Spellings and variations

In Bulgarian and Russian this name is spelled in . '' László'' is a Hungarian variation of this name.

Athletes

* Ladislav Beneš, Czechoslovak Olympic handball player *

Ladislav Benýšek Ladislav Benýšek (born March 25, 1975) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 161 games in the National Hockey League with the Edmonton Oilers and Minnesota Wild between 1997 and 2003. The rest of his career, which laste ...

, Czech ice hockey player * Ladislav Čepčianský, Czechoslovak sprint canoer * Ladislav Dluhoš, Czechoslovak ski jumper * Ladislav Fouček *

Ladislav Hecht Ladislav Hecht (; hu, Hecht László ; August 31, 1909 – May 27, 2004) was a Jewish Czechoslovak-American professional tennis player. He won the gold medal in singles at the 1932 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine, and won the 1934 Hung ...

(1909–2004), Czechoslovak/American tennis player * Ladislav Hrubý, cross-country skier * Ladislav Jurkemik, Czechoslovak/Slovak footballer and manager * Ladislav Kačáni, Czechoslovak footballer and coach * Ladislav Kohn, Czech ice hockey player * Ladislav Kuna, Czechoslovak footballer * Ladislav Lubina, Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach * Ladislav Maier, Czech footballer * Ladislav Nagy, Slovak ice hockey player * Ladislav Novák, Czechoslovak footballer * Ladislav Pataki, Czechoslovak/American coach and sports scientist * Ladislav Pavlovič, Czechoslovak footballer * Ladislav Petráš, Czechoslovak footballer * Ladislav Prášil, Czech shot putter * Ladislav Rybánsky, Slovak footballer *

Ladislav Rygl, Jr. Ladislav Rygl Jr. (born May 15, 1976 in Vrchlabí) is a Czech Republic, Czech nordic combined skier who competed from 1995 to 2006. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he had his best overall finish of eighth in the 4 x 5 km team event at Naga ...

, Czech Nordic combined Olympic skier * Ladislav Rygl, Sr., Czechoslovak Nordic combined Olympic skier *

Ladislav Ščurko Ladislav Ščurko (born 4 April 1986) is a Slovak professional ice hockey center who currently playing for HC Prešov in Slovak 1. Liga. He previously played for HC Košice until he confessed to a murder of an ice hockey referee in April 200 ...

, Slovak ice hockey player and confessed murderer *

Ladislav Šimůnek Ladislav Šimůnek (4 October 1916 – 7 December 1969) was a Czech football player. He was a devoted player of SK Slavia Praha. He played for the Czechoslovakia national team (4 matches/3 goals) and was a participant at the 1938 FIFA World Cu ...

, Czechoslovak footballer * Ladislav Škorpil, Czech football manager * Ladislav Šmíd, Czech ice hockey player * Ladislav Švanda, Czech Olympic cross country skier *

Ladislav Troják Ladislav Troják (15 June 1914 – 8 November 1948) was the first Slovak ice hockey player in the national team of Czechoslovakia and also the first Slovak hockey player with a title of World Champion ( 1947 World Championship). Troják wore t ...

, Czechoslovak ice hockey player * Ladislav Trpkoš, Czechoslovak Olympic basketball player * Ladislav Vácha, Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast * Ladislav Vízek, Czechoslovak footballer *

Ladislav Volešák Ladislav Volešák (born 7 April 1984, in Hradištko pod Medníkem) is a Czech Republic, Czech football (soccer), football player who currently plays for TJ Slovan Hradištko, Slovan Hradištko.Ladislav Adamec, Czechoslovak Prime Minister, Communist politician *

Ladislav Miko Ladislav Miko (born 9 April 1961) is Slovak environmental expert and politician. He was the Minister of Environment in the caretaker government of Jan Fischer but later returned to work for the European Commission The European Commission ( ...

, Czech politician and expert on environmental issues * Ladislav Pejačević, Croatian politician,

Ban Ban, or BAN, may refer to: Law * Ban (law), a decree that prohibits something, sometimes a form of censorship, being denied from entering or using the place/item ** Imperial ban (''Reichsacht''), a form of outlawry in the medieval Holy Roman ...

of Croatia

Scientists

Ladislav Brožek Ladislav Brožek (born 1952) is a Slovak astronomer. At the Bohemian Kleť Observatory, he discovered a total of 23 minor planets between 1979 and 1982, as credited by the Minor Planet Center. One of his discoveries, the main-belt asteroid 26 ...

, Slovak astronomer * Ladislav František Čelakovský, Czech mycologist and botanist * Ladislav Josef Čelakovský, Czech botanist *

Ladislav Mucina Ladislav Mucina (born 28 May 1956) is a vegetation scientist and Professor and Iluka Chair of Vegetation Science and Biogeography at the School of Biological Science of The University of Western Australia in Perth. He was born on 28 May 1956 ...

, Slovak botanist, ecologist, and vegetation expert

Writers and artists

* Ladislav Bublík (1924-1988), Czech writer *

Ladislav Fialka Ladislav Fialka (August 22, 1931 in Prague – February 22, 1991 in Prague) was a mime from what is now the Czech Republic. In 1956 he founded a theater. Helena Philipová, Ivan Vyskočil, Jiří Suchý and Vladimír Vodička also contributed to ...

, Czechoslovak mime * Ladislav Fuks, Czechoslovak novelist * Ladislav "Ladi" Geisler, Czechoslovak musician * Ladislav Klíma, Czech philosopher and novelist * Ladislav Kralj, Croatian painter and engraver * Ladislav Kubík, Czechoslovak/American composer * Ladislav Kupkovič, Czechoslovak composer and conductor * Ladislav Mňačko, Czechoslovak writer and journalist * Ladislav Mráz, Czechoslovak opera singer *

Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé Dr Ján Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé (12 February 1866, in Dolný Kubín – 2 July 1940, in Dolný Kubín) was a Slovak writer, literary critic and doctor. Life He was born into a lawyer's family in Dolný Kubín, and studied in Kežmarok, Ružom ...

, Slovak writer, literary critic, and doctor * Ladislav Šaloun, Czechoslovak sculptor *

Ladislav Slovák Ladislav Slovák (10 September 1919, Veľké Leváre – 22 July 1999, Bratislava) was a Slovaks, Slovak conductor. He was a long-time director of the Slovak Philharmonic, taking over the job from his teacher and mentor Václav Talich. Amongst h ...

, Czechoslovak conductor * Ladislav Smoček, Czech playwright and theater director * Ladislav Smoljak, Czechoslovak film and theater director * Ladislav Stroupežnický, Austro-Hungarian/Czech author, playwright, and director * Ladislav Vycpálek, Czechoslovak composer and violinist

Others

* Ladislav Hudec, Austro-Hungarian/Slovak architect *

Ladislav Kovács Guardian usually refers to: * Legal guardian, a person with the authority and duty to care for the interests of another * ''The Guardian'', a British daily newspaper (The) Guardian(s) may also refer to: Places * Guardian, West Virginia, Unit ...

, Slovak Professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player * Ladislav Prokeš, Czechoslovak chess master and composer of endgame studies * Ladislav Žák, Czechoslovak architect and painter * Ladislav Zgusta, Czechoslovak linguist, historian and theorist of lexicography