Ladislav is a Czech, Slovak and Croatian variant of the Slavic name Vladislav. The female form of this name is Ladislava.

Folk etymology Folk etymology (also known as popular etymology, analogical reformation, reanalysis, morphological reanalysis or etymological reinterpretation) is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more famili ...

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

Spellings and variations

Bulgarian Bulgarian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria * Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group * Bulgarian language, a Slavic language * Bulgarian alphabet * A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria * Bul ...

and Russian this name is spelled in . ''

László László () is a Hungarian male given name and surname after the King-Knight Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary (1077–1095). It derives from Ladislav, a variant of Vladislav. Other versions are Lessl or Laszly. The name has a history of being frequen ...

'' is a Hungarian variation of this name.

Athletes

Ladislav Beneš Ladislav Beneš (born 9 July 1943 in Zlín) is a Czechoslovak handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (ger ...

, Czechoslovak Olympic handball player * Ladislav Benýšek, Czech ice hockey player *

Ladislav Čepčianský Ladislav Čepčianský (2 February 1931 – 2 October 2021) was a Czechoslovak sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. He won a silver medal in the K-1 10000 m event at the 1958 ICF Canoe Sprint World Champi ...

, Czechoslovak sprint canoer *

Ladislav Dluhoš Ladislav Dluhoš (born October 6, 1965 in Čeladná) is a Czechoslovakian/Czech former ski jumper who competed from 1984 to 1995. He earned two bronze medals in the Team large hill event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (1984, 1989) ...

, Czechoslovak ski jumper *

Ladislav Fouček Ladislav Fouček (10 December 1930 – 4 July 1974) was an Czechoslovak cyclist. He won silver medals in Men's 1,000 metres Time Trial and Men's Tandem Sprint, 2000 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officia ...

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 Ladislav Jurkemik (born 20 July 1953) is a former Slovak football player and later a football manager. He played in the Czechoslovak First League for Inter Bratislava and Dukla Banská Bystrica. Jurkemik played internationally for Czechoslovak ...

, Czechoslovak/Slovak footballer and manager *

Ladislav Kačáni Ladislav Kačáni (1 April 1931 – 5 February 2018) was a Slovak football player. He played for Czechoslovakia national team in 20 matches and scored three goals. He was a participant at the 1954 FIFA World Cup, where he played in two matches. ...

, Czechoslovak footballer and coach *

Ladislav Kohn Ladislav Kohn (born March 4, 1975) is a Czech former professional ice hockey Forward who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Atlanta Thrashers and the Detroit Red Win ...

, 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. Ladislav Rygl Sr. (born 16 July 1947 in Polubný, Kořenov) is a former Czechoslovak nordic combined skier who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He won a gold medal in the individual event at the 1970 FIS Nordic World Ski Championsh ...

, 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 Ladislav Škorpil (born 6 June 1945, in Hradec Králové) is a former Czech football player and former manager of the Czech club FC Slovan Liberec. Škorpil is also a member of the Civic Democratic Party in his hometown of Hradec Králové. Co ...

, Czech football manager *

Ladislav Šmíd Ladislav Šmíd (, born February 1, 1986) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman who formerly played for HC Bílí Tygři Liberec of the Czech Extraliga (ELH). Before he moved to the ELH, he played in the National Hockey League (N ...

, 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 Ladislav Trpkoš (17 January 1915 in Vysoké Mýto – 30 November 2004)František Kolář ''Encyklopedie olympioniků. Čeští a českoslovenští sportovci na olympijských hrách'', ed. Euromedia Group, Prague 2021, p. 423 was a Czech bask ...

, Czechoslovak Olympic basketball player *

Ladislav Vácha Ladislav Vácha (21 March 1899 in Brno – 28 June 1943) was a Czech gymnast and Olympic champion competing for Czechoslovakia. He competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where he received a bronze medal in ''rope climbing'' and ''ri ...

, Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast *

Ladislav Vízek Ladislav Vízek (born 22 January 1955 in Chlumec nad Cidlinou) is a Czech football player. He played 55 matches for Czechoslovakia and scored 13 goals. He played in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, and was sent off in Czechoslovakia's final game, ...

, 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 Count Ladislav Pejačević of Virovitica ( en, Ladislaus Peyachevich of Virovitica, hr, Ladislav Pejačević Virovitički, hu, Pejácsevics László; Sopron, Kingdom of Hungary 5 April 1824 – Našice, 7 April 1901) was a Croatian aristocr ...

, 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, Slovak astronomer *

Ladislav František Čelakovský Ladislav František Čelakovský (December 3, 1863 – December 31, 1916) was a Czech mycologist and botanist born in Prague. He was the son of botanist Ladislav Josef Čelakovský (1834–1902). Čelakovský was a professor of plant physiolog ...

, Czech mycologist and botanist *

Ladislav Josef Čelakovský Ladislav Josef Čelakovský (November 29, 1834 – November 24, 1902) was a Czech botanist born in Prague. He was the son of writer František Ladislav Čelakovský, and father to mycologist Ladislav František Čelakovský (1864-1916). He studie ...

, 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 Ladislav Bublík (Bzenec 14 May 1924 - Ostrava Ostrava (; pl, Ostrawa; german: Ostrau ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies from the bo ...

(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 Ladislav Fuks (September 24, 1923 in Prague – August 19, 1994 in Prague) was a Czech novelist. He focused mainly on psychological novels, portraying the despair and suffering of people under German occupation of Czechoslovakia. Fuks was born in ...

, Czechoslovak novelist * Ladislav "Ladi" Geisler, Czechoslovak musician * Ladislav Klíma, Czech philosopher and novelist *

Ladislav Kralj Ladislav Kralj-Međimurec (Čakovec, 24 April 1891 – 9 February 1976) was a Croatian painter and engraver. In the history of Croatian painting he is best known for his landscapes of his home county, Međimurje, and Zagorje, which he crea ...

, Croatian painter and engraver *

Ladislav Kubík Ladislav Kubík (26 August 1946 – 27 October 2017) was a Czech-American composer. His style is associated with other post-war Eastern European composers, such as Krzysztof Penderecki and Witold Lutosławski. He graduated from the Music and Danc ...

, Czechoslovak/American composer *

Ladislav Kupkovič Ladislav Kupkovič (17 March 1936 – 15 June 2016) was a Slovak composer and conductor . Life Kupkovič was born in Bratislava, and studied violin and conducting there, first at the conservatory, then at the Academy of Performing Arts. He ...

, Czechoslovak composer and conductor *

Ladislav Mňačko Ladislav Mňačko (28 January 1919 in Valašské Klobouky – 24 February 1994 in Bratislava) was a Slovak writer and journalist. He took part in the partisan movement in Slovakia during World War II. After the war, he was at first a staunc ...

, Czechoslovak writer and journalist *

Ladislav Mráz Ladislav Mráz (25 September 1923 – 7 May 1962) was a Czech operatic bass-baritone who had an active career in Czechoslovakia from 1943 through 1962. His voice is preserved on a number of recordings made on the Supraphon label, including comple ...

, Czechoslovak opera singer * Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé, Slovak writer, literary critic, and doctor *

Ladislav Šaloun Ladislav Jan Šaloun (1 August 1870, Prague – 18 October 1946, Prague) was a prominent Czech sculptor of the Art Nouveau period. Life Šaloun was born in 1870 in Prague and he studied in the studios of Tomáš Seidan and Bohuslav Schnirch.< ...

, 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 Ladislav Smoljak (9 December 1931 – 6 June 2010) was a Czechs, Czech film and theater director, actor and screenwriter. He was born in Prague. Smoljak tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to study phys ...

, Czechoslovak film and theater director *

Ladislav Stroupežnický Ladislav Stroupežnický (6 January 1850 – 11 August 1892) was a renowned Czech author, playwright, and dramatist, best known for the frequently staged play ''Naši furianti''. Life He was born at Cerhonice and attended high school at Píse ...

, 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 Ladislav Žák (June 25, 1900 – May 26, 1973 in Prague) was a Czechs, Czech architect, painter, architectural theorist and teacher. He was an important exponent of the Czech functionalist architecture in the 1930s, later he devoted himself ...

, Czechoslovak architect and painter * Ladislav Zgusta, Czechoslovak linguist, historian and theorist of lexicography

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