Ladislav is a

Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus' Places *Czech, ...

, Slovak and Croatian variant of the Slavic name

Vladislav Vladislav ( be, Уладзіслаў (', '); pl, Władysław (disambiguation), Władysław, ; Russian language, Russian, Ukrainian language, Ukrainian, Bulgarian language, Bulgarian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, sh-Cyrl, Владислав ...

. 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 Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

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 Champio ...

, 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 Ladislav Hrubý (born 22 November 1934) is a Czech cross-country skier. He competed in the men's 15 kilometre event at the 1964 Winter Olympics The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympisch ...

, 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 Ladislav Kuna (3 April 1947 – 1 February 2012) was a Slovak football player and manager, who played as a central midfielder. He played 424 matches and scored 86 goals in the Czechoslovak First League, all for Spartak Trnava. His number of appe ...

, Czechoslovak footballer *

Ladislav Lubina Ladislav Lubina (11 February 1967 – 13 September 2021) was a Czech ice hockey player and coach. He was drafted by the Minnesota North Stars in the 11th round of the 1985 NHL Entry Draft, but never played in the National Hockey League (NHL). Pl ...

, Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach *

Ladislav Maier Ladislav Maier (born 4 January 1966 in Boskovice) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played seven matches for the Czech Republic and participated at Euro 1996 and Euro 2000. At club level he took part in five ...

, Czech footballer *

Ladislav Nagy Ladislav Nagy (; born 1 June 1979) is a Slovak former professional ice hockey player. He played eight seasons as a left winger in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the St. Louis Blues, Phoenix Coyotes, Dallas Stars, and Los Angeles Kings. E ...

, Slovak ice hockey player *

Ladislav Novák Ladislav Novák (5 December 1931 – 21 March 2011) was a Czech football defender and later a football manager. He played 75 matches for Czechoslovakia, 71 of them as a team captain.

, Czechoslovak footballer *

Ladislav Pataki Ladislav Pataki (June 20, 1946 – April 5, 2007) was an American coach, sports scientist, and masters track and field thrower. He defected from Czechoslovakia in 1985 with his wife and daughter, settling in Los Gatos, California. Dr. Pataki se ...

, Czechoslovak/American coach and sports scientist *

Ladislav Pavlovič Ladislav Pavlovič (8 April 1926 – 28 January 2013) was a Slovak football player. He played for Czechoslovakia national team in 14 matches and scored two goals. He was a participant at the Euro 1960, where he played in five matches and score ...

, Czechoslovak footballer *

Ladislav Petráš Ladislav Petráš (born 1 December 1946) is a former Slovak football player. He played 19 matches for Czechoslovakia national team and scored six goals. Petráš was a participant at the 1970 FIFA World Cup, where he played three matches and s ...

, Czechoslovak footballer *

Ladislav Prášil Ladislav Prášil (; born 17 May 1990) is a Czech shot putter. He won his first major medal, a bronze, at the 2013 European Indoor Championships. He repeated this achievement on home soil, coming third at the 2015 European Indoor Championship ...

, Czech shot putter *

Ladislav Rybánsky Ladislav Rybánsky (born 19 December 1984) is a Slovak footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. Career Rybánsky began his career 2001 with Spartak Trnava. In 2005, he was loaned to FK Nove Zamky. After one season with FK Nove Zamky, he returned t ...

, Slovak footballer * Ladislav Rygl, Jr., 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, Slovak ice hockey player and confessed murderer * Ladislav Šimůnek, 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 Ladislav Švanda (born 14 February 1959 in Prague) is a former Czechoslovakia, Czech cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skier who raced from 1982 to 1990. He earned a bronze medal in the 4 × 10 km relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics i ...

, Czech Olympic cross country skier * Ladislav Troják, 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, Czech footballer

Politicians

Ladislav Adamec Ladislav Adamec (10 September 1926 – 14 April 2007) was a Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, communist politician. Early life Adamec was born in Moravia on 10 September 1926. Career Adamec joined the Presidiu ...

, Czechoslovak Prime Minister, Communist politician * Ladislav Miko, 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 aristo ...

, Croatian politician, Ban 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 Ladislav Klíma (22 August 1878 – 19 April 1928), was a Czech philosopher and novelist influenced by George Berkeley, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. His philosophy is referred to varyingly as existentialism and subjective idealism. Life Ladis ...

, 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 Ladislav Smoček (born 24 August 1932, Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech writer, playwright and theater director. Biography He comes from a family with a military tradition. His father was an officer in The Czechoslovakian Army. After studyi ...

, 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 Ladislav Vycpálek (Vršovice, Prague, 23 February 1882 – Prague, 9 January 1969) was a Czech Republic, Czech composer and Viola, violist. Vycpálek studied composition under Vítězslav Novák. However, he very soon found his own expressive st ...

, Czechoslovak composer and violinist

Others

* Ladislav Hudec, Austro-Hungarian/Slovak architect * Ladislav Kovács, Slovak Professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player *

Ladislav Prokeš Ladislav Prokeš (7 June 1884 – 9 January 1966) was a Czech chess master and one of the most prolific composers of endgame studies in chess. He was born and died in Prague. Prokeš was joint Czechoslovak Chess Championship, Czech Champion in 19 ...

, 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 Ladislav Zgusta (20 March 1924 in Libochovice – 27 April 2007 in Urbana, Illinois) was a Czech-American historical linguist and lexicographer, who wrote one of the first textbooks on lexicography. He was a professor of linguistics and classics at ...

, Czechoslovak linguist, historian and theorist of lexicography

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