Slava is a given name in

Slavic countries Slavs are the largest European ethnolinguistic group. They speak the various Slavic languages, belonging to the larger Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout northern Eurasia, main ...

. Slava is a common nickname for masculine Slavic names ending with "-slav", e.g. ''Vyacheslav'', ''Stanislav'', ''Yaroslav'', ''Sviatoslav'', ''Rostislav'', ''Mstislav'' or feminine Slavic names ending with "-slava", e.g. ''Miroslava'', ''Yaroslava''. Notable people whose given name has this etymology include: * Desi Slava (born 1979), Bulgarian musician (Desislava) *

Slava (singer) Anastasia Vladimirovna Slanevskaya (russian: Анастаси́я Влади́мировна Слане́вская; born 15 May 1980), known professionally as Slava (russian: Сла́ва), is a Russian singer, actress, model, and public figur ...

(born 1980), Russian singer (Anastasia) * Slava Bykov (born 1960), Russian ice hockey player and coach (Vyacheslav) *

Slava Fetisov Viacheslav Alexandrovich "Slava" Fetisov (Russian: Вячеслав Александрович Фетисов, ''Vjačeslav Aleksandrovič Fetisov''; born 20 April 1958) is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played for HC CS ...

(born 1958), Russian ice hockey player (Viacheslav) * Slava Frolova (born 1976), Ukrainian television presenter (Vyacheslava) * Slava Gerovitch (born 1963), American historian of Russian science (Vyacheslav) * Slava Kozlov (born 1972), Russian ice hockey player (Vyacheslav) *

Slava KPSS Vyacheslav Valerievich Mashnov (; born 9 May 1990) is a Russian hip-hop artist and streamer. Better known by stage names Slava KPSS (), Gnoyny (), Sonya Marmeladova (), Valentin Dyadka (), Ptichiy Pepel (), Vorovskaya Lapa (), Vyacheslav Karelin ...

(born 1990), Russian musician (Vyacheslav) * Slava Kravtsov (born 1987), Ukrainian basketball player (Viacheslav) * Slava Kurilov (1936–1998) Soviet, Canadian and Israeli oceanographer (Stanislav) * Slava Medvedenko (born 1979), Ukrainian basketball player (Stanislav) *

Slava Mogutin Slava Mogutin (full name Yaroslav Yurievich Mogutin, b. April 12, 1974, Kemerovo) is a New York-based Russian artist and author, who works across different media, including photography, video, text, installation, sculpture, and painting. Life ...

(born 1974), New York-based Russian artist and author (Yaroslav) *

Slava Polunin Vyacheslav Ivanovich “Slava” Polunin PARSlava Rychkov Vyacheslav Rychkov (called Slava Rychkov, Russian Вячеслав Рычков, transcription Vyacheslav Rychkov; born 27 May 1975 in Samara, Russia ) is a Russian-Italian-French theoretical physicist and mathematician. Career In 1996, Rychk ...

(born 1975), Russian-Italian-French physicist and mathematician (Vyacheslav) * Slava Stetsko (1920–2003), Ukrainian politician and World War II veteran (Yaroslava) *

Slava Tsukerman Vladislav "Slava" Tsukerman (russian: Сла́ва (Владисла́в Менделе́вич) Цукерма́н; born March 9, 1940) is a Russian people, Russian film director of Jewish origin. He was born in the Soviet Union and emigrated ...

(born 1940), Russian Jewish film director (Vladislav) *

Slava Turyshev Slava G. Turyshev (russian: Слава Турышев) is a Russian physicist now working in the US at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He is known for his investigations of the Pioneer anomaly, affecting Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacec ...

, Russian physicist working in the US (Vyacheslav) * Slava Vakarchuk (born 1975), Ukrainian musician, politician and activist (Svyatoslav) * Slava Voynov (born 1990), Russian ice hockey player (Vyacheslav) *

Slava Zaitsev Vyacheslav Mikhailovich "Slava" Zaitsev (russian: Вячеслав Михайлович Зайцев; born 2 March 1938) is a Russian fashion designer, painter, graphic artist and theatrical costume designer. Early life Zaitsev was born on 2 ...

(born 1938), Russian artist (Vyacheslav) Slava is also a full given name, masculine and feminine: *

Slava Amiragov Slava Lvovich Amiragov (russian: Слава Львович Амирагов, 24 March 1926 – 3 September 1990) was a Belarusian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympi ...

(1926–1990), Russian rower *

Slava Grigoryan Slava Grigoryan (born 1976) is an Australian classical guitarist and recording artist. He frequently collaborates and performs with his younger brother, fellow guitarist Leonard Grigoryan, performing as the Grigoryan Brothers. Early life He was ...

(born 1976), Australian musician *

Slava Marlow Artyom Artyomovich Gotlib (born October 27, 1999, in Novosibirsk), better known as Slava Marlow, is a Russian rapper, music producer and YouTuber. He first gained popularity after producing music for Russian rap star Morgenshtern in 2019. Since ...

(born 1999), Russian musician *

Slava Metreveli Slava Kalistratovich Metreveli ( ka, სლავა კალისტრატეს ძე მეტრეველი; russian: Слава Калистратович Метревели, 30 May 1936 – 7 January 1998) was a Soviet and G ...

(1936–1998), Georgian football player and manager *

Slava Raškaj Slava Raškaj (; 2 January 1877 – 29 March 1906) was a Croatian painter, considered to be the greatest Croatian watercolorist of the late 19th and early 20th century. Deaf since birth, Raškaj was schooled in Vienna and Zagreb, where her mentor ...

(1877–1906), Croatian painter

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