Yaroslav () is a
Slavic given name. Its variant spelling is
Jaroslav
Jaroslav (also written as Yaroslav or Jarosław in other Slavic languages) is a Czech and Slovak first name, pagan in origin.
There are several possible origins of the name Jaroslav. It is very likely that originally the two elements of the na ...
and Iaroslav, and its feminine form is Yaroslava. The surname derived from the name is
Yaroslavsky and its variants. All may refer to:
Historical figures
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Yaroslav I the Wise
Yaroslav the Wise or Yaroslav I Vladimirovich; russian: Ярослав Мудрый, ; uk, Ярослав Мудрий; non, Jarizleifr Valdamarsson; la, Iaroslaus Sapiens () was the Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 until his death. He was als ...
(978–1054), Grand Prince of Kiev, later King Jaroslav I of Kiev, and son of Vladimir the Great, founder of Yaroslav the city
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Yaroslav II of Kiev Yaroslav II Iziaslavich (russian: Ярослав Изяславич; uk, Ярослав Ізяславич) (died 1180?), Prince of Turov (1146), Novgorod (1148–1154), Lutsk (1154–1180) and Grand Prince of Kiev (Kyiv, 1174–1175, 1180). He was ...
(died 1180), son of Iziaslav II of Kiev
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Yaroslav II of Vladimir
Yaroslav II (), Christian name ''Theodor'' () (8 February 1191 – 30 September 1246) was the Grand Prince of Vladimir (1238–1246) who helped to restore his country and capital after the Mongol invasion of Rus'.
Prince of Pereyaslav
Yaroslav ...
(1191–1246), Grand Prince and son of Vsevolod the Big Nest and Maria Shvarnovna
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Yaroslav of Tver
Yaroslav III Yaroslavich (1230–1271) (Russian: Ярослав Ярославич) was the first Prince of Tver and the tenth Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1264 to 1271. Yaroslav and his son Mikhail Yaroslavich presided over Tver's transfor ...
(1220–1271), sometimes called Yaroslav III, Grand Prince and son of Yaroslav II of Vladimir
Contemporary people with the given name
Yaroslav
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Yaroslav Amosov
Yaroslav Amosov (born 9 September 1993) is a Ukrainian mixed martial artist, currently competing in the welterweight division of Bellator MMA, where he is the current Bellator Welterweight Champion. As of June 28, 2022, he is #4 in the Bellator ...
(born 1993), Ukrainian mixed martial arts fighter
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Yaroslav Askarov
Yaroslav Vladimirovich Askarov (russian: Ярослав Владимирович Аскаров; born 16 June 2002) is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Milwaukee Admirals in the American Hockey League (AHL) a ...
(born 2002), Russian ice hockey player
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Yaroslav Blanter (born 1967), Russian physicist
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Yaroslav Levchenko
Yaroslav Levchenko Yury (born September 5, 1987) is a Russian artist based in Greece. He is a member of the Japanese Union of Modern Artists, International Association of Art Critics, and heads the International Relations Department at the Mur ...
(born 1987), Russian artist based in Greece
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Yaroslav Paniot
Yaroslav Vadymovych Paniot ( uk, Ярослав Вадимович Паніот, born 26 December 1997) is a Ukrainian-American figure skater who competes for the United States. He is the 2021 U.S. national pewter medalist.
Representing Ukrain ...
(born 1997), Ukrainian figure skater
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Yaroslav Rakitskiy (born 1989), Ukrainian footballer
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Yaroslav Senyshyn
Yaroslav Senyshyn, also known as Slava, is a Canadian pianist, author, and professor of philosophy, music aesthetics, and moral education at Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Education.
Education
Senyshyn was one of two pupils of Antonina Ya ...
, also known as Slava, Canadian pianist, author, professor of philosophy of music aesthetics, philosophy, and moral education
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Yaroslav Stetsko
Yaroslav Semenovich Stetsko (; 19 January 1912 – 5 July 1986) was a Ukrainian politician, writer and Nazi collaborator, who served as the leader of Stepan Bandera's Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), from 1968 until his death. Dur ...
(1912-1986), leader of the Stepan Banderas Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)
Yaroslava
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Yaroslava Bondarenko
Yaroslava Aleksandrovna Bondarenko (russian: Ярослава Александровна Бондаренко; born 27 February 1997) is a Russian cyclist. She represented her country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in BMX
BMX, an abbreviatio ...
(born 1997), Russian cyclist
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Yaroslava Frolova
Yaroslava Vladimirovna Frolova (russian: Ярослава Владимировна Фролова; born 18 May 1997) is a Russian handballer for Rostov-Don and the Russian national team.
Achievements
*Russian Super League:
**''Winner'': 2014
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(born 1997), Russian handball player
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Yaroslava Mahuchikh
Yaroslava Oleksiyivna Mahuchikh ( uk, Ярослава Олексіївна Магучіх; ; born 19 September 2001) is a Ukrainian high jumper. She was the 2020 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, 2019 and 2022 World Championships silver medali ...
(born 2001), Ukrainian high jumper.
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Yaroslava Nechaeva
Yaroslava "Yasa" Nechaeva (russian: Ярослава Нечаева, also romanized as ''Iaroslava Netchaeva'') is a former ice dancer who competed with Yuri Chesnichenko for the Soviet Union, Russia, and Latvia. She currently lives in Ann Arbor, ...
, ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union, Russia, and Latvia
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Yaroslava Pavlovich
Yaroslava Anatolyevna Pavlovich ( be, Ярослава Анатольевна Павлович; born 2 November 1969, in Pinsk) is a Belarusian rowing cox
Cox may refer to:
* Cox (surname), including people with the name
Companies
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(born 1969), Belarusian rowing player
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Yaroslava Plaviuk (born 1926), Ukrainian women's movement leader and activist
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Yaroslava Shvedova
Yaroslava Vyacheslavovna Shvedova (; born 12 September 1987) is a Kazakhstani former professional tennis player. Before 2008, she represented her country of birth, Russia.
She won one singles title and 13 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, plus o ...
(born 1987), Russian-born Kazakhstan tennis player
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Yaroslava Yakushina
Yaroslava Ivanovna Yakushina (russian: Ярослава Ивановна Якушина, born 24 June 1993) is a Russian boxer. She competed in the middleweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos ...
(born 1993), Russian middleweight boxer
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Drobný
Jaroslav Drobný (; 12 October 1921 – 13 September 2001) was a World No. 1 amateur tennis and ice hockey champion. He left Czechoslovakia in 1949 and travelled as an Egyptian citizen before becoming a citizen of the United Kingdom in 1959, w ...
, Czech tennis player
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Jaroslav Foglar
Jaroslav Foglar (6 July 1907 – 23 January 1999) was a Czechoslovak writer who wrote many novels about youths (partly also about Boy Scouts movement) and their adventures in nature and dark city streets. His signature series is ''Rychlé šípy'' ...
, Czech novelist
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Jaroslav Halák
Jaroslav Halák (; born 13 May 1985) is a Slovak professional ice hockey goaltender for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Halák was selected with the 271st overall pick by the Montreal Canadiens in the ninth and final ro ...
, Slovak ice hockey player
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Jaroslav Hašek
Jaroslav Hašek (; 1883–1923) was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian and anarchist. He is best known for his novel '' The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War'', an unfinished collection of farcical incide ...
, Czech author
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Jaroslav Heyrovský
Jaroslav Heyrovský () (December 20, 1890 – March 27, 1967) was a Czech chemist and inventor. Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959 for his ...
, Czech chemist and inventor, recipient of the Nobel prize
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Jaroslav Janiš
Jaroslav "Jarek" Janiš (born 8 July 1983) is a Czech auto racing driver. In 2006 he is racing in the FIA GT Championship. He has taken three pole positions Brno, Dijon and the Hungaroring turning two of them into victories, teamed with Sascha ...
, Czech race car driver
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Jaroslav Janus
Jaroslav Janus (born 21 September 1989) is a Slovakia, Slovak professional ice hockey Goaltender (ice hockey), goaltender. He is currently playing for HC Košice of the Tipos Extraliga, Slovak Extraliga.
Janus was selected by the Tampa Bay Light ...
, Slovak ice hockey player
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Jaroslav Jakubovič
Jaroslav Jakubovič (born 1948) is a Czech-born Israeli jazz saxophonist, composer and record producer.
Biography
Born in Czechoslovakia, Jakubovič emigrated to Israel, via Switzerland in 1968, as a result of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechosl ...
, Czech jazz saxophonist
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Jaroslav Levinský
Jaroslav Levinský (born 11 February 1981) is a professional doubles tennis player from the Czech Republic.
Levinsky reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 239, achieved on 23 September 2002. He also reached a career-high doubles r ...
, Czech tennis player
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Jaroslav Modrý
Jaroslav Modrý (born 27 February 1971) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenseman who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New Jersey Devils, Ottawa Senators, Los Angeles Kings, Atlanta Thrashers, Dallas Star ...
, former Czech ice hockey player
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Jaroslav Nešetřil
Jaroslav (Jarik) Nešetřil (; born March 13, 1946 in Brno) is a Czech mathematician, working at Charles University in Prague. His research areas include combinatorics (structural combinatorics, Ramsey theory), graph theory (coloring problems, s ...
, Czech mathematician
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Jaroslav Pelikan
Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Jr. (December 17, 1923 – May 13, 2006) was an American scholar of the history of Christianity, Christian theology, and medieval intellectual history at Yale University.
Early years
Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Jr. was born on Dec ...
, American Christian scholar
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Jaroslav Pospíšil
Jaroslav Pospíšil (; born 9 February 1981) is a Czech tennis player playing on the ITF Futures Tour and ATP Challenger Tour. On 23 May 2011 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 103. The following year, on 1 October 2012, h ...
, Czech tennis player
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Jaroslav Seifert
Jaroslav Seifert (; 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. Seifert was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides ...
, Czech poet, recipient of the Nobel prize
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Jaroslav Špaček
Jaroslav Spacek (; born February 11, 1974) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for over 13 seasons with the Florida Panthers, Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, Edmonton Oiler ...
, Czech Ice Hockey player
Jarosław
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Jarosław, Duke of Opole
Jarosław of Opole ( pl, Jarosław opolski ; aft. 1143 – 22 March 1201) was a Duke of Opole from 1173 and Bishop of Wrocław from 1198 until his death.
He was the oldest son of Bolesław I the Tall, by his first wife Zvenislava, daugh ...
(c. 1143–1201), Duke Opole from 1173 and Bishop of Wrocław from 1198 until his death
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Jarosław z Bogorii i Skotnik
Jarosław (; uk, Ярослав, Yaroslav, ; yi, יאַרעסלאָוו, Yareslov; german: Jaroslau) is a town in south-eastern Poland, with 38,970 inhabitants, as of 30 June 2014. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), previ ...
(c. 1276–1376), Polish nobleman and bishop, member of the Bogoriowie family of the Bogorya
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Jarosław Dąbrowski
Jarosław Żądło-Dąbrowski (; 13 November 1836 – 23 May 1871), also known as Jaroslav Dombrowski, was a Polish nobleman and military officer in the Imperial Russian Army, a left-wing independence activist and radical republican for Poland ...
(1836–1871), Polish nobleman, military officer, and political activist
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Jarosław Hampel
Jarosław "Jarek" Hampel (; born 17 April 1982 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish Speedway rider. He was a participant of the FIM Speedway Grand Prix in 2007 and 2010.
He received his speedway license in 1998 with the Polish team Polonia Piła, alth ...
(born 1982), Polish Speedway rider
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Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
Jarosław Leon Iwaszkiewicz, also known under his literary pseudonym Eleuter (20 February 1894 – 2 March 1980), was a Polish writer, poet, essayist, dramatist and translator.Bartłomiej Szleszyński, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. 2003 Culture.plJaros ...
(1894–1980), Polish writer, poet, essayist, dramatist and translator
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Jarosław Kaczyński
Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński (; born 18 June 1949) is a Polish politician who is currently serving as leader of the Law and Justice party (known by its Polish acronym PiS), which he co-founded in 2001 with his twin brother, Lech Kaczyński, w ...
(born 1949), Polish politician, Prime Minister (2006-2007)
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Jarosław Kukowski
Jarosław Kukowski (born 11 April 1972 in Tczew) is a Polish Contemporary art, contemporary Painting, painter, juror of international art competitions (including The World's Greatest Erotic Art of Today). His works were exhibited, among others Br ...
(born 1972), Polish contemporary painter
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Jarosław Kukulski (1944–2010) Polish composer
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Jarosław Wałęsa
Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa (; born 13 September 1976 in Gdańsk) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 14,709 votes in 25 Gdańsk district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list. He is the son of fo ...
(born 1976), Polish politician and son of former Polish President Lech Wałęsa
Jarosława
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Jarosława Jóźwiakowska (born 1937), Polish athlete who mainly competed in the high jump
Contemporary people with the surname
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Yemelyan Yaroslavsky
Yemelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky (russian: Емелья́н Миха́йлович Яросла́вский, born Minei Izrailevich Gubelman, Мине́й Изра́илевич Губельма́н; – 4 December 1943) was a Bolshevik revoluti ...
(Minei Gubelman), Soviet politician
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Zev Yaroslavsky
Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a politician from Los Angeles County, California. He was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from District 3, which includes the San Fernando Valley, the Westside of Los Angeles and ...
(born 1948), U.S. politician
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Oleksandr Yaroslavsky
Oleksandr Vladylenovych Yaroslavskyi ( uk, Олександр Владиленович Ярославський; born 5 December 1959, Zhdanov) is a Ukrainian businessman. He was formerly co-owner of UkrSibbank and president of FC Metalist Kha ...
(born 1959), Ukrainian businessman
See also
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Yaroslavl (inhabited locality)
Yaroslavl (russian: Ярославль) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
;Urban localities
*Yaroslavl, a city in Yaroslavl Oblast
;Rural localities
* Yaroslavl, Kirov Oblast, a village in Zakarinsky Rural Okrug of Slobodsko ...
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Jaroslav (disambiguation)
Jaroslav (also written as Yaroslav or Jarosław in other Slavic languages) is a Czech and Slovak first name, pagan in origin.
There are several possible origins of the name Jaroslav. It is very likely that originally the two elements of the nam ...
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Jarosław (disambiguation)
Jarosław is a town in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland.
Jarosław may also refer to:
* Jarosław (given name), a given name (and list of people with the name)
* Jarosław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)
* Jarosław County
* Jar ...
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Yaroslavsky (disambiguation) Yaroslavsky (masculine), Yaroslavskaya (feminine), or Yaroslavskoye (neuter) may refer to:
;People
*Yemelyan Yaroslavsky (Minei Gubelman), Soviet politician, leader of 1930s anti-religious campaign in the USSR
*Zev Yaroslavsky (b. 1948), U.S. ...
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