Jaroslav (also written as

Yaroslav Yaroslav () is a Slavic masculine given name. Its variant spelling is Jaroslav and Iaroslav, and its feminine form is Yaroslava. The surname derived from the name is Yaroslavsky and its variants. East Slavic patronymics are Yaroslavovich and Yar ...

Jarosław Jarosław (; , ; ; ) is a town in southeastern Poland, situated on the San (river), San River. The town had 35,475 inhabitants in 2023. It is the capital of Jarosław County in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. History Jarosław is located in the ...

in other Slavic languages) is a Czech and Slovak first name, pagan in origin. Its feminine form is

Jaroslava Jaroslava may refer to: *Jaroslava Bajerová Jaroslava Bajerová (1 April 1910 – 23 August 1995) was a Czechs, Czech Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics where she won the silver medal as member of ...

. There are several possible origins of the name Jaroslav. It is very likely that originally the two elements of the name referred to ''

Jarilo Jarylo (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, Jarilo, Јарило; ), alternatively Yaryla, Yarilo, Iarilo, Juraj, Jurij, or Gerovit, is an alleged East and South Slavic god of vegetation, fertility and springtime.Leeming, David.''From Olympus to Camelot: The Worl ...

'' - male Proto-Slavic deity of the sun, spring, and fertility, and ''slav'' meaning glory, i.e. "glory of the sun". However, with the adoption of Christianity in the Slavic countries the name began to be commonly understood not as a reference to a pagan deity, but rather to the "fervent worship of Go
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of the Bible. ;People named Jaroslav: *

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 *

, Czech footballer *

Jaroslav Filip Jaroslav Filip (22 June 1949, Hontianske Moravce – 11 July 2000, Bratislava), known as Jaro Filip, was a Slovak musician, composer, humorist, dramaturge, actor, columnist, and early promoter of the internet in Slovakia. His work includes nume ...

, Slovak musician. *

Jaroslav Foglar Jaroslav Foglar (6 July 1907 – 23 January 1999) was a Czech writer for children and youth. He wrote many novels about youths (partly also about the Boy Scouts movement) and their adventures in nature and dark city streets. His signature serie ...

, Czech novelist *

Jaroslav Halák Jaroslav Halák (; born 13 May 1985) is a Slovak former professional ice hockey goaltender. He was selected in the ninth round, 271st overall, by the Montreal Canadiens in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. Halák played for the Canadiens as well as t ...

, Slovak ice hockey player *

Jaroslav Hašek Jaroslav Hašek (; 1883–1923) was a Czechs, Czech writer, Humorism, humorist, Satire, satirist, journalist, Bohemianism, bohemian, first anarchist and then communist, and commissar of the Red Army against the Czechoslovak Legion. He is best k ...

, Czech author, writer of ''

The Good Soldier Švejk ''The Good Soldier Švejk'' () is an unfinished satirical dark comedy novel by Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek, published in 1921–1923, about a good-humored, simple-minded, middle-aged man who appears to be enthusiastic to serve Austria-Hungary i ...

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Jaroslav Heyrovský Jaroslav Heyrovský (; 20 December 1890 – 27 March 1967) was a Czech chemist and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959 for his invention of polarography. Life and work Jaroslav Heyrovský was born in Prague on December 2 ...

, Czech chemist and inventor, recipient of the Nobel prize *

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 Czechos ...

, Czech jazz saxophonist *

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 * Jaroslav Janus, Slovak ice hockey player *

Jaroslav Levinský Jaroslav Levinský (born 11 February 1981) is a former Czech professional doubles tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between ...

, Czech tennis player *

Jaroslav Mostecký Jaroslav Mostecký (29 September 1963 in Zábřeh – 13 December 2020) was a Czech science fiction writer. Biography He won the science fiction fandom related Karel Čapek prize in 1997. Mostecký died from COVID-19 Coronavirus disease ...

(1963–2020), Czech fantasy writer *

Jaroslav Naď Jaroslav Naď (born 21 March 1981) is a Slovak politician who served as Minister of Defence between March 2020 and May 2023, as a nominee of OĽaNO. He specialises in national security issues and previously worked with Globsec. Naď currently ...

, Slovak politician *

Jaroslav Nešetřil Jaroslav Nešetřil (; born 13 March 1946) is a Czech mathematician. His research areas include combinatorics (structural combinatorics, Ramsey theory), graph theory (coloring problems, sparse structures), algebra (representation of structures, c ...

, Czech mathematician *

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 D ...

, American Christian scholar *

Jaroslav Pospíšil Jaroslav Pospíšil (; born 9 February 1981) is a Czech tennis coach and a former professional player who competed on the ITF Futures and ATP Challenger tours. On 23 May 2011 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 103. On 1 ...

, Czech tennis player *

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 *

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 ...

, Czech ice hockey player *

Jaroslav Šrámek Colonel Jaroslav Šrámek (3 May 1929 – 16 February 2015) was a fighter pilot, active during the Cold War. He was known as the only pilot from the Czechoslovak Air Force ever to have shot down an enemy jet-propelled plane. Šrámek flew more ...

, Czechoslovak fighter pilot and military commander *

Jaroslav Veis Jaroslav Veis (born April 19, 1946 in Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, h ...

(born 1946), Czech journalist and writer ;Places *

Jaroslav (Pardubice District) Jaroslav is a municipality and village in Pardubice District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country ...

, a municipality and village in the Czech Republic

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