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, Slovak and Croatian variant of the

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Vladislav Vladislav ( (', '); , ; Russian language, Russian, Ukrainian language, Ukrainian, Bulgarian language, Bulgarian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, sh-Cyrl, Владислав, ) is a male given names, given name of Slavs, Slavic origin. Variatio ...

. The female form of this name is Ladislava.

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

occasionally links ''Ladislav'' with the Slavic goddess

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Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

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 Vladislav ( (', '); , ; Russian language, Russian, Ukrainian language, ...

'' is a Hungarian variation of this name.

Places

* Ladislav, Bjelovar-Bilogora County * Ladislav, Virovitica-Podravina County, historical name of

Zvonimirovo Zvonimirovo, formerly Ladislav, Malo Gaćište, Novo Obilićevo, and Zvonimirovac, is a village in Croatia. History On 20 September 1941, the NDH changed the name of the town from Novo Obilićevo to Zvonimirovac. Demographics References

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Athletes

Ladislav Beneš Ladislav Beneš (born 9 July 1943 in Zlín) is a Czech handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Czechoslovak team which won the silver medal at the Munich Games. He played all six matches and scored fourteen ...

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

Ladislav Čepčianský Ladislav Čepčianský (2 February 1931 – 2 October 2021) was a Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak Canoe racing, 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 I ...

, Czechoslovak sprint canoer *

Ladislav Dluhoš Ladislav Dluhoš (born 6 October 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, 1 ...

, Czechoslovak ski jumper *

Ladislav Fouček Ladislav Fouček (10 December 1930 – 4 July 1974) was a 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 (; ; 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 Hungarian Internationa ...

(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 Czechoslova ...

, 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 Winger (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 ...

, Czech ice hockey player *

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

, 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). ...

, 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. At club level, Maier helped Slovan Liberec win promotion to the Czech First League in 1993, going on to make 148 First ...

, 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 ...

, 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 s ...

, Czechoslovak/American coach and sports scientist *

Ladislav Pavlovič Ladislav Pavlovič (8 April 1926 – 28 January 2013) was a Slovak footballer. A winger, 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 ...

, 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 Czechs, Czech shot putter. He won his first major medal, a bronze, at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships, 2013 European Indoor Championships. He repeated this achievement on home soil, c ...

, Czech shot putter *

Ladislav Rybánsky Ladislav Rybánsky (born 19 December 1984) is a Slovak professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for FK Slovan Duslo Šaľa, Slovan Duslo Šaľa. Career Rybánsky began his career ...

, Slovak footballer * Ladislav Rygl, Jr., Czech Nordic combined Olympic skier *

Ladislav Rygl, Sr. Ladislav Rygl Sr. (16 July 1947 – 30 November 2024) was a Czechoslovakia, 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 Championshi ...

, 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 2 ...

, 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 ...

, Czechoslovak footballer *

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

, Czech football manager *

Ladislav Šmíd Ladislav Šmíd (, born February 1, 1986) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames. Playing career As a youth, Šmíd played in the 2000 Q ...

, 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, Czechoslovak Olympic basketball player * Ladislav Vácha, Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast * Ladislav Vízek, 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 Ladislav Adamec (10 September 1926 – 14 April 2007) was a Czechoslovak communist politician. Early life Adamec was born in Moravia on 10 September 1926. From 1958 to 1961 he studied at the Political College of the Central Committee of th ...

(1926–2007), Czechoslovak Prime Minister, Communist politician * Ladislav Miko (born 1961), Czech politician and expert on environmental issues *

Ladislav Pejačević Count Ladislav Pejačević of Virovitica (, , ; Sopron, Kingdom of Hungary 5 April 1824 – Našice, 7 April 1901) was a Croatian aristocrat and statesman, a member of the Pejačević noble family, remarkable and influential in the Kingdo ...

(1824–1901), Croatian politician, Ban of Croatia * Ladislav Polka (1952–2025), Slovak politician

Scientists

Ladislav Brožek Ladislav Brožek (born 1952) is a Slovak astronomer. At the Bohemian Kleť Observatory, he discovered a total of 23 minor planets between 1979 and 1982, as credited by the Minor Planet Center. One of his discoveries, the main-belt asteroid 2613& ...

, Slovak astronomer *

Ladislav František Čelakovský Ladislav František Čelakovský (3 December 1863 – 31 December 1916) was a mycologist and botanist from Bohemia. Biography Born in Prague, he was the son of botanist Ladislav Josef Čelakovský (1834–1902). Čelakovský was a professor of pl ...

, 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 took an ...

, Czech botanist * Ladislav Mucina, Slovak botanist, ecologist, and vegetation expert

Writers and artists

* Ladislav Bublík (1924-1988), Czech writer *

Ladislav Fialka Ladislav Fialka (22 August 1931 in Prague – 22 February 1991 in Prague) was a Mime artist, mime from what is now the Czech Republic. In 1956 he founded a theater. Helena Philipová, Ivan Vyskočil, Jiří Suchý and Vladimír Vodička also c ...

, Czechoslovak mime * Ladislav Fuks, Czechoslovak novelist * Ladislav "Ladi" Geisler, Czechoslovak musician *

Ladislav Klíma Ladislav Klíma (22 August 1878 – 19 April 1928) was a Czech philosopher and novelist. He was influenced by George Berkeley, Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche. His philosophy is referred to varyingly as existentialism and subjective id ...

, Czech philosopher and novelist *

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

, 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 Dance ...

, 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 pl ...

, Czechoslovak composer and conductor *

Ladislav Mňačko Ladislav Mňačko (28 January 1919 in Valašské Klobouky – 24 February 1994 in Bratislava) was a Czechoslovak writer and journalist. He was a member of the Slovak partisans, partisan movement in Slovakia during World War II. After the war, ...

, Czechoslovak writer and journalist * Ladislav Mráz, Czechoslovak opera singer *

Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé Dr Ján Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé (12 February 1866, in Dolný Kubín – 2 July 1940, in Dolný Kubín) was a Slovak writer, literary critic and doctor. Life He was born into a lawyer's family in Dolný Kubín, and studied in Kežmarok, Ružo ...

, Slovak writer, literary critic, and doctor * Ladislav Šaloun, Czechoslovak sculptor *

Ladislav Slovák Ladislav Slovák (10 September 1919, Veľké Leváre – 22 July 1999, Bratislava) was a Slovak conductor. He was a long-time director of the Slovak Philharmonic, taking over the job from his teacher and mentor Václav Talich. Amongst his mo ...

, 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. Biography Smoljak was born in Prague. He tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to ...

, Czechoslovak film and theater director * Ladislav Stroupežnický, Austro-Hungarian/Czech author, playwright, and director * Ladislav Vycpálek, Czechoslovak composer and violinist *Ladislav (Laco) Zrubec, Slovak author and writer

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, Unite ...

, 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 (25 June 1900 – 26 May 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 m ...

, 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 the Hermann and Klara H. Collitz p ...

, Czechoslovak linguist, historian and theorist of lexicography

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