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Vladimir Vladimir (, , pre-1918 orthography: ) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, widespread throughout all Slavic nations in different forms and spellings. The earliest record of a person with the name is Vladimir of Bulgaria (). Etymology ...

. Notable people with the name include: * Wladimir Aïtoff (1879–1963), French rugby player *

Wladimir Balentien Wladimir Ramon "Coco" Balentien (; born July 2, 1984) is a Curaçaoan- Dutch former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB ...

(born 1984), Dutch outfielder for the Seattle Mariners *

Wladimir Belli Wladimir Belli (born 25 July 1970, in Sorengo) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer. He was a professional between 1992 and 2007. In the 2001 Giro d'Italia, Belli was sitting in third place overall entering the 14th stage of the ...

(born 1970), Italian cyclist * Wladimir Brunet de Presle (1809–1875), French historian *

Wladimir Burliuk Vladimir Davydovych Burliuk (; ; – 1917) was a Ukrainian avant-garde artist ( Neo-Primitivist and Cubo-Futurist) and book illustrator from the Russian empire. He died at the age of 32 in 1917 in World War I. Biography Vladimir Davydovych Bur ...

(1886–1919), Ukrainian artist *

Wladimir d'Ormesson Wladimir is a masculine given name. It is an alternative spelling of the name Vladimir (name), Vladimir. Notable people with the name include: * Wladimir Aïtoff (1879–1963), French rugby player * Wladimir Balentien (born 1984), Dutch outfielder ...

(1888–1973), French essayist and writer * Wladimir Guedroitz (1873–1941), Russian chamberlain * Wladimir Herrera (born 1981), Chilean football defender *

Wladimir Kaminer Wladimir Kaminer (; born 19 July 1967)http://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Wladimir+Kaminer/0/23999.html Wladimir Kaminer: deutsch-russischer Schriftsteller. Profile at munzinger.de. is a Russian-born German short story writer, columnist an ...

(born 1967), Russian writer *

Wladimir Klitschko Wladimir Klitschko; an equivalent English spelling is Vladimir Klichko . His full name in , . (born 25 March 1976) is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2017. He held multiple heavyweight world championships betwe ...

(born 1976), Ukrainian boxer * Wladimir Jan Kochanski (1935–2015), American pianist *

Wladimir Köppen Wladimir Petrovich Köppen ( ; ; , ; 25 September 1846 – 22 June 1940) was a Russian–German geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist. After studies in St. Petersburg, he spent the bulk of his life and professional career in Germ ...

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* Wladimir von Pawlowski (1891–1961), Austrian lawyer * Wladimir Resnitschenko (born 1965), Russian fencer *

Wladimir Ribeiro Vladimir Michailowsky Leite Ribeiro (born 17 June 1967) is a former international butterfly and backstroke swimmer from Brazil. He participated for his native South American country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea Seo ...

(born 1967), Brazilian swimmer * Wladimir Rodrigues dos Santos (born 1954), aka Wladimir (footballer), Brazilian footballer * Wladimir de Schoenefeld (1816–1875), German-French botanist *

Wladimir Seidel Wladimir P. Seidel (December 21, 1907 – January 12, 1981) was a Russian-born German-American mathematician, and Doctor of Mathematics. He held a fellowship as a Benjamin Peirce Professor in Harvard University. During World War II, he was wi ...

(1907–1981), Russian mathematician *

Wladimir Skulener Vladimir Elikovich Skulener (; born January 24, 1958, in Bălți) is a German (formerly Soviet) chess player who won the Moldovan Chess Championship in 1981. FIDE Master. Trained by Lazar Begelman (1937–2006) in Bălți (Moldova), Skulener pa ...

(born 1958), Soviet-German chess player * Wladimir A. Smirnoff (1917–2000), Soviet entomologist *

Wladimir Talanczuk Wladimir Talanczuk (also known by his anglicized name ''Vladimir Talanczuk'') is a Ukrainian- born aeronautical engineer known for his hang glider and ultralight aircraft designs.Jones, Terry: ''About The Designer - Vladimir Talanczuk - Trai ...

, Ukrainian aeronautical engineer *

Wladimir Tchertkoff Wladimir Tchertkoff (1935 – 9 April 2023) was an Italian journalist. He was born in Yugoslavia to Russian-born parents. He released with Emanuela Andreoli in 2003 the film ''The Sacrifice'', a documentary on the Chernobyl liquidators, liquida ...

(fl. 2003–present), Italian journalist *

Wladimir Troubetzkoy Wladimir Troubetzkoy (10 October 1942 – 2 June 2009) was a French literary historian of Polish-Belarusian-Russian origin. Growing up as a member of the aristocratic Russian family Troubetzkoy in exile in France, but speaking the Russian languag ...

(1942–2009), French literary historian *

Wladimir Vogel Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel (17 February/29 February 1896 – 19 June 1984) was a Swiss (people), Swiss composer of Germans, German and Russians, Russian descent. Life Born in Moscow, Vogel first studied composition in Moscow with Alexander Scri ...

(1896–1984), Russian composer *

Wladimir Wertelecki Wladimir Wertelecki is a board certified pediatrician, clinical geneticist and cytogeneticist. In 1974, he established one of the first free-standing Departments of Medical Genetics at the new South Alabama University College of Medicine in Mob ...

(born 1936), Polish-American pediatrician *

Wladimir van Wilgenburg Wladimir van Wilgenburg is a Dutch journalist and author writing predominantly about Kurdistan. He has written for Al-Monitor, Kurdistan 24, Al-Jazeera, and Foreign Policy, amongst others. He lives in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. Biography His inte ...

, Dutch journalist *

Wladimir Yordanoff Wladimir Yordanoff (; 28 March 1954 – 6 October 2020) was a French actor of Bulgarian origin. He appeared in more than sixty films since 1979. Yordanoff died on 6 October 2020 in Normandy Normandy (; or ) is a geographical and cultural ...

(1954–2020), French actor *

Wladimir Zwalf Wladimir Zwalf (1932-2002) was a Sanskritist and expert on Buddhist art and iconography in India and Tibet. An Assistant Keeper at the British Museum, he produced ''A Catalogue of Gandharan Sculpture in the British Museum'' (1996). Life and caree ...

(1932–2002), British Sanskritist and Buddhist expert

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