Václav

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Václav () or rarely Vácslav is a Czech male given name. It is among the most common Czech names. The Latinized form of the name is Wenceslaus and the Polish form of the name is Wacław. The name was derived from the old Czech name Veceslav, meaning 'more famous'. Nicknames are Vašek, Vašík, Venca, Venda.

The Latinized form is used in English for Czech kings and some other early modern notable people. The people listed below are Czech unless otherwise noted. Notable people with the name include:

Nobility

Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (kníže Václav I.; 907–935 or 929), saint
Wenceslaus II, Duke of Bohemia (kníže Václav II.; died 1192)
Wenceslaus I of Bohemia (Václav I.; –1253), King of Bohemia
Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (Václav II.; 1271–1305), King of Bohemia and Poland
Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (Václav III.; 1289–1306), King of Hungary, Bohemia and Poland
Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (Václav IV.; 1361–1419), King of Bohemia and German King
Wenceslaus II, Duke of Opava (Václav II. Opavský; – ), duke
Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (Václav Lucemburský; 1337–1383), first Duke of Luxembourg
Václav Eusebius František, Prince of Lobkowicz (1609–1677), Bohemian nobleman, military leader and diplomat

Arts and entertainment

Václav Noid Bárta (born 1980), singer, songwriter and actor
Václav Binovec (1892–1976), film director and screenwriter
Václav Brožík (1851–1901), painter
Václav Černý (writer) (1905–1987), writer and philosopher
Václav Čtvrtek (1911–1976), writer and philosopher
Václav Glazar (1952–2018), actor
Wenceslaus Hollar (Václav Hollar; 1607–1677), etcher
Václav Hrabě (1940–1965), poet and writer
Václav Jamek (born 1949), writer and translator
Václav Jiráček (born 1978), actor
Václav Jírů (1910–1980), photographer and writer
Václav Kaplický (1895–1982), writer, journalist and poet
Václav Kliment Klicpera (1792–1859), playwright and poet
Václav Kopta (born 1965), actor
Václav Lohniský (1920–1980), actor
Václav Luks, musician, conductor, musicologist and pedagogue
Václav Marhoul (born 1960), film director and screenwriter
Václav Neckář (born 1943), singer and actor
Václav Nelhýbel (1919–1996), Czech-American composer
Václav Neumann (1920–1995), conductor, violinist and viola player
Václav Neužil (born 1979), actor
Vašo Patejdl (born Václav Patejdl; 1954–2023), Slovak singer and composer
Václav Postránecký (1943–2019), actor
Václav Renč (1911–1973), poet and dramatist
Václav Řezáč (1901–1956), writer
Václav Talich (1883–1961), conductor and violinist
Václav Trégl (1902–1979), actor
Václav Trojan (1907–1983), composer and arranger
Václav Vorlíček (1930–2019), film director
Václav Vydra (1876–1953), actor
Václav Vydra (born 1956), actor
Václav Wasserman (1898–1967), screenwriter, actor and director
Jan Václav Voříšek (1791–1825), composer and pianist
Josef Václav Myslbek (1848–1922), sculptor

Sport

Václav Černý (footballer) (born 1997), footballer
Václav Daněk (born 1960), footballer
Václav Drobný (1980–2012), footballer
Václav Finěk (born 2010), chess player
Václav Kadlec (born 1992), footballer
Václav Jemelka (born 1995), footballer
Václav Jurečka (born 1994), footballer
Václav Koloušek (born 1976), footballer
Václav Mašek (born 1941), footballer
Václav Němeček (born 1967), footballer
Václav Nestrašil (born 2007), ice hockey player
Václav Pilař (born 1988), footballer
Václav Procházka (born 1984), footballer
Václav Prospal (born 1975), ice hockey player and coach
Václav Svěrkoš (born 1983), footballer
Václav Varaďa (born 1976), ice hockey player and coach

Other

Václav Hanka (1791–1861), philologist
Václav Havel (1936–2011), politician and writer, President of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992) and the Czech Republic (1993–2003)
Václav Holek (1886–1954), firearm engineer
Václav Jelínek (1944–2022), Czechoslovak spy
Václav Jícha (1914–1945), World War II flying ace
Václav Klaus (born 1941), politician and economist, President of the Czech Republic (2003–2013)
Václav Klement (1868–1938), entrepreneur, industrialist and automotive pioneer
Václav Matěj Kramerius (1753–1808), publisher and journalist
Václav Laurin (1865–1930), engineer, industrialist and automotive pioneer
Václav Morávek (1904–1942), brigadier general and member of the anti-Nazi resistance
Vaclav Smil (born Václav Smil 1943), Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst
Václav Vacek (1877–1960), politician

References

(2023-09-28). "Jméno Václav patří do třicítky nejčastějších jmen". [[Czech Radio]].

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