Ladislav is a

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, Slovak and

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variant of the Slavic name

Vladislav Vladislav ( be, Уладзіслаў (', '); pl, Władysław, ; Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, sh-Cyrl, Владислав) is a male given name of Slavic origin. Variations include ''Volodislav'', ''Vlastislav'' and ''Vlaslav'' ...

. The female form of this name is Ladislava.

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

occasionally links ''Ladislav'' with the Slavic goddess Lada.

Spellings and variations

In Bulgarian and

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

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. Other versions are Lessl or Laszly. The name has a history of being fre ...

'' is a Hungarian variation of this name.

Athletes

Ladislav Beneš Ladislav Beneš (born 9 July 1943 in Zlín) is a Czechoslovak 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 scor ...

, Czechoslovak Olympic handball player *

Ladislav Benýšek Ladislav Benýšek (born March 25, 1975) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 161 games in the National Hockey League with the Edmonton Oilers and Minnesota Wild between 1997 and 2003. The rest of his career, which laste ...

, Czech ice hockey player * Ladislav Čepčianský, Czechoslovak sprint canoer * Ladislav Dluhoš, Czechoslovak ski jumper *

Ladislav Fouček Ladislav Fouček (10 December 1930 – 4 July 1974) was an 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 (; hu, Hecht László ; 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 Hung ...

(1909–2004), Czechoslovak/American tennis player *

Ladislav Hrubý Ladislav Hrubý (born 22 November 1934) is a Czech cross-country skier. He competed in the men's 15 kilometre event at the 1964 Winter Olympics The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympische ...

, 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 Czechoslovaki ...

, 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 Forward who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Atlanta Thrashers and the Detroit Red Wings ...

, Czech ice hockey player *

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

, 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). P ...

, 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. He played seven matches for the Czech Republic and participated at Euro 1996 and Euro 2000. At club level he took part in f ...

, 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 se ...

, Czechoslovak/American coach and sports scientist *

Ladislav Pavlovič Ladislav Pavlovič (8 April 1926 – 28 January 2013) was a Slovak football player. 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 scor ...

, 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 Czech shot putter. He won his first major medal, a bronze, at the 2013 European Indoor Championships. He repeated this achievement on home soil, coming third at the 2015 European Indoor Championshi ...

, Czech shot putter *

Ladislav Rybánsky Ladislav Rybánsky (born 19 December 1984) is a Slovak footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. Career Rybánsky began his career 2001 with Spartak Trnava. In 2005, he was loaned to FK Nove Zamky. After one season with FK Nove Zamky, he returned ...

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

Ladislav Rygl, Sr. Ladislav Rygl Sr. (born 16 July 1947 in Polubný, Kořenov) is a former 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 Champio ...

, 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 200 ...

, 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 Cu ...

, Czechoslovak footballer *

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

, Czech football manager * Ladislav Šmíd, Czech ice hockey player *

Ladislav Švanda Ladislav Švanda (born 14 February 1959 in Prague) is a former Czech 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 in Calgary while his best individual Winter O ...

, Czech Olympic cross country skier *

Ladislav Troják Ladislav Troják (15 June 1914 – 8 November 1948) was the first Slovak ice hockey player in the national team of Czechoslovakia and also the first Slovak hockey player with a title of World Champion ( 1947 World Championship). Troják wore t ...

, Czechoslovak ice hockey player *

Ladislav Trpkoš Ladislav Trpkoš (17 January 1915 in Vysoké Mýto – 30 November 2004)František Kolář ''Encyklopedie olympioniků. Čeští a českoslovenští sportovci na olympijských hrách'', ed. Euromedia Group, Prague 2021, p. 423 was a Czech bas ...

, Czechoslovak Olympic basketball player *

Ladislav Vácha Ladislav Vácha (21 March 1899 in Brno – 28 June 1943) was a Czech gymnast and Olympic champion competing for Czechoslovakia. He competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where he received a bronze medal in ''rope climbing'' and '' ...

, Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast *

Ladislav Vízek Ladislav Vízek (born 22 January 1955 in Chlumec nad Cidlinou) is a Czech football player. He played 55 matches for Czechoslovakia and scored 13 goals. He played in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, and was sent off in Czechoslovakia's final game, ...

, Czechoslovak footballer *

Ladislav Volešák Ladislav Volešák (born 7 April 1984, in Hradištko pod Medníkem) is a Czech football player who currently plays for 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. Career Adamec joined the Presidium in March 1987 and served as the prime minister of ...

, Czechoslovak Prime Minister, Communist politician *

Ladislav Miko Ladislav Miko (born 9 April 1961) is Slovak environmental expert and politician. He was the Minister of Environment in the caretaker government of Jan Fischer but later returned to work for the European Commission The European Commission ( ...

, Czech politician and expert on environmental issues * Ladislav Pejačević, Croatian politician,

Ban Ban, or BAN, may refer to: Law * Ban (law), a decree that prohibits something, sometimes a form of censorship, being denied from entering or using the place/item ** Imperial ban (''Reichsacht''), a form of outlawry in the medieval Holy Roman ...

of Croatia

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 26 ...

, Slovak astronomer * Ladislav František Čelakovský, 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 studie ...

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

Writers and artists

* Ladislav Bublík (1924-1988), Czech writer * Ladislav Fialka, Czechoslovak mime *

Ladislav Fuks Ladislav Fuks (September 24, 1923 in Prague – August 19, 1994 in Prague) was a Czech novelist. He focused mainly on psychological novels, portraying the despair and suffering of people under German occupation of Czechoslovakia. Fuks was born in ...

, Czechoslovak novelist * Ladislav "Ladi" Geisler, Czechoslovak musician * Ladislav Klíma, Czech philosopher and novelist *

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

, Croatian painter and engraver *

Ladislav Kubík Ladislav Kubík (26 August 1946 – 27 October 2017) was a Czech people, 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 M ...

, 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 Slovak writer and journalist. He took part in the partisan movement in Slovakia during World War II. After the war, he was at first a staunch ...

, 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, Ružom ...

, Slovak writer, literary critic, and doctor *

Ladislav Šaloun Ladislav Jan Šaloun (1 August 1870, Prague – 18 October 1946, Prague) was a prominent Czech sculptor of the Art Nouveau period. Life Šaloun was born in 1870 in Prague and he studied in the studios of Tomáš Seidan and Bohuslav Schnirch.< ...

, 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 most ...

, Czechoslovak conductor *

Ladislav Smoček Ladislav Smoček (born 24 August 1932, Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech writer, playwright and theater director. Biography He comes from a family with a military tradition. His father was an officer in The Czechoslovakian Army. After studyin ...

, Czech playwright and theater director *

Ladislav Smoljak Ladislav Smoljak (9 December 1931 – 6 June 2010) was a Czech film and theater director, actor and screenwriter. He was born in Prague. Smoljak tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to study physics and ...

, Czechoslovak film and theater director *

Ladislav Stroupežnický Ladislav Stroupežnický (6 January 1850 – 11 August 1892) was a renowned Czech author, playwright, and dramatist, best known for the frequently staged play '' Naši furianti''. Life He was born at Cerhonice and attended high school at Pís ...

, Austro-Hungarian/Czech author, playwright, and director * Ladislav Vycpálek, Czechoslovak composer and violinist

Others

* Ladislav Hudec, Austro-Hungarian/Slovak architect * Ladislav Kovács, 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 Czech Champion in 1921 and played for the Czech Olym ...

, Czechoslovak chess master and composer of endgame studies *

Ladislav Žák Ladislav Žák (June 25, 1900 – May 26, 1973 in Prague) was a Czech architect, painter, architectural theorist and teacher. He was an important exponent of the Czech functionalist architecture in the 1930s, later he devoted himself mainly ...

, 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 a professor of linguistics and classics ...

, Czechoslovak linguist, historian and theorist of lexicography