Ludmila or Ludmilla is a female
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
of
Slavic origin. It consists of two elements: ''lud'' ("people") and ''mila'' ("dear, love"). Because the initial L is mostly soft (
palatalized), it is sometimes also transcribed Lyudmila, Lyudmyla or Ljudmila, and is written as Ľudmila or Ľudmyla in Slovak.
Other variants include: Людмила, (Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian), Людміла (Belarusian), Људмила (Macedonian and Serbian), Ludomiła, Ludmiła, Ludzimiła, Ludźmiła (Polish), and Ludmilla (Hungarian).
Nicknames in Russian are: Люда (Lyuda), Люся (Lyusya), Мила (
Mila)
The most notable bearer is
Ludmila of Bohemia, a 10th-century princess and the grandmother of
Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia
Wenceslaus I ( ; 907 – 28 September 935), Wenceslas I or ''Václav the Good'' was the Prince (''Knyaz, kníže'') of Duchy of Bohemia, Bohemia from 921 until his death, probably in 935. According to the legend, he was assassinated by his you ...
. The feast day for the saint is September 16, which is celebrated as a
name day
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in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Other name days include September 17 (Hungary), and February 20, May 7, July 30, and October 26 (Poland).
People with the given name Ludmila or variants include:
Medieval and early modern eras
:''In chronological order''
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Ludmila of Bohemia (c. 860–921), Czech Orthodox and Roman Catholic saint and martyr
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Ludmila (wife of Mieszko I Tanglefoot) (died after 1210), High Duchess of Poland
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Ludmilla of Bohemia (died 1240), Duchess consort of Bavaria
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Ludmilla Elisabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1640–1672), Countess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and hymn poet
Late modern era
:''In alphabetical order''
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Lyudmila Andonova (born 1960), Bulgarian high jumper
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Lyudmila Arkhipova (born 1978), Russian race walker
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Ludmila Armata (born 1954), Polish-born Canadian painter
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Ludmilla Assing
Rosa Ludmilla Assing (22 February 1821 in Hamburg – 25 March 1880 in Florence) was a German writer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms ''Achim Lothar'' and ''Talora''.
Life
Ludmilla Assing was the second daughter of author Rosa Maria Va ...
(1821–1880), German writer
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Ludmila Bášová (born 1968), Czech badminton player
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Ludmila Belousova (1935–2017), Russian figure skater
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Lyudmyla Blonska (born 1977), Ukrainian heptathlete
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Lyudmila Butuzova (born 1957), Soviet high jumper
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Lyudmila Byakova (born 1946), Russian seamstress
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Lyudmila Chernykh (1935–2017), Soviet astronomer
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Ludmilla Chiriaeff (1924–1996), Soviet-born Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher and company director
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Lyudmyla Denisova (born 1960), Ukrainian politician and former Minister of Labor and Social Policy
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Ludmila Engquist
Ludmila Viktorovna Engquist (née Leonova (). formerly Narozhilenko; born 21 April 1964) is a Russian-Swedish former Athletics (sport), athlete, who competed mainly in the 100 metres hurdles. She competed for the Soviet Union (until 1991), Russia ...
(born 1964), Swedish hurdler
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Ludmila Ezhova (born 1982), Russian gymnast
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Ludmila Ferber (1965–2022), Brazilian singer
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Ludmila Formanová (born 1974), Czech middle distance runner
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Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935–2011), Russian film actress
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Ludmila Javorová (born 1932), Czech vicar general
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Ludmila Oliveira da Silva (born 1995), Brazilian singer
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Lyudmila Karachkina
Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina (, born 3 September 1948, Rostov-on-Don) is an astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.
In 1978 she began as a staff astronomer of the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy (ITA) at Leningrad. Her research at the ...
(born 1948), Soviet astronomer
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Lyudmyla Kichenok (born 1992), Ukrainian tennis player
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Lyudmila Kolchanova (born 1979), Russian long jumper
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Lyudmila Kondratyeva
Lyudmila Andreyevna Kondratyeva (; born 11 April 1958) is a Russian former track and field athlete, who competed for the Soviet Union and is the 1980 Olympic 100 m champion.
Kondratyeva began athletics at age 11 at the Children and Youth Sport ...
(born 1958), Russian athlete
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Ludmilla Kunzmann (1774–1843), Czech industrialist
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Lyudmyla Lyatetska (1941–2020), Ukrainian paediatrician
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Ľudmyla Cervanová (born 1979), Slovak tennis player
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Ľudmyla Melicherová (born 1964), Slovak long-distance runner
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Lyudmyla Milyayeva (1925–2022), Ukrainian art historian and university teacher
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Ľudmyla Pajdušáková (1916–1979), Slovak astronomer
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Ludmilla Pajo (1947–1995), Albanian journalist and author
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Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916–1974), Ukrainian Soviet sniper during World War II
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Lyudmila Petrova (born 1968), Russian long-distance runner
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Ludmila Polesná (1934–1988), Czechoslovak world champion slalom canoeist
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Lyudmila Poradnyk (born 1946), Soviet Ukrainian handball player
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Liudmila Privivkova (born 1986), Russian curler
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Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson (born 1967), Russian medical geneticist
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Lyudmyla Pushkina (born 1965), Ukrainian long-distance runner
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Lyudmila Putina (born 1958), former wife of Vladimir Putin
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Lyudmila Rudenko (1904–1986), Soviet chess player and second women's world chess champion
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Liudmila Samsonova (born 1998), Russian tennis player
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Ludmila da Silva (born 1994), Brazilian footballer
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Ludmila Semenyaka (born 1952), Russian ballerina
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Lyudmila Shevtsova (born 1934), Russian athlete
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Lyudmila Stanukinas (1930–2020), Soviet documentary filmmaker
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Ludmilla Tchérina (1924–2004), French prima ballerina, sculptor, actress, painter, choreographer and novelist
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Liudmila Terentʹeva (1910–1982), Soviet ethnographer
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Ludmilla Tourischeva (born 1952), Russian Olympic and world champion gymnast
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Ludmila Vachtová (1933–2020), Czech art historian and critic
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Lyudmila Verbitskaya (1936–2019), Russian linguist and teacher; president of Saint Petersburg State University
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Lyudmila Veselkova (born 1950), Soviet middle distance runner
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Lyudmila Zhivkova (1942–1981), Bulgarian politician
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Lyudmila Zhuravleva
Lyudmila Vasilyevna Zhuravleva (, ; born 22 May 1946) is a Soviet Union, Soviet, Russian and Ukraine, Ukrainian astronomer, who worked at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnij, where she discovered 213 minor planets. She also serves a ...
(born 1946), Soviet astronomer
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Lyudmila Zykina (1929–2009), Russian singer
Fictional characters
* a title character of ''
Ruslan and Ludmila'', a poem by Alexandr Pushkin
* a title character of
''Ruslan and Lyudmila'' (opera), by Mikhail Glinka
* the title character of ''
Ludmila's Broken English'', a 2006 book by D.B.C. Pierre
* the title character of
''Saint Ludmila'' (oratorio), by Antonín Dvořák
* Ludmilla, the main antagonist of the film ''
Bartok the Magnificent''
* Ludmila Ferro, main antagonist of the
Disney Channel Latin America series ''
Violetta''
* Lyudmila "Crownslayer" Ilinichna, a boss and playable character in the mobile strategy
gacha game ''
Arknights''
* Ludmilla Vipiteno, the "Other Reader" in the novel ''
If on a winter's night a traveler
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,'' by
Italo Calvino
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