Wassily or Wassili is a masculine given name. It is a variant of the Russian name

Vasily Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy (Russian language, Russian: wikt:Василий, Василий) is a Russian masculine given name of Greek language, Greek origin and corresponds to ''Basil (name)#Given name, Basil''. It may refer to: *Vasily ...

. Notable people with the name include: *

Wassily de Basil Vassily Grigorievich Voskresensky (; 27 July 1951), usually referred to as Colonel Wassily de Basil, was a Russian ballet impresario. De Basil was born in Kaunas, Russian Empire (now in Lithuania), in 1888 (his year of birth is given alternately ...

(1888–1951), Russian ballet impresario *

Wassily Gerassimez Wassily Gerassimez (born 21 June 1991 in Essen) is a German cellist and composer. His parents were born in Germany and worked, just like his brothers Nicolai and Alexej, as professional musicians. Life Gerassimez began studying cello with Go ...

(born 1991), German cellist and composer *

Wassily Hoeffding Wassily Hoeffding (June 12, 1914 – February 28, 1991) was a Finnish-born American statistician and probabilist. Hoeffding was one of the founders of nonparametric statistics, in which Hoeffding contributed the idea and basic results on U-stat ...

(1914–1991), Finnish statistician and probabilist *

Wassily Jakowlew Vasily Evgrafovich Yakovlev (; also transliterated Vasiliy Ewgrafowitsch Jakovlev or Vasiliy Yevgrafovich Yakovlev; 9 February 1839 – 15 August 1908) was a Russian zoologist who studied fishes, molluscs and insects. He is not to be confused wit ...

(1839–1908), Russian zoologist *

Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky ( – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstract art, abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in ...

(1866–1944), Russian painter and art theorist **

List of paintings by Wassily Kandinsky This is an incomplete list of paintings by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944). During his life, Kandinsky was associated with the art movements of Der Blaue Reiter, Expressionism and Abstract art, Abstract painting. Kandinsky is ge ...

* Wassily von Kwetzinsky (1898–1970), Russian-born Norwegian music critic and writer *

Wassily Leontief Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief (; August 5, 1905 – February 5, 1999) was a Soviet-American economist known for his research on input–output analysis and how changes in one economic sector may affect other sectors. Leontief won the Nobel Memo ...

(1905–1999), Soviet-American economist **

Wassily Leontief Prize The Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE, pronounced “gee-day”) is a research center at Tufts University founded in 1993. GDAE conducts research and develops teaching materials in economics and related areas that follow an interdi ...

Wassili Leps Wassili Leps (May 12, 1870 – December 22, 1942) was a Russian-born American composer and conductor. Leps was born near Saint Petersburg. He graduated from the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, Royal Conservatory of Dresden, where he s ...

(1870–1942), Russian-born American composer and conductor *

Wassili Luckhardt Wassili Luckhardt (22 July 1889 in Berlin – 2 December 1972 in Berlin) was a German architect. He studied at the Technische Hochschulen in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin) and Dresden (now TU Dresden). Luckhardt and hi ...

(1889–1972), German architect * Wassily Safonoff (1852–1918), Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer *

Wassily Sapellnikoff Wassily Sapellnikoff (; tr. ''Vasily Lvovich Sapelnikov'') (17 March 1941), was a Ukrainian-born Russian pianist. Biography Sapellnikoff was born in Odessa. He studied at the Odessa Conservatory under Louis Brassin and Sophie Menter, and beca ...

(1867–1941), Ukrainian-born Russian pianist

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