Wenzel is a male given name (long version
Wenzeslaus
Wenceslaus, Wenceslas, Wenzeslaus and Wenzslaus (and other similar names) are Latinized forms of the Slavic names#In Slovakia and Czech_Republic, Czech name Václav. The other language versions of the name are , , , , , , among others. It origina ...
) as the German and
Old English
Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...
form of the Czech given name
Václav Václav () or rarely Vácslav is a Czech name, 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 Vece ...
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Venceslav,
[ meaning "praised with glory". Variations are Вячеслав (Ukrainian and Russian), Vencel (Hungarian), Wacław, Więcław, ]Wiesław :"Wiesław" is sometimes transliterated as "Wieslaw", in the absence of ''L with stroke.''
Wiesław () is a Polish masculine given name, of Slavonic origin, meaning "great glory" or "all glory". It is the shortened, more common, form of the perso ...
(Polish), Venceslas/ Wenceslas (French), Venceslao (Italian), Venceslau (Portuguese), Wenceslao (Spanish).
Given name
* Wenzel Jamnitzer (ca. 1507–1585), Austrian-German etcher and goldsmith
* Wenzel, Archduke of Austria (1561–1578), Austrian prince and Grand Prior of the Order of Malta
* Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz (1711–1794), Austrian statesman
* Wenzel Raimund Birck (1718–1763), Austrian composer
* Wenzel Parler (1333–1399), German-Bohemian architect
* Wenzel Pichl Wenzel is a male given name (long version Wenzeslaus) as the German and Old English form of the Czech given name Václav or Venceslav, meaning "praised with glory". Variations are Вячеслав (Ukrainian and Russian), Vencel (Hungarian), Wacław ...
(1741–1805), Czech composer
* Wenzel Thomas Matiegka (1773–1830), Bohemian composer
* Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1773–1859), German-Austrian politician and statesman
* Wolfgang Wenzel von Haffner (1806–1892), Norwegian Minister of the Navy
* Wenzel Storch
Wenzel Storch (born 21 March 1961) is a German film director, producer, and writer. His low-budget fantasy films tend to be critical towards the church and are filled with weird characters and settings as well as violence and bodily fluids.
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(born 1961), German film director and producer
* Josef Wenzel, Prince of Liechtenstein (1696–1772), prince of Liechtenstein
* Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein (born 1995), oldest child of Prince Alois of Liechtenstein and his wife Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Duchess in Bavaria
* Franz Wenzel, Graf von Kaunitz-Rietberg, (1742–1825), Austrian general, son of Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz
* Wenzel Johann Tomaschek (1774–1850), Bohemian composer
Surname
* Andreas Wenzel (born 1958), former Alpine skier from Liechtenstein
* Brian Wenzel
Brian Thomas Wenzel (24 May 1929 – 6 May 2024) was an Australian actor, comedian, director and singer. He was in the entertainment business itinerantly for some 60 years, including circus, stage, television and film.
After numerous characte ...
(1929–2024), Australian character actor
* Carl Friedrich Wenzel (ca. 1740–1793), German chemist and metallurgist
* Carmen Wenzel (born 1931) Mexican sculptor and painter
* David Wenzel (born 1950), American illustrator and children's book artist
* Eberhard Wenzel (1950–2001), German-born public health researcher
* Hanni Wenzel (born 1956), German-born alpine skier from Liechtenstein
* Hans-Georg Wenzel (1949–1999), geodesist, geophysicist and university lecturer
* Joan Wenzel (born 1953), Canadian middle-distance runner
* Johann Wenzel (1902–1969), GRU spy in WWII Germany, radio specialist
* Jörn Wenzel (born 2004), German bobsledder
* Joseph W. Wenzel (1940–2021), American argumentation and rhetorical scholar
* Leopold Wenzel or Léopold de Wenzel (1847–1923), Italian conductor and composer
* Petra Wenzel (born 1961), Swiss-born alpine skier from Liechtenstein
* Ramona Wenzel (born 1963), German diver
* Rene Wenzel, American cycling coach
* Sally Wenzel, American pulmonologist
See also
* Wenzl (surname)
* Wentzel
* Wenzell Baird Bryant (1927–2008), American filmmaker
* Margaret Wenzell (born 1925), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
* Wenzel's, British bakery chain
Surnames from given names
References
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[{{cite web , url= http://www.namenforschung.net/id/name/110/1 , title= Wenzel , work= Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands , language= German , first= Andrea , last= Scheller , year= 2020 ]
[{{cite web , url= https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=wenzel , title= Wenzel , work= Dictionary of American Family Names , year= 2013 , publisher= Oxford University Press ]
Slavic-language names
German masculine given names
Masculine given names
German-language surnames