Václav
Václav (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːtslaf]) is a Czech male first name of Slavic origin, sometimes translated into English as Wenceslaus or Wenceslas. These forms are derived from the old Slavic/Czech form of this name: Venceslav.
Nicknames are: Vašek, Vašík, Venca, Venda
Václav or Vácslav
- Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907–935 or 929) (svatý Václav)
- Václav Noid Bárta, singer, songwriter, and actor
- Václav Binovec, Czech film director and screenwriter
- Václav Brožík, painter
- Václav Hanka, philologist
- Václav Havel, last President of Czechoslovakia (1989 – 1992) and first President of the Czech Republic (1993 – 2003)
- Václav Holek, Designer of the ZB-26 light machinegun for Zbrojovka Brno and its descendants
- Václav Hollar, graphic artist
- Vaclav Jelinek, a Czechoslovak spy, who worked in London under the assumed identity of Erwin van Haarlem
- Václav Jiráček, Czech actor
- Václav Kadlec, a Football player of Czech Republic who involved in Sparta Prague
- Václav Klaus, second President of the Czech Republic (2003 – 2013)
- Václav Kliment Klicpera, playwright, author and poet
- Václav Matěj Kramerius, publisher, journalist and writer
- Josef Václav Myslbek, sculptor
- Václav Nelhýbel, composer
- Václav Neumann, conductor, violinist and viola player
- Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer
- Wacław Potocki, Polish nobleman, poet and writer
- Václav Prospal, NHL hockey player
- Václav Talich, conductor and violinist
- Václav Trojan, Czech composer and arranger
- Václav Varaďa, former NHL hockey player
Veceslav
- Većeslav Holjevac, Croatian soldier and Communist politician
Other
- 8740 Václav, an asteroid named after Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia, and other Bohemian rulers of this name
- Václav (film), a 2007 film
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