Vladimir

Vladimir or Wladimir may refer to:

Names

  • Vladimir (name), Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Czech, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, and Serbian spelling of a Slavic name
  • Waldemar (disambiguation) for a Germanic version of the name
  • Uladzimir for a Belarusian version of the name
  • Volodymyr for a Ukrainian version of the name

Places

Religious leaders

  • Metropolitan Vladimir (disambiguation), multiple
  • Jovan Vladimir (d. 1016), ruler of Doclea and a saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church

Musicians

  • Vladimir Horowitz (1903–1989), a Russian American legendary classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937–), a Russian-Icelandic renowned classical pianist and conductor

Nobles

  • Vladimir of Bulgaria (fl. 889–893), King of Bulgaria
  • Vladimir I of Kiev (980–1015), medieval ruler of Kievan Rus
  • Vladimir II Monomakh (1053–1125), Veliky Knyaz of Kievan Rus, prince of Kiev; also ruled in Rostov and Suzdal
  • Vladimir II Mstislavich (1132–1173), Prince of Dorogobuzh, Vladimir, and Volyn, Slutsk, Tripolye and Grand Prince of Kiev
  • Vladimir of Novgorod (1020–1052), Prince of Novgorod
  • Vladimir III Rurikovich (1187–1239), Prince of Pereyaslavl, Smolensk and Grand Prince of Kiev
  • Vladimir of Staritsa (1533–1569), Appanage Prince of Russia, cousin to Tsar Ivan the Terrible
  • Vlad II Dracul (1390–1447), Prince of Wallachia and Governor of Transylvania
  • Vlad III the Impaler (1431–1476), a.k.a. Dracula, Prince of Wallachia

Political and military leaders

  • Vladimir the Bold (1353–1410), commander of the Muscovite armies in the 14th century
  • Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), pseudonym of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and first leader of the Soviet Union
  • Vladimir Putin (b. 1952), current President of the Russian Federation

Athletes

Fictional characters

  • Vladimir (Waiting for Godot), also known as Vladimir "Albert" and "Didi", a character in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
  • Vovochka, diminutive form of Vladimir, common character in Russian jokes
  • Count Dracula, a.k.a. Vlad Dracula, from Bram Stoker's 1897 Dracula
  • Vladimir, the Crimson Reaper, a playable champion character in the MOBA video game League of Legends
  • Vlad Masters from Danny Phantom the TV show from Nickelodeon
  • Vlamidir, a character from My Life as a Teenage Robot

Actors, writers, poets

  • Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (1938–1980), an actor, poet, bard, and writer
  • Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899–1977), a multilingual Russian novelist

Artists

Other people

Ships

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See also

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