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Václav ( [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: Veceslav. The Old Czech form is Vácslav - pronounced "vah:tslahf".

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Václav or Vácslav

  • Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907–935 or 929) (svatý Václav)
  • 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 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
  • Václav Kruta, Czech university professor, French archeologist and historian
  • 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, Crotian soldier and communist politician
  • Veceslav Sirkins, director and actor

    • Other

  • 8740 Václav, an asteroid named after Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia, and other Bohemian rulers of this name
  • Václav (film), a 2007 film

    • References

    Václav Wikipedia
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