Ludmila (given name)

Ludmil(l)a
Gender	female
Language(s)	Slavic
Origin
Word/name	Slavic
Meaning	ljudъ ("people") + *milъ ("dear");
Region of origin	Eastern Europe
Other names
Alternative spelling	Ljudmila; Lyudmila; Ludmiła; Людмила; Људмила
Variant form(s)	Ludomil (m), Ludomił (m)
Nickname(s)	Russian: Люда (Luda), Люся (Lusya), Мила (Mila), Љума (Ljuma)
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Ludmila or Ludmilla (in origin sounds like Luedmeela) is a female given name of Slavic origin and consists of two elements: lud ("people") and mila ("dear, love"). Because the initial L is mostly soft (palatalized), it is sometimes also transcribed Lyudmila, Lyudmyla or Ljudmila, and is written as Ľudmila in Slovak.

Other variants include: Людмила, (Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian), Људмила (Macedonian and Serbian), Ludomiła, Ludmiła, Ludzimiła, Ludźmiła (Polish), and Ludmilla (Hungarian).

Nicknames are Russian: Люда (Ljuda), Люся (Ljusya), Мила (Mila), Љума (Ljuma)

The most notable bearer is Ludmila of Bohemia, a 10th-century princess and the grandmother of Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia. The feast day for the saint is September 16, which is celebrated as a name day in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Other name days include September 17 (Hungary), and February 20, May 7, July 30, and October 26 (Poland).

People with the given name Ludmila or variants include:

Medieval and early modern eras

In chronological order

Ludmila of Bohemia (c. 860–921), Czech Orthodox and Roman Catholic saint and martyr
Ludmila (wife of Mieszko I Tanglefoot) (died after 1210), High Duchess of Poland
Ludmilla of Bohemia (died 1240), Duchess consort of Bavaria
Ludmilla Elisabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1640–1672), Countess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and hymn poet

Late modern era

In alphabetical order

Lyudmila Andonova, Bulgarian high jumper
Ludmilla Assing (1821–1880), German writer
Ludmila Bášová, Czech badminton player
Ludmila Belousova, Russian figure skater
Lyudmyla Blonska, Ukrainian heptathlete
Lyudmila Butuzova, Soviet high jumper
Ľudmila Cervanová, Slovak tennis player
Lyudmila Chernykh, Soviet astronomer
Ludmilla Chiriaeff (1924–1996), Soviet-born Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher and company director
Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian politician and former Minister of Labor and Social Policy
Ludmila Engquist, Swedish hurdler
Ludmila Ezhova, Russian gymnast
Ludmila Ferber, Brazilian singer
Ludmila Formanová, Czech middle distance runner
Lyudmila Gurchenko, Russian film actress
Ludmila Javorová, Czech vicar general
Lyudmila Karachkina, Soviet astronomer
Lyudmila Kolchanova, Russian long jumper
Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Russian athlete
Ludmilla Kunzmann, (1774–1843), Czech industrialist
Ľudmila Melicherová, Slovak long-distance runner
Ľudmila Pajdušáková, Slovak astronomer
Ludmilla Pajo, Albanian journalist and author
Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916–1974), Ukrainian Soviet sniper during World War II
Lyudmila Petrova, Russian long-distance runner
Ludmila Polesná (1934–1988), Czechoslovak world champion slalom canoeist
Lyudmila Poradnyk, Soviet Ukrainian handball player
Liudmila Privivkova, Russian curler
Lyudmyla Pushkina, Ukrainian long-distance runner
Lyudmila Putina, former wife of Vladimir Putin
Lyudmila Rudenko, (1904–1986), Soviet chess player and second women's world chess champion
Ludmila da Silva, Brazilian footballer
Ludmila Semenyaka, Russian ballerina
Lyudmila Shevtsova, Russian athlete
Ludmilla Tchérina, (1924–2004), French prima ballerina, sculptor, actress, painter, choreographer and novelist
Ludmilla Tourischeva, (born 1952), Russian Olympic and world champion gymnast
Lyudmila Turyanska, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Lyudmila Verbitskaya, (1936-2019), Russian linguist and teacher; president of Saint Petersburg State University
Lyudmila Veselkova, Soviet middle distance runner
Lyudmila Zhivkova, Bulgarian politician
Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Soviet astronomer
Lyudmila Zykina, Russian singer

Medieval and early modern eras

Late modern era

See also