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 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
• 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, Croatian 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

See also

• Boleslaus
• Boleslav (given name), includes Boleslaw
• Wenceslaus