Vasily

For people sharing the surname Vasili, see Basil (name) § Surname.

Vasili or Vasily (Russian: Васи́лий) is a Slavic male given name of Greek origin and corresponds to Basil. It may refer to:

Given name:

• Vasili I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425
• Vasili II of Moscow Grand Prince from 1425–1462
• Vasili III of Russia Tsar from 1505–1533
• Vasili IV of Russia Tsar from 1606–1610
• Basil Fool for Christ (1469–1557), also known as Saint Basil, or Vasily Blazhenny
• Vasily Alekseyev (1942–2011), Soviet weightlifter
• Vasili Arkhipov (1926–1998), Soviet Navy officer
• Vasily Boldyrev (1875–1933), Russian general
• Vasily Chapayev (1887–1919), Russian Army commander
• Vasily Chuikov (1900–1982), Soviet marschal
• Vasily Degtyaryov (1880–1949), Russian weapons designer and Major General
• Vasily Dzhugashvili (1921–1962), Stalin's son
• Vasili Golovachov (born 1948), Russian science fiction author
• Vasily Grossman (1905–1964), Soviet writer and journalist
• Vasyl Ivanchuk (born 1969), Ukrainian chess grandmaster
• Wassily Kandinsky, (1866–1944), Russian painter and art theorist.
• Vasily Karatygin (1802–1880), Russian actor
• Vasily Livanov (born 1935), Russian actor and screenwriter
• Vasily Lobanov (born 1947), Russian composer and pianist
• Vasily Lomachenko (born 1988), Ukrainian boxer
• Vasily Nezabitovsky (1824–1883), Ukrainian jurist
• Vasily Petrenko (born 1976), Russian conductor
• Vasily Seseman (1884–1963), Russian and Lithuanian philosopher
• Vasily Smyslov (1921–2010), Soviet chess player
• Vasily Tsibliyev (born 1954), Russian cosmonaut
• Vasily Zaytsev, Soviet sniper
• Vasily Zhdanov (born 1963), Soviet cyclist

Other:

• Vasili, a village in Cyprus
• Wassily Chair, 1920s furniture, named after Wassily Kandinsky

The surname Vasilyev (Russian: Васи́льев) is derived from the name. The surname Vasin (Russian: Ва́син) is derived from Vasya, a short form of the name.