Ladislaus
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Ladislav is a name of Slavic origin. It is composed of the name of the ancient Slavic goddess
of love
Lada
and the Slavic word slava (worship, glory). The name means He who worships Lada or He who glorifies Lada and has pagan roots. The name is popular among all Slavic nations as well as some neighboring non-Slavic countries.
The female form of this name would be Ladislava.
and Russian
this name is spelled in the Cyrillic alphabet
: Ладислав.
In Hungarian
this name is spelled László.
Goddess
A goddess is a female deity. In some cultures goddesses are associated with Earth, motherhood, love, and the household. In other cultures, goddesses also rule over war, death, and destruction as well as healing....
of love
Love
Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is central to many religions, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" or Agape in the Canonical gospels...
Lada
Lada and Lado
Lada or Lado is the names of a putative Slavic pagan deity of harmony, merriment, youth, love and beauty .The word 'Lado' does indeed appear in many Slavic and Baltic wedding and folk songs, particularly those sung during Ivan Kupala and other summer festivals. Its meaning, if indeed it has any, is...
and the Slavic word slava (worship, glory). The name means He who worships Lada or He who glorifies Lada and has pagan roots. The name is popular among all Slavic nations as well as some neighboring non-Slavic countries.
The female form of this name would be Ladislava.
Spellings and variations
In BulgarianBulgarian language
Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...
and Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
this name is spelled in the Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
: Ладислав.
In Hungarian
Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
this name is spelled László.
Notable athletes with this name
- Ladislav BenešLadislav BenešLadislav Beneš is a Czechoslavak handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Czechoslovak team which won the silver medal at the Munich Games. He played all six matches and scored fourteen goals....
, Czechoslovakian Olympic handball player - Ladislav BenýšekLadislav BenysekLadislav Benýšek is a Czech professional ice hockey defenceman who has played parts of four seasons at the National Hockey League level, with the Edmonton Oilers and Minnesota Wild...
, Czech ice hockey player - Ladislav ČepčianskýLadislav ČepčianskýLadislav Čepčianský is a Czechoslovak sprint canoer who competed from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. He won a silver medal in the K-1 10000 m event at the 1958 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Prague....
, Czechoslovakian sprint canoer - Ladislav DluhošLadislav DluhošLadislav Dluhoš is a former Czechoslovakian ski jumper who competed from 1984 to 1995. He earned two bronze medals in the Team large hill event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships , and earned his best individual finish of 6th in the individual large hill in 1989.Dluhoš's best finish at the...
, Czechoslovakian ski jumper - Ladislav HechtLadislav HechtLadislav Hecht was a Jewish professional tennis player, well known for representing Czechoslovakia in the Davis Cup during the 1930s....
, Czechoslovakian/American tennis player - Ladislav JurkemikLadislav JurkemikLadislav Jurkemik is a former Slovak football player and later a football manager. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 57 matches and scored 3 goals....
, Czechoslovakian/Slovakian footballer and manager - Ladislav KačániLadislav KacániLadislav Kačáni is a former Slovak football player. He played for Czechoslovakia national team in 20 matches and scored three goals.He was a participant at the 1954 FIFA World Cup, where he played in two matches....
, Czechoslovakian footballer and coach - Ladislav KohnLadislav KohnLadislav Kohn is a former National Hockey League right winger.He was drafted by the Calgary Flames in the seventh round, 175th overall, of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft. He played in Finland's SM-liiga with the Espoo Blues from 2003 to 2007 before moving to Russia with HC CSKA Moscow...
, Czech ice hockey player - Ladislav KunaLadislav KunaLadislav Kuna is a former Slovak football player and manager.In Czechoslovak league he played 424 matches and scored 86 goals. He was capped 47 times for Czechoslovakia, scored 9 goals...
, Czechoslovakian footballer - Ladislav LubinaLadislav LubinaLadislav Lubina is former Czech ice hockey player and currently ice hockey coach. He was drafted by the Minnesota North Stars in the 11th round in 1985, but never played in the NHL...
, Czechoslovakian ice hockey player and coach - Ladislav MaierLadislav MaierLadislav Maier is a Czech football goalkeeper. He played seven matches for the Czech Republic and participated at Euro 1996 and Euro 2000....
, Czech footballer - Ladislav NagyLadislav NagyLadislav Nagy is a Slovak professional hockey player who plays for HC Lev Poprad of the KHL.- Playing career :Nagy, who is of Hungarian descent, was drafted 177th overall in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft by the St. Louis Blues. Nagy had played in the Slovak Extraliga as a junior prior to being drafted...
, Slovakian ice hockey player - Ladislav NovákLadislav NovákLadislav Novák was a Czech football defender and later a football manager. He played 75 matches for Czechoslovakia, 71 of them as a team captain....
, Czechoslovakian footballer - Ladislav PatakiLadislav PatakiLadislav Pataki was an American coach, sports scientist, and masters track and field thrower. He defected from Czechoslovakia in 1985 with his wife and daughter, settling in Los Gatos, California...
, Czechoslovakian/American coach and sports scientist - Ladislav PavlovičLadislav PavlovicLadislav Pavlovič is a former Slovak football player. He played for Czechoslovakia national team in 14 matches and scored two goals....
, Czechoslovakian footballer - Ladislav PetrášLadislav PetrášLadislav Petráš is a former Slovak football player. Born in Necpaly, he played for Czechoslovakia national team in 19 matches and scored 6 goals....
, Czechoslovakian footballer - Ladislav RybánskyLadislav RybánskyLadislav Rybánsky is a Slovak football goalkeeper who currently plays for Kecskeméti TE.-Career:The goalkeeper began his career 2001 with FC Spartak Trnava and joined 2005 on loan to FK Nove Zamky. After one season with FK Nove Zamky and returned to FC Spartak Trnava who started 2008 his...
, Slovakian footballer - Ladislav Rygl, Jr.Ladislav Rygl, Jr.Ladislav Rygl, Jr. is a Czech nordic combined skier who competed from 1995 to 2006. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he had his best overall finish of eighth in the 4 x 5 km team event at Nagano in 1998 and his best individual finish of 17th in the 7.5 km sprint event at Turin in...
, Czech nordic combined Olympic skier - Ladislav Rygl, Sr., Czechoslovakian nordic combined Olympic skier
- Ladislav ŠčurkoLadislav ScurkoLadislav Ščurko is a Slovak professional ice hockey center who played for HC Košice of the Slovak Extraliga until he confessed to the murder of a referee in 2009.-Playing career:...
, Slovakian ice hockey player and confessed murderer - Ladislav ŠimůnekLadislav ŠimunekLadislav Šimůnek was a Czech football player.He was a devoted player of SK Slavia Praha.He played for the Czechoslovakia national team and was a participant at the 1938 FIFA World Cup, where he played two games.- References :* at ČMFS website...
, Czechoslovakian footballer - Ladislav ŠkorpilLadislav ŠkorpilLadislav Škorpil is a former Czech football player and former manager of the Czech club FC Slovan Liberec. Škorpil is also a member of the Civic Democratic Party in his hometown of Hradec Králové.- Coaching career :...
, Czech football manager - Ladislav ŠmídLadislav SmidLadislav "Laddy" Šmíd is a Czech professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
, Czech ice hockey player - Ladislav ŠvandaLadislav SvandaLadislav Švanda is a former Czech cross country skier who raced from 1982 to 1990. He earned a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary while his best individual Winter Olympics finish was a 15th in the 50 km event at those same games.Švanda also won a bronze...
, Czech Olympic cross country skier - Ladislav TrojákLadislav TrojákLadislav Troják was the first Slovak ice hockey player in the national team of Czechoslovakia and also the first Slovak hockey player with a title of World Champion...
, Czechoslovakian ice hockey player - Ladislav TrpkošLadislav TrpkošLadislav Trpkoš was a Czech basketball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1936 Summer Olympics and in the 1948 Summer Olympics....
, Czechoslovakian Olympic basketball player - Ladislav VáchaLadislav VáchaLadislav Vácha was a Czech gymnast and Olympic champion competing for Czechoslovakia.He competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where he received a bronze medal in rope climbing and rings....
, Czechoslovakian Olympic gymnast - Ladislav VízekLadislav VízekLadislav Vízek is a Czech football player. He played 55 matches for Czechoslovakia and scored 13 goals....
, Czechoslovakian footballer - Ladislav VolešákLadislav VolešákLadislav Volešák is a Czech football player who currently plays for 1. FC Slovácko. He is an attacking midfielder and was a regular for Slavia Prague....
, Czech footballer
Notable writers, artists, and academics with this name
- Ladislav BrožekLadislav BrožekLadislav Brožek is/was a Slovak astronomer. He discovered a number of 23 minor planets between 1979 and 1982 at Kleť Observatory.- References :...
, Slovakian astronomer - Ladislav František ČelakovskýLadislav František CelakovskýLadislav František Čelakovský was a Czech mycologist and botanist who was born in Prague. He was the son of botanist Ladislav Josef Čelakovský ....
, Czech mycologist and botanist - Ladislav Josef ČelakovskýLadislav Josef CelakovskýLadislav Josef Čelakovský was a Czech botanist who was born in Prague. He was the son of writer František Ladislav Čelakovský, and father to mycologist Ladislav František Čelakovský ....
, Czech botanist - Ladislav FialkaLadislav FialkaLadislav Fialka was a mime from what is now the Czech Republic....
, Czechoslovakian mime - Ladislav FuksLadislav FuksLadislav Fuks was a Czech novelist. He focused mainly on psychological novels, portraying the despair and suffering of people under German occupation of Czechoslovakia....
, Czechoslovakian novelist - Ladislav "Ladi" GeislerLadi GeislerLadislav "Ladi" Geisler was a Czech musician who established a high profile in the post-war German music scene. Best known for his work with German pop musicians Bert Kaempfert, James Last and Freddy Quinn, Geisler developed the distinctive “Knack-Bass” percussive bass sound that helped...
, Czechoslovakian musician - Ladislav KlímaLadislav KlímaLadislav Klíma , was a Czech philosopher and novelist influenced by George Berkeley, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. His philosophy is referred to varyingly as existentialism and subjective idealism.-Life:...
, Czech philosopher and novelist - Ladislav KraljLadislav KraljLadislav Kralj-Međimurec was a Croatian painter and engraver. In the history of Croatian painting he is best known for his landscapes of his home county, Međimurje, and Zagorje, which he created throughout his entire life...
, Croatian painter and engraver - Ladislav KubíkLadislav KubikLadislav Kubík is a contemporary Czech-American composer. His style is associated with other post-war Eastern European composers, such as Krzysztof Penderecki and Witold Lutosławski....
, Czechoslovakian/American composer - Ladislav KupkovičLadislav KupkovicLadislav Karol Kupkovič is a Slovak composer and conductor.-Life:Kupkovič was born in Bratislava, and studied violin and conducting there, first at the conservatory, then at the Academy of Performing Arts. He played violin in the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra from 1960 to 1965, and then began to...
, Czechoslovakian composer and conductor - Ladislav MikoLadislav MikoLadislav Miko is Czech environmental expert and politician. He was the Minister of Environment in the caretaker government of Jan Fischer but later left to work for the European Commission.- References :...
, Czech politician and expert on environmental issues - Ladislav MňačkoLadislav MňačkoLadislav Mňačko was a Slovak writer and journalist. He took part in the partisan movement in Slovakia during World War II. After the war, he was at first a staunch supporter of the Czechoslovak Communist regime and one of its most prominent journalists...
, Czechoslovakian writer and journalist - Ladislav MrázLadislav MrázLadislav Mráz was a Czech operatic bass-baritone who had an active career in Czechoslovakia from 1943 through 1962...
, Czechoslovakian opera singer - Ladislav MucinaLadislav MucinaLadislav Mucina is an influential vegetation scientist and Professor of Environmental and Aquatic Science at the Curtin University of Technology in Australia...
, Slovakian botanist, ecologist, and vegetation expert - Ladislav Nádaši-JégéLadislav Nádaši-JégéLadislav Nádaši-Jégé was a Slovak writer, literary critic and doctor.-Life:...
, Slovakian writer, literary critic, and doctor - Ladislav ŠalounLadislav ŠalounLadislav Jan Šaloun was an important Czech sculptor of the Art Nouveau period.Šaloun studied in the studios of Tomáš Seidan and Bohuslav Schnirch, was involved as an artist in the Mánes Union of Fine Arts, This independent education allowed him to avoid the influence of Josef Václav Myslbek,...
, Czechoslovakian sculptor - Ladislav SlovákLadislav SlovákLadislav Slovák was a Slovak conductor.He was a long-time director of the Slovak Philharmonic, taking over the job from his teacher and mentor Václav Talich. Amongst his most important recordings is the entire collection of Dmitri Shostakovich's fifteen symphonies, published by Naxos Records...
, Czechoslovakian conductor - Ladislav SmočekLadislav SmocekLadislav Smoček is a Czech playwright and theater director.After studying at a secondary school in Plzeň he graduated from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1956. In 1965 he co-founded The Drama Club , where he remains employed till the present...
, Czech playwright and theater director - Ladislav SmoljakLadislav SmoljakLadislav Smoljak was a Czech film and theater director, actor and screenwriter. He was born in Prague.Smoljak tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to study physics and mathematics, and later worked as journalist and scriptwriter...
, Czechoslovakian film and theater director - Ladislav StroupežnickýLadislav StroupežnickýLadislav Stroupežnický was a renowned Czech author, playwright, and dramatist, best known for the frequently staged play Naši furianti.-Life:...
, Austro-Hungarian/Czech author, playwright, and director - Ladislav VycpálekLadislav VycpálekLadislav Vycpálek was a Czech composer and violist.Vycpálek studied composition under Vítězslav Novák. However, he very soon found his own expressive style. He mainly composed choral works. Prior to World War I, he occupied himself with setting Czech and German symbolist poetry to music, then he...
, Czechoslovakian composer and violinist - Ladislav ZgustaLadislav ZgustaLadislav Zgusta was a Czech–American historical linguist and lexicographer, who wrote one of the first textbooks on lexicography. He was a professor of linguistics and classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dutch lexicographer Piet van Sterkenburg referred to Zgusta as...
, Czechoslovakian linguist, historian and theorist of lexicography
Notable others with this name
- Ladislav AdamecLadislav AdamecLadislav Adamec was a Czechoslovak Communist political figure. Upon the retirement of Prime Minister Lubomír Štrougal in October 1988, Adamec assumed the role, thus serving as the last Communist leader of Czechoslovakia. He served from October 12, 1988 to December 7, 1989...
, Czechoslovakian Prime Minister, Communist politician - Ladislav Hudec, Austro-Hungarian/Slovakian architect
- Ladislav PejačevićLadislav PejačevićCount Ladislav Pejačević of Virovitica ; Sopron, April 5, 1824 – Našice, April 7, 1901) was a Croatian aristocrat, politician and statesman, a member of the Pejačević noble family, remarkable and influential in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire...
, BanBan (title)Ban was a title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.-Etymology:The word ban has entered the English language probably as a borrowing from South Slavic ban, meaning "lord, master; ruler". The Slavic word is probably borrowed from...
of Croatia - Ladislav ProkešLadislav ProkešLadislav Prokeš was one of the most prolific composers of endgame studies in chess. He was born and died in Prague....
, Czechslovakian chess master and composer of endgame studies - Ladislav ŽákLadislav ŽákLadislav Žák was a Czech architect, painter, architectural theorist and teacher. He was an important exponent of the Czech functionalist architecture in the 1930s, later he devoted himself mainly to landscape architecture...
, Czechoslovakian architect and painter
See also
- LadislaoLadislaoLadislao is a given name, and may refer to:* Ladislao Cabrera, Bolivian hero during the War of the Pacific* Ladislao Kubala, footballer* Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, former Uruguyan goalkeeper* Ladislao, knight of the Pannonia and governor of Messina...
- LászlóLászlóLászló is a Hungarian male given name and surname after Ladislaus I of Hungary. Other versions are Laszlo, Lazlo or Laszly and it is frequently translated as Leslie.The original Slavic Vladislav name meaning is 'power and glory'....
- Volodyslav - Ukrainian spelling of Володислав - Владислав
- VladislavVladislavVladislav is a Slavic male given name, sometimes confused with/treated as the same as Ladislav...
- Slavic names