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

For etymology and cognates in other languages, see Wenceslaus.

Václav or Vácslav

Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907–935 or 929) (svatý Václav)
Václav Noid Bárta, singer, songwriter, and actor
Václav Binovec, Czech film director and screenwriter
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 Jírů, Czech photographer and writer
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 Luks, harpsichordist, horn player, conductor, musicologist and pedagogue
Josef Václav Myslbek, sculptor
Václav Nelhýbel, composer
Václav Neumann, conductor, violinist and viola player
Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer
Václav Patejdl, Slovak singer and composer
Wacław Potocki, Polish nobleman, poet and writer
Václav Prospal, NHL hockey player
Václav Smil, scientist and policy analyst
Václav Talich, conductor and violinist
Václav Trojan, Czech composer and arranger
Václav Varaďa, former NHL hockey player
Jan Václav Voříšek, early 19th century composer