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'''Václav''' ({{IPA|cs|ˈvaːtslaf}}) is a Czech male first [[Slavic names|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 ==
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* Saint [[Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia]] (907–929 or 935; 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
* [[Wacław Sierpiński]], Polish mathematician
* [[Václav Talich]], conductor and violinist
* [[Václav Trojan]], Czech composer and arranger
* [[Václav Varaďa]], former NHL hockey player
* [[Jan Václav Voříšek]], early 19th century composer
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== Veceslav ==
* [[Većeslav Holjevac]], Croatian soldier and Communist politician
==Other==
* [[8740 Václav]], an asteroid named after Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia, and other Bohemian rulers of this name
* [[Václav (film)|''Václav'' (film)]], a 2007 film
==See also==
* [[Boleslaus]]
* [[Boleslav (given name)]], includes Boleslaw
* [[Wenceslaus]]
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