Ladislav is a Czech, Slovak and Croatian variant of the Slavic name Vladislav.[citation needed] The female form of this name is Ladislava.
Folk etymology occasionally links Ladislav with the Slavic goddess Lada.[citation needed]
Spellings and variations
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In Bulgarian and Russian this name is spelled in Cyrillic: Ладислав.
László is a Hungarian variation of this name.[citation needed]
- Ladislav Beneš, Czechoslovak Olympic handball player
- Ladislav Benýšek, Czech ice hockey player
- Ladislav Čepčianský, Czechoslovak sprint canoer
- Ladislav Dluhoš, Czechoslovak ski jumper
- Ladislav Fouček
- Ladislav Hecht (1909–2004), Czechoslovak/American tennis player
- Ladislav Hrubý, cross-country skier
- Ladislav Jurkemik, Czechoslovak/Slovak footballer and manager
- Ladislav Kačáni, Czechoslovak footballer and coach
- Ladislav Kohn, Czech ice hockey player
- Ladislav Kuna, Czechoslovak footballer
- Ladislav Lubina, Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach
- Ladislav Maier, Czech footballer
- Ladislav Nagy, Slovak ice hockey player
- Ladislav Novák, Czechoslovak footballer
- Ladislav Pataki, Czechoslovak/American coach and sports scientist
- Ladislav Pavlovič, Czechoslovak footballer
- Ladislav Petráš, Czechoslovak footballer
- Ladislav Prášil, Czech shot putter
- Ladislav Rybánsky, Slovak footballer
- Ladislav Rygl, Jr., Czech Nordic combined Olympic skier
- Ladislav Rygl, Sr., Czechoslovak Nordic combined Olympic skier
- Ladislav Ščurko, Slovak ice hockey player and confessed murderer
- Ladislav Šimůnek, Czechoslovak footballer
- Ladislav Škorpil, Czech football manager
- Ladislav Šmíd, Czech ice hockey player
- Ladislav Švanda, Czech Olympic cross country skier
- Ladislav Troják, Czechoslovak ice hockey player
- Ladislav Trpkoš, Czechoslovak Olympic basketball player
- Ladislav Vácha, Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast
- Ladislav Vízek, Czechoslovak footballer
- Ladislav Volešák, Czech footballer
Writers and artists
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- Ladislav Bublík (1924-1988), Czech writer
- Ladislav Fialka, Czechoslovak mime
- Ladislav Fuks, Czechoslovak novelist
- Ladislav "Ladi" Geisler, Czechoslovak musician
- Ladislav Klíma, Czech philosopher and novelist
- Ladislav Kralj, Croatian painter and engraver
- Ladislav Kubík, Czechoslovak/American composer
- Ladislav Kupkovič, Czechoslovak composer and conductor
- Ladislav Mňačko, Czechoslovak writer and journalist
- Ladislav Mráz, Czechoslovak opera singer
- Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé, Slovak writer, literary critic, and doctor
- Ladislav Šaloun, Czechoslovak sculptor
- Ladislav Slovák, Czechoslovak conductor
- Ladislav Smoček, Czech playwright and theater director
- Ladislav Smoljak, Czechoslovak film and theater director
- Ladislav Stroupežnický, Austro-Hungarian/Czech author, playwright, and director
- Ladislav Vycpálek, Czechoslovak composer and violinist
- Ladislav (Laco) Zrubec, Slovak author and writer