Vasil

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Vasil (Bulgarian and Macedonian: Васил, Georgian: ვასილ) is a Bulgarian, Macedonian and Georgian masculine given name. It may refer to:

* Vasil Adzhalarski, Bulgarian revolutionary, an IMARO leader of revolutionary bands
* Vasil Amashukeli (1886–1977), early Georgian film director & cinematographer in Azerbaijan and Georgia
* Vasil Angelov (1882–1953), Bulgarian military officer and a revolutionary, a worker of IMARO
* Vasil Aprilov (1789–1847), Bulgarian educator
* Vasil Barnovi (1856–1934), Georgian writer popular for his historical novels
* Vasil Biľak (1917–2014), former Slovak Communist leader of Rusyn origin
* Vasil Binev (born 1957), Bulgarian actor
* Vasil Boev (born 1988), Bulgarian footballer
* Vasil Bollano, the ethnic Greek mayor of Himara municipality, in southwest Albania
* Vasil Bozhikov (born 1988), Bulgarian football defender
* Vasil Bykaŭ (1924–2003), prolific Belarusian author of novels and novellas about World War II
* Vasil Chekalarov (1874–1913), Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of IMARO in Aegean Macedonia
* Vasil Chilingrov (born 1951), Bulgarian sprint canoeist who competed in the early to mid-1970s
* Vasil Dragolov (born 1962), former Bulgarian footballer
* Vasil Etropolski (born 1959), Bulgarian Olympic and world champion sabre fencer
* Vasil Garvanliev (born 1984), Macedonian classic and pop singer
* Vasil Gendov (1891–1970), Bulgarian actor, film director and screenwriter
* Vasil Gigiadze (born 1977), Georgian footballer
* Vasil Glavinov (1872–1929), Bulgarian socialist from Ottoman Macedonia, a member of the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party
* Vasil Gruev (born 1926), Bulgarian cross country skier who competed in the 1950s
* Vasil Gyuzelev, Bulgarian historian who studies Bulgaria during the Middle Ages
* Vasil Iliev, Bulgarian mobster, businessman and wrestler
* Vasil Iljoski (1902–1995), Macedonian writer, dramatist, professor
* Vasil Kaloyanov (born 1988), Bulgarian footballer
* Vasil Kamburov (born 1975), Bulgarian footballer
* Vasil Kanchov (1862–1904), Bulgarian geographer, ethnographer and politician
* Vasil Khamutowski (born 1978), Belarusian football goalkeeper
* Vasil Kirov (born 1975), Bulgarian footballer
* Vasil Kiryienka (born 1981), Belarusian racing cyclist for UCI ProTeam Team Sky
* Vasil Kochev (born 1988), Bulgarian professional footballer
* Vasil Kolarov (1877–1950), Bulgarian communist political leader and leading functionary in the Communist International
* Vasil Kutinchev (1859–1941), Bulgarian officer
* Vasil Laçi (1922–1941), Albanian patriot and monarchist; attempted to kill the King of Italy and Prime Minister of Albania
* Vasil Mzhavanadze (1902–1988), the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Georgian SSR from 1953 to 1972
* Vasil Naydenov, Bulgarian singer-songwriter, popular in Bulgaria and the Eastern bloc during the late 1970s and 1980s
* Vasil Panayotov (born 1990), Bulgarian football player
* Vasil Radoslavov (1854–1929), leading Bulgarian liberal politician who twice served as Prime Minister
* Vasil Ringov (born 1955), retired Macedonian football player
* Vasil Ruci, retired Albanian football striker
* Vasil Shanto (1913–1944), Albanian communist leader and a hero of World War II
* Vasil Shkurti (born 1992), Albanian footballer
* Vasil Sikharulidze (born 1968), Georgian diplomat and politician
* Vasil Slavov (born 1958), Bulgarian author and poet
* Vasil Spasov (chess player) (born 1971), Bulgarian chess grandmaster
* Vasil Tole (born 1963), Albanian composer of European classical music
* Vasil Tsereteli (1862–1937), distinguished Georgian physician, journalist and public benefactor
* Vasil Tupurkovski, Macedonian academic, politician and the current president of the Macedonian Olympic Committee
* Vasil Varlamos (born 1942), former Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the early 1960s
* Vasil Vasilev (goalkeeper) (born 1976), Bulgarian footballer
* Vasil Vasilev (Plovdiv footballer) (born 1984), Bulgarian football defender
* Vasil Velev (born 1984), Bulgarian football player
* Vasil Yakusha (1958–2020), Belarusian former rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics
* Vasil Zacharka (1877–1943), Belarusian statesman and the second president of the Belarusian People's Republic in exile
* Vasil Zlatarski, Bulgarian historian-medievalist, archaeologist, and epigraphist

## See also[edit]

* Vasil Levski (disambiguation)
* "Vasil Vasiltsiv", song by Esthetic Education devoted to young Ukrainian singer Vasyl Vasyltsiv
* Vassil, masculine given name and a surname
* Vasilj (given name) [sr] (Serbian Cyrillic: Васиљ), Serbian masculine given name
* Vasiĺ [be-tarask] (Belarusian: Васіль), Belarusian masculine given name
* Vasyl [uk] (Ukrainian: Василь), Ukrainian masculine given name
* Vasiliy (Russian: Василий), Russian masculine given name

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