Václav

Václav 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

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), a 2007 film