Vasily

Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy (Russian: Василий) is a Russian masculine given name of Greek origin and corresponds to Basil. It may refer to:


 * Vasily I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425
 * Vasily II of Moscow Grand Prince from 1425–1462
 * Vasili III of Russia Grand Prince from 1505–1533
 * Vasili IV of Russia Tsar from 1606–1610
 * Basil Fool for Christ (1469–1557), also known as Saint Basil, or Vasily Blazhenny
 * Vasily Alekseyev (1942–2011), Soviet weightlifter
 * Vasily Arkhipov (1926–1998), Soviet Naval officer in the Cuban Missile Crisis
 * Vasily Boldyrev (1875–1933), Russian general
 * Vasily Chapayev (1887–1969), Russian Army commander
 * Vasily Chuikov (1900–1982), Soviet marshal
 * Vasily Degtyaryov (1880–1949), Russian weapons designer and Major General
 * Vasily Dzhugashvili (1921–1962), Stalin's son
 * Vasili Golovachov (born 1948), Russian science fiction author
 * Vasily Grossman (1905–1964), Soviet writer and journalist
 * Vasily Ignatenko (1961–1986), Soviet firefighter in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster
 * Vasilii Alekseevich Iskovskikh (1939–2009), Russian mathematician
 * Vasily Kuznetsov (1901–1990), Soviet politician, acted three times as head of state of USSR
 * Vasyl Ivanchuk (born 1969), Ukrainian chess grandmaster
 * Wassily Kandinsky (Vasily Kandinsky; 1866–1944), Russian painter and art theorist.
 * Vasily Karatygin (1802–1880), Russian actor
 * Vasily Lanovoy (1934–2021), Russian actor
 * Vasily Livanov (born 1935), Russian actor and screenwriter
 * Vasily Lobanov (born 1947), Russian composer and pianist
 * Vasyl Lomachenko (Vasily Lomachenko; born 1988), Ukrainian boxer
 * Vasily Markovich (born 1955), Belarusian politician
 * Vasily Nezabitovsky (1824–1883), Ukrainian jurist
 * Vasily Petrenko (born 1976), Russian conductor
 * Vasily Podkolzin (born 2001), Russian ice hockey player currently playing for the Vancouver Canucks
 * Vasily Seseman (1884–1963), Russian and Lithuanian philosopher
 * Vasily Smyslov (1921–2010), Soviet chess player
 * Vasily Tsibliyev (born 1954), Russian cosmonaut
 * Vasily Zaytsev, Soviet sniper
 * Vasily Zakharov (1934–2023), Soviet culture minister
 * Vasily Zhdanov (born 1963), Soviet cyclist

Fictional characters

 * Vasilii, a character from the Twilight book and film series
 * Vasily Borgov, a character from the novel The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis and in the Netflix miniseries of the same title based on the novel
 * Vasily Petrovych Goloborodko, protagonist of the TV series Servant of the People
 * Vasily Lantsov, a character from the Grishaverse book series by Leigh Bardugo
 * Vasily Pavlichenko, a character from Satoru Noda's seinen manga series, Golden Kamuy