Václav

Václav is a given name.

Václav or Vácslav

  • 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