Ludmila (given name)
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Ludmila or Ludmilla - is a female given name
of Slavic origin and consists of two elements: lud ("people") and mila ("dear, love"). Because the initial L is mostly soft (palatalized
), it is sometimes also transcribed Lyudmila, Lyudmyla or Ljudmila, and is written as Ľudmila in Slovak.
Other variants include: Людмила (Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian), Ljuma (Bulgarian, Russian), Људмила (Macedonian and Serbian), Ludomiła, Ludmiła, Ludzimiła, Ludźmiła (Polish), Ludmilla (Hungarian).
Most notable bearer: Saint Ludmila
, a 10th-century princess from Bohemia
, the grandmother of Saint Wenceslaus. The feast day for the saint is September 16, which is celebrated as a name day
in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Other name days include September 17 (Hungary), and February 20/May 7/July 30/October 26 (Poland).
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
of Slavic origin and consists of two elements: lud ("people") and mila ("dear, love"). Because the initial L is mostly soft (palatalized
Palatalization
In linguistics, palatalization , also palatization, may refer to two different processes by which a sound, usually a consonant, comes to be produced with the tongue in a position in the mouth near the palate....
), it is sometimes also transcribed Lyudmila, Lyudmyla or Ljudmila, and is written as Ľudmila in Slovak.
Other variants include: Людмила (Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian), Ljuma (Bulgarian, Russian), Људмила (Macedonian and Serbian), Ludomiła, Ludmiła, Ludzimiła, Ludźmiła (Polish), Ludmilla (Hungarian).
Most notable bearer: Saint Ludmila
Saint Ludmila
Saint Ludmila is a Czech saint and martyr venerated by the Orthodox and the Roman Catholics. She was born in Mělník as daughter of a Slavic prince Slavibor...
, a 10th-century princess from Bohemia
Bohemia
Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...
, the grandmother of Saint Wenceslaus. The feast day for the saint is September 16, which is celebrated as a name day
Name day
A name day is a tradition in many countries in Europe and Latin America that consists of celebrating the day of the year associated with one's given name....
in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Other name days include September 17 (Hungary), and February 20/May 7/July 30/October 26 (Poland).
List of people with the given name Ludmila or a variant
- Lyudmila AndonovaLyudmila AndonovaLyudmila Andonova is a retired female high jumper from Bulgaria. She set the women's world record in the high jump event on July 20, 1984 in East Berlin, jumping 2.07 metres.In 1985 she was suspended for doping with amphetamine....
, Bulgarian high jumper - Ludmila BelousovaLudmila BelousovaLudmila Yevgenyevna Belousova is a Russian pair skater who represented the Soviet Union. With her partner Oleg Protopopov, she is a two-time Olympic champion and four-time World champion .- Career :Belousova started skating relatively late, at age 16. She met Protopopov in 1954 and they began...
, Russian figure skater - Lyudmyla Blonska, Ukrainian heptathlete
- Lyudmila ButuzovaLyudmila ButuzovaLyudmila Butuzova is a high jumper from the Soviet union, who set the Kazakhstani and Uzbekistani national record on 1984-06-10, jumping 1.98 metres in Sochi.-References:* *...
, Soviet high jumper - Ľudmila CervanováLudmila CervanováĽudmila Cervanová is a professional female tennis player from Slovakia. She turned professional in 1997.Cervanová was born in Piešťany and currently still lives in her birthplace....
, Slovakian tennis player - Lyudmila ChernykhLyudmila ChernykhLyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh is a Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet astronomer.In 1959 she graduated from Irkutsk State Pedagogical University. Between 1959 and 1963 she worked in the 'Time and Frequency Laboratory' of the All-Union Research Institute of Physico-Technical and Radiotechnical Measurements...
, Soviet astronomer - Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian politician and former Minister of Labor and Social Policy
- Ludmila EngquistLudmila EngquistLudmila Engquist is a former Soviet/Russian/Swedish athlete who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics , in the 1992 Summer Olympics , and in the 1996 Summer Olympics .She won gold medals in 100m hurdles at the 1991 World...
, Swedish hurdler - Ludmila EzhovaLudmila EzhovaLudmila Ezhova Grebenkova, , born 4 March 1982, is a Russian gymnast of olympic calibre.A mainstay of the Russian team from the late 1990s to the mid 2000s, she helped her team to a Silver Medal at the 2001 World Championships and to a Bronze Medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics...
, Russian gymnast - Ludmila FormanováLudmila FormanováLudmila Formanová is a former Czech middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.In 1999 she broke Maria de Lurdes Mutola's running streak at the World Indoor Championships, and won in a championship record of 1:56.90...
, Czech middle distance runner - Lyudmila Markovna GurchenkoLyudmila GurchenkoLyudmila Markovna Gurchenko was a popular Soviet and Russian actress, singer and entertainer.-Biography:Lyudmila was born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR in 1935 to Mark Gavrilovich Gurchenko and Yelena Aleksandrovna Simonova-Gurchenko . Before the World War II they lived in a single room apartment on...
, Russian film actress - Ludmila JavorováLudmila JavorováLudmila Javorová is a Czech Roman Catholic woman who worked in the underground church during the time of communist rule in Czechoslovakia and served as a vicar general of a clandestine bishop...
, Czech vicar general - Lyudmila Karachkina, Soviet astronomer
- Lyudmila KolchanovaLyudmila KolchanovaLyudmila Sergeyevna Kolchanova is a Russian long jumper.-Achievements:-References:...
, Russian long jumper - Lyudmila KondratyevaLyudmila KondratyevaLyudmila Andreyevna Kondratyeva is a Russian athlete, who competed for the USSR and is the 1980 Olympic 100 m champion....
, Russian athlete - Ludmila MelicherováLudmila MelicherováLudmila Melicherová is a retired female long-distance runner from Slovakia, who represented Czechoslovakia at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the women's marathon. She set her personal best in the classic distance on April 22, 1990, winning the Vienna City Marathon...
, Slovak long-distance runner - Ľudmila PajdušákováLudmila PajdušákováĽudmila Pajdušáková was a Slovak astronomer.She specialized in solar astronomy, and also discovered a number of comets, including periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková, and the non-periodic C/1946 K1 , C/1948 E1 , C/1951 C1 and C/1953 X1 .She observed at Skalnaté Pleso...
, Slovak astronomer - Ludmilla PajoLudmilla PajoLudmilla Pajo was a Moscow-born Albanian journalist.She was born in Moscow on December 21, 1947. Her parents were pursuing their studies at the time in Russia and returned to Albania when Ludmilla was 6 years old...
, Albanian journalist and author - Lyudmila PavlichenkoLyudmila PavlichenkoLyudmila Mykhailivna Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with 309 kills, and is regarded as the most successful female sniper in history.-Early life:...
, Ukrainian Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with 309 kills - Lyudmila PetrovaLyudmila PetrovaLyudmila Nikolayevna Petrova is a Russian long-distance runner, who represented her native country at two Summer Olympics: 1996 and 2004. She won the 2000 edition of the New York City Marathon....
, Russian long-distance runner - Ludmila PrivivkovaLudmila PrivivkovaLiudmila Andreyevna Privivkova is a curler from Russia....
, Russian curler - Lyudmila PoradnykLyudmila PoradnykLyudmila Konstantynivna Poradnyk-Bobrus is a former Soviet/Ukrainian handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics....
, Soviet Ukrainian handball player - Lyudmyla PushkinaLyudmyla PushkinaLyudmyla Pushkina is a retired female long-distance runner from Ukraine. She set her personal best in the women's marathon on October 19, 2003 in Columbus, Ohio.-Achievements:-References:*...
, Ukrainian long-distance runner - Lyudmila PutinaLyudmila PutinaLyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina is the wife of former Russian President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.She married Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on July 28, 1983; they have two daughters, Maria, born 1985 and Yekaterina...
, wife of Vladimir Putin - Lyudmila RudenkoLyudmila RudenkoLyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko was a Soviet chess player and the second Women's World Chess Champion from 1950 until 1953.She was awarded the FIDE International Master and Woman International Master titles in 1950, and the Woman Grandmaster title in 1976...
, Soviet chess player - Ludmila SemenyakaLudmila SemenyakaLudmila Semenyaka is a Soviet ballerina, born in Leningrad. She studied at the Vaganova School as a pupil of Nina Belikova. She joined the Kirov Ballet in 1970 and later the Bolshoi Ballet in 1972, where she was a prima ballerina. She was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1986 and received the...
, Russian ballerina - Lyudmila ShevtsovaLyudmila ShevtsovaLyudmila Ivanovna Shevtsova is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 800 metres. She trained at VSS Avanhard in Dnipropetrovsk....
, Russian athlete - Ludmilla TchérinaLudmilla TchérinaLudmilla Tchérina was a French prima ballerina, sculptor, actress, painter, choreographer and author of two novels....
, French ballerina - Ludmilla TourischevaLudmilla TourischevaLudmilla Ivanovna Tourischeva is a former Russian gymnast and a nine-time Olympic medalist for the Soviet Union.Tourischeva began gymnastics in 1965 and began competing for the Soviet team as early as in 1967...
, Russian Olympic gymnast - Lyudmila VeselkovaLyudmila VeselkovaLyudmila Veselkova is a retired female middle distance runner, who represented the USSR in the 1970s and the early 1980s. She set her personal best in the women's 800 metres on September 8, 1982 at the European Championships in Athens, Greece.-References:*...
, Soviet middle distance runner - Lyudmila ZhivkovaLyudmila ZhivkovaLyudmila Todorova Zhivkova was the daughter of Bulgarian Communist leader Todor Zhivkov, who reached the rank of senior Bulgarian Communist Party functionary and Politburo member. Her life remains uniquely controversial and colourful in the history of Communist Bulgaria and that of the Soviet...
, Bulgarian politician - Lyudmila ZhuravlyovaLyudmila ZhuravlyovaLyudmila Vasilyevna Zhuravleva is a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian astronomer.She works at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.She also serves as president...
, Soviet astronomer - Lyudmila ZykinaLyudmila ZykinaLyudmila Georgievna Zykina was a national folk singer of Russia.She was born in Moscow and joined the Pyatnitsky Choir in 1947. Her surname is derived from the Russian word for "loud" . Beginning in 1960 she performed solo...
, Russian singer