Ludmila (given name)

Ludmila / Ludmilla
Gender	female
Origin
Word/name	Slavic
Meaning	lud ("people") + mila ("dear, favour, love")
Other names
Alternative spelling	Ljudmila Lyudmila Ludmiła Людмила Људмила
Variant form(s)	Ludomil (m), Ludomił (m)
Nickname(s)	Russian: Люда (Luda), Люся (Lusya), Мила (Mila), Љума (Ljuma)
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Ludmila or Ludmilla - (in origin sounds like Luedmeela) 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), Људмила (Macedonian and Serbian), Ludomiła, Ludmiła, Ludzimiła, Ludźmiła (Polish), Ludmilla (Hungarian).

Nicknames: Russian: Люда (Luda), Люся (Lusya), Мила (Mila), Љума (Ljuma)

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).

List of people with the given name Ludmila or a variant

• Saint Ludmila ,Bohemian duchess
• Lyudmila Andonova, Bulgarian high jumper
• Ludmila Belousova, Russian figure skater
• Lyudmyla Blonska, Ukrainian heptathlete
• Lyudmila Butuzova, Soviet high jumper
• Ľudmila Cervanová, Slovakian tennis player
• Lyudmila Chernykh, Soviet astronomer
• Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian politician and former Minister of Labor and Social Policy
• Ludmila Engquist, Swedish hurdler
• Ludmila Ezhova, Russian gymnast
• Ludmila Ferber, Brazilian singer
• Ludmila Formanová, Czech middle distance runner
• Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko, Russian film actress
• Ludmila Javorová, Czech vicar general
• Lyudmila Karachkina, Soviet astronomer
• Lyudmila Kolchanova, Russian long jumper
• Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Russian athlete
• Ludmila Melicherová, Slovak long-distance runner
• Ľudmila Pajdušáková, Slovak astronomer
• Ludmilla Pajo, Albanian journalist and author
• Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukrainian Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with 309 kills
• Lyudmila Petrova, Russian long-distance runner
• Ludmila Privivkova, Russian curler
• Lyudmila Poradnyk, Soviet Ukrainian handball player
• Lyudmyla Pushkina, Ukrainian long-distance runner
• Lyudmila Putina, wife of Vladimir Putin
• Lyudmila Rudenko, Soviet chess player
• Ludmila Semenyaka, Russian ballerina
• Lyudmila Shevtsova, Russian athlete
• Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballerina
• Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian Olympic gymnast
• Lyudmila Veselkova, Soviet middle distance runner
• Lyudmila Zhivkova, Bulgarian politician
• Lyudmila Zhuravlyova, Soviet astronomer
• Lyudmila Zykina, Russian singer

See also

• Ludmila (disambiguation)