Ludmila (given name)
Ludmila or Ludmilla is a female given name of Slavic origin. It consists of two elements: lud and mila. Because the initial L is mostly soft, it is sometimes also transcribed Lyudmila, Lyudmyla or Ljudmila, and is written as Ľudmila or Ľudmyla in Slovak.
Other variants include: Людмила,, Людміла, Људмила, Ludomiła, Ludmiła, Ludzimiła, Ludźmiła, and Ludmilla.
Nicknames in Russian are: Люда, Люся, Мила
The most notable bearer is Ludmila of Bohemia, a 10th-century princess and the grandmother of Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia. 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, and February 20, May 7, July 30, and October 26.
People with the given name Ludmila or variants include:
Medieval and early modern eras
- Ludmila of Bohemia, Czech Orthodox and Roman Catholic saint and martyr
- Ludmila (wife of Mieszko I Tanglefoot), High Duchess of Poland
- Ludmilla of Bohemia, Duchess consort of Bavaria
- Ludmilla Elisabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Countess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and hymn poet
Late modern era
- Ludmilla (singer), Brazilian singer
- Lyudmila Andonova, Bulgarian high jumper
- Lyudmila Arkhipova, Russian race walker
- Ludmila Armata, Polish-born Canadian painter
- Ludmilla Assing, German writer
- Ludmila Belousova, Russian figure skater
- Lyudmyla Blonska, Ukrainian heptathlete
- Lyudmila Butuzova, Soviet high jumper
- Lyudmila Byakova, Russian seamstress
- Ľudmyla Cervanová, Slovak tennis player
- Lyudmila Chernykh, Soviet astronomer
- Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Soviet-born Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher and company director
- Lyudmila Davletova, Soviet and Kazakh engineer, technologist and stateswoman
- 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 Gurchenko, Russian film actress
- Lyudmila Ivanova, Soviet and Russian film and stage actress
- Ludmila Javorová, Czech vicar general
- Lyudmila Karachkina, Soviet astronomer
- Lyudmyla Kichenok, Ukrainian tennis player
- Lyudmila Kolchanova, Russian long jumper
- Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Russian athlete
- Ludmilla Kunzmann, Czech industrialist
- Lyudmyla Lyatetska, Ukrainian paediatrician
- Ludmila Manicler, Argentine footballer
- Ľudmyla Melicherová, Slovak long-distance runner
- Ludmila Mikaël, French actress
- Lyudmyla Milyayeva, Ukrainian art historian and university teacher
- Ludmila Pagliero, Argentinian ballet dancer
- Ľudmyla Pajdušáková, Slovak astronomer
- Ludmilla Pajo, Albanian journalist and author
- Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukrainian Soviet sniper during World War II
- Lyudmila Petrova, Russian long-distance runner
- Ludmila Polesná, Czechoslovak world champion slalom canoeist
- Lyudmila Poradnyk, Soviet Ukrainian handball player
- Liudmila Privivkova, Russian curler
- Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson, Russian medical geneticist
- Lyudmyla Pushkina, Ukrainian long-distance runner
- Lyudmila Putina, former wife of Vladimir Putin
- Lyudmila Radkova-Traykova, Bulgarian folk singer
- Lyudmila Rudenko, Soviet chess player and second women's world chess champion
- Liudmila Samsonova, Russian tennis player
- Ludmila da Silva, Brazilian footballer
- Ludmila Semenyaka, Russian ballerina
- Lyudmila Shevtsova, Russian athlete
- Lyudmila Stanukinas, Soviet documentary filmmaker
- Ludmilla Tchérina, French prima ballerina, sculptor, actress, painter, choreographer and novelist
- Liudmila Terentʹeva, Soviet ethnographer
- Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian Olympic and world champion gymnast
- Ludmila Vachtová, Czech art historian and critic
- Lyudmila Verbitskaya, Russian linguist and teacher; president of Saint Petersburg State University
- Lyudmila Veselkova, Soviet middle distance runner
- Lyudmila Zhivkova, Bulgarian politician
- Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Soviet astronomer
- Lyudmila Zykina, Russian singer
Fictional characters
- a title character of Ruslan and Ludmila, a poem by Alexandr Pushkin
- a title character of Ruslan and Lyudmila (opera), by Mikhail Glinka
- the title character of Ludmila's Broken English, a 2006 book by D.B.C. Pierre
- the title character of Saint Ludmila (oratorio), by Antonín Dvořák
- Ludmilla, the main antagonist of the film Bartok the Magnificent
- Ludmila Ferro, main antagonist of the Disney Channel Latin America series Violetta
- Lyudmila "Crownslayer" Ilinichna, a boss and playable character in the mobile strategy gacha game Arknights
- Ludmilla Vipiteno, the "Other Reader" in the novel If on a winter's night a traveler, by Italo Calvino