Vadim
Vadim is a Slavic masculine given name derived from the Ruthenian word vaditi, meaning to blame or as a diminutive of Vadimir. Ukrainian language: Vadym; Belarusian language: Vadzim. Notable people with the name include:
Mononymic
- Vadim the Bold, legendary chieftain
- DJ Vadim, Russian-English DJ and record producer
Other
- Vadim Abdrashitov, Russian film director
- Vadim Alekseyev, Soviet-Israeli swimmer
- Vadim Antonov, Russian-American software engineer and entrepreneur
- Vadim Bakatin, former Soviet politician
- Vadim Belyaev, Russian banker
- Vadim Boreț, Moldovan football manager and former player
- Vadim Cemîrtan, Moldovan footballer
- Vadim Cobîlaș, Moldovan rugby union player
- Vadim Crîcimari, Moldovan footballer
- Vadim Devyatovskiy, Belarusian hammer thrower
- Vadim Evseev, Russian soccer player
- Vadim Garbuzov, Austrian dancer
- Vadym Gutzeit, Ukrainian Olympic champion sabre fencer
- Vadim Jean, British film director
- Vadim Khamuttskikh, Russian volleyball player
- Vadim Khomitsky, Russian ice hockey player
- Vadim Krasnoselsky, Transnistrian politician
- Vadim Krasnoslobodtsev, Kazakhstani ice hockey player
- Vadim Mogilnitsky, Russian mathematics teacher, musicologist, translator and poet
- Vadim Muntagirov, Russian ballet dancer, principal dancer of The Royal Ballet in London
- Vadim Naumov, Russian pair skater
- Vadim Perelman, Russo-American director and producer
- Vadim Petrov, Czech music educator
- Vadim Pirogan, Bessarabian activist and author
- Vadim Rață, Moldovan footballer
- Vadim Repin, Russian violinist
- Vadim Sashurin, Belarusian biathlete
- Vadim Shipachyov, Russian ice hockey player
- Vadim Tikunov, Soviet politician
- Vadim Tudor, Romanian politician
- Wadim Tyszkiewicz, Polish politician, born in Belarus
- Vadims Vasiļevskis, Latvian athlete
- Vadim Yefremovich, Soviet mathematician
- Vadim Yusov, Soviet and Russian cinematographer
- Vadim Shishimarin, Russian war criminal