Stanislav

Stanislav is a very old male given name, meaning someone who achieves glory or fame. It is most often given in the Slavic countries of Central and South Eastern Europe. However, there are versions of the name in most of the major languages as listed below:

Variants include "Stanisław" (Polish), "Stanislav" (Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene and Ukrainian), "Stanislas" (French), "Stanislaus" (German, Latin), "Stanislao" (Italian) and "Estanislao" (Spanish).

List of people with this given name

Saints

* Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030–1079)
* Stanislaus Kostka (1550–1568)

Monarchs

* Stanislaus of Masovia, Duke of Masovia (1501–1524)
* Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland (1677–1766)
* Stanisław August Poniatowski, King of Poland (1732–1798)

Art, film and television

* Stanislas (comics), French comic book creator
* Stanislav Bartůšek (born 1961), Czech television journalist
* Stanislav Govorukhin (born 1936), Russian film director
* Stanislav Holý (1943–1998), Czech graphic artist, caricaturist, and designer of animated films
* Stanislav Ianevski (born 1985), Bulgarian actor who plays Viktor Krum in the movie adaption Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
* Stanislav Kolibal (born 1925), Czech artist
* Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–1966), Polish poet and aphorist
* Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), Polish science fiction author and philosopher
* Stanislav Lyubshin (born 1933), Russian actor, film director, and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981)
* Stanislav Sokolov (born 1947), Russian stop-motion animation director
* Stanislav Šimić (1904–1960), Croatian poet

Military and politics

* Stanislav Galić, Serbian commander
* Stanislav Gross (born 1969), Czech politician, member of he Czech Social Democratic Party
* Stanislav Galimovich Hazheev, Minister of Defence in Transnistria
* Stanislav of Kiev, last Kiev ruler of the Rurik Dynasty
* Stanislav Kosior (1889–1939), Polish-born Soviet politician
* Stanislav Petrov (born c.1939), retired Soviet Air Defense Forces lieutenant colonel
* Stanislav Poplavsky (1902–1973), general in the Soviet and Polish armies
* Stanislav Shushkevich (born 1934), Belarusian politician and scientist
* Stanislav Zimprich (1916–1942), Czech pilot who flew with the RAF in the Battle of Britain

Music

* Stanislav Binički (1874–1942), Serbian composer, conductor, and pedagogue
* Stanislav Bunin (born 1966), Russian-born pianist

Sports

* Stanislav Angelov (born 1978), Bulgarian footballer
* Stanislav Cherchesov (born 1963), Russian football manager and former international goalkeeper
* Stanislav Chistov (born 1983), Russian ice hockey player
* Stanislav Genchev (born 1981), Bulgarian footballer
* Stanislav Griga (born 1961), Slovak retired football player and manager
* Stanislav Henych (born 1949), Czechoslovakian cross-country skier
* Stanislav Loska, Czech paralympic athlete
* Stanislav Manolev (born 1985), Bulgarian footballer
* Stanislav Medvedenko (born 1979), Ukrainian basketball player
* Stanislav Morozov, Ukranian pairs figure skater
* Stanislav Neckář (born 1975), Czech ice hockey player
* Stanislav Pozdniakov (born 1973), Russian fencer
* Stanislav Rumenov (born 1980), Bulgarian footballer
* Stanislav Šesták (born 1982), Slovak football striker
* Stanislav Stoyanov (born 1976), Bulgarian football defender
* Stanislav Tarasenko (born 1966), Russian long jumper
* Stanislav Timchenko (born 1983), Russian figure skater
* Stanislav Varga (born 1972), Slovak footballer
* Stanislav Vlček (born 1976), Czech football striker
* Stanislav Zabrodskiy (born 1962), Kazakh archer
* Stanislav Zakarov, Russian pairs figure skater
* Stanislav Zhuk (died 1998), Soviet figure skater and coach

Other

* Estanislao, Native American chieftain (ca. 1798 – 1838)
* Stanislav Andreski (born 1919), Polish-British sociologist
* Stanislav Grof (born 1931), one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology
* Stanislav Kriventsov (born 1973), international chess master
* Stanislav Prowazek (1875–1912), Czech zoologist and parasitologist
* Stanislav Segert (1921–2005), scholar of Semitic languages
* Stanislav Shatsky (1878–1934), late Tsarist and early Soviet humanistic educator, writer, and educational administrator
* Stanislav Shwarts (1919–1976), Soviet ecologist and zoologist
* Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin (1877–1974), Soviet economist who developed the Strumilin index
* Stanislaw Ulam (1909–1984), Polish born American mathematician
* Stanislav Vydra (1741–1804), Bohemian writer, mathematician and Jesuit
* Stanislaus Grumman, a fictional character from Philip Pullmans's "His Dark Materials" trilogy.
*Stanislaus Joyce, brother of James Joyce

See also

Place names

* Stanislaus County, California, named after Stanislaus River
* Place Stanislas, a square in Nancy, France, World Heritage Site of UNESCO
* Stanyslaviv, former name of the Ukrainian city Ivano-Frankivsk

Schools

*St. Stanislaus College Prep, a catholic boarding school in Bay St. Louis, MS
*St. Stanislaus High School, an institution in Bandra, Mumbai, India
* Collège Stanislas de Paris, an institution in Paris, France
* California State University, Stanislaus, a public university in Turlock, CA
* St. Stanislaus College, a secondary school in Georgetown, Guyana
* St Stanislaus College (Bathurst), a secondary school in Bathurst, Australia

Other

*Stanislov (Hasidic dynasty)
* Jesus Estanislao, Secretary of Finance of the Philippines, 1990 to 1992