- Ludmila
Ludmila is a female
given name . It is of Slavic origin, from the Slavic and Russian люди "ljudi" ("people") and мила "mila" ("dear"). 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 and Russian), Људмила (Macedonian and Serbian), Ludomiła, Ludmiła, Ludzimiła, Ludźmiła (Polish), Ludmilla (Hungarian).
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).Famous people
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Saint Ludmila
*Lyudmila Andonova , Bulgarian high jumper
*Ludmila Belousova , Russian figure skater
*Lyudmila Blonska , Ukrainian heptathlete
*Lyudmila Butuzova , Soviet high jumper
*Ľudmila Cervanová , Slovakian tennis player
*Lyudmila Chernykh , Soviet astronomer
*Lyudmila Denisova , Ukrainian politician and current Minister of Labor and Social Policy
*Ludmila Engquist , Swedish hurdler
*Ludmila Ezhova , Russian gymnast
*Ludmila Formanová , Czech middle distance runner
*Ludmila Francescatto , VCU athlete
* Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko, Russian film actress
*Ludmila Javorová , Czech vicar general
*Lyudmila Karachkina , Soviet astronomer
*Lyudmila Kolchanova , Russian long jumper
*Lyudmila Kondratyeva , Russian athlete
*Ľudmila Pajdušáková , Slovak astronomer
*Lyudmila Pavlichenko , Ukrainian Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with 309 kills
*Ludmila Privivkova , Russian curler
*Lyudmila Poradnyk , Soviet Ukrainian handball player
*Lyudmila Putina , wife of Vladimir Putin
*Lyudmila Rudenko , Soviet chess player
*Ludmilla Savitzky , French translator, mother ofJohn Rodker 's 3rd wife
*Ludmila Semenyaka , Russian ballerina
*Lyudmila Shevtsova , Russian athlete
*Ludmilla Tchérina , French ballerina
*Ludmilla Tourischeva , Russian Olympic gymnast
*Lyudmila Zhivkova , Bulgarian politician
*Lyudmila Zhuravlyova , Soviet astronomerPlaces
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Ludmilla, Northern Territory ,Australia Arts and literature
* Ruslan and Ludmila, poem by Alexandr Pushkin
* Ruslan and Ludmila, opera by Mikhail Glinka
*Ludmila's Broken English , book by D.B.C. Pierre
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