title: Wacław
text: # Wacław
  
  Wacław is a Polish masculine given name. It is a borrowing of Czech: Václav, Latinized as Wenceslaus.
  
  For etymology and cognates in other languages, see Wenceslaus.
  
  It may refer to:
  
  * Wacław Cimochowski (1912–1982), Polish philologist
  * Wacław Gajewski (1911–1997), Polish geneticist
  * Wacław Hański (1782–1841), Polish nobleman
  * Wacław Kiełtyka (born 1981), Polish musician
  * Wacław Kopisto (1911–1993), Polish Army officer
  * Wacław Kuchar (1897–1981), Polish athlete
  * Wacław Leszczyński (1605–1666), Primate of Poland
  * Wacław Maciejowski (1792–1883), Polish historian
  * Wacław Micuta (1915–2008), Polish economist
  * Wacław Seweryn Rzewuski (1784–1831), Polish explorer, poet and orientalist
  * Wacław Sieroszewski (1858–1945), Polish writer
  * Wacław Sierpiński (1882–1969), Polish mathematician
  * Wacław Szybalski (1921–2020), Polish-American medical researcher, geneticist
  * Wacław Szymanowski (1859–1930), Polish sculptor and painter
  * Wacław of Szamotuły (c. 1520 – c. 1560), Polish composer
  * Wacław Zagórski (1909–1982), Polish lawyer
  * Wacław Michał Zaleski (1799–1849), Polish poet and writer
  * Wacław Zalewski (1917–2016), Polish engineer
  * Wacław Zawadowski (1891–1982), Polish painter
  
  Other forms of Wenceslaus exist natively in Polish, but only as a surname, including Wącław, Węcław, and Więcław, as well as their respective phonetic spellings Woncław, Wencław, and Wiencław.
  
  