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 (Russian), 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

• 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 of John 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 astronomer

Places

• 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