{{Redirect|Valdemar}} {{Wiktionary|Waldemar|Valdemar}} {{Infobox given name | name = Waldemar | image = Valdemar den Store.jpg | image_size = | caption = Valdemar I of Denmark | pronunciation = | gender = masculine | meaning = "power"+"fame"; "powerful and famous", "brightness"+"fame"; "bright and famous" | region = | language = | origin = Germanic | alternative spelling = ''Valdemar'', ''Waldomar'', ''Waldek'' | nickname = | variant forms = Valdamarr, Valdemārs, Valdimar, Voldemārs, Valdis, Voldemar, Woldemar | related names = Vladimir, Volodymyr | name day = | derived = | see also = Robert (name with a similar meaning) | footnotes = | wikt = }}
'''Waldemar''', '''Valdemar''', '''Valdimar''', or '''Woldemar''' is an Old High German given name. It consists of the elements ''wald-'' "power", "brightness" and ''-mar'' "fame".
The name is considered the equivalent of the Latvian name Valdemārs, the Estonian name Voldemar, and the Slavic names Vladimir, Volodymyr, Uladzimir or Włodzimierz.{{fact|date=November 2025}}
The Old Norse form ''Valdamarr'' (also ''Valdarr'') occurs in the Guðrúnarkviða II as the name of a king of the Danes. The Old Norse form is also used in Heimskringla, in the story of Harald Hardrada, as the name of a ruler of Holmgard (Veliky Novgorod).<ref>H. Munro Chadwick, Nora K. Chadwick (2010). ''The Growth of Literature''. Cambridge University Press. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ds2oBKF_FrUC&pg=PA118 p. 118].</ref><ref>Alison Finlay (2004). ''Fagrskinna: A Catalogue of the Kings of Norway''. Brill. [https://books.google.com/books?id=SmJ8v1ENhg4C&pg=PA236 p. 236].</ref> The ''Fagrskinna'' kings' sagas also have ''Valdamarr'', in reference to both Vladimir the Great and Vladimir Yaroslavovich.{{fact|date=November 2025}}
People with the name include:
==Royalty== :''Ordered chronologically'' * Valdemar I of Denmark or Waldemar the Great (1131–1182), King of Denmark * Valdemar of Denmark (bishop) (1157/1158–1235 or 1236), posthumous illegitimate son of King Canute V of Denmark * Valdemar II of Denmark or Waldemar the Victorious (1170–1241), King of Denmark, one of the principal commanders of the Livonian Crusade * Valdemar the Young (1209–1231) * Valdemar, King of Sweden (1239–1302) * Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal or Waldemar the Great (c. 1280–1319) :* False Waldemar (died 1356), an imposter who claimed to be Waldemar the Great * Valdemar, Duke of Finland (c. 1282–1318) * Valdemar III of Denmark (1314–1364) * Waldemar I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (died 1368) * Waldemar II, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (died 1371) * Valdemar IV of Denmark (c. 1320–1375) * Waldemar III, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (died 1391) * Prince Valdemar of Denmark (1858–1939) * Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1868–1879), son of Emperor Frederick III * Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1889–1945), son of Prince Henry and nephew of the above * Prince Waldemar of Schaumburg-Lippe (1940–2020) * Woldemar, Prince of Lippe (1824–1895)
==Others== ===A–F=== * Waldemar Ager (1869–1941), Norwegian-American newspaperman and author * Waldemar Anton (born 1996), Uzbekistani-born German footballer * Waldemar Aspelin (1854–1923), Finnish architect * Woldemar Bargiel (1828–1897), German composer * Waldemar Bastos (1954–2020), Angolan musician * Waldemar Baszanowski (1935–2011), Polish weightlifter * Waldemar Bonsels (1880–1952), German writer * Waldemar Caerel Hunter (1919–1968), Indonesian actor * Waldemar Christofer Brøgger (geologist) (1851–1940), Norwegian geologist * Waldemar Christofer Brøgger (writer) (1911–1991), Norwegian writer * Valdemar Costa Neto (born 1949), Brazilian politician * Waldemar Cerrón (born 1972), Peruvian politician * Waldemar Cierpinski (born 1950), East German athlete * Waldemar Dalenogare Neto (born 1991), Brazilian scholar and film critic * Waldemar Erfurth (1879–1971), German general
===G–N=== * Waldemar Haffkine (1860–1930), Ukrainian bacteriologist * Woldemar Hägglund (1893–1963), Finnish major general during World War II * Waldemar Hansteen (1857–1921), Norwegian architect * Waldemar Hoven (1903–1948), German Nazi physician involved in Nazi euthanasia programs, executed for war crimes * Waldemar Hvoslef (1825–1906), Norwegian Lutheran bishop * Waldemar Januszczak (born 1956), British art critic * Woldemar Kernig (1840–1917), Russian and Baltic German internist and neurologist whose medical discoveries saved thousands of people with meningitis * Waldemar Klingelhöfer (1900–1980), German Nazi SS-Sturmbannführer (Major) and convicted war criminal * Waldemar Kophamel (1880–1934), German U-boat commanding officer in the Imperial German Navy during World War I * Waldemar Legień (born 1963), Polish judoka * Waldemar Lemos (born 1954), Brazilian football (soccer) manager * Waldemar Levy Cardoso (1900–2009), field marshal of the Brazilian Army * Waldemar Lindgren (1860–1939), Swedish-American geologist, one of the founders of modern economic geology * Woldemar von Löwendal (1700–1755), German military officer * Waldemar Łysiak (born 1944), Polish writer * Waldemar Maciszewski (1927–1956), Polish pianist and composer * Waldemar Matuška (1932–2009), Czechoslovak singer * Waldemar Milewicz (1956–2004), Polish journalist
===N–Z=== * Waldemar Olszewski (1931–2020), Polish lymphologist * Waldemar Pabst (1880–1970), German soldier and political activist, one of the principal commanders of the German Revolution of 1918–1919 * Waldemar Pawlak (born 1959), Polish politician * Valdemar Poulsen (1869–1942), Danish inventor * Waldemar Prusik (born 1961), Polish footballer * Waldemar Sorychta (born 1967), German heavy metal musician and record producer * Waldemar Starosta (born 1961), Polish politician * Waldemar Thrane (1790–1828), Norwegian composer, violinist and conductor * Waldemar Verner (1914–1982), chief of the East German Volksmarine (People's Navy) * Waldemar Victorino (1952–2023), Uruguayan football player * Woldemar Voigt (1850–1919), German physician * Waldemar Caerel Hunter (1919–1968), Indonesian actor * Waldemar Witkowski (born 1953), Polish politician * Waldemar Wilenius (1868–1940), Finnish architect * Waldemar Young (1878–1938), American screenwriter
== As a surname ==
* Edith Waldemar Leverton (1868–1955), English writer and editor
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