Famous People with Name Voldemars

Voldemars Mežgailis            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Voldemars Mežgailis: a Latvian chess master.In 1934, he took 8th Latvian Chess Championship in Riga (Fricis Apšenieks and Vladimirs Petrovs won).[1] He twice represented Latvia in Chess Olympiads: in the 3rd unofficial Olympiad at Munich 1936 (at sixth board, +4 –5 =1), and in the 7th Olympiad at Stockholm 1937 (at third board, +2 –6 =7).

Voldemars Plade            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Voldemars Plade: was a Latvian football forward and manager, the most notable of four Plade brothers who played for Latvia national football team.

Voldemars Ozols            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Voldemars Ozols: was a Latvian military commander, lieutenant colonel, honored with the Order of Lacplesis, one of the Latvian Riflemen, a military theoretist, and a right wing politician.On December 15, 1932 he founded a right extremist organization, The Society of the Cavaliers of the Order of Lacplesis and Freedom Fighters "Legion" (Lacpleša kara ordena kavalieru un brivibas cinitaju biedriba "Legions"), known simply as the Legion. It was a rather small organization, primarily of the World War I and Latvian War of Independence veterans.