Dvorak
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Dvořák (feminine Dvořáková) is a Czech surname, originally referring to a servant or an official of manorial estate or royal court. Notable people include:
People
[edit]Dvořák or Dvorak
[edit]Arts
[edit]- Ann Dvorak (1912–1979), American film actress (stage name)
- Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), Czech composer
- František Dvořák (painter), (1862–1927), Czech painter
- Josef Dvořák (born 1942), Czech actor
- Max Dvořák (1874–1921), Austrian art historian
- Tomáš Dvořák (born 1978), Czech composer
- Christian Dvorak (born 1969), American hockey player
Science
[edit]- August Dvorak (1894–1975), co-creator of the Dvorak keyboard layout
- Harold F. Dvorak, American pathologist and vascular researcher
- John C. Dvorak (born 1952), computer-industry columnist and new-media personality
- Vernon Dvorak (1928–2022), meteorologist, developer of method to estimate tropical-cyclone intensity
Sports
[edit]- Bedřich Dvořák, canoeist
- Ben Dvorak, NFL football player
- Bill Dvořák (born 1958), American pioneering whitewater rafter
- Christian Dvorak (born 1996), American ice hockey player
- David Dvořák, Czech mixed-martial artist
- Dominik Dvořák (born 1992), Czech bobsledder
- Dusty Dvorak (born 1958), American volleyball player
- Filip Dvořák (canoeist) (born 1988), Czech canoeist
- Filip Dvořák (ice hockey, born 1976), Czech ice hockey player
- Filip Dvořák (ice hockey, born 1997), Czech ice hockey player
- Karel Dvořák (biathlete), Czechoslovak cross-country skier
- Libor Dvořák canoeist
- Milan Dvořák (1934–2022), Czechoslovak footballer
- Miroslav Dvořák (ice hockey) (1951–2008), Czechoslovak ice hockey player
- Oldřich Dvořák, Czech wrestler
- Pavel Dvořák (born 1989), Czech footballer
- Radek Dvořák (born 1977), Czech NHL ice hockey player
- Tomáš Dvořák (born 1972), Czech decathlon and heptathlon athlete
Politics
[edit]- Oskar Dvořák (born 1991), Slovak politician
Dvořáková or Dvorakova
[edit]- Denisa Dvořáková (born 1989), Czech model
- Eva Švankmajerová (née Dvořáková; 1940–2005), Czech surrealist artist
- Helena Dvořáková (born 1979), Czech actress
- Veronika Dvořáková (born 2000), Czech handball player
Dvorschák, Dworschak or Dworshak
[edit]- Gábor Dvorschák (born 1989), Hungarian football defender
- Henry Dworshak (1894–1962), United States Senator from Idaho
- Leo Ferdinand Dworschak (1900–1976), Roman Catholic Bishop of Fargo
Other uses
[edit]- Dvorak (game), a customizable card game
- Dvorak Awards for "excellence in telecommunications"
- Dworshak Dam, a hydroelectric, concrete gravity dam in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States
- Dvorak keyboard layout, an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard layout, named after August Dvorak
- Dworshak National Fish Hatchery, a "mitigation" hatchery
- Dvorak technique, a subjective method of deriving cyclone intensity from satellite imagery
- Dvorak, a computer system in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory