Radek is a masculine Christian name of Slavic origin. It is often nickname of

Radovan Radovan ( sr-cyr, Радован) is a Slavic male given name, derived from the passive adjective ''radovati'' ("rejoice"), itself from root ''rad-'' meaning "care, joy". It is found in Serbia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, M ...

, Ctirad and Radoslav. It is used as a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

* Radek Baborák, Czech conductor and French horn player * Radek Bejbl, Czech footballer *

Radek Bělohlav Radek Bělohlav (born 11 April 1970) is a Czech former professional ice hockey player, and a current coach. He played with HC Kladno in the Czech Extraliga during the 2010–11 Czech Extraliga season The 2010–11 Czech Extraliga season was the ...

, Czech ice hockey player * Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player * Radek Dosoudil, Czech footballer *

Radek Duda Radek Duda (born January 28, 1979 in Chodov) is a Czech former professional ice hockey player. He was selected by the Calgary Flames in the 7th round (192nd overall) of the 1998 NHL Entry Draft. played in the WHL with the Regina Pats Duda playe ...

, Czech ice hockey player * Radek Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player * Radek Faksa, Czech ice hockey player *

Radek Jaroš Radek Jaroš (born 29 April 1964) is a Czech mountaineer and author. Jaroš was born in Nové Město na Moravě, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic. In 1998 he climbed his first eight-thousander Mount Everest in the second attempt via its ...

, Czech mountaineer and author *

Radek John Radek John (; born 6 December 1954) is a Czech journalist, writer, screenwriter and politician who served as the Minister of Interior from 2010 to 2011 and as Leader of the Public Affairs party from 2009 to 2013. His novel '' Memento'' is the fi ...

, Czech publicist, author and writer * Radek Martínek, Czech ice hockey player *

Radek Pilař Radek Pilař ( 23 April 1931 Písek - 7 February 1993) was a Czech artist active in illustrations, animation, graphics, painting, filmmaking, and film directing . He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague with Professor . He is best known ...

, Czech painter * Radek Sikorski, Polish politician * Radek Smoleňák, Czech ice hockey player *

Radek Štěpánek Radek Štěpánek (; born 27 November 1978) is a Czech former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 8 and best doubles ranking was world No. 4. Štěpánek's biggest achievements are reaching two Masters 10 ...

, Czech tennis player *

Radek McGuire Radek is a masculine Christian name of Slavic origin. It is often nickname of Radovan, Ctirad and Radoslav. It is used as a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Radek Baborák, Czech conductor and French ...

, man who does it all from Calgary Alberta Canada

Fictional characters

Radek Zelenka Dr. Radek Zelenka is a fictional character of a scientist in the 2004 television series ''Stargate Atlantis,'' portrayed by David Nykl. He is a member of the original expedition from Earth to the Ancient city of Atlantis in the Pegasus galaxy, ...

, character in '' Stargate:Atlantis''

Surname

Karl Radek Karl Berngardovich Radek (russian: Карл Бернгардович Радек; 31 October 1885 – 19 May 1939) was a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist active in the Polish and German social democratic movements before World War I and a ...

(1885–1939), Bolshevik and international Communist leader *General Ivan Radek, communist terrorist leader of

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

in the ''

Air Force One Air Force One is the official air traffic control designated call sign for a United States Air Force aircraft carrying the president of the United States. In common parlance, the term is used to denote U.S. Air Force aircraft modified and us ...

'' movie *Viktor Radek, fictional character from the computer games '' Sin Episodes''

Articles

* Articles beginning with "Radek"

External links

Radek on Behind The Name
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