Ctirad () (Polish: Czcirad) is a
Slavic-origin male given name derived from the elements ''čĭstĭ'' "honour" and ''radŭ'' "happy, willing".
Name days
Czech: ''16 January''
Nicknames
Ctishek, Ctisha, Radek, Ctirek, Rado, Ches
Notable people
* In Czech mythology (as told in ''
The Maidens' War
The Maidens' War () is a tale in Bohemian tradition about an uprising of women against men. According to legend, it occurred sometime in the 8th century. It first appeared in the twelfth-century '' Chronica Boemorum'' of Cosmas of Prague, and ...
''), the nobleman Ctirad was killed by Šárka and the other rebel maidens
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Ctirad Benáček (1924–1999), Czech basketball player
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Ctirad Jungmann (born 1959), Czech rower
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Ctirad Kohoutek (1929–2011), Czech composer, music theorist, and pedagogue
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Ctirad Mašín, 1950s Czech resistance fighter
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Ctirad Ovčáčík (born 1984), Czech ice hockey player
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Ctirad Uher, Czech physicist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
References
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Slavic masculine given names
Czech masculine given names
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Polish masculine given names
Masculine given names