Jiří Barta
Jiří Barta (born 26 November 1948) is a Czech stop-motion animation director. Many of his films use wood as a medium for animation. Among his notable films are the 1986 film '' The Pied Piper''.
In 2007 he released his first computer-animat ...
Jiří Bicek
Jiří Bicek (born December 3, 1978) is a Slovak former professional ice hockey winger. He played in the National Hockey League with the New Jersey Devils between 2000 and 2004, winning the Stanley Cup with them in 2003. The rest of his career, w ...
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Jiří Bobok
Jiří Bobok (born 1 March 1977) is a goalkeeper from Czech Republic who played in the Gambrinus Liga for SFC Opava and FK Jablonec 97.. Retrieved 8 February 2014. He also spent time with clubs including AC Sparta Prague, FK Chmel Blšany, SK S ...
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Jiří Bubla
Jiří Bubla (born January 27, 1950) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman.
Bubla played his entire National Hockey League career with the Vancouver Canucks, beginning in 1982. He retired after the 1985–86 season. He is the fa ...
Jiří Březina
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Jiří Čeřovský Jiří Čeřovský (born 23 May 1955 in Semily) is a Czech regional politician and former athlete. He is a member of Civic Democratic Party.
Life and career
Čeřovský graduated from Charles University with a PhD in biology and chemistry. In the ...
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Jiří Čunek
Jiří Čunek (born 22 February 1959) is a Czech politician who was the leader of the Christian and Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party from December 2006 to May 2009. Čunek was also deputy prime minister and the minister for Reg ...
Jiří Dopita
Jiří Dopita (, born 2 December 1968 in Šumperk, Czechoslovakia) is former Czech professional ice hockey player, and currently hockey coach. He has played in the Czech Elite League most of his career. He briefly played in the ...
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Jiří Družecký Jiří Družecký (german: Georg Druschetzky, also known as Giorgio Druschetzky, also Druzechi, Druzecky, Druschetzki, Držecky, Truschetzki; 7 April 1745, Jemníky – 21 June 1819, Budapest) was a Czech composer, oboist, and timpanist.
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Jiří Džmura Jiří Džmura (born April 8, 1963 in Jablonec nad Nisou) is a Czechoslovakian-Czech bobsledder who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of seventh in the two-man event (tied with Canada) ...
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Jiří Fischer
Jiří Fischer (born July 31, 1980) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman in the National Hockey League (NHL) who played his entire career with the Detroit Red Wings. He currently serves as Detroit's Director of Player Evaluation. ...
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Jiří Grossmann
Jiří Grossmann (20 July 1941 – 5 December 1971) was a Czechoslovak theatre actor, poet, and composer.
Life
Grossmann was born in Prague. After his graduation, he started at the technical university ČVUT, but left in 1962 when he met Milo ...
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Jiří Gruša
Jiří Gruša (10 November 1938, in Pardubice – 28 October 2011, in Bad Oeynhausen) was a Czech poet, novelist, translator, diplomat and politician.Jiří Grygar
Jiří Grygar (; March 17, 1936, in Heinersdorf, Germany, now Dziewiętlice, Poland) is a Czech astronomer, popularizer of science and Kalinga Prize (1996) laureate.
Career
After studying physics at the Masaryk University in Brno and astronom ...
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Jiří Hanke
Jiří Hanke (12 December 1924, Dolní Bučice – 11 December 2006, Lausanne), also known as Jorge Hanke or Georg Hanke, was a Czech footballer and later football manager, who played internationally for Czechoslovakia
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Jiří Hájek
Jiří Hájek (; 6 June 1913 in Krhanice near Benešov – 22 October 1993 in Prague) was a Czech politician and diplomat. Together with Václav Havel, Zdeněk Mlynář, and Pavel Kohout, Hájek was one of the founding members and architects o ...
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Jiří Hála
Jiří Hála (born 30 June 1972 in České Budějovice) is a former Czech ice hockey player and current sport director at HC Steelers Kapfenberg.
Hála moved to Austria in 2000, playing for HC TWK Innsbruck. After two seasons, he spent one sea ...
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Jiří Hledík
Jiří Hledík (19 April 1929 – 25 April 2015) was a Czech football defender. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 28 matches and scored one goal.
He was a participant in the 1954 FIFA World Cup where he played in the match agai ...
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Jiří Holeček
Jiří Holeček (born March 18, 1944) is a Czech professional ice hockey coach and former player. Holeček played in the Czechoslovak Elite League from 1964 to 1979, and on the Czechoslovak national team for many years.
After joining the milit ...
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Jiří Holík
Jiří Holík (born July 9, 1944) is a Czech former professional ice hockey player and coach. Holík played for Dukla Jihlava in the Czechoslovak Extraliga and was a member of the Czechoslovakian national ice hockey team. Holík was a member o ...
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Jiří Homola
Jiří Homola (born 2 June 1980) is a Czech former professional footballer.
Club career
Homola played in his youth for Sokol Přerov nad Labem, SK Český Brod, Spartak Čelákovice, Slavia Prague and once more Spartak Čelákovice. In Čelá ...
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Jiří Horák
Jiří Horák (24 April 1924 in Hradec Králové – 25 August 2003 in Englewood, Florida) was a Czechs, Czech politician. He was the first chairman of the Czech Social Democratic Party after the Velvet Revolution in 1989.
After 1945, Horák st ...
Jiří Hudec (composer)
Jiří Hudec (31 August 1923 – 28 July 1996) was a Czech people, Czech composer, conductor, arranger and organist.
Life
Hudec was born in Brno, Moravia, where he studied organ at the State Conservatory under F. Michálek. In addition, he stud ...
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Jiří Hudler
Jiří Hudler (; ; born 4 January 1984) is a Czech former professional ice hockey forward. He played with the Detroit Red Wings, Calgary Flames, Florida Panthers and the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). After beginning his c ...
Jiří Jarošík
Jiří Jarošík (born 27 October 1977) is a Czech football manager and a former player. His playing position was defender and midfielder. He started his club career in his native Czech Republic, winning six league titles in seven years with ...
Jiří Jeslínek (disambiguation) Jiří Jeslínek may refer to:
* Jiří Jeslínek (footballer born 1962), Czechoslovak international footballer
* Jiří Jeslínek (footballer born 1987), Czech footballer
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Jiří Jirmal
Jiří Jirmal (24 April 1925 – 11 December 2019) was a classical guitarist who also was dedicated to jazz.
He was born as Jiří Novák in Prague. Some of his compositions incorporate elements of Brazilian music (e.g. Bossa Nova, Samba). He con ...
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Jiří Kaufman
Jiří Kaufman (born 28 November 1979) is a retired Czech football striker who formerly played for Erzgebirge Aue and Czech second division side Hradec Králové. He has played for the Czech Republic national under-21 football team
The Czech ...
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Jiří Kavan
Jiří Kavan (11 December 1943 – 14 June 2010) was a Czechoslovak handball player who competed in the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Olomouc, and represented Dukla Praha
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Jiří Kylián
Jiří Kylián (born 21 March 1947) is a Czech former dancer and contemporary dance choreographer.
Life
Jiří Kylián was born in 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to his father Václav who was a banker and to his mother Markéta, who was as a ...
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Jiří Kladrubský
Jiří Kladrubský (born 19 November 1985) is a former Czech Republic, Czech football (soccer), footballer who played for SK Dynamo České Budějovice, České Budějovice.Jiří Kochta
Jiří Kochta (born October 11, 1946 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the Czechoslovak Extraliga. He played for HC Jihlava and HC Sparta Praha. He won a bronze medal at the 1972 Winter Oly ...
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Jiří Kolář
Jiří Kolář (24 September 1914, Protivín – 11 August 2002, Prague) was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work included both literary and visual art.
Life
Kolář was born in Protivín on September 29, 1914, in a wo ...
Jiří Koubský
Jiří Koubský (born 5 August 1982) is a Czech football coach and a former defender. He is an assistant manager with the Swiss club Köniz
Köniz (, ) is a statistical town, however considers itself still as a village, and a municipality in ...
Jiří Králík
Jiří Králík (born 11 April 1952 in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia) is a retired professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the Czechoslovak Extraliga. He played for HC Jihlava. He was a member of the Czechoslovak 1981 Canad ...
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Jiří Kulhánek
Jiří Kulhánek (born 31 December 1967) is a Czech science fiction and fantasy writer. He is among the most successful contemporary authors of the genre in the Czech Republic. He tolerates to some extent the unauthorised distribution of his wo ...
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Jiří Kylián
Jiří Kylián (born 21 March 1947) is a Czech former dancer and contemporary dance choreographer.
Life
Jiří Kylián was born in 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to his father Václav who was a banker and to his mother Markéta, who was as a ...
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Jiří Lábus
Jiří Lábus (born 26 January 1950, in Prague) is a Czech actor. His brother is the Czech architect Ladislav Lábus.
In 1973, he graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and joined the theatre Studio Ypsilon, where he remains ...
Jiří Látal
Jiří Látal (born February 2, 1967) is a Czech former professional ice hockey player. He played 92 games in the National Hockey League with the Philadelphia Flyers from 1989 to 1991. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1984 to 1996, was ma ...
Jiri Lev
Jiri Lev (born 1979, , cs, Jiří Lev) is a Czech-Australian architect and urbanist, active in the field of sustainable residential, sacred and public architecture, disaster recovery and humanitarian development.
Lev's works are known for the ...
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Jiří Lobkowicz
Jiří Jan Lobkowicz (born 1956) is a Swiss-born Czech politician and businessman, and a member of the prominent Lobkowicz family.
He was president of the Path of Change party in the Czech Republic.
On 3 May 2012, the party decided to dissol ...
Jiří Maštálka
Jiří Maštálka (born 3 January 1956, in Sušice) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left party group in the European ...
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Jiří Menzel
Jiří Menzel () (23 February 1938 – 5 September 2020) was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films ...
Jiří Mužík
Jiří Mužík () (born 1 September 1976 in Plzeň) is a Czech hurdler.
His personal best time was 48.27 seconds, achieved during the heats of the 1997 World Championships in Athens
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Jiri Novotny (disambiguation)
Jiri ( ne, जिरी) is a municipality in Dolakha District in the Bagmati Province of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 13,638 people..
Jiri, which lies about 190 kilometers from Kathmandu, is the ma ...
Jiří Novotný (ice hockey)
Jiří Novotný (born August 12, 1983) is a Czech professional ice hockey centre who currently plays for Motor České Budějovice of the Czech Extraliga (ELH).
Playing career
Novotný was drafted 22nd overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2001 N ...
Jiří Tibor Novak
Jiří Tibor Novak is a Czech-born Australian artist, illustrator, and writer. He teaches drawing and illustration for graphic design at the Gordon Institute of TAFE
The Gordon Institute of TAFE is the Technical and Further Education in ...
(born 1947), Czech-born Australian artist, illustrator, and writer
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Jiří Němec
Jiří Němec (born 15 May 1966 in Pacov) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played for Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic.
He won a total of 84 international caps for the two teams, scoring one go ...
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Jiří Orten
Jiří Orten (born Jiří Ohrenstein; 30 August 1919 in Kutná Hora – 1 September 1941 in Prague) was a Czech poet. His work was influenced by surrealism and folklore.
Life
Orten was born in Kutná Hora as Jiří Ohrenstein. His first book ...
Jiří Pelikán (disambiguation) Jiří Pelikán may refer to:
* Jiří Pelikán (chess player), Czech-Argentine chess master
* Jiří Pelikán (politician), Czechoslovakian journalist and politician
*Jiří Pelikán (tennis)
Jiří Pelikán (born 9 May 1970) is a Czech former p ...
Jiří Pelikán (politician)
Jiří Pelikán (7 February 1923 in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia – 26 June 1999 in Rome, Italy) was a Czechoslovakian journalist and member of parliament, then a member of the European Parliament for the Italian Socialist Party.
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Jiří Petr
Jiří Petr, Prof., DrSc. Dr.h.c. (13 May 1931 in Hradec Králové – 12 November 2014 in Prague) was a Czech agroscientist, university professor and Emeritus Chancellor (Rector Emeritus) of the Czech University of Agriculture Prague.
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Jiří Pešek
Jiří Pešek (4 June 1927 in Prague – 20 May 2011) was a Czech football player and professional coach.
Pešek played for several clubs, including Bohemians Praha (1939–1951), Sparta Prague (1952–1955) and SK Slavia Praha (1956� ...
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Jiří Pospíšil
Jiří Pospíšil (born 24 November 1975) is a Czech Republic, Czech politician, who was leader of TOP 09 from November 2017 until November 2019. As a deputy for the Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic), Civic Democratic Party, Pospíšil se ...
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Jiří Poukar
Jiří Poukar (born April 19, 1969) is a Czech former professional ice hockey forward.
Poukar played in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League and the Czech Extraliga for HC Dukla Jihlava, HC Slavia Praha and HC Znojemští Orli between 1989 an ...
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Jiří Procházka
Jiří Procházka (; ; born October 14, 1992) is a Czech mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Light Heavyweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. He was the ...
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Jiří Raška
Jiří Raška (; 4 February 1941 – 20 January 2012) was a Czechoslovakian ski jumper. He is regarded as the most famous Czech ski jumper of the 20th century.
Early life
He was born in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm in 1941. His father died o ...
Jiří Rosický (disambiguation) Jiří Rosický may refer to:
* Jiří Rosický (footballer, born 1948)
Jiří Rosický (born 2 September 1948) is a Czech retired footballer who played as a defender.
Football career
Rosický made 90 appearances in the Czechoslovak First Leagu ...
Jiří Sabou
Jiří Sabou (born 5 December 1974 in Beroun) is a Czech professional footballer (midfielder).
Career
Born in Beroun, Sabou began playing youth football for FK Beroun. He joined FK Viktoria Žižkov in 1998 and would play for the club until it ...
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Jiří Šejba
Jiří Šejba (born July 22, 1962) is a Czech retired ice hockey forward who played eleven games in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabres in the 1990–91 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1979 to 2000, was spent in th ...
Jiří Teplý Jiří Teplý (born December 2, 1962, in Nove Mesto na Morave) was a Czechoslovakian-Czech cross-country skier who competed from 1991 to 1995. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best career and individual finishes of eighth in the 4 × ...
Jiří Voskovec
Jiří Voskovec (), born Jiří Wachsmann and known in the United States as George Voskovec (June 19, 1905 – July 1, 1981) was a Czech actor, writer, dramatist, and director who became an American citizen in 1955. Throughout much of his career ...
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Jiří Votruba
Jiří Votruba (born 8 December 1946 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic designer - artist with characteristic style. His paintings were presented at almost 50 exhibitions all around the world. His work is divid ...
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Jiří Wachsmann
Jiří Voskovec (), born Jiří Wachsmann and known in the United States as George Voskovec (June 19, 1905 – July 1, 1981) was a Czech actor, writer, dramatist, and director who became an American citizen in 1955. Throughout much of his career ...
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Jiří Welsch
Jiří Welsch () (born 27 January 1980) is a Czech former professional basketball player for BK Pardubice of the Czech Republic National Basketball League. He has also represented the senior Czech Republic national basketball team. Welsch has ...
Jiří Zelenka
Jiří Zelenka (born 17 August 1972) is a Czech ice hockey forward. He played 15 seasons for HC Sparta Praha.
Zelenka scored 69 goals in Czechoslovak Extraliga and 199 goals in Czech Extraliga
The Czech Extraliga ( cs, Extraliga ledního hokej ...
Jiří Paroubek's Cabinet Jiří (; ''YI-RZHEE''), the Czech is a masculine given name, equivalent to English George, may refer to:
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Jiri (disambiguation) Jiri is a village in Nepal.
Jiri may also refer to:
* Jiri-ye Sofla, a village in Iran
* Jiří (disambiguation), the Czech name for George
* Jairos Jiri (1921–1982), Zimbabwean philanthropist
* Jiri River
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Jiřina (disambiguation) Jiřina is a Czech given name for females which may refer to:
*Jiřina Bohdalová (b. 1931), actress and TV personality
*Jiřina Hauková (1919–2005), poet and translator
*Jirina Marton (born 1946), Czech-born Canadian artist and illustrator
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List of Czechs
This is a partial list of famous Czech people. This list includes people born in Czech lands, people of the Czech nationality as well as people having some significant Czech ancestry or association with Czech culture.
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