František () is a masculine

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and Slovak given name. It is a

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and Franz. It can be also surname (feminine: Františková). Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Arts

Frank Daniel František "Frank" Daniel (April 14, 1926 – February 29, 1996) was a Czech- American screenwriter, film director and teacher. He is known for developing the sequence paradigm of screenwriting, in which a classically constructed movie c ...

(František Daniel) (1926–1996), Czech film director, producer and screenwriter *

František Bartoš (folklorist) František Bartoš (16 March 1837 – 11 June 1906) was a Czechs, Czech ethnomusicologist, folklorist, folksong collector and dialectologist. He is viewed as the successor of František Sušil, the pioneer of Moravian ethnomusicology. He notably o ...

(1837–1906), Moravian ethnomusicologist and folklorist *František Bělský, known as

Franta Belsky František Bělský (as artist used the name Franta Belsky; in Czech Franta Bělský, 6 April 1921 – 5 July 2000) was a Czech-British sculptor. He was known for large-scale abstract works of public art as well as more iconographic statues ...

(1921–2000), Czech sculptor *

František Bílek František Bílek (6 November 1872, Chýnov – 13 October 1941, Chýnov) was a Czech people, Czech sculptor and architect, in the Art Nouveau and Symbolism (movement), Symbolist styles. Biography His father was a wheelwright. He graduated from ...

(1872–1941), Czech sculptor and architect * František Brikcius, Czech cellist * František Brixi (1732–1771), Czech composer *

František Čáp František Čáp (7 December 1913 – 12 January 1972), also known as Franz Cap in Germany, was a Czech and later a Yugoslav film director and screenwriter. He directed 32 films between 1939 and 1970. Having created Slovene film classics such as ...

(1913–1972), Czech film director and screenwriter * František Čelakovský (1799–1852), Czech writer and translator * František Čermák (painter) (1822–84), Czech painter * František Doucha (1810–1884), Czech literary translator and writer *

František Drdla František Alois Drdla ( Germanized as Franz Drdla; 28 November 1868 – 3 September 1944) was a prominent Czech concert violinist and composer of light music. Biography Drdla was born in 1868 in Žďár nad Sázavou, in what is now the Czech ...

(1868–1944), Czech violinist and composer *

František Drtikol František Drtikol (3 March 1883 – 13 January 1961) was a Czech photographer known for his nudes and portraits. Life and work Drtikol was born in Příbram into a merchant family, the younger of three children, brother of sisters, Ema and ...

(1883–1961), Czech photographer * František Xaver Dušek (1731–1799), Czech composer, harpsichordist and pianist * František Dvořák (painter) (1862–1927), Czech painter *

František Flos František Flos (27 July 1864, Přelouč – 8 January 1961, Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, locate ...

(1864–1961), Czech novelist *

František Gellner František Gellner (19 June 1881 – disappeared September 1914) was a Czech poet, short story writer, artist and anarchist. Biography František Gellner was born to a poor Jewish family in Mladá Boleslav (''Jungbunzlau''), Bohemia. His fathe ...

(1881– ), Czech poet and writer *

František Halas František Halas (3 October 1901 – 27 October 1949) was a Czechs, Czech poet, translator and politician. He was one of the most significant Czech lyric poets of the 20th century. His poor background influenced his work as well as his communist v ...

(1901–1949), Czech poet, essayist and translator *

František Vladislav Hek František Vladislav Hek (11 April 1769 – 4 September 1847) was a Czech writer, composer, and patriot active in the early phases of the Czech National Revival. He was a major inspiration behind the fictionalized novel '' F. L. Věk'' (1906) ...

(1769–1847), Czech writer and composer *

František Hrubín František Hrubín (17 September 1910 – 1 March 1971) was a Czechs, Czech poet and writer. Biography Frantisek Hrubín was born into the family of a builder at Prague. His family lived in Lešany (Benešov District), Lešany near Prague durin ...

(1910–1971), Czech poet and writer *

František Janák František Janák (born 1 June 1951) is a Czech glass artist. He creates glass sculptures and commission works, and also does series production design for different Czech glassworks. Biography Janák was born on 1 June 1951 in Havlíčkův Bro ...

(born 1951), Czech glass artist *

František Kaván František Kaván (10 September 1866, Víchovská Lhota near Jilemnice - 16 December 1941, Libuň near Jičín) was a Czechs, Czech painter and poet. Kaván studied at the gymnasium in Hradec Králové, which he finished in 1888. During 1889 to ...

(1866–1941), Czech painter and poet *

František Kmoch František Kmoch (1 August 1848 – 30 April 1912) was a Czech composer and conductor. Life and career František Kmoch was born in Zásmuky near Kolín, Bohemia. His father was a tailor and a clarinetist who performed folk music. As a child, Fran ...

(1848–1912), Czech composer and orchestra conductor *

Frantisek Kotzwara František Kočvara, known later in England as Frantisek Kotzwara (1730 – September 2, 1791), was a Czech violist, virtuoso double bassist and composer. His death was one of the first recorded instances of death by erotic asphyxiation. Li ...

(1730–1791), Czech violist, double bassist and composer *

František Kupka František Kupka (23 September 1871 – 24 June 1957), also known as ''Frank Kupka'' or ''François Kupka,'' was a Czech painter and graphic artist A graphic designer is a practitioner who follows the discipline of graphic design, eit ...

(1871–1957), Czech painter and graphic artist * František Langer (1888–1965), Czech playwright, military physician, script writer and essayist * František Listopad (1921–2017), Czech poet, writer and theatre and television director * František Václav Míča (1694–1744), Czech composer and orchestra conductor * František Ondříček (1857–1922), Czech violinist and composer * František Jakub Prokyš (1713–1791), Czech Rococo painter * František Skála (born 1956), Czech sculptor, painter, illustrator and musician *

František Škroup František Jan Škroup (; 3 June 1801 in Osice near Hradec Králové – 7 February 1862 in Rotterdam) was a Czech composer and conductor. His brother Jan Nepomuk Škroup was also a successful composer and his father, Dominik Škroup, and othe ...

(1801–1862), Czech composer and conductor * František Zdeněk Skuherský (1830–1892), Czech composer, pedagogue and theoretician * František Sláma (musician) (1923–2004), Czech chamber music cellist * František Tůma (1704–1774), Czech composer of the Baroque period * František Uprka (1868–1929), Czech sculptor *

František Velecký František Velecký (often credited as Fero Velecký, 8 March 1934 – 5 October 2003) was a Slovak actor. Velecký was a very particular figure of Slovak acting, being antipode to venerated mainstream showbiz celebrities. Although he had never ...

(1934–2003), Slovak actor * František Krištof Veselý (1903-1977), Slovak actor and singer *

František Vláčil František Vláčil (19 February 1924 – 27 January 1999) was a Czech film director, painter, and graphic artist. From 1945 to 1950, he studied aesthetics and art history at Masaryk University in Brno. Later, he worked in various groups an ...

(1924–1999), Czech film director, painter and graphic artist * František Ženíšek (1849–1916), Czech painter * František Zvarík (1921–2008), Slovak theatre and screen actor

Sport

* František Balvín (1915–2003), Czech cross-country skier * František Bartoš (motorcyclist) (1926–1987), Czech motorcycle road racer * František Bolček (1920–1968), Slovak footballer * František Brůna (1944–2017), Czech handball player * František Brzák (1915–2006), Czech canoeist *

František Čapek František Čapek (24 October 1914 – 31 January 2008) was a Czechoslovakian canoe racing, sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. He won a gold medal in the C-1 10000 m event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in L ...

(1914–2008), Czech sprint canoeist *

František Čermák František Čermák (born 14 November 1976) is a Czech former professional tennis player. Career In his career, Čermák won 31 doubles titles on the ATP Tour and he was a finalist 24 times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of world ...

(born 1976), Czech tennis player * František Čermák (sport shooter) (1894–?), Czech sports shooter *

František Černík František Černík (born 3 June 1953) is a Czech former ice hockey player who represented Czechoslovakia. Most of his career was spent in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League with TJ Vítkovice, where he played from 1978 to 1984. He also sp ...

(born 1953), Czech ice hockey player *

František Cipro František Cipro (13 April 1947 – 7 February 2023) was a Czech football player and manager, known mostly for his work in Slavia Prague and České Budějovice. Playing career A midfielder, Cipro played for Slavia Prague for nine years, making ...

(1947–2023), Czech football player and manager * František Doležal (1913-?), Czech boxer * František Donth (

fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...

1920s), Czech Nordic skier * František Douda (1908–1990), Czech shot putter * František Dřížďal (born 1978), Czech footballer * František Dvořák (fencer) (1871–1939), Czech fencer *

František Fadrhonc František Fadrhonc (18 December 1914 – 9 October 1981) was a Czech football manager, who was born in Nymburk, Austria-Hungary, present day Czech Republic. He coached many teams in Europe, mostly in the Netherlands. After winning the Dutch cham ...

(1914–1981), Czech football manager *

František Getreuer František Getreuer (18 December 1906 – 6 February 1945) was a Czech national champion swimmer and Olympic water polo player.Jan Stumbauer (2010)"The Contribution to the History of the Jewish Sports in Czechoslovakia in the Years 1918–1939"/ ...

(1906–1945), Czech swimmer and water polo player * František Häckel (fl. 1920s), Czech cross-country skier * František Havelka (1908–unknown), Czech boxer * František Hoholko (1947–2005), Slovak football player and coach * František Hrabě (fl. 1950s), Czech slalom canoeist * František Huf (born 1981), Czech bodybuilder * František Jakubec (1956–2016), Czech footballer *

František Janda-Suk František Janda-Suk (, 25 March 1878 – 23 June 1955) was a Czech athlete who competed for Bohemia in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics and Czechoslovakia at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Postřižín nea ...

(1878–1955), Czech athlete *

František Jež František Jež (; born 16 December 1970) is a Czech former ski jumper. Career At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, he won a bronze medal in the Team Large Hill. Jež also won a silver medal in the team large hill at the 1993 FIS Nordic W ...

(born 1970), Czech ski jumper and Nordic skier * František Junek (1907–1970), Czech footballer *

František Kaberle Sr. František Kaberle (born 6 August 1951 in Kladno, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech people, Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman. Kaberle spent the majority of his career with HC Kladno where he won five Czechoslovak Extraliga championships a ...

(born 1951), Czech ice hockey player *

František Kaberle František "Frank" Kaberle (; born November 8, 1973) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman. His playing career extended over 20 seasons, most notably in the National Hockey League with the Los Angeles Kings, Atlanta Thrashers, and ...

(born 1973), Czech ice hockey player * František Kadaňka (born 1944), Czech slalom canoeist *

František Kloz František Kloz (19 May 1905 – 13 June 1945) was a Czech football player. Club career Kloz played most of his career for SK Kladno and became its manager in 1942-43. He scored 175 goals in 192 matches in the Czechoslovak First League (172 for ...

(1905–1945), Czech footballer * František Komňacký (born 1951), Czech football manager * František Králík (1942–1974), Czech handball player *

František Kučera František Kučera (born February 3, 1968) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Chicago Blackhawks, Hartford Whalers, Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers, Columbus Blue ...

(born 1968), Czech ice hockey player * František Lanák (20th century), Slovak football manager * František Laurinec (born 1951), Slovak Football Association president * František Maka (born 1968), Czech Nordic skier * František Masarovič (fl. 1930s), Slovak footballer * František Metelka (born 1980), Czech footballer * Frank Musil (born František Musil 1964), Czech ice hockey player and coach * František Nekolný (1907–1990), Czech boxer * František Pecháček (1896–1944), Czech gymnast * František Plánička (1904–1996), Czech footballer *

František Pospíšil František Pospíšil (born 2 April 1944) is a Czech former ice hockey defenceman and coach. Internationally, he played for the Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team from 1967 to 1977, at the IIHF World Championships and the Winter Olymp ...

(born 1944), Czech ice hockey player and coach * František Procházka (born 1962), Czech ice hockey player * František Provazník (born 1948), Czech rower *

František Raboň František Raboň (born 26 September 1983) is a Czech mountain biker for the Specialized Racing Factory Mountain Bike Team. He was formerly a road racing cyclist for UCI ProTeams , and . Born in Prague, Raboň turned professional in 2006 with ...

(born 1983), Czech bicycle road racer * František Rajtoral (born 1986), Czech footballer * František Říha (born 1935), Czech sprint canoeist * František Šafránek (1931–1987), Czech footballer * František Schmucker (1940–2004), Czech footballer * František Schneider (born 1987), Czech footballer * František Schubert (1894–1940), Czech chess master * František Šimůnek (1910–unknown), Czech Nordic skier *

František Sokol František Sokol (5 February 1939, in Tišnov – 11 October 2011, in Ostrava) is a Czech former volleyball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1968 Summer Olympics. In 1968 he was part of the Czechoslovak team which won the bronze ...

(1939–2011), Czech volleyball player * František Štambachr (born 1953), Czech footballer * František Šťastný (1927–2000), Czech motorcycle road racer *

František Šterc František Šterc (27 January 1912 – 31 October 1978) was a Czech people, Czech football player. He played club football for SK Židenice. He played two matches for the Czechoslovakia national football team, Czechoslovakia national team and wa ...

(1912–1978), Czech footballer *

František Straka František Straka (born 28 May 1958) is a Czech former football player and current manager of Dukla Banská Bystrica. Playing career Straka played most notably for Sparta Prague. In 1988, he moved to Germany and spent the rest of his playing c ...

(born 1958), Czech football player and manager * František Šulc (born 1950), Czech handball player * František Švec, Czechoslovak sprint canoeist * František Svoboda (1906–1948), Czech footballer * František Svoboda (canoeist) (1904–1991), Czech canoeist *

František Tikal František Tikal (18 July 1933 – 10 August 2008) was a Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak ice hockey defenseman. He played 17 seasons in the Czechoslovak Extraliga for HC Sparta Praha and won two national titles. Internationally he played 59 games ...

(1933–2008), Czech ice hockey player * František Treybal (1882–1947), Czech chess master * František Vaněček (1891–1945), Czech gymnast *

František Ventura František Ventura (13 August 1894 in Cerekvice nad Loučnou – 1 December 1969 in Prague) was a Czech equestrian who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the IX Olympiad (), was an in ...

(1894–1969), Czech horse jumper * František Veselý (1943–2009), Czech footballer * František Vršovský (1933–2022), Czech sprint canoeist * František Wende (1904–1968), Czech ski jumper and Nordic skier * František Zajíšek (1912–1987), Czech bobsledder * František Zíta (1909–1977), Czech chess master

Politics

František Bublan František Bublan (born 13 January 1951 in Třebíč) is a former Czech dissident, who was in 2004 named Minister of the Interior for Stanislav Gross's Social Democratic Party government. After Stanislav Gross was forced to leave the government, ...

(born 1951), Czech politician and dissident *

František Chvalkovský František Chvalkovský (30 July 1885, Jílové u Prahy – 25 February 1945) was a Czech diplomat and the fourth Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Czechoslovakia), foreign minister of Czechoslovakia. Activities during the First Republic In the First ...

(1885–1945), Czech diplomat and politician *

František Kašický František Kašický (born 18 November 1968 in Gelnica, Czechoslovakia) was a defence minister of Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine ...

(born 1968), Slovak politician and government minister * František Knapík (born 1956), Slovak politician * František Kriegel (1908–1979), Czechoslovak politician and physician * František Lipka (born 1946), Slovak diplomat, poet and translator *

František Mareš František Mareš (20 October 1857 – 6 February 1942) was a Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak professor of physiology and philosophy, and a nationalism, nationalist politician. He was rector of the Charles University in Prague, Charles University in ...

(1857–1942), Czech philosopher and politician *

František Mikloško František Mikloško (born 2 June 1947) is a Slovak politician. He was the Speaker of the Slovak National Council from 1990 to 1992 and a long serving MP of the National Council of the Slovak Republic (1990-2010). For most of his career, he was ...

(born 1947), Slovak politician *

František Palacký František Palacký (; 14 June 1798 – 26 May 1876) was a Czech historian and politician. He was the most influential person of the Czech National Revival, called "Father of the Nation". Life František Palacký was born on 14 June 1798, at ...

(1798–1876), Czech historian and politician *

František Pitra František Pitra (13 November 1932 – 2 January 2018) was the Prime Minister of the Czech Socialist Republic (then part of Czechoslovakia) from October 11, 1988, through February 6, 1990. Like his four predecessors, he was a member of the Communist ...

(1932–2018), Czech politician; Prime Minister of the Czech Republic 1988–1990 * František Ladislav Rieger (1818–1903), Czech politician and publicist *

František Šebej František Šebej (born 11 May 1947) is a Slovak politician and academic. He was member of the National Council of Slovakia between 1998 and 2002 and once more from 2010 until 2018. Between 1990 and 1992 he was member of the House of the Nation o ...

(born 1947), Slovak politician and academic * František Sláma (politician) (1850–1917), Czech writer, traveller, lawyer and politician *

František Udržal František Udržal () (3 January 1866 in Dolní Roveň, Kingdom of Bohemia – 25 April 1938 in Prague) was a Czechoslovak politician. A member and leader of the powerful Agrarian Party, his political career started as a member of the local ...

(1866–1938), Czech politician; Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 1929–1932

Other

František Běhounek František Běhounek (; 27 October 1898 Prague – 1 January 1973 Karlovy Vary) was a Czech scientist (radiologist), explorer and writer. The asteroid 3278 Běhounek is named after him. Biography Běhounek studied physics and mathematics at Cha ...

(1898–1973), Czech scientist, explorer and writer * František Chvostek (1835–1884), Moravian physician * František Dvorník (1893–1975), Czech historian *

František Fajtl Lieutenant General František Fajtl (20 August 1912 – 4 October 2006) was a Czech fighter pilot of World War II. He was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) squadron and wing commander and led a group of Czechoslovak fighter pilots who formed an a ...

(1912–2006), Czech fighter pilot * František Fuka (born 1968), Czech computer programmer and musician *

František Lydie Gahura František Lydie Gahura (10 October 1891 in Zlín – 15 September 1958 in Brno) was a Czechoslovak architect and sculptor. Career Gahura became famous for his collaboration on the architectural and urban design of the Czech city of Zlín. He w ...

(1891–1958), Czech architect and sculptor * František Josef Gerstner (1756–1832), Bohemian physicist and engineer * František Graus (1921–1989), Czech historian of medieval Europe * František Jílek (1913–1993), Czech orchestra conductor * František Klácel (1808–1882), Moravian Augustinian author, philosopher and scientist * František Koláček (1851–1913), Czech physicist *

František Křižík František Křižík (; 8 July 1847 – 22 January 1941) was a Czech inventor, electrical engineer and entrepreneur. Biography Křižík was born on 8 July 1847 in a poor family in Plánice. His father, a shoemaker, died early. When he was 12 ...

(1847–1941), Czech inventor, electrical engineer and entrepreneur * František Lexa (1876–1960), Czech Egyptologist * František Lorenz (1872–1957), Czech polyglot, philosopher and Esperantist *

František Maxmilián Kaňka František Maxmilián Kaňka (19 August 1674 – 14 July 1766) was a Czech architect. He was among the most important and most prolific Baroque architects in the Czech lands. Life František Maxmilián Kaňka was born in Prague on 19 August 16 ...

(1674–1766), Czech architect * František Moravec (1895–1966), Czechoslovak military intelligence officer before and during World War II * František Mrázek (1958–2006), Czech entrepreneur and mobster; assassinated * František Neuwirt (1895–1957), Czech professor of stomatology * František Antonín Nickerl (1813–1871), Czech entomologist * František Nušl (1867–1951), Czech astronomer and mathematician * František Patočka (1904–1985), Czech microbiologist, serologist and virologist *

František Peřina Wing Commander General František Peřina (8 April 1911, MorkůvkyFrantišek Rábek (born 1949), Slovak Catholic prelate *

František Rint František Rint (26 January 1835 - ?) was a 19th-century Czech woodcarver and carpenter. He was employed by the House of Schwarzenberg to organize the human bones interred at the Sedlec Ossuary, a small Christian chapel in Sedlec, in 1870. He ...

(fl. 19th century), Czech woodcarver, carpenter and sculptor of bones * František Roubík (1890–1974), Czech historian and archivist * František Šmahel (1934–2025), Czech historian * František Šorm (1913–1980), Czech chemist * František Josef Studnička (1836–1903), Czech mathematician and university professor * František Sušil (1804–1868), Moravian Roman Catholic priest and collector of traditional Moravian folk music * František Švantner (1912–1950), Slovak writer * František Tomášek (1899–1992), Czech cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Bohemia * František Vymazal (1841–1917), Czech polyglot and language textbook writer * František Vyskočil (born 1941), Czech neuroscientist and physiologist * František Záviška (1879–1945), Czech physicist

Surname

* Josef František (1914–1940), Czech fighter pilot {{DEFAULTSORT:Frantisek Czech masculine given names Masculine given names Slovak masculine given names