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Jiří Antonín Benda
Georg Anton Benda ( cz, Jiří Antonín Benda, italic=no, link=no; 30 June 17226 November 1795) was a composer, violinist and Kapellmeister of the Classical period (music), classical period from the Kingdom of Bohemia.
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Jiří Baborovský
Jiří Baborovský (1875–1946) was a prominent Czech people, Czech physical chemist, and pioneer in the study of kinetic chemical reactions. He wrote many textbooks widely used in Czechoslovakia.
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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-animated s ...
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Jiří Bartoška
Jiří Bartoška (born 24 March 1947) is a Czech theatre, television, and film actor and president of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. His most notable film roles include performances in ''Sekal Has to Die'' (1998), ''All My Loved ...
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Jiří Bicek
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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 f ...
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Jiří Buquoy
Georg Franz August Graf von Buquoy ( cs, Jiří František August Buqouy; 7 September 1781 in Brussels – 9 or 19 April 1851 in Prague) was a Bohemian aristocrat, mathematician, and inventor. He studied mathematics, natural science, philosophy ...
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Jiří Bělohlávek
Jiří Bělohlávek, (; 24 February 1946 – 31 May 2017) was a Czech conductor. He was a leading interpreter of Czech classical music, and became chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in 1990, a role he would serve on two occasio ...
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Jiří Brdečka
Jiří Brdečka (24 December 1917 – 2 June 1982) was a Czech writer, artist, and film director.
Life
Brdečka was born in Hranice (then in Austria-Hungary) to a literary family; his father, Otakar Brdečka (1881 – 1930), wrote under the pse ...
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Jiří Březina
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Jiří Čeřovský
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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 Region ...
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Jiří Crha
Jiří Crha (born April 13, 1950) is a Czech former ice hockey goaltender. He who played 69 games in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs between 1980 and 1981. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1969 to 1993, was spent ...
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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 Extraliga, Czech Elite League most of his career. He briefly pl ...
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Jiří Družecký (1745–1819), Bohemian-born Austrian composer and timpanist
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Jiří Dudáček
Jiří Dudáček (born April 4, 1962) is a former professional ice hockey right wing. He was drafted in the first round, 17th overall, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft, making him the first Czechoslovak player to be selected in t ...
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Jiří Džmura
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Jiří Fischer
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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 people, 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.
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After studying physics at the Masaryk University in Brno and astronomy ...]
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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, earning five caps.
In t ...
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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 of ...
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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 season ...
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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 again ...
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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 of ...
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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 Čelák ...
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Jiří Horák
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Jiří Hrdina
Jiří Hrdina (born January 5, 1958) is a Czech former professional ice hockey player. He spent 10 seasons in the Czechoslovak First League with Sparta ČKD Praha and HK Dukla Trenčín and five in the National Hockey League (NHL) ...
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Jiří Hřebec
Jiří Hřebec (born 19 September 1950) is a retired Czech professional tennis player. He won three singles and four doubles titles on the ATP Tour during his career. Hřebec achieved his highest singles ranking of world No. 25 in April 1974.
Cu ...
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Jiří Hudec
Jiří Hudec (born 15 August 1964) is a retired male track and field athlete from the Czech Republic who competed in the 110 metres hurdles. He won three medals at the European Athletics Indoor Championships, representing Czechoslovakia before it ...
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Jiří Hudec (composer)
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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 car ...
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Jiří Jantovsky
Jiří Jantovsky (born July 18, 1975) is a Czech former professional ice hockey right winger.
Jantovsky played 335 games in the Czech Extraliga, playing for HC Pardubice, HC Slavia Praha, HC Vsetín, HC Znojemští Orli, HC Karlovy Vary, HC Sp ...
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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 S ...
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Jiri Jelinek (born 1977), Czech dancer
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Jiří Jeslínek (disambiguation)
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Jiří Jeslínek (footballer, born 1962)
Jiří Jeslínek (born 16 April 1962) is a Czechs, Czech former Association football, football defender. He played in major Czech football clubs such as Slavia, Dukla and Sparta Prague, and with Hajduk Split in Yugoslavia. He was also a member of ...
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Jiří Jeslínek (footballer, born 1987)
Jiří Jeslínek (born 30 September 1987 in Prague) is a Czech association football, football who plays as a Striker (association football), striker.
Career
In early 2011, Jeslínek signed a three-year contract with a Ukrainian Premier League s ...
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Jiří Jirmal
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Jiří Kaufman
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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
Olomouc (, , ; german: Olmütz; pl, Ołomuniec ; la, Olomucium or ''Iuliomo ...
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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
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Jiří Kochta
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Jiří Kolář
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Jiří Korn
Jiří Korn (born May 17, 1949 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech recording artist and actor. Korn is a highly acclaimed musician in his native Czechoslovakia, and remains after his five decade long career one of the most prominent Czech singe ...
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Jiří Koubský
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Jiří Kristián z Lobkowicz
Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz ( cz, Jiří Kristián z Lobkovic) (14 May 1835 - 22 December 1908) was a member of the old Bohemian aristocratic family of House of Lobkowicz, Lobkowicz and an influential politician of late 19th century Bohe ...
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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 Canada C ...
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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 works ...
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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 ...
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Jiří Lála
Jiří Lála (born August 21, 1959 in Tábor, Czechoslovakia) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the Czechoslovak Extraliga. He played for HC Jihlava. He was a member of the Czechoslovak 1981 Canada Cup team ...
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Jiří Látal
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Jiří Lenko
Jiří Lenko (born 29 April 1985) is a Czech former professional football player. Lenko played mostly as a left-sided defender.
Career
Lenko started his career at Austrian team Rapid Wien, where he played from 2003 to 2005. He then joined K ...
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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 Levý
Jiří Levý (1926–1967) was a Czech literary theoretician, literary historian and translation theoretician. Levý's work was crucial for the development of translation theory in Czechoslovakia and it has subsequently influenced scholars internat ...
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Jiří Ignác Línek (1725–1791), Bohemian late-Baroque composer
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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.
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Jiři Mádl (born 1986), Czech film actor
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Jiří Mahen
Jiří Mahen (born: Antonín Vančura; 12 December 1882 – 22 May 1939) was a Czech novelist, playwright and essayist.
Life
He was born Antonín Vančura, in Čáslav, to an old noble family of the Bohemian Brethren faith. In his grammar-s ...
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Jiří Malec
Jiři Malec (; born 24 November 1962, in Vlastiboř) is a Czech former ski jumper who competed for Czechoslovakia from 1985 to 1990. Along with Jan Boklöv and Stefan Zünd, he was an early pioneer of the V-style. At the 1988 Winter Olympics ...
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Jiří Malysa
Jiří Malysa (born 14 August 1966 in Opava, Czechoslovakia) is a retired male race walker from Czech Republic, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996. He participated in the World Championships ...
(born 1966), Czech race walker
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Jiří Mašek
Jiří Mašek (born 5 October 1978 in Czechoslovakia) is a Czech Republic, Czech football (soccer), football player. He plays as a Striker (association football), striker for USV Oed/Zeillern in Austria.
Mašek played before for FK Jablonec 97, ...
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Jiří Maštálka
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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 ...
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Jiří Mucha
Jiří Mucha (12 March 1915 in Prague – 5 April 1991 in Prague) was a Czech journalist, writer, screenwriter, author of autobiographical novels and studies of the works of his father, the painter Alphonse Mucha.
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Born in Prague, he was ...
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Jiří Mužík
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Jiří Nigrin
Jiří Nigrin (Černý) z Černého Mostu, since about 1590 titled z Nigropontu (died 1606) was an important printer in Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and List of cities in the Czech Republic, larges ...
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Jiri Novotny (disambiguation)
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Jiří Novotný (footballer)
Jiří Novotný (; born 7 April 1970 in Prague) is a former Czech professional footballer defender. He played for Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic, for both he played total 33 matches and scored 2 goals.
Novotný was a participant i ...
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Jiří Novotný (ice hockey)
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Jiří Novák
Jiří Novák (; born 22 March 1975) is a Czech former professional tennis player. He was born in Zlín, Czechoslovakia but resides nowadays in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Career
Novák turned professional in 1993 and won seven singles and 18 doubles ...
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Jiří Tibor Novak (born 1947), Czech-born Australian artist, illustrator, and writer
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Jiří Němec
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Jiří Orten
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Jiří Parma
Jiři Parma (, born 9 January 1963) is a Czechoslovakian/Czech former ski jumper.
Career
At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, he won a bronze medal in the team large hill. Parma's biggest successes were at the FIS Nordic World Ski Champio ...
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Jiří Paroubek
Jiří Paroubek (; born 21 August 1952) is a Czech politician, who was the prime minister of the Czech Republic from April 2005 to August 2006. He was also the leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) from 2006 until his resignation f ...
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Jiří Pauer Jiří Pauer (22 February 1919 in Libušín, Czechoslovakia – 28 December 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic) was a Czech composer.
Pauer studied first with Otakar Šín, then from 1943 to 1946 at the Prague Conservatory with Alois Hába, and fina ...
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Jiří Pelikán (disambiguation) Jiří Pelikán may refer to:
*Jiří Pelikán (chess player)
Jiří (Jorge) Pelikán ( Častolovice, 23 April 1906 – Chacabuco, July 1984) was a Czech-Argentine chess master.
In 1935, Jiří Pelikán tied for 2nd-4th in Luhačovice ( Karel O ...
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Jiří Pelikán (chess player)
Jiří (Jorge) Pelikán ( Častolovice, 23 April 1906 – Chacabuco, July 1984) was a Czech-Argentine chess master.
In 1935, Jiří Pelikán tied for 2nd-4th in Luhačovice (Karel Opočenský won) then won in Prague (12th Kautsky memorial). In 193 ...
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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.
In 1939 he joined ...
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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 (1956–195 ...
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, George of Kunštát and Poděbrady (1420–1471), (German: Georg von Podiebrad), was King of Bohemia (1458–1471)
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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 of l ...
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Jiří Rohan
Jiří Rohan (, born 13 December 1964 in Prague) is a Czechoslovak-Czech slalom canoeist who competed in the 1980s and 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals in the C2 event, earning them in 1992 and 1996.
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Jiří Rosický (disambiguation)
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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 League between 1966 and 1981, scoring one goal. As well as playing for Sparta ...
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Jiří Rosický (footballer, born 1977)
Jiří Rosický (born 11 November 1977) is a Czech retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Career
Rosický joined local Sparta Prague's youth system at the age of ten. Abroad, Rosický played for Atlético Madrid's reserve ...
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Jiří Ryba
Jiří Ryba () (born 15 June 1976 in Tábor) is a former Czech decathlete. His personal best result was 8339 points, achieved in May 2000 in Desenzano del Garda. Ryba is married to pole vaulter Pavla Hamáčková.
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Jiří Sequens
Jiří Sequens (23 April 1922 – 21 January 2008) was a Czech film director.
Life
Sequens was born in Brno. After the Second World War, he went to Moscow where he studied film techniques. When he returned to Czechoslovakia he worked for Cz ...
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Jiří Skobla
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Jiří Šlégr
Jiří Šlégr (; born 30 May 1971) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman, and was a member of the 2001–02 Detroit Red Wings Stanley Cup championship team after being acquired in a late-season trade. Šlégr was inducted into th ...
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Jiří Snítil
Jiří Snítil (born 24 February 1975) is a curler from the Czech Republic. He currently skips the Czech Republic national team. He started curling at the age of 21.
Snítil has represented the Czech Republic in seven World Curling Championsh ...
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Jiří Sovák
Jiří Sovák ('' né'' Schmitzer; 27 December 1920 – 6 September 2000) was a Czech actor, best known for his comedy roles.
Life and theatre career
Jiří Sovák was born Jiří Schmitzer to the family of an innkeeper in Prague.Jiří Sovák, ...
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Jiří Štajner
Jiří Štajner (born 27 May 1976) is a Czech former professional association football, footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or second striker. Eight years a player for Hannover 96, he is extremely popular with Hannover fans and is s ...
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Jiří Štancl
Jiří Štancl (born 18 November 1949 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider from Czechoslovakia.
Career
Štancl reached the final of the Speedway World Championship on nine occasions between 1971 and 19 ...
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Jiří Stivín
Jiří Stivín (born 23 November 1942 in Prague) is a Czech flute player and composer.
Biography
He graduated from the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). He also studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music ...
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Jiří Stříbrný
Jiří Stříbrný (14 January 1880 – 21 January 1955) was a Czech politician. He was one of the "founding fathers" of the Czechoslovak Republic, but became a quite controversial figure later on. He died in prison in 1955, after being charged w ...
(1880–1955), Czech politician
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Jiří Suchý
Jiří Suchý (born 1 October 1931) is a Czech film actor, writer and stage actor. He also writes music. Currently he is the owner of the theatre Semafor in Prague where he has performed for many years and which he helped to establish in 1959.
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Jiří Teplý
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Jiří Tichý
Jiří Tichý (6 December 1933 – 26 August 2016) was a Czech football player.
During his club career he played for CH Bratislava and Sparta Prague. Tichý won three championship titles with Sparta. He earned 19 caps for the Czechoslovakia nat ...
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Jiří Tlustý
Jiří Tlustý (born 16 March 1988) is a Czech former professional ice hockey left winger. He was originally a first-round draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft, and split time between the Maple Leafs and the Toronto M ...
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Jiří Tožička
Jiří Tožička (November 14, 1901 – May 15, 1981) was a Czechoslovak ice hockey player who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics and in the 1936 Winter Olympics.He was born in Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga ...
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Jiří Trnka
Jiří Trnka (; 24 February 1912 – 30 December 1969) was a Czechs, Czech puppet-maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director.
In addition to his extensive career as an illustrator, especially of children's books, he is ...
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Jiří Třanovský
Jiří Třanovský ( pl, Jerzy Trzanowski, sk, Juraj Tranovský, la, Georgius Tranoscius; 9 April 1592 – 29 May 1637), was a Lutheran priest and hymnwriter from the Cieszyn Silesia. Sometimes called the father of Slovak hymnody and the "Lu ...
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Jiří Vaněk (disambiguation) Jiří Vaněk may refer to:
* Jiří Vaněk (rower), Czechoslovak competitor
* Jiří Vaněk (tennis) (born 1978)
* Jiří Vaněk (scientist), described ''Bornholmaspis'' in 1983
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Jiří Vaněk (rower)
Jiří Vaněk was a Czech rowing (sport), rower. He competed in the Rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless four, men's coxless four event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
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Jiří Vaněk (tennis)
Jiří Vaněk (born 24 April 1978) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He was a coach of former world #1 player Karolína Plíšková and is the current coach of two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitová, with whom ...
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Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý (; born 10 July 1993) is a Czech professional tennis player.
He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 35 on 27 April 2015. He is currently the No. 2 Czech tennis player in singles, as he lost his previous ...
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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
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Jiří Wachsmann
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Jiří Weil
Jiří Weil (; 6 August 1900, Praskolesy – 13 December 1959, Prague) was a Czech writer of Jewish origin and Holocaust survivor. His noted works include the two novels ''Life with a Star'' (''Život s hvězdou''), and ''Mendelssohn Is on the Roo ...
(1900–1959) Czech Jewish writer and novelist
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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 ...
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Jiří Wolker
Jiří Wolker () (29 March 1900 – 3 January 1924) was a Czech Republic, Czech poet, journalist and playwright. He was one of the founding members of KSČ - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia - in 1921.
Life
He was born in Prostějov, int ...
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Jiří Zelenka
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Jiri Zidek (paleontologist), contemporary Czech paleontologist
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George Zidek
Jiří "George" Zídek Jr. (born 2 August 1973), is a Czech retired professional basketball player and sports commentator. He played college basketball in the United States for the UCLA Bruins men's basketball, UCLA Bruins from 1991 to 1995. He th ...
(b. Jiří Zídek, 1973), basketball player
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Jiřího z Poděbrad, Prague Metro station
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Jiříkov
Jiříkov (; german: Georgswalde) is a town in Děčín District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,500 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The town is made up of town parts of Filipov, Loučné, Nový Jiříkov an ...
, town in the Czech Republic
See also
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Jiri (disambiguation)
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Jiřina (disambiguation)
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George (given name)
George () is a masculine given name derived from the Greek Geōrgios (; , ). The name gained popularity due to its association with the Christian martyr, Saint George (died 23 April 303), a member of the Praetorian Guard who was sentenced to dea ...
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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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Czech masculine given names