Jiří (; ''YI-RZHEE''), the

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* Jiří Antonín Benda * Jiří Baborovský *

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 ...

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 ...

* Jiří Bicek * Jiří Bobok *

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

* Jiří Brdečka * Jiří Březina

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* Jiří Čeřovský * Jiří Čunek *

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 Družecký (1745–1819), Bohemian-born Austrian composer and timpanist * Jiří Dudáček * 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 Mil ...

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, earning five caps. In ...

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 ...

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 seaso ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

* Jiří Horák *

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) ...

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 ...

* Jiří Hudec * Jiří Hudec (composer) *

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 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 ...

* Jiri Jelinek (born 1977), Czech dancer * Jiří Jeslínek (disambiguation) ** Jiří Jeslínek (footballer, born 1962) **

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 ...

* Jiří Jirmal

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* Jiří Kaufman *

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 ''Iuliom ...

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 ...

* Jiří Kladrubský * Jiří Kochta * Jiří Kolář *

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 ...

* Jiří Koubský * Jiří Kristián z Lobkowicz *

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

* Jiří Látal *

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 ...

* Jiri Lev *

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 ...

* Jiří Ignác Línek (1725–1791), Bohemian late-Baroque composer *

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 dissolve. ...

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* Jiři Mádl (born 1986), Czech film actor *

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 ...

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 ...

* Jiří Malysa (born 1966), Czech race walker * Jiří Mašek * Jiří Maštálka * Jiří Menzel * Jiří Mucha * Jiří Mužík

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* Jiří Nigrin * Jiri Novotny (disambiguation) **

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 ...

** Jiří Novotný (ice hockey) *

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 ...

(born 1975), tennis player * Jiří Tibor Novak (born 1947), Czech-born Australian artist, illustrator, and writer * 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 ...

* Jiří Paroubek *

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Biography ...

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 ...

* Jiří z Poděbrad, George of Kunštát and Poděbrady (1420–1471), (German: Georg von Podiebrad), was King of Bohemia (1458–1471) * Jiří Pospíšil * Jiří Poukar * Jiří Procházka

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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 ...

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. Rohan a ...

* Jiří Rosický (disambiguation) **

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 ...

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 ...

* Jiří Ryba

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* Jiří Sabou * Jiří Šejba *

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 ...

* Jiří Skobla * Jiří Šlégr *

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 ...

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, ...

* Jiří Štajner *

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 ...

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 ...

* Jiří Stříbrný (1880–1955), Czech politician * Jiří Suchý

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* Jiří Teplý *

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 ...

* Jiří Tlustý * Jiří Tožička *

Jiří Trnka Jiří Trnka (; 24 February 1912 – 30 December 1969) was a 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 best kn ...

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 (rower) **

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

* Jiří Votruba

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* Jiří Wachsmann *

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 ...

(1900–1959) Czech Jewish writer and novelist * Jiří Welsch *

Jiří Wolker Jiří Wolker () (29 March 1900 – 3 January 1924) was a 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, into a cultural fam ...

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* Jiří Zelenka * Jiri Zidek (paleontologist), contemporary Czech paleontologist * George Zidek (b. Jiří Zídek, 1973), basketball player

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* Jiří Paroubek's Cabinet * Jiřího z Poděbrad, Prague Metro station * Jiříkov, town in the Czech Republic

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