Radek is a masculine Christian name of
Slavic origin. It is often nickname of
Radovan,
Ctirad
Ctirad () (Polish: Czcirad) is a Slavic origin male given name derived from the elements: čest / chest "honour" and rad "care, joy".
Maybe, it means "he honours advice" or "worshiping advice".
Name Days
Czech: ''16 January''
Nicknames
Cti ...
and
Radoslav
Radoslav () is a common Slavic masculine given name, derived from ''rad-'' ("happy, eager, to care") and ''slava'' ("glory, fame"), both very common in Slavic dithematic names. It roughly means "eager glory". It is known since the Middle Ages. Th ...
. It is used as a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
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Radek Baborák, Czech conductor and French horn player
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Radek Bejbl, Czech footballer
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Radek Bělohlav
Radek Bělohlav (born 11 April 1970) is a Czech former professional ice hockey player, and a current coach. He played with HC Kladno in the Czech Extraliga during the 2010–11 Czech Extraliga season
The 2010–11 Czech Extraliga season was the ...
, Czech ice hockey player
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Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player
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Radek Dosoudil, Czech footballer
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Radek Duda
Radek Duda (born January 28, 1979 in Chodov) is a Czech former professional ice hockey player. He was selected by the Calgary Flames in the 7th round (192nd overall) of the 1998 NHL Entry Draft. played in the WHL with the Regina Pats
Duda played ...
, Czech ice hockey player
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Radek Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player
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Radek Faksa, Czech ice hockey player
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Radek Jaroš
Radek Jaroš (born 29 April 1964) is a Czech mountaineer and author.
Jaroš was born in Nové Město na Moravě, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic. In 1998 he climbed his first eight-thousander Mount Everest in the second attempt via its north ...
, Czech mountaineer and author
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Radek John
Radek John (; born 6 December 1954) is a Czech journalist, writer, screenwriter and politician who served as the Minister of Interior from 2010 to 2011 and as Leader of the Public Affairs party from 2009 to 2013. His novel '' Memento'' is the f ...
, Czech publicist, author and writer
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Radek Martínek, Czech ice hockey player
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Radek Pilař
Radek Pilař ( 23 April 1931 Písek - 7 February 1993) was a Czech artist active in illustrations, animation, graphics, painting, filmmaking, and film directing . He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague with Professor . He is best known ...
, Czech painter
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Radek Sikorski, Polish politician
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Radek Smoleňák
Radek Smoleňák (born December 3, 1986) is a Czech professional ice hockey winger. He is currently playing with the Mountfield Hradec Králové of the Czech Extraliga (EHL).Smolenak was selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 3rd round (73r ...
, Czech ice hockey player
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Radek Štěpánek, Czech tennis player
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Radek McGuire, man who does it all from Calgary Alberta Canada
Fictional characters
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Radek Zelenka, character in ''
Stargate:Atlantis''
Surname
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Karl Radek
Karl Berngardovich Radek (russian: Карл Бернгардович Радек; 31 October 1885 – 19 May 1939) was a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist active in the Polish and German social democratic movements before World War I and a C ...
(1885–1939), Bolshevik and international Communist leader
*General Ivan Radek, communist terrorist leader of
Kazakhstan in the ''
Air Force One
Air Force One is the official air traffic control designated call sign for a United States Air Force aircraft carrying the president of the United States. In common parlance, the term is used to denote U.S. Air Force aircraft modified and used ...
'' movie
*Viktor Radek, fictional character from the computer games ''
Sin Episodes''
Articles
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Articles beginning with "Radek"
External links
Radek on Behind The Name
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Masculine given names
Slavic masculine given names
Czech masculine given names