Vojta (feminine: Vojtová) is a

Czech surname Czech names are composed of a given name and a family name (surname). Czechs typically get one given name – additional names may be chosen by themselves upon baptism but they generally use one. With marriage, the bride typically adopts the bride ...

. It is a pet form of the given name

Vojtěch Vojtěch (Czech language, Czech pronunciation: ) or Vojtech is a, respectively, Czech and Slovak Slavic names, given name of Slavic origin. It is composed of two parts: ''voj'' – "troops"/"war(rior)" and ''těch'' – "consolator"/"rejoicing man". ...

. Notable people with the surname include: *

Andreas Vojta Andreas Vojta (born 9 June 1989 in Vienna) is an Austrian distance runner. He competed in the 1500 metres competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He is the current Austrian marathon champion. Running career Andreas Vojta began his running career ...

(born 1989), Austrian distance runner *

Jakub Vojta (footballer) Jakub Vojta (born 19 April 1991) is a Czech former football midfielder. He played 14 games in the Czech First League for Slovan Liberec FC Slovan Liberec (), commonly referred to as Slovan Liberec or simply Slovan, is a Czech professional a ...

(born 1991), Czech footballer *

Jakub Vojta (ice hockey) Jakub Vojta (born February 8, 1987) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played in the Slovak Extraliga and the Czech Extraliga. Career Vojta was selected by the Carolina Hurricanes in the 4th round (94th overall) of the 20 ...

(born 1987), Czech ice hockey player *

Jan Ignác František Vojta Jan Ignác František Vojta was a Czech composer (*1657-+12.5.1701) of Baroque music and a doctor of medicine. Apart from notes in the university records, written in his own hand, we have no other primary source information about him. He lived in t ...

(–1701), Czech composer *

Jaroslav Vojta Jaroslav Vojta (27 December 1888 – 20 April 1970) was a Czech film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1921 and 1970. Selected filmography * ''Karel Havlíček Borovský'' (1925) * ''The Lantern'' (1925) * '' The Eleventh Comman ...

(1888–1970), Czech film actor *

Josef Vojta Josef Vojta (19 April 1935 – 6 March 2023) was a Czech footballer. Career His youth football career started in FK Ústí nad Labem. During his professional club career he played most of the time (1960–1968) for Sparta Prague in Czechoslovak ...

(1935–2023), Czech footballer *

Linda Vojtová Linda Vojtová (born 22 June 1985 in Prague, Czech Republic) is a Czech Model (person), model. She was the winner of the world final of Elite Model Look in 2000, held in Geneva, Switzerland. Since then, she has appeared in various international ma ...

(born 1985), Czech model *

Matyáš Vojta Matyáš Vojta (born 26 February 2004) is a Czech professional footballer who plays as a striker for FK Mladá Boleslav. Life Matyáš Vojta was born on 26 February 2004 in Prague. Club career Vojta was raised in Slavoj Vyšehrad, but he spent ...

(born 2004), Czech footballer *

Paul Vojta Paul Alan Vojta (born September 30, 1957) is an American mathematician, known for his work in number theory on Diophantine geometry and Diophantine approximation. Contributions In formulating Vojta's conjecture, he pointed out the possible existe ...

(born 1957), American mathematician *

Přemysl Vojta Přemysl Vojta (born 1983) is a Czech horn player. Life Born in Brno, Vojta received horn lessons from the age of 10 and studied at the Prague Conservatory with Bedřich Tylšar from 1998 to 2004 and then at the Berlin University of the Arts wit ...

(born 1983), Czech horn player * Rudolf Vojta (1912–1984), Austrian ice hockey player *

Václav Vojta Václav Vojta (12 July 1917 – 12 September 2000) was a renowned Czech medical doctor who specialized in the treatment of children with cerebral palsy and developmental disorders. He discovered the principle of reflex locomotion, which is used to ...

(1917–2000), Czech doctor * Veronika Vojtová (born 1990), Czech slalom canoeist

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