Vojta can be either a shorter version of the first name
Vojtěch Vojtěch (Czech pronunciation: ) or Vojtech is a, respectively, Czech and Slovak given name of Slavic origin. It is composed of two parts: ''voj'' – "troops"/"war(rior)" and ''těch'' – "consolator"/"rejoicing man". So, the name could be interp ...
or a surname. Notable people with the name include:
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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 c ...
(born 1989), Austrian Olympic distance runner
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Jakub Vojta
Jakub Vojta (born 19 April 1991) is a Czech football midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as de ...
(born 1991), Czech association football player
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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 2 ...
(born 1987), Czech ice hockey player
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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
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Jaroslav Vojta
Jaroslav Vojta (27 December 1888 – 20 April 1970) was a Czechoslovak film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1921 and 1970.
Selected filmography
* ''Karel Havlíček Borovský'' (1925)
* ''The Lantern'' (1925)
* '' Hraběnk ...
(1888–1970), Czechoslovak film actor
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Josef Vojta
Josef Vojta (born 19 April 1935) is a former Czechoslovak football player.
His youth football career started in Usti nad Labem. During his professional club career he played most of the time (1960–1968) for Sparta Prague in Czechoslovak Firs ...
(1935–2023), Czechoslovak association football player
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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
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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 wi ...
(born 1983), Czech horn player
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Rudolf Vojta
Rudolf Vojta (15 April 1912 - 2 November 1984) was an Austrian ice hockey player who competed for the Austrian national team at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Playing career
Vojta made 10 appearances for the Austrian natio ...
(1912–1984), Austrian ice hockey player
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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
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Vojta Beneš
Vojta Beneš (11 May 1878 – 20 November 1951) was a Czech educator, political leader in Czechoslovakia and brother of Edvard Beneš.
Life and career
Vojta Beneš was born in Kožlany, Bohemia, then a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Ben ...
(1878–1951), Czech educator and political leader
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