Zdenka or Zdeňka () is a feminine given name in Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, and Slovenian languages. It is a diminutive form of

Zdena Zdena may refer to: * Zdena (river), Zdena, river in Sanski Most * Zdena Dorňáková, Czech gymnast * Zdena Hadrbolcová (1937–2023), Czech actress * Zdena Herfortová (born 1945), Czech film and stage actress * Zdena Salivarová (born 1933), ...

, which was originally a short form of Zdeslava. Denny can be used as a diminutive. The masculine counterparts are Zdenko and Zdeněk. Notable people with the name include:

Arts

* Zdenka Badovinac, Slovenian art critic *

Zdeňka Baldová Zdeňka Baldová, born as Zdeňka Balašová, married Hilarová (20 February 1885 – 26 September 1958) was a Czech film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1921 and 1958. Baldová is buried at the Vinohrady Cemetery. Selec ...

, Czech actress * Zdenka Bergrová, Czech poet and translator *

Zdeňka Bezděková Zdeňka Bezděková (19 April 1907 – 12 August 1999) née Vondrušková, was a Czech writer, philosopher, and translator. She was largely known for writing ''Říkali mi Leni'' about a Czech girl living in post-war Germany. Early life Bezděko ...

, Czech writer, philosopher, and translator *

Zdenka Braunerová Zdislava Rosalina Augusta Braunerová, called Zdenka (9 April 1858 – 23 May 1934) was a Czech landscape painter, illustrator and graphic artist, whose work was influenced by her connection to Paris. She was the first female member of the Mánes ...

, Czech painter * Zdeňka Deitchová, Czech animator * Zdenka Fantlová, Czech actor, writer and Holocaust survivor * Zdenka Faßbender, Czech-German operatic soprano * Zdenka Hásková, Czech translator, journalist and writer * Zdenka Kabátová-Táborská, Czech painter, printmaker and illustrator *

Zdenka Kovačiček Zdenka Kovačiček (16 January 1944) is a Croatian jazz and rock vocalist. She remains one of the most prominent musicians on the Croatian music scene. Early life Zdenka Kovačiček was born on 16 January 1944 in Zagreb. Her father was from Tuh ...

, Croatian singer * Zdenka Predná, Slovak singer *

Zdenka Procházková Zdenka Procházková (4 April 1926 – 25 August 2021) was a Czech actress. She was married to Karel Höger, who she starred with in the 1949 film '' A Dead Man Among the Living.'' They later divorced. Selected filmography *'' Lost in the Subu ...

, Czech actress *

Zdenka Rubinstein Zdenka Rubinstein (born Büchler; 19 November 1911 – 31 July 1961) was a Croatian Jewish operatic soprano. Early life, family and death Rubinstein was born in Zagreb on 19 November 1911. In 1933 she married Bartold Rubinstein at the Osijek S ...

, Croatian operatic soprano * Zdenka Ticharich, Hungarian pianist *

Zdeňka Žádníková-Volencová Zdeňka Žádníková-Volencová (born 25 October 1974) is a Czech actress and musician, known particularly for her stage acting at . She was named Discovery of the Year at the 2005 TýTý Awards, for her role as Ivana in the Prima televize televi ...

, Czech actress and musician * Zdenka Žebre, Slovene writer

Sports

Zdenka Bujnáčková Zdenka Bujnáčková (born 25 April 1955) is a Slovak gymnast. She competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and officially branded as Munich 1972 (; ), were an i ...

, Slovak gymnast *

Zdenka Cerar Zdenka Prusnik-Cerar (7 September 1941 – 28 August 2013) was a Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, ...

, Slovene gymnast *

Zdenka Gašparac Zdenka Gašparac (born 5 July 1949) is a Croatian former swimmer. She competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and officially brande ...

, Croatian swimmer *

Zdenka Grossmannová Zdenka Grossmannová (born 17 November 1965 in Jindřichův Hradec) is a Czech slalom canoeist. She competed for Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. She won two medals in the K1 team event at the ICF Ca ...

, Czech canoer *

Zdeňka Honsová Zdeňka Honsová (3 July 1927 in Jihlava – 16 May 1994) was a Czech gymnast who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. Honsová was the highest women's gymnastics individual all-around scorer at these Olympics, continuing the legacy of major ...

, Czech gymnast *

Zdenka Horešová Zdenka Horešová (born 13 August 1993) is a Slovak footballer who plays as a midfielder. She has been a member of the Slovakia women's national team. International career Horešová capped for Slovakia at senior level during the UEFA Women's ...

, Slovak footballer *

Zdenka Hradilová Zdeňka Hradilová (27 April 1938 – 26 January 2023) was a Czechoslovak sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1960s. She was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 500 m event at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Tokyo, officially the ...

, Czech canoer *

Zdeňka Málková Zdeňka Málková (born 19 January 1975) is a former Czech tennis player who was crowned 1991 ITF World Champion in girls' singles. Málková won five singles (including a $50,000 tournament in Karlovy Vary as a 16-year-old) and six doubles ti ...

, Czech tennis player *

Zdeňka Šilhavá Zdeňka Šilhavá (born Kusá, later known as Bartoňová-Šilhavá; 15 June 1954 in Krnov) is a Czech retired female track and field athlete who represented Czechoslovakia. She set the world record in the women's discus throw on 26 August 1984 ...

, Czech athlete *

Zdeňka Vejnarová Zdeňka Vejnarová (born in Jilemnice on ) is a Czech biathlete. Vejnarová competed in the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games (), also known as the Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event ...

, Czech biathlete * Zdeňka Veřmiřovská, Czech artistic gymnast

Other

* Zdenka Buben, American public health social worker * Zdenka Cecília Schelingová, Slovak nun * Zdenka Kramplová, Slovak politician *

Zdenka Nemeškalová-Jiroudková Zdenka Nemeškalová-Jiroudková (9 April 1928 – 23 June 2023) was a Czech numismatist and Archaeology, archaeologist. She was born in Prague on 9 April 1928. Career During her career she studied Czech coin finds, including those of thirtee ...

, Czech numismatist and archaeologist *

Zdenka Podkapová Zdenka or Zdeňka () is a feminine given name in Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, and Slovenian languages. It is a diminutive form of Zdena, which was originally a short form of Zdeslava. Denny can be used as a diminutive. The masculine counterpar ...

, Czech model * Zdenka Samish, Czech-Israeli food technology researcher *

Zdeňka Vávrová Zdeňka Vávrová (born 1945) is a Czech astronomer. She co-discovered periodic comet 134P/Kowal-Vávrová. She had observed it as an asteroid, which received the provisional designation 1983 JG, without seeing any cometary coma. However, lat ...

, Czech astronomer *

Zdenka Vučković Zdenka Vučković (Zagreb, 20 June 1942 - 7 March 2020) was a Croatian popular music singer with a career spanning 60 years. Her popularity peaked during the 1960s, when she was a teen pop star. She is best remembered for the songs ''Moja mala dj ...

, Croatian singer *

Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková (17 April 1868 – 16 October 1915) was a Moravians, Moravian teacher, journal editor, and women's rights activist. Born into a family of progressive educators, she studied to become a teacher, graduating in 1 ...

, Czech teacher, journal editor and women's rights activist

Fictional

*''Zdenka'', fictional character in the opera

Arabella ''Arabella'', Op. 79, is a lyric comedy, or opera, in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration. Performance history It was first performed on 1 July 1933 at the D ...

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