Zdenka or Zdeňka () is a feminine given name in Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, and Slovenian, originally a short form of

Zdeslava Zdeslava is a female first name of Slavic origin, which means ''famous here''. Another variant is Zdislava. Short forms include: * Zdenka Zdenka or Zdeňka () is a feminine given name in Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, and Slovenian, originally ...

. Notable people with the name include: *

Zdenka Badovinac Zdenka Badovinac is a curator and writer, is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia. She served between 1993 and 2021 as director of the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, comprised since 2011 of two locations: the Museum o ...

, Slovenian art critic *

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

, Czech painter *

Zdenka Cecília Schelingová Zdenka or Zdeňka () is a feminine given name in Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, and Slovenian, originally a short form of Zdeslava. Notable people with the name include: * Zdenka Badovinac, Slovenian art critic * Zdenka Braunerová, Czech paint ...

, Slovak nun *

Zdenka Fantlová Zdenka Fantlová (28 March 1922 – 14 November 2022) was a Czech actor, writer and Holocaust survivor. Biography Fantlová was born in Blatná on 28 March 1922, and grew up in Rokycany in Czechoslovakia. She and her family, like large parts ...

, Czech actor, writer and Holocaust survivor * Zdenka Grossmannová, Czechoslovak canoer *

Zdenka Hradilova Zdenka or Zdeňka () is a feminine given name in Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, and Slovenian, originally a short form of Zdeslava. Notable people with the name include: * Zdenka Badovinac, Slovenian art critic * Zdenka Braunerová, Czech paint ...

, Czechoslovak canoer *

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 Tu ...

, Croatian singer *

Zdenka Kramplová Zdenka Kramplová (born 7 August 1957) was Minister of agriculture of Slovakia from 27 November 2007 until 18 August 2008 and former Foreign Minister of Slovakia from 1997 to 1998. She is a former member of the People's Party – Movement for a ...

, Slovak politician *

Zdenka Podkapová Zdenka or Zdeňka () is a feminine given name in Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, and Slovenian, originally a short form of Zdeslava. Notable people with the name include: * Zdenka Badovinac, Slovenian art critic * Zdenka Braunerová, Czech paint ...

, Czech model *

Zdenka Predná Zdenka Predná (31 March 1984) is a Slovak female singer. She is one of the most successful finalists of the Slovak version of the '' Pop Idol,'' called ''Slovensko hľadá Superstar'' for season 2004–2005. Zdenka Predná has recorded two stu ...

, Slovak singer *

Zdeňka Šilhavá Zdeňka Bartoňová-Šilhavá (born 15 June 1954 in Krnov, Czechoslovakia) is a retired female track and field athlete from the Czech Republic, who set the world record in the women's discus throw on 26 August 1984 with a distance of . That mark s ...

, Czech athlete *

Zdenka Ticharich Zdenka Ticharich (Zdenka von Ticharich) (26 September 1900 – 15 February 1979) was a Hungarian pianist, music educator and composer. Life Zdenka Ticharich was born in Budapest. She studied with István Tomka at the National School of Music, ...

, Hungarian pianist *

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, late ...

, Czech astronomer *

Zdeňka Veřmiřovská Zdeňka Veřmiřovská () (June 27, 1913, Kopřivnice, Moravia – May 13, 1997) was a Czechoslovak/Czech gymnast who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics receiving silver in the team event, and in the 1948 Summer Olympics winning gold in ...

, Czechoslovakian (Moravian) artistic gymnast ** 3364 Zdenka, an asteroid named for her * ''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 Dr ...

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