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Kovář (surname)
Kovář (; feminine Kovářová, ; anglicized as Kovar) 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 ..., meaning 'smith'. Notable people with the surname include: * Daniela Kovářová (born 1964), Czech politician * Dennis G. Kovar, American physicist * František Kovář (1888–1969), Czech Hussite bishop * Jakub Kovář (born 1988), Czech ice hockey player * Jan Kovář (born 1990), Czech ice hockey player * Jaroslav Kovář (1934–2015), Czech athlete * Jiří Kovář (born 1989), Italian volleyball player of Czech origin * Karel Kovář (rower) (born 1942), Czech rower * Karel Kovář (born 1942), Slovak figure skater * Lukáš Kovář (born 1992), Czech ice hockey player * Marie Kovářová (1927–2023), Czech gymnast * Mary Grace Kovar (192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 bridegroom's surname. Given names In the Czech Republic, names are simply known as ("names") or, if the context requires it, ' ("baptismal names"). The singular form is '. A native Czech given name may have Christian roots or traditional Slavic pre-Christian origin (e.g. Milena, Božena, Jaroslav, Václav, Vojtěch). It used to be a legal obligation for parents to choose their child's name from a list that was pre-approved by the government. Special permission was necessary for other names with exceptions for minorities and foreigners. Since the Velvet revolution in 1989, parents have had the right to give their child any name they wish, provided it is used somewhere in the world and is not insulting or demeaning. However, in recent yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lukáš Kovář
Lukáš Kovář (born 10 January 1992) is a Czech professional ice hockey defenceman currently under contract with HC Vítkovice Ridera of the Czech Extraliga (ELH). He played with HC Vítkovice in the Czech Extraliga during the 2010–11 Czech Extraliga season The 2010–11 Czech Extraliga season was the 18th season of the Czech Extraliga since its creation after the breakup of Czechoslovakia and the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League in 1993. In the regular season, HC Oceláři Třinec finished atop .... References External links * 1992 births Czech ice hockey defencemen HC Vítkovice players Living people Ice hockey people from Ostrava HK Dukla Trenčín players Piráti Chomutov players HC Oceláři Třinec players HC Frýdek-Místek players Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Slovakia 21st-century Czech sportsmen {{CzechRepublic-icehockey-defenceman-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sára Kovářová
Sára Kovářová (born 9 February 1999) is a Czech handballer for HC Dunărea Brăila and the Czech national team. She participated at the 2018 European Women's Handball Championship The 2018 European Women's Handball Championship was held in France in from 29 November to 16 December 2018. It was the first time France hosts the women's tournament. The matches were played in Brest, France, Brest, Montbéliard, Nancy, France, Na .... References External links * 1999 births Living people Sportspeople from Písek Czech female handball players Expatriate handball players in Turkey Czech expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Kastamonu Bld. SK (women's handball) players 21st-century Czech sportswomen Czech expatriate handball players Czech expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia Czech expatriate sportspeople in Romania Expatriate handball players in Romania Expatriate handball players in Slovenia {{CzechRepublic-handball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Kovář
Robin Kovář (born April 2, 1984) is a former Czech professional ice hockey player who played for the Milton Keynes Lightning in the National Ice Hockey League The National Ice Hockey League (NIHL) is a set of semi-professional ice hockey leagues administered by the English Ice Hockey Association. It is currently the second tier of British ice hockey, below the Elite Ice Hockey League. Formerly calle .... 07.04.10 Career statistics References External links * 1984 births Living people< ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Přemysl Kovář
Přemysl Kovář (born 14 October 1985) is a former Czech footballer who last played as a goalkeeper for Slavia Prague. Career On 12 September 2016, Kovář joined Bulgarian club Cherno More Varna as free agent. In December 2016, he signed a 3-years contract with Slavia Prague Sportovní klub Slavia Praha – fotbal (Sports Club Slavia Prague – Football, ), commonly known as Slavia Praha or Slavia Prague, is a Czech professional football club in Prague. Founded in 1892, they are the second most successful club in t .... References External links * * * * 1985 births Living people People from Boskovice Footballers from the South Moravian Region Czech men's footballers Czech Republic men's under-21 international footballers 1. FC Slovácko players FC Slovan Liberec players FK Viagem Ústí nad Labem players FK Viktoria Žižkov players FK Varnsdorf players Hapoel Haifa F.C. players PFC Cherno More Varna players SK Slavia Prague players Expatriate men's footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michal Kovář
Michal Kovář (born 8 September 1973) is a Czech former footballer. He spent two seasons in the Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ... with F.C. Hansa Rostock. He represented his country at under-21 level between 1994 and 1995. Career Kovář started his career with Sigma Olomouc. References External links * * Living people 1973 births Men's association football defenders Czech men's footballers Czech Republic men's under-21 international footballers Czech First League players SK Sigma Olomouc players 1. HFK Olomouc players SSV Reutlingen 05 players FC Hansa Rostock players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Fotbal Fulnek players Footballers from Olomouc {{CzechRepublic-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matěj Kovář
Matěj Kovář (born 17 May 2000) is a Czech professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen and the Czech Republic national team. Kovář joined the Manchester United youth system in 2018, from Czech club 1. FC Slovácko. He spent time on loan at Swindon Town, where he made his senior debut, Burton Albion and Sparta Prague. A former Czech youth international, Kovář represented his country from under-18 to under-21 level. Club career Manchester United Kovář began his career with 1. FC Slovácko in his native Czech Republic, but moved to England to join Manchester United in January 2018 at the age of 17. After being an unused substitute for the under-19s in a 2017–18 UEFA Youth League match against rivals Liverpool on 21 February 2018, he made his debut for the club's under-18s side in a 4–1 league win at home to Everton three days later. He played in all but two of the team's remaining matches that season, replacing Alex Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Grace Kovar
Mary Grace Kovar (July 6, 1929 – September 21, 2015) was an American statistician. Kovar worked as chief of the Analytical Coordination Branch of the Division of Analysis at the National Center for Health Statistics. For many years she was the coordinator of ''Health, United States'', a series of books reporting the health statistics of Americans. By 1996, she had retired from the NCHS, and had become a senior research scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago. She was a vice president at NORC by 2000. She married Earl S. Pollack, a biostatistician at the National Institutes of Health. Pollack died in 2012. The topics of some of Kovar's best-cited publications include trends in blood lead levels, infant nutrition and its effects on health, patterns of sensitivity to allergens,, longitudinal studies of aging, and a comparison of the results of in-person interviews versus telephone surveys. Kovar was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1979, sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Kovářová
Marie Ďurovičová ( Kovářová; 11 May 1927 – 4 January 2023) was a Czech gymnast who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus cau ..., winning gold in the team event. She was born in Luleč on 11 May 1927, and died on 4 January 2023, at the age of 95. References External links Memory of nations: Marie Ďurovičová 1927 births 2023 deaths Czech female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Czechoslovakia Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Czechoslovakia Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics People from Vyškov District Gymnasts from the South Moravian Region {{Czechoslovakia-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Kovář (figure Skater)
Karel Kovář is a former Czechoslovak figure skater of Slovak origin, now a figure skating coach in the United States. Career After having a short solo career, he joined his sister Dagmar Kovářová in pairs. He relocated to Bratislava to train with coach Agnesa Búřilová. Kovář and Kovářová participated in the European Championships in Prague in 1988, where they finished in the last, 11th place. In the 1986–87 and 1987–88 seasons, they finished second in the Czechoslovak figure skating championships behind René Novotný and Lenka Knapová. Two years later he participated in the 1990 European Championships joining Soviet Union's Svetlana Dragaeva in a mixed-nation couple (some sources identify them as competing under the flag of ISU), finishing 13th. They were training in Leningrad, under Ludmila Velikova. He was then studying at the Lesgaft State Institute of Physical Education, Sport and Health. After retiring from his competitive career, he performed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniela Kovářová
Daniela Kovářová (born 17 November 1964) is a Czech politician who served as Minister of Justice in the caretaker government A caretaker government, also known as a caretaker regime, is a temporary ''ad hoc'' government that performs some governmental duties and functions in a country until a regular government is elected or formed. Depending on specific practice, it co ... of Jan Fischer from 2009 to 2010. References 1964 births Justice ministers of the Czech Republic Living people Politicians from Ostrava Communist Party of Czechoslovakia politicians Women government ministers of the Czech Republic Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic) Government ministers Female justice ministers Masaryk University alumni 20th-century Czech lawyers 21st-century Czech lawyers 20th-century Czech women lawyers 21st-century women lawyers {{CzechRepublic-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Kovář (rower)
Karel Kovář (born 10 December 1942) is a Czech rower. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Mexico 1968 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 October 1968, in Mexico City, Mexico. These were the first Ol .... References 1942 births Living people Czech male rowers Olympic rowers for Czechoslovakia Rowers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Třebíč {{CzechRepublic-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
