Čech (feminine Čechová) is a Czech surname meaning
Czech
Czech may refer to:
* Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe
** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus
*Czech (surnam ...
. It was used to distinguish an inhabitant of
Bohemia
Bohemia ( ; ; ) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. In a narrow, geographic sense, it roughly encompasses the territories of present-day Czechia that fall within the Elbe River's drainage basin, but historic ...
from
Slovaks
The Slovaks ( (historical Sloveni ), singular: ''Slovák'' (historical: ''Sloven'' ), feminine: ''Slovenka'' , plural: ''Slovenky'') are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history ...
,
Moravians
Moravians ( or Colloquialism, colloquially , outdated ) are a West Slavs, West Slavic ethnic group from the Moravia region of the Czech Republic, who speak the Moravian dialects of Czech language, Czech or Czech language#Common Czech, Common ...
and other ethnic groups.
Notable people with the surname include:
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Dana Čechová (born 1983), Czech table tennis players.
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Donovan Cech (born 1974), South African rower.
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Eduard Čech (1893–1960), Czech mathematician.
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Filip ÄŒech (born 1980), Czech ice hockey player.
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František Čech (born 1998), Czech footballer.
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František Ringo Čech (born 1943), Czech musician and politician.
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Kateřina Čechová (born 1988), Czech athlete.
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Ludwig Czech (1870–1942), Czech-German-Jewish political figure.
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Marek ÄŒech (disambiguation), multiple people.
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Martin Čech (1976–2007), Czech ice hockey player.
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Miya Cech (born 2004), American actress.
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Olga Čechová (1925–2010), Czech printmaker.
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Petr ÄŒech (born 1982), Czech footballer.
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Petr Čech (1944–2022), Czech hurdler.
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Soňa Čechová (1930–2007), Slovak translator.
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Svatopluk Čech (1846–1908), Czech writer, journalist and poet.
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Thomas Cech (born 1947), American chemist.
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VladimÃr ÄŒech (1951–2013), Czech actor, presenter and.
See also
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Stone–Čech compactification
In the mathematical discipline of general topology, Stone–Čech compactification (or Čech–Stone compactification) is a technique for constructing a Universal property, universal map from a topological space ''X'' to a Compact space, compact Ha ...
, mathematical technique
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ÄŒech cohomology
In mathematics, specifically algebraic topology, ÄŒech cohomology is a cohomology theory based on the intersection properties of open set, open cover (topology), covers of a topological space. It is named for the mathematician Eduard ÄŒech.
Moti ...
, mathematical theory
* ''
Největšà Čech'' (), Czech television series
* CECH, acronym for
University of Cincinnati College of Education Criminal Justice and Human Services
* CECh, the Catholic
Episcopal Conference of Chile
References
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Czech-language surnames
Czech toponymic surnames