Blažek (; feminine: Blažková) 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 ...
which originates from the Czech given name
Blažej (in English known as
Blaise).
Notable people with the surname include:
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Barbora Blažková (born 1997), Czech ski jumper
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Filip Blažek
Filip Blažek (born 11 March 1998) is a Slovak professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football)#Centre-back, centre-back or a Midfielder#Defensive midfielder, defensive midfielder for Liga I club FC Ra ...
(born 1998), Slovak footballer
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Jakub Blažek
Jakub Blažek (born 20 August 1989 in Plzeň) is a professional Czech football player who currently plays for Baník Sokolov .
Career
Football
Blažek played in his youth for FK Baník Sokolov, SK Buldoci Kalovy Vary (on loan from Banik S ...
(born 1989), Czech footballer
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Jan Blažek (born 1988), Czech footballer
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Jaromír Blažek
Jaromír Blažek (; born 29 December 1972) is a Czech former professional football goalkeeper. Apart from one season in Germany, he has spent his entire professional career in the Czech Republic. Blažek has also been called up as a reserve goal ...
(born 1972), Czech footballer
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Jindřich Blažek (1933–1997), Czech rower
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Lubor Blažek
Lubor Blažek (born 28 February 1954) is a Czech basketball coach. At the 2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held f ...
(born 1954), Czech basketball coach
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Michael Blazek
Michael Robert Blazek ( ; born March 16, 1989) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, and Washington Nationals.
Career
Blazek attended Arbor V ...
(born 1989), American baseball player
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Milada Blažková (born 1958), Czech field hockey player
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Miloslav Blažek (1922–1985), Czech ice hockey player
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Pavol Blažek
Pavol Blažek (born 9 July 1958) is a retired race walker, who represented Czechoslovakia and later Slovakia in the Olympic Games. He was born in Trnava
Trnava (, , ; , also known by other #Names and etymology, alternative names) is a city in ...
(born 1958), Slovak athlete
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Petr Blažek (born 1961), Czech modern pentathlete
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Petra Blazek
Petra Blazek (born 15 June 1987) is an Austrian handballer who plays for Hypo NÖ and the Austrian national team.
International honours
*EHF Champions League:
**''Finalist'': 2008
*EHF Cup Winners' Cup
The EHF Cup Winners' Cup was the offi ...
(born 1987), Austrian handballer
Other
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Allan Blazek (1950–2021), American record producer
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Douglas Blazek (born 1941), Polish-American poet
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František Blažek
František Blažek (1863 in Zálší (Ústí nad Orlicí District), Zálší – 1 January 1944 in Prague) was a Czechs, Czech architect who designed a great number of buildings in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Austro-Hungarian period.
Work
I ...
(1863–1944), Czech architect
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Jaroslav Blažek
Jaroslav Blažek (3 August 1896 – 9 August 1976) was a Czech cinematographer. He worked in the Czech film industry from the silent era to the German occupation. He also shot a 1940 comedy film ''Then We'll Get a Divorce'' at the Palatino Studi ...
(1896–1976), Czech cinematographer
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Jaroslava Blažková Jaroslava Blažková (15 November 1933 – 20 February 2017) was a Slovak novelist, short story writer, children's writer and journalist.Matthias Blazek
Matthias Blazek (born 1966) is a German local historian and journalist.
Biography
Matthias Blazek was born in Celle and spent his youth in Hanover, where he completed his ''Abitur'' at the Lutherschule Hannover in 1987.
From 1987 to 1999 he s ...
(born 1966), German historian and journalist
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Pavel Blažek
Pavel Blažek (born 8 April 1969) is a Czech politician, who has served as Minister of Justice of the Czech Republic from 2021 to 2025, a post he previously held from July 2012 to July 2013 in Cabinet of Petr Nečas. He has been a Member of the ...
(born 1969), Czech politician
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Václav Blažek
Václav Blažek (born 23 April 1959) is a Czech historical linguist. He is a professor at Masaryk University in Brno and also teaches at the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň.
His major interests include Indo-European languages, Uralic lang ...
(born 1959), Czech linguist
See also
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Błażek, a village in Poland
References
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Czech-language surnames
Surnames from given names