Dvorak

Dvořák (feminine Dvořáková), anglicized as Dvorak is a Czech surname. Originally the word referred to a servant or an official of manorial estate or royal court. Notable people with the surname include:

Arts

• Ann Dvorak (1912–1979), American film actress (stage name)
• Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), Czech composer
• Eva Švankmajerová (née Dvořáková; 1940–2005), Czech surrealist artist
• František Dvořák (painter), (1862–1927), Czech painter
• Helena Dvořáková (born 1979), Czech actress
• Josef Dvořák (born 1942), Czech actor
• Ludmila Dvořáková (1923–2015), Czech operatic soprano
• Lukáš Dvořák (born 1982), Czech photographer
• Max Dvořák (1874–1921), Austrian art historian
• Tomáš Dvořák, known as Floex (born 1978), Czech composer
• Rudolf Bruner-Dvořák (1864–1921), Czech photographer

Science

• August Dvorak (1894–1975), co-creator of the Dvorak keyboard layout
• Harold F. Dvorak, American pathologist and vascular researcher
• John C. Dvorak (born 1952), computer-industry columnist and new-media personality
• Lubomír Dvořák (born 1940), Czech physicist
• Vinko Dvořák (1848–1922), Czech-Croatian physicist
• Vernon Dvorak (1928–2022), meteorologist, developer of method to estimate tropical-cyclone intensity
• Zdeněk Dvořák (born 1981), Czech mathematician

Sports

• Bedřich Dvořák (1930–2018), Czech canoeist
• Ben Dvorak (1895–1974), American football running back
• Bill Dvořák (born 1958), American pioneering whitewater rafter
• Christian Dvorak (born 1996), American ice hockey player
• David Dvořák (born 1992), Czech mixed-martial artist
• Dominik Dvořák (born 1992), Czech bobsledder
• Dusty Dvorak (born 1958), American volleyball player
• Filip Dvořák (canoeist) (born 1988), Czech canoeist
• Filip Dvořák (ice hockey, born 1976), Czech ice hockey player
• Filip Dvořák (ice hockey, born 1997), Czech ice hockey player
• Libor Dvořák (born 1957), Czech canoeist
• Milan Dvořák (1934–2022), Czech footballer
• Miroslav Dvořák (ice hockey) (1951–2008), Czech ice hockey player
• Miroslav Dvořák (skier) (born 1987), Czech skier
• Oldřich Dvořák (born 1953), Czech wrestler
• Pavel Dvořák (born 1989), Czech footballer
• Radek Dvořák (born 1977), Czech ice hockey player
• Tomáš Dvořák (born 1972), Czech decathlon and heptathlon athlete
• Veronika Dvořáková (born 2000), Czech handball player

Other

• Denisa Dvořáková (born 1989), Czech model
• Oskar Dvořák (born 1991), Slovak politician

People with related surnames

• Gábor Dvorschák (born 1989), Hungarian football defender
• Henry Dworshak (1894–1962), United States Senator from Idaho
• Leo Ferdinand Dworschak (1900–1976), Roman Catholic Bishop of Fargo

See also

• All pages with titles containing Dvořák
• All pages with titles containing Dvořáková
• Dvorak Awards for "excellence in telecommunications"
• Dworshak Dam, a hydroelectric, concrete gravity dam in Idaho, United States
• Dvorak keyboard layout, an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard layout, named after August Dvorak
• Dworshak National Fish Hatchery, a "mitigation" hatchery
• Dvorak technique, a subjective method of deriving cyclone intensity from satellite imagery
• Dvorak, a computer system in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory