Dvořák (surname)
Dvořák is a Czech surname. Originally the word dvořák referred to a servant or an official of manorial estate or royal court, or denoted a free peasant on a large estate. There is also a theory that the surname was derived from the adjective zdvořilý. As of 2022, it is the fourth most common surname in the Czech Republic.
An anglicized form of the surname is Dvorak. A diminutive form of the surname is Dvořáček. Notable people with the surname include:
Arts
- Ann Dvorak, stage name of Anna McKim, American actress
- Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer
- Eva Švankmajerová, Czech surrealist artist
- František Dvořák (painter),, Czech painter
- Helena Dvořáková, Czech actress
- Josef Dvořák, Czech actor
- Ludmila Dvořáková, Czech operatic soprano
- Lukáš Dvořák, Czech photographer
- Max Dvořák, Austrian art historian
- Miloš Dvořák, Czech actor
- Rudolf Bruner-Dvořák, Czech photographer
Science
- August Dvorak, co-creator of the Dvorak keyboard layout
- Harold F. Dvorak, American pathologist and vascular researcher
- John C. Dvorak, computer-industry columnist and new-media personality
- Lubomír Dvořák, Czech physicist
- Vinko Dvořák, Czech-Croatian physicist
- Vernon Dvorak, meteorologist, developer of method to estimate tropical-cyclone intensity
- Zdeněk Dvořák, Czech mathematician
Sports
- Bedřich Dvořák, Czech canoeist
- Ben Dvorak, American football running back
- Bill Dvořák, American pioneering whitewater rafter
- Christian Dvorak, American ice hockey player
- David Dvořák, Czech mixed-martial artist
- Dominik Dvořák, Czech bobsledder
- Dusty Dvorak, American volleyball player
- Filip Dvořák (canoeist), Czech canoeist
- Filip Dvořák (ice hockey, born 1976), Czech ice hockey player
- Filip Dvořák (ice hockey, born 1997), Czech ice hockey player
- Libor Dvořák, Czech canoeist
- Milan Dvořák, Czech footballer
- Miroslav Dvořák (ice hockey), Czech ice hockey player
- Miroslav Dvořák (skier), Czech skier
- Oldřich Dvořák, Czech wrestler
- Pavel Dvořák, Czech footballer
- Radek Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player
- Tomáš Dvořák, Czech decathlon and heptathlon athlete
- Veronika Dvořáková, Czech handball player
Other
- Denisa Dvořáková, Czech model
- Oskar Dvořák, Slovak politician
People with related surnames
- Gábor Dvorschák, Hungarian football defender
- Henry Dworshak, United States Senator from Idaho
- Leo Ferdinand Dworschak, Roman Catholic Bishop of Fargo