Dvorak

Dvořák or Dvorak is a common Czech surname, originally referring to a rich landowner with a manor house (Czech dvůr, cognate with Polish dwór). It is the fourth most common surname in the Czech lands.^[1]

Dvořák or Dvorak may refer to:

1 People
2 Other uses
3 References

People

Dvořák or Dvorak

Ann Dvorak (1912–1979), American film actress
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), Czech composer of Romantic music
August Dvorak (1894–1975), American psychologist, co-creator of the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
Bill Dvořák (born 1958), American pioneering whitewater rafter
Dusty Dvorak, American volleyball player
Franz Dvorak, (1862-1927), Bohemian-born painter (Austrian)
John C. Dvorak (born 1952), American computer industry columnist and new media personality
Josef Dvořák (born 1942), Czech actor
Karel Dvořák (disambiguation), multiple people
Karel Dvořák (biathlete), Czechoslovak cross-country skier
Max Dvořák (1874–1921), Austrian art historian
Milan Dvořák, Czechoslovak footballer
Pavel Dvořák, Czech footballer
Radek Dvořák (born 1977), Czech NHL ice hockey player
Tomáš Dvořák (born 1972), Czech decathlon and heptathlon athlete
Vernon Dvorak, American meteorologist and developer of the Dvorak technique

Dvorakova or Dvořáková

Denisa Dvořáková, a Czech model
Eva Švankmajerová née Dvořáková
Helena Dvořáková, a Czech actress

Dvorschák

Gábor Dvorschák (born 1989) a Hungarian football defender

Dworschak

Leo Ferdinand Dworschak (1900–1976), the fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Fargo

Dworshak

Henry Clarence Dworshak (1894–1962), United States Senator from Idaho

Other uses

Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard layout, named after August Dvorak
Dvorak encoding, a substitution cipher based on the difference between the QWERTY and Dvorak keyboard layouts
Dvorak (game), a customizable card game
Dvorak technique, a subjective method of deriving cyclone intensity from satellite imagery
Dvorak Awards for "excellence in telecommunications"
Dworshak National Fish Hatchery, a "mitigation" hatchery
Dworshak Dam, a hydroelectric, concrete gravity dam in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States

References

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Dvorak

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People

Dvořák or Dvorak

Dvorakova or Dvořáková

Dvorschák

Dworschak

Dworshak

Other uses

References

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