Dvorak
 |
Look up Dvorak or Dvořák in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
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.
Dvořák or Dvorak may refer to:
People
Dvořák or Dvorak
- Ann Dvorak (1912–1979), American film actress (stage name)
- 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
- Christian Dvorak, American ice hockey player
- Dusty Dvorak (born 1958), American volleyball player
- František Dvořák (painter), (1862-1927), Czech painter
- John C. Dvorak (born 1952), American computer industry columnist and new media personality
- Josef Dvořák (born 1942), Czech actor
- Karel Dvořák (biathlete), Czechoslovak cross-country skier
- Max Dvořák (1874–1921), Austrian art historian
- Milan Dvořák (born 1934), Czechoslovak footballer
- Pavel Dvořák (born 1989), 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 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
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/10/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.