Famous People with Name Jaroslav

Jaroslav Šajtar            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Jaroslav Šajtar: was a Czech chess master and an honorary grandmaster, born in Ostrava.He placed 4th= with Jan Foltys at Prague 1943 and 4th at Teplitz-Schönau 1947. His peak years were about 1950, his best results being 2nd= with Isaac Boleslavsky, Ludek Pachman, and Vas

Jaroslav Hašek            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Jaroslav Hašek: was a Czech humorist and satirist best known for his world-famous novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I, which has been translated into sixty languages. He also wrote some 1,500 short stories. He was a journalist, bohemian, and practical joker. His short life had many odd parallels with another Prague contemporary, the Jewish writer Franz Kafka (1883–1924).

Jaroslav Foglar            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Jaroslav Foglar: was a famous Czech author who wrote many novels about young Boy Scouts and their adventures in nature and dark city streets.While they may be considered ideological, his stories are not mere fables, but are based upon his long-term work with children on summer camps and in club-rooms.

Jaroslav Ježek            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Jaroslav Ježek: was a Czech composer, pianist and conductor, author of jazz, classical, incidental and film music.Ježek was born in the Prague quarter of Žižkov to the family of a tailor. He was almost blind from a young age. He studied composition at the Prague Conservatory as a pupil of Karel Jirák (1924 - 1927), at the master school of composition with Josef Suk (1927 - 1930), and shortly also with Alois Hába (1927 - 1928). Ježek met the playwrights/comedians Jan Werich and Jirí Voskovec (aka George Voskovec), leaders of the Osvobozené divadlo (Prague Liberated Theatre) in Prague, and took up the post of main composer and conductor for the theatre.

Jaroslav Hájek            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Jaroslav Hájek: was a Czech mathematician, considered to be one of the most important figures in theoretical statistics.

César Jaroslavsky            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

César Jaroslavsky: was an Argentine politician prominent in the UCR, the country's oldest existing political party.Jaroslavsky was born in Victoria, Entre Ríos Province, in 1928. His father, a wheat farm laborer, died in 1941, and the family moved to Buenos Aires, where César found work in a brick factory. He joined the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR) in 1945, though the October 13 arrest of the UCR's chief rival, populist leader Juan Perón, prompted the young Jaroslavsky to join the historic October 17 protests for his release (Perón would go on to win the pivotal 1946 general elections).[1]