Czech Famous Baby Names

Is a former Slovak professional ice hockey left winger who played nine seasons with the Quebec Nordi

Is a former Slovak professional ice hockey left winger who played nine seasons with the Quebec Nordiques of the National Hockey League from 1980 until 1989. He was the first player born and trained in Slovakia to be drafted by an NHL team. He is the broth

Was a Czech Impressionist landscape painter. He was born to a Czech mother and a father of Italian d

Was a Czech Impressionist landscape painter. He was born to a Czech mother and a father of Italian descent. He was fascinated by the landscape of South Bohemia and of the Bohemian and Moravian Highlands. In particular, his smaller pictures replete with quick, easy brushstrokes are among the most admired of Czech landscape painting.

Was a Czech architect, who lived and worked in the USA and Japan. His initial work with American arc

Was a Czech architect, who lived and worked in the USA and Japan. His initial work with American architects Cass Gilbert and Frank Lloyd Wright gave him an insight into the use of concrete for texture and structure that he would refine throughout his six decade career.At studio practices in New Hope, Pennsylvania and Tokyo, he explored traditional Japanese building techniques with the latest American building innovations. He applied these principles to a wide range of projects in Japan, America and India.

Was a classical era composer and double bass player, and was a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart.Rose

Was a classical era composer and double bass player, and was a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart.Rosetti wrote a great deal of music, including many symphonies, concertos and vocal works. He is perhaps best known today for his horn concertos, which Mozart scholar H. C. Robbins Landon suggests (in The Mozart Companion) may have been a model for Mozart's four horn concerti. Rosetti is also known for writing the Requiem (1776) which was played at a memorial for Mozart in December 1791.

Was a Czech writer of Decadence.He was a novelist, a translator, literary editor, and a playwright;

Was a Czech writer of Decadence.He was a novelist, a translator, literary editor, and a playwright; wrote a number of reviews on modern literature and art. Was also known as a dandy and aesthetician, and a master of mystification both in his literary works and in real life.

Was a Czech Composer and teacher. 1904-1924 Professor at the Stern Conservatory (Stern'sches Konserv

Was a Czech Composer and teacher. 1904-1924 Professor at the Stern Conservatory (Stern'sches Konservatorium) in Berlin and at the Vienna Conservatoire (1924–1938).He emigrated to London in 1938 to escape the German Anschluss of Austria. Friend of the composer E.J. Moeran[citation needed] . Composed over 100 works, most of which are almost unknown. His Sonata for Solo Flute is currently in print. He is best remembered for his string orchestra transcription of Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances for piano.

Was a Czechoslovak communist politician and co-defendant in the Prague Trials. He was born in Ostrav

Was a Czechoslovak communist politician and co-defendant in the Prague Trials. He was born in Ostrava, Austria-Hungary to a Jewish family.After the war he lived in Switzerland but soon moved with family to Prague, where he became a leading figure in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and was eventually nominated deputy minister of foreign affairs in 1948. In 1951 he was arrested and became a co-defendant in the Prague Trials alongside Rudolf Slánský. London was accused of being a Zionist, Trotskyite and Titoist and was sentenced to life in prison.

Is a Czechoslovak-Slovak sprint canoer of Hungarian ethnicity who competed from the late 1980s to th

Is a Czechoslovak-Slovak sprint canoer of Hungarian ethnicity who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s.

Was a distinguished Czech astronomer, theoretical physicist, and professor at Charles University in

Was a distinguished Czech astronomer, theoretical physicist, and professor at Charles University in Prague. He was the founder of the Astronomical Institute of the Czech University (1886). He was born in Žamberk to a commissioner of customs Jan Nepomuk Seydler and his wife, Antonia Sukova. He was a revered pedagogue and contributed significantly to astronomical studies, specifically, he elaborated sophisticated methods for the determination of orbits of minor planets. Appropriately, a minor planet is named after him.

Was a Czech composer and kapellmeister, and the son of Joseph Labitzky. Although Labitzky was not as

Was a Czech composer and kapellmeister, and the son of Joseph Labitzky. Although Labitzky was not as prolific a composer as his father, his Ouverture Characteristique has been occasionally recorded. Written in 1858, it depicts Emperor Charles IV while out hunting.

Was a distinguished Czech historian and archivist. Notably, he worked in medieval history, detailing

Was a distinguished Czech historian and archivist. Notably, he worked in medieval history, detailing the history of Medieval castles in the Bohemian Kingdom. He wrote among others extensively on autonomous region of Prachens in the southwest of Bohemia in 1926 (Deje Prachenského Kraje, Písek).

Was a Bohemian pianist and music teacher. A student of Anton Bruckner, he made solo piano arrangemen

Was a Bohemian pianist and music teacher. A student of Anton Bruckner, he made solo piano arrangements of that composer's symphonies 1, 2, 5, 6, and 8. His pianistic credentials included studies with both Theodor Leschetizky and Franz Liszt. He received the Czechoslovak State Award in 1928.

Also known as Gustav Bubnik is an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovak national team. He won a sil

Also known as Gustav Bubnik is an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovak national team. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics.He later worked as ice hockey coach and was elected as MP to the lower chamber of Czech Parliament from the Civic Dem