Czech Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Was a Czech writer.Jedlicka studied aesthetics and ethnography at Prague University, but after the c

Was a Czech writer.Jedlicka studied aesthetics and ethnography at Prague University, but after the communist revolution in 1948 he was kicked out of university for being an anticommunist. He then worked in various professions - as laborer, teacher, TV assistant, and tutor among them. After 1953 he moved to Litvínov, an industrial town in northern Bohemia. B

Is a Czech boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics for Czechoslovakia.In 1936 he was eliminat

Is a Czech boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics for Czechoslovakia.In 1936 he was eliminated in the second round of the featherweight class after losing his fight to William Marquart.

Is a Czech football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 10 matches and scored

Is a Czech football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 10 matches and scored 2 goals.He was a participant in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, where Czechoslovakia won the silver medal.

Was a Czech photographer who specialized in photojournalism and portrait photography. On the death o

Was a Czech photographer who specialized in photojournalism and portrait photography. On the death of his father, photographer Ignác Šechtl, Josef inherited the photographic studios of Šechtl & Vosecek.

Was a Czech scholar.He entered the Prague bureau of education in 1850, and became minister of the de

Was a Czech scholar.He entered the Prague bureau of education in 1850, and became minister of the department in the Hohenwart cabinet in 1871. His efforts to secure equal educational privileges for the Slav nationalities in the Austrian dominions brought him into disfavour with the German element. He became a member of the Bohemian Landtag in 1878, and of the Austrian Reichsrat in 1879. His merits as a scholar were recognized in 1875 by his election as president of the Royal Czech Society of Sciences. He died in Prague on the 25th of November 1888.

Was a Czech Olympic fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games.

Was a Czech Olympic fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games.

Is a retired Czech footballer.During his career he played for AC Sparta Praha. He earned 12 caps for

Is a retired Czech footballer.During his career he played for AC Sparta Praha. He earned 12 caps for the Czechoslovakia national football team, and participated in the 1970 FIFA World Cup.

Is a Czech football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 17 matches and scored

Is a Czech football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 17 matches and scored 9 goals.He was a participant at the 1962 FIFA World Cup, where Czechoslovakia won the silver medal.

Was a Czech organist, violinist, composer, conductor and pedagogue. He is author of several large or

Was a Czech organist, violinist, composer, conductor and pedagogue. He is author of several large organ compositions in the style of late romanticism.Klicka grew up in influenced by music. He studied at conservatory and organ school in Prague. He worked as organist and conductor and later became professor at the Prague Conservatory (in 1892–1895 as proxy for Antonín Dvorák, then in the USA).

Was a Czechoslovakian diplomat and U.S. educator, who is now best known as the father of Bill Clinto

Was a Czechoslovakian diplomat and U.S. educator, who is now best known as the father of Bill Clinton's Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, and the mentor of George W. Bush's Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.

Was a Czech footballer.He played for Sparta Prague and the Czechoslovakia national football team, fo

Was a Czech footballer.He played for Sparta Prague and the Czechoslovakia national football team, for whom he played 43 matches, scoring two goals, and appeared in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups. In 1938, he scored in extra time against the Netherlands to put Czechoslovakia into the quarterfinals.

Is a Czech photographer.Josef Koudelka was born in 1938 in Boskovice, Moravia, town of about 10 000

Is a Czech photographer.Josef Koudelka was born in 1938 in Boskovice, Moravia, town of about 10 000 inhabitants. He began photographing his family and the surroundings with a 6 x 6 Bakelite camera. In 1961, he earned a degree from the University of Technology in Prague (CVUT), staging his first photographic exhibition the same year. Later he worked as an aeronautical engineer in Prague and Bratislava.

Was a Czech Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1936 Summer

Was a Czech Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Was a Czech pianist, organist, and composer of late Romantic music. Labor was an influential music t

Was a Czech pianist, organist, and composer of late Romantic music. Labor was an influential music teacher. As a friend of some key figures in Vienna, his importance was enhanced.He toured Europe as a pianist and, in the process, formed a lasting friendship with King Georg V of Hanover, who was also blind. Georg named him Royal Chamber Pianist in 1865. The following year, the two men settled in Vienna, where Labor began organ lessons and became a teacher, while continuing to compose and perform.

Was a Czech painter and writer.He is best known as the illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's World War On

Was a Czech painter and writer.He is best known as the illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's World War One novel The Good Soldier Švejk. He produced nearly 600 cartoons of the Švejk characters, depicting Austria-Hungary officers and civil servants as incompetent, abusive and often drunk. All the subsequent illustrations of Švejk followed Lada's style.

Was Czech archaeologist and paleontologist, one of founders of modern Czech archaeology.Píc studied

Was Czech archaeologist and paleontologist, one of founders of modern Czech archaeology.Píc studied history and Slavic languages at the Charles University in Prague (then called Karl-Ferdinand University). In 1883, he become docent of history at the university. Since 1893, he was named custodian and later director of archeologic collection at the National Museum (then named Ceské museum) in Prague. Píc created and maintained collection prehistoric artefacts.

Was a Czech composer, pedagogue, and music critic.Some of his early music is set to German texts, bu

Was a Czech composer, pedagogue, and music critic.Some of his early music is set to German texts, but after 1848 he aligned himself with Czech nationalism. His reviews of music appeared in Dalibor and Slavoj. He was a co-founder of the Hlahol choral society and the Umelecká Beseda, an artists' union. He may have taught Antonín Dvorák.Zvonar composed overtures, chamber music, cantatas, an opera entitled Záboj, a requiem, and piano works, and his manuscripts are held at the National Museum in Prague. His songs were popular in his lifetime. However, he his best remembered as an educator; he was the author of the first history of Czech music, Dejiny ceské hudby (1860), as well as the first Czech language harmony treatise, Navedení k snadnému potrebných kadencí skládání (1859). His papers on Czech folk music were among the earliest founding documents of study in the field.

Was a Czech football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 16 matches and scored

Was a Czech football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 16 matches and scored six goals.In his country he played for Viktoria Žižkov and AC Sparta Praha. He scored 128 league goals.

Was a Czechoslovak ice hockey player, very successful during period between World Wars.In 1924 he pa

Was a Czechoslovak ice hockey player, very successful during period between World Wars.In 1924 he participated with the Czechoslovak team in the first Winter Olympics ice hockey tournament.

Was a Czech painter.He was taught by his father, Antonín Mánes (1784–1843), who was a landscape

Was a Czech painter.He was taught by his father, Antonín Mánes (1784–1843), who was a landscape painter. Through his career he produced landscape paintings, portraits, and historical paintings, as well as the first uniform of the Sokol in 1862. P

Is a Czechoslovakian former football player and coach.In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee,

Is a Czechoslovakian former football player and coach.In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of the Czech Republic by the Football Association of the Czech Republic as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years.

Is a retired Czech football (soccer) player. He played for Czechoslovakia.As active player, Mazura s

Is a retired Czech football (soccer) player. He played for Czechoslovakia.As active player, Mazura spend most of his career with Zbrojovka Brno. However, at the end of career he played also for St. Polten, Hasselt, and Stockerau.

Is a Czech basketball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he

Is a Czech basketball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he was a member of the Czechoslovak basketball team, which was eliminated in the third round of the Olympic tournament. He played one match.

Was a Bohemian architect and restorer who worked in a purist gothic style.He was responsible for res

Was a Bohemian architect and restorer who worked in a purist gothic style.He was responsible for restoring many Bohemian castles and ancient buildings in Prague. His work aroused much controversy, but also contributed many important landmarks of Prague.

Is a Czech former volleyball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1964 Summer Olympics and

Is a Czech former volleyball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1964 Summer Olympics and in the 1968 Summer Olympics.