Dvořák
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Dvořák is a common Czech surname (the feminine form is Dvořáková) derived from dvůr (=court, estate). It is sometimes spelt without diacritics: Dvorak.
It can refer to:
- People named Dvorak
- Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer
- Ann Dvorak, American actress
- August Dvorak, co-creator of the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
- Bill Dvorak, whitewater rafter
- John C. Dvorak, computer industry columnist
- Max Dvořák, Czech-born Austrian art historian
- Radek Dvořák, Czech NHL ice hockey player
- Tomáš Dvořák, Czech athlete, competes in decathlon and heptathlon
- Vernon Dvorak, creator of the Dvorak technique.
- Things named after people named Dvorak
- Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard layout, named after August Dvorak
- Dvorak (game), a customizable card game
- Dvorak encoding, a special kind of cryptography
- Dvorak technique, a system for measuring cyclone intensity
- Dvorak, an infinite state machine in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.
- Dvorak Awards for excellence in telecommunications