Dvořák

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Dvořák (IPA: [ˈdvor̝a:k]) is a common Czech surname. It used to refer to farmers having their own free farm (derived from dvůr (= yard, court, estate).^[1] The feminine form is Dvořáková [ˈdvor̝a:kova:]. In English, it is sometimes spelt without diacritics, as Dvorak ([dvoɹæk]).

It can refer to:

People named Dvořák or Dvorak

• Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904­) – Czech composer of Romantic music
• Ann Dvorak (1912–1979) – American film actress
• August Dvorak (1894–1975) – American psychologist, co-creator of the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
• Bill Dvorak – pioneering whitewater rafter
• Dusty Dvorak – American volleyball player
• John C. Dvorak (born 1952) – American computer industry columnist
• Josef Dvořák (born 1942) – Czech actor
• Max Dvořák (1874–1921) – Czech-born Austrian art historian
• Pavel Dvořák (born 1937) – Slovak historian, writer and publicist
• 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

Things named after people named Dvorak

• Dvorak Simplified Keyboard – alternative to the QWERTY keyboard layout, named after August Dvorak
• Dvorak encoding – substitution cipher based on the difference between the QWERTY and Dvorak keyboard layouts
• Dvorak (game) – customizable card game
• Dvorak technique – subjective method of deriving cyclone intensity from satellite imagery
• Dvorak Awards for "excellence in telecommunications"

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