Sladek

Sladek or more properly Sládek is a Czech surname meaning a maltster. Notable people with the surname include:

• Bohumil Sládek, Czechoslovak sprint canoer
• John Thomas Sladek (1937–2000), American science fiction author
• Michael Sladek (born 1947), German doctor, bearer of the Bundesverdienstkreuz (husband of Ursula)
• Ursula Sladek, German renewable energy activist (wife of Michael)
• Miroslav Sládek (born 1950), Czech politician
  • Republicans of Miroslav Sládek, political party in the Czech Republic
• Josef Vaclav Sladek (1845-1912), Czech poet, writer of highly personal lyrics in a folk style and translator of poems by Longfellow and Burns as well as 32 plays by William Shakespeare into the Czech language