Svoboda (surname)
Svoboda is a common surname. Svobodová is a Czech feminine form of the surname.
In the Czech language it used to refer to "free men" (to distinguish them from "serfs").[1] Slovak, Croatian and Serbian version is written as "Sloboda".
- Adam Svoboda (born 1978), a Czech ice hockey goaltender
- Antonín Svoboda (1907–1980), a Czech computer scientist, mathematician, electrical engineer, and researcher
- Bill Svoboda (1928–1980), an American football linebacker
- Bohuslav Svoboda, Czech politician, mayor of Prague
- Conrad Svoboda, American meteorologist
- Cyril Svoboda (born 1956), former Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
- David Svoboda, Czech modern pentathlete
- František Svoboda (1906–1948), a Czech football player
- František Svoboda (canoer) (born 1904), a Czechoslovak canoer
- Gabriela Svobodová (born 1953), a former Czech cross country skier
- Hana Svobodová, beauty competition winner
- J. Steven Svoboda, a patent lawyer
- Jakub Svoboda, Czech ice hockey player
- Jaroslav Svoboda (born 1980), Czech ice hockey right winger
- Jim Svoboda, American football coach
- Jiří Svoboda (canoer) (born 1954), a Czechoslovak sprint canoer
- Jiří Svoboda (volleyball) (born 1941), a Czech former volleyball player
- Jiřina Ptáčníková Svobodová, (born 1986), Czech female pole vaulter, wife of the Czech hurdler Petr Svoboda
- Jindřich Svoboda (footballer) (born 1952), a Czech football player
- Jindřich Svoboda (aviator) (1917–1942), a Czech bomber captain in the RAF
- Josef Svoboda (1920–2002), a Czech artist and scenic designer
- Karel Svoboda (1938–2007), a Czech composer of popular music
- Karel Svoboda (artist) (1824–1870), a Czech painter of historical scenes
- Květoslav Svoboda (born 1982), a Czech freestyle swimmer
- Ludvík Svoboda (1895–1979), a Czechoslovak general and politician
- Marcel Svoboda (born 1976), a Czech ski mountaineer
- Martin Svoboda (born 1975), Czech football goalkeeper
- Milan Svoboda, a Czechoslovak slalom canoer
- Miroslav Svoboda, Slovak football player and coach
- Miroslav Svoboda, Colombian musician and producer
- Miroslav Svoboda,(born 1985) Colombian specialist lawyer and musician
- Oldřich Svoboda (born 1967), Czech ice hockey goalkeeper
- Patrik Svoboda (born 1994), Czech football player
- Pavel Svoboda (born 1962), a Czech politician and lawyer
- Pavel Svoboda (organist) (born 1987), a Czech Organist
- Petr Svoboda (born 1966), a retired Czech professional ice hockey defenseman
- Petr Svoboda (athlete) (born 1984), a Czech athlete, competing in the hurdle sprint
- Petr Svoboda (ice hockey b. 1980) (born 1980), a former professional ice hockey defenceman
- Radoslav Svoboda, Czech ice hockey player
- Robert Svoboda (born 1953), an American author and ayurvedic doctor
- Stanislav Svoboda, Czech cyclist
- Svatopluk Svoboda (1886–1971), a Czech gymnast
- Terese Svoboda, an American author from New York City
- Tomáš Svoboda (composer) (born 1939), a prolific Czech-American contemporary classical composer
- Tomáš Svoboda (ice hockey) (born 1987), a Czech ice hockey forward
- Zdeněk Svoboda (born 1972), a former professional footballer
See also
- Swoboda (disambiguation) for the Polish spelling
- Sloboda (disambiguation) for the Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian spelling
- List_of_most_common_surnames#Czech_Republic