Dvorak

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Dvořák or Dvorak is a common Czech surname, originally referring to a rich landowner with a manor house (Czech dvůr, cognate with Polish dwór). It is the fourth most common surname in the Czech lands.

Dvořák or Dvorak may refer to:

People

Dvořák or Dvorak

• Ann Dvorak (1912–1979), American film actress (stage name)
• Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), Czech composer of Romantic music
• August Dvorak (1894–1975), American psychologist, co-creator of the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
• Bill Dvořák (born 1958), American pioneering whitewater rafter
• Christian Dvorak, American ice hockey player
• Dusty Dvorak (born 1958), American volleyball player
• František Dvořák (painter), (1862-1927), Czech painter
• John C. Dvorak (born 1952), American computer industry columnist and new media personality
• Josef Dvořák (born 1942), Czech actor
• Karel Dvořák (biathlete), Czechoslovak cross-country skier
• Max Dvořák (1874–1921), Austrian art historian
• Milan Dvořák (born 1934), Czechoslovak footballer
• Pavel Dvořák (born 1989), Czech footballer
• 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

Dvorakova or Dvořáková

• Denisa Dvořáková, a Czech model
• Eva Švankmajerová née Dvořáková
• Helena Dvořáková, a Czech actress

Dvorschák

• Gábor Dvorschák (born 1989) a Hungarian football defender

Dworschak

• Leo Ferdinand Dworschak (1900–1976), the fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Fargo

Dworshak

• Henry Dworshak (1894–1962), United States Senator from Idaho

Other uses

• Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard layout, named after August Dvorak
• Dvorak encoding, a substitution cipher based on the difference between the QWERTY and Dvorak keyboard layouts
• Dvorak (game), a customizable card game
• Dvorak technique, a subjective method of deriving cyclone intensity from satellite imagery
• Dvorak Awards for "excellence in telecommunications"
• Dworshak National Fish Hatchery, a "mitigation" hatchery
• Dworshak Dam, a hydroelectric, concrete gravity dam in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States