Otakar

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Otakar is a masculine Czech given name of Germanic origin (cf. Audovacar). Notable people with the name include:

  • Otakar Batlička (1895–1942), Czech adventurer, journalist, ham radio operator, member of Czech Nazi resistance group in World War II
  • Otakar Borůvka (1899–1995), Czech mathematician best known today for his work in graph theory
  • Otakar Bystřina (1861–1931), pen name for a Czech writer who was a subject of Austria for much of his life
  • Otakar Hemele (1926–2001), Czech football player, who was a devoted player of Slavia Prague
  • Otakar Hollmann (1894–1967), Czech pianist who was notable in the repertoire for left-handed pianists
  • Otakar Hořínek (1929–2015), Czech sport shooter
  • Otakar Hostinský (1847–1910), Czech historian, musicologist, and professor of musical aesthetics
  • Otakar Janecký (born 1960), retired Czech ice hockey forward
  • Otakar Jaroš (1912–1943), Czech officer in the Czechoslovak forces in the Soviet Union
  • Otakar Jeremiáš (1892–1962), Czech composer, conductor and teacher
  • Otakar Kouba (1906–?), Czechoslovak canoeist who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics
  • Otakar Kraus (1909–1980), Czech (later British), operatic baritone and teacher
  • Otakar Kubín (1883–1969), Czech painter and sculptor born in Boskovice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary
  • Otakar Lada (1883–1956), Bohemian fencer
  • Otakar Mařák (1872–1939), tenor Czech opera singer
  • Otakar Mareček (1943–2020), Czech rower and Olympic competitor
  • Otakar Motejl (1932–2010), Czech lawyer and politician
  • Otakar Německý (1902–1967), Czechoslovakian Nordic skier who competed in Nordic combined and Cross-country skiing in the 1920s
  • Otakar Nožíř (1917–2006), Czech football midfielder
  • Otakar Odložilík (1899–1973), Czech historian and archivist who wrote about the history of Protestantism in Bohemia and Moravia
  • Otakar Ostrčil (1879–1935), Czech composer and conductor
  • Otakar Pertold (1884–1965), Czech Indologist, religious studies historian and ethnologist
  • Otakar Sedloň (1885–1973), Czech realistic painter living in Prague
  • Otakar Ševčík (1852–1934), Czech violinist and influential teacher
  • Otakar Švec (1892–1955), Czech sculptor best known for his colossal granite Monument to Stalin in Prague
  • Otakar Švorčík (1886–1955), Czech fencer
  • Otakar Vávra (1911–2011), Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue
  • Otakar Vindyš (1884–1949), Czechoslovak ice hockey player and Olympic competitor
  • Otakar Zich (1879–1934), distinguished Czech composer and aesthetician

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