Czech Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Was a Czech composer.He was deemed to be very talented, but he lived beyond his means.[citation need

Was a Czech composer.He was deemed to be very talented, but he lived beyond his means.[citation needed] To support his extravagant lifestyle he sold a valuable Stradivarius violin which was owned by the dome.[citation needed] This fact was discovered in 1845, when he was dismissed for the crime. Without a church to call home he wandered through several different towns and villages, but never stayed in any one place for too long. During this period he had to support himself from sales of his church music compositions.

Is a professional ice hockey player for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League.He began

Is a professional ice hockey player for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League.He began playing in the NHL after being selected tenth overall by the Hartford Whalers in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft. After two seasons with the Whalers, he was traded to the New Jersey Devils where he played for ten seasons and won Stanley Cups in 1995 and 2000. In the 2002–03 season he went to the New York Rangers as a free agent.

Is a Czech actor, musician, comedian, songwriter and composer.In years 1986-2002, Nebrenský was act

Is a Czech actor, musician, comedian, songwriter and composer.In years 1986-2002, Nebrenský was active in Czech rock music band Vltava, which he lately disbanded.[1] In the beginnings of his career, he collaborated with popular Czech theatre Sklep.[2] He is currently playing in films (such as Tobruk)[3], and writing songs for other musicians.

Is a Czech professional heavyweight boxer and a holder of the Czech Heavyweight title. Šulgan start

Is a Czech professional heavyweight boxer and a holder of the Czech Heavyweight title. Šulgan started boxing at the age of sixteen for an amateur club in the nearby town, Frýdek-Místek. After completing his national service he left for North Carolina, in

Is a Czech professional tennis player. He turned professional in 1995 and he reached a career high r

Is a Czech professional tennis player. He turned professional in 1995 and he reached a career high ranking of 57 in January of 2006. Vik retired from professional tennis after Wimbledon 2007.Vik was beaten in the first round of the 2006 Australian Open by Lleyton Hewitt in a tight 5-setter after blowing 2 sets to 1 lead.

Was a tennis player competing for Germany, then Czechoslovakia, and writer, mainly known as Clemens

Was a tennis player competing for Germany, then Czechoslovakia, and writer, mainly known as Clemens Parma. He finished runner-up to Don Budge in the singles final of the Amateur French Championships of Roland-Garros in 1938. Raised in the Sudetenland, Men

Is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender.He played for HC Vsetín in the Czech Republic from 19

Is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender.He played for HC Vsetín in the Czech Republic from 1996 to 2000. He was drafted in the sixth round of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft by the Philadelphia Flyers. In his first season with the Flyers, Cechmánek surprised many by capturing the starting job from Brian Boucher and being one of the best goaltenders in the league.

Is a tennis player from the Czech Republic. He plays right-handed and has double handed backhand. Je

Is a tennis player from the Czech Republic. He plays right-handed and has double handed backhand. Jebavý reached the 2007 Wimbledon final unseeded with Martin Kližan, before losing to Matteo Trevisan and Daniel Lopez in the final. His career high ranking

Is a Czech professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Liquigas-Doimo. Kreuziger is an all-

Is a Czech professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Liquigas-Doimo. Kreuziger is an all-rounder, with climbing and time trial abilities, becoming a contender for the General Classification of stage races. He is also considered one of the biggest talents of the sport after winning the 2004 Junior Road World Championships and the 2008 Tour de Suisse at the age of 22.

Is a Czech football coach and a former player.

Is a Czech football coach and a former player.

Is a retired Czech professional footballer who played for several clubs in Europe.Jerábek spent mos

Is a retired Czech professional footballer who played for several clubs in Europe.Jerábek spent most of his professional career with FC Vítkovice. He had a spell in the Turkish Super Lig with Adanaspor and Konyaspor.

Was a Czechoslovakian catholic politician. Petera was a member of the catholic Czechoslovakian Peopl

Was a Czechoslovakian catholic politician. Petera was a member of the catholic Czechoslovakian People's Party. From 1969 to 1971 and from 1976 to 1980 he was a member of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia. In 1970 he became the general secretary of th

Was the leader of a Czech dance band, the Melody Boys.

Was the leader of a Czech dance band, the Melody Boys.

Was a Czechoslovakian politician who served as prime minister of the country before its occupation b

Was a Czechoslovakian politician who served as prime minister of the country before its occupation by Nazi Germany and shortly thereafter, before it was declared a protectorate. A leader of the Agrarian Party from 1933, he was appointed prime minister by

Is a Czech boxer who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he was eliminat

Is a Czech boxer who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he was eliminated in the first round of the flyweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming bronze medalist Louis Laurie.

Was a Czech-born Jewish pianist.Firkušný started his musical studies with the composers Leoš Janácek and Josef Suk, and the pianist Vilém Kurz. Later he studied with Alfred Cortot and Artur Schnabel. He began performing on the continent of Europe in the 1920s, and made his debuts in London in 1933 and New York in 1938. He escaped the Nazis in 1939, fled to Paris, later settled in New York and became a US citizen.

Was a photographer.Lehnert was born in Gross Aupa (now Velká Úpa), then in Bohemia and now in the

Was a photographer.Lehnert was born in Gross Aupa (now Velká Úpa), then in Bohemia and now in the Czech Republic. With Ernst Heinrich Landrock, he based a photographic company in, successively, Tunis, Munich, Leipzig and Cairo, publishing the works as by "Lehnert & Landrock".

Was an acclaimed Czech actor.He was born in Nová Vcelnice to Hermina Cervicková and Rudolf Hrušin

Was an acclaimed Czech actor.He was born in Nová Vcelnice to Hermina Cervicková and Rudolf Hrušinský (original name Rudolf Böhm also took the stage name Otomar Otovalský). He was born, literally, back stage during a showing of the play Tanecek panny Marinky. Initially he traveled from place to place, wherever his father could find a gig, but eventually his family settled in Prague.

Was an instrumental force and agitator of German-Czech National Socialism and, later on, became a me

Was an instrumental force and agitator of German-Czech National Socialism and, later on, became a member of the German Nazi Party.His party work took him from Vienna, to Bohemia. In 1909, he joined the German Workers Party (DAP) (later in Czechoslovakia,

Was a distinguished Czech composer.Rudolf Karel was son of a poor railway employee. He studied compo

Was a distinguished Czech composer.Rudolf Karel was son of a poor railway employee. He studied composition from 1899 to 1904 with Antonín Dvorák and organ with Josef Klicka in Prague.

Is a Czechoslovak sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earn

Is a Czechoslovak sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of sixth in the K-2 10000 m event at Melbourne in 1956.

Is a Canadian composer of Czech birth.[1] His works includue Twenty-Three Poems about Horses (1978),

Is a Canadian composer of Czech birth.[1] His works includue Twenty-Three Poems about Horses (1978), based on the poetry of Li Ho, the opera No no miya (1988) which uses elements of Noh theatre and the Li Ch’ing Chao Madrigals (1985).

Was a Czechoslovak[2] photographer, often credited as Viennese or Austrian, and photo-secessionist w

Was a Czechoslovak[2] photographer, often credited as Viennese or Austrian, and photo-secessionist whose work is seen as maintaining the photographic style of pictorialism[3] well past its heyday in light of the straight photography and modernist movements in photography at that time and was one of the leading representatives of art photography in Vienna between the world wars[4].

Is a Czech boxer. Kraj began his professional career in 2005 in Germany and won all his thirteen bou

Is a Czech boxer. Kraj began his professional career in 2005 in Germany and won all his thirteen bouts in the cruiserweight division including a stoppage of Armenian Melkomian (record 20-1).

Was a Czechoslovak boxer who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he was

Was a Czechoslovak boxer who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he was eliminated in the second round of the heavyweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming gold medalist Herbert Runge.