Famous People with Name Lenka

Lenka Reinerová            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Lenka Reinerová: was an author from the Czech Republic who wrote exclusively in German. She was born in Prague.Reinerová grew up in a German-speaking Jewish family, her mother a German-Bohemian from Saaz (Žatec) and her father an ironware dealer from Prague. Prior to World War II, she worked as a translator, an interpreter and an editor for the Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung. She fled to Paris in 1938 and later travelled to Morocco. She was visiting Mexico with the journalist and writer Egon Erwin Kisch in March 1939 and was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. She returned to what was then Czechoslovakia after 1948. In the 1950s, she was jailed by Czechoslovakia's Stalinist authorities and spent 15 months in prison; she recorded this experience in one of her novels, Alle Farben der Sonne und der Nacht. After her release she published sporadically. Beginning in 1968, she was not allowed to publish at all until the fall of communism. Her works are mostly published at Aufbau Verlagsgruppe, Berlin.

Lenka Ptácníková            Origin/Culture/Country: Norse

Lenka Ptácníková: is an Icelandic chess Woman Grandmaster of Czech origin. She won the Nordic championship in Finland in 2005.

Lenka Ledvinová            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Lenka Ledvinová: is a female hammer throwerfrom the Czech Republic.She also competed at the 2002 European Championships, the 2006 European Championships, the 2007 World Championships and the 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final.

Lenka Cenková            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Lenka Cenková: is a former professional Czech tennis player. Her career highlights where years 1996 and 1997. She quit tennis in 2001. In 1996 she achieved her best WTA Tour result by reaching the semi-finals at the ECM Prague Open held at Karlovy Vary that year. She lo

Lenka Juríková            Origin/Culture/Country: Europe

Lenka Juríková: is a professional Slovak tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On August 17, 2009, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 263. She is coached by Peter Jurík her father.