Famous People with Name Pavel

Pavel Krížkovský            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Pavel Krížkovský: was a Czech choral composer and conductor.He was a chorister in a monastery in Opava when young, and studied philosophy in Brno and Olomouc. He became an Augustinian friar in 1845, entering the St. Thomas's Abbey, and was named choirmaster there in 1848. He founded two choral societies in Brno, and gave choral and chamber music concerts there regularly. Among his choral students was Leoš Janácek. Krížkovský was a dedicated Slavic culturalist, and often gave performances of lesser-known Moravian and Czech composers before withdrawing from secular musicianship in the 1870s as a result of the Cecilian movement. Following this he became choir director at a cathedral in Olomouc, and retired in 1877. He died in Brno.

Pavel Josef Vejvanovský            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Pavel Josef Vejvanovský: Czech composer and trumpeter. Contemporary and associate of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber.

Pavel Jurácek            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Pavel Jurácek: was a Czech screenwriter and film director. Although not as famous as Miloš Forman or Jirí Menzel, he was an exponent of the Czech New Wave as well. He worked at Prague Barrandov Studios, however after the Prague Spring he was dismissed.

Pavel Koutecký            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Pavel Koutecký: was a Czech documentary film director.Koutecký was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and graduated from FAMU in 1982. He died in an accidental fall from a tall building under construction in Prague while preparing a documentary about the risks taken by people who climb skyscrapers.[1]

Pavel Bednár            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Pavel Bednár: is a Czech sprint canoer who competed in the 1990s. He won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (C-1 10000 m: 1993) and a bronze (C-2 200 m: 1997).Bednár also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the semifinals of both the C-2 500 m and the C-2 1000 m events.

Dora Pavel            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Dora Pavel: is a Romanian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.She is the daughter of Viorica (b. Pop) and of Eugen Voicu, both teachers. She graduated Decebal College in Deva (1964), and the Faculty of Letters of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj (1969). College professor of Romanian language in Alba Iulia and Deva, then researcher at the Institute of Linguistics and Literary History in Cluj; since 1990, she works as editor at the local Radio Station of Cluj, where she realizes successful broadcastings on topics of Romanian language and literature. Debut with poetry in the literary magazine Steaua (1972); editorial debut in the collective volume Alpha '84, published in 1984 at Dacia Publishing House. She publishes poetry and prose in literary magazines such as Tribuna, Steaua, Contrapunct, Apostrof, Contemporanul-Ideea europeana, România literara, Viata româneasca, Poesis, Familia, and Vatra. She also signs interviews in several cultural magazines.