Czech (surname)

Czech is a Polish surname. It may be an ethnonymic surname literally meaning "Czech person" or it may be derived from an abbreviation of given names starting with 'Cze-', such as "Czesław". The surname has archaic feminine forms, still used colloquially: Czechowa (by husband) and Czechówna (by father). Notable people with the surname include:

• Aleksandra Czechówna (1839–1923), Polish diarist
• Bronisław Czech (1908–1944), Polish sportsman and artist
• Danuta Czech (1922–2004), Polish Holocaust historian
• Hermann Czech (born 1936), Austrian architect
• Mirosław Czech (born 1962), Polish politician and journalist of Ukrainian origin
• Zbigniew Czech (born 1970), Polish diplomat

See also

• All pages with titles containing Czech
• Chekh, East Slavic variant
• Čech, Czech and Slovak variant
• Čeh, South Slavic variant
• Cseh, Hungarian variant