Jiří

Jiří (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjɪr̝iː]; YI-RZHEE) is a Czech masculine given name, equivalent to English George. Notable people with the name include:

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Jiří Antonín Benda, Czech composer, violinist and Kapellmeister
Jiří Baborovský, Czech physical chemist
Jiří Barta, Czech animator and director
Jiří Bartoška, Czech actor
Jiří Bicek, Slovak ice hockey player
Jiří Bobok, Czech footballer
Jiří Bubla, Czech ice hockey player
Jiří Buquoy, Bohemian aristocrat, mathematician and inventor
Jiří Bělohlávek, Czech conductor
Jiří Brdečka, Czech writer, artist and film director
Jiří Březina

C

Jiří Čeřovský, Czech regional politician and former athlete
Jiří Čunek, Czech politician
Jiří Crha, Czech ice hockey player

D

Jiří Dopita, Czech ice hockey player
Jiří Družecký (1745–1819), Bohemian-born Austrian composer and timpanist
Jiří Dudáček, Czech ice hockey player
Jiří Džmura, Czech bobsledder

F

Jiří Fischer, Czech ice hockey player and coach

G

Jiří Grossmann, Czechoslovak theatre actor, poet, and composer
Jiří Gruša, Czech poet, novelist, translator, diplomat and politician
Jiří Grygar, Silesian astrophysicist and astronomer

H

Jiří Hanke, Czechoslovak soccer player and soccer coach
Jiří Havlíček, Czech politician
Jiří Hájek, Czech politician and diplomat
Jiří Hála, Czech ice hockey player
Jiří Hledík, Czech footballer
Jiří Holeček, Czech ice hockey player
Jiří Holík, Czech ice hockey player and coach
Jiří Homola, Czech footballer
Jiří Horák, Czech politician and political analyst
Jiří Hrdina, Czech ice hockey player
Jiří Hřebec, Czech tennis player
Jiří Hudec, Czech retired male track and field athlete
Jiří Hudec (composer), Czech composer, conductor and organist
Jiří Hudler, Czech ice hockey player

J

Jiří Jantovsky, Czech ice hockey player
Jiří Jarošík, Czech association football player
Jiri Jelinek (born 1977), Czech dancer
Jiří Jeslínek, several people
Jiří Jirmal, Czech classical guitarist

K

Jiří Kaufman, Czech soccer player
Jiří Kavan, Czechoslovak handball player
Jiří Kylián, Czech dance choreographer
Jiří Kladrubský, Czech Supercup winner, soccer player and soccer resistant
Jiří Kochta, Czech ice hockey coach and ice hockey player
Jiří Kolář, Czech poet, writer, painter and translator
Jiří Korn, Czech musician and actor
Jiří Koubský, Czech soccer player
Jiří Kristián z Lobkowicz, Austro-Bohemian noble and politician
Jiří Králík, Czech ice hockey player
Jiří Kulhánek, Czech fantasy writer
Jiří Kylián, Czech dance choreographer

L

Jiří Lábus, Czech actor
Jiří Lála, Czech ice hockey player
Jiří Látal, Czech ice hockey player
Jiří Lehečka, Czech professional tennis player
Jiří Lenko, Czech association football player
Jiri Lev, Australian architect and urbanist
Jiří Levý, Czech literary theorist and translator
Jiří Ignác Línek (1725–1791), Bohemian late-Baroque composer
Jiří Lobkowicz, Czech entrepreneur

M

Jiři Mádl (born 1986), Czech film actor
Jiří Mahen, Czech novelist, playwright and essayist
Jiří Malec, Czechoslovak ski jumper
Jiří Malysa (born 1966), Czech race walker
Jiří Mašek, Czech footballer
Jiří Maštálka, Czech member of Czech parliament
Jiří Matoušek (disambiguation), several people
Jiří Menzel, Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter
Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist, writer, screenwriter, author of autobiographical novels and studies of the works of his father, the painter Alphonse Mucha
Jiří Mužík, Czech runner, Olympic athlete and hurdler

N

Jiří Načeradský, Czech painter, graphic artist and educator
Jiří Nigrin, Czech name for Georgius Nigrinus, publisher
Jiří Novotný, several people
Jiří Novák (born 1975), Czech tennis player
Jiří Tibor Novak (born 1947), Czech-born Australian artist, illustrator, and writer
Jiří Němec, Czech footballer

O

Jiří Orten, Czech poet
Jiří Ovčáček, former Czech spokesman

P

Jiří Parma, Czech ski jumper
Jiří Paroubek, Czech politician and former Prime Minister
Jiří Pauer, Czech music educator and composer
Jiří Pelikán, several people
Jiří Petr, Czech agroscientist, university professor and Emeritus Chancellor (Rector Emeritus) of the Czech University of Agriculture Prague
Jiří Pešek, Czech football player and professional coach
Jiří z Poděbrad, George of Kunštát and Poděbrady (1420–1471), (German: Georg von Podiebrad), was King of Bohemia (1458–1471)
Jiří Pospíšil, Czech politician
Jiří Poukar, Czech ice hockey forward
Jiří Procházka, Czech mixed martial artist

R

Jiří Raška, Czechoslovak ski jumper
Jiří Rohan, Czech slalom canoeist
Jiří Rosický (disambiguation), several people
Jiří Ryba, Czech decathlete

S

Jiří Sabou, Czech soccer player
Jiří Šejba, Czech retired ice hockey forward
Jiří Sequens, Czech film director
Jiří Skobla, Czechoslovak shot-putter
Jiří Šlégr, Czech former ice hockey player
Jiří Snítil, Czech curler
Jiří Sovák, Czech actor
Jiří Štajner, Czech footballer
Jiří Štancl, Czechoslovak speedway racer
Jiří Stivín, Czech flute player and composer
Jiří Stříbrný (1880–1955), Czech politician
Jiří Suchý, Czech actor and writer

T

Jiří Teplý, Czech cross-country skier
Jiří Tichý, Czech footballer
Jiří Tlustý, Czech ice hockey player
Jiří Tožička, Czech ice hockey player
Jiří Trnka, Czech puppet-maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director
Jiří Třanovský, Lutheran priest and hymnwriter

V

Jiří Vaněk, several people
Jiří Veselý, Czech professional tennis player
Jiří Voskovec, Czech actor, writer, dramatist, and director
Jiří Votruba, Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic designer

W

Jiří Wachsmann, Czech actor, writer, dramatist, and director
Jiří Weil (1900–1959), Czech Jewish writer and novelist
Jiří Welsch, Czech basketball player
Jiří Wolker, Czech poet, journalist and playwright

Z

Jiří Zelenka, czech ice hockey forward
Jiri Zidek (paleontologist), contemporary Czech paleontologist
George Zidek (b. Jiří Zídek, 1973), basketball player

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