Hayek

Hayek is a surname, a variant spelling of the Czech name Hájek, which originally meant "a grove" and commonly occurs in Czech place names. It occurs among Polish Jews in a Polish spelling as Chajek. The family name Hayek, Hayeck or Haiek, Arabic: حايك, variants of Howayek, is also found in Lebanon. The name means "weaver" in Arabic.

Notable people with the surname include:

Czech surname

• Gustav von Hayek (1836–1911), Czech-born Austrian naturalist, father of botanist August von Hayek
  • August von Hayek (1871–1928), Austrian botanist, father of economist Friedrich Hayek
    • Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), Austrian-British, Nobel laureate economist and political philosopher
• Frank Forest (born Frank Hayek, 1896–1976), American singer and actor
• Julie Hayek (born 1960), American beauty queen and actress
• Peter Hayek (born 1957), retired American ice hockey player
• Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hayek (1525–1600), Czech physician and astronomer

Arabic surname

• Antoine Hayek (1928–2010), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baniyas of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church 1989–2006
• Dina Hayek (born Collet Bou Gergis, 1982), popular Lebanese singer
• Ignace Antoine II Hayek (Antun Hayek, 1910-2007), Patriarch of Antioch of the Syriac Catholic Church 1968–1998
• Nicolas Hayek (1928–2010), Swiss-Lebanese co-founder of the Swatch Group
  • Nick Hayek, Jr. (born 1954), his son and successor
• Renée Hayek, Lebanese writer and novelist
• Rita Hayek (born 1987), Lebanese actress
• Salma Hayek (born 1966), Mexican actress of Lebanese descent
• Samuel Hayek (born 1953), Israeli real-estate businessman of Iraqi-Jewish descent

See also

• Hájek, the original Czech form of the name