Čech
For the ethic group, see Czechs.
Čech (feminine Čechová) is a Czech surname meaning Czech. It was used to distinguish an inhabitant of Bohemia from Slovaks, Moravians and other ethnic groups.[1] Notable people with the surname include:
- Donovan Cech (born 1974), South African rower
- Eduard Čech (1893–1960), Czech mathematician whose work focused on projective differential geometry and topology
- Forefather Čech (antiquity), legendary figure, one of three brothers (Lech, Čech and Rus) who, according to folk mythology, founded regional Slavic nations
- Kateřina Čechová, Czech athlete
- Ludwig Czech (1870–1942), Czech-German-Jewish political figure of the interwar period; victim of the Holocaust who died at Theresienstadt concentration camp
- Marek Čech (Czech footballer) (born 1976), goalkeeper who played in youth clubs from age 8 and professionally as of 1996; with Lokomotiv Moscow since 2008
- Marek Čech (Slovak footballer) (born 1983), left back/left winger whose playing career dates to 2000; with West Bromwich Albion since 2008
- Martin Čech (1976–2007), Czech ice hockey defenseman whose career lasted from 1993 until his death in an automobile accident at age 31
- Petr Čech (born 1982), Czech football goalkeeper who has been playing for domestic and international teams since 1999; with Arsenal F.C as of June 2015
- Svatopluk Čech (1846–1908), Czech writer, journalist and poet whose late 1880s satirical novels were used as basis for Leoš Janáček's opera The Excursions of Mr. Broucek
- Thomas Cech (born 1947), American chemist whose research into the transcription of the DNA genetic code into RNA brought him 1989 Nobel Prize
- Vladimír Čech (1951–2013), Czech voice actor
See also
- Stone–Čech compactification, mathematical technique, propounded in 1937 by Marshall Stone and Eduard Čech, which enables construction of universal map from topological space
- Čech cohomology, mathematical theory, named after Eduard Čech, which is based on intersection properties of open covers of topological space
- Největší Čech (English: The Greatest Czech), Czech television series which, from January to June 2005, conducted poll to select 100 Greatest Czechs of all time
- CECH, acronym for University of Cincinnati College of Education Criminal Justice and Human Services
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