Jiří Explained
Jiří (pronounced as /cs/; 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
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- Jiří Grossmann, Czechoslovak theatre actor, poet, and composer
- Jiří Gruša, Czech poet, novelist, translator, diplomat and politician
- Jiří Grygar, Silesian astrophysicist and astronomer
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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