Dvořák (feminine: Dvořáková) is a Czech surname. Originally the word dvořák referred to a servant or an official of manorial estate or royal court, or denoted a free peasant on a large estate. There is also a theory that the surname was derived from the adjective zdvořilý ('polite'). As of 2022, it is the fourth most common surname in the Czech Republic.
An anglicized form of the surname is Dvorak. A diminutive form of the surname is Dvořáček. Notable people with the surname include:
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Arts
Ann Dvorak, stage name of Anna McKim (1912–1979), American actress
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), Czech composer
Eva Švankmajerová (née Dvořáková; 1940–2005), Czech surrealist artist
František Dvořák (painter), (1862–1927), Czech painter
Helena Dvořáková (born 1979), Czech actress
Josef Dvořák (born 1942), Czech actor
Ludmila Dvořáková (1923–2015), Czech operatic soprano
Lukáš Dvořák (born 1982), Czech photographer
Max Dvořák (1874–1921), Austrian art historian
Miloš Dvořák (1938–2025), Czech actor
Rudolf Bruner-Dvořák (1864–1921), Czech photographer
Science
August Dvorak (1894–1975), educational psychologist
Harold F. Dvorak, American pathologist and vascular researcher
John C. Dvorak (1946–2026), computer-industry columnist and new-media personality
Lubomír Dvořák (born 1940), Czech physicist
Vinko Dvořák (1848–1922), Czech-Croatian physicist
Vernon Dvorak (1928–2022), meteorologist
Zdeněk Dvořák (born 1981), Czech mathematician
Sports
Bedřich Dvořák (1930–2018), Czech canoeist
Ben Dvorak (1895–1974), American football running back
Bill Dvořák (born 1958), American pioneering whitewater rafter
Christian Dvorak (born 1996), American ice hockey player
David Dvořák (born 1992), Czech mixed-martial artist
Dominik Dvořák (born 1992), Czech bobsledder
Dusty Dvorak (born 1958), American volleyball player
Filip Dvořák (canoeist) (born 1988), Czech canoeist
Filip Dvořák (ice hockey, born 1976), Czech ice hockey player
Filip Dvořák (ice hockey, born 1997), Czech ice hockey player
Libor Dvořák (born 1957), Czech canoeist
Milan Dvořák (1934–2022), Czech footballer
Miroslav Dvořák (ice hockey) (1951–2008), Czech ice hockey player
Miroslav Dvořák (skier) (born 1987), Czech skier
Oldřich Dvořák (born 1953), Czech wrestler
Pavel Dvořák (born 1989), Czech footballer
Radek Dvořák (born 1977), Czech ice hockey player
Tomáš Dvořák (born 1972), Czech decathlon and heptathlon athlete
Other
Denisa Dvořáková (born 1989), Czech model
Edwin Dvorak (1929–2004), American politician
Oskar Dvořák (born 1991), Slovak politician
People with related surnames
Gábor Dvorschák (born 1989), Hungarian footballer
Henry Dworshak (1894–1962), American politician
Leo Ferdinand Dworschak (1900–1976), American bishop