Čech

For the ethic group, see Czechs.

Čech is a surname that means Czech was used to distinguish an inhabitant of Bohemia, from Slovaks, Moravians and other ethnic groups.^[1]

List of people with surname Čech, Cech or Czech

• 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
• Ludwig Czech (1870–1942), Czech-German-Jewish political figure of interwar period; victim of the Holocaust who died at Theresienstadt concentration camp
• Marek Čech (Czech footballer) (born 1976), goalkeeper who has been playing 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 auto accident at age 31
• Petr Čech (born 1982), Czech football goalkeeper who has been playing for domestic and international teams since 1999; with Chelsea as of July 2004
• Svatopluk Čech (1846–1908), Czech writer, journalist and poet whose late 1880s satirical novels were used as basis for Leos Janáček's opera The Excursions of Mr. Broucek
• Thomas Cech (born 1947), American chemist whose research into transcription process of DNA genetic code into RNA, brought him 1989 Nobel Prize

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

References

1. ^ http://www.4crests.com/cech-coat-of-arms.html

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