# Jiří

Jiří (Czech pronunciation:; YI-RZHEE) is a Czech masculine given name, equivalent to English George. Notable people with the name include:

## B

* 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

## C

* Jiří Čeřovský, Czech regional politician and former athlete
* Jiří Čunek, Czech politician
* Jiří Crha, Czech ice hockey player

## D

* Jiří Dopita, Czech ice hockey player
* Jiří Družecký (1745–1819), Bohemian-born Austrian composer and timpanist
* Jiří Dudáček, Czech ice hockey player
* Jiří Džmura, Czech bobsledder

## F

* Jiří Fischer, Czech ice hockey player and coach

## G

* Jiří Grossmann, Czechoslovak theatre actor, poet, and composer
* Jiří Gruša, Czech poet, novelist, translator, diplomat and politician
* Jiří Grygar, Silesian astrophysicist and astronomer

## H

* 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

## J

* Jiří Jantovsky, Czech ice hockey player
* Jiří Jarošík, Czech association football player
* Jiri Jelinek (born 1977), Czech dancer
* Jiří Jeslínek, several people
* Jiří Jirmal, Czech classical guitarist

## K

* 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

## L

* Jiří Lábus, Czech actor
* Jiří Lála, Czech ice hockey player
* Jiří Látal, Czech ice hockey player
* Jiří Lehečka, Czech professional tennis player
* Jiří Lenko, Czech association football player
* Jiri Lev, Australian architect and urbanist
* Jiří Levý, Czech literary theorist and translator
* Jiří Ignác Línek (1725–1791), Bohemian late-Baroque composer
* Jiří Lobkowicz, Czech entrepreneur

## M

* 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

## N

* 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

## O

* Jiří Orten, Czech poet
* Jiří Ovčáček, former Czech spokesman

## P

* 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

## R

* Jiří Raška, Czechoslovak ski jumper
* Jiří Rohan, Czech slalom canoeist
* Jiří Rosický (disambiguation), several people
* Jiří Ryba, Czech decathlete

## S

* 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

## T

* Jiří Teplý, Czech cross-country skier
* Jiří Tichý, Czech footballer
* Jiří Tlustý, Czech ice hockey player
* Jiří Tožička, Czech ice hockey player
* Jiří Trnka, Czech puppet-maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director
* Jiří Třanovský, Lutheran priest and hymnwriter

## V

* Jiří Vaněk, several people
* Jiří Veselý, Czech professional tennis player
* Jiří Voskovec, Czech actor, writer, dramatist, and director
* Jiří Votruba, Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic designer

## W

* Jiří Wachsmann, Czech actor, writer, dramatist, and director
* Jiří Weil (1900–1959), Czech Jewish writer and novelist
* Jiří Welsch, Czech basketball player
* Jiří Wolker, Czech poet, journalist and playwright

## Z

* Jiří Zelenka, czech ice hockey forward
* Jiri Zidek (paleontologist), contemporary Czech paleontologist
* George Zidek (b. Jiří Zídek, 1973), basketball player