Kafka (surname)
Kafka is a Czech surname, which is an old spelling of the word "kavka", that means jackdaw in Czech, or occasionally a given name from a Yiddish diminutive for Ya'akov.[1] Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexandre Kafka (1917–2007), Czech-Brazilian international economist
- Bohumil Kafka (1878–1942), Czech sculptor and pedagogue
- Bruno Kafka (1881–1931), Czech politician and academic
- Franz Kafka (1883–1924), Czech German-language writer
- Gustav Kafka (1883–1953), Austrian philosopher and psychologist
- Helene Kafka (1894–1943), Bohemian-Austrian nun, surgical nurse
- Jakub Kafka (born 1976), Czech footballer
- Maria Restituta Kafka (1894-1943), Czech-Austrian Catholic religious sister and martyr
- Martin Kafka (born 1947), American psychiatrist
- Mike Kafka (born 1987), American football player
- Ottla Kafka (1892–1943), sister of Franz Kafka
- Styliani ("Stella") Kafka (born 1974), Greek-American astronomer, former executive director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, and current executive director of the American Meteorological Society.
- Vladimír Kafka (1931–1970), Czech translator
See also
- Kavka, alternative spelling of the surname
References
- Scheller, Andrea. "Kafka". Digital Dictionary of Surnames in Germany (DFD). Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
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