Otakar

Otakar is a Czech masculine given name. It was derived from the German name Ottokar, which was derived from the medieval Germanic name Audovacar. Notable people with the name include:

Arts and entertainment

• Otakar Brousek Sr. (1924–2014), Czech actor
• Otakar Bystřina (1861–1931), pen name for a Czech writer and lawyer
• Otakar Černý (1943–2021), Czech sports journalist and TV presenter
• Otakar Diblík (1929–1999), Czech industrial designer
• Otakar Hollmann (1894–1967), Czech pianist
• Otakar Jeremiáš (1892–1962), Czech composer, conductor and pedagogue
• Otakar Lebeda (1877–1901), Czech painter
• Otakar Kraus (1909–1980), Czech-British opera singer and pedagogue
• Otakar Kubín (1883–1969), Czech painter and sculptor
• Otakar Mařák (1872–1939), Czech opera singer
• Otakar Ostrčil (1879–1935), Czech composer and conductor
• Otakar Sedloň (1885–1973), Czech painter
• Otakar Ševčík (1852–1934), Czech violinist and pedagogue
• Otakar Šín (1881–1943), Czech composer, theoretician and pedagogue
• Otakar Slavík (1931–2010), Czech painter and draughtsman
• Otakar Španiel (1881–1955), Czech sculptor and engraver
• Otakar Švec (1892–1955), Czech sculptor
• Otakar Vávra (1911–2011), Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue
• Otakar Zich (1879–1934), Czech composer and aesthetician

Sports

• Otakar Hemele (1926–2001), Czech footballer
• Otakar Hořínek (1929–2015), Czech sport shooter
• Otakar Janecký (born 1960), Czech ice hockey player
• Otakar Kouba (1906–?), Czech canoeist
• Otakar Lada (1883–1956), Czech fencer
• Otakar Mareček (1943–2020), Czech rower
• Otakar Německý (1902–1967), Czech Nordic skier
• Otakar Nožíř (1917–2006), Czech footballer
• Otakar Škvajn (1894–1941), Czech footballer
• Otakar Švorčík (1886–1955), Czech fencer
• Otakar Vejvoda (born 1972), Czech ice hockey player
• Otakar Vindyš (1884–1949), Czech ice hockey player

Other

• Otakar Batlička (1895–1942), Czech adventurer, journalist and resistance fighter
• Otakar Borůvka (1899–1995), Czech mathematician
• Otakar Hostinský (1847–1910), Czech historian and musicologist
• Otakar Hromádko (1909–1983), Czech journalist and military leader
• Otakar Jaroš (1912–1943), Czech military leader
• Otakar Motejl (1932–2010), Czech lawyer and politician
• Otakar Odložilík (1899–1973), Czech historian and archivist
• Otakar Pertold (1884–1965), Czech Indologist, religious studies historian and ethnologist

See also

• Ottokar I of Bohemia, king of Bohemia (Czech: Přemysl Otakar I.)
• Ottokar II of Bohemia, king of Bohemia (Czech: Přemysl Otakar II.)
• Otakars, medieval dynasty in Styria
• Ottakar's, bookshop chain