Jelinek

Jelinek or Czech: Jelínek, lit. "little deer", is a surname of Czech origin that remains common in the Czech Republic.

Notable persons with this surname include:

  • Bordan Jelínek, Czech poet
  • Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian feminist playwright and novelist, winner of the Nobel prize
  • Frederick Jelinek, pioneer in automatic speech recognition and natural language processing
  • George Jelinek, Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Western Australia. He is known for his expertise (and several books on) on multiple sclerosis, based in Perth, Western Australia.
  • George Jelinek, music critic for Stereo Review
  • Hanns Jelinek, Austrian 20th century composer
  • Ivan Jelínek, Czech poet
  • Jan Jelinek, German electronic musician
  • Jiří Jelínek (trumpeter), Czech trumpeter and singer
  • Otto Jelinek, Canadian businessman, former figure skater, and politician
  • Pavel Jelínek, Czech physicist
  • Petr Jelínek, Czech ice hockey player
  • Žuži Jelinek, Croatian Jewish writer, uses the surname of her first husband Erich Jelinek