Surname Vanek (Vanek 
, Ванек 
, Ванёк ) , globally, is a common last name. The cognomen Vanek is characteristic of Czechia, where it is quite a common surname, Slovakia, and Austria, where it is quite a rare surname. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in Czechia, the United States, and Slovakia. Very seldom, Vanek is the forename as well as the last name.
| joseph vanek (b. 1818) |
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| rudolf vanek botanist (1899-1953) (b. 1899) |
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pierre vanek Swiss politician, CH (b. 1954) |
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| ollie vanek American baseball player, US (b. 1908) |
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| jaroslav vanek Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak parliament and slovak nation politician (1929-1992) (b. 1929) |
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thomas vanek Austrian ice hockey player, AT (b. 1984) |
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vanek margit Hungarian triathlete, HU (b. 1986) |
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| gary vanek American politician, US (b. 1940) |
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| imrich vanek SK (b. 1931) |
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| marián vanek Slovak writer, SK (b. 1941) |
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jakub vanek Czech handball player, CZ (b. 1991) |
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| josef vanek (b. 1932) |
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| martin vanek Slovak actor (*1966), SK (b. 1966) |
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| jean-pierre vanek Luxembourgish footballer, LU (b. 1969) |
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| marcel vanek SK (b. 1964) |
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