Otakar

Otakar is a masculine Czech given name of Germanic origin (cf. Audovacar). Notable people with the name include:


 * Otakar Batlička (1895–1942), Czech adventurer, journalist, ham radio operator, member of Czech Nazi resistance group in World War II
 * Otakar Borůvka (1899–1995), Czech mathematician best known today for his work in graph theory
 * Otakar Bystřina (1861–1931), pen name for a Czech writer who was a subject of Austria for much of his life
 * Otakar Hemele (1926–2001), Czech football player, who was a devoted player of Slavia Prague
 * Otakar Hollmann (1894–1967), Czech pianist who was notable in the repertoire for left-handed pianists
 * Otakar Hořínek (1929–2015), Czech sport shooter
 * Otakar Hostinský (1847–1910), Czech historian, musicologist, and professor of musical aesthetics
 * Otakar Janecký (born 1960), retired Czech ice hockey forward
 * Otakar Jaroš (1912–1943), Czech officer in the Czechoslovak forces in the Soviet Union
 * Otakar Jeremiáš (1892–1962), Czech composer, conductor and teacher
 * Otakar Kouba (1906–?), Czechoslovak canoeist who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics
 * Otakar Kraus (1909–1980), Czech (later British), operatic baritone and teacher
 * Otakar Kubín (1883–1969), Czech painter and sculptor born in Boskovice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary
 * Otakar Lada (1883–1956), Bohemian fencer
 * Otakar Mařák (1872–1939), tenor Czech opera singer
 * Otakar Mareček (1943–2020), Czech rower and Olympic competitor
 * Otakar Motejl (1932–2010), Czech lawyer and politician
 * Otakar Německý (1902–1967), Czechoslovakian Nordic skier who competed in Nordic combined and Cross-country skiing in the 1920s
 * Otakar Nožíř (1917–2006), Czech football midfielder
 * Otakar Odložilík (1899–1973), Czech historian and archivist who wrote about the history of Protestantism in Bohemia and Moravia
 * Otakar Ostrčil (1879–1935), Czech composer and conductor
 * Otakar Pertold (1884–1965), Czech Indologist, religious studies historian and ethnologist
 * Otakar Sedloň (1885–1973), Czech realistic painter living in Prague
 * Otakar Ševčík (1852–1934), Czech violinist and influential teacher
 * Otakar Švec (1892–1955), Czech sculptor best known for his colossal granite Monument to Stalin in Prague
 * Otakar Švorčík (1886–1955), Czech fencer
 * Otakar Vávra (1911–2011), Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue
 * Otakar Vindyš (1884–1949), Czechoslovak ice hockey player and Olympic competitor
 * Otakar Zich (1879–1934), distinguished Czech composer and aesthetician