Otakar
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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