Hayek

Hayek is a surname:

• As a variant spelling of the Czech name Hájek, which originally meant "a grove", it commonly occurs in Czech place names. It also occurs among Polish Jews in a Polish language spelling as Chajek.
• The family name Hayek, Hayeck, Haiek or Haick is a Lebanese Christian last name, and can be found in other parts of the Levant.

Notable people with the surname include:

European surname

• Gustav von Hayek (1836–1911), Czech-born Austrian naturalist, father of botanist August von Hayek
  • August von Hayek (1871–1928), Austrian botanist, father of economist Friedrich Hayek
    • Friedrich A. Hayek (1899–1992), Austrian-British, Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist and political philosopher
    • Heinrich von Hayek (1900–1969), Austrian anatomist
• Frank Forest (born Frank Hayek, 1896–1976), American singer and actor
• Julie Hayek (born 1960), American beauty queen and actress
• Peter Hayek (born 1957), retired American ice hockey player
• Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hayek (1525–1600), Czech physician and astronomer

Levantine surname

• Antoine Hayek (1928–2010), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baniyas of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church 1989–2006
• Dina Hayek (born Collet Bou Gergis, 1982), popular Lebanese singer
• Gebran Hayek (1927–1992), Lebanese journalist and editor in chief of Lisan-al-Hal the oldest Lebanese daily newspaper
• Ignace Antoine II Hayek (Antun Hayek, 1910–2007), Patriarch of Antioch of the Syriac Catholic Church 1968–1998
• Nicolas Hayek (1928–2010), Lebanese–Swiss co-founder of the Swatch Group
• Renée Hayek, Lebanese writer and novelist
• Rita Hayek (born 1987), Lebanese actress
• Salma Hayek (born 1966), Mexican actress of Lebanese descent
• Sami Hayek (born 1972), Mexican furniture designer of Lebanese descent, brother of Salma
• Samuel Hayek (born 1953), Israeli real-estate businessman of Iraqi-Jewish descent
• Hossam Haick (born 1975), Israeli-Arab scientist and engineer.

See also

• Hájek (disambiguation), the original Czech form of the name
• Haik (disambiguation)