August Dvorak

August Dvorak (May 5, 1894 – October 9, 1975) was an American educational psychologist and professor of education at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He and his brother-in-law, William Dealey, are best known for creating the Dvorak keyboard layout in the 1930s as a replacement for the QWERTY keyboard layout.

While his name is pronounced , with the ''ř'' roughly as a simultaneous trilled and due to him being of Czech descent, Dvorak's family in the U.S. pronounces it , with an English ''r.'' Provided by Wikipedia