Chalupa (surname)
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Chalupa (Czech feminine Chalupová) is a surname of Slavic language origin. In Czech, the word means 'cottage' (Czech pronunciation: [ˈxalupa]). In Polish (chałupa; Polish pronunciation: [xaˈwupa]) and Ukrainian (халупа; transliterated khalupa), it approximates to 'house' in rural slang. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexandra Chalupa, American political activist
- František Chalupa (1828–1887), Czech painter and illustrator
- Jarmila Chalupová (1903–1988), Czech fencer
- Leo M. Chalupa (born 1945), Ukrainian-American physiologist
- Lukáš Chalupa (born 1993), Czech ice hockey player
- Milan Chalupa (born 1953), Czech ice hockey player
- Tomáš Chalupa (born 1974), Czech politician
- Václav Chalupa (born 1967), Czech rower
- Václav Chalupa Sr. (born 1934), Czech rower
- Zuzana Chalupová (1925–2001), Serbian-Slovak naïve painter