Jan Bervida (4 September 1893 in Radkov, district Tábor – 26 January 1962 in New York, USA).
After finishing secondary school in Tábor he began studying at the Imperial-Royal Technical University (now ČVUT) in Prague.
In 1914, during the 1st World War, he was sent to Eastern Front and 1915 Bervida was taken prisoner by Russians, and later as a private of the Czechoslovak Legion he took part in a march to the United States via Vladivostok.
Upon returning to his home country he graduated from the University of Technology, receiving an MA (Ing.)
In 1945–47, Bervida became Department Head at the Ministry of Transport (Civilian Airways) and Czechoslovak Airlines (ČSA) Director.