| Jiří Wolker | |
| Birth Name: | Jiří Karel Wolker |
| Birth Date: | 29 March 1900 |
| Birth Place: | Prostějov, Austria-Hungary |
| Death Place: | Prostějov, Czechoslovakia |
| Occupation: | Poet |
| Nationality: | Czech |
| Notableworks: | Host do domu Těžká hodina |
| Signature: | Wolker signature.png |
Jiří Wolker (pronounced as /cs/) (29 March 1900 - 3 January 1924) was a Czech poet, journalist and playwright. He was one of the founding members of KSČ - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia - in 1921.
He was born in Prostějov, into a cultural family. He studied at the Prostějov gymnasium, and after he graduated, he moved to Prague. He studied law there, but simultaneously attended lectures of Zdeněk Nejedlý and F. X. Šalda at the Faculty of Arts. He was in close connection with the association of Czech avant-garde artists Devětsil. Wolker suffered of lung disease and died of tuberculosis at age 23.[1]