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Actors

:''See Czech actors'' * Lída Baarová *

Jiří Bartoška Jiří Bartoška (born 24 March 1947) is a Czech theatre, television, and film actor and president of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. His most notable film roles include performances in ''Sekal Has to Die'' (1998), ''All My Loved ...

Vlasta Burian Josef Vlastimil Burian, better known as Vlasta Burian, (9 April 1891, in Liberec – 31 January 1962, in Prague) was an internationally renowned Czechoslovak film and stage actor, singer, comedian, footballer and film director. In the Czech Repu ...

* Anna Geislerová *

Nataša Gollová Nataša Gollová (27 February 1912 – 29 October 1988) was a Czechoslovak film and stage actress. Life She was born Nataša Hodáčová in Brno on 27 February 1912. Her father was a politician František Xaver Hodáč. She chose her art na ...

* Jiří Grossmann *

Miroslav Horníček Miroslav Horníček (10 November 1918 in Plzeň – 15 February 2003 in Liberec) was a Czech people, Czech actor, writer, director, artist and theatre :wikt:theoretician, theoretician. He is well known in the Czech Republic for his on-stage partn ...

Rudolf Hrušínský Rudolf Hrušínský (17 October 1920 – 13 April 1994) was a Czech actor. He was one of the most popular Czech actors. Many of his movies such as ''The Good Soldier Švejk'', ''The Cremator'' or '' Capricious Summer'' are considered classics of ...

* Zorka Janů * Petr Kostka *

Herbert Lom Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru (11 September 1917 – 27 September 2012), known professionally as Herbert Lom (), was a Czech-British actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939. In a career lasting more than 60 ye ...

* Adina Mandlová *

Vladimír Menšík Vladimír Menšík (9 October 1929 – 29 May 1988) was a popular Czech actor and entertainer, born in Ivančice, Moravia, Czechoslovakia. Both comedian and serious actor, he created a wide range of lively fictional character, characters. He st ...

* Gustav Nezval * David Nykl *

Anny Ondra Anny Ondra (born Anna Sophie Ondráková; 15 May 1903 – 28 February 1987) was a Czech film actress. She began her career in 1920 and appeared in Czech, German, Austrian, French and English films. In 1933, she married German boxing champion M ...

(Anna Ondráková) * Karel Roden * Libuše Šafránková * Jan Tříska * Tatiana Vilhelmová * Eduard Vojan *

Jiří Voskovec Jiří Voskovec (), born Jiří Wachsmann and known in the United States as George Voskovec (June 19, 1905 – July 1, 1981) was a Czech actor, writer, dramatist, and director who became an American citizen in 1955. Throughout much of his career ...

Jan Werich Jan Werich (; 6 February 1905 – 31 October 1980) was a Czech actor, playwright and writer. Early life Between 1916 and 1924, Werich attended "reálné gymnasium" (equivalent to high school) in Křemencova Street in Prague (where his future b ...

* Stella Zázvorková

Architects and designers

* Jan Santini Aichel * Matthias of Arras * Jakub Bursa * Josef Chochol * Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer *

Alois Dryák Alois Dryák (24 February 1872 in Olšany – 6 June 1932 in Prague) was a Czech architect and professor of ornamental design. Dryák is most famous for the design of the ornamental detail on Art Nouveau masterpieces such as the 1905 re-desig ...

* Josef Gočár *

Josef Hoffmann Josef Hoffmann (15 December 1870 – 7 May 1956) was an Austrian- Moravian architect and designer. He was among the founders of Vienna Secession and co-establisher of the Wiener Werkstätte. His most famous architectural work is the Stoclet Pa ...

* Eva Jiřičná * František Maxmilián Kaňka *

Jan Kaplický Jan Kaplický (; ; 18 April 1937 – 14 January 2009) was a Neofuturistic Czech architect who spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom. He was the leading architect behind the innovative design office, Future Systems. He was be ...

* Jan Kotěra * Zdeněk Kovář * Jakub Krčín * Jaromír Krejcar *

Adolf Loos Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture. He was an inspiration to modernism and a widely- ...

* Josef Mocker *

Štěpánek Netolický Štěpánek (; feminine Štěpánková) is a Czech surname, and may refer to: * Alex Stepanek (born 1963), German tennis player * Brian Stepanek, American actor * Emil Stepanek (1895–1945), Austrian set designer and film architect * Jakub Štěp ...

* Balthasar Neumann * Josef Niklas *

Joseph Maria Olbrich Joseph Maria Olbrich (22 December 1867 – 8 August 1908) was an Austrian architect and one of the Vienna Secession founders. Early life Olbrich was born in Opava, Austrian Silesia (now Czech Republic), the third child of Edmund and Aloisia O ...

* Peter Parler *

Milada Petříková-Pavlíková Milada Petříková-Pavlíková (August 22, 1895 in Tábor – June 30, 1985) was a Czech architect. She was born as Milada Pavlíková. Pavlíková graduated in 1921 as the first female architect in Czechoslovakia. Married her teacher, architect ...

* Bořek Šípek

Authors and poets

:''See Czech writers'' * Michal Ajvaz * Jindřich Šimon Baar *

Jan Blahoslav Jan Blahoslav (20 February 1523 – 24 November 1571) was a Czech humanistic writer, poet, translator, etymologist, hymnographer, grammarian, music theorist and composer. He was a Unity of the Brethren bishop, and translated the New Testament i ...

Karel Havlíček Borovský Karel Havlíček Borovský (; Borová, today ''Havlíčkova Borová;'' 31 October 1821 – 29 July 1856) was a Czech writer, poet, critic, politician, journalist, and publisher. Early life and education He lived and studied at the Gymnasium ...

* Max Brod * Otokar Březina *

Karel Čapek Karel Čapek (; 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel '' War with the Newts'' (1936) and play '' R.U.R.'' (''Rossum's Universal ...

* Svatopluk Čech * František Čelakovský *

Cosmas of Prague Cosmas of Prague ( cs, Kosmas Pražský; la, Cosmas Decanus; – October 21, 1125) was a priest, writer and historian. Life Between 1075 and 1081, he studied in Liège. After his return to Bohemia, he married Božetěcha, with whom he had a so ...

* Jakub Deml * Ivan Diviš * Jaroslav Durych * Viktor Dyk * Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach *

Karel Jaromír Erben Karel Jaromír Erben (; 7 November 1811 – 21 November 1870) was a Czech folklorist and poet of the mid-19th century, best known for his collection '' Kytice'', which contains poems based on traditional and folkloric themes. He also wrote ''P ...

* Jaroslav Foglar * Julius Fučík * Ladislav Fuks *

František Gellner František Gellner (19 June 1881 – disappeared September 1914) was a Czech poet, short story writer, artist and anarchist. Biography František Gellner was born to a poor Jewish family in Mladá Boleslav (''Jungbunzlau''), Bohemia. His father ...

* Jaroslav Hašek *

Vladimír Holan Vladimír Holan (; September 16, 1905 – March 31, 1980) was a Czechoslovak poet famous for employing obscure language, dark topics and pessimistic views in his poems. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in the late 1960s. Life Holan was born ...

* Miroslav Holub * Bohumil Hrabal *

Václav Hrabě Václav Hrabě (June 13, 1940, Příbram, Czechoslovakia – March 5, 1965, Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a Czech poet and writer, and the most important member of the Beat Generation in former Czechoslovakia. Life Hrabě was born in Příbram ...

* František Hrubín * Petr Hruška * Miroslav Ivanov * Boleslav Jablonský * Josef Jedlička * Milena Jesenská * Alois Jirásek * Franz Kafka * Václav Kaplický *

Egon Kisch Egon Erwin Kisch (29 April 1885 – 31 March 1948) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak writer and journalist, who wrote in German. He styled himself ''Der Rasende Reporter'' (The Raging Reporter) for his countless travels to the far corners of the ...

* Václav Kliment Klicpera *

Pavel Kohout Pavel Kohout (born 20 July 1928) is a Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring participant and dissident in the 1970s until he was not allowed to return from Au ...

Václav Kosmák Václav Kosmák (5 September 1843, Martínkov – 15 March 1898, Prosiměřice) was a Czechs, Czech novelist, humorist and satirist. Kosmák was a priest as well as a writer. Notable for his realism and humor, Kosmák's short stories sketch the ...

* Karl Kraus *

Jan Křesadlo Václav Jaroslav Karel Pinkava (; 9 December 1926 – 13 August 1995), better known by his pen name Jan Křesadlo (), was a Czech psychologist who was also a prizewinning novelist and poet. An anti-communist, Pinkava emigrated to Britain with ...

* Karel Kryl * Milan Kundera * František Langer * Bohuslav z Lobkovic *

Arnošt Lustig Arnošt Lustig (; 21 December 1926 – 26 February 2011) was a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust. Life and work Lustig was born in Prague. As a Jewish boy ...

* Karel Hynek Mácha * Petr Maděra * Jiří Mahen * Rudolf Medek * Ondřej Neff * Vladimír Neff *

Božena Němcová Božena Němcová () (4 February 1820 in Vienna – 21 January 1862 in Prague) was a Czech writer of the final phase of the '' Czech National Revival'' movement. Her image is featured on the 500 CZK denomination of the Česká koruna. Biogra ...

Jan Neruda Jan Nepomuk Neruda (Czech: �jan ˈnɛpomuk ˈnɛruda 9 July 1834 – 22 August 1891) was a Czech journalist, writer, poet and art critic; one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of the " May School". Early lif ...

Vítězslav Nezval Vítězslav Nezval (; 26 May 1900 – 6 April 1958) was a Czech poet, writer and translator. He was one of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the 20th century and a co-founder of the Surrealist movement in Czechos ...

* Ota Pavel * Ferdinand Peroutka *

Eduard Petiška Eduard Petiška (14 May 1924 Prague - 6 June 1987 Mariánské Lázně) was a Czech Republic, Czech writer, author of more than ninety titles. His books have been translated into dozens of languages and have become popular abroad. Total sales of ...

* Otfried Preussler *

Bohuslav Reynek Bohuslav Reynek (31 May 1892 in Petrkov (part of Lípa (Havlíčkův Brod District), Lípa) – 28 October 1971 in Petrkov) was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. Education and personal life From 1904 to 1911 Reynek studied at Grammar ...

* Rainer Maria Rilke * John of Rokycan (Jan Rokycana) * Karel Sabina *

Jaroslav Seifert Jaroslav Seifert (; 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. Seifert was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides ...

* Jan Skácel *

Josef Škvorecký Josef Škvorecký (; September 27, 1924 – January 3, 2012) was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher. He spent half of his life in Canada, publishing and supporting banned Czech literature during the communist era. Škvorecký was awarded the ...

Adalbert Stifter Adalbert Stifter (; 23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was an Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while ...

* Tom Stoppard *

Zdeněk Svěrák Zdeněk Svěrák (born 28 March 1936) is a Czech actor, humorist, playwright and scriptwriter, and one of the most well-known and popular Czech cultural personalities. Since 1968 he has appeared in 32 films. Career In 1958, he graduated in Czec ...

* Karel Teige *

Jáchym Topol Jáchym Topol (born 4 August 1962) is a Czech poet, novelist, musician and journalist who became a laureate of the Czech State Award for Literature in October 2017 for his novel ''Sensitive Man''. Life Jáchym Topol was born in Prague, Czech ...

* Jan Matzal Troska * Josef Kajetán Tyl * Miloš Urban * Josef Váchal *

Vladislav Vančura Vladislav Vančura () (23 June 1891 in Háj ve Slezsku – 1 June 1942 in Prague) was an important Czech writer active in the 20th century, who was murdered by the Nazis. He was also active as a film director, playwright and screenwriter. Early ...

* Michal Viewegh * Jaroslav Vrchlický * Franz Werfel *

* Ivan Wernisch * Zikmund Winter * Jiří Wolker * Jan Zábrana * Jan Zahradníček * Vojtech Zamarovský *

Julius Zeyer Julius Zeyer (26 April 1841 – 29 January 1901) was a Czech prose writer, poet, and playwright. Personal life Zeyer was born on 26 April 1841 in Prague. His mother, Elisabeth Eleonora (née Weisseles), came from a German Jewish-turned-Catholic ...

Composers

:''See Czech composers'' * Ralph Benatzky * František Benda * Jiří Antonín Benda * Karel Bendl *

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber ( bapt. 12 August 1644, Stráž pod Ralskem – 3 May 1704, Salzburg) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally left his employer, Prince-Bishop Karl L ...

Vilém Blodek Vilém Blodek, born Vilém František Plodek (October 3, 1834, Prague – May 1, 1874, Prague), was a Czech composer, flautist, and pianist. Biography Blodek was born into a poor family and was educated at a German Piarist school in Prague. Af ...

Pavel Borkovec Pavel ( Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Macedonian: Павел, Czech, Slovene, Romanian: Pavel, Polish: Paweł, Ukrainian: Павло, Pavlo) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). P ...

* František Xaver Brixi * Bohuslav Černohorský * Alexander Dreyschock * František Xaver Dušek * Jan Ladislav Dusík * Antonín Dvořák * Josef Fiala *

Zdeněk Fibich Zdeněk Fibich (, 21 December 1850 in Všebořice – 15 October 1900 in Prague) was a Czech composer of classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works (including two string quartets, a piano trio, piano quartet and a quintet for pia ...

Josef Bohuslav Foerster Josef Bohuslav Foerster (30 December 1859 – 29 May 1951) was a Czechs, Czech composer and musicologist. He is often referred to as J. B. Foerster, and his surname is sometimes spelled Förster. Life Foerster was born in Prague. His ancestors ...

* Vladimír Franz * Julius Fučík *

Pavel Haas Pavel Haas (21 June 189917 October 1944) was a Czech composer who was murdered during the Holocaust. He was an exponent of Leoš Janáček's school of composition, and also utilized elements of folk music and jazz. Although his output was not la ...

Alois Hába Alois Hába (21 June 1893 – 18 November 1973) was a Czech composer, music theorist and teacher. He belongs to the important discoverers in modern classical music, and major composers of microtonal music, especially using the quarter-tone scal ...

* Jan Hammer * Jan Hanuš *

Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic Kryštof is a Czech name, equivalent to English Christopher. It may refer to: *Jakub Kryštof Rad (1799–1871), Swiss-born Czech entrepreneur who invented the sugar cubes in 1841 as director of a sugar factory in Dačice, Moravia *Kryštof Harant ...

Ilja Hurník Ilja Hurník (25 November 1922 – 7 September 2013) was a Czech composer and essayist. Biography Hurnik was born in Poruba, now part of Ostrava. He entered the Prague Conservatory, then went on to the Prague Academy of Arts, where he ...

Leoš Janáček Leoš Janáček (, baptised Leo Eugen Janáček; 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist, and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic musics, including Eastern European f ...

Otakar Jeremiáš Otakar Jeremiáš (17 October 1892 – 5 March 1962) was a Czech people, Czech composer, conductor and teacher. He was the son of composer Bohuslav Jeremiáš and the brother of composer Jaroslav Jeremiáš. Life Jeremiáš was born in Píse ...

* Jaroslav Ježek * Karel Boleslav Jirák *

Vojtěch Jírovec Vojtěch Matyáš Jírovec (Adalbert Gyrowetz) (20 February 1763 – 19 March 1850) was a Bohemian composer. He mainly wrote instrumental works, with a great production of string quartets and symphonies; his operas and singspiele numbered mo ...

(also known as Adalbert Gyrowetz) * Václav Kaprál * Vítězslava Kaprálová * Rudolf Karel *

Erich Wolfgang Korngold Erich Wolfgang Korngold (May 29, 1897November 29, 1957) was an Austrian-born American composer and conductor. A child prodigy, he became one of the most important and influential composers in Hollywood history. He was a noted pianist and compo ...

* Petr Kotík *

Jan Antonín Koželuh Jan Antonín Koželuh (also Johann Antonin Kozeluch, Koscheluch, Jan Evangelista Antonín Tomáš; 14 December 1738 in Velvary – 3 February 1814 in Prague) was a Czech composer. Life Koželuh was a pupil of Josef Seger and studied under the Je ...

Leopold Koželuh Leopold may refer to: People * Leopold (given name) * Leopold (surname) Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Leopold (''The Simpsons''), Superintendent Chalmers' assistant on ''The Simpsons'' * Leopold Bloom, the protagonist ...

* Hans Krása (Jewish) *

Ernst Krenek Ernst Heinrich Krenek (, 23 August 1900 – 22 December 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer of Czech origin. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including ''Music Here and Now'' (1939), a study ...

Jan Křtitel Krumpholtz Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz (; Czech: ''Jan Křtitel Krumpholtz'') (8 May 1742 – 19 February 1790) - however, the Czech source mentions, that the written record about his birth in the registers of Budenice or Zlonice from 1739 to 1756 does not e ...

Jan Kubelík Jan Kubelík (5 July 18805 December 1940) was a Czech violinist and composer. Biography He was born in Michle (now part of Prague). His father, a gardener by occupation, was an amateur violinist. He taught his two sons the violin and after d ...

Rafael Kubelík Rafael Jeroným Kubelík, KBE (29 June 1914 – 11 August 1996) was a Czech conductor and composer. Son of a well-known violinist, Jan Kubelík, he was trained in Prague, and made his debut with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of ...

* Ladislav Kubík * Jan Křtitel Kuchař (also known as Johann Baptist Kucharz) *

Jiří Ignác Linek Jiří Ignác Línek (21 January 1725 – 30 December 1791) was a Czech late-Baroque composer and pedagogue, said to have composed over 300 works in his lifetime. He is especially noted for his Christmas pastorals and for his initiation of a liter ...

* Gustav Mahler (Jewish) * Bohuslav Martinů * František Míča *

Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic Adam Michna z Otradovic, or also Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic – literally ''Adam Michna of Otradovice'' – ( 1600 – 2 November 1676, Jindřichův Hradec) was a Czech Catholic poet, composer, hymn writer, organist and choir leader of th ...

* Oskar Morawetz * Josef Mysliveček *

Oskar Nedbal Oskar Nedbal (26 March 1874 – 24 December 1930) was a Czech violist, composer, and conductor of classical music. Early life Nedbal was born in Tábor, in southern Bohemia. He studied the violin at the Prague Conservatory under Antonín Be ...

* Jan Novák * Vítězslav Novák * Antonín Rejcha * František Xaver Richter (Franz Xaver Richter) * Jan Jakub Ryba * Ervín Schulhoff (Jewish) * Josef Seger * František Škroup *

Bedřich Smetana Bedřich Smetana ( , ; 2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival." He has been regarded i ...

* Anton Stamitz (Cz. Stamic) (half-German) * Karel Stamitz (Cz. Stamic) (half-German) * Johann Stamitz (Cz. Stamic) * Josef Suk * Karel Svoboda *

Viktor Ullmann Viktor Ullmann (1 January 1898, in Teschen – 18 October 1944, in KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau) was a Silesia-born Austrian composer, conductor and pianist. Biography Viktor Ullmann was born on 1 January 1898 in Těšín (Teschen), which belonged ...

* Dalibor Cyril Vačkář * Jaromír Vejvoda *

Jan Václav Voříšek Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek (; ''Johann Hugo Worzischek'', 11 May 1791, in Vamberk, Bohemia – 19 November 1825, in Vienna, Austria) was a Czech composer, pianist, and organist. Life Voříšek was born in the town of Vamberk, Bohemia, where his ...

* Pavel Vranický (also known as Paul Wranitzky) *

Ladislav Vycpálek Ladislav Vycpálek (Vršovice, Prague, 23 February 1882 – Prague, 9 January 1969) was a Czech Republic, Czech composer and Viola, violist. Vycpálek studied composition under Vítězslav Novák. However, he very soon found his own expressive st ...

Johann Baptist Wanhal Johann Baptist Wanhal (12 May 1739 – 20 August 1813) was a Czech classical music composer. He was born in Nechanice, Bohemia, and died in Vienna. His music was well respected by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert. He was an instrumental p ...

(Jan Ignatius Vaňhal) * Jan Zach *

Jan Dismas Zelenka Jan Dismas Zelenka (16 October 1679 – 23 December 1745), baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka was a Czech composer and musician of the Baroque period. His music is admired for its harmonic inventiveness and mastery of counterpoint. Zelenka was rais ...

Otakar Zich Otakar Zich (25 March 1879, Městec Králové – 9 July 1934 Ouběnice u Benešova) was a distinguished Czech composer and aesthetician. Biography In his music education he studied as a self-taught man. Years later, he became a pupil of the p ...

Other musicians

:''See Czech musicians'' * Karel Ančerl, conductor * Jiří Bělohlávek, conductor * Gabriela Beňačková, opera singer *

Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel KBE (born 5 January 1931) is an Austrian classical pianist, poet, author, composer, and lecturer who is known particularly for his performances of Mozart, Schubert, Schoenberg, and Beethoven.Stephen Plaistow"Brendel, Alfred" ' ...

, pianist *

Ema Destinnová Emmy Destinn ( (); 26 February 1878 – 28 January 1930) was a Czech operatic soprano with a strong and soaring lyric-dramatic voice. She had a career both in Europe and at the New York Metropolitan Opera. Biography Destinn was born Emíl ...

, opera singer *

Ewa Farna Ewa Farna (born 12 August 1993) is a Polish-Czech pop-rock singer. She released five Polish-language and four Czech-language studio albums, and received platinum and gold certifications for them, both in Poland and the Czech Republic. Farna i ...

, pop singer * Michaela Fukačová, cellist *

Karel Gott ) Sinatra of the East( cs, Sinatra Východu, link=no)Divine CharlieAlice Herz-Sommer, pianist *

Maria Jeritza Maria Jeritza (born Marie Jedličková; 6 October 1887 – 10 July 1982) was a dramatic soprano, long associated with the Vienna State Opera (1912–1934 and 1950-1953) and the Metropolitan Opera (1921–1932 and 1951). Her rapid rise to fame, ...

, opera singer * Jiří Jirmal, guitarist * Markéta Irglová, singer, actress, Oscar prize winner * Mikolas Josef, pop singer * Gabriela Gunčíková, pop singer *

Martina Bárta Martina Bárta (; born 1 September 1988) is a Czech jazz singer and musician. A vocalist and a French horn player, she was part of the Frankfurt am Main-based jazz band 4 To The Bar. She also had a role in the musical ''Robin Hood'' and worked ...

, pop singer * Marta Jandová, pop singer * Vaclav Noid Barta, pop singer * Tomas Kalnoky, singer, guitarist and composer * Karel Kovařovic, conductor *

Magdalena Kožená Magdalena Kožená (also Lady Rattle; ; born 26 May 1973) is a Czech mezzo-soprano. Early life Kožená was born in Brno in Czechoslovakia. Both her parents had come originally from Bohemia, to the west. She was born one of the two daughters o ...

, opera singer *

Antonín Kraft image:AntonKraft.jpg, Antonín Kraft Antonín Kraft (30 December 1749, Rokycany – 28 August 1820, Vienna) was a Czech people, Czech cello, cellist and composer. He was a close friend of Joseph Haydn, Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart, and Lu ...

, cellist * Ivan Kral, guitarist and singer * Karel Kryl, songwriter *

, violinist *

Daniel Landa Daniel Landa (born 4 November 1968) is a Czech musician, actor, car racer, and amateur muay thai fighter. Born in Prague, Landa graduated with honours from Prague Conservatory, having studied music and drama. He began his musical career in 1988 ...

, singer * Aneta Langerová, singer *

Ferdinand Laub Ferdinand Laub (January 19, 1832March 17, 1875) was a Czech violinist and composer. Life and career Laub was born in Prague from a German Bohemian family which had assimilated into the ethnic Czech community. His father Erasmus (1794–1865) arr ...

, violinist * Jan Antonín Losy, lute player * Waldemar Matuška, singer, songwriter and actor * Ivan Moravec, pianist *

Ignaz Moscheles Isaac Ignaz Moscheles (; 23 May 179410 March 1870) was a Bohemian piano virtuoso and composer. He was based initially in London and later at Leipzig, where he joined his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as professor of piano at the Co ...

, pianist * Eduard Nápravník, conductor *

Václav Neumann Václav Neumann (29 October 1920 – 2 September 1995) was a Czech conductor, violinist, violist, and opera director. Life and career Neumann was born in Prague, where he studied at the Prague Conservatory with Josef Micka (violin), and ...

, conductor *

Jaromír Nohavica Jaromír Nohavica or Jarek Nohavica (born 7 June 1953, in Ostrava) is a Czech recording artist, songwriter, lyricist and poet. Early life He was born in Ostrava and has played guitar since he was 13. He began studies at the Technical Univers ...

, guitarist and songwriter *

Jarmila Novotná Jarmila Novotná (September 23, 1907, in Prague, Austria-Hungary – February 9, 1994, in New York City) was a celebrated Bohemian soprano and actress and, from 1940 to 1956, a star of the Metropolitan Opera. Early career A student of Emmy De ...

, opera singer * Josef Páleníček, pianist * Libor Pešek, conductor *

Karel Plíhal Karel Plíhal (born August 23, 1958 in Přerov) is a Czechs, Czech folk and jazz musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He graduated from the Industrial College of Engineering and then worked as a designer and boilerman in the Olomouc ...

, guitarist and songwriter *

David Popper David Popper (June 16, 1843 – August 7, 1913) was a Bohemian cellist and composer. Some other sources list his date of birth as December 9, 1843. Life Popper was born in Prague, and studied music at the Prague Conservatory. His family was J ...

, cellist * Rudolf Serkin, pianist * Otakar Ševčík, violinist * Leo Slezak, opera singer * Jiří Stivín, flute player * Karel Strakatý, singer * Vaclav Talich, conductor *

Vilém Tauský Vilém Tauský CBE (20 July 1910, Přerov, Moravia – 16 March 2004, London) was a Czech conductor and composer who, from the advent of the Second World War, lived and worked in the UK, one of a significant group of émigré composers and musici ...

, conductor * Štěpán Rak, guitarist *

Zuzana Růžičková Zuzana Růžičková () (14 January 1927 – 27 September 2017) was a Czech harpsichordist. An interpreter of Classical music, classical and Baroque music, baroque music, Růžičková was the first harpsichordist to record Johann Sebastian Bach' ...

, harpsichordist *

Miroslav Vitouš Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš (born 6 December 1947) is a Czech jazz bassist. Biography Born in Prague, Vitouš began the violin at age six, switching to piano after about three years, and then to bass at age fourteen. As a young man in Europe, ...

, jazzman * Antonín Vranický (also known as Anton ), violinist *

Hana Zagorová Hana Zagorová (6 September 1946 – 26 August 2022) was a Czech singer-songwriter, actress, and presenter who recorded music since 1964. She is considered to be one of the most famous Czech singers. She won the national Zlatý slavík music a ...

, singer * Wojciech Żywny, pianist

Filmmakers

:''See

Czech Film Directors Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus' Places * Czech, ...

'' * František Čáp, film director * Věra Chytilová, film director * Miloš Forman, film director * Karl Freund, film director * Jan Hřebejk, film director * Jaromil Jireš, film director * Elmar Klos, film director *

Oldřich Lipský Oldřich Lipský (4 July 1924 – 19 October 1986) was a Czechs, Czech film director and screenwriter, brother of actor Lubomír Lipský. All his films were comedies, frequently employing themes of Dadaism, farce and magical realism. He was a fr ...

, film director, screenwriter * Jiří Menzel, film director, actor * Zdeněk Miler, film director *

Georg Wilhelm Pabst Georg Wilhelm Pabst (25 August 1885 – 29 May 1967) was an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He started as an actor and theater director, before becoming one of the most influential German-language filmmakers during the Weimar Republic. ...

, film director *

Ivan Passer Ivan Passer (10 July 1933 – 9 January 2020) was a Czech film director and screenwriter, best known for his involvement in the Czechoslovak New Wave and for directing American films such as ''Born to Win'' (1971), '' Cutter's Way'' (1981) and ...

, film director * Jan Pinkava, animator, film director *

Břetislav Pojar Břetislav Pojar (7 October 192312 October 2012) was a Czech puppeteer, animator and director of short and feature films. Born in Sušice, Czechoslovakia, Pojar started his career in the late 1940s with his work on ''The Story of the Bass Cello'' ...

, film director * Alfréd Radok, film and theatre director * Emil Radok, film director *

Karel Reisz Karel Reisz (21 July 1926 – 25 November 2002) was a Czech-born British filmmaker, one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in British cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. Two of the best-known films he directed are '' Saturday Night and S ...

, film director * Bohdan Sláma, film director * Ladislav Smoljak, film director * Jan Švankmajer, film director, animator * Jan Svěrák, film director, actor *

Jan Tománek Jan Tománek (born 14 February 1978, Prague) is a Czech movie director, writer and artist. He is the creator of animated movies '' Goat Story – The Old Prague Legends'' and '' Goat Story with Cheese''. Nowadays he is mostly writing books. Bi ...

, film director, artist and writer *

Jiří Trnka Jiří Trnka (; 24 February 1912 – 30 December 1969) was a Czech puppet-maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director. In addition to his extensive career as an illustrator, especially of children's books, he is best kn ...

, film director, animator *

Zdeněk Troška Zdeněk Troška (born 18 May 1953) is a Czech film director and screenwriter. He mainly directs comedies and fairy-tale films. Personal life Troška is deeply connected with the South Bohemian Region. He was born in the hospital in Strakonice, bu ...

, film director, screenwriter *

Hermína Týrlová Hermína Týrlová (11 December 1900 in Příbram, Březové Hory – 3 May 1993 in Zlín) was a prominent Czech people, Czech animator, screen writer, and film director. She was often called ''the mother of Czech animation''. Over the course of he ...

, stage designer, cartoonist *

Otakar Vávra Otakar Vávra (28 February 1911 – 15 September 2011) was a Czechs, Czech film director, screenwriter and Pedagogy, pedagogue. He was born in Hradec Králové, Austria-Hungary, now part of the Czech Republic. Biography and career Vávra atten ...

, film director * František Vláčil, film director * Karel Zeman, film director, animator

Military

* Jan Kubiš, paratrooper, the assassination of Heydrich * Jozef Gabčík, paratrooper, the assassination of Heydrich * Josef Bryks, pilot *

Josef Alexej Eisenberger Josef Alexej Eisenberger was a World War II brigadier general from Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918 ...

, World War II general *

Alois Eliáš Alois Eliáš (29 September 1890 – 19 June 1942) was a Czech general and politician. He served as prime minister of the puppet government of the German-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from 27 April 1939 to 27 September 1941 bu ...

, army officer *

Josef František Josef František, (7 October 1914 – 8 October 1940) was a First Czechoslovak Republic, Czechoslovak Fighter aircraft, fighter pilot and Second World War Flying ace, fighter ace who flew for the air forces of Czechoslovak Air Force, Czechoslova ...

, pilot ace *

Radola Gajda Radola Gajda, born as Rudolf Geidl (14 February 1892, Kotor, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary – 15 April 1948, Prague, Czechoslovakia), was a Czech military commander and politician. Early years Geidl's father was an officer in the Aust ...

, army officer *

Kurt Knispel Kurt Knispel (20 September 1921 – 28 April 1945) was a German tank commander during World War II. Knispel was profiled extensively in the second installment of the popular historical fiction series ''Panzer Aces'', which included an unfounded c ...

, German Tank Ace * Karel Kuttelwascher, general * František Moravec, military intelligence officer * František Peřina, pilot *

Prokop the Great Prokop the Great ( cs, Prokop Veliký, la, Procopius Magnus) or Prokop the Bald or the Shaven ( cz, Prokop Holý, link=no, ) (c. 1380 – 30 May 1434) was a Czech Hussite general and a prominent Taborite military leader during the Hussite Wars ...

, Hussite leader *

Joseph Radetzky von Radetz Johann Josef Wenzel Anton Franz Karl, Graf Radetzky von Radetz ( en, John Joseph Wenceslaus Anthony Francis Charles, Count Radetzky of Radetz; cz, Jan Josef Václav Antonín František Karel hrabě Radecký z Radče; sl, Janez Jožef Vencelj ...

, field marshal *

Ludvík Svoboda Ludvík Svoboda (25 November 1895 – 20 September 1979) was a Czech general and politician. He fought in both World Wars, for which he was regarded as a national hero,

, general, president *

Jan Syrový Jan Syrový (24 January 1888 – 17 October 1970) was a Czechoslovak general and the prime minister of Czechoslovakia during the Munich Crisis. Early life and military career Jan Syrový studied building at a technical school. Following his ...

, general, prime minister *

Albrecht von Wallenstein Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein () (24 September 1583 – 25 February 1634), also von Waldstein ( cs, Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna), was a Bohemian military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Th ...

, warlord during

Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle ...

Jan Žižka Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha ( en, John Zizka of Trocnov and the Chalice; 1360 – 11 October 1424) was a Czech general – a contemporary and follower of Jan Hus and a Radical Hussite who led the Taborites. Žižka was a successful milit ...

, Hussite leader

Models

:''See Czech models'' *

Tereza Fajksová Tereza Fajksová (born 17 May 1989) is a Czechs, Czech model and beauty queen who won Miss Earth 2012. Fajksová is the first delegate from the Czech Republic to win the Miss Earth title. Biography Fajksová comes from the small town of Ivančic ...

(born 1989) * Eva Herzigová (born 1973) *

Karolína Kurková Karolína Kurková (; born 28 February 1984) is a Czech model and actress, known for her work as a former Victoria's Secret Angel and ''Vogue'' cover star. Mario Testino praised the "proportions of her body and her face, as well as her energy le ...

(born 1984) *

Tereza Maxová Tereza Maxová (born 31 August 1971, in Pardubice), is a Czech model. Biography In 1975 her family moved to Ústí nad Labem, where she finished her basic school focussed on sport and athletics in 1985. After passing her entrance exams she starte ...

(born 1971) *

Petra Němcová Petra Němcová (; born 24 June 1979) is a Czech model, television host, and philanthropist who founded the ''Happy Hearts Fund''. In 2017, the ''Happy Hearts Fund'' merged with All Hands Volunteers to create All Hands And Hearts - Smart Respon ...

(born 1979) *

Daniela Peštová Daniela Peštová (born 14 October 1970) is a Czech model. She was born in Teplice, Czech Republic, and was discovered by the Madison Modeling Agency's Dominique Caffin. She had plans to attend college after grammar school but after winning a mo ...

(born 1970) * Pavlína Pořízková (born 1965) * Alena Šeredová (born 1978) * Hana Soukupová (born 1985) *

Ivana Trump Ivana Marie Trump (, ; February 20, 1949 – July 14, 2022) was a Czech-American businesswoman, media personality, socialite, fashion designer, author, and model. Ivana lived in Canada in the 1970s before relocating to the United States and m ...

(born 1949) * Veronika Vařeková (born 1977)

Painters

:''See Czech Painters'' * Mikoláš Aleš * Petr Brandl *

Václav Brožík Václav Brožík (french: Vaclav de Brozik ; 6 March 1851, Třemošná – 15 April 1901 Paris) was a Czech painter who worked in the academic style. Life He came from a poor family, studying lithography and porcelain painting through appr ...

Ota Bubeníček Ota Bubeníček (31 October 1871 in Uhříněves – 10 September 1962 in Mladá Vožice) was a Czech Republic, Czech landscape art, landscape painter. He was also widely regarded as Bohemia's greatest Marionette, marionnetter. ReferencesOta Bub ...

* Zdeněk Burian *

Josef Čapek Josef Čapek (; 23 March 1887 – April 1945) was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet. He invented the word "robot", which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek. ...

* Antonin Chittussi *

Alén Diviš Alén Diviš (26 April 190015 November 1956) was a Czech painter known for his melancholic art. Having spent much of his life abroad, often working in solitude, he remained rather unknown during his life but has had a postmortem revival in the a ...

* Emil Filla *

Václav Hollar Wenceslaus Hollar (23 July 1607 – 25 March 1677) was a prolific and accomplished Bohemian graphic artist of the 17th century, who spent much of his life in England. He is known to German speakers as ; and to Czech speakers as . He is particu ...

Stanislav Holý Stanislav Holý (25 January 1943 – 14 August 1998) was a Czech graphic artist, caricaturist, and a designer of animated films. He studied at the Applied Arts Academy in Prague. He is known as an author and illustrator of a series of children's ...

* Jan Jakub Quirin Jahn * František Kaván *

Karel Klíč Karel Václav Klíč (sometimes written Karl Klietsch, 30 May 1841, Hostinné – 16 November 1926, Vienna) was a Czech painter, photographer, early comics artist, caricaturist, lithographer and illustrator. He was one of the inventors of photogr ...

, inventor of

photogravure Photogravure (in French ''héliogravure'') is a process for printing photographs, also sometimes used for reproductive intaglio printmaking. It is a photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is grained (adding a pattern to the plate) and ...

* Jiří Kolář *

Jan Konůpek Jan Konůpek (October 10, 1883 in Mladá Boleslav – March 13, 1950 in Prague) was a Czechs, Czech Painting, painter, illustrator, and engraver. A list of his graphic works comprises 1448 works and more than 600 book illustrations. He is among ...

Ludvík Kuba Ludvík Kuba (April 16, 1863 in Poděbrady, Bohemia – November 30, 1956 in Prague) was a Czech landscape painter, musician, writer, professor in the Academy of Fine Arts Prague, Academy of Fine Arts. He was a representative of the Late-Impre ...

Alfred Kubin Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (10 April 1877 – 20 August 1959) was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism. Biography Kubin was born in Bohemia ...

* Otakar Kubín * Jan Kupecký *

František Kupka František Kupka (23 September 1871 – 24 June 1957), also known as ''Frank Kupka'' or ''François Kupka,'' was a Czech Republic, Czech Painting, painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the Abstract ...

* Josef Lada * Martin Mainer * Josef Mánes * Julius Edvard Marak * Mikuláš Medek *

Anton Raphael Mengs Anton Raphael Mengs (22 March 1728 – 29 June 1779) was a German painter, active in Dresden, Rome, and Madrid, who while painting in the Rococo period of the mid-18th century became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting, which replace ...

* Alfons Mucha * Josef Navrátil *

Emil Orlik Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *''Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *''Emil and the Detective ...

* Jaro Procházka * Václav Vavřinec Reiner *

Teodor Rotrekl Teodor Rotrekl (6 June 1923 in Brno – 1 September 2004 in Prague) was a Czech illustrator and painter. His most known works are illustrations of science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of specul ...

Otakar Sedloň Otakar Sedloň (1885–1973) was a Czechs, Czech realistic painter living in Prague. Otakar Sedloň was born on 30 August 1885 in Trpín (Svitavy District), Trpín in eastern Bohemia, formerly part of Austria-Hungary. Otakar attended primary school ...

* Karel Škréta * Antonín Slavíček * Václav Špála * Eva Švankmajerová * Theodoric of Prague * Toyen (Marie Čermínová) * Vladimír Vašíček * Helena Zmatlíková * Jan Zrzavý

Philosophers

:''See Czech philosophers'' *

Václav Bělohradský Václav Bělohradský (born January 17, 1944 Prague) is a Czech philosopher and sociologist. Life and career A graduate in philosophy and Czech from Charles University, Prague, from 1970 to 2010s he lived in Italy, where he was Professor of Poli ...

(born 1944) * Arnošt Bláha (1879–1960), sociologist * Egon Bondy (1930–2007) *

Václav Černý Václav Černý (26 March 1905, Jizbice – 2 July 1987, Prague) was a Czechoslovak literary scholar, writer and philosopher. He was an enthusiast of Spanish literature and philosophy and translated into Czech a number of literary and philosophi ...

(1905–1987) *

Petr Chelčický Petr Chelčický (; c. 1390 – c. 1460) was a Czech Christian spiritual leader and author in the 15th century Bohemia, now the Czech Republic. He was one of the most influential thinkers of the Bohemian Reformation. Petr Chelčický inspire ...

(c.1390–c.1460) *

Herbert Feigl Herbert Feigl (; ; December 14, 1902 – June 1, 1988) was an Austrian-American philosopher and an early member of the Vienna Circle. He coined the term " nomological danglers". Biography The son of a trained weaver who became a textile designer, ...

(1902–1988) *

Vilém Flusser Vilém Flusser (May 12, 1920 – November 27, 1991) was a Brazilian Czech-born philosopher, writer and journalist. He lived for a long period in São Paulo (where he became a Brazilian citizen) and later in France, and his works are written ...

(1920–1991) *

Ernest Gellner Ernest André Gellner FRAI (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a British- Czech philosopher and social anthropologist described by ''The Daily Telegraph'', when he died, as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals, and by ''The ...

(1925–1995) *

Edmund Husserl , thesis1_title = Beiträge zur Variationsrechnung (Contributions to the Calculus of Variations) , thesis1_url = https://fedora.phaidra.univie.ac.at/fedora/get/o:58535/bdef:Book/view , thesis1_year = 1883 , thesis2_title ...

(1859–1938) * Jerome of Prague (1379–1416) * Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) *

Hans Kelsen Hans Kelsen (; ; October 11, 1881 – April 19, 1973) was an Austrian jurist, legal philosopher and political philosopher. He was the author of the 1920 Austrian Constitution, which to a very large degree is still valid today. Due to the rise ...

(1881–1973) * František Klácel (1808–1882) *

Ladislav Klíma Ladislav Klíma (22 August 1878 – 19 April 1928), was a Czech philosopher and novelist influenced by George Berkeley, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. His philosophy is referred to varyingly as existentialism and subjective idealism. Life Ladis ...

(1878–1928) *

Jan Amos Komenský John Amos Comenius (; cs, Jan Amos Komenský; pl, Jan Amos Komeński; german: Johann Amos Comenius; Latinized: ''Ioannes Amos Comenius''; 28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670) was a Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considere ...

(1592–1670) *

Karel Kosík Karel Kosík (26 June 1926 – 21 February 2003) was a Czechs, Czech Marxist philosopher. In his most famous philosophical work, ''Dialectics of the Concrete'' (1963), Kosík presents an original reinterpretation of the ideas of Karl Marx in light ...

(1926–2003) *

Jan Patočka Jan Patočka (; 1 June 1907 – 13 March 1977) was a Czech philosopher. Having studied in Prague, Paris, Berlin, and Freiburg, he was one of the last pupils of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Freiburg he also developed a lifelong philos ...

(1907–1977) * Emanuel Rádl (1873–1942) * Radovan Richta (1924–1983)

Photographers

:''See Czech photographers'' * Rudolf Bruner-Dvořák * František Drtikol * Jaromír Funke *

Josef Koudelka Josef Koudelka (born 10 January 1938) is a Czech-French photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and has won awards such as the Prix Nadar (1978), a Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), a Grand Prix Henri Cartier-Bresson (1991), ...

* Antonin Kratochvil * Frank Plicka * Jan Saudek * Alexander Seik * Ladislav Sitenský * Josef Sudek *

Miroslav Tichý Miroslav Tichý (; November 20, 1926 – April 12, 2011) was a photographer who from the 1960s until 1985 took thousands of surreptitious pictures of women in his hometown of Kyjov in the Czech Republic, using homemade cameras constructed of ...

Politicians

* Madeleine Albright, first female United States Secretary of State in U.S. history * Ivana Bacik, Irish law professor and politician of Czech descent *

Edvard Beneš Edvard Beneš (; 28 May 1884 – 3 September 1948) was a Czech politician and statesman who served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938, and again from 1945 to 1948. He also led the Czechoslovak government-in-exile 1939 to 194 ...

, president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938 and again from 1945 to 1948 * Jerzy Buzek, prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001 * Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor *

Karl von Czyhlarz Karl Ritter von Czyhlarz, or Karel Cihlář (August 17, 1833, Lovosice, Bohemia - July 21, 1914, Vienna) was a Bohemian-Austrians, Austrian jurist, politician. He taught as a professor at the Charles University in Prague (1858-1892), University ...

, Czech-Austrian jurist *

Klement Gottwald Klement Gottwald (; 23 November 1896 – 14 March 1953) was a Czech communist politician, who was the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1929 until his death in 1953–titled as general secretary until 1945 and as chairman fro ...

, first communist president * Emil Hácha, president during the German occupation * Václav Havel, first president after the fall of communism, first president of the independent Czech Republic * Milada Horáková, politician anad activist hanged by the Communists *

Otto Jelinek Otto John Jelinek (Czech: Otakar Jelínek; born May 20, 1940) is a businessman, former figure skater, and Canadian politician. Jelinek's family fled to Switzerland, then to Canada from Czechoslovakia in 1948, following the Communist coup d'é ...

, former Canadian Federal Cabinet Minister * Václav Klaus, former prime minister and expresident of the Czech Republic * Juscelino Kubitschek, President of Brazil (1956–1961) *

Jan Masaryk Jan Garrigue Masaryk (14 September 1886 – 10 March 1948) was a Czech diplomat and politician who served as the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1940 to 1948. American journalist John Gunther described Masaryk as "a brave, honest, turbul ...

, foreign minister * Tomáš G. Masaryk, first president of

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

* Mikuláš of Hus, politician,

Hussite The Hussites ( cs, Husité or ''Kališníci''; "Chalice People") were a Czech proto-Protestant Christian movement that followed the teachings of reformer Jan Hus, who became the best known representative of the Bohemian Reformation. The Huss ...

* Emanuel Moravec, collaborator with Nazis *

Antonín Novotný Antonín Josef Novotný (10 December 1904 – 28 January 1975) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1968, and also held the post of president of Czechoslovakia from 1957 to 1968. An ardent hardliner, Novo ...

, communist president * Přemysl Otakar II, King of Bohemia and most powerful man in middle Europe in his era * George of Poděbrady, Hussite king * Karl Renner, Austrian first President after World War II * Rudolf II, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor *

Adolf Schärf Adolf Schärf (; 20 April 1890 – 28 February 1965) was an Austrian politician of the Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ). He served as Vice-Chancellor from 1945 to 1957 and as President of Austria from 1957 until his death. Life Schärf was b ...

, President of Austria * Jan Švejnar, US-based, Czech-born economist *

Ludvík Svoboda Ludvík Svoboda (25 November 1895 – 20 September 1979) was a Czech general and politician. He fought in both World Wars, for which he was regarded as a national hero,

, communist president *

Mirek Topolánek Mirek Topolánek (, born 15 May 1956) is a Czech politician and business manager who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from 2006 to 2009 and the leader of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) from 2002 to 2010. Between 2006 and 2 ...

, former Prime Minister *

Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia Wenceslaus I ( cs, Václav ; c. 907 – 28 September 935 or 929), Wenceslas I or ''Václav the Good'' was the Duke ('' kníže'') of Bohemia from 921 until his death, probably in 935. According to the legend, he was assassinated by his younger ...

(Saint Wenceslas, Václav), known as "Good King Wenceslas" in a Christmas carol * Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia, king *

Miloš Zeman Miloš Zeman (; born 28 September 1944) is a Czech politician serving as the third and current President of the Czech Republic since 2013. He previously served as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002. As leader of the Cze ...

, first directly elected president in Czech history

Religion

* Josef Beran, cardinal *

, thinker, religious reformer *

Tomáš Halík Tomáš Halík (; born 1 June 1948) is a Czech Catholic priest, philosopher, and theologian. He is a professor of Sociology at the Charles University in Prague, pastor of the Academic Parish by St. Salvator Church in Prague, and president of the ...

, catholic theologian, sociologist *

Jan Hus Jan Hus (; ; 1370 – 6 July 1415), sometimes anglicized as John Hus or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as ''Iohannes Hus'' or ''Johannes Huss'', was a Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church reformer and the insp ...

, religious thinker and reformer *

Judah Loew ben Bezalel Judah Loew ben Bezalel (; between 1512 and 1526 – 17 September 1609), also known as Rabbi Loew ( Löw, Loewe, Löwe or Levai), the Maharal of Prague (), or simply the Maharal (the Hebrew acronym of "''Moreinu ha-Rav Loew''", 'Our Teacher, Rabbi ...

, Talmudic scholar * Tomáš Špidlík, cardinal, thinker * František Tomášek, cardinal

Saints

*Saint

Adalbert of Prague Adalbert of Prague ( la, Sanctus Adalbertus, cs, svatý Vojtěch, sk, svätý Vojtech, pl, święty Wojciech, hu, Szent Adalbert (Béla); 95623 April 997), known in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia by his birth name Vojtěch ( la, ...

(Vojtěch in Czech), bishop of Prague, missionary and martyr *Saint Agnes of Bohemia, Anežka Česká *Saint John of Nepomuk, known through central Europe *Saint

John Neumann John Nepomucene Neumann (german: link=no, Johann Nepomuk Neumann, cs, Jan Nepomucký Neumann; March 28, 1811 – January 5, 1860) was a Catholic priest from Bohemia. He immigrated to the United States in 1836, where he was ordained, joined t ...

(John Nepomucene Neumann) *Saint

John Sarkander Jan Sarkander (Czech language, Czech and Polish language, Polish: ''Jan Sarkander'') (20 December 1576 – 17 March 1620) was a Poles, Polish-Czechs, Czech Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic priest. Sarkander was married for a short period of ti ...

, priest tortured to death in

Olomouc Olomouc (, , ; german: Olmütz; pl, Ołomuniec ; la, Olomucium or ''Iuliomontium'') is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 99,000 inhabitants, and its larger urban zone has a population of about 384,000 inhabitants (2019). Located on t ...

*Saint Ludmila, princess of Bohemia, grandmother of St. Wenceslas *Saint

Prokop Prokop may mean either of two Hussite generals, both of whom died in the 1434 battle of Lipan: * Prokop the Great * Prokop the Lesser Other people who bore the name Prokop: * Procopius, 6c historian * Saint Prokop, or Procopius of Sázava (died 1 ...

, canon and hermit *Saint Wenceslas, duke of Bohemia *Saint Gorazd (Pavlík),

Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canonical ...

new martyr, bishop of Prague, and metropolitan of the Czech lands and Slovakia

Sculptors

:''See Czech sculptors'' * Franta Bělský * Břetislav Benda *

František Bílek František Bílek (6 November 1872, Chýnov – 13 October 1941, Chýnov) was a Czech sculptor and architect, in the Art Nouveau and Symbolist styles. Biography His father was a wheelwright. He graduated from primary school in Tábor, then went ...

* Matthias Bernard Braun * Ferdinand Maxmilian Brokoff * Jan Brokoff * Michael Joseph Brokoff *

Alfréd Hrdlička Alfred Hrdlicka (; 27 February 1928 – 5 December 2009) was an Austrian sculptor, painter, and professor. His surname is sometimes written Hrdlička. He was born in Vienna. After learning to be a dental technician from 1943 to 1945, Hrdlick ...

* Bohumil Kafka * Vincenc Makovský * Josef Václav Myslbek * Zoja Trofimiuk * Lea Vivot * Vladimir Winkler *

Ladislav Zívr Ladislav Zívr (23 May 1909 – 4 September 1980) was a Czech sculptor. Zívr was born in Nová Paka and died in Ždírec (a hamlet in Levínská Olešnice), Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). Because of family tradition he attended pot ...

Olbram Zoubek Olbram Zoubek (21 April 1926 – 15 June 2017) was a contemporary Czech sculptor and designer. His work was inspired by Swiss-Italian sculptor Alberto Giacometti. There is an extensive permanent exhibition of his sculptures and art in Litomyšl ...

Scientists

:''See Czech Scientists'' *

Karel Absolon Karel Absolon (16 June 1877 – 6 October 1960) was a Czech archaeologist, geographer, paleontologist, and speleologist. He was born in Boskovice. Absolon was the grandchild of paleontologist Jindřich Wankel. During his studies at Charles ...

, archaeologist and speleologist * Josef Augusta, paleontologist and popularizer of science * Jiří Baborovský, chemist * Jindřich Bačkovský, physicist * Jan Bašta, engineer and researcher * Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, economist * František Běhounek, radiologist, writer, and explorer * Vincent Bochdalek, anatomist *

Johann Böhm Johann Böhm (20 January 1895 – 27 November 1952) was a German Bohemian chemist who focused on photochemistry and radiography. The aluminum-containing mineral ''boehmite'' (or ''böhmite'') was named after him.

, chemist * Bernard Bolzano, mathematician, philosopher, and theologian * Otakar Borůvka, mathematician * Josef Božek engineer * Eduard Čech, mathematician * František Čelakovský, linguist and writer * Václav Cílek, geologist and popularizer of science * Jan Amos Comenius, polyhistorian, educator, and the inventor of illustrated textbooks *

Gerty Cori Gerty Theresa Cori (; August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was an Austro-Hungarian and American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Me ...

, biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate * Carl Ferdinand Cori, biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate * Leander Czerny, biologist * Václav Prokop Diviš, priest, scientist and inventor *

Josef Dobrovský Josef Dobrovský (17 August 1753 – 6 January 1829) was a Czech philologist and historian, one of the most important figures of the Czech National Revival along with Josef Jungmann. Life and work Dobrovský was born at Balassagyarmat, Nó ...

, philologist and historian * Karel Fortyn, physician *

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...

, psychologist * František Josef Gerstner, physicist and engineer * Kurt Gödel, mathematician * Stanislav Grof, psychologist and researcher in transpersonal psychology *

Peter Grünberg Peter Andreas Grünberg (; 18 May 1939 – 7 April 2018) was a German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk d ...

, physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate * Jiří Grygar, astrophysicist, popularizer of science * Jan Hajek, scientist *

Jaroslav Hájek Jaroslav Hájek (; 1926–1974) was a Czech people, Czech mathematician who worked in theoretical statistics, theoretical and nonparametric statistics, nonparametric statistics. The Hajek projection and the Hájek–Le Cam convolution theorem are n ...

, mathematician * Tadeáš Hájek, physician and astronomer *

Lumír Ondřej Hanuš Lumír Ondřej Hanuš ( he, לומיר הנוש) is a Czech analytic chemist and leading authority in the field of cannabis research. In 1992, he and William Anthony Devane isolated and first described the structure of anandamide, an endogenous ca ...

, chemist, co-discovered

anandamide Anandamide (ANA), also known as ''N''-arachidonoylethanolamine (AEA), is a fatty acid neurotransmitter. Anandamide was the first endocannabinoid to be discovered: it participates in the body's endocannabinoid system by binding to cannabinoid r ...

, an endogenous cannabinoid neurotransmitter *

Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra Ferdinand Karl Franz Schwarzmann, Ritter von Hebra (7 September 1816, in Brno, Moravia – 5 August 1880 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary) was an Austrian physician and dermatologist known as the founder of the New Vienna School of Dermatology, an ...

, dermatologist *

Jaroslav Heyrovský Jaroslav Heyrovský () (December 20, 1890 – March 27, 1967) was a Czech chemist and inventor. Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959 for his ...

, chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959 * Václav Hlavatý, mathematician * Ivan Honl, biologist *

Kamil Hornoch Kamil Hornoch (; born 5 December 1972) is a Czech astronomer who discovered dozens of novae in nearby galaxies. The main belt asteroid 14124 Kamil is named in his honour. Astronomy Kamil Hornoch became interested in astronomy in 1984. One yea ...

, amateur astronomer *

Bedřich Hrozný Bedřich (Friedrich) Hrozný (; 6 May 1879 – 12 December 1952) was a Czechs, Czech Oriental studies, orientalist and linguist. He contributed to the decipherment of the ancient Hittite language, identified it as an Indo-European language and l ...

, linguist *

Jakub Husnik Jacob is a common male given name and a less well-known surname. It is a cognate of James, derived from Late Latin ''Iacobus'', from Greek ''Iakobos'', from Hebrew (''Yaʿaqōḇ''), the name of the Hebrew patriarch, Jacob son of Isaac and Reb ...

, inventor and painter * Jan Janský, physician, discovered blood types *

Karl Guthe Jansky Karl Guthe Jansky (October 22, 1905 – February 14, 1950) was an American physicist and radio engineer who in April 1933 first announced his discovery of radio waves emanating from the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius. He is considered ...

, engineer * Vojtěch Jarník, mathematician * Konstantin Jireček, historian * Otto Jirovec,

parasitologist Parasitology is the study of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them. As a biological discipline, the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in question but by their way of life. This means it ...

and

protozoologist Protozoology is the study of protozoa, the "animal-like" (i.e., motile and heterotrophic) protists. The Protozoa are considered to be a subkingdom of Protista. They are free-living organisms that are found in almost every habitat. All humans have pr ...

Georg Joseph Kamel Georg Joseph Kamel (; la, Georgius Josephus Camellus; cz, Jiří Josef Kamel; es, Jorge Camel; 12 April 1661 – 2 May 1706) was a Jesuit missionary, pharmacist and naturalist known for producing the first comprehensive accounts of Philippine f ...

, botanist *

Vlasta Kálalová Vlasta Kálalová Di Lotti (26 October 1896 – 15 February 1971) was a Czech people, Czech physician interested in tropical diseases and entomology. Biography Kálalová was born in Bernartice (Písek District), Bernartice. Her father Jan K� ...

, physician and entomologist * Karel Kavina, botanist * Jan Kmenta, economist and econometrician *

Luboš Kohoutek Luboš Kohoutek (, born 29 January 1935) is a Czech astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, including Comet Kohoutek which was visible to the naked eye in 1973. He also discovered a large number of planetary nebulae. Biography ...

, astronomer * František Koláček, physicist * Zdenek Kopal, astronomer *

František Křižík František Křižík (; July 8, 1847 – January 22, 1941) was a Czech inventor, electrical engineer, and entrepreneur. Biography Křižík was born into a family in Plánice. In spite of his background, Křižík managed in 1866 to study engin ...

, an inventor of the arc lamp * Bohumil Kučera, physicist *

Jaroslav Kurzweil Jaroslav Kurzweil (, 7 May 1926, Prague – 17 March 2022) was a Czech mathematician. Biography Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, he was a specialist in ordinary differential equations and defined the Henstock–Kurzweil integral in terms of Riema ...

, mathematician * Václav Láska, geophysicist and mathematician *

Mathias Lerch Mathias Lerch (''Matyáš Lerch'', ) (20 February 1860, Milínov – 3 August 1922, Sušice) was a Czech mathematician who published about 250 papers, largely on mathematical analysis and number theory. He studied in Prague and Berlin, and held t ...

, mathematician * Drahoslav Lím, chemist and the inventor of hydrogel *

Johann Josef Loschmidt Johann Josef Loschmidt (15 March 1821 – 8 July 1895), who referred to himself mostly as Josef Loschmidt (omitting his first name), was a notable Austrian scientist who performed ground-breaking work in chemistry, physics (thermodynamics, optics, ...

, chemist * Ernst Mach, physicist and expert in

aerodynamics Aerodynamics, from grc, ἀήρ ''aero'' (air) + grc, δυναμική (dynamics), is the study of the motion of air, particularly when affected by a solid object, such as an airplane wing. It involves topics covered in the field of fluid dy ...

Frank Malina Frank Joseph Malina (October 2, 1912 — November 9, 1981) was an American aeronautical engineer and painter, especially known for becoming both a pioneer in the art world and the realm of scientific engineering. Early life Malina was born in B ...

aeronautical engineer Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is sim ...

* Jan Marek Marci, physician * Zdeněk Matějka, chemist *

Gregor Mendel Gregor Johann Mendel, OSA (; cs, Řehoř Jan Mendel; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was a biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brünn (''Brno''), Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was ...

, founder of the science of

genetics Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.Hartl D, Jones E (2005) It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms' evolution. Gregor Mendel, a Moravian Augustinian friar wor ...

Antonín Mrkos Antonín Mrkos () (27 January 1918, Střemchoví – 29 May 1996, Prague) was a Czech astronomer. Biography Mrkos entered the University in Brno in 1938. His studies were interrupted by the onset of World War II, and in 1945 he became a staff ...

, astronomer * Johann Palisa, astronomer *

František Patočka František Patočka (22 October 1904, Turnov – 14 March 1985, Prague) was a Czechoslovak microbiologist and serology, serologist. He established the study of virology in Czechoslovakia. Patočka studied medicine (specialised in microbiology) at t ...

, biologist * Karel Petr, mathematician * Josef Ladislav Píč, archaeologist * George Placzek, physicist * Julius Pokorny, etymologist *

Ferdinand Porsche Ferdinand Porsche (3 September 1875 – 30 January 1951) was an Austrian-German automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche AG. He is best known for creating the first gasoline–electric hybrid vehicle (Lohner–Porsche), the Volksw ...

, automotive engineer * Křišťan of Prachatice, medieval astronomer and physician * Petr Pravec, astronomer * Jan Svatopluk Presl, chemist * Karel Presl, botanist * Stanislaus von Prowazek, zoologist and parasitologist * Vlastimil Pták, mathematician *

Jan Evangelista Purkyně Jan Evangelista Purkyně (; also written Johann Evangelist Purkinje) (17 or 18 December 1787 – 28 July 1869) was a Czech anatomist and physiologist. In 1839, he coined the term '' protoplasm'' for the fluid substance of a cell. He was one of ...

, physiologist who first recognised the individuality of fingerprints * Zdeněk Rejdák, scientist in psychotronics * Josef Ludvík František Ressel, an inventor of the ship's propeller * Karel Rokytanský, anatomist * Karel Rychlík, mathematician * Vojtěch Šafařík, chemist * Jaroslav Šafránek, physicist *

Heinrich Wilhelm Schott Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (7 January 1794 in Brünn (Brno), Moravia – 5 March 1865 at Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna) was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on aroids (Araceae). He studied botany, agriculture and chemistry at ...

, botanist *

Joseph Schumpeter Joseph Alois Schumpeter (; February 8, 1883 – January 8, 1950) was an Austrian-born political economist. He served briefly as Finance Minister of German-Austria in 1919. In 1932, he emigrated to the United States to become a professor at H ...

, economist * Bohumil Sekla, biologist *

Alois Senefelder Johann Alois Senefelder (6 November 177126 February 1834) was a German actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in the 1790s.Meggs, Philip B. A History of Graphic Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1998. p 146 Acto ...

, inventor of the printing technique of lithography *

August Seydler August Jan Bedřich Seydler (1 June 1849 – 22 June 1891), aka August Johann Friedrich Seydler, was a distinguished Czech astronomer, theoretical physicist, and professor at Charles University in Prague. He was the founder of the Astronomical Inst ...

, physicist and astronomer * Ota Šik, economist *

Jan Šindel Jan Šindel (1370s – between 1455 and 1457), also known as Jan Ondřejův ( or ''Joannes de Praga''), was a Czechs, Czech medieval scientist and Catholic priest. He was a professor at Charles University in Prague and became the Rector (academia), ...

, astronomer *

Josef Škoda Josef may refer to *Josef (given name) *Josef (surname) Josef is the surname of the following people: * Jens Josef (born 1967), German composer of classical music, a flutist and academic teacher * Michelle Josef (born 1954), Canadian musician and tr ...

, physician * Ferdinand Stoliczka, paleontologist * Vincenc Strouhal, physicist * František Josef Studnička, mathematician * Antonín Svoboda, computer scientist and mathematician *

Karl von Terzaghi Karl von Terzaghi (October 2, 1883 – October 25, 1963) was an Austrian mechanical engineer, geotechnical engineer, and geologist known as the "father of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering". Early life In 1883, he was born the first ch ...

, geotechnical engineer and geologist *

Olga Taussky-Todd Olga Taussky-Todd (August 30, 1906, Olomouc, Austria-Hungary (present-day Olomouc, Czech Republic) – October 7, 1995, Pasadena, California) was an Austrian and later Czech-American mathematician. She published more than 300 research papers on ...

, mathematician *

Jana Tichá Jana Tichá (born 1965 in České Budějovice) is a Czech astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. She studied at the University of Economics in Prague and graduated in 1987. In 1992 she was selected for the position of a director of the Kle ...

, astronomer *

Miloš Tichý Miloš Tichý (born 1966 in Počátky) is a Czech astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. He also discovered the periodic comet 196P/Tichý. He works together with his ex-wife at Kleť Observatory Kleť Observatory ( cz, Hvěz ...

, astronomer * Viktor Trkal, physicist and mathematician * Miloslav Valouch, mathematician *

Petr Vopěnka Petr Vopěnka (16 May 1935 – 20 March 2015) was a Czech mathematician. In the early seventies, he developed alternative set theory (i.e. alternative to the classical Cantor theory), which he subsequently developed in a series of articles and m ...

, mathematician * Jindřich Wankel, paleontologist *

Rudolf Weigl Rudolf Stefan Jan Weigl (2 September 1883 – 11 August 1957) was a Polish biologist, physician and inventor, known for creating the first effective vaccine A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a ...

, biologist * Max Wertheimer, psychologist *

Otto Wichterle Otto Wichterle (; 27 October 1913 – 18 August 1998) was a Czech chemist, best known for his invention of modern soft contact lenses. Wichterle is the author or co-author of approximately 180 patents and over 200 publications. The studie ...

, chemist and the inventor of the modern contact lens *

Karel Zahradnik Karel Zahradnik (1848–1916) was a renowned Czech mathematician at the University of Zagreb. In his 23 years of productive activity in Zagreb he wrote several significant scholarly works, mainly concerned with algebraic curves In mathematics, ...

, mathematician * Rudolf Zahradník, chemist * František Záviška, physicist *

John Zeleny John Zeleny (March 26, 1872 – June 19, 1951) was an American physicist who, in 1911, invented the Zeleny electroscope. He also studied the effect of an electric field on a liquid meniscus. His work is seen by some as a beginning to emergent te ...

, physicist and the inventor of the

electroscope The electroscope is an early scientific instrument used to detect the presence of electric charge on a body. It detects charge by the movement of a test object due to the Coulomb electrostatic force on it. The amount of charge on an object is ...

* Vladimír Zoubek, geologist * Petr Zuman, electrochemist

Linguistics, anthropology, history

* Guido Adler, musicologist * Bohuslav Balbín, historian * Max Dvořák, art historian *

Eva Hajičová Eva Hajičová (born 23 August 1935) is a Czech linguist, specializing in topic–focus articulation and corpus linguistics. In 2006, she was awarded the Association for Computational Linguistics The Association for Computational Linguistics ( ...

, linguist * Eduard Hanslick, musicologist * Aleš Hrdlička, medical doctor, anthropologist *

, philologist and orientalist (decipherer of Hittite) * Konstantin Jireček, slavist, historian * Josef Jungmann, linguist *

Henry Kučera Henry Kučera (15 February 1925 – 20 February 2010), born Jindřich Kučera () was a Czech-American linguist who pioneered corpus linguistics, linguistic software, a major contributor to the ''American Heritage Dictionary'', and a pioneer in t ...

, linguist, cognitive scientist, language software author *

Bohumil Mathesius Mathesius Bohumil (1888-1952)

Bohumil Mathesius (Jul ...

, translator *

Vilém Mathesius Vilém Mathesius (, 3 August 1882 – 12 April 1945) was a Czech linguist, literary historian and co-founder of the Prague Linguistic Circle. He is considered one of the founders of structural functionalism in linguistics. Mathesius was the edi ...

, linguist * Josef Vratislav Monse, founder of Moravian history-writing *

Jan Mukařovský Jan Mukařovský (11 November 1891 – 8 February 1975) was a Czech literary, linguistic, and aesthetic theorist. Mukařovský was professor at the Charles University of Prague. He is well known for his association with early structuralism as we ...

, literary theorist * Alois Musil, orientalist, explorer * František Palacký, historian *

Antonín Rezek Antonín Rezek (13 January 1853 in Jindřichův Hradec – 4 February 1909 in Prague) was a renowned Czech people, Czech political historian, specialized in political and religious history of the 16th to 18th century. Life Son of a renowned wat ...

, historian * František Roubík, historian *

August Sedláček August Sedláček (28 August 1843 – 15 January 1926) was a distinguished Czech historian and archivist. Sedláček was born in Mladá Vožice, Bohemia. Notably, he worked in medieval history, detailing the history of Medieval castles in the ...

, historian * Petr Sgall, linguist *

Čeněk Zíbrt Čeněk Zíbrt (1864–1932) was a Czech people, Czech ethnographer and historian, specializing in folk culture. Publications *"Jak se kdy v Čechách tancovalo: dějiny tance v Čechách, na Moravě, ve Slezsku a na Slovensku z věkǔ nejstarš� ...

, ethnographer, historian

Sports personalities

Entrepreneurs

* Jan Antonín Baťa, industrialist (

Baťa a.s. The Bata Corporation (known as Bata, and in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, known as Baťa) is a Multinational corporation, multinational footwear, apparel and fashion accessories manufacturer and retailer of Moravian (Czech) origin, headquarte ...

, Zlin, Bata Tires, Fatra, Kotva, FAB Zlin (film industry) at Kudlov, ZLAS (Aircraft Otrokovice), ZPA Zlin, ChemoSvit, TatraSvit, Zlin Magazine, founded towns of Batovany (Partizanske), Svit, Batov (Otrokovice)) * Tomáš Baťa, industrialist (Bata T&A, Zlin) * Emil Kolben, industrialist (

ČKD ČKD (Českomoravská Kolben-Daněk) () was one of the largest engineering companies in the former Czechoslovakia and today's Czech Republic. It is famous for the Tatra T3, a tramcar that sold 13,991 units worldwide. History ČKD was formed i ...

) *

, industrialist *

Ignác Šechtl Ignác Šechtl (26 May 1840 – 6 July 1911), also known as Ignace Schächtl or Hynek Šechtl, was a pioneer of Czech photography (especially photojournalism) and cinematography. He moved from Prague, to Kladno, Plzeň, Bucharest, Prachatice and ...

, pioneer of photography ( Šechtl and Voseček) *

Emil Škoda Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *''Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *''Emil and the Detective ...

, industrialist ( Škoda Works)

Other

* Karel Barvitius, book and music publisher * Eliška Bučková,

Miss Universe 2008 Miss Universe 2008 was the 57th Miss Universe pageant, held at the Crown Convention Center in Nha Trang, Vietnam on July 14, 2008. This was the first time that the Miss Universe pageant was broadcast in 1080i High-definition. At the end of t ...

Top 15 finalist (

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...

placed for the second consecutive time) *

Jiří Buquoy Georg Franz August Graf von Buquoy ( cs, Jiří František August Buqouy; 7 September 1781 in Brussels – 9 or 19 April 1851 in Prague) was a Bohemian aristocrat, mathematician, and inventor. He studied mathematics, natural science, philosophy ...

, aristocrat * Vlaada Chvatil, board game designer *

( Miss Earth 2012) * Josef Florian, book publisher * Zdenek Konvalina, ballet dancer * Marian Korn (1914–1987), printmaker * Taťána Kuchařová ( Miss World 2006) * Victor Lustig, con artist *

Iveta Lutovská Iveta Vítová (born Iveta Lutovská, 14 May 1983 in Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Czech Miss in 2009 and competed at Miss Universe 2009 and placed Top 10. Pageantry Lutovsk ...

Miss Universe 2009 Miss Universe 2009 was the 58th Miss Universe pageant, held at the Imperial Ballroom in Atlantis Paradise Island, Nassau, The Bahamas on August 23, 2009. At the end of the event, Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela crowned Stefanía Fernández of V ...

Top 10 finalist (Czech Republic placed for the third consecutive time) * Jaroslav Malina, theatre scenographer * Jan Opletal, student, shot by Germans * Jan Palach, student, political activist * Přemek Podlaha, TV personality * Zdeňka Pokorná, teacher and political activist * Vladimír Remek, cosmonaut *Silvie Tomčalová, aka Silvia Saint, adult film star * Oskar Schindler, industrialist who saved 1200 Jewish lives in World War 2. * Bertha von Suttner,

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiolog ...

laureate *

Jan Zajíc Jan Zajíc (July 3, 1950 – February 25, 1969) was a Czech student who committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest. He was a student of the Střední průmyslová škola železniční (Industrial Highschool of Railways) technica ...

, student, political activist, suicide

Fictional characters

* Jára Cimrman, fictional character of universal talents * Josef Švejk, fictional soldier in World War I, main character of Jaroslav Hašek's novel ''The Good Soldier Švejk'' *Tomas Vrbada, also known as

Smoke Smoke is a suspension of airborne particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with the quantity of air that is entrained or otherwise mixed into the mass. It is commonly an unwanted by-produc ...

, from the '' Mortal Kombat'' game series *

Mole Mole (or Molé) may refer to: Animals * Mole (animal) or "true mole", mammals in the family Talpidae, found in Eurasia and North America * Golden moles, southern African mammals in the family Chrysochloridae, similar to but unrelated to Talpida ...

* Pat & Mat

References

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