List of Czechs
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This is a partial list of famous Czech, Czech-speaking/writing people, and people born in Bohemia or the Czech lands.
Note: A number of people on this list can also claim other nationalities; some were Czech-born, but spent the most important part of their lives outside the Czech lands (e.g. Madeleine Albright), others were born in the time of Austrian/Austro-Hungarian Empire and therefore may be listed also as Austrians (e.g. Freud, Mahler etc.).
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Actors
- Vlasta Burian
- Ivan Jandl
- Petr Kostka
- Francis Lederer
- Herbert Lom
- Adina Mandlová
- Vladimír Meník
- Karel Roden
- Jan Tříska
- Jiří Voskovec
- Jan Werich
- Stella Zázvorková
Architects
- Jan Santini Aichel
- Alois Dryák
- Josef Gočár
- František Maxmilián Kaňka
- Jan Letzel, architect of the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima
- Adolf Loos
- Balthasar Neumann
Authors and Poets
- Eduard Bass
- Oskar Baum
- Egon Bondy
- Max Brod
- Otakar Bystřina
- Karel Čapek
- Svatopluk Čech
- František Ladislav Čelakovský
- Jakub Deml
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
- Otokar Fischer
- Jaroslav Foglar
- Bohdan Kamniský
- Jiri Kulhanek
- Hermann Grab
- Franz Grillparzer
- Jaroslav Hašek
- Václav Havel
- Vladimír Holan
- Miroslav Holub
- Bohumil Hrabal
- František Hrubín
- Miroslav Ivanov
- Josef Jedlička
- Jan Jenik z Bratric
- Milena Jesenská
- Franz Kafka
- Siegfried Kapper
- Jiří Karásek z Lvovic
- Karl Kraus
- Jan Křesadlo
- Ludvík Kundera
- Milan Kundera
- Paul Leppin
- Bohuslav z Lobkovic
- Jiří Mahen
- Karel Hynek Mácha
- Gustav Meyrink
- Ondřej Neff
- Vladimír Neff
- Boena Němcová
- Jan Neruda
- Tereza Novaková
- Ferdinand Peroutka
- Eduard Petika, children books author
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Jaroslav Seifert, Nobel laureate
- Josef kvorecký
- Mark Slouka
- Adalbert Stifter
- Karolína Světlá
- Tom Stoppard
- Friedrich Torberg
- Jan Matzal Troska
- Michal Viewegh
- Franz Werfel
- Hermann Ungar
- Vladislav Vančura
- Alena Vostrá
- Jan Zábrana
- Vojtěch Zamarovský
- Julius Zeyer
Composers
- August Wilhelm Ambros
- Ralph Benatzky
- Carl Czerny
- Jan Ladislav Dusík
- Antonín Dvořák
- Zdeněk Fibich
- Julius Fučík
- Alois Hába
- Jan Hammer
- Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic
- Leoš Janáček
- Jaroslav Ježek
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold, film composer, two Oscars
- Hans Krása
- Gustav Mahler
- Bohuslav Martinů
- Josef Mysliveček
- Oskar Nedbal
- Vítězslav Novák
- Jakub Jan Ryba
- Bedřich Smetana
- Johann Stamitz
- Karel Stamitz
- Josef Suk
- Jaromír Vejvoda, author of the Beer Barrel Polka
- Jan Zach
- Jan Dismas Zelenka
- Jaromír Nohavica
- Karel Kryl
- Karel Plíhal
Other Musicians
- Alfred Brendel, pianist
- Emmy Destinn (Ema Destinnová), opera singer
- Ernestine Schumann-Heink, opera singer
- Rudolf Serkin, pianist
- Leo Slezak, opera singer
- Walter Susskind
- Maria Jeritza, opera singer (soprano)
- Hana Zagorová
Filmmakers
- Milo Forman, film director
- Jaromil Jire, film director
- Jiří Menzel, film director, actor
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst, film director
- Jan Pinkava, animator, film director
- Karel Reisz, film director
- Jan vankmajer, film director, animator
- Jan Svěrák, film director, actor
- Jiří Trnka, film director, animator
- Karel Zeman, film director, animator
Military
- Josef Frantiek, pilot ace
- Prokop the Great, Hussite leader
- Karel Kuttelwascher, general
- Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal
- Ludvík Svoboda, general, president
- Jan Syrový, general, prime minister
- Albrecht von Wallenstein, warlord during Thirty-Years War
- Jan ika, Hussite leader
Painters
- Václav Broík
- Emil Filla
- Václav Hollar
- František Kaván
- Jan Kupecký
- Frantiek Kupka
- Anton Raphael Mengs
- Alfons Mucha
- Helena Zmatlíková, illustrator of children books
- Jan Zrzavý
Philosophers
Politicians
- Victor Adler, Austrian politician
- Madeleine Albright, foreign minister of the USA
- Edvard Bene, president
- Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago
- Klement Gottwald, president
- Stanislav Gross, prime minister
- Václav Havel, president
- Václav Klaus, prime minister and president
- Jan Masaryk, foregin minister
- Tomá G. Masaryk, president
- Emanuel Moravec, collaborator with Nazis
- Karl Renner, Austrian politician
- Adolf Schärf, Austrian politician
Sculptors
- Franta Belsky - famous sculptor
- Matthias Bernard Braun - baroque sculptor
- Jan Brokoff - baroque sculptor
- Ferdinand Maxmilian Brokoff - baroque sculptor
- Michael Joseph Brokoff - baroque sculptor
- Josef Václav Myslbek
Scientists
- Karel Absolon, archaeologist, speleologist
- Josef Augusta, paleontologist, science popularizer
- Frantiek Běhounek, radiologist, writer, explorer
- Bernard Bolzano, philosopher, mathematician, and theologian
- Eugene Cernan, astronaut
- Václav Cílek, geologist, science popularizer
- Carl Ferdinand Cori, biochemist, Nobel laureate
- Gerty Cori, biochemist, Nobel laureate
- Eduard Čech, mathematician
- Václav Prokop Diviš, inventor of the lightning rod
- František Josef Gerstner, physicist, engineer
- Arthur Erich Haas
- Jaroslav Hájek, mathematician
- Jan Heweliusz, astronomer
- Jaroslav Heyrovský, scientist, Nobel laureate
- Václav Hlavatý, mathematician
- Bedřich Hrozný, linguist
- Jan Janský, discoverer of blood types
- Vojtech Jarnik, mathematician
- Karel Kavina, botanist
- František Koláček, physicist
- Mathias Lerch, mathematician
- Karel Löwner, mathematician
- Ernst Mach, physicist
- Gregor Mendel, biologist
- Zdeněk Neubauer, biologist
- Josef Ladislav Píč, archaeologist
- George Placzek, physicist
- Julius Pokorny, etymologist
- Jan Evangelista Purkyně, physiologist
- Karel Presl, botanist
- Josef Ludvík Frantiek Ressel, inventor of the ship's propeller
- Karel Rokytanský, anatomist
- Jan Šindel, astronomer
- Joseph Schumpeter, economist
- Olga Taussky Todd, mathematician
- Ota Šik, economist
- Petr Vopěnka, mathematician
- Jindřich Wankel, paleontologist
- Rudolf Weigl, biologist
- Max Wertheimer, psychologist
- Otto Wichterle, chemist, inventor of the modern contact lens
Linguistics, Anthropology, History
- Bořivoj Čelovský
- Ale Hrdlička, linguist
- Norbert Jokl
- Bohumil Mathesius
- Vilém Mathesius
- Jan Mukařovský
- Julius Pokorny
Sports Personalities
- Milan Michalek, ice-hockey player
- Milan Baroš, footballer
- Radek Bonk, ice-hockey player
- Věra Čáslavská, gymnast, Olympic gold medalist
- Roman Cechmanek, ice-hockey player
- Jaroslav Drobný, tennis player
- Patrik Eliá, ice-hockey player
- Tomá Enge, Grand prix race car driver
- Martin Erat, ice-hockey player
- Dominik Hašek, ice hockey player
- Martin Havlát, ice-hockey player
- Milan Hejduk, ice-hockey player & 2003-2004 NHL All-Star
- Martina Hingis, tennis player
- Jakob Hlasek, tennis player
- Bobby Holik, ice-hockey player
- Jaromír Jágr, ice hockey player
- Elika Junková, Grand prix race car driver
- Tomá Kaberle, ice-hockey player
- Jan Koller, footballer
- Petr Korda, tennis player
- Ivan Lendl, tennis player
- Hana Mandlíková, tennis player
- Martina Navrátilová, tennis player
- Petr Nedvěd, ice-hockey player
- Pavel Nedvěd, footballer
- Jana Novotná, tennis player
- Karel Poborský, footballer
- Karel Rachůnek, ice-hockey player
- Martin Prusek, ice-hockey player
- Tomáš Rosický, footballer
- Roman ebrle, decathlete, Olympic gold medalist
- Vladimír Šmicer, footballer
- Patrik tefan, ice-hockey player
- Wilhelm Steinitz, chess player
- Helena Suková, tennis player
- Ján Svorada, cyclist
- Petr Sýkora, ice-hockey player
- Ale Valenta, freestyle skiing, Olympic gold medalist
- Tomá Vokoun, ice-hockey player & 2003-2004 NHL All-Star
- Emil Zátopek, runner, Olympic gold medalist
- Jan elezný, javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist
Other
- (not classified)
- Joy Adamson, naturalist, author
- Guido Adler, musicologist
- Karel Barvitius, book and music publisher
- Tomáš Baťa, industrialist (Bata Shoes)
- Manolo Blahnik, fashion designer
- Giacomo Casanova, spent his last years as a librarian for the Czech Count Waldstein
- Comenius, teacher
- Josef Florian, book publisher
- Eduard Hanslick, critic
- Konrad Henlein, Nazi leader
- Eva Herzigová, model
- Jan Hus, religious thinker and reformer
- Karl Kautsky, theoretician of social democracy
- Hans Kelsen, jurist
- Ray Kroc, founder of McDonalds chain
- Karolína Kurková, model
- Victor Lustig, con artist
- Alois Musil, orientalist, explorer
- Petra Němcová, model
- Saint John Neumann, John Nepomucene Neumann
- Jan Opletal, student killed by Nazis
- Jan Palach, suicider
- Frank Plicka, photographer
- Přemek Podlaha, TV personality
- Ferdinand Porsche, German automobile inventor
- Silvia Saint, pornstar
- Jan Saudek, photographer
- Eugen Sänger, aerospace engineer
- Oskar Schindler, German businessman and Nazi, (of the Schindler's List movie fame)
- Ignác Šechtl, pioneer of photography
- Alois Senefelder, inventor of lithography
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Nazi leader
- Emil Škoda, industrialist (Škoda Works)
- Hana Soukupová, model
- Berta von Suttner, Austrian Nobel laureate
- Ivana Trump, model, businesswoman, first wife of real estate magnate Donald Trump
- Linda Vojtová, model
- Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia (Saint Wenceslas), known as "Good King Wenceslas" in a Christmas carol
- Hans Kohn, historian
See also
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