List of Czechs

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This is a partial list of famous Czech, Czech-speaking/writing people. This list includes people of the Czech nationality as well as people having some significant Czech ancestry or association with Czech culture.

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[edit] Actors

See Czech actors

[edit] Architects

See Czech architects

[edit] Authors and Poets

See Czech writers

Jindřich Šimon Baar
Jan Blahoslav
Karel Havlíček Borovský
Arthur Breisky
Otokar Březina
Karel Čapek
Svatopluk Čech
František Čelakovský
Jakub Deml
Ivan Diviš
František Doucha
Karel Jaromír Erben
Jaroslav Foglar
Ladislav Fuks
Jiří Grossmann
Jiří Kulhánek
Jaroslav Hašek
Vladimír Holan
Miroslav Holub
Bohumil Hrabal
František Hrubín
Miroslav Ivanov
Boleslav Jablonský
Josef Jedlička
Milena Jesenská
Alois Jirásek
Franz Kafka
Václav Kaplický
Jan Karafiát, best known for Fireflies (Broučci)
Václav Kliment Klicpera
Oskar Kokoschka
Jan Křesadlo
Milan Kundera
Bohuslav z Lobkovic
Karel Hynek Mácha
Jiří Mahen
Bohumil Mathesius
Rudolf Medek
Ondřej Neff
Vladimír Neff
Božena Němcová
Jan Neruda
Ferdinand Peroutka
Eduard Petiška
Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová
Bohuslav Reynek
Jan Rokycana (John of Rokycan)
Jan Skácel
Jaroslav Seifert
Zdeněk Svěrák
Josef Škvorecký
Ivan Špaček
Karel Teige
Jáchym Topol
Jan Matzal Troska
Svatopluk Turek
Michal Viewegh
Jan Werich
Jiří Wolker
Josef Váchal
Vladislav Vančura
Alena Vostrá
Zikmund Winter
Jan Zábrana
Jan Zahradníček
Vojtech Zamarovský

[edit] Composers

See Czech composers

[edit] Other Musicians

See Czech musicians

Gabriela Beňačková, opera singer
Ema Destinnová, opera singer
Maria Jeritza, opera singer
Jiří Jirmal, guitarist
Václav Kaprál, pianist
Karel Kovařovic, conductor
Magdalena Kožená, singer
Jan Kubelík, violinist
Daniel Landa, guitarist
Jan Antonín Losy, famous lute player
Ferdinand Laub, violinist
Ivan Moravec, pianist
Eduard Nápravník, conductor
Jarmila Novotná, opera singer
Josef Páleníček, pianist
Libor Pešek, conductor
Otakar Ševčík, violinist
Leo Slezak, opera singer
Karel Strakatý, singer
Vaclav Talich, conductor
Vilém Tauský, conductor
Štěpán Rak, guitarist
Zuzana Růžičková, harpsichordist
Antonín Vranický, (also known as Anton Wrani(t)zky) violinist
Hana Zagorová, singer
Aneta Langerová, singer
Karel Gott, singer
Tomas Kalnoky, singer, guitarist and composer

[edit] Filmmakers

See Czech Film Directors

Věra Chytilová, film director
Miloš Forman, film director
Jaromil Jireš, film director
Oldřich Lipský, film director, screenwriter
Jiří Menzel, film director, actor
Zdeněk Miler, film director
Ivan Passer, film director
Břetislav Pojar, film director
Jan Pinkava, animator, film director
Alfréd Radok, film and theatre director
Emil Radok, film director
Karel Reisz, film director
Bohdan Sláma, film director
Ladislav Smoljak, film director
Jan Švankmajer, film director, animator
Jan Svěrák, film director, actor
Jiří Trnka, film director, animator
Hermína Týrlová, stage designer, cartoonist
Otakar Vávra, film director
František Vláčil, film director
Karel Zeman, film director, animator

[edit] Military

Alois Eliáš, army officer
Josef František, pilot ace
Radola Gajda, army officer
Prokop the Great, Hussite leader
Karel Kuttelwascher, general
Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, field marshal
Ludvík Svoboda, general, president
Jan Syrový, general, prime minister
Albrecht von Wallenstein, warlord during Thirty-Years War
Jan Žižka, Hussite leader
František Peřina, pilot

[edit] Models

See Czech models

[edit] Painters

See Czech Painters

[edit] Philosophers

See Czech philosophers

Arnošt Bláha (1879 - 1960), sociologist
Egon Bondy (1930)
Václav Bělohradský (1944)
Ladislav Klíma (1878 - 1928)
Vilém Flusser (1920 – 1991)
František Klácel (1808 - 1882)
Jan Patočka (1907 - 1977)
Radovan Richta (1924 - 1983)

[edit] Photographers

See Czech photographers

[edit] Politicians

See Czechoslovakian and Czech politicians

Edvard Beneš, president
Jan Bervida, Minister of Czechoslovakian Civilian Airways
Klement Gottwald, first communist president
Konrad Henlein, German autonomist, Nazi leader
Václav Havel, first president after fall of totality, first president of independent Czech republic
Václav Klaus, prime minister and current president of Czech republic
Otto Jelinek, former Canadian Federal Caninet Minister.
Jan Masaryk, foreign minister
Tomáš G. Masaryk, first president of Czechoslovakia
Emanuel Moravec, collaborator with Nazis

[edit] Pornstars

See Czech pornstars

Dolly Buster
Jana Cova (1980)
Aleš Hanák (1977)
Tommy Hansen (1982)
Brandon Manilow (1984)
Pavel Novotný (1977)
Zdenka Podkapová (1977)
Anita Queen (1978)
Silvia Saint (1976)
Aneta Šmrhová (1983)
Monica Sweetheart (1982)
Johan Volny (1986)
Pavel Stastny as seen in the 2006 Porno of the Year, "Veiner Schnizel and Dumplings"

[edit] Sculptors

See Czech sculptors

[edit] Scientists

See Czech Scientists

Karel Absolon, archaeologist, speleologist
Josef Augusta, paleontologist, science popularizer
Jiří Baborovský, chemist
Jindřich Bačkovský, physicist
František Běhounek, radiologist, writer, explorer
Vincent Bochdalek, anatomist
Johann Böhm, chemist
Bernard Bolzano, philosopher, mathematician, and theologian
Otakar Borůvka, mathematician
Josef Božek engineer
Václav Cílek, geologist, science popularizer
Jan Amos Comenius, polyhistorian, educator, inventor of illustrated textbook
Eduard Čech, mathematician
František Čelakovský, linguist and writer
Leander Czerny, biologist
Václav Prokop Diviš, inventor of the lightning rod
Josef Dobrovský, philologist and historian
Karel Fortyn, physician
František Josef Gerstner, physicist, engineer
Zaboj Harvalik, physicist
Jan Hajek, scientist
Jaroslav Hájek, mathematician
Tadeáš Hájek, physician, astronomer
Jaroslav Heyrovský, scientist, Nobel Prize
Václav Hlavatý, mathematician
Ivan Honl, biologist
Bedřich Hrozný, linguist
Jakub Husnik, inventor and painter
Jan Janský, discoverer of blood types
Karl Guthe Jansky, engineer
Vojtěch Jarník, mathematician
Konstantin Jireček, historian
Otto Jirovec, parasitologist and protozoologist
Vlasta Kálalová, physician, entomologist
Karel Kavina, botanist
Oskar Krejčí, political scientist
František Křižík, inventor arc lamp
Luboš Kohoutek, astronomer
František Koláček, physicist
Bohumil Kučera, physicist
Jaroslav Kurzweil, mathematician
Václav Láska, geophysicist, mathematician
Mathias Lerch, mathematician
Drahoslav Lím, chemist, inventor hydrogel
Frank Malina, aeronautical engineer
Ernst Mach, physicist
Jan Marek Marci, physician
Antonín Mrkos, astronomer
František Palacký, historian
František Patočka, biologist
Karel Petr, mathematician
Josef Ladislav Píč, archaeologist
George Placzek, physicist
Julius Pokorny, etymologist
Křišťan of Prachatice, Medieval astronomer and physician
Petr Pravec, astronomer
Jan Svatopluk Presl, chemist
Jiří Procháska, physiologist
Stanislav Prowazek, zoologist, parasitologist
Jan Evangelista Purkyně, physiologist, first recognised the individuality of fingerprints
Karel Presl, botanist
Vlastimil Pták, mathematician
Vladimir Remek, cosmonaut
Josef Ludvík František Ressel, inventor of the ship's propeller
Karel Rokytanský, anatomist
Karel Rychlík, mathematician
Vojtěch Šafařík, chemists
Jaroslav Šafránek, physicist
Bohumil Sekla, biologist
August Seydler, physicist, astronomer
Jan Šindel, astronomer
Josef Škoda, physician
Ivan Šolc, inventor
Ferdinand Stoliczka, paleontologist
Vincenc Strouhal, physicist
František Josef Studnička, mathematician
Olga Taussky Todd, mathematician
Jana Tichá, astronomer
Miloš Tichý, astronomer
Viktor Trkal, physicist, mathematician
Ota Šik, economist
Miloslav Valouch, mathematician
Petr Vopěnka, mathematician
Jindřich Wankel, paleontologist
Otto Wichterle, chemist, inventor of the modern contact lens
Karel Zahradnik, mathematician
Rudolf Zahradník, chemist
František Záviska, physicist
John Zeleny, physicist, inventor electroscope
Vladimír Zoubek, geologist
Petr Zuman, electrochemist

[edit] Linguistics, Anthropology, History

Bořivoj Čelovský
Max Dvořák, art historian
Eva Hajičová, linguist
Aleš Hrdlička, medical doctor, anthropolog
Bedřich Hrozný, philologist and orientalist (decipherer of Hittite)
Josef Jireček
Bohumil Mathesius, translator
Vilém Mathesius, linguist
Jan Mukařovský, literary theorist
Alois Musil, orientalist, explorer
Antonín Rezek, historian
František Roubík, historian
August Sedláček, historian
Petr Sgall, linguist
Vladimír Skalička, linguist (founder of linguistic typology)
Josef Vachek, linguist
Čeněk Zíbrt, ethnographer, historian

[edit] Sports Personalities

Milan Baroš, footballer
Patrik Berger, footballer
Radek Bonk, ice hockey player
Věra Čáslavská, gymnast, Olympic gold medalist
Petr Čech, footballer
Roman Čechmánek, ice hockey player
Jaroslav Drobný, tennis player
Oldřich Duras, chess player
Patrik Eliáš, ice hockey player
Tomáš Enge, Grand prix race car driver
Salo Flohr, chess player
Dominik Hašek, ice hockey player
Martina Hingis, tennis player
Bobby Holik, ice hockey player
Vlastimil Hort, chess player
Kent Hrbek, baseball player
Jaromír Jágr, ice hockey player
Eliška Junková, Formula One driver
Tomáš Kaberle, ice hockey player
Jan Koller, footballer
Petr Korda, tennis player
Jan Koželuh, tennis player
Karel Koželuh, tennis player
Ivan Lendl, tennis player
Hana Mandlíková, tennis player
Věra Menčíková, first Women’s World Chess Champion
Milan Michalek, ice hockey player
Martina Navrátilová, tennis player
Pavel Nedvěd, footballer
Kateřina Neumannová, cross-country skiing
Petr Novický, basketball player
Jana Novotná, tennis player
Ludek Pachman, chess player
Tomáš Rosický, footballer
Wilhelm Steinitz, first World Chess Champion
Roman Šebrle, decathlete, Olympic gold medalist
Vladimír Šmicer, footballer
Patrik Štefan, ice hockey player
Helena Suková, tennis player
Petr Sýkora, ice hockey player
Nicole Vaidišová, tennis player
Aleš Valenta, freestyle skiing, Olympic gold medalist
Kamila Vodichkova, basketball player
Emil Zátopek, runner, Olympic gold medalist
Jan Železný, javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist
Petr Nedvěd, ice hockey player
Marik Malik, ice hockey player
Petr Průcha, ice hockey player

[edit] Entrepreneurs

Tomáš Baťa, industrialist (Bata Shoes)
Emil Škoda, industrialist (Škoda Works)
Ignác Šechtl, pioneer of photography (Šechtl and Voseček)

[edit] Other

(not classified)

Karel Barvitius, book and music publisher
Jiří Buquoy, famous aristocrat
Giacomo Casanova, spent his last years as a librarian in Duchcov Castle
Petr Chelčický, thinker, religious reformer
Eduard Hanslick, critic
Jan Hus, religious thinker and reformer
Mikuláš of Hus, politician Hussite
Josef Florian, book publisher
Victor Lustig, con artist
Jaroslav Malina, theatre sceneographer
Saint John of Nepomuk, known through the central Europe
Saint John Neumann (John Nepomucene Neumann)
Jan Opletal, student shot by Germans
Jan Palach, student, political activist, suicider
Přemek Podlaha, TV personality
Oskar Schindler, German businessman and Nazi, (of the Schindler's List movie fame)
Bertha von Suttner, Nobel laureate
Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia (Saint Wenceslas), known as "Good King Wenceslas" in a Christmas carol

[edit] See also

List of Czech Jews
List of people by nationality
List of people by EU state
List of people on stamps of the Czech Republic (including non-Czech people)

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