This is a partial list of famous Czech people. This list includes people born in Czech lands, people of the Czech nationality as well as people having some significant Czech ancestry or association with Czech culture.
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Actors
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Architects and designers
Authors and poets
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Composers
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Other musicians
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- Karel AnÃÂerl, conductor
- JiÃ
ÂàBÃÂlohlávek, conductor
- Gabriela BeÃ
ÂaÃÂková, opera singer
- Victoria Blyth, singer
- Alfred Brendel, pianist
- Ema Destinnová, opera singer
- Ewa Farna, pop singer
- Michaela FukaÃÂová, cellist
- Karel Gott, singer
- Alice Herz-Sommer, pianist
- Maria Jeritza, opera singer
- JiÃ
ÂÃÂ Jirmal, guitarist
- Markéta Irglová, singer, actress, Oscar prize winner
- Mikolas Josef, pop singer
- Gabriela GunÃÂÃÂková, pop singer
- Martina Bárta, pop singer
- Marta Jandová, pop singer
- Vaclav Noid Barta, pop singer
- Tomas Kalnoky, singer, guitarist and composer
- Karel KovaÃ
Âovic, conductor
- Magdalena KoÃ
¾ená, opera singer
- AntonÃÂn Kraft, cellist
- Ivan Kral, guitarist and singer
- Karel Kryl, songwriter
- Jan KubelÃÂk, violinist
- Daniel Landa, singer
- Aneta Langerová, singer
- Ferdinand Laub, violinist
- Jan AntonÃÂn Losy, lute player
- Waldemar MatuÃ
¡ka, singer-songwriter and actor
- Ivan Moravec, pianist
- Ignaz Moscheles, pianist
- Eduard NápravnÃÂk, conductor
- Václav Neumann, conductor
- JaromÃÂr Nohavica, guitarist and songwriter
- Jarmila Novotná, opera singer
- Josef PálenÃÂÃÂek, pianist
- Libor PeÃ
¡ek, conductor
- Karel PlÃÂhal, guitarist and songwriter
- David Popper, cellist
- Friederike Proch Benesch, pianist and composer
- Rudolf Serkin, pianist
- Otakar Ã
 evÃÂÃÂk, violinist
- Leo Slezak, opera singer
- JiÃ
ÂÃÂ StivÃÂn, flute player
- Karel Strakatý, singer
- Vaclav Talich, conductor
- Vilém Tauský, conductor
- Ã
 tÃÂpán Rak, guitarist
- Zuzana RÃ
¯Ã
¾iÃÂková, harpsichordist
- Miroslav VitouÃ
¡, jazzman
- AntonÃÂn Vranický (also known as Anton ), violinist
- Hana Zagorová, singer
- Wojciech Ã
»ywny, pianist
Filmmakers
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- FrantiÃ
¡ek ÃÂáp, film director
- VÃÂra Chytilová, film director
- MiloÃ
¡ Forman, film director
- Karl Freund, film director
- Jan HÃ
Âebejk, film director
- Jaromil JireÃ
¡, film director
- Elmar Klos, film director
- OldÃ
Âich Lipský, film director, screenwriter
- JiÃ
ÂÃÂ Menzel, film director, actor
- ZdenÃÂk Miler, film director
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst, film director
- Ivan Passer, film director
- Jan Pinkava, animator, film director
- BÃ
Âetislav Pojar, 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 Ã
 vankmajer, film director, animator
- Jan SvÃÂrák, film director, actor
- Jan Tománek, film director, artist and writer
- JiÃ
ÂÃÂ Trnka, film director, animator
- ZdenÃÂk TroÃ
¡ka, film director, screenwriter
- HermÃÂna Týrlová, stage designer, cartoonist
- Otakar Vávra, film director
- FrantiÃ
¡ek VláÃÂil, film director
- Karel Zeman, film director, animator
Military
- Jan KubiÃ
¡, paratrooper, the assassination of Heydrich
- Jozef GabÃÂÃÂk, paratrooper, the assassination of Heydrich (Slovak)
- Josef Bryks, pilot
- Josef Alexej Eisenberger, World War II general
- Alois EliáÃ
¡, army officer, member of the Czechoslovak legion
- Josef FrantiÃ
¡ek, pilot ace
- Radola Gajda, army officer, member of the Czechoslovak legion
- Kurt Knispel, German Tank Ace (Sudeten German)
- Karel Kuttelwascher, general, pilot ace
- FrantiÃ
¡ek Moravec, military intelligence officer, member of the Czechoslovak legion in World War I
- FrantiÃ
¡ek PeÃ
Âina, pilot ace
- Prokop the Great, Hussite leader
- Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, field marshal
- LudvÃÂk Svoboda, general, president
- Jan Syrový, general, prime minister, member of the Czechoslovak legion
- Albrecht von Wallenstein, warlord during Thirty Years' War
- Jan Ã
½iÃ
¾ka, Hussite leader
- Otakar JaroÃ
¡, army officer during World War II
- Karel Klapálek, army officer during World War II, commander of the Czechoslovak 11th Infantry Battalion and 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps
- Josef Ã
 nejdárek, soldier of French Foreign Legion, commander of the Czechoslovak army and Czechoslovak legion
Models
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Painters
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Philosophers
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Photographers
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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 BeneÃ
¡, president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938 and again from 1945 to 1948
- Jerzy Buzek, prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001 and president of the European Parliament 2009 to 2012
- Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor
- Karl von Czyhlarz, Czech-Austrian jurist
- Klement Gottwald, 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, former Canadian Federal Cabinet Minister
- Václav Klaus, former prime minister and expresident of the Czech Republic
- Juscelino Kubitschek, President of Brazil (1956âÂÂ1961)
- Jan Masaryk, foreign minister
- TomáÃ
¡ G. Masaryk, first president of Czechoslovakia
- MikuláÃ
¡ of Hus, politician, Hussite
- Emanuel Moravec, collaborator with Nazis
- AntonÃÂn Novotný, communist president
- PÃ
Âemysl Otakar II, King of Bohemia and most powerful man in middle Europe in his era
- George of PodÃÂbrady, Hussite king
- Karl Renner, Austrian first President after World War II
- Rudolf II, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor
- Adolf Schärf, President of Austria
- Jan Ã
 vejnar, US-based, Czech-born economist
- LudvÃÂk Svoboda, communist president
- Mirek Topolánek, former Prime Minister
- Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia (Saint Wenceslas, Václav), known as "Good King Wenceslas" in a Christmas carol
- Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia, king
- MiloÃ
¡ Zeman, first directly elected president in Czech history
Religion
- Josef Beran, cardinal
- Petr ChelÃÂický, thinker, religious reformer
- TomáÃ
¡ HalÃÂk, catholic theologian, sociologist
- Jan Hus, religious thinker and reformer
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Talmudic scholar
- TomáÃ
¡ Ã
 pidlÃÂk, cardinal, thinker
- FrantiÃ
¡ek TomáÃ
¡ek, cardinal
Saints
- Saint Adalbert of Prague (VojtÃÂch in Czech), bishop of Prague, missionary and martyr
- Saint Agnes of Bohemia, AneÃ
¾ka ÃÂeská
- Saint John of Nepomuk, known through central Europe
- Saint John Neumann (John Nepomucene Neumann)
- Saint John Sarkander, priest tortured to death in Olomouc
- Saint Ludmila, princess of Bohemia, grandmother of St. Wenceslas
- Saint Prokop, canon and hermit
- Saint Wenceslas, duke of Bohemia
- Saint Gorazd (PavlÃÂk), Eastern Orthodox new martyr, bishop of Prague, and metropolitan of the Czech lands and Slovakia
Sculptors
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Scientists
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- Karel Absolon, archaeologist and speleologist
- Josef Augusta, paleontologist and popularizer of science
- JiÃ
ÂàBaborovský, chemist
- JindÃ
Âich BaÃÂkovský, physicist
- Jan BaÃ
¡ta, engineer and researcher
- Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, economist
- Bohumila BednáÃ
Âová, astronomer
- FrantiÃ
¡ek BÃÂhounek, radiologist, writer, and explorer
- Vincent Bochdalek, anatomist
- Johann Böhm, chemist
- Bernard Bolzano, mathematician, philosopher, and theologian
- Otakar BorÃ
¯vka, mathematician
- Josef BoÃ
¾ek engineer
- Eduard ÃÂech, mathematician
- FrantiÃ
¡ek ÃÂelakovský, linguist and writer
- Václav CÃÂlek, geologist and popularizer of science
- Jan Amos Comenius, polyhistorian, educator, and the inventor of illustrated textbooks
- Gerty Cori, biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Carl Ferdinand Cori, biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Leander Czerny, biologist
- Václav Prokop DiviÃ
¡, priest, scientist and inventor
- Josef Dobrovský, philologist and historian
- Karel Fortyn, physician
- Sigmund Freud, psychologist
- FrantiÃ
¡ek Josef Gerstner, physicist and engineer
- Kurt Gödel, mathematician
- Stanislav Grof, psychologist and researcher in transpersonal psychology
- Peter Grünberg, physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
- JiÃ
ÂÃÂ Grygar, astrophysicist, popularizer of science
- Jan Hajek, scientist
- Jaroslav Hájek, mathematician
- TadeáÃ
¡ Hájek, physician and astronomer
- LumÃÂr OndÃ
Âej HanuÃ
¡, chemist, co-discovered anandamide, an endogenous cannabinoid neurotransmitter
- Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, dermatologist
- Jaroslav Heyrovský, chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959
- Václav Hlavatý, mathematician
- Ivan Honl, biologist
- Kamil Hornoch, amateur astronomer
- BedÃ
Âich Hrozný, linguist
- Jakub Husnik, inventor and painter
- Jan Janský, physician, discovered blood types
- Karl Guthe Jansky, engineer
- VojtÃÂch JarnÃÂk, mathematician
- Konstantin JireÃÂek, historian
- Otto JÃÂrovec, parasitologist and protozoologist
- Georg Joseph Kamel, botanist
- Vlasta Kálalová, physician and entomologist
- Karel Kavina, botanist
- Jan Kmenta, economist and econometrician
- LuboÃ
¡ Kohoutek, astronomer
- FrantiÃ
¡ek KoláÃÂek, physicist
- Zdenek Kopal, astronomer
- FrantiÃ
¡ek KÃ
ÂiÃ
¾ÃÂk, an inventor of the arc lamp
- Bohumil KuÃÂera, physicist
- Jaroslav Kurzweil, mathematician
- Václav Láska, geophysicist and mathematician
- Mathias Lerch, mathematician
- Hana Librová, biologist
- Drahoslav LÃÂm, chemist and the inventor of hydrogel
- Johann Josef Loschmidt, chemist
- Ernst Mach, physicist and expert in aerodynamics
- Frank Malina, aeronautical engineer
- Jan Marek Marci, physician
- ZdenÃÂk MatÃÂjka, chemist
- Gregor Mendel, founder of the science of genetics
- AntonÃÂn Mrkos, astronomer
- Johann Palisa, astronomer
- FrantiÃ
¡ek PatoÃÂka, biologist
- Karel Petr, mathematician
- Josef Ladislav PÃÂÃÂ, archaeologist
- George Placzek, physicist
- Julius Pokorny, etymologist
- Ferdinand Porsche, automotive engineer
- KÃ
ÂiÃ
¡Ã
Â¥an 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 PurkynÃÂ, physiologist who first recognised the individuality of fingerprints
- ZdenÃÂk Rejdák, scientist in psychotronics
- Josef LudvÃÂk FrantiÃ
¡ek Ressel, an inventor of the ship's propeller
- Karel Rokytanský, anatomist
- Karel RychlÃÂk, mathematician
- VojtÃÂch Ã
 afaÃ
ÂÃÂk, chemist
- Jaroslav Ã
 afránek, physicist
- Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, botanist
- Joseph Schumpeter, economist
- Bohumil Sekla, biologist
- Alois Senefelder, inventor of the printing technique of lithography
- August Seydler, physicist and astronomer
- Ota Ã
 ik, economist
- Jan Ã
 indel, astronomer
- Josef Ã
 koda, physician
- Ferdinand Stoliczka, paleontologist
- Vincenc Strouhal, physicist
- FrantiÃ
¡ek Josef StudniÃÂka, mathematician
- AntonÃÂn Svoboda, computer scientist and mathematician
- Karl von Terzaghi, geotechnical engineer and geologist
- Olga Taussky-Todd, mathematician
- Jana Tichá, astronomer
- MiloÃ
¡ Tichý, astronomer
- Viktor Trkal, physicist and mathematician
- Miloslav Valouch, mathematician
- Petr VopÃÂnka, mathematician
- JindÃ
Âich Wankel, paleontologist
- Rudolf Weigl, biologist
- Max Wertheimer, psychologist
- Otto Wichterle, chemist and the inventor of the modern contact lens
- Karel Zahradnik, mathematician
- Rudolf ZahradnÃÂk, chemist
- FrantiÃ
¡ek ZáviÃ
¡ka, physicist
- John Zeleny, physicist and the inventor of the electroscope
- VladimÃÂr Zoubek, geologist
- Petr Zuman, electrochemist
Linguistics, anthropology, history
- Karla Absolonová-Bufková, writer, ethnographer and folklorist
- Guido Adler, musicologist
- Lucie BakeÃ
¡ová, folklorist
- Bohuslav BalbÃÂn, historian
- Max DvoÃ
Âák, art historian
- Eva HajiÃÂová, linguist
- Eduard Hanslick, musicologist
- Vlasta Havelková, ethnographer, archaeologist and folklorist
- AleÃ
¡ HrdliÃÂka, medical doctor, anthropologist
- BedÃ
Âich Hrozný, philologist and orientalist (decipherer of Hittite)
- Konstantin JireÃÂek, slavist, historian
- Josef Jungmann, linguist
- Rosa Junck, translator and Esperantist
- Henry KuÃÂera, linguist, cognitive scientist, language software author
- Bohumil Mathesius, translator
- Vilém Mathesius, linguist
- Josef Vratislav Monse, founder of Moravian history-writing
- Jan MukaÃ
Âovský, literary theorist
- Alois Musil, orientalist, explorer
- FrantiÃ
¡ek Palacký, historian
- AntonÃÂn Rezek, historian
- FrantiÃ
¡ek RoubÃÂk, historian
- August SedláÃÂek, historian
- Petr Sgall, linguist
- JindÃ
Âich Wankel, paleontologist
- LukáÃ
¡ M. VytlaÃÂil, historian, flutist and musicologist
- ÃÂenÃÂk ZÃÂbrt, ethnographer, historian
Sports personalities
Entrepreneurs
- Jan AntonÃÂn BaÃ
Â¥a, industrialist (BaÃ
Â¥a a.s., 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))
- TomáÃ
¡ BaÃ
Â¥a, industrialist (Bata T&A, Zlin)
- Emil Kolben, industrialist (ÃÂKD)
- FrantiÃ
¡ek KÃ
ÂiÃ
¾ÃÂk, industrialist
- Ignác Ã
 echtl, pioneer of photography (Ã
 echtl and VoseÃÂek)
- Emil Ã
 koda, industrialist (Ã
 koda Works)
Other
- Karel Barvitius (1864âÂÂ1937), book and music publisher
- EliÃ
¡ka BuÃÂková (born 1989), Miss Universe 2008 Top 15 finalist (Czech Republic placed for the second consecutive time)
- JiÃ
ÂàBuquoy (1781âÂÂ1851), aristocrat
- Vlaada Chvatil (born 1971), board game designer
- Sophie Chotek (1868âÂÂ1914), wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, also assassinated
- Tereza Fajksová (born 1989), (Miss Earth 2012)
- Josef Florian (1873âÂÂ1941), book publisher
- Zdenek Konvalina (born 1979), ballet dancer
- Marian Korn (1914âÂÂ1987), printmaker
- TaÃ
¥ána KuchaÃ
Âová (born 1987), (Miss World 2006)
- Leopold Lojka (1886âÂÂ1926), FrantiÃ
¡ek Josef's driver during the assassination
- Victor Lustig (1890âÂÂ1947), con artist
- Iveta Lutovská (born 1983), Miss Universe 2009 Top 10 finalist (Czech Republic placed for the third consecutive time)
- Jaroslav Malina (1937âÂÂ2016), theatre scenographer
- Jan Opletal (1915âÂÂ1939), student, shot by Germans
- Jan Palach (1948âÂÂ1969), student, political activist
- PÃ
Âemek Podlaha (1938âÂÂ2014), TV personality
- ZdeÃ
Âka Pokorná (1905âÂÂ2007), teacher and political activist
- Anna Ã
Âeháková (1850âÂÂ1937), teacher, writer and translator
- EliÃ
¡ka Ã
Âeháková (1846âÂÂ1916), teacher, translator, journalist and suffragist
- VladimÃÂr Remek (born 1948), cosmonaut
- Silvie TomÃÂalová, aka Silvia Saint (born 1976), adult film star
- Oskar Schindler (1908âÂÂ1974), industrialist who saved 1200 Jewish lives in World War 2
- Bertha von Suttner (1843âÂÂ1914), Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Jan ZajÃÂc (1950âÂÂ1969), student, political activist, suicide
- Sultanah Nur Diana Petra (born 1988), Sultanah consort of the Malaysian State of Kelantan
Fictional characters
See also
References