List of Czechs
Famous Czech or Czech-speaking/writing people
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2 Authors and Poets 3 Composers 4 Filmmakers 5 Painters 6 Scientists 7 Sports Personalities 8 Other 9 Also Czech-born |
Politicians
Authors and Poets
- Karel Capek
- Jaroslav Foglar
- Jaroslav Hasek
- Václav Havel
- Bohumil Hrabal
- Milan Kundera
- Karel Hynek Macha
- Jan Neruda
- Ferdinand Peroutka
- Jaroslav Seifert
Composers
- Antonin Dvorak
- Zdenek Fibich
- Leos Janacek
- Bohuslav Martinu
- Josef Myslivecek
- Oskar Nedbal
- Vitezslav Novák
- Bedrich Smetana
- Johann Stamitz
- Karel Stamitz
- Josef Suk
- Jaromir Vejvoda, author of the Beer Barrel Polka
- Jan Zach
- Jan Dismas Zelenka
Filmmakers
- Milos Forman, film director
- Jiri Menzel, film director, actor
- Karel Reisz, film director
- Jan Svankmajer, film director, animator
- Jan Sverák, film director, actor
- Karel Zeman, film director
Painters
- Vaclav Brozik
- Emil Filla
- Wenceslaus Hollar
- Jan Kupecky
- Frantisek Kupka
- Alfons Mucha
Scientists
- Bernard Bolzano, philosopher, mathematician, and theologian
- Jaroslav Heyrovsky, scientist, Nobel laureate
- Bedrich Hrozný, scientist, deciphered Hittite language
- Jan Evangelista Purkyne, scientist
- Otto Wichterle, scientist, inventor of the modern contact lens
Sports Personalities
- Vera Caslavska, gymnast, Olympic gold medalist
- Jaroslav Drobny, tennis player
- Dominik Hašek, ice hockey player
- Martina Hingis, tennis player
- Jaromir Jagr, ice hockey player
- Jan Koller, footballer
- Petr Korda, tennis player
- Ivan Lendl, tennis player
- Hana Mandlikova, tennis player
- Martina Navratilova, tennis player
- Pavel Nedved, footballer
- Jana Novotna, tennis player
- Tomas Rosický, footballer
- Helena Sukova, tennis player
- Emil Zatopek, runner, Olympic gold medalist
- Jan Zelezný, javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist
Other
- Thomas Bata, industrialist, Bata Shoes
- Vaclav Prokop Divis, inventor of the lightning rod
- Jan Hus
- Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius)
- Jan Letzel, architect of the A-bomb Dome
- Johann Santin Aichel, architect
- The Good King Wenceslas , 10th century Duke nof Christmas Carol fame
Also Czech-born
- Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State
- August Wilhelm Ambros
- Alfred Brendel, pianist
- Max Brod
- Anton Cermak
- Sigmund Freud
- Kurt Gödel
- Edmund Husserl
- Franz Kafka
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold, film composer, two Oscars
- Adolf Loos
- Gustav Mahler
- Ernst Mach
- Gregor Mendel
- Anton Raphael Mengs
- Ferdinand Porsche
- Karl Renner
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart
- Oskar Schindler
- Joseph Schumpeter
- Wilhelm Steinitz
- Adalbert Stifter
- Tom Stoppard
- Berta von Suttner, Nobel laureate
- Franz Werfel
