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List of Czechs
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.).
Actors
Architects
Authors and Poets
Composers
Other Musicians
Filmmakers
- Miloš Forman, film director
- Jiří Menzel, film director, actor
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst, film director
- Karel Reisz, film director
- Jan Švankmajer, film director, animator
- Jan Svěrák, film director, actor
- Karel Zeman , film director
Painters
Politicians
Sculptors
Scientists
- Bernard Bolzano, philosopher, mathematician, and theologian
- Eduard Cech, mathematician
- Eugene Cernan, astronaut
- Carl Ferdinand Cori, biochemist, Nobel laureate
- Gerty Cori, biochemist, Nobel laureate
- Eduard Čech, mathematician
- Václav Prokop Diviš, inventor of the lightning rod
- Vilém Flusser, philosopher
- Jaroslav Hájek , mathematician
- Jan Heweliusz, astronomer
- Jaroslav Heyrovský, scientist, Nobel laureate
- Václav Hlavatý , mathematician
- Bedřich Hrozný, scientist
- Vojtech Jarnik , mathematician
- Mathias Lerch , mathematician
- Karel Löwner , mathematician
- Gregor Mendel, biologist
- Zdeněk Neubauer , philosopher
- George Placzek , physicist
- Jan Evangelista Purkyně, scientist
- Josef Ludvík František Ressel, inventor of the ship's propeller
- Jan Šindel, astronomer
- Joseph Schumpeter, economist
- Olga Taussky Todd, mathematician
- Petr Vopěnka , mathematician
- Otto Wichterle, scientist, inventor of the modern contact lens
Linguistics, Anthropology, History
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 Eliáš, ice-hockey player
- 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
- Bobby Holik, ice-hockey player
- Jaromír Jágr, ice hockey player
- Eliška Junková, Grand prix race car driver
- Tomáš 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
- Vladimír Šmicer, footballer
- Patrik Štefan, ice-hockey player
- Helena Suková , tennis player
- Petr Sýkora, ice-hockey player
- Petr Sýkora , ice-hockey player
- Aleš Valenta , freestyle skiing, Olympic gold medalist
- Tomáš Vokoun, ice-hockey player & 2003-2004 NHL All-Star
- Emil Zátopek, runner, Olympic gold medalist
- Jan Železný, javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist
- Roman Šebrle, decathlete, Olympic gold medalist
Other
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- Joy Adamson, naturalist, author
- Tomáš Baťa, industrialist (Bata Shoes)
- Giacomo Casanova, spent his last years as a librarian for the Czech Count Waldstein
- Josef František, pilot, flying ace
- Eduard Hanslick, critic
- Konrad Henlein, Nazi leader
- Eva Herzigová, model
- Jan Hus, religious thinker and reformer
- Edmund Husserl, philosopher
- Ray Kroc, founder of McDonalds chain
- Karolína Kurková, model
- Victor Lustig, con artist
- Alois Musil, orientalist, explorer
- Petra Němcová, supermodel
- Jan Opletal, student killed by Nazis
- Frank Plicka, photographer
- Ferdinand Porsche, German automobile inventor
- Eugen Sänger, aerospace engineer
- Ignác Šechtl, pioneer of photography
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Nazi leader
- Oskar Schindler, German businessman - "Schindler's List"
- Hana Soukupová , model
- Wilhelm Steinitz, chess player
- Berta von Suttner, Austrian Nobel laureate
- Linda Vojtová , model
- The Good King Wenceslas, 10th century Duke of Christmas Carol fame
- Max Wertheimer, psychologist
- Ernest Nagel (1911-1985), pilosopher
- Hans Kohn , historian
See also
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