Největší Čech
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Největší Čech (The Greatest Czech) is the Czech spin-off of the BBC Greatest Britons show; a television poll of the populace to name the greatest Czech in history. It was shown on the national public-service broadcaster, Česká televize. Moderator of TV programme was Marek Eben. He was in top 100 too, but as moderator of show was displaced from official issue.
The Collection of the nomination votes took place during January 2005; the top 100 were announced on 5 May; and the final rankings were announced on 10 June 2005.
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[edit] The top ten are:
- King Charles IV, Bohemian king (1346 - 1378) and Emperor (1355 - 1378), founder of Charles Bridge and Charles University - 68,713 votes
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk - first Czechoslovak president (1918 - 1935) - 55,040 votes
- Václav Havel - last Czechoslovak (1989 - 1992) and first Czech president (1993 - 2003) - 52,233 votes
- Jan Amos Komenský - "Teacher of nations"
- Jan Žižka - Hussite general
- Jan Werich - actor, playwright and writer
- Jan Hus - religious reformer
- Antonín Dvořák - composer
- Karel Čapek - writer, in his work R.U.R. has popularized the word "robot" (invented by his brother Josef Čapek)
- Božena Němcová - writer (wrote highlight piece of Czech literature "Babička ("Grandmother"))
[edit] 11-100
- Bedřich Smetana - composer
- Emil Zátopek - athlete
- Karel Gott - most famous Czech singer (more than 30 times Golden Nightingale winner)
- George of Podebrady - Czech utraquist king
- František Palacký - Czech historian
- Přemysl Otakar II - king of Bohemia, known as "Iron and Gold King"
- Saint Wenceslas - duke (922 - 935) and patron saint of Bohemia
- Václav Klaus - second president of the Czech Republic (2003 to present)
- Jaroslav Heyrovský - Czech chemist, Nobel prize laureate
- Saint Agnes of Bohemia - Bohemian princess and saint, founder of first Prague hospital
- Tomáš Baťa - first republic businessman
- Edvard Beneš - second Czechoslovak president (1935 - 1938, in exile 1940 - 1945, 1945 - 1948)
- Otto Wichterle - Czech chemist, inventor of contact lenses
- Jaroslav Seifert - Czech poet, Nobel Prize laureate
- Zdeněk Svěrák - Czech playwright, screenwriter, actor and "cimrmanologist"
- Ema Destinnová - Czech opera singer
- Jaromír Jágr - Czech ice-hockey player
- Maria Theresa - Ruler of Danubian personal union and reformer
- Karel Kryl - Czech anticommunist songster and emigrant
- Miloš Forman - Czech exile director
- Vlasta Burian - Czech actor, "king of comedians"
- Roman Šebrle - Czech decathloner
- Ivan Hlinka - coach of Czech ice-hockey representation in Nagano 1998
- Karel Havlíček Borovský - Bohemian journalist and writer
- Daniel Landa - Czech singer
- Milada Horáková - Czech victim of nazism and later communism (hanged in 1950)
- Vladimír Menšík - Czech actor
- Jaroslav Hašek - Czech writer (author of The Good Soldier Švejk
- Alfons Mucha - Bohemian seccesion painter
- Jan Evangelista Purkyně - Bohemian biologist and doctor
- Pavel Nedvěd - Czech football player (European footballer of year 2003)
- Jan Janský - Czech neurologist and psychiatrist
- František Křižík - Czech inventor, engineer and industrialist
- Jan Železný - Czech olympic winner
- Jan Palach - Czech protestor against Soviet invasion (suicide by burning)
- Věra Čáslavská - Czech olympic winner
- Leoš Janáček - Czech composer
- Alois Jirásek - Czech playwright and prose-writer
- Jaromír Nohavica - Ostravian songster and guitarist
- Jan Masaryk - politician
- Bohumil Hrabal - writer
- Jan Neruda - writer
- Josef Jungmann
- Gregor Mendel - czech genetic
- Franz Kafka - writer
- František Tomášek
- Saint Adalbert
- Josef Bican - football player
- Josef Kajetán Tyl - playwright
- Lucie Bílá - pop singer
- Karel Hynek Mácha
- Saint Ludmila
- Boleslav Polívka - actor
- Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Josef Dobrovský - writer
- Josef Lada - painter
- Rudolf Hrušínský - actor
- Wenceslaus II of Bohemia
- Madeleine Albright - politician
- Aneta Langerová - pop singer
- Přemysl Otakar I
- Ludvík Svoboda
- Dominik Hašek - ice hockey player (goaltender)
- John of Luxemburg
- Milan Baroš - football player
- Karel Jaromír Erben
- Saint Zdislava
- Jaroslav Foglar - writer
- Ladislav Smoljak - actor and writer
- Olga Havlová - wife of former czech president
- Martina Navrátilová - tennis player
- Helena Růžičková - actress
- Pavel Tigrid - writer
- Elisabeth I of Bohemia - queen
- Milan Kundera - writer
- Vladimír Remek - cosmonaut
- Boleslav I of Bohemia - king
- Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová - writer
- Mikoláš Aleš - painter
- Emil Holub - doctor, traveller and writer
- František Fajtl - WW2 pilot
- Klement Gottwald - First Communist president of Czechoslovakia
- Zdeněk Matějček - pediatrist
- Jiří Voskovec - actor
- Marta Kubišová - singer
- Jiřina Bohdalová - actress
- Miloslav Šimek - actor
- Sigmund Freud - Famous Psychaiatrist, Teacher of Carl Gustav Jung
- Samo
- Miloš Zeman - politician
[edit] The Greatest Villain
At the same time as the nominations, an Internet vote for the greatest villain of Czech history was held. The top ten were:
- Klement Gottwald - first Communist president of Czechoslovakia (1948-53)
- Stanislav Gross - Czech Republic PM
- Václav Klaus - president of Czech Republic
- Vladimír Železný - founder of TV Nova, charged with an extensive tunnelling fraud
- Miroslav Kalousek - leader of Christian Democratic party
- Miroslav Grebeníček - leader of Communist Party of Moravia and Bohemia
- Viktor Kožený - Czech fugitive financier, nicknamed "the pirate of Prague"
- Milouš Jakeš - General Secretary of Czechoslovak Communist Party during Velvet Revolution
- Zdeněk Škromach - former minister of work and social affairs
- Gustáv Husák - last Communist president of Czechoslovakia
[edit] Jára Cimrman
The first round of official voting of Greatest Czech was won by the fictional character Jára Cimrman who was created by Czech humourists Jiří Šebánek, Zdeněk Svěrák (who himself took the 25th place) and Ladislav Smoljak (79th). The fact that he isn´t a real person disqualified him from taking the title.
references: The Prague Post
