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 the 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.

Contents 1 1-10 2 11-100 3 The Greatest Villain 4 Jára Cimrman 5 References 6 External links

[edit] 1-10

1. King Charles IV, Bohemian king (1346 - 1378) and Emperor (1355 - 1378), founder of Charles Bridge and Charles University - 68,713 votes
2. Tomáš Garrique Masaryk - first Czechoslovak president (1918 - 1935) - 55,040 votes
3. Václav Havel - last Czechoslovak (1989 - 1992) and first Czech president (1993 - 2003) - 52,233 votes
4. Jan Amos Komenský - "Teacher of nations"
5. Jan Žižka - Hussite general
6. Jan Werich - actor, playwright and writer
7. Jan Hus - religious reformer
8. Antonín Dvořák - composer
9. Karel Čapek - writer, in his work R.U.R. has popularized the word "robot" (invented by his brother Josef Čapek)
10. Božena Němcová - writer (wrote highlight piece of Czech literature "Babička ("Grandmother"))

[edit] 11-100

11. Bedřich Smetana - composer
12. Emil Zátopek - athlete
13. Karel Gott - pop singer
14. George of Podebrady - utraquist king
15. František Palacký - historian
16. Přemysl Otakar II - king, known as "Iron and Gold King"
17. Saint Wenceslas - duke (922 - 935) and patron saint of Bohemia
18. Václav Klaus - second president of the Czech Republic (2003 to present)
19. Jaroslav Heyrovský - chemist, Nobel prize laureate
20. Saint Agnes of Bohemia - princess and saint, founder of first Prague hospital
21. Tomáš Baťa - first republic businessman
22. Edvard Beneš - second Czechoslovak president (1935 - 1938, in exile 1940 - 1945, 1945 - 1948)
23. Otto Wichterle - chemist, inventor of contact lenses
24. Jaroslav Seifert - poet, Nobel Prize laureate
25. Zdeněk Svěrák - playwright, screenwriter, actor and "cimrmanologist"
26. Ema Destinnová - opera singer
27. Jaromír Jágr - ice-hockey player
28. Maria Theresa - queen
29. Karel Kryl - dissident singer-songwriter
30. Miloš Forman - film director
31. Vlasta Burian - actor, "king of comedians"
32. Roman Šebrle - decathlete, Olympic winner
33. Ivan Hlinka - coach of national ice-hockey team in Nagano 1998
34. Karel Havlíček Borovský - journalist and writer
35. Daniel Landa - singer
36. Milada Horáková - victim of Nazism and later communism (hanged in 1950)
37. Vladimír Menšík - actor
38. Jaroslav Hašek - writer (author of The Good Soldier Švejk)
39. Alfons Mucha - art nouveau painter
40. Jan Evangelista Purkyně - biologist and physician
41. Pavel Nedvěd - football player (European footballer of the year 2003)
42. Jan Janský - neurologist and psychiatrist, discoverer of four blood types
43. František Křižík - inventor, engineer and industrialist
44. Jan Železný - Olympic winner (javelin)
45. Jan Palach - protester against Soviet invasion of 1968 (self-immolated)
46. Věra Čáslavská - Olympic winner
47. Leoš Janáček - composer
48. Alois Jirásek - playwright and prose-writer
49. Jaromír Nohavica - songster and guitarist
50. Jan Masaryk - Czechoslovak secretary of foreign affairs (d. 10 March 1948)
51. Bohumil Hrabal - writer
52. Jan Neruda - writer
53. Josef Jungmann - linguist and translator
54. Gregor Mendel - geneticist, "father of genetics"
55. Franz Kafka - writer
56. František Tomášek - archbishop of Prague
57. Saint Adalbert - saint
58. Josef Bican - football player
59. Josef Kajetán Tyl - playwright
60. Lucie Bílá - pop singer
61. Karel Hynek Mácha - poet
62. Saint Ludmila - grandmother of the Czech patron St. Wenceslas
63. Boleslav Polívka - actor
64. Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor - king
65. Josef Dobrovský - philologist
66. Josef Lada - painter
67. Rudolf Hrušínský - actor
68. Wenceslaus II of Bohemia - king
69. Madeleine Albright - politician, US secretary of state
70. Aneta Langerová - pop singer, winner of the Pop star (Superstar in Czech) competition
71. Přemysl Otakar I - king, conqueror
72. Ludvík Svoboda - communist president
73. Dominik Hašek - ice hockey player (goaltender)
74. John of Luxemburg - king, father of Charles IV
75. Milan Baroš - football player
76. Karel Jaromír Erben - poet
77. Saint Zdislava - saint
78. Jaroslav Foglar - writer
79. Ladislav Smoljak - actor and writer, actor and "cimrmanologist"
80. Olga Havlová - wife of Václav Havel, former Czechoslovak and Czech president
81. Martina Navrátilová - tennis player
82. Helena Růžičková - actress
83. Pavel Tigrid - writer
84. Elisabeth I of Bohemia - queen
85. Milan Kundera - writer
86. Vladimír Remek - cosmonaut
87. Boleslav I of Bohemia - king
88. Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová - writer
89. Mikoláš Aleš - painter
90. Emil Holub - physician, traveler and writer
91. František Fajtl - WW2 pilot
92. Klement Gottwald - First Communist president of Czechoslovakia
93. Zdeněk Matějček - pediatrist
94. Jiří Voskovec - actor
95. Marta Kubišová - singer
96. Jiřina Bohdalová - actress
97. Miloslav Šimek - actor
98. Sigmund Freud - famous psychiatrist, teacher of Carl Gustav Jung
99. Samo - ruler of the so called Samo's Realm
100. Miloš Zeman - politician

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[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:

1. Klement Gottwald - first Communist president of Czechoslovakia (1948-53)
2. Stanislav Gross - Czech Republic PM
3. Václav Klaus - president of Czech Republic
4. Vladimír Železný - founder of TV Nova, charged with an extensive tunnelling fraud
5. Miroslav Kalousek - leader of Christian Democratic party
6. Miroslav Grebeníček - leader of Communist Party of Moravia and Bohemia
7. Viktor Kožený - Czech fugitive financier, nicknamed "the pirate of Prague"
8. Milouš Jakeš - General Secretary of Czechoslovak Communist Party before and during Velvet Revolution
9. Zdeněk Škromach - former minister of work and social affairs
10. 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, because Česká televize breach the rules, that clearly stated, that "in the contest is possible to vote for everyone who was either born, or lived, or acted anyway on the soil of Bohemia, Moravia or Czech Silesia." While Cimrman did not live, nor wasn't born in this countries, he indusputably acted (since 1966) and acts on the mentality of local people.^[2]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site

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