List of Czechs

This is a partial list of famous Czech, and Czech intelligible people. This list includes people of the Czech nationality as well as people having some significant Czech ancestry or association with Czech culture.

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Actors

See Czech actors

Architects and designers

Main article: List of Czech architects

Jan Santini Aichel
Jakub Bursa
Josef Chochol
Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer
Alois Dryák
Josef Gočár
František Maxmilián Kaňka
Jan Kaplický
Jan Kotěra
Zdeněk Kovář
Jakub Krčín
Jaromír Krejcar
Josef Mocker
Štěpánek Netolický
Josef Niklas
Milada Petříková-Pavlíková
Maria Serbousek, textile artist and designer
Bořek Šípek

Authors and Poets

See Czech writers

Beauty Queen (International titleholders)

Composers

See Czech composers

Jiří Antonín Benda
František Benda
Karel Bendl
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (born in Bohemia)
Vilém Blodek
Pavel Borkovec
František Xaver Brixi
Bohuslav Černohorský
Alexander Dreyschock
Jan Ladislav Dusík
František Xaver Dušek
Antonín Dvořák
Josef Fiala
Zdeněk Fibich
Josef Bohuslav Foerster
Vladimír Franz
Julius Fučík
Jiří Grossmann
Alois Hába
Jan Hammer
Jan Hanuš
Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic
Vladimír Hirsch
Ilja Hurník
Leoš Janáček
Otakar Jeremiáš
Jaroslav Ježek
Karel Boleslav Jirák
Vojtěch Jírovec (also known as Adalbert Gyrowetz)
Václav Kaprál
Vítězslava Kaprálová
Rudolf Karel
Petr Kotík
Jan Antonín Koželuh
Leopold Koželuh
Hans Krása (Jewish)
Ernst Krenek
Jan Křtitel Krumpholtz
Jan Křtitel Kuchař (also known as Johann Baptist Kucharz)
Jan Kubelík
Rafael Kubelík
Ladislav Kubík
Gustav Mahler (Jewish)
Bohuslav Martinů
František Míča
Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic
Oskar Morawetz
Josef Mysliveček
Oskar Nedbal
Jan Novák
Vítězslav Novák
Antonín Rejcha
František Xaver Richter (Franz Xaver Richter)
Jan Jakub Ryba
Ervín Schulhoff (Jewish)
František Škroup
Josef Seger
Bedřich Smetana
Johann Stamitz (Cz. Stamic)
Karel Stamitz (Cz. Stamic) (half-German)
Anton Stamitz (Cz. Stamic) (half-German)
Josef Suk
Karel Svoboda
Dalibor Cyril Vačkář
Johann Baptist Wanhal (Jan Ignatius Vaňhal)
Jaromír Vejvoda
Jan Vencálek
Jan Václav Voříšek
Pavel Vranický (also known as Paul Wranitzky)
Ladislav Vycpálek
Jan Zach
Otakar Zich
Jan Dismas Zelenka

Other Musicians

See Czech musicians

Gabriela Beňačková, opera singer
Ema Destinnová, opera singer
Michaela Fukačová, cellist
Karel Gott, singer
Maria Jeritza, opera singer
Jiří Jirmal, guitarist
Tomas Kalnoky, singer, guitarist and composer
Markéta Irglová, singer, actress, Oscar prize winner
Karel Kovařovic, conductor
Magdalena Kožená, singer
Antonín Kraft, cellist
Karel Kryl, songwriter
Jan Kubelík, violinist
Daniel Landa, singer
Aneta Langerová, singer
Ferdinand Laub, violinist
Jan Antonín Losy, famous lute player
Ivan Moravec, pianist
Eduard Nápravník, conductor
Jaromír Nohavica, guitarist and songwriter
Jarmila Novotná, opera singer
Josef Páleníček, pianist
Karel Plíhal, guitarist and songwriter
Libor Pešek, conductor
Otakar Ševčík, violinist
Leo Slezak, opera singer
Jiří Stivín, flute player
Karel Strakatý, singer
Vaclav Talich, conductor
Vilém Tauský, conductor
Štěpán Rak, guitarist
Zuzana Růžičková, harpsichordist
Antonín Vranický (also known as Anton Wrani(t)zky), violinist
Hana Zagorová, singer
Ivan Kral, guitarist and singer
Waldemar Matuška, singer, songwriter and actor

Filmmakers

See Czech Film Directors

František Čáp, film director
Věra Chytilová, film director
Miloš Forman, film director
Jan Hřebejk, film director
Jaromil Jireš, film director
Oldřich Lipský, film director, screenwriter
Jiří Menzel, film director, actor
Zdeněk Miler, film director
Ivan Passer, film director
Jan Pinkava, animator, film director
Břetislav 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 Švankmajer, film director, animator
Jan Svěrák, film director, actor
Jiří Trnka, film director, animator
Hermína Týrlová, stage designer, cartoonist
Otakar Vávra, film director
František Vláčil, film director
Karel Zeman, film director, animator

Military

Josef Bryks, pilot
Alois Eliáš, army officer
Josef František, pilot ace
Radola Gajda, army officer
Karel Kuttelwascher, general
František Moravec, military intelligence officer
František Peřina, pilot
Prokop the Great, Hussite leader
Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, field marshal
Ludvík Svoboda, general, president
Jan Syrový, general, prime minister
Albrecht von Wallenstein, warlord during Thirty-Years War

Models

See Czech models

Tereza Fajksová (1989)
Jana Defi (1984)
Eva Herzigová (1973)
Karolína Kurková (1984)
Tereza Maxová (1971)
Petra Němcová (1979)
Daniela Peštová (1970)
Pavlína Pořízková (1965)
Hana Soukupová (1985)
Alena Šeredová (1978)
Ivana Trump (1949)
Veronika Vařeková (1977)
Denise Milani (1976)

Painters

See Czech Painters

Philosophers

See Czech philosophers

Václav Bělohradský (b. 1944)
Arnošt Bláha (1879–1960), sociologist
Egon Bondy (1930–2007)
Václav Černý (1905–1987)
Petr Chelčický (c.1390–c.1460)
Vilém Flusser (1920–1991)
Ladislav Klíma (1878–1928)
František Klácel (1808–1882)
Jan Amos Komenský (1592–1670)
Jan Patočka (1907–1977)
Emanuel Rádl (1873–1942)
Radovan Richta (1924–1983)

Photographers

See Czech photographers

Politicians

See Czechoslovak and Czech politicians

Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor
Jan Švejnar, US-based, Czech-born economist
Ivana Bacik, Irish law professor and politician of Czech descent
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
Václav Klaus, former prime minister and expresident of the Czech Republic
Otto Jelinek, former Canadian Federal Cabinet Minister.
Jan Masaryk, foreign minister
Juscelino Kubitschek, President of Brazil (1956–1961)
Tomáš G. Masaryk, first president of Czechoslovakia
Mikuláš of Hus, politician, Hussite
Emanuel Moravec, collaborator with Nazis
Antonín Novotný, communist president
Přemysl Otakar II, King of Bohemia and most powerful man in middle Europe in his era.
Rudolf II, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor
Ludvík 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
Prokop Herda, Mayor (1622/1641/1643-1738)

Religion

Saint Agnes of Bohemia, Anežka Česká
Josef Beran, cardinal
Petr Chelčický, thinker, religious reformer
Jan Hus, religious thinker and reformer
Saint John Sarkander, priest tortured to death in Olomouc
Saint John of Nepomuk, known through the central Europe
Saint John Neumann (John Nepomucene Neumann)
Tomáš Halík, catholic theologian, sociologist
Tomáš Špidlík, cardinal, thinker
František Tomášek, cardinal
Saint Wenceslas, duke of Bohemia

Saints

Saint Adalbert of Prague (Vojtěch in Czech), bishop of Prague, missionary and martyr
Saint Agnes of Bohemia, Anežka Česká
Saint John Sarkander, priest tortured to death in Olomouc
Saint John of Nepomuk, known through the central Europe
Saint John Neumann (John Nepomucene Neumann)
Saint Ludmila, princess of Bohemia, grandmother od St.Wenceslas
Saint Prokop, canon and hermit
Saint Wenceslas, duke of Bohemia

Sculptors

See Czech sculptors

Scientists

See Czech Scientists

Karel Absolon, archaeologist and speleologist
Josef Augusta, paleontologist and popularizer of science
Jiří Baborovský, chemist
Jindřich Bačkovský, physicist
František Běhounek, radiologist, writer, and explorer
Vincent Bochdalek, anatomist
Johann Böhm, chemist
Bernard Bolzano, mathematician, philosopher, and theologian
Otakar Borůvka, mathematician
Josef Božek engineer
Václav Cílek, geologist and popularizer of science
Jan Amos Comenius, polyhistorian, educator, and the inventor of illustrated textbooks
Eduard Čech, mathematician
František Čelakovský, linguist and writer
Leander Czerny, biologist
Václav Prokop Diviš, an inventor of the lightning rod.
Josef Dobrovský, philologist and historian
Karel Fortyn, physician
František Josef Gerstner, physicist and engineer
Stanislav Grof, psychologist and researcher in transpersonal psychology
Jiří Grygar, astrophysicist, popularizer of science
Jan Hajek, scientist
Jaroslav Hájek, mathematician
Tadeáš Hájek, physician and astronomer
Jaroslav Heyrovský, chemist, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959
Václav Hlavatý, mathematician
Ivan Honl, biologist
Kamil Hornoch, amateur astronomer
Bedřich Hrozný, linguist
Jakub Husnik, inventor and painter
Jan Janský, physicist, discovered blood types.
Karl Guthe Jansky, engineer
Vojtěch Jarník, mathematician
Konstantin Jireček, historian
Otto Jirovec, parasitologist and protozoologist
Břetislav Kafka, parapsychologist
Vlasta Kálalová, physician and entomologist
Karel Kavina, botanist
Jan Kmenta, economist and econometrician
Luboš Kohoutek, astronomer
František Koláček, physicist
Zdenek Kopal, astronomer
František Křižík, an inventor of the arc lamp
Bohumil Kučera, physicist
Jaroslav Kurzweil, mathematician
Václav Láska, geophysicist and mathematician
Mathias Lerch, mathematician
Drahoslav Lím, chemist and the inventor of hydrogel
Frank Malina, aeronautical engineer
Ernst Mach, physicist and expert in aerodynamics
Jan Marek Marci, physician
Zdeněk Matějka, chemist
Gregor Mendel, the founder of the science of genetics
Antonín Mrkos, astronomer
František Patočka, biologist
Karel Petr, mathematician
Josef Ladislav Píč, archaeologist
George Placzek, physicist
Julius Pokorny, etymologist
Křišťan of Prachatice, medieval astronomer and physician
Petr Pravec, astronomer
Jan Svatopluk Presl, chemist
Karel Presl, botanist
Jiří Procháska, physiologist
Stanislav Prowazek, zoologist and parasitologist
Vlastimil Pták, mathematician
Jan Evangelista Purkyně, the physiologist who first recognised the individuality of fingerprints
Zdeněk Rejdák, scientist in psychotronics
Josef Ludvík František Ressel, a inventor of the ship's propeller.
Karel Rokytanský, anatomist
Karel Rychlík, mathematician
Vojtěch Šafařík, chemist
Jaroslav Šafránek, physicist
Bohumil Sekla, biologist
August Seydler, physicist and astronomer
Jan Šindel, astronomer
Josef Škoda, physician
Ferdinand Stoliczka, paleontologist
Vincenc Strouhal, physicist
František Josef Studnička, mathematician
Antonín Svoboda computer scientist and mathematician
Olga Taussky-Todd, mathematician
Jana Tichá, astronomer
Miloš Tichý, astronomer
Viktor Trkal, physicist and mathematician
Ota Šik, economist
Miloslav Valouch, mathematician
Petr Vopěnka, mathematician
Jindřich Wankel, paleontologist
Otto Wichterle, chemist and the inventor of the modern contact lens
Karel Zahradnik, mathematician
Rudolf Zahradník, chemist
František Záviška, physicist
John Zeleny, physicist and the inventor electroscope
Vladimír Zoubek, geologist
Petr Zuman, electrochemist

Linguistics, Anthropology, History

Josef Vratislav Monse, founder of Moravian history-writing
Bořivoj Čelovský, historian
Max Dvořák, art historian
Eva Hajičová, linguist
Aleš Hrdlička, medical doctor, anthropologist
Bedřich Hrozný, philologist and orientalist (decipherer of Hittite)
Josef Jireček
Henry Kucera, linguist, cognitive scientist, language software author
Bohumil Mathesius, translator
Vilém Mathesius, linguist
Jan Mukařovský, literary theorist
Alois Musil, orientalist, explorer
Antonín Rezek, historian
František Roubík, historian
August Sedláček, historian
Petr Sgall, linguist
Čeněk Zíbrt, ethnographer, historian

Sports Personalities

Milan Baroš, footballer
Tomáš Berdych, tennis player
Patrik Berger, footballer
Radek Bonk, ice hockey player
Věra Čáslavská, gymnast, Olympic gold medalist
Petr Čech, footballer
Roman Čechmánek, ice hockey player
Jaroslav Drobný, tennis player
Patrik Eliáš, ice hockey player
Vašek Klouda, football player
Tomáš Enge, Grand prix race car driver
Kurt Epstein, Olympic water polo player
František Fadrhonc, football manager
Dominik Hašek, ice hockey player
Aleš Hemský, ice hockey player
Bobby Holík, ice hockey player
Jaromír Jágr, ice hockey player
Václav Ježek, footballer, football manager
Eliška Junková, Formula One driver
František Kaberle, ice hockey player
Tomáš Kaberle, ice hockey player
Gertrude "Traute" Kleinová, 3-time table tennis world champion
Jan Koller, footballer
Petr Korda, tennis player
Aleš Kotalík, ice hockey player
Jan Koželuh, tennis player
Karel Koželuh, tennis player
Richard Krajicek, tennis player
David Krejčí, ice hockey player
Roman Kreuziger, road bicycle racer
Pavel Kubina, ice hockey player
Petra Kvitová, tennis player
Ivan Lendl, tennis player
Marek Malík, ice hockey player
Hana Mandlíková, tennis player
Josef Masopust, footballer, football manager
Milan Michálek, ice hockey player
Martina Navratilova, tennis player
Pavel Nedvěd, footballer
Petr Nedvěd, ice hockey player
Zdeněk Nehoda, footballer
Kateřina Neumannová, cross-country skiing
Jana Novotná, tennis player
Jiří Novotný, ice hockey player
Adam Ondra, rock climber
František Plánička, football player
Petr Průcha, ice hockey player
Tomáš Rosický, footballer
Martina Sáblíková, speed skater, Olympic gold medalist
Wilhelm Steinitz, first World Chess Champion
Roman Šebrle, decathlete, Olympic gold medalist
Vladimír Šmicer, footballer
Patrik Štefan, ice hockey player
Helena Suková, tennis player
Petr Sýkora, ice hockey player
Jiří Tlustý, ice hockey player
Nicole Vaidišová, tennis player
Aleš Valenta, freestyle skiing, Olympic gold medalist
Kamila Vodičková, basketball player
Jakub Voráček, ice hockey player
Šárka Záhrobská, alpine skier
Emil Zátopek, runner, Olympic gold medalist
Jan Železný, javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist

Entrepreneurs

Jan Antonín Baťa, industrialist (Baťa 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))
Tomáš Baťa, industrialist (Bata T&A, Zlin)
Emil Kolben, industrialist (ČKD (company))
František Křižík, industrialist
Ignác Šechtl, pioneer of photography (Šechtl and Voseček)
Emil Škoda, industrialist (Škoda Works)

Other

(not classified)

David Dobias, ballerina
Vlaada Chvatil, boardgame designer
Karel Barvitius, book and music publisher
Jiří Buquoy, famous aristocrat
Josef Florian, book publisher
Victor Lustig, con artist
Zdenek Konvalina, ballet dancer
Jaroslav Malina, theatre sceneographer
Jan Opletal, student, shot by Germans
Jan Palach, student, political activist, suicide
Přemek Podlaha, TV personality
Vladimír Remek, cosmonaut
Martina Šteflová, dancer
Bertha von Suttner, Nobel laureate
Jan Zajíc, student, political activist, suicide
Pavel Novotný, adult film star
Robert Rosenberg, adult film star
Silvie Tomčalová, aka Silvia Saint, adult film star
Kateřina Smrzová, Miss Universe 2003 Top 10 finalist
Lucié Hadasová, Miss Universe 2007 Top 15 finalist
Eliška Bučková, Miss Universe 2008 Top 15 finalist (Czech Republic placed for the second consecutive time)
Iveta Lutovská, Miss Universe 2009 Top 10 finalist (Czech Republic placed for the third consecutive time)

Fictional characters

Jára Cimrman, fictional character of universal talents
Josef Švejk, fictional soldier in World War I, main character of Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk
Tomas Vrbada, also known as Smoke, from Mortal Kombat series.