List of Czechs

This is a partial list of famous Czech people. This list includes people born in Czech lands, 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

• Lída Baarová
• Jiří Bartoška
• Vlasta Burian
• Anna Geislerová
• Nataša Gollová
• Jiří Grossmann
• Miroslav Horníček
• Rudolf Hrušínský
• Zorka Janů
• Petr Kostka
• Herbert Lom
• Adina Mandlová
• Vladimír Menšík
• Gustav Nezval
• David Nykl
• Anny Ondra (Anna Ondráková)
• Karel Roden
• Libuše Šafránková
• Jan Tříska
• Tatiana Vilhelmová
• Eduard Vojan
• Jiří Voskovec
• Clint Walker
• Jan Werich
• Stella Zázvorková

Architects and designers

• Jan Santini Aichel
• Matthias of Arras
• Jakub Bursa
• Josef Chochol
• Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer
• Alois Dryák
• Josef Gočár
• Josef Hoffmann
• Eva Jiřičná
• František Maxmilián Kaňka
• Jan Kaplický
• Jan Kotěra
• Zdeněk Kovář
• Jakub Krčín
• Jaromír Krejcar
• Adolf Loos
• Josef Mocker
• Štěpánek Netolický
• Balthasar Neumann
• Josef Niklas
• Joseph Maria Olbrich
• Peter Parler
• Milada Petříková-Pavlíková
• Bořek Šípek

Authors and poets

See Czech writers

Composers

See Czech composers

Other musicians

See Czech musicians

Filmmakers

See Czech Film Directors

• František Čáp, film director
• Věra Chytilová, film director
• Miloš Forman, film director
• Karl Freund, film director
• Jan Hřebejk, film director
• Jaromil Jireš, film director
• Elmar Klos, film director
• Oldřich Lipský, film director, screenwriter
• Jiří Menzel, film director, actor
• Zdeněk Miler, film director
• Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 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
• Jan Tománek, film director, artist and writer
• Jiří Trnka, film director, animator
• Zdeněk Troška, film director, screenwriter
• Hermína Týrlová, stage designer, cartoonist
• Otakar Vávra, film director
• František Vláčil, film director
• Karel Zeman, film director, animator

Military

• Jan Kubiš, paratrooper, the assassination of Heydrich
• Jozef Gabčík, paratrooper, the assassination of Heydrich (Slovak)
• Josef Bryks, pilot
• Josef Alexej Eisenberger, World War II general
• Alois Eliáš, army officer, member of the Czechoslovak legion
• Josef František, pilot ace
• Radola Gajda, army officer, member of the Czechoslovak legion
• Kurt Knispel, German Tank Ace (Sudeten German)
• Karel Kuttelwascher, general, pilot ace
• František Moravec, military intelligence officer, member of the Czechoslovak legion in World War I
• František Peřina, pilot ace
• Prokop the Great, Hussite leader
• Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, field marshal
• Ludvík Svoboda, general, president
• Jan Syrový, general, prime minister, member of the Czechoslovak legion
• Albrecht von Wallenstein, warlord during Thirty Years' War
• Jan Žižka, Hussite leader
• Otakar Jaroš, army officer during World War II
• Karel Klapálek, army officer during World War II, commander of the Czechoslovak 11th Infantry Battalion and 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps
• Josef Šnejdárek, soldier of French Foreign Legion, commander of the Czechoslovak army and Czechoslovak legion

Models

See Czech models

• Tereza Fajksová (born 1989)
• Eva Herzigová (born 1973)
• Karolína Kurková (born 1984)
• Tereza Maxová (born 1971)
• Petra Němcová (born 1979)
• Daniela Peštová (born 1970)
• Pavlína Pořízková (born 1965)
• Alena Šeredová (born 1978)
• Hana Soukupová (born 1985)
• Ivana Trump (1949-2022)
• Veronika Vařeková (born 1977)

Painters

See Czech Painters

• Mikoláš Aleš
• Petr Brandl
• Václav Brožík
• Ota Bubeníček
• Zdeněk Burian
• Josef Čapek
• Antonin Chittussi
• Alén Diviš
• Emil Filla
• Václav Hollar
• Stanislav Holý
• Jan Jakub Quirin Jahn
• František Kaván
• Karel Klíč, inventor of photogravure
• Jiří Kolář
• Jan Konůpek
• Ludvík Kuba
• Alfred Kubin
• Otakar Kubín
• Jan Kupecký
• František Kupka
• Josef Lada
• Martin Mainer
• Josef Mánes
• Julius Edvard Marak
• Mikuláš Medek
• Anton Raphael Mengs
• Alfons Mucha
• Josef Navrátil
• Emil Orlik
• Jaro Procházka
• Václav Vavřinec Reiner
• Teodor Rotrekl
• Otakar Sedloň
• Karel Škréta
• Antonín Slavíček
• Václav Špála
• Eva Švankmajerová
• Theodoric of Prague
• Toyen (Marie Čermínová)
• Vladimír Vašíček
• Helena Zmatlíková
• Jan Zrzavý

Philosophers

See Czech philosophers

• Václav Bělohradský (born 1944)
• Arnošt Bláha (1879–1960), sociologist
• Egon Bondy (1930–2007)
• Václav Černý (1905–1987)
• Petr Chelčický (c.1390–c.1460)
• Herbert Feigl (1902–1988)
• Vilém Flusser (1920–1991)
• Ernest Gellner (1925–1995)
• Edmund Husserl (1859–1938)
• Jerome of Prague (1379–1416)
• Karl Kautsky (1854–1938)
• Hans Kelsen (1881–1973)
• František Klácel (1808–1882)
• Ladislav Klíma (1878–1928)
• Jan Amos Komenský (1592–1670)
• Karel Kosík (1926–2003)
• Jan Patočka (1907–1977)
• Emanuel Rádl (1873–1942)
• Radovan Richta (1924–1983)

Photographers

See Czech photographers

• Rudolf Bruner-Dvořák
• František Drtikol
• Jaromír Funke
• Josef Koudelka
• Antonin Kratochvil
• Frank Plicka
• Jan Saudek
• Alexander Seik
• Ladislav Sitenský
• Josef Sudek
• Miroslav Tichý

Politicians

• Madeleine Albright, first female United States Secretary of State in U.S. history
• Ivana Bacik, Irish law professor and politician of Czech descent
• Edvard Beneš, president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938 and again from 1945 to 1948
• Jerzy Buzek, prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001 and president of the European Parliament 2009 to 2012
• Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor
• Karl von Czyhlarz, Czech-Austrian jurist
• 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
• Milada Horáková, politician anad activist hanged by the Communists
• Otto Jelinek, former Canadian Federal Cabinet Minister
• Václav Klaus, former prime minister and expresident of the Czech Republic
• Juscelino Kubitschek, President of Brazil (1956–1961)
• Jan Masaryk, foreign minister
• 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
• George of Poděbrady, Hussite king
• Karl Renner, Austrian first President after World War II
• Rudolf II, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor
• Adolf Schärf, President of Austria
• Jan Švejnar, US-based, Czech-born economist
• 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
• Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia, king
• Miloš Zeman, first directly elected president in Czech history

Religion

• Josef Beran, cardinal
• Petr Chelčický, thinker, religious reformer
• Tomáš Halík, catholic theologian, sociologist
• Jan Hus, religious thinker and reformer
• Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Talmudic scholar
• Tomáš Špidlík, cardinal, thinker
• František Tomášek, cardinal

Saints

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

Sculptors

See Czech sculptors

• Franta Bělský
• Břetislav Benda
• František Bílek
• Matthias Bernard Braun
• Ferdinand Maxmilian Brokoff
• Jan Brokoff
• Michael Joseph Brokoff
• Alfréd Hrdlička
• Bohumil Kafka
• Vincenc Makovský
• Josef Václav Myslbek
• Zoja Trofimiuk
• Lea Vivot
• Vladimir Winkler
• Ladislav Zívr
• Olbram Zoubek

Scientists

See Czech Scientists

Linguistics, anthropology, history

• Guido Adler, musicologist
• Bohuslav Balbín, historian
• Max Dvořák, art historian
• Eva Hajičová, linguist
• Eduard Hanslick, musicologist
• Aleš Hrdlička, medical doctor, anthropologist
• Bedřich Hrozný, philologist and orientalist (decipherer of Hittite)
• Konstantin Jireček, slavist, historian
• Josef Jungmann, linguist
• Henry Kučera, linguist, cognitive scientist, language software author
• Bohumil Mathesius, translator
• Vilém Mathesius, linguist
• Josef Vratislav Monse, founder of Moravian history-writing
• Jan Mukařovský, literary theorist
• Alois Musil, orientalist, explorer
• František Palacký, historian
• Antonín Rezek, historian
• František Roubík, historian
• August Sedláček, historian
• Petr Sgall, linguist
• Čeněk Zíbrt, ethnographer, historian

Sports personalities

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)
• František Křižík, industrialist
• Ignác Šechtl, pioneer of photography (Šechtl and Voseček)
• Emil Škoda, industrialist (Škoda Works)

Other

• Karel Barvitius, book and music publisher
• Eliška Bučková, Miss Universe 2008 Top 15 finalist (Czech Republic placed for the second consecutive time)
• Jiří Buquoy, aristocrat
• Vlaada Chvatil, board game designer
• Sophie Chotek (1868-1914), wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, also assassinated
• Tereza Fajksová (Miss Earth 2012)
• Josef Florian, book publisher
• Zdenek Konvalina, ballet dancer
• Marian Korn (1914–1987), printmaker
• Taťána Kuchařová (Miss World 2006)
• Leopold Lojka (1886–1926), František Josef's driver during the assassination
• Victor Lustig, con artist
• Iveta Lutovská, Miss Universe 2009 Top 10 finalist (Czech Republic placed for the third consecutive time)
• Jaroslav Malina, theatre scenographer
• Jan Opletal, student, shot by Germans
• Jan Palach, student, political activist
• Přemek Podlaha, TV personality
• Zdeňka Pokorná, teacher and political activist
• Vladimír Remek, cosmonaut
• Silvie Tomčalová, aka Silvia Saint, adult film star
• Oskar Schindler, industrialist who saved 1200 Jewish lives in World War 2.
• Bertha von Suttner, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• Jan Zajíc, student, political activist, suicide
• Sultanah Nur Diana Petra, Sultanah consort of the Malaysian State of Kelantan

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 the Mortal Kombat game series
• Mole
• Pat & Mat

See also

• List of Czech Jews
• List of people by nationality

References