Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
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.).
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Actors
- Ivan Jandl
- Petr Kostka
- Francis Lederer
- Herbert Lom
- Adina Mandlová
- Vladimír Menšík
- Karel Roden
- Jan Tříska
- Sylvia Saint, pornstar
Architects
- Jan Santini Aichel
- Jan Letzel, architect of the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima
- Adolf Loos
- Balthasar Neumann
Authors and Poets
- Oskar Baum
- Egon Bondy
- Max Brod
- Karel Čapek
- Frantisek Ladislav Celakovsky
- Jakub Deml
- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
- Otokar Fischer
- Jaroslav Foglar
- Hermann Grab
- Franz Grillparzer
- Jaroslav Hašek
- Václav Havel
- Bohumil Hrabal
- František Hrubín
- Josef Jedlicka
- Jan Jenik z Bratric
- Milena Jesenska
- Franz Kafka
- Siegfried Kapper
- Jiri Karasek ze Lvovic
- Karl Kraus
- Jan Křesadlo
- Ludvik Kundera
- Milan Kundera
- Paul Leppin
- Bohuslav z Lobkovic
- Jiri Mahen
- Karel Hynek Mácha
- Gustav Meyrink
- Ondřej Neff
- Božena Němcová
- Jan Neruda
- Tereza Novakova
- Ferdinand Peroutka
- Eduard Petiška, children books author
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Jaroslav Seifert, Nobel laureate
- Mark Slouka
- Adalbert Stifter
- Karolina Svetla
- Tom Stoppard
- Michal Viewegh
- Franz Werfel
- Hermann Ungar
- Vladislav Vancura
- Alena Vostrá
- Jan Zabrana
Composers
- August Wilhelm Ambros
- Ignaz Brüll
- Jan Ladislav Dusík
- Antonín Dvořák
- Zdeněk Fibich
- Jan Hammer
- Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic
- Leoš Janáček
- Jaroslav Ježek
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold, film composer, two Oscars
- Gustav Mahler
- Bohuslav Martinů
- Josef Mysliveček
- Oskar Nedbal
- Vítězslav Novák
- Jakub Jan Ryba
- Bedřich Smetana
- Johann Stamitz
- Karel Stamitz
- Josef Suk
- Jaromír Vejvoda, author of the Beer Barrel Polka
- Jan Zach
- Jan Dismas Zelenka
- Jaromír Nohavica
- Karel Kryl
- Karel Plíhal
Other Musicians
- Alfred Brendel, pianist
- Emmy Destinn (Ema Destinnová), opera singer
- Ernestine Schumann-Heink, opera singer
- Walter Susskind
- Maria Jeritza , opera singer (soprano)
- Hana Zagorová
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
- Václav Brožík
- Emil Filla
- Václav Hollar
- Jan Kupecký
- František Kupka
- Anton Raphael Mengs
- Alfons Mucha
- Helena Zmatlíková, illustrator of children books
- Jan Zrzavý
Politicians
- Madeleine Albright
- Edvard Beneš
- Anton Cermak
- Klement Gottwald
- Stanislav Gross
- Václav Havel
- Václav Klaus
- Jan Masaryk
- Tomáš G. Masaryk
- Miroslav Ouzký
- Karl Renner, Austrian politician born in Moravia
- Adolf Schärf, Austrian politician
- Ota Sik
Sculptors
- Franta Belsky - famous sculptor
- Matthias Bernard Braun - baroque sculptor
- Jan Brokoff - baroque sculptor
- Ferdinand Maxmilian Brokoff - baroque sculptor
- Michael Joseph Brokoff - baroque sculptor
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
- Aleš Hrdlička
- Norbert Jokl
- Julius Pokorny
- Bohumil Mathesius
- Bořivoj Čelovský
- Vilém Mathesius
- Jan Mukařovský
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
- (not classified)
- 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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