List of Czechs

Famous Czech or Czech-speaking/writing people

Table of contents 1 Politicians 2 Authors and Poets 3 Composers 4 Filmmakers 5 Painters 6 Athletes 7 Other 8 Also born in Czechia

Politicians

• Edvard Benes
• Alexander Dubcek
• Václav Havel
• Jan Masaryk
• Tomas Masaryk

Authors and Poets

• Karel Capek
• Jaroslav Foglar
• Jaroslav Hasek
• Václav Havel
• Bohumil Hrabal
• Karel Hynek Macha
• Milan Kundera
• Ferdinand Peroutka
• Jaroslav Seifert

Composers

• Antonin Dvorak
• Zdenek Fibich[?]
• Leos Janacek
• Bohuslav Martinu
• Oskar Nedbal[?]
• Vitezslav Novák[?]
• Bedrich Smetana
• Karel Stamitz
• Josef Suk[?]
• Jaromir Vejvoda[?], author of the Beer Barrel Polka

Filmmakers

• Jiri Menzel[?], film director, actor
• Milos Forman, film director
• Karel Reisz, film director
• Jan Svankmajer[?], film director, animator
• Jan Sverák[?], film director, actor
• Karel Zeman[?], film director

Painters

• Emil Filla[?]
• Wenceslaus Hollar[?]
• Jan Kupecky[?]
• Frantisek Kupka[?]
• Alfons Mucha

Athletes

• Vera Caslavska, gymnast, Olympic gold medalist
• Jaroslav Drobny[?], tennis player
• Dominik Hasek[?], ice hockey player
• Martina Hingis, tennis player
• Jaromir Jagr, ice hockey player
• Petr Korda[?], tennis player
• Ivan Lendl[?], tennis player
• Hana Mandlikova, tennis player
• Martina Navratilova, tennis player
• Jana Novotna[?], tennis player
• Helena Sukova[?], tennis player
• Emil Zatopek[?], runner, Olympic gold medalist

Other

• Thomas Bata[?], industrialist, Bata Shoes
• Bernard Bolzano[?], philosopher, mathematician, and theologian
• Vaclav Prokop Divis, inventor of the lightning rod
• Jaroslav Heyrovsky, scientist, Nobel laureate
• Jan Hus
• Bedrich Hrozny[?], scientist, deciphered Hittite language
• Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius)
• Jan Letzel[?], architect of the A-bomb Dome
• Jan Evangelista Purkyne[?], scientist
• Johann Santin Aichel, architect
• The Good King Wenceslas[?] , 10th century Duke nof Christmas Carol fame
• Otto Wichterle[?], scientist, inventor of the modern contact lens

Also born in Czechia

• Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State
• August Wilhelm Ambros
• Max Brod
• Anton Cermak
• Sigmund Freud
• Kurt Gödel
• Edmund Husserl
• Franz Kafka
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold[?], film composer, two Oscars
• Adolf Loos
• Gustav Mahler
• Ernst Mach
• Gregor Mendel
• Anton Raphael Mengs
• Ferdinand Porsche
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Arthur Seyss-Inquart
• Oskar Schindler
• Joseph Schumpeter
• Tom Stoppard
• Berta von Suttner, Nobel laureate
• Franz Werfel

See also: List of people by nationality