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List of Czechs
This is a partial list of famous Czech, Czech-speaking/writing people, and people born in Bohemia or the Czech lands. 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
- See Czech architects
Authors and Poets
- See Czech writers
Composers
- See Czech composers
Other Musicians
- See Czech musicians
- Ema Destinnová, opera singer
- Jiří Jirmal, guitarist
- Václav Kaprál, pianist
- Karel Kovařovic, conductor
- Magdalena Kožená, singer
- Jan Kubelík, violinist
- Daniel Landa, guitarist
- Jan Antonin Losy, famous lute player
- Ferdinand Laub, violinist
- Ivan Moravec, pianist
- Eduard Nápravník, conductor
- Josef Páleníček, pianist
- Libor Pešek, conductor
- Otakar Ševčík, violinist
- Leo Slezak, opera singer
- Karel Strakatý, singer
- Vaclav Talich, conductor
- Vilém Tauský, conductor
- Štěpán Rak, guitarist
- Zuzana Růžičková, harpsichordist
- Antonin Vranicky, violinist
- Hana Zagorová, singer
Filmmakers
- See Czech Film Directors
- Věra Chytilová, film director
- Miloš Forman, film director
- Jaromil Jireš, film director
- Oldřich Lipský, film director, screenwriter
- Jiří Menzel, film director, actor
- Zdeněk Miler, film director
- Ivan Passer, film director
- Břetislav Pojar, film director
- Jan Pinkava, animator, film director
- Alfréd Radok, film and theatre director
- Emil Radok, 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
- Alois Eliáš, army officer
- Josef František, pilot ace
- Radola Gajda, army officer
- Prokop the Great, Hussite leader
- Karel Kuttelwascher, general
- Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal
- Ludvík Svoboda, general, president
- Jan Syrový, general, prime minister
- Albrecht von Wallenstein, warlord during Thirty-Years War
- Jan Žižka, Hussite leader
Models
- See Czech models
Painters
- See Czech Painters
Philosophers
- See Czech philosophers
Photographers
- See Czech photographers
Politicians
- See Czechoslovakian and Czech politicians
Pornstars
- See Czech pornstars
Sculptors
- See Czech sculptors
Scientists
- See Czech Scientists
- Karel Absolon, archaeologist, speleologist
- Josef Augusta, paleontologist, science popularizer
- Jiří Baborovský, chemist
- Jindřich Bačkovský, physicist
- František Běhounek, radiologist, writer, explorer
- Vincent Bochdalek, anatomist
- Johann Böhm, chemist
- Bernard Bolzano, philosopher, mathematician, and theologian
- Josef Božek engineer
- Václav Cílek, geologist, science popularizer
- Jan Amos Comenius, polyhistorian, educator
- Gerty Cori, biochemist, Nobel laureate
- Eduard Čech, mathematician
- František Ladislav Čelakovský, linguist and writer
- Leander Czerny, biologist
- Václav Prokop Diviš, inventor of the lightning rod
- Josef Dobrovský, philologist and historian
- Karel Fortyn, physician
- Vilem Gajdusek, optician, manufacturer
- František Josef Gerstner, physicist, engineer
- Zaboj Harvalik, physicist
- Jaroslav Hájek, mathematician
- Tadeáš Hájek, physician, astronomer
- Jaroslav Heyrovský, scientist, Nobel Prize
- Václav Hlavatý, mathematician
- Ivan Honl, biologist
- Bedřich Hrozný, linguist
- Jakub Husnik, inventor and painter
- Jan Janský, discoverer of blood types
- Karl Guthe Jansky, engineer
- Vojtěch Jarník, mathematician
- Konstantin Jireček, historian
- Vlasta Kálalová, physician, entomologist
- Karel Kavina, botanist
- František Křižík, inventor arc lamp
- Luboš Kohoutek, astronomer
- František Koláček, physicist
- Bohumil Kučera, physicist
- Jaroslav Kurzweil, mathematician
- Václav Láska, geophysicist, mathematician
- Mathias Lerch, mathematician
- Drahoslav Lím, chemist, inventor hydrogel
- Frank Malina, aeronautical engineer
- Ernst Mach, physicist
- Jan Marek Marci, physician
- Gregor Mendel, biologist
- Antonín Mrkos, astronomer
- Zdeněk Nejedlý, historian, musicologist
- František Palacký, historian
- František Patočka, biologist
- Karel Petr, mathematician
- Josef Ladislav Píč, archaeologist
- George Placzek, physicist
- Julius Pokorny, etymologist
- Křišťan of Prachatice, Medieval astronomer and physician
- Jan Svatopluk Presl, chemist
- Jiří Procháska, physiologist
- Stanislav Prowazek, zoologist, parasitologist
- Jan Evangelista Purkyně, physiologist
- Karel Presl, botanist
- Vlastimil Pták, mathematician
- Josef Ludvík František Ressel, inventor of the ship's propeller
- Karel Rokytanský, anatomist
- Karel Rychlík, mathematician
- Vojtěch Šafařík, chemists
- Jaroslav Šafránek, physicist
- Bohumil Sekla, biologist
- August Seydler, physicist, astronomer
- Jan Šindel, astronomer
- Josef Škoda, physician
- Ivan Šolc, inventor
- Ferdinand Stoliczka, paleontologist
- Vincenc Strouhal, physicist
- František Josef Studnička, mathematician
- Olga Taussky Todd, mathematician
- Viktor Trkal, physicist, mathematician
- Ota Šik, economist
- Miloslav Valouch, mathematician
- Petr Vopěnka, mathematician
- Jindřich Wankel, paleontologist
- Otto Wichterle, chemist, inventor of the modern contact lens
- Karel Zahradnik, mathematician
- Rudolf Zahradník, chemist
- František Záviska, physicist
- John Zeleny, physicist, inventor electroscope
- Vladimír Zoubek, geologist
Linguistics, Anthropology, History
Sports Personalities
- Milan Baroš, footballer
- 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
- Tomáš Enge, Grand prix race car driver
- Salo Flohr, chess player
- Martina Hingis, tennis 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
- Milan Michalek, ice hockey player
- Martina Navrátilová, tennis player
- Pavel Nedvěd, footballer
- Kateřina Neumannová, cross-country skiing
- Jana Novotná, tennis player
- Ludek Pachman, chess player
- Tomáš Rosický, footballer
- Roman Šebrle, decathlete, Olympic gold medalist
- Vladimír Šmicer, footballer
- Patrik Štefan, ice hockey player
- Helena Suková, tennis player
- Petr Sýkora, ice hockey player
- Nicole Vaidišová, tennis player
- Aleš Valenta, freestyle skiing, Olympic gold medalist
- Kamila Vodichkova, basketball player
- Emil Zátopek, runner, Olympic gold medalist
- Jan Železný, javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist
Entrepreneurs
Other
- (not classified)
- Guido Adler, musicologist
- Karel Barvitius, book and music publisher
- Jiří Buquoy, famous aristocrat
- Giacomo Casanova, spent his last years as a librarian in Duchcov Castle
- Petr Chelčický, thinker, religious reformer
- Eduard Hanslick, critic
- Jan Hus, religious thinker and reformer
- Mikuláš of Hus, politician Hussite
- Josef John, famous forester
- Antonín Koniáš, Jesuit famous for burning books
- Matěj Kopecký, marionetter
- Josef Florian, book publisher
- Vojtěch Lanna, industrialist
- Victor Lustig, con artist
- Mikuláš Ruthard of Malešov, aristocrat
- Jaroslav Malina, theatre sceneographer
- Vojtěch Náprstek, journalist
- Saint John Neumann, John Nepomucene Neumann
- Jan Opletal, student shot by Germans
- Jan Palach, suicider
- Mikuláš of Pelhřimov, famous Priest, Hussite
- Přemek Podlaha, TV personality
- Lev of Rožmitál, famous nobleman
- Oskar Schindler, German businessman and Nazi, (of the Schindler's List movie fame)
- Bertha von Suttner, Nobel laureate
- Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia (Saint Wenceslas), known as "Good King Wenceslas" in a Christmas carol
- Hans Kohn, historian
See also
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