List of Czechs
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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
Ludmila Janovská
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
Jan Preisler
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.
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