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: This list includes people of the Czech nationality as well as people having some significant Czech ancestry or association with Czech culture.
Actors
- Lída Baarová
- Vlasta Burian
- Ivan Jandl
- Zorka Janů
- Angelina Jolie
- Miroslav Horníček
- Rudolf Hrušínský
- Steve Ihnat
- Petr Kostka
- Francis Lederer
- Vladimír Menšík
- Kim Novak
- David Nykl
- Anny Ondra
- Jirí Bartoška
- Karel Roden
- Helena Růžičková
- Walter Slezak, of Czech descent
- Jan Tříska
- Tatiana Vilhelmová
- Jon Voight, of Czech descent
- Eduard Vojan
- Jiří Voskovec
- Jan Werich
- Stella Zázvorková
Architects
- Jan Santini Aichel
- Jakub Bursa
- Josef Chochol
- Kilián Ignác Dienzenhofer
- Alois Dryák
- Josef Gočár
- František Maxmilián Kaňka
- Jan Kaplicky
- Eva Jiricna
- Jaromír Krejcar
- Jiří Kroha
- Jan Kotěra
- Štěpánek Netolický
- Josef Niklas
- Joseph Maria Olbrich
- Ladislav Labus
- Jan Letzel
- Adolf Loos
- Milada Petříková
- Matej Rejsek
- Benedikt Rejt
- Arnošt Wiesner
- Jan Víšek
Authors and Poets
See also List of Czech writers
- Jindřich Baar
- Karel Havlíček Borovský
- Arthur Breisky
- Otokar Březina
- Otakar Bystřina
- Karel Čapek
- Jan Čarek
- Svatopluk Čech
- František Ladislav Čelakovský
- Prokop Chocholoušek
- Jakub Deml
- Ivan Diviš
- František Doucha
- Karel Jaromír Erben
- Otokar Fischer
- Jaroslav Foglar
- Ladislav Fuks
- Bohdan Kaminský
- Karel Klostermann
- Jiří Kulhánek
- Jiří Grossmann
- Jaroslav Hašek
- Václav Havel
- Bohumil Havlasa
- František Herites
- Vladimír Holan
- Miroslav Holub
- Bohumil Hrabal
- František Hrubín
- Miroslav Ivanov
- Boleslav Jablonský
- Josef Jedlička
- Jan Jeník z Bratřic
- Milena Jesenská
- Alois Jirásek
- Ivan Martin Jirous
- Franz Kafka
- Jiří Karásek z Lvovic
- Václav Kliment Klicpera
- Oskar Kokoschka
- Jan Pravoslav Koubek
- Jan Křesadlo
- Ludvík Kundera
- Milan Kundera
- Paul Leppin
- Bohuslav z Lobkovic
- Ondra Lysohorsky
- Karel Hynek Mácha
- Jiří Mahen
- Jiří Mařánek
- Rudolf Medek
- Ondřej Neff
- Vladimír Neff
- Božena Němcová
- Jan Neruda
- Tereza Nováková
- Ladislav Mikeš Pařízek
- Ferdinand Peroutka
- Eduard Petiška, children books author
- Antonín Matěj Píša
- Jan Vlastislav Plánek
- Antonín Jaroslav Puchmajer
- Přibík Pulkava of Radenín
- Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová
- Bohuslav Reynek
- John of Rokycan
- Jaroslav Rudiš
- Josef Rumler
- Jan Skacel
- Jaroslav Seifert, Nobel Prize
- Mark Slouka
- Fráňa Šrámek
- Karolína Světlá
- Ladislav Stroupežnický
- Zdeněk Svěrák
- Růžena Svobodová
- Jiří Suchý
- Miloslav Šimek
- Josef Škvorecký
- Jiří Šlitr
- Antonín Sova
- Maxmilián Štván
- Karel Teige, 1920s avant-garde artist and critic
- Jáchym Topol
- Jan Matzal Troska
- Svatopluk Turek
- Natanael Vodňanský of Uračov
- Michal Viewegh
- Jan Werich
- Jiří Wolker
- Josef Váchal
- Vladislav Vančura
- Jan Campanus Vodňanský
- Alena Vostrá
- Jan Zábrana
- Jan Zahradnicek
- Vojtech Zamarovský
Composers
- August Ambros
- Ralph Benatzky
- Jiri Benda
- Karel Bendl
- Frantisek Brixi
- Šimon Brixi
- Vilem Blodek
- Pavel Borkovec
- Bohuslav Cernohorsky
- Carl Czerny
- Alexander Dreyschock
- Jan Ladislav Dusík
- Antonín Dvořák
- Josef Fiala
- Zdeněk Fibich
- Josef Bohuslav Foerster
- Julius Fučík
- Alois Hába
- Jan Hammer
- Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic
- Ilja Hurník
- Leoš Janáček
- Hanns Jelinek
- Otakar Jeremiáš
- Jaroslav Ježek
- Karel Boleslav Jirak
- Petr Kotík
- Jan Antonin Kozeluh
- Rudolf Karel
- Hans Krása
- Ladislav Kubík
- Jan Kubelik
- Rafael Kubelík
- Ernst Krenek
- Jan Krtitel Krumpholz
- Karel Kryl
- Jan Kuchar
- Jiri Ignac Linek, Classicist
- Bohuslav Martinů
- Frantisek Mica, famous Baroque composer
- Adam Vaclav Michna
- Ignaz Moscheles
- Josef Mysliveček
- Eduard Nápravník
- Oskar Nedbal
- Jaromír Nohavica
- Jan Novak
- Vítězslav Novák
- Otakar Ostrcil
- Karel Plíhal
- Emil Reznicek
- Jan Jakub Ryba
- Josef Seger
- František Škroup
- Ferdinand Sládek
- Bedřich Smetana
- Johann Stamitz
- Karel Stamitz
- Josef Suk
- Vilém Tauský
- Vaclav Tomasek
- Frantisek Tuma
- Dalibor Vackar
- Johann Baptist Vanhal
- Jaromír Vejvoda, author of the Beer Barrel Polka
- Jan Vencalek
- Jan Václav Voříšek
- Pavel Vranicky
- Ladislav Vycpalek
- Karel Weis
- Otakar Zich
- Jan Zach
- Jan Dismas Zelenka
Other Musicians
- Paul Badura-Skoda, pianist
- Alfred Brendel, pianist
- Emmy Destinn (Ema Destinnová), opera singer
- Jiří Jirmal
- Maria Jeritza, opera singer (soprano)
- Karel Kovarovic, conductor
- Magdalena Kozena
- Jan Kubelík
- Daniel Landa, guitarist
- Jan Antonin Losy, famous lute player
- Ferdinand Laub
- Ivan Moravec, pianist
- Petr Muk, pop singer
- Libor Pešek
- Ernestine Schumann-Heink, opera singer
- Rudolf Serkin, pianist
- Otakar Ševčík, violinist
- Leo Slezak, opera singer
- Karel Strakatý, singer
- Tatana Sterba, trance musician
- Walter Susskind
- Vaclav Talich
- Vilém Tauský, conductor
- Štěpán Rak
- Zuzana Růžičková
- Antonin Vranicky, violinist
- Miroslav Vitouš
- Hana Zagorová
- Lena Faitz, french horn player
Filmmakers
- 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
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 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
- Karel Reisz, 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
- Karel Zeman, film director, animator
- František Vláčil, film director
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
Painters
- Mikolas Ales, [1], [2], [3]
- Jan Bauch, [4]
- Petr Brandl
- Václav Brožík
- Ota Bubeníček
- Zdeněk Burian
- Josef Capek
- Cyril Chramosta, [5]
- Emil Filla, [6]
- Karel Havlíček
- Václav Hollar
- Stanislav Holý
- Jan Jakub Quirin Jahn
- Josef Lada
- Richard Lauda, [7]
- František Kaván
- Karel Klic
- Jiří Kolář, [8]
- Ludvík Kuba
- Jan Kupecký
- František Kupka
- Josef Manes
- Alfons Mucha
- Josef Navrátil, [9]
- Emil Orlik
- Vlastimil Rada, [10]
- Václav Vavřinec Reiner, [11]
- Teodor Rotrekl
- Karel Škréta, [12]
- Antonín Slavíèek, [13]
- Václav Spála, [14], [15]
- Karel Štěch, [16]
- Karel Stehlík, [17]
- Toyen (Maria Cerminova)
- Eva Švankmajerová
- Helena Zmatlíková, illustrator of children books
- Jan Zrzavý
Philosophers
- Arnošt Bláha
- Vaclav Belohradsky
- Ladislav Klima
- Herbert Feigl
- Vilém Flusser
- Theodor Gomperz
- Edmund Husserl
- František Klácel
- Ernest Nagel
- Jan Patočka
Photographers
- Frank Plicka
- Jaromír Funke
- Josef Koudelka
- Frank Plicka
- Jan Saudek
- Josef Sudek
- Alexander Seik
- Adolf Zika
Politicians
- Victor Adler, Austrian politician
- Richard Bassett, Signer of the United States Constitution
- Edvard Beneš, president
- Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago
- Klement Gottwald, president
- Stanislav Gross, prime minister
- Václav Havel, president
- Václav Klaus, prime minister and president
- Jan Masaryk, foregin minister
- Tomáš G. Masaryk, president
- Emanuel Moravec, collaborator with Nazis
- Michael Peroutka, President US Constitution Party
- Karl Renner, Austrian politician
- Adolf Schärf, Austrian politician
Sculptors
- Božetěch
- Franta Belsky
- Břetislav Benda
- František Bílek
- Matthias Bernard Braun
- Jan Brokoff
- Ferdinand Maxmilian Brokoff
- Michael Joseph Brokoff
- David Cerný
- Alfred Hrdlicka
- Bohumil Kafka
- Otakar Kubin
- Vincenc Makovsky
- Josef Václav Myslbek
- Pavel Opocensky
- Olbram Zoubek
- Albin Polasek
- Lea Vivot
Scientists
- Karel Absolon, archaeologist, speleologist
- Josef Augusta, paleontologist, science popularizer
- Jiří Baborovský, chemist
- Jindřich Bačkovský, physicist
- František Běhounek, radiologist, writer, explorer
- Josef Belsky, economist
- Vincent Bochdalek, anatomist
- Johann Böhm, chemist
- Bernard Bolzano, philosopher, mathematician, and theologian
- Bohuslav Brauner, chemist
- Thomas R. Cech, chemist Nobel Prize
- Václav Cílek, geologist, science popularizer
- Jan Amos Comenius, polyhistorian, educator
- Carl Ferdinand Cori, biochemist, Nobel laureate
- Gerty Cori, biochemist, Nobel laureate
- Eduard Čech, mathematician
- František Ladislav Čelakovský, scientist
- Leander Czerny, biologist
- Václav Prokop Diviš, inventor of the lightning rod
- Josef Dobrovský, philologist and historian
- Alois Vaclav Dryak, computer pioneer
- August Dvorak, inventor
- Karel Fortyn, physician
- Vilem Gajdusek, optician, manufacturer
- František Josef Gerstner, physicist, engineer
- Zaboj Harvalik, physicist
- Jaroslav Hájek, mathematician
- Tadeáš Hájek, physician, astronomer
- Jan Heweliusz, astronomer
- Jaroslav Heyrovský, scientist, Nobel Prize
- Václav Hlavatý, mathematician
- Ivan Honl, biologist
- Jan Hraše, archaeologist
- Bedřich Hrozný, linguist
- J. Allen Hynek, astronomer, ufologist
- 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 electric arc lamp
- Luboš Kohoutek, astronomer
- František Koláček, physicist
- Stanislav Komárek, biologist
- Vincenz Kosteletzky, physician
- Alois Kovařík, physicist
- Bohumil Kučera, physicist
- Jaroslav Kurzweil, mathematician
- Mathias Lerch, mathematician
- Drahoslav Lím, chemist, inventor hydrogel
- Karel Löwner, mathematician
- Frank Malina, aeronautical engineer
- Ernst Mach, physicist
- Jan Marek Marci, physician
- Kio Marv, biologist
- Gregor Mendel, biologist
- Antonín Mrkos, astronomer
- Zdeněk Nejedlý, historian, musicologist
- Zdeněk Neubauer, biologist
- Václav Pačes, biochemist
- František Palacký, historian
- František Patočka, biologist
- Jan Perner, engineer
- Karel Petr, mathematician
- Josef Ladislav Píč, archaeologist
- George Placzek, physicist
- Julius Pokorny, etymologist
- Křišťan of Prachatice, Medieval astronomer and physician
- 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
- Peter Safar, physician
- Jaroslav Šafránek, physicist
- Bohumil Sekla, biologist
- August Seydler, physicist, astronomer
- Joseph Schumpeter, economist
- Jan Šindel, astronomer
- Josef Skoda, physician
- Ivan Šolc, inventor
- Ferdinand Stoliczka, paleontologist
- Vincenc Strouhal, physicist
- Olga Taussky Todd, mathematician
- Viktor Trkal, physicist, mathematician
- Ota Šik, economist
- Miloslav Valouch, mathematician
- Petr Vopěnka, mathematician
- Jindřich Wankel, paleontologist
- Rudolf Weigl, biologist
- Max Wertheimer, psychologist
- Otto Wichterle, chemist, inventor of the modern contact lens
- Karel Zahradnik, mathematician
- Rudolf Zahradník, chemist
- Heinz Zemanek, computer scientist
- Paul Zamecnik, inventor
- František Záviska, physicist
- John Zeleny, physicist, inventor electroscope
- Vladimir Zoubek, geologist
Linguistics, Anthropology, History
- Bořivoj Čelovský
- Max Dvořák, art historian
- Aleš Hrdlička, linguist
- Josef Jireček
- Norbert Jokl
- Bohumil Mathesius
- Vilém Mathesius
- Jan Mukařovský
- Antonín Rezek, historian
- František Roubík, historian
- August Sedláček, historian
- Josef Vlcek (also as Josef František Vlček)
- Zikmund Winter
- Čeněk Zíbrt, ethnographer, historian
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
- Martin Erat, ice-hockey player
- Salo Flohr, chess 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
- Jakob Hlasek, 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
- Roman Kresta, rally driver
- Ivan Lendl, tennis player
- Hana Mandlíková, tennis player
- Milan Michalek, ice-hockey player
- Martina Navrátilová, tennis player
- Petr Nedvěd, ice-hockey player
- Pavel Nedvěd, footballer
- Kateřina Neumannová, cross-country skiing
- Jana Novotná, tennis player
- Ludek Pachman, chess player
- Karel Poborský, footballer
- Karel Rachůnek, ice-hockey player
- Martin Prusek, ice-hockey player
- Tomáš Rosický, footballer
- Roman Šebrle, decathlete, Olympic gold medalist
- Vladimír Šmicer, footballer
- Patrik Štefan, ice-hockey player
- Helena Suková, tennis player
- Ján Svorada, cyclist
- Petr Sýkora, ice-hockey player
- Nicole Vaidišová, tennis player
- Aleš Valenta, freestyle skiing, Olympic gold medalist
- Kamila Vodichkova, basketball player in the WNBA
- Tomáš Vokoun, ice-hockey player & 2003-2004 NHL All-Star
- Emil Zátopek, runner, Olympic gold medalist
- Jan Železný, javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist
Models
- Monika Hájková
- Daniela Pestova,
- Eva Herzigová,
- Karolína Kurková,
- Petra Němcová
- Petra Kvapilova
- Pavlína Pořízková
- Silvia Saint
- Hana Soukupová
- Ivana Trump, model, businesswoman, first wife of real estate magnate Donald Trump
- Veronika Vařeková,
- Linda Vojtová
- Veronika Zemanová
Entrepreneurs
- Tomáš Baťa, industrialist (Bata Shoes)
- Joseph Bulova, American, Business executive
- Emil Škoda, industrialist (Škoda Works)
- Ignác Šechtl, pioneer of photography (Šechtl and Voseček)
Other
- (not classified)
- Joy Adamson, naturalist, author
- 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
- Friedrich Hayek, economist (of Czech descent)
- Konrad Henlein, Nazi leader
- Jan Hus, religious thinker and reformer
- Mikuláš of Hus, politician Hussite
- Josef John, famous forester
- Karl Kautsky, theoretician of social democracy
- Hans Kelsen, jurist
- Antonín Koniáš, famous Jesuit
- Matěj Kopecký, marionetter
- Jakub Krčín, nobleman, builder
- Manolo Blahnik, fashion designer
- Josef Florian, book publisher
- Vojtěch Lanna, industrialist
- Victor Lustig, con artist
- Mikuláš Ruthard of Malešov, aristocrat
- Alois Musil, orientalist, explorer
- Vojtech Naprstek, journalist
- Saint John Neumann, John Nepomucene Neumann
- Jan Opletal, student killed by Nazis
- Jan Palach, suicider
- Mikuláš of Pelhřimov, famous Priest, Hussite
- Přemek Podlaha, TV personality
- Lev of Rožmitál, famous nobleman
- Eugen Sänger, aerospace engineer
- Oskar Schindler, German businessman and Nazi, (of the Schindler's List movie fame)
- Alois Senefelder, inventor of lithography
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Nazi leader
- Bertha von Suttner, Nobel laureate
- Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia (Saint Wenceslas), known as "Good King Wenceslas" in a Christmas carol
- Hans Kohn, historian
- John Fiala, founder of Miss Czech-Slovak USA Pageant in the United States
- Josef Vlcek (also as Josef František Vlček), leader of the Czech Underground in communist era, author, professor