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 Scientists 7 Sports Personalities 8 Other 9 Also Czech-born

Politicians

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

Authors and Poets

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

Composers

• Antonin Dvorak
• Zdenek Fibich
• Leos Janacek
• Bohuslav Martinu
• Josef Myslivecek
• Oskar Nedbal
• Vitezslav Novák
• Bedrich Smetana
• Johann Stamitz
• Karel Stamitz
• Josef Suk
• Jaromir Vejvoda, author of the Beer Barrel Polka
• Jan Zach
• Jan Dismas Zelenka

Filmmakers

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

Painters

• Vaclav Brozik
• Emil Filla
• Wenceslaus Hollar
• Jan Kupecky
• Frantisek Kupka
• Alfons Mucha

Scientists

• Bernard Bolzano, philosopher, mathematician, and theologian
• Jaroslav Heyrovsky, scientist, Nobel laureate
• Bedrich Hrozný, scientist, deciphered Hittite language
• Jan Evangelista Purkyne, scientist
• Otto Wichterle, scientist, inventor of the modern contact lens

Sports Personalities

• Vera Caslavska, gymnast, Olympic gold medalist
• Jaroslav Drobny, tennis player
• Dominik Hašek, ice hockey player
• Martina Hingis, tennis player
• Jaromir Jagr, ice hockey player
• Jan Koller, footballer
• Petr Korda, tennis player
• Ivan Lendl, tennis player
• Hana Mandlikova, tennis player
• Martina Navratilova, tennis player
• Pavel Nedved, footballer
• Jana Novotna, tennis player
• Tomas Rosický, footballer
• Helena Sukova, tennis player
• Emil Zatopek, runner, Olympic gold medalist
• Jan Zelezný, javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist

Other

• Thomas Bata, industrialist, Bata Shoes
• Vaclav Prokop Divis, inventor of the lightning rod
• Jan Hus
• Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius)
• Jan Letzel, architect of the A-bomb Dome
• Johann Santin Aichel, architect
• The Good King Wenceslas , 10th century Duke nof Christmas Carol fame

Also Czech-born

• Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State
• August Wilhelm Ambros
• Alfred Brendel, pianist
• 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
• Karl Renner
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Arthur Seyss-Inquart
• Oskar Schindler
• Joseph Schumpeter
• Wilhelm Steinitz
• Adalbert Stifter
• Tom Stoppard
• Berta von Suttner, Nobel laureate
• Franz Werfel

See also: List of people by nationality