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This is a partial list of famous Czech, Czech-speaking/writing people, and people born in
Czechia.
Note: Several people on this list can also claim other nationalities; some were Czech-born, but spent the most important
part of their lives outside Czechia (e.g. Madeleine Albright), others were born in the time of Austrian/Austro-Hungarian Empire
and therefore may be listed also as Austrians (e.g. Freud, Mahler etc.).
Authors and Poets
Composers
Filmmakers
Painters
- Vaclav Brozik
- Emil Filla
- Wenceslaus
Hollar
- Jan Kupecky
- Frantisek Kupka
- Anton Raphael Mengs
- Alfons Mucha
- Jan Zrzavý
Politicians
Sculptors
Scientists
- Bernard Bolzano, philosopher, mathematician, and theologian
- Carl Ferdinand Cori, biochemist, Nobel laureate
- Gerty Cori, biochemist, Nobel laureate
- Bořivoj Čelovský, historian
- Sigmund Freud, neurologist
- Kurt Gödel, mathematician
- Jaroslav Heyrovsky, scientist, Nobel laureate
- Bedřich Hrozný, scientist, deciphered Hittite language
- Ernst Mach, philosopher, physicist
- Gregor Mendel
- Jan Evangelista Purkyne, scientist
- Jan Sindel, astronomer
- Joseph Schumpeter, economist
- Otto Wichterle, scientist, inventor of the modern contact lens
Sports Personalities
- Milan Baroš, footballer
- Vera Caslavska, gymnast, Olympic gold medalist
- Jaroslav Drobny, tennis
player
- Dominik Hašek, ice hockey player
- Martina Hingis, tennis player
- Jaromir Jagr, ice hockey player
- Eliska Junkova, Grand prix race car driver
- Jan Koller, footballer
- Petr Korda, tennis player
- Ivan Lendl, tennis player
- Hana Mandlikova, tennis player
- Martina Navrátilová, tennis player
- Pavel Nedvěd, footballer
- Jana Novotna, tennis player
- Karel Poborský, footballer
- Tomáš Rosický, footballer
- Vladimír Šmicer, footballer
- Helena Sukova, tennis
player
- Ales Valenta, freestyle
skiing, Olympic gold medalist
- Emil Zatopek, runner, Olympic gold medalist
- Jan Zelezný, javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist
Other
- Tomas Bata, industrialist, Bata Shoes
- Alfred Brendel, pianist
- Casanova, spent his last years as a librarian for the Czech Count
Waldstein
- Vaclav Prokop Divis, inventor of the lightning rod
- Eva Herzigova, model
- Jan Hus
- Edmund Husserl
- Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius)
- Karolina Kurkova,
model
- Jan Letzel, architect of the
A-bomb Dome
- Adolf Loos
- Vladimir Mensik, actor
- Petra Nemcova, supermodel
- Ferdinand Porsche, German automobile inventor
- Jan Santini Aichel, architect
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart
- Oskar Schindler, German businessman - "Schindler's List"
- Hana Soukupova,
model
- Wilhelm Steinitz
- Berta von Suttner, Austrian Nobel laureate
- Linda Vojtova, model
- The Good King Wenceslas , 10th century Duke of
Christmas Carol fame
- Max Wertheimer, psychologist
- See also: List of people by
nationality
List of people by EU state
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