List of Czechs

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

• Max Brod
• Karel Čapek
• Jaroslav Foglar
• Jaroslav Hašek
• Václav Havel
• Bohumil Hrabal
• Franz Kafka
• Karl Kraus
• Milan Kundera
• Karel Hynek Mácha
• Jan Neruda
• Ferdinand Peroutka
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Jaroslav Seifert, Nobel laureate
• Adalbert Stifter
• Tom Stoppard
• Franz Werfel

Composers

• August Wilhelm Ambros
• Jan Ladislav Dusík
• Antonín Dvořák
• Zdeněk Fibich
• Jan Hammer
• Leoš Janáček
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold, film composer, two Oscars
• Gustav Mahler
• Bohuslav Martinů
• Josef Mysliveček
• Oskar Nedbal
• Vítězslav Novák
• Bedřich 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
• Anton Raphael Mengs
• Alfons Mucha
• Jan Zrzavý

Politicians

• Madeleine Albright
• Edvard Benes
• Anton Cermak
• Klement Gottwald
• Václav Havel
• Vaclav Klaus
• Jan Masaryk
• Tomas Masaryk
• Karl Renner, Austrian politician born in Moravia

Sculptors

• Matthias Bernard Braun - baroque sculptor
• Jan Brokoff - baroque sculptor
• Ferdinand Maxmilian Brokoff - baroque sculptor
• Michael Joseph Brokoff - baroque sculptor

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