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: A number of people on this list can also claim other nationalities; some were Czech-born, but spent the most important part of their lives outside the Czech lands (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.).
Actors
Architects
Authors and Poets
Composers
Other Musicians
Filmmakers
Miloš Forman , film director
Jiří Menzel , film director, actor
Georg Wilhelm Pabst , film director
Karel Reisz , film director
Jan Švankmajer , film director, animator
Jan Svěrák , film director, actor
Karel Zeman , film director
Painters
Politicians
Sculptors
Scientists
Bernard Bolzano , philosopher, mathematician, and theologian
Eduard Cech , mathematician
Eugene Cernan , astronaut
Carl Ferdinand Cori , biochemist, Nobel laureate
Gerty Cori , biochemist, Nobel laureate
Eduard Čech , mathematician
Václav Prokop Diviš , inventor of the lightning rod
Vilém Flusser , philosopher
Jaroslav Hájek , mathematician
Jan Heweliusz , astronomer
Jaroslav Heyrovský , scientist, Nobel laureate
Václav Hlavatý , mathematician
Bedřich Hrozný , scientist
Vojtech Jarnik , mathematician
Mathias Lerch , mathematician
Karel Löwner , mathematician
Gregor Mendel , biologist
Zdeněk Neubauer , philosopher
George Placzek , physicist
Jan Evangelista Purkyně , scientist
Josef Ludvík František Ressel , inventor of the ship's propeller
Jan Šindel , astronomer
Joseph Schumpeter , economist
Olga Taussky Todd , mathematician
Petr Vopěnka , mathematician
Otto Wichterle , scientist, inventor of the modern contact lens
Linguistics, Anthropology, History
Sports Personalities
Milan Michalek , ice-hockey player
Milan Baroš , footballer
Radek Bonk , ice-hockey player
Věra Čáslavská , gymnast, Olympic gold medalist
Roman Cechmanek , ice-hockey player
Jaroslav Drobný , tennis player
Patrik Eliáš , ice-hockey player
Martin Erat , ice-hockey 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
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
Ivan Lendl , tennis player
Hana Mandlíková , tennis player
Martina Navrátilová , tennis player
Petr Nedvěd , ice-hockey player
Pavel Nedvěd , footballer
Jana Novotná , tennis player
Karel Poborský , footballer
Karel Rachůnek , ice-hockey player
Martin Prusek , ice-hockey player
Tomáš Rosický , footballer
Vladimír Šmicer , footballer
Patrik Štefan , ice-hockey player
Helena Suková , tennis player
Petr Sýkora , ice-hockey player
Petr Sýkora , ice-hockey player
Aleš Valenta , freestyle skiing, Olympic gold medalist
Tomáš Vokoun , ice-hockey player & 2003-2004 NHL All-Star
Emil Zátopek , runner, Olympic gold medalist
Jan Železný , javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist
Roman Šebrle , decathlete, Olympic gold medalist
Other
(not classified)
Joy Adamson , naturalist, author
Tomáš Baťa , industrialist (Bata Shoes )
Giacomo Casanova , spent his last years as a librarian for the Czech Count Waldstein
Josef František , pilot, flying ace
Eduard Hanslick , critic
Konrad Henlein , Nazi leader
Eva Herzigová , model
Jan Hus , religious thinker and reformer
Edmund Husserl , philosopher
Ray Kroc , founder of McDonalds chain
Karolína Kurková , model
Victor Lustig , con artist
Alois Musil , orientalist, explorer
Petra Němcová , supermodel
Jan Opletal , student killed by Nazis
Frank Plicka , photographer
Ferdinand Porsche , German automobile inventor
Eugen Sänger , aerospace engineer
Ignác Šechtl , pioneer of photography
Arthur Seyss-Inquart , Nazi leader
Oskar Schindler , German businessman - "Schindler's List"
Hana Soukupová , model
Wilhelm Steinitz , chess player
Berta von Suttner , Austrian Nobel laureate
Linda Vojtová , model
The Good King Wenceslas , 10th century Duke of Christmas Carol fame
Max Wertheimer , psychologist
Ernest Nagel (1911-1985), pilosopher
Hans Kohn , historian
See also
