List of Czechs
This is a partial list of famous Czech, Czech-speaking/writing people, and people born in the Czech Republic.
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 the Czech Republic (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
Painters
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 Heyrovský, scientist, Nobel laureate
- Bedřich Hrozný, scientist, deciphered Hittite language
- Ernst Mach, philosopher, physicist
- Gregor Mendel
- Jan Evangelista Purkyně, scientist
- Jan ?indel, astronomer
- Joseph Schumpeter, economist
- Rudolf Weigl, biologist
- Otto Wichterle, scientist, inventor of the modern contact lens
Linguistics, Anthropology
Sports Personalities
- Milan Baroš, footballer
- Radek Bonk, ice-hockey player
- Věra Čáslavská, gymnast, Olympic gold medalist
- Roman Cechmanek, ice-hockey player
- Jaroslav Drobný, tennis player
- Patrik Eliá?, 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
- Eli?ka Junková, Grand prix race car driver
- Tomá? 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 ?tefan, ice-hockey player
- Helena Suková, tennis player
- Petr Sýkora, ice-hockey player
- Ale? Valenta, freestyle skiing, Olympic gold medalist
- Tomá? Vokoun, ice-hockey player & 2003-2004 NHL All-Star
- Emil Zátopek, runner, Olympic gold medalist
- Jan ?elezný, javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist
- Roman ?ebrle, decathlete, Olympic gold medalist
Other
- Tomá? Baťa, industrialist, Bata Shoes
- Casanova, spent his last years as a librarian for the Czech Count Waldstein
- Václav Prokop Divi?, inventor of the lightning rod
- Josef Franti?ek, pilot, flying ace
- Eva Herzigová, model
- Jan Hus
- Edmund Husserl
- Jan Ámos Komenský (Comenius)
- Karolína Kurková, model
- Petra Němcová, supermodel
- Jan Opletal
- Ferdinand Porsche, German automobile inventor
- Ignác ?echtl, pioneer of photography
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart
- Oskar Schindler, German businessman - "Schindler's List"
- Hana Soukupová, model
- Wilhelm Steinitz
- Berta von Suttner, Austrian Nobel laureate
- Linda Vojtová, model
- The Good King Wenceslas , 10th century Duke of Christmas Carol fame
- Max Wertheimer, psychologist
See also: List of Czech Jews (more), List of people by nationality, List of people by EU state