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Famous
Czech
or
Czech
-speaking/writing people
Table of contents
1 Politicians
2 Authors and Poets
3 Composers
4 Filmmakers
5 Painters
6 Athletes
7 Other
8 Also born in Czechia
Politicians
Edvard Benes
Alexander Dubcek
Václav Havel
Jan Masaryk
Tomas Masaryk
Authors and Poets
Karel Capek
Jaroslav Foglar
Jaroslav Hasek
Václav Havel
Bohumil Hrabal
Karel Hynek Macha
Milan Kundera
Ferdinand Peroutka
Jaroslav Seifert
Composers
Antonin Dvorak
Zdenek Fibich[?]
Leos Janacek
Bohuslav Martinu
Oskar Nedbal[?]
Vitezslav Novák[?]
Bedrich Smetana
Karel Stamitz
Josef Suk[?]
Jaromir Vejvoda[?]
, author of the
Beer Barrel Polka
Filmmakers
Jiri Menzel[?]
, film director, actor
Milos Forman
, film director
Karel Reisz
, film director
Jan Svankmajer[?]
, film director, animator
Jan Sverák[?]
, film director, actor
Karel Zeman[?]
, film director
Painters
Emil Filla[?]
Wenceslaus Hollar[?]
Jan Kupecky[?]
Frantisek Kupka[?]
Alfons Mucha
Athletes
Vera Caslavska
, gymnast, Olympic gold medalist
Jaroslav Drobny[?]
, tennis player
Dominik Hasek[?]
, ice hockey player
Martina Hingis
, tennis player
Jaromir Jagr
, ice hockey player
Petr Korda[?]
, tennis player
Ivan Lendl[?]
, tennis player
Hana Mandlikova
, tennis player
Martina Navratilova
, tennis player
Jana Novotna[?]
, tennis player
Helena Sukova[?]
, tennis player
Emil Zatopek[?]
, runner, Olympic gold medalist
Other
Thomas Bata[?]
, industrialist, Bata Shoes
Bernard Bolzano[?]
, philosopher, mathematician, and theologian
Vaclav Prokop Divis
, inventor of the lightning rod
Jaroslav Heyrovsky
, scientist, Nobel laureate
Jan Hus
Bedrich Hrozny[?]
, scientist, deciphered
Hittite
language
Jan Amos Komensky
(Comenius)
Jan Letzel[?]
, architect of the A-bomb Dome
Jan Evangelista Purkyne[?]
, scientist
Johann Santin Aichel
, architect
The Good King Wenceslas[?]
, 10th century Duke nof Christmas Carol fame
Otto Wichterle[?]
, scientist, inventor of the modern contact lens
Also born in Czechia
Madeleine Albright
, US Secretary of State
August Wilhelm Ambros
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
Rainer Maria Rilke
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Oskar Schindler
Joseph Schumpeter
Tom Stoppard
Berta von Suttner
, Nobel laureate
Franz Werfel
See also:
List of people by nationality
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