List of Czechs

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This is a partial list of famous Czech people. This list includes people born in Czech lands, people of the Czech nationality as well as people having some significant Czech ancestry or association with Czech culture.

Note: If you wish to add a name to this list, first add it here instead: Biography Stub Factory. This prevents the list from succumbing to a large amount of "red links".

Actors[]

See Czech actors

Architects and designers[]

Main article: List of Czech architects

Authors and poets[]

See Czech writers

Composers[]

See Czech composers

Other musicians[]

See Czech musicians

Filmmakers[]

See Czech Film Directors

Military[]

Models[]

See Czech models

Painters[]

See Czech Painters

Philosophers[]

See Czech philosophers

Photographers[]

See Czech photographers

Politicians[]

See also the categories Czechoslovak politicians and Czech politicians
  • Madeleine Albright, first female United States Secretary of State in U.S. history
  • Ivana Bacik, Irish law professor and politician of Czech descent
  • Edvard Beneš, president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938 and again from 1945 to 1948
  • Jerzy Buzek, prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001
  • Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor
  • Karl von Czyhlarz, Czech-Austrian jurist
  • Klement Gottwald, first communist president
  • Emil Hácha, president during the German occupation
  • Václav Havel, first president after the fall of communism, first president of the independent Czech Republic
  • Milada Horáková, politician anad activist hanged by the Communists
  • Otto Jelinek, former Canadian Federal Cabinet Minister
  • Václav Klaus, former prime minister and expresident of the Czech Republic
  • Juscelino Kubitschek, President of Brazil (1956–1961)
  • Jan Masaryk, foreign minister
  • Tomáš G. Masaryk, first president of Czechoslovakia
  • Mikuláš of Hus, politician, Hussite
  • Emanuel Moravec, collaborator with Nazis
  • Antonín Novotný, communist president
  • Přemysl Otakar II, King of Bohemia and most powerful man in middle Europe in his era
  • George of Poděbrady, Hussite king
  • Karl Renner, Austrian first President after World War II
  • Rudolf II, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor
  • Adolf Schärf, President of Austria
  • Jan Švejnar, US-based, Czech-born economist
  • Ludvík Svoboda, communist president
  • Mirek Topolánek, former Prime Minister
  • Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia (Saint Wenceslas, Václav), known as "Good King Wenceslas" in a Christmas carol
  • Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia, king
  • Miloš Zeman, first directly elected president in Czech history

Religion[]

Saints[]

  • Saint Adalbert of Prague (Vojtěch in Czech), bishop of Prague, missionary and martyr
  • Saint Agnes of Bohemia, Anežka Česká
  • Saint John of Nepomuk, known through central Europe
  • Saint John Neumann (John Nepomucene Neumann)
  • Saint John Sarkander, priest tortured to death in Olomouc
  • Saint Ludmila, princess of Bohemia, grandmother of St. Wenceslas
  • Saint Prokop, canon and hermit
  • Saint Wenceslas, duke of Bohemia
  • Saint Gorazd (Pavlík), Eastern Orthodox new martyr, bishop of Prague, and metropolitan of the Czech lands and Slovakia

Sculptors[]

See Czech sculptors

Scientists[]

See Czech Scientists

Linguistics, anthropology, history[]

Sports personalities[]

Main article: List of Czech sportspeople

Entrepreneurs[]

Other[]

Fictional characters[]

See also[]

  • List of Czech Jews
  • List of people by nationality
  • List of people on stamps of the Czech Republic (including non-Czech people)

References[]

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  2. ^ Bloom, Harold (1994). "Kafka: Canonical Patience and "Indestructibility"". The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace & Company. pp. 447–462. ISBN 978-1-57322-514-4.
  3. ^ "The Top 100 Books of All Time". The Guardian. 8 May 2002. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  4. ^ "The 50 Greatest Composers of All Time". BBC Music Magazine. 30 January 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  5. ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (2004). Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 416–417. ISBN 0-8018-7840-3.
  6. ^ a b Hillier, Jim (ed.). "Cahiers du Cinema Annual Best Films Listings 1960-68". Cahiers du Cinéma: 1960-1968: New Wave, New Cinema, Reevaluating Hollywood. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 332–333. ISBN 0-674-09062-4.
  7. ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (2004). Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 420. ISBN 0-8018-7840-3.
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