List of Czechs
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Czech language
Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
people. This list includes people of the Czech nationality as well as people having some significant Czech ancestry or association with Czech culture.
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Actors
- See Czech actors
- Lída BaarováLída BaarováLída Baarová was a Czech actress and mistress of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister.-Biography:...
- Gustav NezvalGustav NezvalGustav Nezval by civil name Augustin Nezval, was a Czech stage and film actor. He was born to a locksmith family of Frantisek Nezval and his wife Aloisia. The parents wanted him to become a priest. However he managed to finish a technical college and for some time he earned his living as a...
- Jiří BartoškaJirí BartoškaJiří Bartoška is a Czech actor and the president of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.Bartoška played a number of roles in many Czech films, later he became most known as the president of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival...
- Vlasta BurianVlasta BurianJosef Vlastimil Burian, better known as Vlasta Burian, was a Czech stage and film actor, singer, comedian, footballer and a film director...
- Anna GeislerováAnna GeislerováAnna Geislerová aka Aňa Geislerová is a Czech actress.Anna became well known for her role as Eliška/Hana in the 2003 movie Želary and as Anna in the 1999 movie Return of the Idiot...
- Jiří GrossmannJirí GrossmannJiří Grossmann was a Czechoslovak theatre actor, poet, and composer.-Life:Grossmann was born in Prague. After his graduation, he started at the technical university ČVUT, but left in 1962 when he met Miloslav Šimek in the Olympik bar. Grossmann performed with Dixie Party Band in the Olympik bar,...
- Miroslav HorníčekMiroslav HornícekMiroslav Horníček was a Czech actor, writer, director, artist and theatre theoretician. He is well-known in Czechia for his on-stage partnership with Jan Werich, his talkshows and many small roles in Czech movies and TV.-External links:...
- Rudolf HrušínskýRudolf HrušínskýRudolf Hrušínský was an acclaimed Czech actor.-Biography:He was born in Nová Včelnice to Hermina Červičková and Rudolf Hrušinský . He was born, literally, back stage during a showing of the play Taneček panny Marinky...
- Zorka JanůZorka JanuZorka Janů , a Czech film actress, was the younger sister of the legendary cinema star Lída Baarová. When she was 12 years old, she appeared in the movie Madla z cihelny alongside her sister who played the principal role...
- Petr KostkaPetr KostkaPetr Kostka is a Czech actor.He was born in Říčany near Prague, Czechoslovakia. In 2003, he received Thalia Award for performing Herman in Smíšené pocity Mixed Emotions.-Selected filmography:...
- Herbert LomHerbert LomHerbert Lom is a Czech film actor, best known for his role as former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in the Pink Panther movie series.-Life and career:...
- Vladimír MenšíkVladimír MenšíkVladimír Menšík was a popular Czech actor and entertainer, born in Ivančice, Moravia, Czechoslovakia. Both comedian and serious actor, he created a wide range of lively characters...
- David NyklDavid NyklDavid Nykl is a Czech Canadian actor of film, television, commercials and theater.After the Soviet invasion in 1968, he and his family left then-Communist Czechoslovakia for Canada...
- Anny OndraAnny OndraAnny Ondra was a Czech film actress. She was born Anna Sophie Ondráková in Tarnów, Galicia, Austria–Hungary, now Poland, and died in Hollenstedt near Harburg, Germany.-Life:...
(Anna Ondráková) - Karel RodenKarel RodenKarel Roden is a Czech actor, known for his roles in Hellboy and The Bourne Supremacy.Roden's father and grandfather were also actors. After studying theatrical art in Prague he has played many roles in theatres and movies. First, he graduated school of ceramic, then he was admitted to the Academy...
- Jan TřískaJan TrískaJan Triska or Jan Tříska is a Czech-American actor.-Early life and career:He was born in Prague. Before his emigration he performed in the theater and had many roles in movies, the movie version of Radúz a Mahulena and in the communist propaganda piece 30 Cases of Major Zeman...
- Tatiana VilhelmováTatiana VilhelmováTatiana Čecháková-Vilhelmová is a Czech actress.She is 5 ft 3 in tall. As a kid she took lessons in ballet for 9 years, she was a member of well-renowned Kühn's Children Choir...
- Eduard VojanEduard VojanEduard Vojan was a famous Czech actor of early cinema.-External links:* in Czech...
- Jiří VoskovecJirí VoskovecJiří Voskovec was a Czech-American actor, playwright, dramatist, director, translator, and poet...
- Jan WerichJan WerichJan Werich was a Czech actor, playwright and writer.-Life:Between 1916 to 1924 he attended "reálné gymnasium" in Křemencová Street in Prague...
- Stella ZázvorkováStella ZázvorkováStella Zázvorková was a Czech actress from Prague.Zázvorková, an alumnus of Prague's theatre school of E.F. Burian, appeared in several hundred films and series. She was married to the actor Miloš Kopecký...
- Lída Baarová
Architects and designers
- See Czech architects
- Jan Santini AichelJan Santini AichelJan Blažej Santini Aichel was a Czech architect of Italian descent, whose major works represent a curious amalgam of the Gothic and Baroque styles.-Biography:...
- Jakub BursaJakub BursaJakub Bursa was a famous Czech architect, folk artist and builder of Bohemian Rustic Baroque architecture. He decorated many gables of houses in Southern Bohemia in the style of the so-called rural South Bohemian Baroque....
- Josef ChocholJosef ChocholJosef Chochol was a Czech architect.-Education:Chocol studied architecture at the polytechnic in Prague , then at the academy in Vienna, under guidance of Otto Wagner .-Career:...
- Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer
- Alois DryákAlois DryákAlois Dryák was Czech architect and professor of ornamental design.Dryák is most famous for the design of the ornamental detail on Art Nouveau masterpieces such as...
- Josef GočárJosef GocárJosef Gočár , was a Czech architect, one of the founders of modern architecture in Czechoslovakia....
- František Maxmilián KaňkaFrantišek Maxmilián KankaFrantišek Maxmilián Kaňka was a Czech architect and builder.He is most famous for reconstructions of palaces and castles of Bohemian noblemen and for designs of churches and other religious buildings, principally in Baroque style...
- Jan KaplickýJan KaplickýJan Kaplický was a world-renowned Czech architect who spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom. He was the leading architect behind the innovative design office, Future Systems. He was best known for the futuristic Selfridges Building in Birmingham, England, and the Media Centre...
- Jan KotěraJan KoteraJan Kotěra was a Czech architect, artist and interior designer, and one of the key figures of modern architecture in Bohemia.-Biography:...
- Zdeněk KovářZdenek KovárZdeněk Kovář, born January 26, 1917, Vsetín, Moravia , died June 21, 2004, Zlín, renown Czech industrial designer.-Life:He trained as a shoemaker in Baťa’s Zlín factory, then as locksmith and later as engineer. He studied under prominent Czech sculptor Vincenc Makovský at Zlín’s Art School from...
- Jakub KrčínJakub KrcínJakub Krčín was a prominent Czech Renaissance architect and engineer.Krčín was born in Kolín. He was a prolific designer and founder of fish ponds.-External links:** *...
- Jaromír KrejcarJaromír KrejcarJaromír Krejcar was a Czech functionalistic architect, student of Jan Kotěra and member of Devětsil.He collaborated with Czech structural engineer, Dr...
- Josef MockerJosef MockerJosef Mocker was a Bohemian architect and restorer who worked in a purist Gothic Revival style.- Overview :...
- Štěpánek NetolickýŠtepánek NetolickýJosef Štěpánek Netolický was a Czech fishpond builder and architect.Netolický worked as a regent of the Rožmberks' domain and designed fishpond system around the town Třeboň. The builder of this system was the other well-known regent of this domain, Jakub Krčín...
- Josef NiklasJosef NiklasJosef Niklas was one of the most important Czech architects in the 19th century. In 1873-1874 he was a rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague.-External links:*...
- Milada Petříková-PavlíkováMilada Petríková-PavlíkováMilada Petříková-Pavlíková was a Czech architect.She was born as Milada Pavlíková. Pavlíková graduated in 1921 as the first female architect in Czechoslovakia...
- Bořek ŠípekBorek ŠípekBořek Šípek is a prominent Czech architect and designer. Born in Prague, Bořek Šípek is renowned for his individual, unusual, colorful and rich style. He experiments with unexpected and often opulent shapes....
- Jan Santini Aichel
Authors and Poets
- See Czech writers
- Michal AjvazMichal AjvazMichal Ajvaz is a Czech novelist, poet and translator, an exponent of the literary style known as magic realism.- Biography :...
- Jindřich Šimon Baar
- Jan Antonin BataJan Antonín BataJan Antonín Baťa was a Czech shoe manufacturer from Uherské Hradiště , brother of Tomáš Baťa....
- Jan BlahoslavJan BlahoslavJan Blahoslav was a Czech humanistic writer, poet, translator, etymologist, hymnographer, grammarian, music theorist and composer. He was a Unity of the Brethren bishop, and translated the New Testament into Czech in 1564...
- Bohuslav z Lobkovic
- Karel Havlíček BorovskýKarel HavlícekKarel Havlíček was a Czech painter.He was born in Berlin where his parents had moved from Vienna in 1903 because his father Karel started to work in the state theatres as a scene designer. They moved to Czechoslovakia in 1923 and his father entered the Prague National Theatre as a stage setter...
- Otokar BřezinaOtokar BrezinaOtakar or Otakar Březina ; pen name of Václav Jebavý.; was a Czech poet and essayist, considered the greatest of Czech Symbolists.-Biography :...
- Karel ČapekKarel CapekKarel Čapek was Czech writer of the 20th century.-Biography:Born in 1890 in the Bohemian mountain village of Malé Svatoňovice to an overbearing, emotional mother and a distant yet adored father, Čapek was the youngest of three siblings...
- Jan ČarekJan CarekJan Čarek was a Czech poet, essayist, and literary critic. He was greatly popular in his day for his children's books a "rural" poetry.- Biography :...
- Svatopluk ČechSvatopluk CechSvatopluk Čech was a Czech writer, journalist and poet.Čech studied at gymnasium in Prague, then studied law, and later worked in the journals Květy, Lumír and Světozor.His first poem, Husita na Baltu, was published in the almanac Ruch in 1868...
- František ČelakovskýFrantišek CelakovskýFrantišek Ladislav Čelakovský, also known by the pseudonym Marcian Hromotluk, was a Czech writer and translator.-Life:...
- Jakub DemlJakub DemlJakub Deml was a Czech Catholic priest and writer.-Life:Deml was born in Tasov near Třebíč, then Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic. In 1902 he was ordained Roman Catholic priest, but in 1907-1908 and after 1909 he was pensioned, partly due to conflicts with his superiors. He became one of the...
- Ivan DivišIvan DivišIvan Diviš was a significant Czech poet and essayist of the 2nd half of the 20th century.- Biography :...
- Jaroslav DurychJaroslav DurychJaroslav Durych was a Czech prose writer, poet, playwright, journalist, and military surgeon.Durych was born in Hradec Králové...
- Karel Jaromír ErbenKarel Jaromír ErbenKarel Jaromír Erben was a Czech historian, poet and writer of the mid-19th century, best known for his collection Kytice , which contains poems based on traditional and folkloric themes....
- Jaroslav FoglarJaroslav FoglarJaroslav Foglar was a famous Czech author who wrote many novels about youths and their adventures in nature and dark city streets.-Early life:...
- Ladislav FuksLadislav FuksLadislav Fuks was a Czech novelist. He focused mainly on psychological novels, portraying the despair and suffering of people under German occupation of Czechoslovakia....
- František GellnerFrantišek GellnerFrantišek Gellner was a Czech poet, short story writer, artist and anarchist.-Biography:František Gellner was born to a poor Jewish family in Mladá Boleslav, Bohemia. His father was a seller and a keen socialist...
- Jiří GrossmannJirí GrossmannJiří Grossmann was a Czechoslovak theatre actor, poet, and composer.-Life:Grossmann was born in Prague. After his graduation, he started at the technical university ČVUT, but left in 1962 when he met Miloslav Šimek in the Olympik bar. Grossmann performed with Dixie Party Band in the Olympik bar,...
- Jaroslav HašekJaroslav HašekJaroslav Hašek was a Czech humorist, satirist, writer and socialist anarchist best known for his novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures, which has been translated into sixty...
- Vladimír HolanVladimír HolanVladimír Holan was a Czech poet famous for employing obscure language, dark topics and pessimist views in his poems. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in the late 1960s. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia....
- Miroslav HolubMiroslav HolubMiroslav Holub was a Czech poet and immunologist.Miroslav Holub's work was heavily influenced by his experiences as an Immunologist, writing many poems using his scientific knowledge to poetic effect. His work is almost always unrhymed, so lends itself easily to translation...
- Bohumil HrabalBohumil HrabalBohumil Hrabal was a Czech writer, regarded as one of the best writers of the 20th century.- Life and work :...
- Václav HraběVáclav HrabeVáclav Hrabě was a Czech poet and writer, and the most important member of the Beat Generation in former Czechoslovakia.- Life :...
- František HrubínFrantišek HrubínFrantišek Hrubín , was a Czech poet and writer. He was a lifetime member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ....
- Miroslav IvanovMiroslav IvanovMiroslav Ivanov was popular Czech nonfiction writer.His father was executed during Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. Ivanov studied history and Czech language at the Charles University in Prague. He then worked at the university for seven years. In 1960 he started work as a journalist and then...
- Boleslav JablonskýBoleslav JablonskýBoleslav Jablonský was a Czech poet.Jablonský studied theology. Jablonský was one of the most popular Czech poets in 19th century, whose songs found international renown, and were also frequently composed...
- Josef JedličkaJosef JedlickaJosef Jedlička was a Czech writer.Jedlička studied aesthetics and ethnography at Prague University, but after the communist revolution in 1948 he was kicked out of university for being an anticommunist. He then worked in various professions - as laborer, teacher, TV assistant, and tutor among them...
- Milena JesenskáMilena JesenskáMilena Jesenská was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator, who refused to abandon her Jewish friends and was deported to and died alongside them in Ravensbrück concentration camp....
- Alois JirásekAlois JirásekAlois Jirásek was a Czech writer, author of historical novels and plays. Jirásek was a secondary-school teacher until his retirement in 1909. He wrote a series of historical novels imbued with faith in his nation and in progress toward freedom and justice...
- Franz KafkaFranz KafkaFranz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...
- Václav KaplickýVáclav KaplickýVáclav Kaplický was a Czech writer, journalist and epic poet. He is most known as an author of historical fiction....
- Václav Kliment KlicperaVáclav Kliment KlicperaVáclav Kliment Klicpera was a Czech playwright, author, and poet. He was one of the first presenters of Czech drama, and was especially influential in the foundation of comedic Czech theater....
- Jan KřesadloJan KresadloJan Křesadlo was the primary pseudonym used by Václav Jaroslav Karel Pinkava , a Czech psychologist who was also a prizewinning novelist and poet....
- Karel KrylKarel KrylKarel Kryl was a popular Czech singer-songwriter and performer of many protest songs in which he strongly criticized and identified the shortcomings and inhumanity of the Communist and later post-communist regime in his home country.-Biography:Kryl was born on April 12, 1944, in Kroměříž, in...
- Milan KunderaMilan KunderaMilan Kundera , born 1 April 1929, is a writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Joke. Kundera has written in...
- Karel Hynek MáchaKarel Hynek MáchaKarel Hynek Mácha was a Czech romantic poet.- Biography :Mácha grew up in Prague, the son of a foreman at a mill. He learned Latin and German in school...
- Jiří MahenJirí MahenJiří Mahen was a Czech novelist, playwright and essayist.- Life :He was born Antonín Vančura, in Čáslav, to an old noble family of the Moravian Brethren faith. In his grammar-school years he became an anarchist. He later studied linguistics of the Czech and German languages at Prague University...
- Bohumil MathesiusBohumil MathesiusBohumil Mathesius was a Czech poet, translator, publicist and literary scientist – expert on Russian literature. He was a professor on the Faculty of Philosophy at the Charles University in Prague...
- Rudolf MedekRudolf MedekRudolf Medek was a Czech poet, army-related prose writer, and a general in the Czechoslovak Legions in Russia...
- Ondřej NeffOndrej NeffOndřej Neff is a Czech science fiction writer and journalist. He is the founder of , one of the earliest and most popular Czech daily news/comments websites, and , a website about digital photography for amateurs.His father Vladimír Neff was a popular writer, author of many historical...
- Vladimír NeffVladimír NeffVladimír Neff was a popular Czech writer and translator. He wrote numerous historical novels, political satires and parodies on criminal stories and adventure tales....
- Božena NěmcováBožena NemcováBožena Němcová was a Czech writer of the final phase of the Czech National Revival movement.-Biography:...
- Jan NerudaJan NerudaJan Nepomuk Neruda was a Czech journalist, writer and poet, one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of "the May school".-Early life:...
- Vítězslav NezvalVítezslav NezvalVítězslav Nezval was one of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the twentieth century and a co-founder of the Surrealist movement in Czechoslovakia....
- Ota PavelOta PavelOta Pavel was a Czech writer, journalist and sport reporter...
- Ferdinand PeroutkaFerdinand PeroutkaFerdinand Peroutka was a Czech journalist and writer.-Life:Peroutka was born to a Czech-German family in Prague in 1895. In 1913 he began his career as a journalist. After World War I, he became a editor-in-chief of a new newspaper Tribuna...
- Eduard PetiškaEduard PetiškaEduard Petiška was a Czech poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright, and translator. He is best known as the author of books for children.-Life:...
- Bohuslav ReynekBohuslav ReynekBohuslav Reynek was one of the most important Bohemian poets, writers, painters and translators of the 20th century.-Education and personal life:...
- John of RokycanJohn of RokycanJohn of Rokycan, also known as Jan of Rokycany, in Czech language Jan Rokycana, Jan z Rokycana and Jan z Rokycan was a Hussite theologian, archbishop of Prague and a key figure in Bohemian church history.- Life :In his youth, John of Rokycan entered the Augustinian monastery in Rokycany...
(Jan Rokycana) - Jan SkácelJan SkácelJan Skácel was a Czech poet of Moravian origin, widely acclaimed as one of the best poets who had been writing in Czech....
- Jaroslav SeifertJaroslav SeifertJaroslav Seifert was a Nobel Prize winning Czech writer, poet and journalist.Born in Žižkov, a suburb of Prague in what was then part of Austria-Hungary, his first collection of poems was published in 1921...
- Zdeněk SvěrákZdenek SverákZdeněk Svěrák is a Czech actor, humorist and scriptwriter. He is one of the most popular Czech cultural personalities. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival....
- Michal ŠandaMichal ŠandaMichal Šanda is Czech writer and poet.- Life :After secondary school, he made his living in a series of jobs that included stonemasonry, bookselling, street vending, fowling and organ-grinding, as well as making fans on an ostrich farm and painting railway cars...
- Josef ŠkvoreckýJosef ŠkvoreckýJosef Škvorecký, CM is a leading contemporary Czech writer and publisher who has spent much of his life in Canada. He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country...
- Karel TeigeKarel TeigeKarel Teige was the major figure of the Czech avant-garde movement Devětsil in the 1920s, a graphic artist, photographer, and typographer...
- Jáchym TopolJáchym TopolJáchym Topol is a Czech writer.- Life :Jáchym Topol was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Josef Topol, Czech playwright, poet, and translator of Shakespeare, and Jiřina Topolová, daughter of the famous Czech Catholic writer Karel Schulz.Topol's writing began with lyrics for the rock band Psí...
- Jan Matzal Troska
- Svatopluk TurekSvatopluk TurekSvatopluk Turek was a Czech novelist, known under pen name T. Svatopluk.After studying arts at the university he worked as graphics designer in Baťa company in Zlín....
- Josef VáchalJosef VáchalJosef Váchal was a Czech writer, painter, graphic designer and book-printer.Váchal was the illegitimate son of Josef Aleš-Lyžec and Anna Váchalová - his parents never married...
- Vladislav VančuraVladislav VancuraVladislav Vančura was one of the most important Bohemian writers of the 20th century...
- Michal VieweghMichal VieweghMichal Viewegh is one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers and the bestselling one. He writes about romantic relationships of his contemporaries with humour, and variously successful irony and attempts at deeper meaningfulness; he is sometimes compared to Nick Hornby by his fans.His...
- Jaroslav VrchlickýJaroslav VrchlickýJaroslav Vrchlický was one of the greatest Czech lyrical poets. He was born Emil Frida, Vrchlický being a pseudonym.He also wrote epic poetry, plays, prose and literary essays and translated widely from various languages, introducing e.g. Dante, Goethe, Shelley, Baudelaire, Poe, and Whitman to...
- Jan WerichJan WerichJan Werich was a Czech actor, playwright and writer.-Life:Between 1916 to 1924 he attended "reálné gymnasium" in Křemencová Street in Prague...
- Ivan WernischIvan WernischIvan Wernisch is a Czech poet, editor and a collage artist. He studied Ceramics Secondary school in Carlsbad and has since done many jobs, mostly manual. In 1961, after publishing his debut poetry book, he quickly established himself as one of the best and most loved writers of his generation...
- Zikmund WinterZikmund WinterZikmund Winter was a Czech writer and historian. The author of many historical novels and essays, he maintained an interest in Bohemian life from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.- Sources :*...
- Jiří WolkerJirí WolkerJiří Wolker was a Czech poet, journalist and playwright. He was one of the founding members of CPC - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1921.- Life :...
- Jan ZábranaJan ZábranaJan Zábrana was a Czech writer and translator.His parents were teachers and politicians persecuted by the communist regime after the communist revolution of 1948: his mother, member of the regional parliament, was arrested and sentenced to 20 years of prison; his father, mayor of Humpolec before the...
- Jan ZahradníčekJan ZahradnícekJan Zahradníček was a Czech poet of the early and mid-20th century. Because of his writings and Catholic orientation he was imprisoned as an enemy of Communists after their coup in 1948.From 1919 to 1926 he studied at Classical Grammar School in Třebíč...
- Vojtech ZamarovskýVojtech ZamarovskýVojtech Zamarovský was a popular Slovak writer of historical non-fiction literature. He also translated from English, German, French and Latin....
- Julius ZeyerJulius ZeyerJulius Zeyer was a Czech prose writer, poet, and playwright.Zeyer was born into a father of German-French nobility, and mother of Jewish family, and learned the Czech language from his nanny. He was expected to take over the family's factory but instead decided to learn carpentering...
Composers
- See Czech composers
- Jiří Benda
- Karel BendlKarel BendlKarel or Karl Bendl was a Czech composer.He studied at the organ school, where he met and befriended Antonín Dvořák one year before graduating with honors in 1858. By then he had already composed a number of small choral works...
- Vilém BlodekVilém BlodekVilém Blodek was a Czech composer, flautist, and pianist.- Biography :Blodek was born into a poor family and was educated at a German Piarist school in Prague...
- Pavel BorkovecPavel BorkovecPavel Bořkovec was a Czech composer and music teacher.Bořkovec studied at the Prague Conservatory under Josef Suk. From 1946 to 1967 he taught at the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague. His students there included Pavel Blatný, Jiří Pauer, Vladimír Sommer, Petr Eben, Jan Klusák and Jan Truhlář...
- František Xaver Brixi
- Bohuslav Černohorský
- Alexander DreyschockAlexander DreyschockAlexander Dreyschock was a Czech pianist and composer.Born in Žáky in Bohemia, his musical talents were first noticed at age of eight, and at age fifteen he travelled to Prague to study piano and composition with Václav Tomášek...
- Jan Ladislav DusíkJan Ladislav DussekJan Ladislav Dussek was a Czech composer and pianist. He was an important representative of Czech music abroad in the second half of 18th century and the beginning of 19th century...
- Antonín DvořákAntonín DvorákAntonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
- Josef FialaJosef FialaJosef Fiala , was a composer, oboist, viola da gamba virtuoso, cellist, and pedagogue.He was born in Lochovice in Bohemia and began his professional career as an oboist in the service of Countess Netolicka. In 1777 he moved to Munich to serve in the court orchestra of Elector Maximilian Joseph...
- Zdeněk FibichZdenek FibichZdeněk Fibich was a Czech composer of classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works , symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas , melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia,...
- Josef Bohuslav FoersterJosef Bohuslav FoersterJosef Bohuslav Foerster was a Czech composer of classical music. He is often referred to as J. B. Foerster. The surname is sometimes spelled Förster.- Life :...
- Julius FučíkJulius Fucík (composer)Julius Arnost Wilhelm Fučík was a Czech composer and conductor of military bands.Fučík spent most of his life as the leader of military brass bands. He became a prolific composer, with over 300 marches, polkas, and waltzes to his name...
- Jiří GrossmannJirí GrossmannJiří Grossmann was a Czechoslovak theatre actor, poet, and composer.-Life:Grossmann was born in Prague. After his graduation, he started at the technical university ČVUT, but left in 1962 when he met Miloslav Šimek in the Olympik bar. Grossmann performed with Dixie Party Band in the Olympik bar,...
- Alois HábaAlois HábaAlois Hába was a Czech composer, musical theorist and teacher. He is primarily known for his microtonal compositions, especially using the quarter tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones and twelfth-tones....
- Jan HammerJan HammerJan Hammer is a composer, pianist and keyboardist. He first gained his most visible audience while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 1970s, as well as his film scores for television and film including "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s...
- Jan HanušJan HanušJan Hanuš was a prolific Czech composer of the 20th century. Almost every category of composition is represented among his works, many of which are overtly political, expressing in turn anti-Nazi, anti-Fascist and anti-Communist sentiments.-Biography:Hanuš studied composition independently with...
- Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic
- Vladimír HirschVladimír HirschVladimír Hirsch is a Czech avantgarde composer, integrating industrial and dark ambient music with modern classical composition. Besides creating solo works, he is the founding member and leader of Skrol, Aghiatrias and various other projects...
- Ilja HurníkIlja HurníkIlja Hurník is a contemporary Czech composer and essayist. He entered the Prague Conservatory, then went on to the Prague Academy of Arts, where he studied with Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová, daughter of Vilém Kurz.His 1953 sonata da camera, for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord, has been recorded on...
- Leoš JanáčekLeoš JanácekLeoš Janáček was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by...
- Otakar JeremiášOtakar JeremiášOtakar Jeremiáš was a Czech composer, conductor and teacher. He was the son of composer Bohuslav Jeremiáš and the brother of composer Jaroslav Jeremiáš.-Life:...
- Jaroslav JežekJaroslav JežekJaroslav Ježek was a Czech composer, pianist and conductor, author of jazz, classical, incidental and film music.- Life :...
- Karel Boleslav JirákKarel Boleslav JirákKarel Boleslav Jirák was a Czechoslovak composer and conductor....
- Václav KaprálVáclav KaprálVáclav Kaprál was a Czech pianist and composer.Kaprál studied composition with Leoš Janáček in the Brno Organ School and with Vítězslav Novák in Prague. Later, he studied piano interpretation with Alfred Cortot in Paris .Kaprál composed about fifty opuses, mainly solo piano, vocal, and chamber...
- Vítězslava KaprálováVítezslava KaprálováVítězslava Kaprálová was a Czech composer and conductor. Among her teachers were some of the best European composers and conductors of the time - Bohuslav Martinů, Václav Talich, and Charles Münch.-Life:She was a daughter of composer Václav Kaprál...
- Rudolf KarelRudolf KarelRudolf Karel was a distinguished Czech composer.-Brief Biography:Rudolf Karel was son of a poor railway employee. He studied composition from 1899 to 1904 with Antonín Dvořák and organ with Josef Klička in Prague...
- Petr KotíkPetr KotikPetr Kotik is a composer, conductor and flutist living in New York City. He was educated in Europe...
- Jan Antonín KoželuhJan Antonín KoželuhJan Antonín Koželuh was a renowned Bohemian composer from Velvary. He was a pupil of Josef Seger. He studied in Vienna and was a concert master in St. Vitus Cathedral for thirty years; his work includes both church and concert works...
- Hans KrásaHans KrásaHans Krása was a Czech composer who was killed in the Holocaust at Auschwitz. He helped to organize cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp.-Life:...
- Ladislav KubíkLadislav KubikLadislav Kubík is a contemporary Czech-American composer. His style is associated with other post-war Eastern European composers, such as Krzysztof Penderecki and Witold Lutosławski....
- Jan KubelíkJan KubelíkJan Kubelík was a Czech violinist and composer.-Biography:He was born in Michle . His father, a gardener by occupation, was an amateur violinist. He taught his two sons the violin and after discovering the talent of Jan, who was aged five at the time, arranged for him to study with Karel Weber and...
- Rafael KubelíkRafael KubelíkRafael Jeroným Kubelík was a Czech conductor and composer.-Early life:Kubelík was born in Býchory, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, today's Czech Republic. He was the sixth child of the Bohemian violinist Jan Kubelík, whom the younger Kubelík described as "a kind of god to me." His mother was a Hungarian...
- Ernst KrenekErnst KrenekErnst Krenek was an Austrian of Czech origin and, from 1945, American composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now , a study of Johannes Ockeghem , and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music...
- Bohuslav MartinůBohuslav MartinuBohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...
- František Míča
- Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic
- Oskar MorawetzOskar MorawetzOskar Morawetz, CM, O.Ont was a Canadian composer.Morawetz was born in Světlá nad Sázavou, Bohemia . He studied piano and theory in Prague and, following the Nazi takeover of his country in 1938, studied in Vienna and Paris, always staying one step ahead of the invading Nazis...
- Josef MyslivečekJosef MyslivecekJosef Mysliveček was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music...
- Oskar NedbalOskar NedbalOskar Nedbal was a Czech violist, composer, and conductor of classical music.-Life:Nedbal was born in Tábor, in southern Bohemia. He studied the violin at the Prague Conservatory under Antonín Bennewitz...
- Jan NovákJan NovákJan Novák was a popular Czech composer of classical music. Novák was primarily active in the 1960s and composed the music for several films of Karel Kachyňa...
- Vítězslav NovákVítezslav NovákVítězslav Novák was one of the most well-respected Czech composers and pedagogues, almost singlehandedly founding a mid-century Czech school of composition...
- Jan Jakub Ryba
- František ŠkroupFrantišek ŠkroupFrantišek Jan Škroup was a Czech composer and conductor. His brother Jan Nepomuk Škroup was also a successful composer and his father, Dominik Škroup, and other brother Ignác Škroup were lesser known composers.- Biography :At the age of eleven he moved to Prague where he supported himself as a...
- Josef SegerJosef SegerJosef Seger was a Bohemian organist, composer, and educator...
- Bedřich SmetanaBedrich SmetanaBedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music...
- Johann StamitzJohann StamitzJan Václav Antonín Stamic was a Czech composer and violinist. Johann was the father of Carl Stamitz and Anton Stamitz, also composers...
- Karel StamitzCarl StamitzKarl Philipp Stamitz , who later changed his given name to Carl, was a German composer of partial Czech ancestry , and a violin, viola and viola d'amore virtuoso...
- Josef SukJosef Suk (composer)Josef Suk was a Czech composer and violinist.- Life :Suk was born in Křečovice. He studied at Prague Conservatory from 1885 to 1892, where he was a pupil of Antonín Dvořák and Antonín Bennewitz. In 1898, he married Dvořák's eldest daughter, Otilie Dvořáková , affectionately known as Otilka...
- Dalibor Cyril VačkářDalibor Cyril VackárDalibor Cyril Vačkář was one of the most popular contemporary Czech composers, renowned throughout Czechoslovakia.Dalibor C...
- Johann Baptist VanhalJohann Baptist VanhalJohann Baptist Vanhal also spelled Wanhal, Waṅhall or Wanhall was an important classical music composer born in Nechanice, Bohemia to a Czech family.- Biography :...
(Jan Křtitel Vaňhal) - Jaromír VejvodaJaromír VejvodaJaromír Vejvoda was a Czech composer and the author of the "Beer Barrel Polka".-Life and work:...
- Jan VencálekJan VencálekJan Vencálek was a Bohemian Renaissance-era composer for the lute and voice. Considered one of the masters in arrangement for lutes, Vencálek's compositions were showcased in Prague during the reign of Rudolph II.-External links:* * ....
- Jan Václav VoříšekJan Václav VoríšekJan Václav Hugo Voříšek , was a Czech composer of classical music, pianist, and organist.-Life:...
- Pavel Vranický (also known as Paul Wranitzky)
- Ladislav VycpálekLadislav VycpálekLadislav Vycpálek was a Czech composer and violist.Vycpálek studied composition under Vítězslav Novák. However, he very soon found his own expressive style. He mainly composed choral works. Prior to World War I, he occupied himself with setting Czech and German symbolist poetry to music, then he...
- Jan ZachJan ZachJan Zach was a Czech composer, violinist and organist. Although he was a gifted and versatile composer capable of writing both in Baroque and Classical idioms, his eccentric personality led to numerous conflicts and lack of steady employment since about 1756.-Life:Zach was born in Čelákovice,...
- Otakar ZichOtakar ZichOtakar Zich was a distinguished Czech composer and aesthetician.- Biography :...
- Jan Dismas ZelenkaJan Dismas ZelenkaJan Dismas Zelenka , baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka and previously also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka, was the most important Czech Baroque composer, whose music was notably daring with outstanding harmonic invention and mastery of counterpoint.- Life :Zelenka was born in Louňovice pod Blaníkem, a small...
Other Musicians
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- Dollface Devereaux, DJ
- Gabriela BeňačkováGabriela BenackováGabriela Beňačková is a Slovak soprano.She specializes in the music of her compatriots, particularly Eugen Suchoň, as well as Czech composers, notably Bedřich Smetana and Leoš Janáček. She is considered to be one of the greatest 'Jenufa's' in Janáček's opera of the same name...
, opera singer - Ema DestinnováEmmy DestinnEmmy Destinn was a Czech operatic soprano with a strong and soaring lyric-dramatic voice. She had a career both in Europe and at the New York Metropolitan Opera.- Biography :...
, opera singer - Michaela FukačováMichaela FukacováMichaela Fukačová is a Czech cellist. She took up the cello at fourteen winning the Beethoven Cello Competition only two years later.Among her many top prizes is the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
, cellist - Karel GottKarel GottKarel Gott is a Czech Schlager singer, and an amateur painter. He is considered as the most successful male singer in former Czechoslovakia and currently in the Czech Republic; he has being voted the Most Favorite Male Singer in the annual national pool Český slavík in total thirty-six times...
, singer - Zbyněk DrdaZbynek DrdaZbyněk Drda, is a Czech singer he was born on March 29, 1987, in Ostrov . He lived in Karlovy Vary for most of his life. His father works in a spa in one of the many hotels and his mother teaches Russian at a local school...
, singer - Maria JeritzaMaria JeritzaMaria Jeritza , born Marie Jedličková, was a celebrated Moravian soprano singer, long associated with the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera...
, opera singer - Jiří JirmalJirí JirmalJiří Jirmal is a classical guitarist who also is dedicated to jazz. He was born in Prague in 1925. Some of his compositions incorporate elements of Brazilian music ....
, guitarist - Tomas KalnokyTomas KalnokyTomas Kalnoky is a Czech-born American musician. He is the lead singer/guitarist and songwriter of the bands Streetlight Manifesto and Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, and goes by the pseudonym Toh Kay as a solo performer...
, singer, guitarist and composer - Markéta IrglováMarkéta IrglováMarkéta Irglová is a Czech songwriter, musician, actress, and singer. As of 2010, she resides in New York City.-Early life:...
, singer, actress, Oscar prize winner - Karel KovařovicKarel KovarovicKarel Kovařovic was a Czech composer and conductor.-Life:From 1873 to 1879 he studied clarinet, harp and piano at the Prague Conservatory. He began his career as a harpist...
, conductor - Magdalena KoženáMagdalena KoženáMagdalena Kožená is a Czech mezzo-soprano.In 2003, Kožená was awarded the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government...
, singer - Antonín KraftAntonín KraftAntonín Kraft was an Czech cellist and composer. He was a close friend of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven....
, cellist - Karel KrylKarel KrylKarel Kryl was a popular Czech singer-songwriter and performer of many protest songs in which he strongly criticized and identified the shortcomings and inhumanity of the Communist and later post-communist regime in his home country.-Biography:Kryl was born on April 12, 1944, in Kroměříž, in...
, songwriter - Jan KubelíkJan KubelíkJan Kubelík was a Czech violinist and composer.-Biography:He was born in Michle . His father, a gardener by occupation, was an amateur violinist. He taught his two sons the violin and after discovering the talent of Jan, who was aged five at the time, arranged for him to study with Karel Weber and...
, violinist - Daniel LandaDaniel LandaDaniel Landa is a Czech musician, actor and racer.Born in Prague, Landa began his musical career in 1987 when he along with David Matásek founded the oi! band Orlík. He graduated from the Prague Conservatory in the area of Music and Drama. After the breakup of the band in 1992 he began his solo...
, singer - Aneta LangerováAneta LangerováAneta Langerová is a Czech pop singer. She first rose to fame at age 17 as the first winner of Česko hledá SuperStar, the Czech version of Pop Idol, in June 2004 and later that year released her first album, Spousta andělů, which would go on to become the best-selling record in Czech music history...
, singer - Ferdinand LaubFerdinand LaubFerdinand Laub was a Czech violinist and composer.Laub was born in Prague. Due to the influence of his father Erasmus Laub , Ferdinand's first public appearance happened when he was 6 years old. At the age of 10 he had his own concert in Stavovské divadlo . From 1843-46 he studied at the...
, violinist - Jan Antonín LosyJan Antonín LosyJan Antonín Losy, Count of Losinthal ; also known as Comte d'Logy , was a Bohemian aristocrat, Baroque lute player and composer from Prague. His lute works combine the French style brisé with a more Italian cantabile style...
, famous lute player - Ivan MoravecIvan MoravecIvan Moravec is a Czech concert pianist whose performing and recording career, spanning nearly half a century, has gained him a worldwide following....
, pianist - Eduard NápravníkEduard NápravníkEduard Francevič Nápravník was a Czech conductor and composer, who settled in Russia and is best known for his leading role in Russian musical life as the principal conductor of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg for many decades...
, conductor - Jaromír NohavicaJaromír NohavicaJaromír Nohavica or Jarek Nohavica is a Czech songwriter, lyricist, and poet.He was born in Ostrava and has played guitar since he was 13. He began studying at the Technical University of Ostrava but eventually left the school. He tried various jobs and eventually ended up working as a freelance...
, guitarist and songwriter - Jarmila NovotnáJarmila NovotnáJarmila Novotná was a celebrated Czech soprano and actress and, from 1940 to 1956, a star of the Metropolitan Opera.-Early career:...
, opera singer - Josef PáleníčekJosef PálenícekJosef Páleníček was a Czech piano virtuoso and composer.- Biography :...
, pianist - Karel PlíhalKarel PlíhalKarel Plíhal is a Czech folk and jazz musician, singer, songwriter and record producer.He graduated from the Industrial College of Engineering and then worked as a designer and boilerman in the Olomouc theatre, finally becoming a singer . He has played the guitar since he was 15 year old...
, guitarist and songwriter - Libor PešekLibor PešekLibor Pešek KBE is a Czech conductor.Pešek was born in Prague and studied conducting, piano, cello and trombone at the Academy of Musical Arts there, with Václav Smetáček and Karel Ančerl among his teachers. He worked at the Pilsen and Prague Operas, and from 1958 to 1964 was the founder and...
, conductor - Otakar ŠevčíkOtakar ŠevcíkOtakar Ševčík was a Czech violinist and influential teacher. He was known as a soloist and an ensemble player, including his occasional performances with Eugène Ysaÿe.-Biography:...
, violinist - Leo SlezakLeo SlezakLeo Slezak was a world-famous Moravian tenor. He was associated in particular with German opera as well as the title role in Verdi's Otello.- Beginnings :...
, opera singer - Jiří StivínJirí StivínJiří Stivín is a Czech flute player and composer.He graduated from the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague . He also studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music as well as at the Prague Academy of Music .Stivín performs music from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and...
, flute player - Karel StrakatýKarel StrakatýKarel Strakatý was a Czech operatic bass who had a lengthy career at the Estates Theatre in Prague from 1827 until his retirement in 1858. While there he portrayed more than 253 roles in over 3,230 performances...
, singer - Vaclav TalichVáclav TalichVáclav Talich was a Czech conductor, violinist and pedagogue.- Life :Born in Kroměříž, Moravia, he started his musical career in a student orchestra in Klatovy. From 1897 to 1903 he studied at the conservatory in Prague with Otakar Ševčík...
, conductor - Vilém TauskýVilém TauskýVilém Tauský CBE was a Czech conductor and composer.-Life:Vilém Tauský was from a musical family: his Viennese mother had sung Mozart at the Vienna State Opera under Gustav Mahler, and her cousin was the operetta composer Leo Fall.Tauský studied with Leoš Janáček and later became a repetiteur at...
, conductor - Štěpán RakŠtepán RakŠtěpán Rak is a Rusyn-born Czech classical guitarist and composer. He is well known for the technical innovations that he uses in his compositions.-Interviews:** * -Photos:...
, guitarist - Zuzana RůžičkováZuzana RužickováZuzana Růžičková is a famous Jewish Czech contemporary harpsichordist, an interpreter of classical and baroque music.Růžičková studied music but during 1941–45 she was sent to a Nazi concentration camp. Afterwards she continued the study at music school in Plzeň and Prague...
, harpsichordist - Antonín VranickýAntonín VranickýAntonín Vranický , was a famous Czech violinist and composer of the 18th century. He was the brother of Pavel Wranitzky....
(also known as Anton Wrani(t)zky), violinist - Hana ZagorováHana ZagorováHana Zagorová is a Czech female singer who has been recording since 1964. She has written the lyrics to around fifty of her recorded songs. Nine times she was listed number one in the national Zlaty Slavík popularity chart.Since 1992 she has been married to opera singer Štefan...
, singer - Ivan KralIvan KralIvan Kral is a Grammy Award-winning Czechoslovakian-born American composer, filmmaker and singer. He works across many genres including rock, jazz, soul, country and film scores...
, guitarist and singer
Filmmakers
- See Czech Film Directors
- František ČápFrantišek CápFrantišek Čáp , also known as "Franz Cap" in Germany, was a Czech film director and screenwriter. He directed 32 films between 1939 and 1970....
, film director - Věra ChytilováVera ChytilováVěra Chytilová is an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. Banned by the Czechoslovakian government in the 1960s, she is best known for her Czech New Wave film, Sedmikrásky...
, film director - Miloš FormanMiloš FormanJan Tomáš Forman , better known as Miloš Forman , is a Czech-American director, screenwriter, professor, and an emigrant from Czechoslovakia. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, are among the most celebrated in the history of film, both gaining him the Academy Award for...
, film director - Jan HřebejkJan HrebejkJan Hřebejk is a Czech film director.-Early life and education:Born in Prague, Hřebejk studied together with his classmate Petr Jarchovský at high school. Now Jarchovsky is a frequent collaborator as a screenwriter...
, film director - Jaromil Jireš, film director
- Oldřich Lipský, film director, screenwriter
- Jiří MenzelJirí MenzelJiří Menzel is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography...
, film director, actor - Zdeněk MilerZdenek MilerZdeněk Miler was a Czech animator and illustrator best known for his Mole character and its adventures.-Early years:...
, film director - Ivan PasserIvan PasserIvan Passer is a Czech-born film director and screenwriter.A significant figure in the Czech New Wave of the mid-1960s, Passer worked closely with Miloš Forman on many of his films, and directed his first feature in 1965...
, film director - Jan PinkavaJan PinkavaDr. Jan Jaroslav Pinkava, Ph.D. is the director and writer of the Pixar Oscar-winning 1997 short film Geri's Game and the originator and co-director of Pixar's Oscar-winning 2007 film Ratatouille....
, animator, film director - Břetislav PojarBretislav PojarBřetislav Pojar is a puppeteer, animator and director of short and feature films.Born in Sušice, Czechoslovakia, Pojar started his career in the late 1940s with his work on The Story of the Bass Cello based on the story by Anton Chekhov and directed by master Czech puppet animator Jiří Trnka...
, film director - Alfréd RadokAlfréd RadokAlfréd Radok was a distinguished Czech stage director.He worked as the stage director of the National Theatre in Prague in the years 1948 to 1949 and 1966 to 1968. Radok's work belongs to the top of the Czech stage direction of the 20th century...
, film and theatre director - Emil RadokEmil RadokEmil Radok was a Czech film director. He was co-inventor of the multi-media show Laterna Magika, , which was a star attraction at the Czechoslovakia pavilion at Expo 67...
, film director - Karel ReiszKarel ReiszKarel Reisz was a Czech-born British filmmaker who was active in post–war Britain, and one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in 1950s and 1960s British cinema.-Early life:...
, film director - Bohdan SlámaBohdan SlámaBohdan Sláma is a Czech film director. He studied at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague .- Filmography :* 2008 – Venkovský učitel...
, film director - Ladislav SmoljakLadislav SmoljakLadislav Smoljak was a Czech film and theater director, actor and screenwriter. He was born in Prague.Smoljak tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to study physics and mathematics, and later worked as journalist and scriptwriter...
, film director - Jan ŠvankmajerJan ŠvankmajerJan Švankmajer is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans several media. He is a self-labeled surrealist known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, and many others.- Life and career :Jan...
, film director, animator - Jan SvěrákJan SverákJan Svěrák is a Czech film director. He is the son of screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák. He studied documentary filmmaking at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague...
, film director, actor - Jiří TrnkaJirí TrnkaJiří Trnka was a Czech puppet maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director. In addition to his extensive career as an illustrator, especially of children's books, he is best known for his work in animation with puppets, which began in 1946...
, film director, animator - Hermína TýrlováHermína TýrlováHermína Týrlová was a prominent Czech stage designer, animator, and film director. She was often called the mother of Czech animation. She was a close collaborator of Karel Zeman.-External links:**. [14-05-2003] Por Andrea Fajkusová*....
, stage designer, cartoonist - Otakar Vávra, film director
- František VláčilFrantišek VlácilFrantišek Vláčil was a Czech film director, painter, and graphic artist.Between 1945 and 1950, he studied esthetics and art history at Masaryk University in Brno. Later he worked in various groups and ateliers , but his main area became played film...
, film director - Karel ZemanKarel ZemanKarel Zeman was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator. Because of his creative use of special effects and animation in his films, he has often been called the "Czech Méliès."-Life:...
, film director, animator
- František Čáp
Military
- Josef BryksJosef BryksFlight Lieutenant Josef Bryks was a Czechoslovak soldier and fighter pilot, who went abroad in the beginning of the Second World War to fight against Nazi Germany. He served with the Royal Air Force, but his aircraft was shot down and he was captured. He tried to escape several times, succeeded...
, pilot - Alois EliášAlois EliášAlois Eliáš was a Czechoslovak general and politician. He served as Prime Minister of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from April 27, 1939 to September 28, 1941.- Career in 1939-1942 :...
, army officer - Josef FrantišekJosef FrantišekSergeant Josef František DFM* was a Czech fighter pilot and World War II flying ace. He flew for the air forces of Czechoslovakia, Poland and the United Kingdom. He is famous as being the number one allied ace in the Battle of Britain.- Career :Born in Otaslavice in 1913, Josef František joined...
, pilot ace - Radola GajdaRadola GajdaRadola Gajda, born as Rudolf Geidl, was a Czech/Montenegrin military commander and politician.- Early years :...
, army officer - Karel KuttelwascherKarel KuttelwascherKarel Miloslav Kuttelwascher, "Kut" was a Czech fighter pilot, a flying ace of the UK's Royal Air Force in World War II. He was the most successful RAF pilot of Czech nationality.-Pilot:...
, general - František MoravecFrantišek MoravecFrantišek Moravec was Czechoslovak military intelligence officer before and during World War II....
, military intelligence officer - František PeřinaFrantišek PerinaWing Commander General František Peřina was a Czech fighter pilot, an ace during World War II with the French Armee de l'Air, who also served twice with Britain's Royal Air Force.-Biography:...
, pilot - Prokop the GreatProkop the GreatProkop or Prokop the Great was one of the most prominent Hussite generals of the Hussite Wars...
, Hussite leader - Joseph Radetzky von RadetzJoseph Radetzky von RadetzJohann Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz was a Czech nobleman and Austrian general, immortalised by Johann Strauss I's Radetzky March...
, field marshal - Ludvík SvobodaLudvík Svobodathumb|Svoboda and [[I Corps |I Czechoslovak Army Corps]]Ludvík Svoboda was a Czechoslovak general and politician...
, general, president - Jan SyrovýJan SyrovýJan Syrový was a Czechoslovak Army four star general and the prime minister during the Munich Crisis.-Early life and military career:...
, general, prime minister - Albrecht von WallensteinAlbrecht von WallensteinAlbrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein , actually von Waldstein, was a Bohemian soldier and politician, who offered his services, and an army of 30,000 to 100,000 men during the Danish period of the Thirty Years' War , to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II...
, warlord during Thirty-Years War - Jan ŽižkaJan ŽižkaJan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha , Czech general and Hussite leader, follower of Jan Hus, was born at small village Trocnov in Bohemia, into a gentried family. He was nicknamed "One-eyed Žižka"...
, Hussite leader
Models
- See Czech models
- Jana Defi (1984)
- Eva HerzigováEva HerzigováEva Herzigová is a Czech model and actress.-Early life and career:Herzigová was born in Litvínov, Czechoslovakia . She began her modeling career after winning a modeling beauty contest in Prague in 1989, at the age of sixteen. After arriving in Paris, her popularity increased...
(1973) - Karolína KurkováKarolína KurkováKarolína Isela Kurková is a Czech model, best known as a former Victoria's Secret Angel, and an aspiring actress. Mario Testino said of Kurková, "The proportions of her body and her face, as well as her energy level, make her a model who could fit almost into any moment." Vogue editor Anna...
(1984) - Tereza MaxováTereza MaxováTereza Maxová , is a Czech model.-Biography:In 1975 her family moved to Ústí nad Labem, where she finished her basic school focussed on sport and athletics in 1985. After passing her entrance exams she started her studies at the Gymnasium Grammar School Budějovická in Prague...
(1971) - Petra NěmcováPetra NemcováPetra Němcová is a Czech model, television host, author, and philanthropist. She is the founder and chair of the Happy Hearts Fund. In December 2004, she was injured in Thailand by a tsunami resulting from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake; her fiancé, photographer Simon Atlee, was killed in the...
(1979) - Daniela PeštováDaniela PeštováDaniela Peštová is a Czech model. She was born in Teplice, Czech Republic, and was discovered by the Madison Modeling Agency's Dominique Caffin. She had plans to attend college but after winning a modelling contest she moved to Paris to sign with Madison Modeling Agency...
(1970) - Pavlína PořízkováPaulina PorizkovaPavlína Pořízková-Ocasek is a Czech model and actress. At the age of eighteen years, she became the first woman from Central Europe to grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated swim-suit issue. She was the second woman to be featured on the swim-suit issue's front cover consecutive times...
(1965) - Hana SoukupováHana SoukupováHana Soukupová is a Czech model. She has participated in the Victoria's Secret fashion shows and modeled for the Victoria Secret Catalog.-Early life:...
(1985) - Alena ŠeredováAlena ŠeredováAlena Buffon is a Czech model currently living and working in Italy. She is the wife of Italian football goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.- Career :...
(1978) - Ivana TrumpIvana TrumpIvana Trump is a former Olympic athlete, socialite, and fashion model noted for her marriage to mogul Donald Trump.-Early years:...
(1949) - Veronika Vařeková (1977)
Painters
- See Czech Painters
- Martina KrupičkováMartina KrupickováMartina Krupičková is a Czech artist who paints in the impressionist style.-Early life:...
- Mikoláš AlešMikoláš AlešMikoláš Aleš , was a Czech painter.-Biography:Aleš was born in Mirotice near Písek, into a relatively rich family that was in debt at the time. He was taught history by his brother František until the latter's death in 1865; he expressed interest in painting at an early age...
- Petr BrandlPetr BrandlPetr Brandl was a painter of the late Baroque, famous in his time but - due to isolation behind the Iron Curtain - rather forgotten until recently. He was of German-speaking Austrian descent in the bilingual kingdom of Bohemia...
- Václav BrožíkVáclav BrožíkVáclav Brožík was a Czech academic painter.Since 1868 he studied at the Academy of Arts in Prague, Dresden, and Munich. In 1879 he went on study journey to the Netherlands....
- Ota BubeníčekOta BubenícekOta Bubeníček was a famous Czech landscape painter. He was also widely regarded as Bohemia's greatest marionnetter.-References:*...
- Zdeněk BurianZdenek BurianZdeněk Michael František Burian was a Czech painter and book illustrator whose work played a central role in the development of palaeontological reconstructions during a remarkable career spanning five decades...
- Josef ČapekJosef CapekJosef Čapek was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet. He invented the word robot, which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek.- Biography :...
- Antonin ChittussiAntonin ChittussiAntonin Chittussi was a Czech Impressionist landscape painter.He was born in Ronov nad Doubravou to a Czech mother and a father of Italian descent. He was fascinated by the landscape of South Bohemia and of the Bohemian and Moravian Highlands...
- Alén DivišAlén DivišAlén Diviš was a Czech painter known for his melancholic art. Having spent much of his life abroad, often working in solitude, he remained rather unknown during his life but has had a postmortem revival in the art world....
- Emil FillaEmil FillaEmil Filla , a Czech painter, was a leader of the Avant-Garde in Prague between World War I and World War II and was an early Cubist painter....
- Karel HavlíčekKarel HavlícekKarel Havlíček was a Czech painter.He was born in Berlin where his parents had moved from Vienna in 1903 because his father Karel started to work in the state theatres as a scene designer. They moved to Czechoslovakia in 1923 and his father entered the Prague National Theatre as a stage setter...
- Václav Hollar
- Stanislav HolýStanislav HolýStanislav Holý was a Czech graphic artist, caricaturist, and a designer of animated films.He studied at the Applied Arts Academy in Prague. He is best known for a series of children's books....
- Jan Jakub Quirin Jahn
- Josef LadaJosef LadaJosef Lada was a Czech painter and writer.He is best known as the illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's World War One novel The Good Soldier Švejk...
- Jan KarpíšekJan KarpíšekJan Karpíšek is a Czech contemporary painter. He was born in 1981 in Jihlava, grew up in the South Bohemian town of Třeboň. He now lives in Brno. Between 1999 and 2005 Karpíšek studied at the of Brno University of Technology, at a studio led by Professor Martin Mainer...
- František KavánFrantišek KavánFrantišek Kaván was Czech painter and poet.Kaván studied gymnasium in Hradec Králové, which he finished in 1888. During 1889 to 1896 he studied painting at the academy in Prague under the guidance of Julius Mařák. He was a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences...
- Karel KlíčKarel KlícKarel Václav Klíč was a Czech painter, photographer and illustrator. He appears to be known as one of the inventors of photogravure ....
, inventor of photogravurePhotogravurePhotogravure is an intaglio printmaking or photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio print that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a... - Jiří KolářJirí KolárJiří Kolář was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work was divided between literary and visual art.- Life :Kolář came from a poor family of a baker and a seamstress...
- Jan KonůpekJan KonupekJan Konůpek was an internationally renowned Czech painter, illustrator, and engraver. A list of his graphic works comprises 1448 works and more than 600 book illustrations. He is among the three greatest known Czechs for interwar art, alongside František Kobliha and František Drtikol.-External...
- Ludvík KubaLudvík KubaLudvík Kuba was a Czech landscape painter, musician, writer, professor in the Academy of Fine Arts. He was a representative of the Late-Impressionism and he collected folk traditions.-Life:...
- Otakar KubínOtakar KubínOtakar Kubín, was an internationally renowned Czech painter and sculptor born in Boskovice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. His works are mainly associated with Impressionism. He was influenced by such artists as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, and formed a friendship with Pablo Picasso. He was...
- Jan KupeckýJan KupeckýJán Kupecký or Jan Kupecký was a Czech and Slovak portrait painter during the baroque...
- František KupkaFrantišek KupkaFrantišek Kupka was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and Orphic cubism...
- Martin MainerMartin MainerMartin Mainer is a Czech artist and professor. He studied: VŠUP in Prague 1978 - 81, AVU 1981 - 85 -Career:...
- Julius Edvard MarakJulius Edvard MarakJulius Edvard Mařák was a Czech landscape painter, draughtsman, and graphic designer.-External links:...
- Josef MánesJosef MánesJosef Mánes was a Czech painter.He was taught by his father, Antonín Mánes , who was a landscape painter and the professor of arts; in addition, he was the nephew of Václav Mánes, and brother of Quido Mánes and Amalie Mánesová, all of whom were also painters...
- Mikuláš MedekMikuláš MedekMikuláš Medek is one of the most important representants of modern Czech painting. Nephew of excellent impressionist Antonín Slavíček and son of general of Czechoslovak army and catholic writer Rudolf Medek, is thanks to his original expression, deepness of idea and spirituality of his work one of...
- Alfons MuchaAlfons MuchaAlfons Maria Mucha , known in English as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs.-Early years:...
- Josef NavrátilJosef NavrátilJosef Navrátil was a renowned Bohemian painter. He worked for the Austrian Court and created a great number of paintings, murals, and frescos.-External links:...
- Emil OrlikEmil OrlíkEmil Orlik was born in Prague, which was at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and lived and worked in Prague, Austria and Germany...
- František Jakub ProkyšFrantišek Jakub Prokyš-External links:*...
- Václav Vavřinec ReinerVáclav Vavrinec ReinerWenzel Lorenz Reiner was a Baroque painter who lived and died in Prague, Bohemia.-External links:* * *...
- Teodor RotreklTeodor RotreklTeodor Rotrekl was a Czech illustrator and painter. His most known works are illustrations of science fiction books and journals.-External links:***...
- Otakar SedloňOtakar SedlonOtakar Sedloň was a Czech realistic painter living in Prague.Otakar Sedloň was born on August 30, 1885 in Trpín - a small village between Polička and Kunštát in East Bohemia, formerly part of Austro-Hungarian Empire. Otakar attended primary school in Vamberk and followed on with a high school...
- Antonín SlavíčekAntonín SlavícekAntonín Slavíček was a renowned Czech painter.He was a part of the Czech impressionist movement. One of his most famous works is "Garden Wall," which hangs in the National Gallery in Prague.-External links:**...
- Karel ŠkrétaKarel ŠkrétaKarel Škréta or Carolus Creten was a Czech Baroque painter.- Biography :His full name is Karel Škréta Šotonovský ze Závořic. Karel learnt painting perhaps from one of the masters at the royal courtyard. He studied in Saxony and in Italy...
- Václav ŠpálaVáclav ŠpálaVáclav Špála was a Czech painter, graphic designer and illustrator.He studied at Prague Academy. His work he expose with “Stubborn” group. At the beginning of his career his work was influenced by Fauvism, later by Cubism. Since 1923 he painted mainly landscapes and still-lives.Václav Špála ranks...
- Karel ŠtěchKarel ŠtechKarel Štěch was a famous Czech landscape painter, graphic designer, woodcutter, and illustrator popular during the Communist era of Czechoslovakia.-External links:**...
- Eva ŠvankmajerováEva ŠvankmajerováEva Švankmajerová was a Czech surrealist artist. She was born Eva Dvořáková. A native of the Czech town of Kostelec nad Černými lesy, she moved to Prague in 1958 to study at the Prague School of Interior Design and later the Academy of Performing Arts...
- ToyenToyenMarie Čermínová , known as Toyen, was a Czech painter, draftsperson and illustrator and a member of the surrealist movement.-Biography:...
(Marie Čermínová) - Vladimír VašíčekVladimír VašícekVladimír Vašíček was a Czech painter, one of pioneers and classics of Czech modern and abstract painting past the Second World War.-External links:* ** , written by Josef Maliva, 1993** , Česky – English, 2005* *...
- Helena ZmatlíkováHelena ZmatlíkováHelena Zmatlíková was a Czech illustrator, especially of children's books.Zmatlikova's paintings, which appeared in books published all over the world in more than 20 languages, have been popular with children for decades...
- Jan ZrzavýJan ZrzavýJan Zrzavý was a leading Czech painter, graphic artist, and illustrator of the 20th century.-Biography:He was born in Okrouhlice near Německý Brod in Bohemia . He studied privately in Prague and then attended the UMPRUM there for 2 years starting in 1907, before being expelled...
- Martina Krupičková
Philosophers
- See Czech philosophers
- Václav BělohradskýVáclav BelohradskýVáclav Bělohradský is one of the most famous contemporary Czech philosophers and sociologists. A graduate in philosophy and Czech from Charles University, Prague, he has lived in Italy since 1970, where he is currently Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Trieste. He is said to be...
(b. 1944) - Arnošt Bláha (1879–1960), sociologist
- Egon BondyEgon BondyEgon Bondy, born Zbyněk Fišer, was a Czech philosopher, writer, and poet, one of the main personalities of the Prague underground.In the late 1940s, Bondy was active in a surrealistic group...
(1930–2007) - Václav ČernýVáclav ČernýVáclav Černý, PhD., was a Czech literary scientist, writer and philosopher- Bibliography :* Lidové kořeny současného umění, 1929* Karel Čapek, 1936* Esej o básnickém baroku, 1937...
(1905–1987) - Petr ChelčickýPetr ChelcickýPetr Chelčický was a Christian and political leader and author in 15th century Bohemia .-Chelčický's background:...
(c.1390–c.1460) - Vilém FlusserVilém FlusserVilém Flusser was a Czech-born philosopher, writer and journalist. He lived for a long period in São Paulo, Brazil and later in France, and his works are written in several different languages....
(1920–1991) - Ladislav KlímaLadislav KlímaLadislav Klíma , was a Czech philosopher and novelist influenced by George Berkeley, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. His philosophy is referred to varyingly as existentialism and subjective idealism.-Life:...
(1878–1928) - František KlácelFrantišek KlácelFrantišek Matouš Klácel was an Augustinian author, philosopher, scientist, pedagogue, and journalist from Moravia....
(1808–1882) - Jan Amos Komenský (1592–1670)
- Jan PatočkaJan PatockaJan Patočka is considered one of the most important contributors to Czech philosophical phenomenology, as well as one of the most influential central European philosophers of the 20th century...
(1907–1977) - Emanuel RádlEmanuel RádlEmanuel Rádl was an original Czech biologist, historian of science, philosopher and a critical supporter of Masaryk´s pre-war democratic Czechoslovakia...
(1873–1942) - Radovan RichtaRadovan RichtaRadovan Richta was a Czech philosopher who coined the term technological evolution; a theory about how societies diminish physical labour by increasing mental labour. Richta was born in Prague....
(1924–1983)
- Václav Bělohradský
Photographers
- See Czech photographers
- František DrtikolFrantišek DrtikolFrantišek Drtikol was a Czech photographer of international renown. He is especially known for his characteristically epic photographs, often nudes and portraits.- Life and work :...
- Jaromír FunkeJaromír FunkeJaromír Funke was a Czech photographer.Funke was a leading figure in Czech photography in the 1920s and 30s. In 1924 he, Josef Sudek and Adolf Schneeberger founded the Czech Photographic Society...
- Josef KoudelkaJosef KoudelkaJosef Koudelka is a Czech photographer.-Biography:Josef Koudelka was born in 1938 in Boskovice, Moravia, town of about 10,000 inhabitants. He began photographing his family and the surroundings with a 6 x 6 Bakelite camera...
- Antonin KratochvilAntonin KratochvilAntonin Kratochvil is a Czech-born American photojournalist. He is a founding member of the VII Photo Agency. He received his BFA in Photography from Gerrit Rietveld Academie which is located in Amsterdam, Holland...
- Frank PlickaFrank PlickaFrank Plicka is a Czech-born Australian photographer, best known for his book Streets of Sydney, an extraordinary tour of Sydney, documented in black & white photographs taken over the last 30 years...
- Jiří RůžekJiří RůžekJiří Růžek is a Czech art photographer.- Life :Descends from a family without any artistic background. Until his age of 7 he lived in Litoměřice, a picturesque town in northern Bohemia...
- Jan SaudekJan SaudekJan Saudek is a Czech art photographer.- Life :Saudek's father was a Jew and the family was therefore persecuted by Germans. Many of his family members died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II. Jan and his brother Karel were held in a children's concentration camp located...
- Alexander SeikAlexander SeikAlexander Seik , also known as Alex Sejk was a pioneer of Czech photography, one of foremost exponents of chromophotography, painter and mayor of city Tábor.- Biography :...
- Ladislav SitenskýLadislav SitenskýLadislav Sitenský was a Czech landscape photographer, well-known also for his photography from World War II, when he was a technician for the Czech wing of the Royal Air Force.-External links: - extensive biography...
- Josef SudekJosef SudekJosef Sudek was a Czech photographer, best known for his photographs of Prague.Originally a bookbinder. During The First World War he was drafted into Austro-Hungarian Army. In 1915 and served on the Italian Front until he was wounded in the right arm in 1916...
- Miroslav TichýMiroslav TichýMiroslav Tichý was a photographer who from the 1960s to 1985 took thousands of surreptitious pictures of women in his hometown of Kyjov in the Czech Republic, using homemade cameras constructed of cardboard tubes, tin cans and other at-hand materials. Most of his subjects were unaware they are...
- František Drtikol
Politicians
- See Czechoslovak and Czech politicians
- Charles IVCharles IV, Holy Roman EmperorCharles IV , born Wenceslaus , was the second king of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg, and the first king of Bohemia to also become Holy Roman Emperor....
, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman EmperorHoly Roman EmperorThe Holy Roman Emperor is a term used by historians to denote a medieval ruler who, as German King, had also received the title of "Emperor of the Romans" from the Pope... - Jan ŠvejnarJan ŠvejnarJan Švejnar is a USA-based, Czech-born economist. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the 2008 election of the President of the Czech Republic....
, US-based, Czech-born economist - Ivana BacikIvana BacikIvana Catherine Bacik is an Irish politician and academic. She has been Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College, Dublin Law School since 1996, and was a made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2005. She was elected a Senator for the University of Dublin...
, Irish faw professor and politician of Czech descent - Klement GottwaldKlement GottwaldKlement Gottwald was a Czechoslovakian Communist politician, longtime leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia , prime minister and president of Czechoslovakia.-Early life:...
, first communist president - Emil HáchaEmil HáchaEmil Hácha was a Czech lawyer, the third President of Czecho-Slovakia from 1938 to 1939. From March 1939, he presided under the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.-Judicial career:...
, president during the German occupation - Václav HavelVáclav HavelVáclav Havel is a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic . He has written over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally...
, first president after the fall of communism, first president of the independent Czech Republic - Václav KlausVáclav KlausVáclav Klaus is the second President of the Czech Republic and a former Prime Minister .An economist, he is co-founder of the Civic Democratic Party, the Czech Republic's largest center-right political party. Klaus is a eurosceptic, but he reluctantly endorsed the Lisbon treaty as president of...
, former prime minister and current president of the Czech Republic - Otto JelinekOtto JelinekOtto John Jelinek, PC is a businessman, former figure skater, and Canadian politician. Jelinek's family fled to Canada from Czechoslovakia in 1948 at the beginning of the Cold War.-Figure skating career:...
, former Canadian Federal Cabinet Minister. - Jan MasarykJan MasarykJan Garrigue Masaryk was a Czech diplomat and politician and Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1940 to 1948.- Early life :...
, foreign minister - Juscelino Kubitschek, President of BrazilPresident of BrazilThe president of Brazil is both the head of state and head of government of the Federative Republic of Brazil. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the Brazilian Armed Forces...
(1956–1961) - Tomáš G. MasarykTomáš MasarykTomáš Garrigue Masaryk , sometimes called Thomas Masaryk in English, was an Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, sociologist and philosopher, who as an eager advocate of Czechoslovak independence during World War I became the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia, also was...
, first president of CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992... - Mikuláš of HusMikuláš of HusMikuláš of Hus was a Bohemian politician and leading representative of the Hussite movement. He died unexpectedly on 24 December 1420, leaving the position of first captain of the Taborites open to Jan Žižka....
, politician, HussiteHussiteThe Hussites were a Christian movement following the teachings of Czech reformer Jan Hus , who became one of the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation... - Emanuel MoravecEmanuel MoravecEmanuel Moravec was a pre-war Czechoslovakian army colonel who became aNazi collaborator during World War II....
, collaborator with Nazis - Antonín NovotnýAntonín NovotnýAntonín Novotný was General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1968, and also held the post of President of Czechoslovakia from 1957 to 1968. He was born in Letňany, now part of Prague....
, communist president - Přemysl Otakar II, King of Bohemia and most powerful man in middle Europe in his era.
- Rudolf II, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman EmperorHoly Roman EmperorThe Holy Roman Emperor is a term used by historians to denote a medieval ruler who, as German King, had also received the title of "Emperor of the Romans" from the Pope...
- Ludvík SvobodaLudvík Svobodathumb|Svoboda and [[I Corps |I Czechoslovak Army Corps]]Ludvík Svoboda was a Czechoslovak general and politician...
, communist president - Mirek TopolánekMirek TopolánekMirek Topolánek is a former prime minister of the Czech Republic and former President of the European Council. A member of the Civic Democratic Party, he was chairman of the center-right party between November 2002 and March 2010, succeeding Václav Klaus, who was elected President in 2003.On 24...
, former Prime Minister - Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia (Saint Wenceslas, Václav), known as "Good King Wenceslas" in a Christmas carol
- Antonín ZápotockýAntonín ZápotockýAntonín Zápotocký was communist Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1953 and President of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1957....
, communist president
- Charles IV
Religion
- Saint Agnes of BohemiaAgnes of BohemiaSaint Agnes of Bohemia , or Agnes of Prague , was a medieval Bohemian princess who opted for a life of charity and piety over a life of luxury and comfort...
, Anežka Česká - Josef Beran, cardinal
- Petr ChelčickýPetr ChelcickýPetr Chelčický was a Christian and political leader and author in 15th century Bohemia .-Chelčický's background:...
, thinker, religious reformer - Jan HusJan HusJan Hus , often referred to in English as John Hus or John Huss, was a Czech priest, philosopher, reformer, and master at Charles University in Prague...
, religious thinker and reformer - Saint John SarkanderJohn SarkanderSaint John Sarkander was a Polish and Moravian priest.Sarkander studied since 1597 at the University of Olomouc and then since 1600 at the Charles University, where he became doctor of philosophy. Later, he studied theology at University of Graz. He was ordained in 1609 and worked in Holešov from...
, priest tortured to death in OlomoucOlomoucOlomouc is a city in Moravia, in the east of the Czech Republic. The city is located on the Morava river and is the ecclesiastical metropolis and historical capital city of Moravia. Nowadays, it is an administrative centre of the Olomouc Region and sixth largest city in the Czech Republic... - Saint John of NepomukJohn of NepomukJohn of Nepomuk is a national saint of the Czech Republic, who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of Wenceslaus, King of the Romans and King of Bohemia. Later accounts state that he was the confessor of the queen of Bohemia and refused to divulge the secrets of the confessional...
, known through the central Europe - Saint John NeumannJohn NeumannSaint John Nepomucene Neumann, C.Ss.R., was a Redemptorist missionary to the United States who became the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia and the first American bishop to be canonized...
(John Nepomucene Neumann) - Tomáš HalíkTomáš HalíkTomáš Halík is a Czech public intellectual, Roman Catholic priest, and scholar.-Biography:He studied sociology and philosophy in Prague and in Bangor, UK. During Communist rule, he was banned from teaching and worked in various occupations, e.g. as a psychotherapist for drug addicts and alcoholics...
, catholic theologian, sociologist - Tomáš ŠpidlíkTomás SpidlikTomáš Špidlík, SJ was made a Cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2003. He was ordained a priest of the Society of Jesus on 22 August 1949 in Maastricht. On 21 October 2003, at the age of 83, he was created Cardinal Deacon of the titular church of Sant'Agata dei Goti...
, cardinal, thinker - František TomášekFrantišek TomášekFrantišek Tomášek was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Bohemia, the 34th Archbishop of Prague, and a Roman Catholic theologian...
, cardinal - Saint Wenceslas, duke of Bohemia
Saints
- Saint Adalbert of PragueAdalbert of PragueThis article is about St Adalbert of Prague. For other uses, see Adalbert .Saint Adalbert, Czech: ; , , Czech Roman Catholic saint, a Bishop of Prague and a missionary, was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians. He evangelized Poles and Hungarians. St...
(Vojtěch in Czech), bishop of Prague, missionary and martyr - Saint Agnes of BohemiaAgnes of BohemiaSaint Agnes of Bohemia , or Agnes of Prague , was a medieval Bohemian princess who opted for a life of charity and piety over a life of luxury and comfort...
, Anežka Česká - Saint John SarkanderJohn SarkanderSaint John Sarkander was a Polish and Moravian priest.Sarkander studied since 1597 at the University of Olomouc and then since 1600 at the Charles University, where he became doctor of philosophy. Later, he studied theology at University of Graz. He was ordained in 1609 and worked in Holešov from...
, priest tortured to death in OlomoucOlomoucOlomouc is a city in Moravia, in the east of the Czech Republic. The city is located on the Morava river and is the ecclesiastical metropolis and historical capital city of Moravia. Nowadays, it is an administrative centre of the Olomouc Region and sixth largest city in the Czech Republic... - Saint John of NepomukJohn of NepomukJohn of Nepomuk is a national saint of the Czech Republic, who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of Wenceslaus, King of the Romans and King of Bohemia. Later accounts state that he was the confessor of the queen of Bohemia and refused to divulge the secrets of the confessional...
, known through the central Europe - Saint John NeumannJohn NeumannSaint John Nepomucene Neumann, C.Ss.R., was a Redemptorist missionary to the United States who became the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia and the first American bishop to be canonized...
(John Nepomucene Neumann) - Saint Ludmila, princess of Bohemia, grandmother od St.Wenceslas
- Saint ProkopProcopius of SázavaSaint Procopius of Sázava was a Czech saint. He studied at Prague where he was also ordained. He was a canon and a hermit and then became the founding abbot of Sázava near Prague. He is an alleged author of the Reims Gospel....
, canon and hermit - Saint Wenceslas, duke of Bohemia
Sculptors
- See Czech sculptors
- Franta BělskýFranta BelskyFranta Belsky was a Czech sculptor.He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1921, the son of the economist Joseph Belsky. With his family, he fled to England after the German invasion, and volunteered for the Czech Exile Army...
- Břetislav BendaBretislav BendaBřetislav Benda was a significant Czech sculptor, student of Josef Václav Myslbek and member of Mánes Union of Fine Arts from 1923....
- František BílekFrantišek BílekFrantišek Bílek was a famous Czech Art Nouveau and Symbolist sculptor and architect....
- Matthias Bernard BraunMatthias BraunMatthias Bernard Braun was a sculptor and carver active in the Czech lands, one of the most prominent late baroque style sculptors in the area....
- Ferdinand Maxmilian BrokoffFerdinand BrokoffFerdinand Maxmilian Brokoff was a sculptor and carver of the Baroque era....
- Jan BrokoffJan BrokoffJan Brokoff, also known as Johann Brokoff, was a baroque-era sculptor and carver.Brokoff was of German origin, born in Spišská Sobota, today in Slovakia, then in Royal Hungary, and later working and living in Bohemia...
- Michael Joseph BrokoffMichael BrokoffMichael Johann Joseph Brokoff was a Czech sculptor of the Baroque era, working with sandstone....
- Alfréd HrdličkaAlfred HrdlickaAlfred Hrdlicka was an Austrian sculptor, draughtsman, painter and artist. His surname is sometimes written Hrdlička.After learning to be a dental technician from 1943 to 1945, Hrdlicka studied painting until 1952 at the Akademie der bildenden Künste under Albert Paris Gütersloh and Josef...
- Bohumil KafkaBohumil KafkaBohumil Kafka was a Czech sculptor and pedagogue, born February 14, 1878 in Nova Paka, Bohemia and died on November 24, 1942.He studied in Prague with sculptor Josef Václav Myslbek before moving to Vienna and then Paris to continue his studies. He worked in London, Berlin and Rome before...
- Vincenc MakovskýVincenc MakovskýVincenc Makovský was an avant-garde Czech sculptor and industrial designer. He was a founding member of the Prague surrealist group, but was not active with the group for long. He founded the School of Arts in Zlín in 1940. In 1941 he designed the first Czech radial drilling machine, known as the...
- Josef Václav MyslbekJosef Václav MyslbekJosef Václav Myslbek was a Czech sculptor credited for founding of the modern Czech sculpting style.Josef grew up poor in a suburb of Prague. His family pushed him to become a shoemaker but he shirked the duty by getting a job with a succession of Czech sculptors...
- Zoja TrofimiukZoja TrofimiukZoja Trofimiuk is an Australian sculptor and printmaker, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She specializes in cast glass; her studio is in Melbourne. Zbych Trofimiuk, an Australian actor, is her son.-Education:...
- Lea VivotLea VivotCategory:1954 birthsCategory:Living peopleCategory:Canadian sculptorsCategory:Contemporary sculptorsCategory:20th-century sculptorsCategory:21st-century sculptorsCategory:Czech sculptorsCategory:Czech expatriatesCategory:Canadian women artists...
- Ladislav ZívrLadislav ZívrLadislav Zívr was an important Czech sculptor of the 20th century.Zívr was born in Nová Paka and died in Ždírec u Staré Paky ....
- Olbram ZoubekOlbram ZoubekOlbram Zoubek is a famous Czech contemporary sculptor and designer.There is an extensive permanent exhibition of Olbram Zoubek's sculptures and art in Litomyšl Castle Vault Gallery.-External links:* *...
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- Karel AbsolonKarel AbsolonKarel Absolon was a Czech archaeologist, geographer, paleontologist, and speleologist. He was born in Boskovice.Absolon was the grandchild of paleontologist Jindřich Wankel...
, archaeologist, speleologist - Josef AugustaJosef AugustaJosef Augusta was a Czechoslovak paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer.During 1921 to 1925 Augusta studied at the university in Brno...
, paleontologist, science popularizer - Jiří BaborovskýJirí BaborovskýJiří Baborovský was a prominent Czech physical chemist, and pioneer in the study of kinetic chemical reactions. He wrote many famous textbooks widely used in Czechoslovakia....
, chemist - Jindřich BačkovskýJindrich BackovskýJindřich Bačkovský was an eminent Czech physicist whose work focused on X-ray spectroscopy, the structure of crystals, vacuum techniques, radiometry and the physics of high pressures. Many of his findings are used in industry, especially in the manufacture of semiconductor parts and synthetic...
, physicist - František BěhounekFrantišek BehounekFrantišek Běhounek was a Czech scientist , explorer and writer.The asteroid 3278 Běhounek is named after him.- Biography :Běhounek studied physics and mathematics at Charles University, later radiology in France at Marie Curie-Skłodowska. In 1920s, he was one of the founders of State Radiological...
, radiologist, writer, explorer - Vincent BochdalekVincenc BochdalekVincent Alexander Bochdalek was a Bohemian anatomist. His first name has also been given as Vincenc and Vincenz.-Biography:...
, anatomist - Johann BöhmJohann BöhmJohann Böhm was a Bohemian German chemist who focused on photochemistry and radiography. The aluminum-containing mineral boehmite was named after him....
, chemist - Bernard BolzanoBernard BolzanoBernhard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano , Bernard Bolzano in English, was a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian, Catholic priest and antimilitarist of German mother tongue.-Family:Bolzano was the son of two pious Catholics...
, philosopher, mathematician, and theologian - Otakar BorůvkaOtakar BoruvkaOtakar Borůvka was a Czech mathematician best known today for his work in graph theory, long before this was an established mathematical discipline....
, mathematician - Josef BožekJosef BožekJosef Božek was a Czech engineer and inventor considered one of founders of Czech mechanics. He put into operation one of the first steam engines in the Czech lands. His sons, Frantisek and Romuald, also became accomplished engineers....
engineer - Václav CílekVáclav CílekVáclav Cílek is Czech geologist, climatologist, writer, philosopher, science popularizer and translator of Tao and Zen texts.- Biography :...
, geologist, science popularizer - Jan Amos ComeniusComeniusJohn Amos Comenius ; ; Latinized: Iohannes Amos Comenius) was a Czech teacher, educator, and writer. He served as the last bishop of Unity of the Brethren, and became a religious refugee and one of the earliest champions of universal education, a concept eventually set forth in his book Didactica...
, polyhistorian, educator, inventor of illustrated textbookTextbookA textbook or coursebook is a manual of instruction in any branch of study. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions... - Eduard ČechEduard CechEduard Čech was a Czech mathematician born in Stračov, Bohemia . His research interests included projective differential geometry and topology. In 1921–1922 he collaborated with Guido Fubini in Turin...
, mathematician - František ČelakovskýFrantišek CelakovskýFrantišek Ladislav Čelakovský, also known by the pseudonym Marcian Hromotluk, was a Czech writer and translator.-Life:...
, linguist and writer - Leander CzernyLeander CzernyLeander Czerny was an Austrian entomologist mainly interested in Diptera....
, biologist - Václav Prokop DivišVáclav Prokop DivišVáclav Prokop Diviš was a Czech priest, theologian and natural scientist.Diviš was born March 26 1698 in Helvíkovice, Bohemia . It has been claimed that the lightning rod he erected in 15 June 1754 was invented independently of Benjamin Franklin, but this has been disputed by other scholars...
, inventor of the lightning rodLightning rodA lightning rod or lightning conductor is a metal rod or conductor mounted on top of a building and electrically connected to the ground through a wire, to protect the building in the event of lightning... - Josef DobrovskýJosef DobrovskýJosef Dobrovský was a Bohemian philologist and historian, one of the most important figures of the Czech national revival.- Life & Work :...
, philologist and historian - Karel FortynKarel FortynKarel Fortýn was a Czech physician who invented a breakthrough surgical method in healing cancer called devitalization....
, physician - František Josef GerstnerFrantišek Josef GerstnerFrantišek Josef Gerstner was a Bohemian physicist and engineer.Gerstner studied at the Jesuits gymnasium in Chomutov, after which he studied mathematics and astronomy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Prague between 1772 and 1777. In 1781, he started to study medicine in Vienna, but quickly decided...
, physicist, engineer - Stanislav GrofStanislav GrofStanislav Grof is a psychiatrist, one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a pioneering researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of analyzing, healing, and obtaining growth and insight into the human psyche...
, physologist, researcher in transpersonal psychology - Jan Hajek, scientist
- Jaroslav HájekJaroslav HájekJaroslav Hájek was a Czech mathematician, considered to be one of the most important figures in theoretical statistics.-Further reading:*General Probability & Mathematical Statistics - Collected Works of Jaroslav Hajek...
, mathematician - Tadeáš HájekTadeáš HájekTadeáš Hájek z Hájku , also known as Tadeáš Hájek of Hájek, Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hayek or Thaddeus Nemicus, was the personal physician of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II and a Bohemian astronomer.Tadeáš Hájek was the son of Šimon Hájek from an old Prague family...
, physician, astronomer - Jaroslav HeyrovskýJaroslav HeyrovskýJaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist and inventor. Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959...
, scientist, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895... - Václav HlavatýVáclav HlavatýVáclav Hlavatý was a noted Czech-American mathematician, who wrote on the theory of relativity and corresponded extensively with Albert Einstein on the subject. In particular, Hlavatý solved some very difficult equations relating to Einstein's Unified field theory, which was featured in the news...
, mathematician - Ivan HonlIvan HonlIvan Honl was a Czech bacteriologist, serologist and activist in the struggle against tuberculosis. Honl became one of founders of Czech microbiology....
, biologist - Kamil HornochKamil HornochKamil Hornoch is a Czech amateur astronomer who discovered dozens of novae in nearby galaxies. The main belt asteroid 14124 Kamil is named in his honour.-Astronomy:...
, amateur astronomer - Bedřich HroznýBedrich HroznýBedřich Hrozný was a Czech orientalist and linguist. He deciphered the ancient Hittite language, identified it as an Indo-European language and laid the groundwork for the development of Hittitology. Though of Czech origin, he published his work in German or French.Hrozný was born in Lysá nad...
, linguist - Jakub HusnikJakub HusníkJakub Husník was a Czech painter, art teacher and inventor of the improved photolithography method.-Life:...
, inventor and painter - Jan JanskýJan JanskýProf. MUDr. Jan Janský was a Czech serologist, neurologist and psychiatrist. He is credited with the first classification of blood into the four types of the ABO blood group system.Janský studied medicine at Charles University in Prague. From 1899 he worked in a psychiatric clinic in Prague...
, discoverer of blood types - Karl Guthe JanskyKarl Guthe JanskyKarl Guthe Jansky was an American physicist and radio engineer who in August 1931 first discovered radio waves emanating from the Milky Way. He is considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.- Early life :...
, engineer - Vojtěch JarníkVojtech JarníkVojtěch Jarník was a Czech mathematician.His main area of work was in number theory and mathematical analysis; he proved a number of results on lattice point problems. He also developed the graph theory algorithm known as Prim's algorithm....
, mathematician - Konstantin Jireček, historian
- Otto JirovecOtto JirovecOtto Jírovec was a Czech professor of parasitology and protozoology.A significant fungus parasite of humans, Pneumocystis jirovecii, is named in his honour. Pneumocystis jirovecii Otto Jírovec (January 31, 1907–March 7, 1972) was a Czech professor of parasitology and protozoology.A significant...
, parasitologistParasitologyParasitology is the study of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them. As a biological discipline, the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in question, but by their way of life...
and protozoologistProtozoologyProtozoology is the study of protozoa, the "animal-like" protists. This term has become dated as our understanding of the evolutionary relationships of the eukaryota has improved.... - Břetislav KafkaBřetislav KafkaBřetislav Kafka , was a Czech researcher in the field of experimental psychology and parapsychology. He is considered one of the founders of modern parapsychology and the spiritual father of the tradition of this discipline in Czechia...
, parapsychologist - Vlasta KálalováVlasta KálalováVlasta Kálalová - Di Lotti was a Czech physician interested in tropical diseases and entomology. She established the Czechoslovak Surgical Institute in Baghdad, where she was a director between 1925 and 1933...
, physician, entomologist - Karel KavinaKarel KavinaKarel Kavina was a Czech botanist.Kavina was professor of botanics at the Technical University in Prague. He worked on systemics, morphology, bryology and anatomy...
, botanist - Jan KmentaJan KmentaJan Kmenta is a Czech-American economist. Currently he is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Statistics at the University of Michigan, and Visiting Professor at CERGE-EI in Prague...
, economist/econometrician - Luboš KohoutekLuboš KohoutekLuboš Kohoutek is a Czech astronomer.Kohoutek has been interested with astronomy since high school. He studied physics and astronomy at universities in Brno and Prague...
, astronomer - František KoláčekFrantišek KolácekFrantišek Koláček was Czech physicist.Koláček studied at German gymnasium in Brno , then at technical universities in Prague and Vienna. At the Charles University in Prague, under guidance of Ernst Mach, he obtained doctoral decree in 1877...
, physicist - Zdenek KopalZdenek KopalZdeněk Kopal was a Czech astronomer who mainly worked in England.Kopal was born and grew up in Litomyšl . In his early astronomical career, he studied variable stars and in particular close eclipsing binary stars. He attended Cambridge University and later went to Harvard College Observatory not...
, astronomer - František KřižíkFrantišek KrižíkFrantišek Křižík was a Czech inventor, electrical engineer and entrepreneur. The main belt asteroid 5719 Křižík was named in his honor....
, inventor arc lampArc lamp"Arc lamp" or "arc light" is the general term for a class of lamps that produce light by an electric arc . The lamp consists of two electrodes, first made from carbon but typically made today of tungsten, which are separated by a gas... - Bohumil KučeraBohumil KuceraBohumil Kučera was a Czech physicist.Kučera studied physics at the Charles University in Prague and was the first scientist in Czech lands to examine the newly discovered effect of radioactivity. In 1912 he became professor of experimental physics at the university...
, physicist - Jaroslav KurzweilJaroslav KurzweilJaroslav Kurzweil is a Czech mathematician. He is a specialist in ordinary differential equations and defined the Henstock–Kurzweil integral in terms of Riemann sums...
, mathematician - Václav LáskaVáclav LáskaVáclav Láska was a renowned Czech astronomer, geophysicist, and mathematician. He conducted most of his work at Charles University.-External links:*...
, geophysicist, mathematician - Mathias LerchMathias LerchMathias Lerch was an eminent Czech mathematician who published about 250 papers, largely on mathematical analysis and number theory...
, mathematician - Drahoslav LímDrahoslav LímDrahoslav Lím was a Czech chemist. He invented polyhydroxyethylmethacrylate, the synthetic material used for contact lenses ....
, chemist, inventor hydrogel - Frank MalinaFrank MalinaFrank Joseph Malina was an American aeronautical engineer and painter, especially known for becoming both a pioneer in the art world and the realm of scientific engineering.-Early life:...
, aeronautical engineer - Ernst MachErnst MachErnst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, noted for his contributions to physics such as the Mach number and the study of shock waves...
, physicist - Jan Marek MarciJan Marek MarciJan Marek Marci , or Johannes Marcus Marci, was a Bohemian doctor and scientist, rector of the University of Prague, and official physician to the Holy Roman Emperors...
, physician - Zdeněk MatějkaZdenek MatejkaZdeněk Matějka was a Czech chemist known for his contributions to development of ion exchange.Zdeněk Matějka was born in 1937 in Teplice. In 1955 he moved to Prague, to study chemistry at Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague. He received his master's degree in 1960...
, chemist - Gregor MendelGregor MendelGregor Johann Mendel was an Austrian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance...
, pioneer of genetics - Antonín MrkosAntonín MrkosAntonín Mrkos was a Czech astronomer, born in Střemchoví, Czechoslovakia.- Biography :Mrkos entered the University in Brno in 1938. His studies were interrupted by the onset of World War II, and in 1945 he became a staff member at the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory in Slovakia...
, astronomer - František PalackýFrantišek PalackýFrantišek Palacký was a Czech historian and politician.-Biography:...
, historian - František PatočkaFrantišek PatockaFrantišek Patočka was a Czech microbiologist and serologist. He established the study of virology in Czechoslovakia....
, biologist - Karel PetrKarel PetrKarel Petr was one of the most renowned Czech mathematicians of the first half of the 20th century.- External links :*...
, mathematician - Josef Ladislav PíčJosef Ladislav PícJosef Ladislav Píč was Czech archaeologist and paleontologist, one of founders of modern Czech archaeology....
, archaeologist - George PlaczekGeorge PlaczekGeorg Placzek was a Czech physicist.Born in Brno, Moravia, Placzek studied physics in Prague and Vienna. He worked with Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, Rudolf Peierls, Werner Heisenberg, Victor Weisskopf, Enrico Fermi, Niels Bohr, Lev Landau, Edoardo Amaldi, Emilio Segrè, Leon van Hove and many other...
, physicist - Julius PokornyJulius PokornyJulius Pokorny was an Austrian linguist and scholar of the Celtic languages, particularly Irish, and a supporter of Irish nationalism. He held academic posts in Austrian and German universities.-Life:...
, etymologist - Křišťan of PrachaticeKrištan of PrachaticeKřišťan z Prachatic was a Medieval Czech Hussite astronomer, mathematician, and priest. He is the author of several books about medicine and herbs, and had contributed to the field of astronomy with many papers and data recordings....
, Medieval astronomer and physician - Petr PravecPetr PravecPetr Pravec is a Czech astronomer, born in Třinec, a prolific discoverer of binary asteroids using lightcurve photometric studies. He is leading the effort of a large consortium of stations called BinAst to look for multiplicity in the NEA and inner main-belt populations...
, astronomer - Jan Svatopluk PreslJan Svatopluk PreslJan Svatopluk Presl was a Bohemian natural scientist.He was the brother of botanist Karel Bořivoj Presl . The Czech Botanical Society commemorated the two brothers by naming its principal publication Preslia...
, chemist - Karel PreslKarel PreslKarel Bořivoj Presl was a Bohemian botanist.He lived all his life in Prague, and was a professor at the University of Prague. He made an expedition to Sicily in 1817, and published a Flora bohemica in 1820....
, botanist - Jiří Procháska, physiologist
- Stanislav Prowazek, zoologist, parasitologist
- Vlastimil PtákVlastimil PtákVlastimil Pták was a Czech mathematician, who worked in functional analysis, theoretical numerical analysis, and linear algebra. Notable early work include generalizations of the open mapping theorem....
, mathematician - Jan Evangelista PurkyněJan Evangelista PurkyneJan Evangelista Purkyně was a Czech anatomist and physiologist. He was one of the best known scientists of his time. His son was the painter Karel Purkyně...
, physiologist, first recognised the individuality of fingerprintFingerprintA fingerprint in its narrow sense is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger. In a wider use of the term, fingerprints are the traces of an impression from the friction ridges of any part of a human hand. A print from the foot can also leave an impression of friction ridges...
s - Zdeněk RejdákZdeněk RejdákZdeněk Rejdák, Ph.D., was a important Czech psychologist and scientist in the field of psychotronics...
, scientist in psychotronics - Josef Ludvík František ResselJosef ResselJoseph Ludwig Franz Ressel was a Czech-Austrian forest warden who designed a ship's propeller.Ressel was born in the Austrian monarchy in Chrudim, Bohemia. His father was a German native speaker, while his mother's mothertongue was Czech...
, inventor of the ship's propellerPropellerA propeller is a type of fan that transmits power by converting rotational motion into thrust. A pressure difference is produced between the forward and rear surfaces of the airfoil-shaped blade, and a fluid is accelerated behind the blade. Propeller dynamics can be modeled by both Bernoulli's... - Karel RokytanskýCarl Freiherr von RokitanskyBaron Carl von Rokitansky , was a Bohemian physician, pathologist, humanist philosopher and liberal politician.-Medical career:...
, anatomist - Karel RychlíkKarel RychlíkKarel Rychlík was a Czech mathematician who contributed significantly to the fields of algebra, number theory, mathematical analysis, and the history of mathematics.-External links:**...
, mathematician - Vojtěch ŠafaříkVojtech ŠafaríkVojtěch Šafařík was a Czech chemist, specializing in inorganic chemistry. He wrote many popular textbooks as well as making over 20,000 observations of variable stars.The crater Šafařík on the Moon is named after him.- External links :*...
, chemist - Jaroslav ŠafránekJaroslav ŠafránekJaroslav Šafránek was a Czech physicist who, in the second half of the 1930s, designed a system for the transmission of visual images by low-line mechanical television, which made the production of an authentic spatial impression of the picture, transmitted on the screen, possible...
, physicist - Bohumil SeklaBohumil SeklaBohumil Sekla was a Czech biologist. He specialised in genetics and was known as an expert in determining parenthood by the biological-hereditary method....
, biologist - August SeydlerAugust SeydlerAugust Jan Bedřich Seydler , aka August Johann Friedrich Seydler, was a distinguished Czech astronomer, theoretical physicist, and professor at Charles University in Prague. He was the founder of the Astronomical Institute of the Czech University . He was born in Žamberk to a commissioner of...
, physicist, astronomer - Jan ŠindelJan ŠindelJan Šindel was a professor at Charles University and became the rector of the University in 1410. He lectured on mathematics and astronomy....
, astronomer - Josef ŠkodaJosef ŠkodaJoseph Škoda was a Czech physician, medical professor and dermatologist. Together with Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, he was the founder of the Modern Medical School of Vienna.-Life:...
, physician - Ferdinand StoliczkaFerdinand StoliczkaFerdinand Stoliczka was a Moravian palaeontologist who worked in India on paleontology, geology and various aspects of zoology. He died of high altitude sickness during an expedition across the Himalayas.-Early life:Stoliczka was born at the lodge Zámeček near Kroměříž in Moravia...
, paleontologist - Vincenc StrouhalVincenc StrouhalVincenc Strouhal was a Austrian physicist specializing in experimental physics. He was one of the founders of the Physics department at Charles University.-Further reading:* *...
, physicist - František Josef StudničkaFrantišek Josef StudnickaFrantišek Josef Studnička was a Czech mathematician and popular pedagogue at Charles University in Prague. He was also an active contributor to astronomy and meteorology. He was known as the author of several textbooks and popular articles....
, mathematician - Olga Taussky-Todd, mathematician
- Jana TicháJana TicháJana Tichá is a Czech astronomer. She studied at the University of Economics in Prague and graduated in 1987. In 1992 she was selected for the position of a director of the Kleť Observatory. She specializes in discoveries of asteroids and comets especially Near-Earth objects...
, astronomer - Miloš TichýMiloš TichýMiloš Tichý is a Czech astronomer. He is married to Jana Tichá.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. He works together with his wife at Kleť Observatory. The asteroid 3337 Miloš is named after him....
, astronomer - Viktor TrkalViktor TrkalViktor Trkal was an eminent Czech physicist and mathematician who specialized in theoretical quantum physics...
, physicist, mathematician - Ota ŠikOta ŠikOta Šik was a Czech economist and politician. He was the man behind the New Economic Model and was one of the key figures in the Prague Spring.-Early years:...
, economist - Miloslav ValouchMiloslav ValouchMiloslav Valouch was a prominent Czech physicist and mathematician.-External links:*...
, mathematician - Petr VopěnkaPetr VopenkaPetr Vopěnka is a Czech mathematician. In the early seventies, he established the Alternative Set Theory , which he subsequently developed in a series of articles and monographs...
, mathematician - Jindřich WankelJindrich WankelJindřich Wankel was Czech palaeontologist and archaeologist.Studied as medical doctor he came to work into area of Moravský kras in 1847 and since 1849 lived in Blansko...
, paleontologist - Otto WichterleOtto WichterleOtto Wichterle was a Czech chemist, best known for his invention of modern soft contact lenses.-Biography:His father Karel was co-owner of a successful farm-machine factory and small car plant but Otto chose science for his career...
, chemist, inventor of the modern contact lensContact lensA contact lens, or simply contact, is a lens placed on the eye. They are considered medical devices and can be worn to correct vision, for cosmetic or therapeutic reasons. In 2004, it was estimated that 125 million people use contact lenses worldwide, including 28 to 38 million in the United... - Karel ZahradnikKarel ZahradnikKarel Zahradnik was a renowned Czech mathematician at the University of Zagreb. In his 23 years of productive activity in Zagreb he wrote several significant scholarly works, mainly concerned with algebraic curves.-Further reading:...
, mathematician - Rudolf ZahradníkRudolf ZahradníkRudolf Zahradník is a Czech chemist. He has been particularly interested in the relationships between theoretical and experimental characteristics....
, chemist - František ZáviškaFrantišek ZáviškaFrantišek Záviška was a renowned Czech physicist. The major asset of his scientific work is integrated in nine studies on waveguides published between the years 1912 and 1939...
, physicist - John ZelenyJohn ZelenyJohn Zeleny was a Czech-American physicist at the University of Minnesota, who in 1911 invented the Zeleny electroscope. He also studied the effect of an electric field on a liquid meniscus....
, physicist, inventor electroscopeElectroscopeAn electroscope is an early scientific instrument that is used to detect the presence and magnitude of electric charge on a body. It was the first electrical measuring instrument. The first electroscope, a pivoted needle called the versorium, was invented by British physician William Gilbert... - Vladimír ZoubekVladimír ZoubekVladimír Zoubek was a Czech geologist. He won the Lomonosov Prize for his contributions to geology.The mineral Zoubekite is named after him....
, geologist - Petr ZumanPetr ZumanPetr Zuman is a Czech chemist.Born and raised in Prague, the Second World War severely impacted Zuman and his family while he was a teenager. In 1939, when he was 13 years old, the Germans occupied Czechoslovakia and sent his father to a concentration camp. In 1943–1944, Zuman worked in a Prague...
, electrochemist
- Karel Absolon
Linguistics, Anthropology, History
- Josef Vratislav MonseJosef Vratislav MonseJosef Vratislav Monse was a Moravian lawyer and historian.He was a leading enlightenment figure in the Habsburg Monarchy and an early exponent of the Czech National Revival in Moravia. Monse played a key role in the development of modern Moravian Historiography...
, founder of Moravian history-writing - Bořivoj ČelovskýBorivoj CelovskýBořivoj Čelovský was a Czech-Canadian historian, member of the post-1948 Czechoslovak political exile and former political adviser...
, historian - Max DvořákMax DvorákMax Dvořák was a Czech-born Austrian art historian...
, art historian - Eva HajičováEva HajicováEva Hajičová is a Czech linguist, specializing in topic–focus articulation and corpus linguistics. In 2006, she was awarded the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award.- External links :* *...
, linguist - Aleš HrdličkaAleš HrdlickaAleš Hrdlička or Ales Hrdlicka was a Czech anthropologist who lived in the United States after his family had moved there in 1881...
, medical doctor, anthropologist - Bedřich HroznýBedrich HroznýBedřich Hrozný was a Czech orientalist and linguist. He deciphered the ancient Hittite language, identified it as an Indo-European language and laid the groundwork for the development of Hittitology. Though of Czech origin, he published his work in German or French.Hrozný was born in Lysá nad...
, philologist and orientalist (decipherer of Hittite) - Josef JirečekJosef JirecekJosef Jireček was a Czech scholar.He was born in Vysoké Mýto ....
- Henry KuceraHenry KuceraHenry Kučera, born Jindřich Kučera was a Czech linguist who was a pioneer in corpus linguistics and linguistic software....
, linguist, cognitive scientist, language software author - Bohumil MathesiusBohumil MathesiusBohumil Mathesius was a Czech poet, translator, publicist and literary scientist – expert on Russian literature. He was a professor on the Faculty of Philosophy at the Charles University in Prague...
, translator - Vilém MathesiusVilém MathesiusVilém Mathesius was a Czech linguist and literary historian, a scholar of English and Czech literature. His cousin was Bohumil Mathesius....
, linguist - Jan MukařovskýJan MukarovskýJan Mukařovský was a Czech literary and aesthetic theorist.He was professor at the Charles University of Prague. He is well known for his association with early structuralism as well as with the Prague Linguistic Circle, and for his development of the ideas of Russian formalism...
, literary theorist - Alois MusilAlois MusilAlois Musil was an Austro-Hungarian and Czech theologist, orientalist, explorer and writer.Musil was the oldest son born into the family of a poor farmer...
, orientalist, explorer - Antonín RezekAntonín RezekAntonín Rezek was a renowned Czech political historian, specialized in political and religious history of the 16th to 18th century.-Life :...
, historian - František RoubíkFrantišek RoubíkFrantišek Roubík was an eminent Czech historian. He was an archivist for aristocratic family Czernin....
, historian - August SedláčekAugust SedlácekAugust Sedláček was a distinguished Czech historian and archivist. Notably, he worked in medieval history, detailing the history of Medieval castles in the Bohemian Kingdom. He wrote among others extensively on autonomous region of Prachens in the southwest of Bohemia in 1926 .-External links:*...
, historian - Petr SgallPetr SgallPetr Sgall is a Czech linguist. He specializes in dependency grammar, topic–focus articulation and Common Czech.- Biography :...
, linguist - Čeněk ZíbrtCenek ZíbrtČeněk Zíbrt was a Czech ethnographer and historian, specializing in folk culture.-External links:...
, ethnographer, historian
Sports Personalities
- Milan BarošMilan BarošMilan Baroš is a Czech footballer who plays as a striker for Galatasaray and the Czech national football team.In the 2008–09 season, Baroš scored 20 goals in Turkish Süper Lig, the highest total in the league...
, footballer - Tomáš BerdychTomáš BerdychTomáš Berdych is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. His most notable achievements are reaching the final of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, and the semifinals of the 2010 French Open. He defeated the Croatian player Ivan Ljubičić in five sets to win the Paris Masters in 2005...
, tennis player - Patrik BergerPatrik BergerPatrik Berger is a retired Czech footballer. He has played in Czech Republic, Germany, and England. He is best remembered for his time at Liverpool....
, footballer - Radek BonkRadek BonkRadek Bonk is a Czech professional ice hockey player currently playing for Oceláři Třinec of the Czech Extraliga.-Playing career:...
, ice hockey player - Věra ČáslavskáVera CáslavskáVěra Čáslavská is a Czech gymnast. Blonde, cheerful and possessing impressive stage presence, she was generally popular with the public and won a total of 22 international titles...
, gymnast, Olympic gold medalist - Petr ČechPetr CechPetr Čech is a Czech footballer who plays for Chelsea and the Czech Republic as a goalkeeper. Čech previously played for Viktoria Plzeň, Chmel Blšany, Sparta Prague, and Rennes. He was voted into the all-star team of Euro 2004 after helping his country reach the semi-finals...
, footballer - Roman ČechmánekRoman CechmanekRoman Čechmánek is a former Czech professional ice hockey goaltender. He played professionally in the United States, Czech Republic, and Germany. He was born in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia.-Playing career:...
, ice hockey player - Jaroslav DrobnýJaroslav DrobnýJaroslav Drobný was an amateur tennis champion as well as being an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovakian national team...
, tennis player - Patrik EliášPatrik EliasPatrik Eliáš is a Czech professional hockey left winger and alternate captain for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League . A long-time Devil and currently the team's longest-tenured skater, Eliáš is the franchise's all-time leading scorer, while also holding franchise records for most...
, ice hockey player - Vašek KloudaVašek KloudaVašek Klouda is a competitive freestyle footbag player. Born in 1986, raised, and resident in Prague, in the Czech Republic, Václav Klouda started playing footbag when he was 13. He won his first Footbag World Championship in 2002 in San Francisco, beating the two-time defending champion Ryan...
, football player - Tomáš EngeTomáš EngeTomáš Enge is a motor racing driver from the Czech Republic, who has competed in many classes of motorsport, including three races in Formula One.-Career:...
, Grand prix race car driver - Kurt EpsteinKurt EpsteinKurt Epstein was a Czechoslovakian Olympic water polo player.-Early life:Epstein was Jewish, and born to Maximilian and Helena Epstein. He grew in Roudnice near the Elbe River, 22 miles north of Prague, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian province of Bohemia...
, Olympic water polo player - František FadrhoncFrantišek FadrhoncFrantišek Fadrhonc was a football manager, who was born in Nymburk, Austria–Hungary, present day Czech Republic. He performed his coaching wonders, however, in the West, mostly in the Netherlands...
, football manager - Dominik HašekDominik HašekDominik Hašek is a Czech ice hockey goaltender who is currently with HC Spartak Moscow of the KHL.In his 16-season National Hockey League career, he played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings, and the Ottawa Senators. During his years in Buffalo, he became one of the...
, ice hockey player - Aleš HemskýAles HemskyAleš Hemský is a Czech professional ice hockey forward and alternate captain currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League .-HC Pardubice:...
, ice hockey player - Bobby HolikBobby HolikRobert Holík is a retired Czech-American professional ice hockey center who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League...
, ice hockey player - Jaromír JágrJaromir JagrJaromír Jágr is a Czech professional ice hockey right winger who plays for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League . Jágr formerly played with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, and New York Rangers, serving as captain of the Penguins and the Rangers...
, ice hockey player - Václav JežekVáclav JežekVáclav Ježek was the coach of the Czechoslovakia national football team when they won the 1976 European Championships....
, footballer, football manager - Eliška JunkováEliška JunkováEliška Junková , born as Alžběta Pospíšilová and also known as Elizabeth Junek, is regarded as one of the greatest female drivers in Grand Prix motor racing history.-Upbringing:...
, Formula One driver - Frantisek KaberleFrantišek KaberleFrantišek "Frank" Kaberle is a Czech professional ice hockey defenceman, currently playing for HC Pardubice of the Czech Extraliga. During the 2005–06 season, he won his first Stanley Cup with the Carolina Hurricanes. He has previously played for Modo Hockey, the Los Angeles Kings, the Atlanta...
, ice hockey player - Tomáš KaberleTomas KaberleTomáš Kaberle is a Czech professional ice hockey defenceman, currently playing for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League. He previously played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins....
, ice hockey player - Gertrude "Traute" KleinováGertrude KleinováGertrude "Traute or Trude" Kleinová was a three-time world champion table tennis player, winning the women's team world championship twice, and the world mixed doubles once....
, 3-time table tennis world champion - Jan KollerJan KollerJan Koller is Czech footballer currently playing in AFK Smetanova Lhota.As an international player he played as a striker for the Czech Republic national team. He is the all-time leading goal scorer for either the Czech Republic or the former Czechoslovakia, with 55 goals in 91 caps...
, footballer - Petr KordaPetr KordaPetr Korda is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He is best known for winning the Australian Open in 1998 and for testing positive for the banned substance, nandrolone, following a match at Wimbledon that same year.-Career:Korda was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.He first...
, tennis player - Aleš KotalíkAleš KotalíkAleš Kotalík is a professional ice hockey right winger playing for HC Mountfield České Budějovice of the Czech Extraliga.-Playing career:...
, ice hockey player - Jan KoželuhJan KoželuhJan Koželuh was a Czech tennis player of the 1920s, not to be confused with his older brother Karel Koželuh , a player of the same era...
, tennis player - Karel KoželuhKarel KoželuhKarel Koželuh was a top Czech tennis, soccer, and ice hockey player of the 1920s and 1930s. Koželuh never played in the major tournaments of amateur tennis but was an all-around athlete at the very highest level....
, tennis player - Richard KrajicekRichard KrajicekRichard Peter Stanislav Krajicek is a Dutch former professional tennis player. In 1996 he won the men's singles title at Wimbledon, the only Dutch player to have done so. In the quarterfinals of that tournament he defeated Pete Sampras. This was Sampras' only singles defeat at Wimbledon between...
, tennis player - David KrejciDavid KrejcíDavid Krejčí is a Czech professional ice hockey center currently playing for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
, ice hockey player - Roman KreuzigerRoman KreuzigerRoman Kreuziger is a Czech professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . Kreuziger is an all-rounder, with climbing and time trial abilities, becoming a contender for the General Classification of stage races...
, road bicycle racer - Pavel KubinaPavel KubinaPavel Kubina is a Czech professional ice hockey defenceman, and is currently playing for the Tampa Bay Lightning.-Playing career:Kubina started his professional career with HC Vítkovice of the Czech Extraliga...
, ice hockey player - Ivan LendlIvan LendlIvan Lendl is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Lendl became a United States citizen. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. He is considered to be one of the greatest tennis...
, tennis player - Marek MalíkMarek MalikMarek Malík is a Czech professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing for HC Vítkovice Steel of the Czech Extraliga. Malík played in the National Hockey League from 1998 to 2009. He is best known for a highlight reel shootout goal while with the New York Rangers.-Playing career:After...
, ice hockey player - Hana MandlíkováHana MandlíkováHana Mandlíková is a former Czech professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia and later Australia. During her career, she won four Grand Slam singles titles – two at the Australian Open, one at the French Open, and one at the US Open...
, tennis player - Josef MasopustJosef MasopustJosef Masopust is a Czechoslovakian former football player and coach. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1962. In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of the Czech Republic by the Football Association of the Czech Republic as their most...
, footballer, football manager - Milan MichálekMilan MichálekMilan Michálek is a Czech professional ice hockey player currently playing left wing for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League . He was drafted sixth overall by the San Jose Sharks in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft...
, ice hockey player - Martina Navrátilová, tennis player
- Pavel NedvědPavel NedvedPavel Nedvěd is a retired Czech football midfielder. He is one of the most successful Czech players to emerge from the newly formed Czech Republic, winning numerous accolades with Lazio and Juventus, including the last ever Cup Winners' Cup...
, footballer - Petr NedvědPetr NedvedPetr Nedvěd is a Czech Canadian professional ice hockey player who spent 15 seasons in the National Hockey League. He currently plays centre for HC Bílí Tygři Liberec of the Czech Extraliga.- Biography :...
, ice hockey player - Zdeněk NehodaZdenek NehodaZdeněk Nehoda is a Czech football forward. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 90 matches and scored 31 goals as a tricky right-winger.He was a participant in the 1982 FIFA World Cup...
, footballer - Kateřina NeumannováKaterina NeumannováKateřina Neumannová is a retired Czech cross country skier. She was a flatwater canoeist and downhill skier before moving to cross country skiing at sixteen...
, cross-country skiing - Jana NovotnáJana NovotnáJana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...
, tennis player - Jiří Novotný, ice hockey player
- Adam OndraAdam OndraAdam Ondra is a Czech rock climber. He also participates in lead climbing and bouldering competitions.-Biography:...
, rock climber - Frantisek PlanickaFrantišek PlánickaFrantišek Plánička was a Czech football goalkeeper and one of the most honoured players in the history of Czechoslovakian football. He played the majority of his career for Slavia Prague, during which time the club won the Czech league eight times and the Mitropa Cup once...
, football player - Petr PrůchaPetr PruchaPetr Průcha is a Czech professional ice hockey forward who is currently playing for SKA St. Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Playing career:...
, ice hockey player - Tomáš RosickýTomáš RosickýTomáš Rosický is a Czech footballer who plays for Arsenal and captains the Czech national team. He has a brother named Jiří who is also a footballer...
, footballer - Martina SáblíkováMartina SáblíkováMartina Sáblíková is a Czech speedskater, specializing in long distance races. She is an Olympic gold medal winner and a multiple World champion. She is the elder sister of fellow speedskater Milan Sáblík.-Career:As a junior, Sáblíková already achieved some notable results during international...
, speed skater, Olympic gold medalist - Wilhelm SteinitzWilhelm SteinitzWilhelm Steinitz was an Austrian and then American chess player and the first undisputed world chess champion from 1886 to 1894. From the 1870s onwards, commentators have debated whether Steinitz was effectively the champion earlier...
, first World Chess Champion - Roman ŠebrleRoman ŠebrleRoman Šebrle is an athlete from the Czech Republic. He is considered to be one of the best decathlon athletes of all time. Originally a high jumper, he competes in decathlon and heptathlon for team TJ Dukla Praha and is a world record holder in the decathlon...
, decathlete, Olympic gold medalist - Vladimír ŠmicerVladimír ŠmicerVladimír Šmicer is a former Czech football midfielder and forward player. Šmicer was a devout player of Slavia Prague, the only Czech club he ever played for. He also played notably for Lens in France, with whom he won the Ligue 1 title. In 1999, Šmicer moved to England, where he played several...
, footballer - Patrik ŠtefanPatrik StefanPatrik Štefan is a Czech retired professional ice hockey player who was drafted 1st overall by the Atlanta Thrashers in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft...
, ice hockey player - Helena SukováHelena SukováHelena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...
, tennis player - Petr SýkoraPetr SýkoraPetr Sýkora is a Czech professional ice hockey right winger for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League . Sýkora has previously played in the NHL for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Minnesota Wild. He is a two-time Stanley Cup...
, ice hockey player - Jiří TlustýJiri TlustyJiří Tlustý is a Czech professional ice hockey player who is a member of the Carolina Hurricanes organization of the National Hockey League...
, ice hockey player - Nicole VaidišováNicole VaidišováNicole Vaidišová is a retired Czech tennis player.Vaidišová was an Australian Open and French Open semifinalist and also reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. Vaidišová started playing tennis when she was six years old, enrolling to train at Nick Bollettieri's tennis academy in Bradenton,...
, tennis player - Aleš ValentaAleš ValentaAleš Valenta is a Czech freestyle skier who participates in aerials.On February 19, 2002, he won the Winter Olympics gold medal in the freestyle aerials competition where he succeeded to perform the first triple back flip with five twists in the world.-External links: Official Official on Ales...
, freestyle skiing, Olympic gold medalist - Kamila Vodičková, basketball player
- Šárka ZáhrobskáŠárka ZáhrobskáŠárka Záhrobská is a Czech Alpine ski racer, specializing in the slalom event. She is the first Alpine skier representing the Czech Republic to medal at the Winter Olympics and at the World Championships and just the second Czech Alpine skier ever to medal in the Olympics.-Skiing career:She won...
, alpine skier - Emil ZátopekEmil ZátopekEmil Zátopek was a Czech long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He won gold in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres runs, but his final medal came when he decided at the last minute to compete in the first marathon of his life...
, runner, Olympic gold medalist - Jan ŽeleznýJan ŽeleznýJan Železný is a Czech javelin thrower, world and Olympic champion and world record holder in javelin throw...
, javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist
Entrepreneurs
- Jan Antonín BaťaJan Antonín BataJan Antonín Baťa was a Czech shoe manufacturer from Uherské Hradiště , brother of Tomáš Baťa....
, industrialist (Bata A.S., Zlin, Bata Tires, Fatra, Kotva, FAB Zlin (film industry)at Kudlov, ZLAS (Aircraft Otrokovice), ZPA Zlin, ChemoSvit, TatraSvit, Zlin Magazine, founded towns of Batovany (Partizanske), Svit, Batov (Otrokovice)) - Tomáš BaťaTomáš BataTomáš Baťa was a Czech entrepreneur, founder of Bata Shoes company, one of the world's biggest multinational retailers, manufacturers and distributors of footwear and accessories.-Career:...
, industrialist (Bata T&A, Zlin) - Ignác ŠechtlIgnác ŠechtlIgnác Šechtl , also known as Ignace Schächtl or Hynek Šechtl, was a pioneer of Czech photography and cinematography...
, pioneer of photography (Šechtl and VosečekŠechtl and VosecekThe photographic studio Šechtl and Voseček was founded in Tábor in 1888 by Ignác Šechtl, who accepted his assistant Jan Voseček as co-member of his photographic studio....
) - Emil ŠkodaEmil ŠkodaEmil Ritter von Škoda was a Bohemian engineer and industrialist, working during the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.-Biography:...
, industrialist (Škoda WorksŠkoda WorksŠkoda Works was the largest industrial enterprise in Austro-Hungary and later in Czechoslovakia, one of its successor states. It was also one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Europe in the 20th century...
)
Other
- Karel BarvitiusKarel BarvitiusKarel Josef Barvitius was publisher of books and music.After studies of law he tried a career as a composer. In 1897 he set up a shop with musical instruments and in 1914 added music and book publishing. Published works were known for both high quality and low price...
, book and music publisher - Jiří BuquoyJirí BuquoyGeorg Franz August Graf von Buquoy was a Bohemian aristocrat, mathematician, and inventor. He studied mathematics, natural science, philosophy, and economics at the Prague and Vienna universities. In 1810 he constructed an early steam engine. Most of all, he was engaged in the glass works in Nové...
, famous aristocrat - Josef FlorianJosef FlorianJosef Florian was a Czech book publisher and translator.He was famous for the high quality of books he published in his small publishing company in Stará Říše...
, book publisher - Victor LustigVictor LustigVictor Lustig was a con artist who undertook scams in various countries and became best known as "The man who sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice."-Early life:...
, con artist - Jaroslav MalinaJaroslav MalinaJaroslav Malina is a scenographer from the Czech Republic. He is a member of the Artistic Council of the Academy of Arts in Prague...
, theatre sceneographer - Jan OpletalJan OpletalJan Opletal was a student of the Medical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague, who was killed in an anti-Nazi demonstration during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia....
, student, shot by Germans - Jan PalachJan PalachJan Palach was a Czech student who committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest.- Death :...
, student, political activist, suicide - Přemek PodlahaPremek PodlahaPřemek Podlaha is television personality from the Czech Republic.For almost two decades he moderates TV and radio magazine about gardening and life-style. Contents and style of this magazine didn't change a bit over the years, in spite of regime change, social and economical changes in the country...
, TV personality - Vladimír RemekVladimír RemekVladimír Remek is the first Czechoslovak in space and the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States. As of 2004, with the entry of the Czech Republic into the European Union Vladimír Remek is considered to be the first astronaut from the EU...
, cosmonaut - Bertha von SuttnerBertha von SuttnerBertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner was an Austrian novelist, radical pacifist, and the first woman to be a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.-Biography:Suttner was born in Prague, Bohemia, the daughter of an impoverished Austrian Field Marshal,...
, NobelNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
laureate - Jan ZajícJan ZajícJan Zajíc was a Czech student who committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest...
, student, political activist, suicide - Pavel Novotný, adult film star
- Robert RosenbergRobert RosenbergWriter, journalist, poet and Internet pioneer Robert Rosenberg was born in Boston in 1952 and died of cancer in Tel Aviv, where he spent most of his adult life, on October 24, 2006. He was survived, briefly by his wife, painter Silvia Rosenberg, who died also of cancer.The author of several crime...
, adult film star - Silvie Tomčalová, aka Silvia SaintSilvia SaintSilvia Saint is a Czech former pornographic actress. In 1996, she was Penthouse Pet of the Year in the Czech edition of the magazine, and between 1997 and 2001, she appeared in over 250 pornographic movies....
, adult film star - Kateřina Smrzová, Miss Universe 2003Miss Universe 2003Miss Universe 2003, the 52nd Miss Universe pageant, was held at Figali Convention Center, Panama City, Panama on June 3, 2003. 71 delegates from around the universe competed for the crown...
Top 10 finalist - Lucié Hadasová, Miss Universe 2007Miss Universe 2007Miss Universe 2007, the 56th Miss Universe pageant, took place on May 28, 2007 at the National Auditorium in Mexico City, Mexico. 77 delegates competed for the title. Riyo Mori of Japan was crowned the winner of the title by Zuleyka Rivera of Puerto Rico....
Top 15 finalist - Eliška BučkováEliška BuckováEliška Bučková is a pageant titleholder from the Czech Republic who won the title of Czech Miss 2008 as a 19-year-old. Eliška represented the Czech Republic at the Miss Universe 2008 pageant in Nha Trang, Vietnam on July 14, 2008 where Elisa placed as one of semi-finalists in the Top 15 and...
, Miss Universe 2008Miss Universe 2008Miss Universe 2008, the 57th Miss Universe pageant, was held at the Crown Convention Center in the Diamond Bay Resort, Nha Trang, Vietnam on July 14, 2008...
Top 15 finalist (Czech RepublicCzech RepublicThe Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
placed for the second consecutive time) - Iveta LutovskáIveta LutovskáIveta Lutovská is a pageant titleholder from Czech Republic.-Pageantry:Iveta previously held the title of Miss Model of the World 2007 and most recently was crowned Czech Miss 2009...
, Miss Universe 2009Miss Universe 2009Miss Universe 2009, the 58th Miss Universe pageant, was held at the Atlantis Paradise Island, in Nassau, Bahamas on August 23, 2009. It was the first time back to back victories in Miss Universe history: Stefanía Fernández of Venezuela, was crowned Miss Universe 2009 by outgoing titleholder Dayana...
Top 10 finalist (Czech RepublicCzech RepublicThe Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
placed for the third consecutive time)
Fictional characters
- Jára CimrmanJára CimrmanJára Cimrman or Jára da Cimrman is a Czech fictional character created by Jiří Šebánek, Ladislav Smoljak and Zdeněk Svěrák. He is presented as one of the greatest Czech playwrights, poets, composers, teachers, travellers, philosophers, inventors, detectives, mathematicians and sportsmen of the...
, fictional character of universal talents - Josef ŠvejkThe Good Soldier ŠvejkThe Good Soldier Švejk , also spelled Schweik or Schwejk, is the abbreviated title of a unfinished satirical/dark comedy novel by Jaroslav Hašek. It was illustrated by Josef Lada and George Grosz after Hašek's death...
, fictional soldier in World War I, main character of Jaroslav HašekJaroslav HašekJaroslav Hašek was a Czech humorist, satirist, writer and socialist anarchist best known for his novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures, which has been translated into sixty...
's novel The Good Soldier Švejk
See also
- List of Czech Jews
- List of people by nationality
- List of people on stamps of the Czech Republic (including non-Czech people)
- Jiří (disambiguation)Jiri (disambiguation)Jiri is a village in Nepal.Jiri may also refer to:*Jiří , the Czech name for George*Jairos Jiri , Zimbabwean philanthropist...
- Jiřina (disambiguation)