Famous People

Actors

Anny Ondra (Anna Ondráková)
David Nykl
Eduard Vojan
Jan Tříska
Jan Werich
Jiří Barto?ka
Jiří Grossmann
Jiří Voskovec
Karel Roden
Lída Baarová
Miroslav Horníček
Petr Kostka
Rudolf Hru?ínský
Stella Zázvorková
Tatiana Vilhelmová
Vladimír Men?ík
Vlasta Burian
Zorka Janů

Architects

Alois Dryák
Franti?ek Maxmilián Kaňka
Jakub Bursa
Jakub Krčín
Jan Kaplický
Jan Kotěra
Jan Santini Aichel
Jaromír Krejcar
Josef Chochol
Josef Gočár
Josef Mocker
Josef Niklas
Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer
Milada Petříková-Pavlíková
?těpánek Netolický

Authors and Poets

Alena Vostrá
Alois Jirásek
Arthur Breisky
Bohumil Hrabal
Bohumil Mathesius
Bohuslav Reynek
Bohuslav z Lobkovic
Boleslav Jablonský
Bo?ena Němcová
Eduard Peti?ka
Ferdinand Peroutka
Franti?ek Čelakovský
Franti?ek Doucha
Franti?ek Hrubín
Franz Kafka
Ivan Divi?
Jáchym Topol
Jakub Deml
Jan Blahoslav
Jan Křesadlo
Jan Matzal Troska
Jan Neruda
Jan Skácel
Jan Werich
Jan Zábrana
Jan Zahradníček
Jaroslav Foglar
Jaroslav Ha?ek
Jaroslav Seifert
Jindřich ?imon Baar
Jiří Grossmann
Jiří Kulhánek
Jiří Mahen
Jiří Wolker
John of Rokycan (Jan Rokycana)
Josef Jedlička
Josef ?kvorecký
Josef Váchal
Karel Čapek
Karel Havlíček Borovský
Karel Hynek Mácha
Karel Jaromír Erben
Karel Teige
Ladislav Fuks
Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová
Michal Viewegh
Milan Kundera
Milena Jesenská
Miroslav Holub
Miroslav Ivanov
Ondřej Neff
Oskar Kokoschka
Otokar Březina
Rudolf Medek
Svatopluk Čech
Svatopluk Turek
Václav Kaplický
Václav Kliment Klicpera
Vladimír Holan
Vladimír Neff
Vladislav Vančura
Vojtech Zamarovský
Zdeněk Svěrák
Zikmund Winter

Composers

Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic
Alexander Dreyschock
Alois Hába
Antonín Dvořák
Bedřich Smetana
Bohuslav Černohorský
Bohuslav Martinů
Dalibor Cyril Vačkář
Emil Reznicek
Ernst Krenek
Franti?ek Míča
Franti?ek ?kroup
Franti?ek Xaver Brixi
Hans Krása
Ilja Hurník
Jan Antonín Ko?eluh
Jan Dismas Zelenka
Jan Hammer
Jan Jakub Ryba
Jan Kubelík
Jan Ladislav Dusík
Jan Novák
Jan Václav Voří?ek
Jan Vencálek
Jan Zach
Jaromír Nohavica
Jaromír Vejvoda
Jaroslav Je?ek
Jiří Benda
Jiří Grossmann
Johann Baptist Vanhal (Jan Křtitel Vaňhal)
Johann Stamitz
Josef Bohuslav Foerster
Josef Fiala
Josef Mysliveček
Josef Suk
Julius Fučík
Karel Bendl
Karel Boleslav Jirák
Karel Kryl
Karel Stamitz
Kry?tof Harant z Pol?ic a Bezdru?ic
Ladislav Kubík
Ladislav Vycpálek
Leo? Janáček
Ludwig Minkus
Oskar Nedbal
Otakar Jeremiá?
Otakar Zich
Pavel Borkovec
Pavel Vranický (also known as Paul Wranitzky)
Petr Kotík
Rafael Kubelík
Rudolf Karel
Vilém Blodek
Vilém Tauský
Vítězslav Novák
Vladimír Hirsch
Zdeněk Fibich

Entrepreneurs

Emil ?koda, industrialist (?koda Works)
Ignác ?echtl, pioneer of photography (?echtl and Voseček)
Tomá? Baťa, industrialist (Bata Shoes)

Filmmakers

Alfréd Radok, film and theatre director
Bohdan Sláma, film director
Břetislav Pojar, film director
Emil Radok, film director
Franti?ek Vláčil, film director
Hermína Týrlová, stage designer, cartoonist
Ivan Passer, film director
Jan Pinkava, animator, film director
Jan ?vankmajer, film director, animator
Jan Svěrák, film director, actor
Jaromil Jire?, film director
Jiří Menzel, film director, actor
Jiří Trnka, film director, animator
Karel Reisz, film director
Karel Zeman, film director, animator
Ladislav Smoljak, film director
Milo? Forman, film director
Oldřich Lipský, film director, screenwriter
Otakar Vávra, film director
Věra Chytilová, film director
Zdeněk Miler, film director

Military

Albrecht von Wallenstein, warlord during Thirty-Years War
Alois Eliá?, army officer
Franti?ek Moravec, military intelligence officer
Franti?ek Peřina, pilot
Jan Syrový, general, prime minister
Jan ?i?ka, Hussite leader
Josef Franti?ek, pilot ace
Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, field marshal
Karel Kuttelwascher, general
Ludvík Svoboda, general, president
Prokop the Great, Hussite leader
Radola Gajda, army officer

Models

Daniela Pe?tová (1970-)
Eva Herzigová (1973-)
Hana Soukupová (1985-)
Ivana Trump (1949-)
Karolína Kurková (1984-)
Pavlína Pořízková (1965-)
Petra Němcová (1979-)
Veronika Vařeková (1977-)

Musicians

Aneta Langerová, singer
Antonín Kraft, cellist
Antonín Vranický (also known as Anton Wrani(t)zky), violinist
Daniel Landa, guitarist
Eduard Nápravník, conductor
Ema Destinnová, opera singer
Ferdinand Laub, violinist
Gabriela Beňačková, opera singer
Hana Zagorová, singer
Ivan Moravec, pianist
Jan Antonín Losy, famous lute player
Jan Kubelík, violinist
Jarmila Novotná, opera singer
Jiří Jirmal, guitarist
Josef Páleníček, pianist
Karel Gott, singer
Karel Kovařovic, conductor
Karel Strakatý, singer
Leo Slezak, opera singer
Libor Pe?ek, conductor
Magdalena Ko?ená, singer
Maria Jeritza, opera singer
Otakar ?evčík, violinist
?těpán Rak, guitarist
Tomas Kalnoky, singer, guitarist and composer
Vaclav Talich, conductor
Vilém Tauský, conductor
Zuzana Rů?ičková, harpsichordist

Painters

Alén Divi?
Alfons Mucha
Antonin Chittussi
Antonín Slavíček
Emil Filla
Emil Orlik
Eva ?vankmajerová
Franti?ek Jakub Proky?
Franti?ek Kaván
Franti?ek Kupka
Helena Zmatlíková
Jan Jakub Quirin Jahn
Jan Konůpek
Jan Kupecký
Jan Zrzavý
Jiří Kolář
Josef Čapek
Josef Lada
Josef Mánes
Josef Navrátil
Julius Edvard Marak
Karel Havlíček
Karel Klíč
Karel ?kréta
Karel ?těch
Ludvík Kuba
Ota Bubeníček
Otakar Kubín
Petr Brandl
Stanislav Holý
Teodor Rotrekl
Toyen (Marie Čermínová)
Václav Bro?ík
Václav Hollar
Václav ?pála
Václav Vavřinec Reiner
Vladimír Va?íček
Zdeněk Burian

Philosophers

Arno?t Bláha (1879 - 1960)
Egon Bondy (1930 - 2007)
Franti?ek Klácel (1808 - 1882)
Jan Patočka (1907 - 1977)
Ladislav Klíma (1878 - 1928)
Radovan Richta (1924 - 1983)
Václav Bělohradský (1944)
Vilém Flusser (1920 - 1991)

Photographers

Alexander Seik
Frank Plicka
Franti?ek Drtikol
Jan Saudek
Jaromír Funke
Josef Koudelka
Josef Sudek
Ladislav Sitenský

Politicians

Antonín Novotný, communist president
Antonín Zápotocký, communist president
Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor
Edvard Bene?, president
Emanuel Moravec, collaborator with Nazis
Emil Hácha, president during the German occupation
Gustáv Husák, last communist president
Jan Bervida, Minister of Czechoslovakian Civilian Airways
Jan Masaryk, foreign minister
Klement Gottwald, first communist president
Konrad Henlein, German autonomist, Nazi leader
Ludvík Svoboda, communist president
Madeleine Albright, 64th United States Secretary of State
Mikulá? of Hus, politician, Hussite
Otto Jelinek, former Canadian Federal Cabinet Minister.
Přemysl Otakar II, King of Bohemia
Rudolf II, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor
Tomá? G. Masaryk, first president of Czechoslovakia
Václav Havel, first president after the fall of communism, first president of the independent Czech Republic
Václav Klaus, prime minister and current president of the Czech Republic
Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia (Saint Wenceslas, Václav)

Religion

Jan Hus, religious thinker and reformer
Petr Chelčický, thinker, religious reformer
Saint Agnes of Bohemia, aka Ane?ka Česká
Saint John Neumann (John Nepomucene Neumann)
Saint John of Nepomuk, known through the central Europe
Saint John Sarkander, priest tortured to death in Olomouc

Scientists

Antonín Mrkos, astronomer
August Seydler, physicist, astronomer
Bedřich Hrozný, linguist
Bernard Bolzano, philosopher, mathematician and theologian
Bohumil Kučera, physicist
Bohumil Sekla, biologist
Drahoslav Lím, chemist, inventor hydrogel
Eduard Čech, mathematician
Ernst Mach, physicist
Ferdinand Stoliczka, palaeontologist
Frank Malina, aeronautical engineer
Franti?ek Běhounek, radiologist, writer, explorer
Franti?ek Čelakovský, linguist and writer
Franti?ek Josef Gerstner, physicist, engineer
Franti?ek Josef Studnička, mathematician
Franti?ek Koláček, physicist
Franti?ek Kři?ík, inventor arc lamp
Franti?ek Palacký, historian
Franti?ek Patočka, biologist
Franti?ek Závi?ka, physicist
George Placzek, physicist
Gregor Mendel, pioneer of genetics
Ivan Honl, biologist
Jakub Husnik, inventor and painter
Jan Amos Comenius, polyhistorian, educator, inventor of illustrated textbook
Jan Evangelista Purkyně, physiologist, first recognised the individuality of fingerprints
Jan Hajek, scientist
Jan Janský, discoverer of blood types
Jan Marek Marci, physician
Jan ?indel, astronomer
Jan Svatopluk Presl, chemist
Jana Tichá, astronomer
Jaroslav Hájek, mathematician
Jaroslav Heyrovský, scientist, Nobel Prize
Jaroslav Kurzweil, mathematician
Jaroslav ?afránek, physicist
Jindřich Bačkovský, physicist
Jindřich Wankel, paleontologist
Jiří Baborovský, chemist
Jiří Procháska, physiologist
Johann Böhm, chemist
John Zeleny, physicist, inventor electroscope
Josef Augusta, palaeontologist
Josef Bo?ek engineer
Josef Dobrovský, philologist and historian
Josef Ladislav Píč, archaeologist
Josef Ludvík Franti?ek Ressel, inventor of the ship's propeller
Josef ?koda, physician
Julius Pokorny, etymologist
Karel Absolon, archaeologist, speleologist
Karel Fortyn, physician
Karel Kavina, botanist
Karel Petr, mathematician
Karel Presl, botanist
Karel Rokytanský, anatomist
Karel Rychlík, mathematician
Karel Zahradnik, mathematician
Karl Guthe Jansky, engineer
Konstantin Jireček, historian
Kři?ťan of Prachatice, Medieval astronomer and physician
Leander Czerny, biologist
Lubo? Kohoutek, astronomer
Mathias Lerch, mathematician
Milo? Tichý, astronomer
Miloslav Valouch, mathematician
Olga Taussky-Todd, mathematician
Oskar Krejčí, political scientist
Ota ?ik, economist
Otakar Borůvka, mathematician
Otto Jirovec, parasitologist and protozoologist
Otto Wichterle, chemist, inventor of the modern contact lens
Petr Pravec, astronomer
Petr Vopěnka, mathematician
Petr Zuman, electrochemist
Rudolf Zahradník, chemist
Stanislav Prowazek, zoologist, parasitologist
Tadeá? Hájek, physician, astronomer
Václav Cílek, geologist, science popularizer
Václav Hlavatý, mathematician
Václav Láska, geophysicist, mathematician
Václav Prokop Divi?, inventor of the lightning rod
Viktor Trkal, physicist, mathematician
Vincenc Strouhal, physicist
Vincent Bochdalek, anatomist
Vladimír Zoubek, geologist
Vlasta Kálalová, physician, entomologist
Vlastimil Pták, mathematician
Vojtěch Jarník, mathematician
Vojtěch ?afařík, chemists
Zaboj Harvalik, physicist