List of Czechs
Famous Czech or Czech-speaking/writing people
Politicians
Authors and Poets
- Karel Capek
- Jaroslav Foglar
- Jaroslav Hasek
- Václav Havel
- Bohumil Hrabal
- Karel Hynek Macha
- Milan Kundera
- Ferdinand Peroutka
- Jaroslav Seifert
Composers
- Antonin Dvorak
- Zdenek Fibich
- Leos Janacek
- Bohuslav Martinu
- Oskar Nedbal
- Vitezslav Novák
- Bedrich Smetana
- Karel Stamitz
- Josef Suk
Filmmakers
- Jiri Menzel, film director, actor
- Milos Forman, film director
- Karel Reisz, film director
- Jan Svankmajer, film director, animator
- Jan Sverák, film director, actor
- Karel Zeman, film director
Painters
Athletes
- Vera Caslavska, gymnast, Olympic gold medalist
- Jaroslav Drobny, tennis player
- Dominik Hasek, ice hockey player
- Martina Hingis, tennis player
- Jaromir Jagr, ice hockey player
- Petr Korda, tennis player
- Ivan Lendl, tennis player
- Hana Mandlikova, tennis player
- Martina Navratilova, tennis player
- Jana Novotna, tennis player
- Helena Sukova, tennis player
- Emil Zatopek, runner, Olympic gold medalist
Other
- Thomas Bata, industrialist, Bata Shoes
- Bernard Bolzano, philosopher, mathematician, and theologian
- Jaroslav Heyrovsky, scientist, Nobel laureate
- Jan Hus
- Bedrich Hrozny, scientist, deciphered Hittite language
- Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius)
- Johann Santin Aichel, architect
- The Good King Wenceslas , 10th century Duke nof Christmas Carol fame
- Otto Wichterle, scientist, inventor of the modern contact lens
Also born in Czechia
- Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State
- August Wilhelm Ambros
- Max Brod
- Anton Cermak
- Sigmund Freud
- Kurt Gödel
- Edmund Husserl
- Franz Kafka
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold, film composer, two Oscars
- Adolf Loos
- Gustav Mahler
- Ernst Mach
- Gregor Mendel
- Ferdinand Porsche
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Oskar Schindler
- Joseph Schumpeter
- Tom Stoppard
- Berta von Suttner, Nobel laureate
- Franz Werfel
See also: List of people by nationality