Czechoslovakia
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| == See also== | == See also== | ||
| *[[Prague underground (culture)]] | *[[Prague underground (culture)]] | ||
| + | *[[The Plastic People of the Universe]] | ||
| + | *[[Czech literature]] | ||
| + | *[[Czech surrealism]] | ||
| + | *[[Czechoslovak New Wave]] | ||
| + | *[[Cinema of the Czech Republic]] | ||
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| == Film == | == Film == | ||
| *[[Czechoslovak New Wave]] | *[[Czechoslovak New Wave]] | ||
| *''[[Valerie and Her Week of Wonders]]'' | *''[[Valerie and Her Week of Wonders]]'' | ||
| - | This is a '''[[partial list]] of famous [[Czechs|Czech]], and [[Czech language|Czech intelligible]] 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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| - | ''Note: If you wish to add a name to this list, first add it here instead: [[Talk:List of Czechs|Biography Stub Factory]]. This prevents the list from succumbing to a large amount of "red links".'' | ||
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| ==Authors and Poets== | ==Authors and Poets== | ||
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| *[[Leoš Janáček]] | *[[Leoš Janáček]] | ||
| *[[Bedřich Smetana]] | *[[Bedřich Smetana]] | ||
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| ==Filmmakers== | ==Filmmakers== | ||
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| ==Painters== | ==Painters== | ||
| - | *[[Mikoláš Aleš]] | ||
| - | *[[Petr Brandl]] | ||
| - | *[[Václav Brožík]] | ||
| - | *[[Ota Bubeníček]] | ||
| - | *[[Zdeněk Burian]] | ||
| - | *[[Josef Čapek]] | ||
| - | *[[Antonin Chittussi]] | ||
| - | *[[Alén Diviš]] | ||
| - | *[[Emil Filla]] | ||
| - | *[[Karel Havlíček]] | ||
| - | *[[Václav Hollar]] | ||
| - | *[[Stanislav Holý]] | ||
| - | *[[Jan Jakub Quirin Jahn]] | ||
| - | *[[Josef Lada]] | ||
| - | *[[František Kaván]] | ||
| - | *[[Karel Klíč]] | ||
| - | *[[Jiří Kolář]] | ||
| - | *[[Jan Konůpek]] | ||
| - | *[[Ludvík Kuba]] | ||
| - | *[[Otakar Kubín]] | ||
| - | *[[Jan Kupecký]] | ||
| *[[František Kupka]] | *[[František Kupka]] | ||
| - | *[[Julius Edvard Marak]] | ||
| - | *[[Josef Mánes]] | ||
| *[[Alfons Mucha]] | *[[Alfons Mucha]] | ||
| - | *[[Josef Navrátil]] | ||
| - | *[[Emil Orlik]] | ||
| - | *[[František Jakub Prokyš]] | ||
| - | *[[Václav Vavřinec Reiner]] | ||
| - | *[[Teodor Rotrekl]] | ||
| - | *[[Karel Škréta]] | ||
| - | *[[Antonín Slavíček]] | ||
| - | *[[Václav Špála]] | ||
| - | *[[Karel Štěch]] | ||
| - | *[[Eva Švankmajerová]] | ||
| *[[Toyen]] (Marie Čermínová) | *[[Toyen]] (Marie Čermínová) | ||
| - | *[[Vladimír Vašíček]] | ||
| - | *[[Helena Zmatlíková]] | ||
| - | *[[Jan Zrzavý]] | ||
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| ==Photographers== | ==Photographers== | ||
| - | :''See [[:Category:Czech photographers|Czech photographers]]'' | ||
| - | *[[František Drtikol]] | ||
| - | *[[Jaromír Funke]] | ||
| - | *[[Josef Koudelka]] | ||
| - | *[[Frank Plicka]] | ||
| *[[Jan Saudek]] | *[[Jan Saudek]] | ||
| - | *[[Alexander Seik]] | ||
| - | *[[Ladislav Sitenský]] | ||
| - | *[[Josef Sudek]] | ||
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| - | ==Politicians== | ||
| - | :''See [[:Category:Czechoslovak politicians|Czechoslovak]] and [[:Category:Czech politicians|Czech politicians]]'' | ||
| - | *[[Jan Bervida]], Minister of Czechoslovakian Civilian Airways | ||
| - | *[[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles IV]], King of Bohemia and [[Holy Roman Emperor]] | ||
| - | *[[Klement Gottwald]], first communist president | ||
| - | *[[Emil Hácha]], president during the German occupation | ||
| - | *[[Václav Havel]], first president after the fall of communism, first president of the independent Czech Republic | ||
| - | *[[Konrad Henlein]], German autonomist, Nazi leader <!-- member of Czechoslovakian parliament, made impact on Czech lands --> | ||
| - | *[[Gustáv Husák]], last communist president | ||
| - | *[[Václav Klaus]], former prime minister and current president of the Czech Republic | ||
| - | *[[Otto Jelinek]], former Canadian Federal Cabinet Minister. | ||
| - | *[[Jan Masaryk]], foreign minister | ||
| - | *[[Tomáš Masaryk|Tomáš G. Masaryk]], first president of [[Czechoslovakia]] | ||
| - | *[[Mikuláš of Hus]], politician, [[Hussite]] | ||
| - | *[[Emanuel Moravec]], collaborator with Nazis | ||
| - | *[[Antonín Novotný]], communist president | ||
| - | *[[Přemysl Otakar II]], King of Bohemia and most powerful man in middle Europe in his era. | ||
| - | *[[Rudolf II]], King of Bohemia and [[Holy Roman Emperor]] | ||
| - | *[[Ludvík Svoboda]], communist president | ||
| - | *[[Mirek Topolánek]], Prime Minister | ||
| - | *[[Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia]] (Saint Wenceslas, Václav), known as "Good King Wenceslas" in a Christmas carol | ||
| - | *[[Antonín Zápotocký]], communist president | ||
| ==Religion== | ==Religion== | ||
| - | *Saint [[Agnes of Bohemia]], aka Anežka Česká | ||
| - | *[[Petr Chelčický]], thinker, religious reformer | ||
| *[[Jan Hus]], religious thinker and reformer | *[[Jan Hus]], religious thinker and reformer | ||
| - | *Saint [[John Sarkander]], priest tortured to death in [[Olomouc]] | ||
| - | *Saint [[John of Nepomuk]], known through the central Europe | ||
| - | *Saint [[John Neumann]] (John Nepomucene Neumann) | ||
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| - | ==Sculptors== | ||
| - | :''See [[:Category:Czech sculptors|Czech sculptors]]'' | ||
| - | *[[Franta Belsky|Franta Bělský]] | ||
| - | *[[Břetislav Benda]] | ||
| - | *[[František Bílek]] | ||
| - | *[[Božetěch]] | ||
| - | *[[Matthias Braun|Matthias Bernard Braun]] | ||
| - | *[[Ferdinand Brokoff|Ferdinand Maxmilian Brokoff]] | ||
| - | *[[Jan Brokoff]] | ||
| - | *[[Michael Brokoff|Michael Joseph Brokoff]] | ||
| - | *[[Alfréd Hrdlička]] | ||
| - | *[[Bohumil Kafka]] | ||
| - | *[[Vincenc Makovský]] | ||
| - | *[[Josef Václav Myslbek]] | ||
| - | *[[Zoja Trofimiuk]] | ||
| - | *[[Lea Vivot]] | ||
| - | *[[Ladislav Zívr]] | ||
| - | *[[Olbram Zoubek]] | ||
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| - | ==Scientists== | ||
| - | :''See [[:Category:Czech scientists|Czech Scientists]]'' | ||
| - | *[[Karel Absolon]], archaeologist, speleologist | ||
| - | *[[Josef Augusta]], paleontologist, science popularizer | ||
| - | *[[Jiří Baborovský]], chemist | ||
| - | *[[Jindřich Bačkovský]], physicist | ||
| - | *[[František Běhounek]], radiologist, writer, explorer | ||
| - | *[[Jan Berwid-Buquoy]], political scientist | ||
| - | *[[Vincenc Bochdalek|Vincent Bochdalek]], anatomist | ||
| - | *[[Johann Böhm]], chemist | ||
| - | *[[Bernard Bolzano]], philosopher, mathematician, and theologian | ||
| - | *[[Otakar Borůvka]], mathematician | ||
| - | *[[Josef Božek]] engineer | ||
| - | *[[Václav Cílek]], geologist, science popularizer | ||
| - | *[[Comenius|Jan Amos Comenius]], polyhistorian, educator, inventor of illustrated [[textbook]] | ||
| - | *[[Eduard Čech]], mathematician | ||
| - | *[[František Čelakovský]], linguist and writer | ||
| - | *[[Leander Czerny]], biologist | ||
| - | *[[Václav Prokop Diviš]], inventor of the [[lightning rod]] | ||
| - | *[[Josef Dobrovský]], philologist and historian | ||
| - | *[[Karel Fortyn]], physician | ||
| - | *[[František Josef Gerstner]], physicist, engineer | ||
| - | *[[Zaboj Harvalik]], physicist | ||
| - | *[[Jan Hajek]], scientist | ||
| - | *[[Jaroslav Hájek]], mathematician | ||
| - | *[[Tadeáš Hájek]], physician, astronomer | ||
| - | *[[Jaroslav Heyrovský]], scientist, [[Nobel Prize]] | ||
| - | *[[Václav Hlavatý]], mathematician | ||
| - | *[[Ivan Honl]], biologist | ||
| - | *[[Kamil Hornoch]], amateur astronomer | ||
| - | *[[Bedřich Hrozný]], linguist | ||
| - | *[[Jakub Husnik]], inventor and painter | ||
| - | *[[Jan Janský]], discoverer of [[blood types]] | ||
| - | *[[Karl Guthe Jansky]], engineer | ||
| - | *[[Vojtěch Jarník]], mathematician | ||
| - | *[[Konstantin Jireček]], historian | ||
| - | *[[Otto Jirovec]], [[parasitology|parasitologist]] and [[protozoology|protozoologist]] | ||
| - | *[[Vlasta Kálalová]], physician, entomologist | ||
| - | *[[Karel Kavina]], botanist | ||
| - | *[[František Křižík]], inventor [[arc lamp]] | ||
| - | *[[Luboš Kohoutek]], astronomer | ||
| - | *[[František Koláček]], physicist | ||
| - | *[[Bohumil Kučera]], physicist | ||
| - | *[[Jaroslav Kurzweil]], mathematician | ||
| - | *[[Václav Láska]], geophysicist, mathematician | ||
| - | *[[Mathias Lerch]], mathematician | ||
| - | *[[Drahoslav Lím]], chemist, inventor [[hydrogel]] | ||
| - | *[[Frank Malina]], aeronautical engineer | ||
| - | *[[Ernst Mach]], physicist | ||
| - | *[[Jan Marek Marci]], physician | ||
| - | *[[Gregor Mendel]], pioneer of genetics | ||
| - | *[[Antonín Mrkos]], astronomer | ||
| - | *[[František Palacký]], historian | ||
| - | *[[František Patočka]], biologist | ||
| - | *[[Karel Petr]], mathematician | ||
| - | *[[Josef Ladislav Píč]], archaeologist | ||
| - | *[[George Placzek]], physicist | ||
| - | *[[Julius Pokorny]], etymologist | ||
| - | *[[Křišťan of Prachatice]], Medieval astronomer and physician | ||
| - | *[[Petr Pravec]], astronomer | ||
| - | *[[Jan Svatopluk Presl]], chemist | ||
| - | *[[Karel Presl]], botanist | ||
| - | *[[Jiří Procháska]], physiologist | ||
| - | *[[Stanislav Prowazek]], zoologist, parasitologist | ||
| - | *[[Vlastimil Pták]], mathematician | ||
| - | *[[Jan Evangelista Purkyně]], physiologist, first recognised the individuality of [[fingerprint]]s | ||
| - | *[[Josef Ressel|Josef Ludvík František Ressel]], inventor of the ship's [[propeller]] | ||
| - | *[[Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky|Karel Rokytanský]], anatomist | ||
| - | *[[Karel Rychlík]], mathematician | ||
| - | *[[Vojtěch Šafařík]], chemists | ||
| - | *[[Jaroslav Šafránek]], physicist | ||
| - | *[[Bohumil Sekla]], biologist | ||
| - | *[[August Seydler]], physicist, astronomer | ||
| - | *[[Jan Šindel]], astronomer | ||
| - | *[[Josef Škoda]], physician | ||
| - | *[[Ivan Šolc]], inventor | ||
| - | *[[Ferdinand Stoliczka]], paleontologist | ||
| - | *[[Vincenc Strouhal]], physicist | ||
| - | *[[František Josef Studnička]], mathematician | ||
| - | *[[Olga Taussky-Todd]], mathematician | ||
| - | *[[Jana Tichá]], astronomer | ||
| - | *[[Miloš Tichý]], astronomer | ||
| - | *[[Viktor Trkal]], physicist, mathematician | ||
| - | *[[Ota Šik]], economist | ||
| - | *[[Miloslav Valouch]], mathematician | ||
| - | *[[Petr Vopěnka]], mathematician | ||
| - | *[[Jindřich Wankel]], paleontologist | ||
| - | *[[Otto Wichterle]], chemist, inventor of the modern [[contact lens]] | ||
| - | *[[Karel Zahradnik]], mathematician | ||
| - | *[[Rudolf Zahradník]], chemist | ||
| - | *[[František Záviška]], physicist | ||
| - | *[[John Zeleny]], physicist, inventor [[electroscope]] | ||
| - | *[[Vladimír Zoubek]], geologist | ||
| - | *[[Petr Zuman]], electrochemist | ||
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| - | ==Linguistics, Anthropology, History== | ||
| - | *[[Bořivoj Čelovský]], historian | ||
| - | *[[Max Dvořák]], art historian | ||
| - | *[[Eva Hajičová]], linguist | ||
| - | *[[Aleš Hrdlička]], medical doctor, anthropolog | ||
| - | *[[Bedřich Hrozný]], philologist and orientalist (decipherer of Hittite) | ||
| - | *[[Josef Jireček]] | ||
| - | *[[Henry Kucera]], linguist, cognitive scientist, language software author | ||
| - | *[[Bohumil Mathesius]], translator | ||
| - | *[[Vilém Mathesius]], linguist | ||
| - | *[[Jan Mukařovský]], literary theorist | ||
| - | *[[Alois Musil]], orientalist, explorer | ||
| - | *[[Antonín Rezek]], historian | ||
| - | *[[František Roubík]], historian | ||
| - | *[[August Sedláček]], historian | ||
| - | *[[Petr Sgall]], linguist | ||
| - | *[[Vladimír Skalička]], linguist (founder of linguistic typology) | ||
| - | *[[Josef Vachek]], linguist | ||
| - | *[[Čeněk Zíbrt]], ethnographer, historian | ||
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| - | ==Sports Personalities== | ||
| - | *[[Milan Baroš]], footballer | ||
| - | *[[Tomáš Berdych]], tennis player | ||
| - | *[[Patrik Berger]], footballer | ||
| - | *[[Radek Bonk]], ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[Věra Čáslavská]], gymnast, Olympic gold medalist | ||
| - | *[[Petr Čech]], footballer | ||
| - | *[[Roman Cechmanek|Roman Čechmánek]], ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[Jaroslav Drobný]], tennis player | ||
| - | *[[Oldřich Duras]], chess player | ||
| - | *[[Patrik Eliáš]], ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[Vašek Klouda]], footbag player | ||
| - | *[[Tomáš Enge]], Grand prix race car driver | ||
| - | *[[Salo Flohr]], chess player | ||
| - | *[[Dominik Hašek]], ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[Bobby Holik]], ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[Vlastimil Hort]], chess player | ||
| - | *[[Kent Hrbek]], baseball player | ||
| - | *[[Jaromír Jágr]], ice hockey player, considered the greatest European player in NHL history | ||
| - | *[[Eliška Junková]], Formula One driver | ||
| - | *[[Tomáš Kaberle]], ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[Jan Koller]], footballer | ||
| - | *[[Petr Korda]], tennis player | ||
| - | *[[Aleš Kotalík]], ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[Jan Koželuh]], tennis player | ||
| - | *[[Karel Koželuh]], tennis player | ||
| - | *[[Ivan Lendl]], tennis player | ||
| - | *[[Marek Malík]], ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[Hana Mandlíková]], tennis player | ||
| - | *[[Vera Menchik|Věra Menčíková]], first Women’s World Chess Champion | ||
| - | *[[Milan Michálek]], ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[David Navara]], chess player | ||
| - | *[[Martina Navrátilová]], tennis player | ||
| - | *[[Pavel Nedvěd]], footballer | ||
| - | *[[Petr Nedvěd]], ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[Kateřina Neumannová]], cross-country skiing | ||
| - | *[[Petr Novický]], basketball player | ||
| - | *[[Jana Novotná]], tennis player | ||
| - | *[[Jiří Novotný (ice hockey)|Jiří Novotný]], ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[Adam Ondra]], rock climber | ||
| - | *[[Luděk Pachman]], chess player | ||
| - | *[[Petr Průcha]], ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[Richard Réti]], chess player | ||
| - | *[[Tomáš Rosický]], footballer | ||
| - | *[[Martina Sáblíková]], speed skater | ||
| - | *[[Wilhelm Steinitz]], first World Chess Champion | ||
| - | *[[Roman Šebrle]], decathlete, Olympic gold medalist | ||
| - | *[[Vladimír Šmicer]], footballer | ||
| - | *[[Patrik Štefan]], ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[Helena Suková]], tennis player | ||
| - | *[[Petr Sýkora]], ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[Nicole Vaidišová]], tennis player | ||
| - | *[[Aleš Valenta]], freestyle skiing, Olympic gold medalist | ||
| - | *[[Kamila Vodichkova]], basketball player | ||
| - | *[[Šárka Záhrobská]], alpine skier | ||
| - | *[[Emil Zátopek]], runner, Olympic gold medalist | ||
| - | *[[Jan Železný]], javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist | ||
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| - | *[[Jára Cimrman]], fictional character of universal talents | ||
| *[[The Good Soldier Švejk|Josef Švejk]], fictional soldier in WWI, main character of Jaroslav Hašek's novel ''The Good Soldier Švejk'' | *[[The Good Soldier Švejk|Josef Švejk]], fictional soldier in WWI, main character of Jaroslav Hašek's novel ''The Good Soldier Švejk'' | ||
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Czechoslovakia was a country in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992. Its capital was Prague. In 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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See also
- Prague underground (culture)
- The Plastic People of the Universe
- Czech literature
- Czech surrealism
- Czechoslovak New Wave
- Cinema of the Czech Republic
Film
Authors and Poets
Composers
Filmmakers
- Věra Chytilová, film director
- Miloš Forman, film director
- Jaromil Jireš, film director
- Jiří Menzel, film director, actor
- Karel Reisz, film director
- Jan Švankmajer, film director, animator
- Jiří Trnka, film director, animator
- Karel Zeman, film director, animator
Models
- Eva Herzigová (1973)
Painters
- František Kupka
- Alfons Mucha
- Toyen (Marie Čermínová)
Photographers
Religion
- Jan Hus, religious thinker and reformer
Other
- Giacomo Casanova, spent his last years as a librarian in Duchcov Castle
Fictional characters
- Josef Švejk, fictional soldier in WWI, main character of Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk
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