Czechoslovakia
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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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This is a partial list of famous Czech, and 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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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
- 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
- Julius Edvard Marak
- Josef Mánes
- 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)
- Vladimír Vašíček
- Helena Zmatlíková
- Jan Zrzavý
Photographers
- František Drtikol
- Jaromír Funke
- Josef Koudelka
- Frank Plicka
- Jan Saudek
- Alexander Seik
- Ladislav Sitenský
- Josef Sudek
Religion
- Saint Agnes of Bohemia, aka Anežka Česká
- Petr Chelčický, thinker, religious 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)
Sculptors
- See Czech sculptors
- Franta Bělský
- Břetislav Benda
- František Bílek
- Božetěch
- Matthias Bernard Braun
- Ferdinand Maxmilian Brokoff
- Jan Brokoff
- Michael Joseph Brokoff
- Alfréd Hrdlička
- Bohumil Kafka
- Vincenc Makovský
- Josef Václav Myslbek
- Zoja Trofimiuk
- Lea Vivot
- Ladislav Zívr
- Olbram Zoubek
Scientists
- See 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
- Vincent Bochdalek, anatomist
- Johann Böhm, chemist
- Bernard Bolzano, philosopher, mathematician, and theologian
- Otakar Borůvka, mathematician
- Josef Božek engineer
- Václav Cílek, geologist, science popularizer
- 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, parasitologist and 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 fingerprints
- Josef Ludvík František Ressel, inventor of the ship's propeller
- 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
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 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
- 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 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
Other
- Giacomo Casanova, spent his last years as a librarian in Duchcov Castle
Fictional characters
- Jára Cimrman, fictional character of universal talents
- Josef Švejk, fictional soldier in WWI, main character of Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk
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