- Silvia Saint
Silvia Saint (born February 12, 1976) is a Czech 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 200 pornographic movies.
- Jana Cova
Jana Cova (born April 13, 1980) is a Czech pornographic actress and nude model mainly specializing in lesbian and fetish pornography. Cova grew up in the countryside in the Czech Republic where she "had a great childhood". She initially started working as a bikini model, then started doing nude then softcore modeling. She has stated that part of her slow transition into movies was because "I wasn't ready for movies for about a year.
- Paulina Porizkova
Paulina Porizkova (born April 9, 1965) is a Czech-born supermodel and actress. She holds both Swedish and United States citizenship.
- Cory Everson
Corinna Kneuer (born January 4 1959), best known by her stage name Cory Everson, is an American female bodybuilder and actress, born in Racine, Wisconsin. She won the Ms. Olympia contest six years in a row between 1984 and 1989.
- Ivan Lendl
Ivan Lendl (born March 7 1960) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. "Tennis magazine" named him as one of the ten greatest tennis players since 1966, calling him "the game’s greatest overachiever" and emphasizing his importance in the game’s history.
- Rudolf Friml
Rudolf Friml (December 7, 1879 - November 12, 1972) was a composer of operettas, musicals, songs, as well as a pianist.
- Ladislav Beran
Ladislav Beran is an actor and choreographer. He was born in the Czech Republic on February 8, 1967. He was a choreographer for the film "Rebelové" (2001), and appeared as an actor in "Blade II" (2002) as a drug dealer and in "Hellboy" (2004) as Kroenen. The latter two films were directed by Guillermo Del Toro.
- Ivan Trojan
Ivan Trojan is a Czech actor. He graduated from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1988 and "Realistické divadlo Zdeňka Nejedlého" (RDZN) in Prague-Smíchov. In 1992 he moved to Divadlo na Vinohradech (DNV). In 1997 he decided to move to a newly established "Dejvické divadlo" (DD). He is son of actor Ladislav Trojan and brother of producer and director Ondřej Trojan.
- Jan Neruda
Jan Nepomuk Neruda (July 9, 1834 – August 22, 1891) was a Czech journalist, writer and poet, one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of "the May school". Jan Neruda was born in Prague, Bohemia, son of a small grocer who lived in the Malá Strana (Lesser Quarter) district of Prague. After studying philosophy and philology, he worked as a teacher until 1860, when he became a freelance journalist and writer.
- Jan Werich
Jan Werich (born 6 February, 1905, Prague - died 31 October, 1980, Prague) was a Czech actor, playwright and writer. Between 1916 to 1924 he attended "reálné gymnasium" (equivalent to high school) in Křemencová Street in Prague (where his future partner, Jiří Voskovec, also studied). He studied law at the Law School of Charles University from 1924 to 1927, …
- Jáchym Topol
Jáchym Topol is a Czech writer, a member of the Czech underground literature movement, and since the middle 1980s one of the co-founders of an underground Czech literary periodic Revolver Revue.
- Daniela Peštová
Daniela Peštová is a Czech supermodel. She was born in Teplice, Czechoslovakia, 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. She later on moved to New York and from there her career took off. She has appeared on the covers of "GQ", "Marie Claire", "Cosmopolitan", "Glamour" and "ELLE".
- Herbert Lom
Herbert Lom [Czech IPA: ] (b. September 11 1917) is an international film actor. He was born Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheru in Prague to upper-class parents. Lom's film debut was in the Czech film "Žena pod křížem" (1937). His early films roles included supporting roles, but also the occasional top billing. He moved to Britain in 1939 and made many appearances in British films throughout the 1940s, …
- Pavel Kohout
Pavel Kohout (born July 20 1928, Prague) is a Czech novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, most active in the 1950s, a Prague Spring exponent and dissident in 1970s until he was expelled to Austria. He was a founding member of the Charter 77 movement. Because he and other dissident theatre workers had been banned from working in the official theatre, he formed the company Living-Room Theatre with the actors Pavel Landovsky, …
- František Kučera
František Kučera is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman. Originally drafted in 1986 by the Chicago Blackhawks, Kučera played parts of four seasons in the Windy City before he was traded to the Hartford Whalers. He would also play for the Vancouver Canucks and Philadelphia Flyers before he returned to play hockey in the Czech Republic at the end of the 1996-97 NHL season. Three years later, when the NHL expanded again, …
- Michal Viewegh
Michal Viewegh (born March 31 1962, Prague) 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 books, which since late 1990es he publishes regularly every spring, sell over 50 000 copies, …
- Karel Svoboda
Karel Svoboda (19 December 1938 - 28 January 2007) was a Czech composer of popular music. He wrote music for many TV series in the 1970s.
- Jaroslav Doubrava
Jaroslav Doubrava was a Czech composer, painter, and pedagogue. He studied in the Prague Conservatory with Otakar Jeremiáš. His works are typified by somber, yet dramatic, music in the Romantic style. His "Third Symphony"' (1957) and ballet "Don Quijote" (1955) are some of his most popular works. Doubrava was heavily influenced by Czech and Moravian folklore as seen in his opera, "Ballad on Love" (1960). Doubrava was also well known for his satires, …
- Jaroslav Foglar
Jaroslav Foglar was a famous Czech author who wrote many novels about young Boy Scouts and their adventures in nature and dark city streets. While they may be considered ideological, his stories are not mere fables, but are based upon his long-term work with children on summer camps and in club-rooms. He edited several journals for young people: * "Mladý hlasatel" ("Young herald"), 1938 - 1941 * "Junák" ("Scout"), 1945 - 1949 * "Vpřed" ("Ahead"), …
- Jan Pinkava
Jan Jaroslav Pinkava is the director and writer of the Pixar Oscar-winning short film "Geri's Game" and the originator and co-director of Pixar's 2007 film "Ratatouille". He is the third-born of four children of the Czech polymath Václav Pinkava alias Jan Křesadlo. The family emigrated to Britain in 1969, where he obtained British citizenship. He attended Colchester Royal Grammar School, showing interest and talent in the arts, music, drama and sculpture.
- Otto Placht
Otto Placht (b. 1962) is a Czech artist well known for his paintings. Placht spends a great deal of time in Pucallpa, Peru, the same town as legendary artist Pablo Amaringo. He has a very long list of exhibitions at established galleries world wide.
- Josef Nesvadba
Josef Nesvadba was a Czech science fiction writer, the best known from the 1960es generation and translated also in the West. Nesvadba had a degree in psychiatry, he was a pioneer of group psychotherapy in Czechoslovakia. He originally translated poetry from English and wrote several theatrical plays as a student at the turn of 1940-50es; towards the end of the decade he started to write short stories, his interest being satirical SF. As befitting his background, …
- Ladislav Smoljak
Ladislav Smoljak is a Czech film and theater director, actor and scriptwriter. 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. Together with Zdeněk Svěrák he founded the "Theater of Jára Cimrman" ("Divadlo Járy Cimrmana", "DJC" in Prague), named after fictitious genius.
- Ivan Martin Jirous
Ivan Martin Jirous is a Czech poet, best known for being the artistic director of the Czech psychedelic rock group The Plastic People of the Universe and later one of organizers of Czech underground during the Communist regime. He is also known more frequently as Magor, which can be roughly translated as "loony" or "blockhead" and is supposedly derived from "phantasmagoria." His wife, Věra Jirousová, wrote a good number of the Plastics' early lyrics.
- Josef Lada
Josef Lada (born 17th December, 1887 in Hrusice - 14th December, 1957 in Prague, buried at Olšany Cemetery) was Czech painter. He is most known as illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's World War One novel "The Good Soldier Švejk". He produced nearly 600 cartoons of the Švejk characters, depicting Austria-Hungary officers and civil servants as incompetent, abusive and often drunk. All the subsequent illustrations of Švejk followed Lada's style.
- Ladislav Rychman
Ladislav Rychman (October 9 1922 - April 1 2007) was a Czech film director who filmed the first Czechoslovak musical comedy "Starci na chmelu" (1964).
- Alexander Kerst
Alexander Kerst (b. February 23, 1924 in Kralupy u Chomutova, Czech Republic) is an Austrian television actor.
- Filip Topol
Filip Topol is a Czech songwriter, singer and pianist. He is the younger brother of Jáchym Topol, son of Josef Topol and grandson of Karel Schulz. In his country, Czechia, he is best known as the leader of the Czech rock band Psí Vojáci. He has been a member of the band since its beginnings in 1979, but he has also pursued a solo career.
- Jessica Fiorentino
Jessica Fiorentino (born September 16, 1979) is a porn star from the Czech Republic.
- Jaromír Nohavica
Jaromír 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 studies at the Technical University of Ostrava but eventually left the school. He tried various jobs and eventually ended up working as a freelance lyricist. He gained fame with his first song for Marie Rottrová, "Lásko, voníš deštěm" (You Smell of Rain, …
- Miroslav Táborský
Miroslav Táborský is a Czech actor who has appeared in multiple Czech TV series, as well as in some American movies. Táborský was born in Prague, Czech Republic. He graduated from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU) in 1987. Táborský received Alfréd Radok Award and Goya Award. In 2005 he had a minor role in the American horror film Hostel. He portrayed a Slovak police officer.
- Ernst Deutsch
Ernst Deutsch aka Ernest Dorian (born September 16 1890 in Prague; died March 22 1969 in Berlin) was an Austrian actor.
- Olga Schoberová
Olga Schoberová born March 15, 1943 in Prague, Czech Republic (then Bohemia and Moravia Protectorate), Czech-American actress, often compared with Brigitte Bardot and Ursula Andress. Acted in 22 Czech, German, Italian and American movies. Was married to Brad Harris (16 November 1967 - 1969) now divorced, have one daughter, Babrinka, called "Sabrina". Married John Calley 19??, divorced December 1992, living in Czechoslovakia.
- Petr Lom
Petr Lom Director Petr Lom was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1968. He grew up in Canada and received his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard in 1997. He taught at several European universities, wrote a dull scholarly book on skepticism, and translated a beautiful book of Czech philosophy. He gave up his career in the University in 2004 to pursue a full-time career as a documentary filmmaker. He is much happier now.
- Jan Fantl
Born in Prague in 1954, Jan Fantl comes from a family of active film industry professionals. His Grandfather was the youngest producer for 20th Century Fox in Europe, and his father, Thomas Fantl, was a well-known TV and Film director. Jan literally grew up on his father's sets, and had done many internships by the time he finished high school. As a young man, Jan considered pursuing legal studies, but his passion for the film-industry was stronger. So, instead, he launched his career at...
- Mario Klements
Father of Adam Klemens.
- Nita Krebs
One of the "Lullabye League" Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
- Jan Vlasák
Jan Vlasák – production designer Jan studied architecture at CVUT (Czech University Of Technologies) in Prague. Very soon after his studies he started to assist production designers of Czech feature films such as Krvavý román (Bloody Novel), Svatba upíru (Wedding Of Vampires), fairy-tale Nesmrtelná teta (Immortal Aunt). Among others he also worked on the Oscar winning “Kolja” directed by Jan Sverák.
- Jan Tríska
Father of Karla Triska. He is known to most fans as the assassin from The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996).
- Vojtech Kotek
Son of Václav Kotek.