- Madeleine Korbel Albright
Madeleine Albright (1937 - ) was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. As the Nazis invaded that country before World War II, Albright and her family fled and eventually settled in the U.S. She graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and she later received master's and doctorate degrees from Columbia University in New York. By the late 1970s, she was working in the White House for President Jimmy Carter 's national security team. - Albin Polasek
Albin Polasek (1879 - May 19, 1965) was a Czech-American sculptor and educator. He created more than four hundred works during his career, two hundred of which are now displayed in the Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens in Winter Park, Florida - Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova (born October 18, 1956, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a former World No. 1 woman tennis player. Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, "She's the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who's ever lived." Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book "The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century", named her as the second best female player of the 20th century, directly behind Steffi Graf. - Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as the world's sexiest person and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. After appearing as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film "Lookin' to Get Out", … - 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. - Miloš Forman
Jan Tomáš Forman of Columbia's film division. One of his proteges was future director James Mangold, whom Forman had advised about scriptwriting. In spite of initial difficulties, he started directing in his new home country, and achieved success in 1975 with the adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", which won five Academy Awards including one for direction. In 1977, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. - Mila Rechcigl
Miloslav Rechcigl, Jr., or Mila Rechcigl, as he is called, is a trained biochemist, nutritionist and cancer researcher, writer, editor, historian, bibliographer and genealogist. He was one of the founders and past President for many years of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU). - Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York, New York) is an American business executive, entrepreneur, television personality and author. He is the CEO of Trump Organization, an American-based real estate developer, and the founder of Trump Entertainment, which operates several casinos. He received a great deal of publicity following the success of his reality television show, … - Ray Kroc
Raymond Albert Kroc (October 5, 1902 - January 14, 1984) was an American entrepreneur, famous for significantly expanding the McDonald's Corporation from 1955. He did not actually found the restaurant chain itself, however; it was started by Richard and Maurice (Mac) McDonald in 1940. - Eugene Cernan
Eugene Andrew Cernan (born March 14, 1934) is a former American astronaut of Czech and Slovak ancestry. He has been into space three times: as co-pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966; as lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969; and as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972. In that final lunar landing mission, Cernan became "the last man on the moon" since he was the last to re-enter the Apollo Lunar Module during its third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA). - Thomas Cech
Thomas Robert Cech (December 8, 1947 in Chicago) is a Nobel Laureate in chemistry. He grew up in Iowa City, Iowa. In 1966, he entered Grinnell College where he obtained a B.A. in 1970. In 1975, Cech completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and in the same year, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge where he engaged in postdoctoral research. - Jan Tříska
Jan Tříska (4 November 1936 in Prague) is a Czech-American actor. After signing theCharter 77 proclamation he emigrated to the United States via Cyprus. Before his emigration he performed in the theater and had many roles in movies, for example in the movie version of "Raduz a Mahulena" (1970) and in the communist propaganda piece "30 případů majora Zemana". In the U.S. he played the assassin in Miloš Forman's "The People vs. - Anton Cermak
Anton was the mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1931. He was shot dead by Giuseppe Zangara in 1933, possibly as a part of the Chicago gangland reprisal - Ivana Trump
Ivana Trump (born Ivana Marie Zelníčková in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia, now Zlín, Czech Republic, on February 20, 1949) is a former Olympic athlete and fashion model also noted for her celebrity brand and marriage to mogul Donald Trump. - Frank Malina
Frank Joseph Malina (October 2, 1912 in Brenham, Texas- November 9, 1981 in Boulogne Billancourt (France) was an American aeronautical engineer and painter, especially known for becoming both a pioneer in the art world and the realm of scientific engineering. His father came from Bohemia. His formal education began with a degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University in 1934. In 1935, while a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), … - Chip Taylor
Chip Taylor (b. January 1, 1940 in New York City) is the stage name of American songwriter James Wesley Voight noted for writing the song, "Wild Thing". Taylor's brothers are the actor, Jon Voight, and the geologist, Barry Voight. He is the uncle of actors Angelina Jolie and James Haven. - Lubomir Kavalek
Lubomir (Lubosh) Kavalek is a noted Czech-American chess player. He was awarded both the International Master and International Grandmaster titles by FIDE in 1965. Kavalek was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). He won the championship of Czechoslovakia in 1962 and 1968. When Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in August 1968, Kavalek was playing in Akiba Rubinstein Memorial in Poland, in which he finished second. - Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump | Jewelry Ivanka Trump , daughter of none other than billionaire mogul Donald Trump, has finally announced the details her new plans to try designing jewelry. In an interview with retail publication Women's Wear Daily, Trump announced that she will be working with Dynamic Diamonds Corp., to create her own line of diamond jewelry. She also has plans to create three Ivanka Trump boutiques in which she will sell the jewelry line. - Sissy Spacek
Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. - Rudolf Firkusny
Rudolf Firkusny was a Czech-American pianist with an elegant style. Firkušný studied with the composers Leoš Janáček and Josef Suk, and the pianists Vilém Kurz, Alfred Cortot and Artur Schnabel. He began performing on the continent of Europe in the 1920s, and made his debuts in London in 1933 and New York in 1938. He escaped the Nazis, settled in New York and became a US citizen. Firkušný was one of the great concert pianists of the 20th century. - Rudolf Friml
Rudolf Friml (December 7, 1879 - November 12, 1972) was a composer of operettas, musicals, songs, as well as a pianist. - Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel (April 28, 1906 Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czech Republic) - January 14, 1978 Princeton, New Jersey) was an Austrian American mathematician and philosopher. One of the most significant logicians of all time, Gödel's work has had immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, a time when many, such as Bertrand Russell, A. N. Whitehead and David Hilbert, … - Bruno Nettl
Bruno Nettl (b. Prague, Czechoslovakia, 14 March 1930) is a key figure in ethnomusicology and musicology. Bruno Nettl was born in Czechoslovakia in 1930, moved to United States in 1939, studied at Indiana University and the University of Michigan, and has taught since 1964 at the University of Illinois, where he is Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology, continuing to teach part-time. - Václav Nelhýbel
Václav Nelhýbel was a Czech-American composer, mainly of works for student performers. He is considered one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. He was born the youngest of five children in Polanka, Czechoslovakia. He received his early musical training in Prague, going to both Charles University in Prague and Prague Conservatory. In 1942 he went to Switzerland, where he studied at University of Fribourg; after 1947 he taught there. - Judy Baar Topinka
Judy Baar Topinka (born January 16, 1944) was the Illinois State Treasurer (from 1995-2007) and former chairman of the Republican Party of Illinois. She was the first woman to become state treasurer, first to be elected to three consecutive terms, was the first Republican to hold the post in over 32 years and during her last term, she was the only elected statewide official from the Republican Party in Illinois. - John Neumann
Saint John Nepomucene Neumann (March 28 1811 - January 5 1860) was a Bishop of Philadelphia (1852-60) and the first American bishop to be canonized. His surname is properly pronounced "Noi-mahn" as opposed to "New-man". - Jaromír Weinberger
Jaromír Weinberger was a Czech American composer. Weinberger was born, and lived chiefly, in the Czech capital Prague until 1937, and studied at the Conservatories of Prague and, briefly, Leipzig. At Leipzig, he studied with Max Reger and assumed into his own technique Reger's immense grasp of counterpoint. Between 1922 and 1926 he was professor of composition at the Ithaca Conservatory (currently Music School of Ithaca College), New York. - Olga Taussky-Todd
Olga Taussky Todd (August 30, 1906, Olomouc, then Austria-Hungary - October 7, 1995, Pasadena, California) was a Czech-American Jewish mathematician. She worked first in algebraic number theory, with a doctorate at the University of Vienna supervised by Philipp Furtwängler. During that time in Vienna she also attended the meetings of the Vienna Circle. Later, she started to use matrices to analyze vibrations of airplanes during World War II, … - Hugo Bezdek
Hugo Francis Bezdek (April 1, 1884 in Prague, Czech Republic - September 19, 1952 in Atlantic City, New Jersey) was a Czech-American sports figure in the first half of the 20th century. After playing as a fullback at the University of Chicago, Bezdek began his football coaching career at the University of Oregon in 1906 but left after a year to become head coach at the University of Arkansas. After five seasons at Arkansas, he returned to Oregon for six seasons. - Paulina Porizkova
Paulina Porizkova (born April 9, 1965) is a Czech-born supermodel and actress. She holds both Swedish and United States citizenship. - David Boreanaz
David Paul Boreanaz (born May 16, 1969) is an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his role on the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel", as the character Angel/Angelus. Since fall of 2005, he has played the male lead on "Bones", opposite Emily Deschanel. - David Zeisberger
David Zeisberger was a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native Americans in the Thirteen Colonies. He established communities of Munsee (Lenape) converts in the valley of the Muskingum River in Ohio; and for a time, near modern-day Amherstburg, Ontario. Zeisberger was born in Zauchtenthal, Moravia (today part of the Czech Republic) and moved with his family to the newly established Moravian Christian community of Herrnhut, … - George Halas
George Stanley Halas (February 2 1895 - October 31 1983), nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr. Everything", was an American player, coach, owner and pioneer in professional football and the iconic longtime leader of the NFL's Chicago Bears. - Brian Stepanek
Brian Stepanek (February 6, 1971 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actor. He is best known as his role as Arwin in "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody." He will also star as Arwin in "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" Spinoff, "Arwin!". Other roles include "The Mathter" on "Kim Possible", "Nugent the Dog in "Over the Hedge", … - Gary Kubiak
Gary Wayne Kubiak (August 15, 1961 in Houston, Texas) has been the head coach of the Houston Texans of the National Football League since January 26, 2006. Kubiak has previously participated in six Super Bowls with the Denver Broncos and San Francisco 49ers, losing three as a player and winning three as a coach - Mary Lynn Rajskub
Mary Lynn Rajskub (sometimes credited as Marylynn Rajskub) (born June 22 1971, Trenton, Michigan) is an American actress, artist, and comedienne of Czech descent. - Turhan Bey
Turhan Bey (born Turhan Gilbert Selahattin Sahultavy on March 30, 1922 in Vienna, First Austrian Republic (now Austria) is an American actor who was a popular Hollywood leading man of the 1940s. His father was a Turkish diplomat and his mother was a Czech industrialist. In 1930, young Turhan moved to the United States. He gravitated towards acting, and studied at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. - William Zabka
William "Billy" Zabka born in New York City, New York) is an American actor. Zabka is best known for playing "bully" types, such as his role as Johnny Lawrence in 1984's "The Karate Kid". Zabka's family is of Czechoslovak descent; the Czech translation of "Zabka" is "Little Frog." - Kim Novak
Kim Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American actress who was one of America's most popular movie stars in the late 1950s. She is perhaps best known for her performance in Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (1958). - Karl Guthe Jansky
Karl Guthe Jansky (October 22, 1905 - February 14, 1950), was an American physicist and radio engineer who in August 1931 first discovered radio waves emanating from the Milky Way. He is considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
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