- Bronisław Czech
Bronisław Czech was a Polish skier. Czech was born in Zakopane. He was 24 times Polish champion in different ski competitions and took part in the Winter Olympics of 1928, 1932 and 1936. He finished 10th in the Nordic combined and 37th in the ski jumping at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. Four years later, at the 1932 Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid, New York, Czech was 7th in the Nordic combined, 12th in ski jumping and 18th in the 18 km cross-country event.
- Václav Klaus
Václav Klaus is the second President of the Czech Republic and a former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (1992-7). A free market oriented economist, he is generally ranked among the most important Czech politicians since the fall of the communist regime.
- Franz Kafka
What will be my fate as a writer is very simple. My talent for portraying my dreamlike inner life has thrust all matters into the background; my life has dwindled dreadfully, nor will it cease to dwindle. Nothing else will ever sat
- Václav Havel
Václav Havel, GCB, CC, (born October 5, 1936 in Prague) is a Czech writer and dramatist. He was the ninth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989-1992) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003).
- 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.
- Jan Koller
Jan Koller (born March 30, 1973 in Smetanova Lhota, Czech Republic, then Czechoslovakia) is a Czech football player, who currently stars as a striker for the Czech Republic national team and the Ligue 1 club AS Monaco. He is the all-time leading goal scorer for either the Czech Republic or the former Czechoslovakia, with 48 goals in 75 caps as of February 8, 2007. Koller has an impressive physical presence (height: 2.02 m, nearly 6'8" and weight 100 kg, about 220 pounds).
- 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.
- Karel Schwarzenberg
Karel Schwarzenberg (born on December 10, 1937 in Prague, Czechoslovakia), full name "Karl Johannes Nepomuk Josef Norbert Friedrich Antonius Wratislaw Mena von Schwarzenberg" is a scion of the House of Schwarzenberg, former chancellor of Czech President Václav Havel and current senator and Minister of the Foreign Affairs. He is the eldest son of Prince Karl VI of Schwarzenberg and Princess Antonie von Fürstenberg. He has Czech and Swiss citizenship.
- Luboš Motl
Lubos Motl, in Czech Luboš Motl is a Czech theoretical physicist who works on string theory and conceptual problems of quantum gravity. Motl was born in Plzeň. He received his master degree from the Charles University in Prague, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Rutgers University and has been a Harvard Junior Fellow (2001-2004) and assistant professor (2004-2007) at Harvard University.
- 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.
- Monica Sweetheart
Monica Sweetheart, is a Czech pornographic actress. She first got into porn in 2000 shortly after turning eighteen. She gained notoriety with her performance in "Buttman's Anal Show 2". Because she speaks fluent English, Monica does not project the image of the stereotypical speechless European porn star. Monica now divides her time between Prague, Spain, and Southern California. To date, Sweetheart has performed in almost 250 movies, …
- Stanislas Wawrinka
Stanislas Wawrinka (born March 28, 1985 in Lausanne) is a Swiss male tennis player. As of April 2007, he is one of two Swiss players in the ATP top 40 (the other being Roger Federer). The surname Wawrinka is of Polish decent but Stanislas is only Polish by ancestry. His nickname is 'Stan'. His father Wolfram is German, and his mother Isabelle is Swiss. Both work on a biological farm helping handicapped people. Wawrinka's grandparents are Czech.
- Mirek Topolánek
Mirek Topolánek (born May 15, 1956 in Vsetín, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic) is the current prime minister of Czech Republic, from Civic Democratic Party. He has been chairman of the right-wing neoliberalist Civic Democratic Party since November 2002, succeeding Václav Klaus, the current President of the Czech Republic.
- Jan Hus
Jan Hus (alternative spellings John Hus, Jan Huss, John Huss) (c. 1370 Husinec (Prachatice District), Bohemia - July 6, 1415 Konstanz, Germany) was a Czech religious thinker, philosopher, reformer, and master at Charles University in Prague. His followers became known as Hussites. The Roman Catholic Church considered his teachings heretical, and Hus was excommunicated in 1411, condemned by the Council of Constance, …
- Comenius
John Amos Comenius (latinized: "Iohannes Amos Comenius") (March 28, 1592 - November 15, 1670) was a Czech teacher, scientist, educator, and writer. He was a Unity of the Brethren/Moravian Protestant bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of universal education, a concept eventually set forth in his book "Didactica Magna". Comenius became known as the "teacher of nations".
- 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.
- Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera (born April 1, 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic) is a Czech-born writer who has written books in both Czech and French. He is best known as the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", and "The Joke."
- Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (May 6 1856 - September 23 1939), was a Jewish-Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who co-founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind, especially involving the mechanism of repression; his redefinition of sexual desire as mobile and directed towards a wide variety of objects; and his therapeutic techniques, …
- Nikita Denise
Nikita Denise is a Czech erotic actress and adult film director living and working primarily in the United States. She is a naturalized American citizen by marriage.
- Lucy Lee
Lucy Lee (born April 10, 1984 as Adéla Uhrigová, in Prague, Czechoslovakia (present Czech Republic)), is a porn star of Czech descent. There is another porn star of Korean descent, also named Lucy Lee.
- Glen Hansard
Glen Hansard is the vocalist and guitarist for Irish rock group The Frames. Hansard quit school at age 13 to begin busking on local Dublin streets. He first came to public attention as guitar player Outspan Foster in the Alan Parker film "The Commitments". In 2003, he presented the television programme Other Voices: Songs from a Room, which showcased Irish music talent on RTÉ. On April 21, 2006, he released his first solo album, "The Swell Season", …
- Jaromír Jágr
Jaromír Jágr is an National Hockey League player and the current captain for the New York Rangers. Jagr wears the number 68 in honor of the Prague Spring rebellion that occurred in Czechoslovakia in 1968, also the year in which his grandfather died while in prison. While Jagr was one of the NHL's elite players during the 1990s, his performance slipped for much of the 2000s.
- Anetta Keys
Anetta Keys is a Czech porn actress and Internet nude model. Along with "Anetta Keys", she has also used the stage name Katrin.
- Cyril Svoboda
Cyril Svoboda is a Czech politician. Before entering politics he was a notary public and advisor to the Czech government. He is a member of the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party.
- Martin Straka
Martin Straka (born September 3, 1972 in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech ice hockey centre who currently plays for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. Straka was drafted 19th overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft, and has played for several teams throughout his 13 year NHL career. After falling out of favor with Pittsburgh management, he was traded to the Ottawa Senators on April 7th, 1995 for Norm McIver and Troy Murray.
- Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of his native Bohemia in symphonic, oratorial, chamber and operatic works.
- Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player, most recently of Milan. She has won three career Women's Tennis Association singles titles, all on clay courts, including back-to-back titles in Bogotá and Acapulco in 2005. Her maiden title came in 2004, when she won the title in Sopot, beating Czech Klára Koukalová in the final in three sets. She also beat former world number one Swiss Martina Hingis in Australia at the beginning of the 2006 season.
- Susana Spears
Susana Spears (born April 29, 1982) is a Czech softcore pornographic actress and nude model.
- Stacy Silver
Stacy Silver is a well known Czech porn star and nude model. She began her career in the adult industry in 1999, by debuting in Odyssey Group’s video "“Pick up Lines 44”". From the beginning of her adult entertainment career she performed in more than a hundred pornographic movies, mainly produced by Private Media Group. Much of her work include rough anal sex and double penetration.
- Bohumil Hrabal
Bohumil Hrabal (March 28 1914, Brno - February 3 1997, Prague) was a famous Czech writer.
- Miloš Zeman
Miloš Zeman (born 28th September, 1944 in Kolín) is a well-known Czech politician. He was a member and used to be leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party. He was the speaker of the chamber of deputies (lower house of the Czech parliament) from 1996 until 1998, and the prime minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 until 2002. He was a frequent rival of Václav Klaus.
- Daniella Rush
Daniella Rush (born Daniela Motlikova on September 17, 1976) was a Czech-born porn star active from 1999 to 2002. She became involved with the porn industry after working in sex clubs throughout Eastern Europe; along with other Czech performers such as Monica Sweetheart, the late Lea de Mae, and most famously Sylvia Saint, Rush was part of the first wave of Eastern European porn stars to make a significant impact on the American adult film market.
- Karel Gott
Karel Gott (born July 14, 1939) is one of the most successful and widely-known Czech singers today, as well as an accomplished painter.
- Jan Saudek
Jan Saudek (b. 13 May 1935, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech art photographer. Many of his family members died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II. Jan and his brother Karel were held in a children's concentration camp near the Polish border. He survived the war and worked for a printer starting in 1950.
- Libor Sionko
Libor Sionko (born February 1, 1977 in Ostrava) is an Czech footballer currently playing for Scottish Premier League club Rangers.
- Milan Baroš
Milan Baroš is a Czech international footballer. As of 9 July 2006, he has been capped 52 times, scoring 30 goals: an exceptional international strike rate, which his achievements in club football do not yet match. He is a striker who currently plays for Lyon. He has previously played for Liverpool, Aston Villa, and FC Baník Ostrava, where he earned the nickname "Ostrava's Maradona".
- Marek Jankulovski
Marek Jankulovski is a Czech football left-back of partial ethnic Macedonian origin. He currently plays for A.C. Milan of the Italian Serie A. His father, Pando Jankulovski, emigrated to Czechoslovakia from the Republic of Macedonia; his mother is Czech. Before joining Milan, he played for Baník Ostrava (1994-2000), Napoli (2000-02), and Udinese (2002-05). For the Czech national team, he played in Euro 2000 and Euro 2004.
- Alexandr Vondra
Alexandr "Saša" Vondra (born 17 August 1961 in Prague) was the foreign minister of the Czech Republic from 4 September 2006 to 9 January 2007 and Senator for Litoměřice district for the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) since autumn Czech Senate election, 2006. In the new government reshuffle announced for late December 2006, he is to become a deputy Prime Minister for European affairs. He graduated in geography from Charles University in Prague in 1984.
- Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek (January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) was one of the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. A Nobel Prize nominee (1936). He introduced and made popular the frequently used international word "robot", which first appeared in his play "R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)" in 1921. Karel named his brother Josef Čapek as the true inventor of the word "robot".
- Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard, OM, CBE (born as Tomáš Straussler on July 3, 1937) is an Academy Award winning British playwright of more than 24 plays. Born in Czechoslovakia, he is famous for plays such as "The Coast of Utopia", "The Real Thing", and "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead", and also for co-writing screenplays for "Brazil" and "Shakespeare in Love".