Czechoslovakia
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| - | *[[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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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.
Note: If you wish to add a name to this list, first add it here instead: Biography Stub Factory. This prevents the list from succumbing to a large amount of "red links".
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
- František Drtikol
- Jaromír Funke
- Josef Koudelka
- Frank Plicka
- Jan Saudek
- Alexander Seik
- Ladislav Sitenský
- Josef Sudek
Religion
- Jan Hus, religious thinker and reformer
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
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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