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This is a partial list of famous Czech, Czech-speaking/writing people, and people born in the Czech Republic.Note: Several people on this list can also claim other nationalities; some were Czech-born, but spent the most important part of their lives outside the Czech Republic (e.g. Madeleine Albright), others were born in the time of Austrian/Austro-Hungarian Empire and therefore may be listed also as Austrians (e.g. Freud, Mahler etc.).
1 Actors
2 Architects
3 Authors and Poets
- Oskar Baum
- Egon Bondy
- Max BrodMax Brod ( May 27, 1884 December 20, 1968) was a Prague-born author and composer. He studied law at the University of Prague and graduated in 1907 to work in the civil service. From 1924 he worked as a critic for the Prager Tagblatt''. From 1912 he was a
- Karel CapekKarel Capek (pron. KARel CHAP-ek SAMPA: ['tSapek]) ( January 9, 1890 December 25, 1938), was one of the most important Czech writers of the 20th century. He introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot which first appeared in h
- Frantisek Ladislav Celakovsky
- Jakub DemlJakub Deml was born 1878 in Tasov near Trebic, Czechoslovakia, and died in 1961 in Trebic. Life Between 1902- 1909 Deml was a Catholic priest, suspended in 1912. He then became one of the great Bohemian authors of 1920s and 1930s. Publishing of his books
- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
- Otokar FischerBorn 1883, Kolin; died 1938 in Prague. Bohemian playwrite, excellent translator (e. new translations of Goethe, Shakespeare and Villon), poet and critic; professor of Prague university, director of Bohemian National Theatre in Prague. Died on heart attack
- Jaroslav FoglarJaroslav Foglar ( 6 July, 1907 23 January, 1999) was a famous Czech author who wrote many novels about young boy scouts and their stories in nature and dark city streets. While they may be considered ideological, his stories are not mere fables, but are b
- Hermann Grab1903 in Prague ( Czech Republic, Europe); d. 1949 in New York ( USA), excellent Bohemian writer of German language Hermann was born in an wealthy and newly-nobilited aristocratic family of jewish origin in Prague, Bohemian Kingdom (an old name of today's
- Franz GrillparzerFranz Grillparzer ( January 15, 1791 January 21, 1872), Austrian dramatic poet, was born in Vienna. Early Life His father, severe, pedantic, a staunch upholder of the liberal traditions of the reign of Joseph II, was an advocate of some standing; his moth
- Jaroslav HašekJaroslav HaSek ( April 30, 1883 January 3, 1923) was a Czech humorist and satirist who became well-known mainly for his hilarious, world-famous novel The Good Soldier Svejk which has been translated into sixty languages. He also wrote some 1,500 other sto
- Václav Havel
- Bohumil Hrabal
- Josef Jedlicka
- Jan Jenik z Bratric
- Milena Jesenska
- Franz Kafka
- Siegfried Kapper
- Jiri Karasek ze Lvovic
- Karl Kraus
- Ludvik Kundera
- Milan Kundera
- Paul Leppin
- Bohuslav z Lobkovic
- Jiri Mahen
- Karel Hynek Mácha
- Gustav Meyrink
- Ondrej Neff
- Božena Nemcová
- Jan Neruda
- Tereza Novakova
- Ferdinand Peroutka
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Jaroslav Seifert, Nobel laureate
- Mark Slouka
- Adalbert Stifter
- Karolina Svetla
- Tom Stoppard
- Michal Viewegh
- Franz Werfel
- Hermann Ungar
- Vladislav Vancura
- Alena Vostrá
- Jan Zabrana
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