The Czech diaspora refers to both historical and present emigration from the Czech Republic, as well as from the former Czechoslovakia and the Czech lands (including

Bohemia Bohemia ( ; cs, Čechy ; ; hsb, Čěska; szl, Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohem ...

, Moravia and Silesia). The country with the largest number of Czechs living abroad is the United States.

Communities

* Austria ( Vienna) *

Czechs and Slovaks in Bulgaria Czechs ( bg, чехи, ''chehi'') and Slovaks ( bg, словаци, ''slovatsi'') are a minority ethnic group in Bulgaria (Czech and sk, Bulharsko). According to the 2001 census, Czechs number only 316 and the number of Slovaks is even smaller ...

Czechs of Croatia Czechs are one of the recognised minorities of Croatia. According to the census of 2011 there were 9,641 Czechs in Croatia, comprising 0.22% of total population. Geographic representation Most Croatian Czechs live in Western Slavonia especially ...

Czechs in Poland According to the 2011 census, there were 3,447 ethnic Czechs in Poland,http://stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/LUD_ludnosc_stan_str_dem_spo_NSP2011.pdf up from 386 in 2002. Most of them reside in and around Zelów (81, in Łódź Voivodeship), in ...

Czechs in Romania The Czechs (, , ) are an ethnic minority in Romania, Alena Gecse and Dezideriu Gecse, "Istoria și cultura cehilor din Banat", i''Minorităţi în zonele de contact interetnic. Cehii şi slovacii în România şi Ungaria'' p.45-60, ed. Jakab Albe ...

Czechs in Serbia According to the 2011 census, Czechs ( sr, Чеси / Česi, italic=yes) in Serbia number 1,824 of population. National Council of the Czech National Minority in Serbia have seat in Bela Crkva in Vojvodina. Demographics Czechs form a majority in ...

* Czech New Zealanders * Czech South Africans *

Czechs in Ukraine Czechs in Ukraine, often known as Volhynian Czechs (Czech: ''Volyňští Češi''), are ethnic Czechs or their descendants settled mostly in the Volhynia region of Ukraine, in the second half of the 19th century. History Between 1868 and 1880, ...

Czech migration to France Czechs in France refers to the phenomenon of Czech people migrating to France from the Czech Republic or from the political entities that preceded it, such as Czechoslovakia. There is a substantial number of people in France with Czech ancestry, ...

Czech migration to the United Kingdom Czechs in the United Kingdom refers to the phenomenon of Czech people migrating to the United Kingdom from the Czech Republic or from the political entities that preceded it, such as Czechoslovakia. There are some people in the UK who were eithe ...

Czech diaspora in Israel The Czechs in Israel are people who have immigrated from the Czech lands, mostly from the former Czechoslovakia, as well as their descendants. Czechs in Israel are predominantly Ashkenazi Jews who made aliyah during the 20th century. History I ...

Czech Americans Czech Americans ( cz, Čechoameričané), known in the 19th and early 20th century as Bohemian Americans, are citizens of the United States whose ancestry is wholly or partly originate from the Czech lands, a term which refers to the majority o ...

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Baltimore Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was d ...

Omaha Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 39th-largest city ...

, Texas) *

Czech Canadians Czech Canadians are Canadian citizens of Czech ancestry or Czech-born people who reside in Canada. They were frequently called Bohemian Canadians until the late 19th century. According to the 2006 Canadian census, there were 98,090 Canadians of f ...

Czech immigration to Mexico Czech Mexicans ( es, checo-mexicanos) are citizens of Mexico who are of Czech descent. Czechs originate from the Czech lands, a term which refers to the majority of the traditional lands of the Bohemian Crown, namely Bohemia, Moravia and Czech S ...

* Czechs in Argentina *

Czech Brazilian Czech Brazilians refer to Brazilians of Czech descent who were born in or who trace their ancestry to the territory of the historic Czech lands or succession states, now known as the Czech Republic, and are residents and/or citizens of Brazil. C ...

Czech Australians Czech Australians are Australian citizens of Czech ancestry. Most Czech immigrants to Australia came after World War II and 1968–1969. Most recently the biggest influx is of students coming to Australia to study English and to find work. Many ...

Distrubution by country

Here is the top 10 countries with most Czech immigrants. : 503,000 : 89,000 : 82,000 : 65,000 : 36,000 : 21,000 : 16,000 : 14,000 : 11,000 : 11,000

Famous people of Czech descent

* Madeleine Albright, the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State *

Yehuda Bauer Yehuda Bauer ( he, יהודה באואר; born April 6, 1926) is a Czech-born Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University o ...

, an Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust * Edouard Borovansky, a Czech-born Australian ballet dancer, choreographer and director *

Georgina Bouzova Georgina Bouzová (born 1 June 1976) is an English television actress best known for her former role as Ellen Zitek in the BBC One medical drama ''Casualty''. Previously, Bouzová had a number of minor television roles including in '' Doctors'', ...

, an English television actress *

Louis Brandeis Louis Dembitz Brandeis (; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. Starting in 1890, he helped develop the "right to privacy" concept ...

, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939 * Thomas Cech, a Nobel Laureate in chemistry * Anton Cermak, the mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1931 until his assassination in 1933 * Eugene Cernan, a retired United States Navy officer and a former NASA astronaut and engineer *

Miloš Forman Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (; ; 18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was a Czech and American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968. Forman ...

, a Czech-American director, screenwriter, professor, and an emigrant from Czechoslovakia *

André Glucksmann André Glucksmann (; 19 June 1937 – 10 November 2015) was a French philosopher, activist and writer. He was a leading figure of the new philosophers. Glucksmann began his career as a Marxist, but went on to reject communism in the popular book ...

, a French philosopher and writer *

George Halas George Stanley Halas Sr. (; February 2, 1895October 31, 1983), nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr. Everything", was an American professional football player, coach, and team owner. He was the founder and owner of the National Football League's Chic ...

, a player, coach, owner and pioneer in professional American football *

Hippolyte Havel Hippolyte Havel (1871–1950) was a Czech-American anarchist who was known as an activist in the United States and part of the radical circle around Emma Goldman in the early 20th century. He had been imprisoned as a young man in Austria-Hungar ...

, a Czech anarchist who lived in Greenwich Village, New York * Juscelino Kubitschek, a prominent Brazilian politician of Czech descent who was President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961 *

Milan Kundera Milan Kundera (, ; born 1 April 1929) is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera's Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, then conferred again in 2019. He "sees himself ...

, a writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981 * Lenka, an Australian singer and songwriter * Jim Lovell, a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy * Felix Moscheles, an English painter, peace activist and advocate of Esperanto * Kim Novak, is an American actress best known for her performance in the 1958 film '' Vertigo'' * Fredy Perlman, an author, publisher and activist * Jan Pinkava, a Czech-British animator and film director * Josef Škvorecký, a leading contemporary Czech writer and publisher who has spent much of his life in Canada *

Tom Stoppard Sir Tom Stoppard (born , 3 July 1937) is a Czech born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covers the themes of human rights, censorship, and politi ...

, a British playwright, knighted in 1997 *

Roberto Weiss Roberto Weiss (21 January 1906 – 10 August 1969) was an Italian-British scholar and historian who specialised in the fields of Italian-English cultural contacts during the period of the Renaissance, and of Renaissance humanism. Early career ...

, an Italian-British scholar and historian *

John Zerzan John Edward Zerzan ( ; born August 10, 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist ecophilosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocates drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gathe ...

, an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author * Robert Vanasek, an American politician * Exene Cervenka, an American singer

References

European diasporas {{CzechRepublic-stub

Communities

Distrubution by country

Famous people of Czech descent

See also

Further reading

References