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Karel Abraham Karel Abraham (born 2 January 1990) is a retired motorcycle racer from the Czech Republic. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from to , riding in the 125cc, 250cc, Moto2 and MotoGP classes, with the exception of 2016, when he raced in t ...

(1990–), motorcycle racer

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* Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), entrepreneur, founder of

Bata Shoes The Bata Corporation (known as Bata, and in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, known as Baťa) is a multinational footwear, apparel and fashion accessories manufacturer and retailer of Moravian (Czech) origin, headquartered in Lausanne, Switzer ...

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Thomas J. Bata Tomáš Jan Baťa, (; anglicised to Thomas J. Bata; September 17, 1914 – September 1, 2008), also known as Thomas Bata Jr. and Tomáš Baťa ml., was a Czech-Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He ran the Bata Shoe Company from the 1940s ...

(1914–2008), entrepreneur, son of Tomáš Baťa and former head of the Bata shoe company *

Otakar Borůvka Otakar Borůvka (10 May 1899 in Uherský Ostroh – 22 July 1995 in Brno) was a Czech mathematician best known today for his work in graph theory.. Education and career Borůvka was born in Uherský Ostroh, a town in Moravia (then in Austria- ...

(1899–1995), mathematician, publisher of Borůvka's algorithm *

Zdeněk Burian Zdeněk Michael František Burian (11 February 1905 in Kopřivnice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary – 1 July 1981 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a Czech painter, book illustrator and palaeoartist whose work played a central role in the development of p ...

(1905–1981), painter, book illustrator, paleontology reconstructor

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* Miroslav Donutil (1951–), actor

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Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (8 June 18128 October 1865) was a Moravian-Jewish violinist, violist and composer. He was seen as the outstanding violinist of his time and one of Niccolò Paganini's greatest successors. He contributed to polyphonic playin ...

(1814–1865), violinist

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* Emil Filla (1882–1930), painter *

Rudolf Firkušný Rudolf Firkušný (; 11 February 191219 July 1994) was a Moravians, Moravian-born, Moravian-American classical pianist. Life Born in Moravian town Napajedla, Firkušný started his musical studies with the composers Leoš Janáček and Josef ...

(1912–1994), pianist * Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), father of psychoanalysis *

Bohuslav Fuchs Bohuslav Fuchs (24 March 1895 in Všechovice – 18 September 1972 in Brno) was a Czech modernist architect. Life and career A mason by education, Fuchs studied with Jan Kotěra at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague between 1916 and 1919, and ...

(1895–1972), modernist architect

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Anna Rosina Gambold Anna Rosina Kliest Gambold (1762 - 1821) was an American Moravian missionary and diarist. Born Anna Rosina Kliest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Gambold was educated in the single sisters' choir of her community. Beginning in 1788 she was the head ...

(1762-1821),missionary and diarist *

Kurt Gödel Kurt Friedrich Gödel ( , ; April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher. Considered along with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant logicians in history, Gödel had an imme ...

(1906–1978), theoretical mathematician

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* Hugo Haas (1901–1968), film actor, director and writer *

Anton Hanak Anton Hanak (22 March 1875, Brünn – 7 January 1934, Vienna) was an Austrian sculptor and art Professor. His works tend to have a visionary-symbolic character, related to Expressionism. Biography He studied with Edmund von Hellmer at the Ac ...

(1875–1934), sculptor *

Stefan von Haschenperg Stefan von Haschenperg was a military engineer employed by Henry VIII of England in the 1540s. Career Very little is known of Stefan's career, however he was mentioned as a gentleman of Moravia, and subject of Bohemia, in a letter from the Reg ...

, (floruit 1540s), military engineer in England * Dagmar Havlová (1953–), actress and former

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of the Czech Republic (1997–2003) * Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), architect *

Bohumil Hrabal Bohumil Hrabal (; 28 March 1914 – 3 February 1997) was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century. Early life Hrabal was born in Židenice (suburb of Brno) on 28 March 1914, in what was then the province ...

(1914–1997), writer * Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), philosopher

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Markéta Irglová Markéta Irglová () (born 28 February 1988) is a Czech-Icelandic singer-songwriter, musician and actress, who starred in the film ''Once'', which earned her a number of major awards, including the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Falli ...

(1988–), songwriter, musician, singer

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* Leoš Janáček (1854–1928), composer * Maria Jeritza (1887–1982), soprano * Jobst of Moravia (Jodok of Luxemburg) (1351–1411),

King of the Romans King of the Romans ( la, Rex Romanorum; german: König der Römer) was the title used by the king of Germany following his election by the princes from the reign of Henry II (1002–1024) onward. The title originally referred to any German k ...

(antiking), margrave of Moravia

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* Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1701), botanist, Jesuit missionary *

Jan Keller Jan Keller is a Czech sociologist and politician. Since 2014, he has been a Member of the European Parliament representing the Czech Republic, elected as a non-partisan for the Social Democratic Party. He publishes political commentaries and essay ...

(1955–), sociologist *

Antonín Kohout Antonín Kohout (12 December 1919 – 15 February 2013) was a Czech cellist and founder of the Smetana Quartet. Life Kohout was born in Lubná in 1919. He studied with the cellist Karel Pravoslav Sádlo at Prague Conservatory; in 1941 at the Conse ...

(1919–2013), cellist, member of the Smetana Quartet * Luboš Kohoutek (1935–), astronomer * John Amos Comenius (1592–1670), educator and theologian * Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957), film music composer *

Leon Koudelak Leon Koudelak is a Czech classical guitarist. He has toured internationally in most parts of Europe, Asia and the Americas. He inspired the composer Michael Buchrainer to write guitar music. In addition to his concert career, he co-founded the ...

(1961–), guitarist * Magdalena Kožená (1973–), mezzo-soprano *

Karel Kryl Karel Kryl (12 April 1944 – 3 March 1994) was an iconic Czechoslovak (Moravian born and Czech speaking) poet, singer-songwriter and author of many hit protest songs in which he identified and attacked the hypocrisy, stupidity and inhumanity of ...

(1944–1994), popular musician and songwriter, critic of the communism in Czechoslovakia * Ernst Křenek (1900–1991), composer *

Otakar Kubín Otakar Kubín (french: Othon Coubine; 22 October 1883 – 17 October 1969) was a Czech painter and sculptor. Biography Kubín was born in Boskovice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. His works are mainly associated with Impressionism. He was influenced ...

(1883–1969), avant-garde painter *

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 ...

(1929–2023), writer

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* Ivan Lendl (1960–), tennis player * Adolf Loos (1870–1933), architect, author of essay '' Ornament and Crime''

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Ernst Mach Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach ( , ; 18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916) was a Moravian-born Austrian physicist and philosopher, who contributed to the physics of shock waves. The ratio of one's speed to that of sound is named the Mach ...

(1838–1916), physicist and philosopher * Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), philosopher and politician, first president of Czechoslovakia *

Christian Mayer Christian Mayer may refer to: * Christian Mayer (astronomer) (1719–1783), Czech astronomer and teacher *Christian Mayer (skier) (born 1972), Austrian former alpine skier *Christian Mayer (Wisconsin politician) (1827–1910), Wisconsin manufacture ...

(1719–1783), astronomer * Jan Milíč z Kroměříže, religious reformer * Mojmir I of Moravia, first known ruler *

Mojmir II of Moravia Mojmir II (Latin: ''Moymirus'', Czech and Slovak: ''Mojmír II.'', born after 871, died after 901) was a member of the House of Mojmir and since 894 the last known ruler of Great Moravia. He probably died in the beginning of the 10th century in a ...

, last known ruler *

Alfons Mucha Alfons Maria Mucha (; 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylized and decora ...

(1860–1939), painter * Vladimír Menšík (1929–1988), popular actor and entertainer

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František Palacký František Palacký (; June 17, 1798 – May 26, 1876) was a Czech historian and politician, the most influential person of the Czech National Revival, called "Father of the Nation". Life František Palacký was born on June 17, 1798 at Hodslavi ...

(1798–1876), historian and politician *

Franz Petrasch Franz, Freiherr von Petrasch (1746 – 17 January 1820) was an Austrian general officer serving in the Austrian Empire during the French Revolutionary Wars. He was the third generation of a bourgeois family in which two brothers, seeking adventure ...

(1744–1820) general officer in the

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military * Anton Pilgram (1450–1516), architect, sculptor and woodcarver *

George Placzek George Placzek (; September 26, 1905 – October 9, 1955) was a Moravian physicist. Biography Placzek was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Brünn, Moravia (now Brno, Czech Republic), the grandson of Chief Rabbi Baruch Placzek.PDF He studied ...

(1905–1955), physicist, participant in Manhattan Project *

Bolek Polívka Boleslav Polívka (born 31 July 1949, in Vizovice) is a Czech film and theatre actor, mime, playwright, and screenwriter. He has appeared in more than 40 films. Career Polívka first started appearing in films in the 1960s. He graduated from t ...

(1949–), actor, mime, playwright and screenwriter *

Georg Prochaska Georg Prochaska (sometimes also Juri, Jiří or Georgius Prochaska; cs, Jiří Procháska) (10 April 1749 in Blížkovice – 17 July 1820 in Vienna) was a leading Czech-Austrian anatomist, ophthalmologist, physiologist, writer and university pro ...

(1749–1820), ophthalmologist and physiologist

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*King Rastislav of Moravia * Karl Renner (1870–1950), politician, co-founder of Friends of Nature movement

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* Emilie Schindler (1907–2001),

Sudeten German German Bohemians (german: Deutschböhmen und Deutschmährer, i.e. German Bohemians and German Moravians), later known as Sudeten Germans, were ethnic Germans living in the Czech lands of the Bohemian Crown, which later became an integral part ...

humanitarian, wife of Oskar Schindler * Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), Sudeten German entrepreneur, known for saving the lives of almost 1,200 Jews during WWII * Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), economist and political scientist * Peter Sís (1949–), illustrator, animator and writer *

Jan Skácel Jan Skácel (7 February 1922 in Vnorovy – 7 November 1989 in Brno) was a Czech poet of Moravian origin, widely acclaimed as one of the best poets who had been writing in Czech. He often juxtaposed the fear stoked by the communist regime in C ...

(1922–1989), poet *Duke

Slavomir of Moravia Slavomir (Latin: ''Sclagamarus'', Czech and Slovak: ''Slavomír'') was a duke of Moravia (871). He led a revolt against the Franks who had annexed Moravia during the incarceration of his relative, Svatopluk I. Early life Slavomir, according to ...

, leader of Moravia around 871 *

Leo Slezak Leo Slezak (; 18 August 1873 – 1 June 1946) was a Moravian dramatic tenor. He was associated in particular with Austrian opera as well as the title role in Verdi's ''Otello''. He is the father of actors Walter Slezak and Margarete Slezak and ...

(1873–1946), operatic tenor *

John Sobieslaw of Moravia John Sobieslaw of Moravia (1352 – c. 30 October 1380) was a Czech feudal lord, junior margrave of Moravia. John was the second son of John Henry, Margrave of Moravia and Margaret of Opava. In historiography, he was mistaken for his illegitimate h ...

(1352–1394), Patriarch of Aquileia *

Františka Stránecká Františka Antonie Kajetána Kerschnerová, better known as Františka Stránecká (March 9, 1839 – May 27, 1888) was a Czech writer and collector of Moravian folklore. Life Františka Stránecká née Všetečková, was born on March 9, 1 ...

(1839–1888), writer and folklore collector *

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 ...

(1937–), British playwright *King

Svatopluk I of Moravia Svatopluk I or Svätopluk I, also known as Svatopluk the Great (Latin: ''Zuentepulc'', ''Zuentibald'', ''Sventopulch'', ''Zvataplug''; Old Church Slavic: Свѧтопълкъ and transliterated ''Svętopъłkъ''; Polish: ''Świętopełk''; Greek: ...

(c. 840–894), ruler of Great Moravia * Svatopluk II (c. 884–906), Moravian prince of Nitra * Ludvík Svoboda (1895–1979), General of I Czechoslovak Army Corps, seventh president of Czechoslovakia * Jan Syrový (1888–1970), general, politician

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Anna Ticho Anna Ticho (; 27 October 1894 – 1 March 1980) was an Israeli artist who became famous for her drawings of the Jerusalem hills. Beit Ticho, the house in Jerusalem that she shared with her husband is now a branch of the Israel Museum and a caf� ...

(1894–1980), Israeli artist * Miroslav Tichý (1926–2011), photographer *

Pavel Tichý Pavel Tichý (; 18 February 1936, Brno, Czechoslovakia – 26 October 1994, Dunedin, New Zealand) was a Czech logician, philosopher and mathematician. He worked in the field of intensional logic and founded transparent intensional logic, an o ...

(1936–1994), logician, philosopher *

František Tomášek František Tomášek (30 June 1899, in Studénka, Moravia – 4 August 1992, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Bohemia, the 34th Archbishop of Prague, and a Roman Catholic theologian. His "cautious but ...

(1899–1992), Archbishop of Prague * Ivana Trump (1949–2022), fashion model, TV presenter *

Ernst Tugendhat Ernst Tugendhat (born 8 March 1930) is a Czech-born German philosopher. He is a scion of the wealthy and influential Jewish Tugendhat family. Life and career He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, to Fritz and Greta Tugendhat, the wealthy Jewish fam ...

(1930–2023), German philosopher

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* Pavel Vranický (1756–1808), classical composer

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Jan Eskymo Welzl Jan Welzl (15 August 1868, in Zábřeh, Moravia, Austria-Hungary – 19 September 1948, in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada) was a Czech of Moravian ethnicity who was a traveller, adventurer, hunter, gold-digger, Eskimo chief and Chief Justice on New ...

(1868–1948), globetrotter and gold-digger, chief of the Siberian Yupik peoples * Otto Wichterle (1913–1998), chemist, inventor of contact lenses * Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčkova (1868–1915), women's education and women's rights activist

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Emil Zátopek Emil Zátopek (; 19 September 1922 – 21 November 2000) was a Czech long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He won gold in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres runs, but his final m ...

(1922–2000), long-distance runner, 4 times

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Moravians Moravians ( cs, Moravané or colloquially , outdated ) are a West Slavic ethnographic group from the Moravia region of the Czech Republic, who speak the Moravian dialects of Czech or Common Czech or a mixed form of both. Along with the Silesi ...

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