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Famous people born in Czechia

Do you know these people who were born in today's Czechia? Some of them spent their productive years in Czechia, some of them didn't. Some of them claimed to be of Czech nationality, some of them didn't.
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Born in 1369 in Husinec; Theologist, philosopher and priest, started a Protestant movement in Bohemia
Jan Hus
Born in 1420 in Poděbrady; King, his Message of Peace was one of the very first attempts to unite Europe and is considered to be the first foreshadow of the European Union
George of Poděbrady
Born in 1592 in Nivnice; Philosopher, pedagogue and theologian, considered to be the father of modern education
Jan Amos Komenský
Born in 1781 in Prague; Mathematician, author of a fully rigorous definition of a mathematical limit
Bernard Bolzano
Born in 1841 in Nelahozeves; Composer, wrote the Symphony From the New World
Antonín Dvořák
Born in 1856 in Příbor; Psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Born in 1860 in Kaliště u Humpolce; Composer, wrote e.g. Symphony of a Thousand
Gustav Mahler
Born in 1873 in Prague; Neurologist, discovered the blood types
Jan Janský
Born in 1875 in Vratislavice nad Nisou; Automotive engineer, founder of a famous car manufacturing company named after him
Ferdinand Porsche
Born in 1876 in Zlín; Entrepreneur, founded a famous shoe manufacturing company
Tomáš Baťa
Born in 1883 in Prague; Writer and insurance officer, wrote e.g. The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Born in 1887 in Hronov; Writer, invented the word "robot"
Josef Čapek
Born in 1913 in Prostějov; Chemist and inventor, invented contact lenses
Otto Wichterle
Born in 1932 in Čáslav; Film director, directed many films, e.g. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest;
Miloš Forman
Born in 1937 in Prague; First ever woman who became US secretary of state
Madeleine Albright
Born in 1948 in České Budějovice; Cosmonaut, first person who got to space who wasn't from USA nor USSR
Vladimír Remek
Born in 1949 in Zlín; Businesswoman, married one of the US presidents
Ivana Trump
Born in 1956 in Prague; Sportswoman, tennis player who spent most of her professional career in USA
Martina Navrátilová
Born in 1972 in Kladno; Sportsman, ice hockey player, the longest playing player in professional ice hockey history, having played in 39 seasons (as of 2026)
Jaromír Jágr
Born in 1995 in Prague; Sportswoman, the first person ever who won two gold medals at the Winter Olympics using two different types of equipment
Ester Ledecká
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