List of Famous people born in Central Bohemian Region

Jaromír Jágr

Jaromír Jágr is a Czech professional ice hockey right winger for and the owner of HC Kladno of the Czech Extraliga (ELH). He has previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, Dallas Stars, Boston Bruins, New Jersey Devils, Florida Panthers and Calgary Flames, serving as captain of the Penguins and the Rangers. After leaving the Rangers in 2008, he played three seasons in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) with Avangard Omsk. He returned to the NHL in 2011 with the Flyers and remained in the league for seven more years before being assigned by the Flames in 2018 to HC Kladno.

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Miloš Zeman

First Name Miloš
Last Name Zeman
Born on September 28, 1944 (age 79)

Miloš Zeman is a Czech politician serving as the third and current president of the Czech Republic since 8 March 2013. He previously served as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002. As Leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party during the 1990s, he transformed his party into one of the country's major political forces. Zeman was Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Czech parliament, from 1996 until he became Prime Minister two years later in 1998.

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Joseph Radetzky von Radetz

First Name Joseph
Last Name Radetz
Born on November 2, 1766
Died on January 5, 1858 (aged 91)

Johann Josef Wenzel Anton Franz Karl, Graf Radetzky von Radetz was a Bohemian nobleman and Austrian field marshal. He served as chief of the general staff in the Habsburg Monarchy during the later period of the Napoleonic Wars and afterwards began military reforms. A disciplined and fair man, he was so beloved by his troops that he was known as Vater ('Father') Radetzky. He is best known for the victories at the Battles of Custoza and Novara during the First Italian War of Independence.

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Miloš Forman

Jan Tomáš Forman
First Name Miloš
Last Name Forman
Born on February 18, 1932
Died on April 13, 2018 (aged 86)

Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman was a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968.

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Ludmila of Bohemia

First Name Ludmila
Born on January 1, 0860
Died on September 15, 0921 (aged 61)

Saint Ludmila is a Czech saint and martyr venerated by the Orthodox and the Roman Catholics. She was born in Mělník as the daughter of the Sorbian prince Slavibor. Saint Ludmila was the grandmother of Saint Wenceslaus, who is widely referred to as Good King Wenceslaus. Saint Ludmila was canonized shortly after her death. As part of the process of canonization, in 925, Wenceslaus moved her remains to the St. George's Basilica, Prague.

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Jan Železný

First Name Jan
Last Name Železný
Born on June 16, 1966 (age 57)
Height 186 cm | 6'1

Jan Železný is a retired Czech track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He was a World and Olympic Champion and holds the world record with a throw of 98.48 m. Widely considered to be the greatest javelin thrower of the modern era, he also has the third, fourth and fifth best performances of all time.

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František Rajtoral

First Name František
Born on March 12, 1986
Died on April 23, 2017 (aged 31)
Height 179 cm | 5'10

František Rajtoral was a Czech professional footballer who played as a right winger or right-back. He last played for Turkish club Gaziantepspor, and was best known for his stint at Viktoria Plzeň. He was a member of the Czech Republic national football team.

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Jiří Veselý

First Name Jiří
Born on July 10, 1993 (age 30)
Height 198 cm | 6'6

Jiří Veselý is a Czech professional tennis player.

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Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák
First Name Antonín
Died on May 1, 1904

Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer, one of the first to achieve worldwide recognition. Following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana, Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák's own style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them".

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Jean-Gaspard Deburau

First Name Jean-Gaspard
Born on July 31, 1796
Died on June 17, 1846 (aged 49)

Jean-Gaspard Deburau, sometimes erroneously called Debureau, was a celebrated Bohemian-French mime. He performed from 1816 to the year of his death at the Théâtre des Funambules, which was immortalized in Marcel Carné's poetic-realist film Children of Paradise (1945); Deburau appears in the film as a major character. His most famous pantomimic creation was Pierrot—a character that served as the godfather of all the Pierrots of Romantic, Decadent, Symbolist, and early Modernist theater and art.

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