List of Famous people born in Czech Republic
David Rozehnal
David Sebastian Klement Rozehnal is a Czech former footballer who last played as a defender for amateur club Sokol Kožušany. He previously played for a host of European clubs, making over 400 appearances in a career spanning almost two decades, and retired from the professional game in April 2018.
Evelyn Opela
Evelyn Opela is a German television actress.
Anastasia Pustovoitova
Anastasia Vyacheslavovna Pustovoitova is a Russian association football referee. Previously, she was a Russian women's international footballer who played as a defender.
Zdeněk Hřib
Zdeněk Hřib is a Czech healthcare manager and Czech Pirate Party politician who has served as the Mayor of Prague since November 2018.
Vladimír Darida
Vladimír Darida is a Czech footballer who plays as a central midfielder for German club Hertha BSC and the Czech Republic national team.
Barbora Špotáková
Barbora Špotáková is a Czech track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. She is a two-time Olympic Champion and three-time World Champion, as well as the current world record holder with a throw of 72.28 m.
Franziska Gminder
Franziska Gminder is a German politician for the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) and since 2017 member of Bundestag. She is member of the völkisch-nationalistic faction "the wing" within her party.
Karl Hermann Frank
Karl Hermann Frank was a prominent Sudeten German Nazi official in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia prior to and during World War II. Attaining the rank of Obergruppenführer, he was in command of the Nazi police apparatus in the Protectorate, including the Gestapo, the SD, and the Kripo. After the war, Frank was tried, convicted and executed by hanging for his role in organizing the massacres of the people of the Czech villages of Lidice and Ležáky.
Otto Planetta
Otto Planetta was an Austrian National Socialist. On 25 July 1934 he murdered Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian Chancellor during the unsuccessful July Putsch, four years before the Anschluss. He and the other assassins were members of SS Regiment 89. He was sentenced to death and executed by hanging. He was cremated at Feuerhalle Simmering. His ashes are buried at Dornbacher Friedhof in Vienna.
Zdeněk Štybar
Zdeněk Štybar is a Czech professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Deceuninck–Quick-Step. While best known as a cyclo-cross racer, in 2011 Štybar began his professional road career while continuing to race cyclo-cross.