List of Famous people born in Czech Republic
Markéta Vondroušová
Markéta Vondroušová is a Czech professional tennis player. She has a career-high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of world No. 14. Vondroušová finished runner-up at the 2019 French Open, where she became the first teenage Grand Slam finalist on the WTA Tour since Caroline Wozniacki nearly a decade earlier. She has won one WTA singles title in four finals in total.
Peter Ducke
Peter Ducke is a Sudeten German and a former East German football player. He was born in Bensen, Sudetenland, Germany during World War II. His older brother Roland was also a successful footballer.
Karolína Muchová
Karolína Muchová is a Czech professional tennis player. She has a career-high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of No. 21 in the world. Muchová has reached two finals on the WTA Tour, winning one title, the International-level Korea Open in 2019.
Ruth-Maria Kubitschek
Ruth Maria Kubitschek is a German actress born in Czechoslovakia. At the end of WW2 her family fled to Köthen. Ruth Maria went to the University for Theater and Music in Halle and then to the German Theater-Institute in Weimar. Together with Götz Friedrich she has one son.
Barbora Strýcová
Barbora Strýcová, formerly known as Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, is a Czech professional tennis player. Her highest WTA rankings are world No. 16 in singles and No. 1 in doubles. Her best singles and doubles Grand Slam performances both came at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships, where she reached the singles semifinals and won the women's doubles title alongside Hsieh Su-wei.
Kristýna Plíšková
Kristýna Plíšková is a Czech professional tennis player.
Kurt Knispel
Kurt Knispel was a German tank commander during World War II, notable for claiming 168 tanks destroyed, making him, if the claims can be evidenced, the most successful fighter in armored warfare.
Gabriela Koukalová
Gabriela Koukalová, née Soukalová is a former Czech biathlete, and is now a television presenter for TV Prima. She won two Olympic silver medals at the 2014 Sochi Games and she is a two-time World Championship winner, gold medalist at the 2015 Kontiolahti in mixed relay and gold medalist at 2017 Hochfilzen in 7.5 km sprint. In the 2015/2016 World Cup season she was overall champion, and she has also taken six discipline Crystal Globes: the 2013/2014 individual title, the 2015/2016 sprint, pursuit and mass-start titles, and the 2016/17 sprint and mass start titles.
Christoph Schönborn
Christoph Maria Michael Hugo Damian Peter Adalbert Graf von Schönborn, O.P., is a Bohemian-born Austrian Dominican friar and theologian, who is a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He serves as the Archbishop of Vienna and was the Chairman of the Austrian Bishops' Conference from 1998–2020. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1998. He is also Grand Chaplain of the Order of the Golden Fleece, of which he has been a member since 1961. He is a member of the formerly sovereign princely House of Schönborn, several members of which held high offices of the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic Church as prince-bishops, prince-electors and cardinals.
Josef Abrhám
Josef Abrhám is a Czech film and theatre actor.