List of Famous people born in Czech Republic
Tomáš Rolinek
Tomáš Rolinek is a Czech former ice hockey player. He was a forward, and has played for the national team. He won the Extraliga in 2005 with HC Pardubice.
Lubomír Zaorálek
Lubomír Zaorálek is a Czech politician who has been Minister of Culture since August 2019. Zaorálek previously served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka from 2014 to 2017. He has been a Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) since 1996 and unsuccessfully ran for the premiership in the 2017 election but his Social Democratic Party received only 7% of the vote.
Karel Rada
Karel Rada is a Czech former professional football defender. He played for several teams, including SK Slavia Prague, SK Sigma Olomouc, FK Teplice, Trabzonspor and Eintracht Frankfurt. At international level, he played for the Czech Republic, for which he played 43 matches and scored four goals. He was a participant in the Euro 1996, where the Czech Republic won the silver medal, and represented the Czech Republic at the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup.
Jiří Pospíšil
Jiří Pospíšil is a Czech politician, who was leader of TOP 09 from November 2017 until November 2019. As a deputy for the Civic Democratic Party, Pospíšil served twice as Czech Minister of Justice: between 2006 and 2009 under Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek, and then again from 2010 to 2012 in the government of Petr Nečas. Pospíšil was a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 2002 to 2014.
Oldřich Pelčák
Oldřich Pelčák was a Czech cosmonaut and engineer. He graduated from Gagarin Air Force Military Academy. In 1976, Pelčák was selected as backup of Vladimír Remek for the Soyuz 28 mission. They were the first cosmonauts who were neither Americans nor Soviets.
Tomáš Ujfaluši
Tomáš Ujfaluši is a Czech former professional footballer. He operated as either a central defender or a right back.
Ulrich Steinvorth
Ulrich Steinvorth (born 1941) is a German political philosopher. He earned his doctorate with Günther Patzig in 1967. His dissertation was on private language and sensation in Wittgenstein. He habilitated in 1975 at the University of Mannheim with a thesis that advanced an analytic interpretation of Marx's Dialectic. His primary field of research is political philosophy. Additionally, he has published on topics in moral philosophy and applied philosophy, as well as the history of philosophy and metaphysics. He has also been an active supporter of the German branch of the Creative Commons movement.
Christine de Grancy
Jan Vokál
Jan Vokal is the current Bishop of Hradec Králové since his installation on 14 May 2011. He had previously served as an official in the Secretariat of State.
Karel Zelenka
Karel Zelenka is a Czech-Italian former competitive figure skater. He is a five-time (2003–2007) Italian national champion and competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He qualified to the free skate at eleven ISU Championships – three World, three World Junior, and five European Championships – and finished in the top ten twice.