List of Famous people born in Czech Republic
Nikola Ogrodníková
Nikola Ogrodníková is a Czech athlete specialising in the javelin throw. She won the silver medal at the 2018 European Championships.
Štefan Füle
Štefan Füle is a former Czech diplomat who served as the European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy from February 2010 until October 2014.
Josef Řihák
Josef Řihák is a Czech politician. Řihák is a member of Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic and the Assembly of the Central Bohemian Region. He is also a former member of Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic and a former mayor of Příbram.
Radovan Vítek
Radovan Vítek is a Czech billionaire real estate investor, and majority shareholder in CPI Property Group, which owns a €9.8 billion property portfolio of 418 properties including offices, retail, 12,306 residential units and 10,488 hotel beds.
Peter Kien
Peter Kien was a Jewish artist and poet active at the Theresienstadt concentration camp. He died at the age of twenty-five.
Helmut Schmidt
Martin Říman
Martin Říman is a Czech politician. In 1996-1998 he was a Minister of Transport. In 2002 he was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies and since from September 2006 to May 2009, he was Minister of Industry and Trade.
Kateřina Tomalová
Kateřina Tomalová is a Czech badminton player. Trained at the TJ Sokol Klimkovice, Tomalová made her international debut in 2004, and later joining the national team in 2007. She was a champion at the 2012 National Championships in the women's doubles. Tomalová entered the Badminton Europe Centre of Excellence (CoE) program in 2019. She competed at the 2015 and 2019 European Games.
Hans-Joachim Maaz
Markéta Irglová
Markéta Irglová is a Czech singer-songwriter, musician and actress, known for starring in the film Once, which earned her a number of major awards, including the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Falling Slowly", with co-writer and co-star Glen Hansard.