List of Famous people born in Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic

Ilja Hurník was a Czech composer and essayist.

Josef Lukl Hromádka was a Czech Protestant theologian. He was a founder of the Christian Peace Conference.

Tadeusz Kraus was a Czechoslovak international footballer of Polish ethnicity who represented Czechoslovakia.

Irena Renata Anders, born Iryna Renata Jarosiewicz (Yarosevych), was a Ukrainian-Polish stage actress and singer. During World War II she performed with Henryk Wars' troupe and later with the Polska Parada band, entertaining the Polish Armed Forces in the West. She was one of the first singers to perform the anthem, Czerwone maki na Monte Cassino.

Stephan Körner, FBA was a British philosopher, who specialised in the work of Kant, the study of concepts, and in the philosophy of mathematics.

Svatopluk Havelka was a Czech composer.

Johann Palisa was an Austrian astronomer, born in Troppau, Austrian Silesia, now Czech Republic. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, discovering 122 in all, from 136 Austria in 1874 to 1073 Gellivara in 1923. Some of his notable discoveries include 153 Hilda, 216 Kleopatra, 243 Ida, 253 Mathilde, 324 Bamberga, and the near-Earth asteroid 719 Albert. Palisa made his discoveries without the aid of photography, and he remains the most successful visual (non-photographic) asteroid discoverer of all time. He was awarded the Valz Prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 1906. The asteroid 914 Palisana, discovered by Max Wolf in 1919, and the lunar crater Palisa were named in his honour.