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

Miloš Holaň is a retired Czech professional ice hockey player and currently the head coach of HC Poruba of the 1st Czech Republic Hockey League, the second tier in the Czech Republic. He played 49 games in the National Hockey League between 1993 and 1996 with the Philadelphia Flyers and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, as well as several seasons in the Czechoslovak and Czech Extraliga. Internationally Holaň played for the Czechoslovakian national junior team at two World Junior Championships, and with the Czech Republic at two World Championships. After retiring in 2000 he turned to coaching, and has worked for multiple teams across Europe.

Tomasz Mendrek is a Czech badminton player. He competed in the men's singles tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Zdeněk Bakala is a Czech entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is a stakeholder in mining, energy, financial businesses and owns the media company Economia, the publisher of Hospodářské noviny and Respekt magazine among others. As of 2017, Bakala is the tenth wealthiest person in the Czech Republic according to Forbes. His philanthropic activities are directed via the Bakala Foundation.

Anna Caritas Nitschmann, also known as Beningna von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf was a Moravian Brethren missionary (Missionarin), lyrical poet, and the second wife of Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf.

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.

František Tomášek was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Bohemia, the 34th Archbishop of Prague, and a Roman Catholic theologian. His "cautious but resolute opposition to the Czechoslovak communist regime helped to bring about its peaceful demise in the 1989 Velvet Revolution".