100 Notable alumni of
Charles University
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Charles University is 35th in the world, 13th in Europe, and 1st in the Czech Republic by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Charles University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Nikola Tesla
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- futuristelectrical engineerelectricianmechanical engineerinventor
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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
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Ivana Trump
- Enrolled in Charles University
- 1967-1971 studied sports science
- Occupations
- modelskierdesignerwriteralpine skier
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Ivana Marie Trump was a Czech and American businesswoman, socialite, and model. She lived in Canada in the 1970s, before relocating to the United States and marrying Donald Trump in 1977. She held key managerial positions in the Trump Organization, as vice president of interior design, CEO and president of Trump's Castle casino resort, and manager of the Plaza Hotel.
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Franz Kafka
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- aphoristprose writerjuristdiaristpoet lawyer
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Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe situations like those depicted in his writings. His best-known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926). He is also celebrated for his brief fables and aphorisms, which frequently incorporated comedic elements alongside the darker themes of his longer works. His work has widely influenced artists, philosophers, composers, filmmakers, literary historians, religious scholars, and cultural theorists, and his writings have been seen as prophetic or premonitory of a totalitarian future.
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Charles I of Austria
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- military officermonarchpolitician
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Charles I and IV was Emperor of Austria (as Charles I), King of Hungary (as Charles IV), and the ruler of the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from November 1916 until the monarchy was abolished in November 1918. He was the last of the monarchs belonging to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine to rule over Austria-Hungary. The son of Archduke Otto of Austria and Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, Charles became heir presumptive of Emperor Franz Joseph when his uncle Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in 1914. In 1911, he married Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma.
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Jan Hus
- Enrolled in Charles University
- In 1393 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- philosopheruniversity teacherteacherlinguistpresbyter
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Jan Hus, sometimes anglicized as John Goose or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as Iohannes Hvs or Johannes Huss, was a Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church reformer and the inspiration of Hussitism, a key predecessor to Protestantism, and a seminal figure in the Bohemian Reformation. Hus is considered to be the first Church reformer, even though some designate the theorist John Wycliffe. His teachings had a strong influence, most immediately in the approval of a reformed Bohemian religious denomination and, over a century later, on Martin Luther.
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Milan Kundera
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Studied in 1948-1949
- Occupations
- novelistwritertranslatorpoetscreenwriter
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Milan Kundera was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
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Jan Palach
- Enrolled in Charles University
- 1968-1969 studied study of history and political economics
- Occupations
- university student
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Jan Palach was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation in 1969 at the age of 20 was a political protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 which brought an end to the Prague Spring.
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Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia
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Wenceslaus IV was King of Bohemia from 1378 until his death and King of Germany from 1376 until he was deposed in 1400. As he belonged to the House of Luxembourg, he was also Duke of Luxembourg from 1383 to 1388.
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Edvard Beneš
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- lecturersociologistteacherassociation football playerpolitician
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Edvard Beneš was a Czech politician and statesman who served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938, and again from 1939 to 1948. During the first six years of his second stint, he led the Czechoslovak government-in-exile during World War II.
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Christoph Willibald von Gluck
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- composerconductor
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Christoph Willibald Gluck was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire at the time, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court in Vienna. There he brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices for which many intellectuals had been campaigning. With a series of radical new works in the 1760s, among them Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste, he broke the stranglehold that Metastasian opera seria had enjoyed for much of the century. Gluck introduced more drama by using orchestral recitative and cutting the usually long da capo aria. His later operas have half the length of a typical baroque opera.
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John of Nepomuk
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- Catholic priest
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John of Nepomuk was a saint of Bohemia. He was executed by King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia for disobedience. John was thrown into the Vltava river.
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Milada Horáková
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- juristpolitician
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Milada Horáková was a Czech politician and a member of the underground resistance movement against Nazi Germany and then against the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. She was focused on preserving democratic institutions and women's rights.
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Petr Fiala
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- editing staffpoliticianhistorianpedagoguepolitical scientist
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Petr Fiala is a Czech politician and political scientist who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from 2021 to 2025 and leader of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) from 2014 to 2026. He previously served as the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports from 2012 to 2013. Prior to entering politics, he was the rector of Masaryk University.
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Andreas Scheuer
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- politicianminister
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Andreas Franz Scheuer is a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party. From 2018 to 2021, he was Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure in the Cabinet Merkel IV. From 2013 to 2018, he was Secretary General of the CSU. From 2009 to 2013, he was Parliamentary Secretary of State in the former Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development in the Cabinet Merkel II. He was member of the German Bundestag from 2002 until 2024. In 2016, he was also elected district chairman of CSU Lower Bavaria, an office he held until 2023.
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Bohumil Hrabal
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- poet lawyerpoetscreenwriterwriterprose writer
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Bohumil Hrabal was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century.
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Milan Rastislav Štefánik
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- photographermilitary officerdiplomataircraft pilotpolitician
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Milan Rastislav Štefánik was a Slovak politician, diplomat, aviator and astronomer. During World War I, he served at the same time as a general in the French Army and as Minister of War for Czechoslovakia. As one of the leading members of the Czechoslovak National Council (the resistance government), he contributed decisively to the cause of Czechoslovak sovereignty, since the status of Czech- and Slovak-populated territories was one of those in question until shortly before the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918. His personal motto was "To Believe, To Love, To Work" (Slovak: Veriť, milovať, pracovať).
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Emil Hácha
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- juristpoetlawyertranslatorjudge
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Emil Dominik Josef Hácha was a Czech lawyer, serving as the president of Czechoslovakia from November 1938 to March 1939. In March 1939, after the breakup of Czechoslovakia, Hácha was the nominal president of the newly proclaimed German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
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Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Studied in 1656-1660
- Occupations
- monarch
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Michał Tomasz Wiśniowiecki, also known as Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (Lithuanian: Mykolas Kaributas Višnioveckis), and under a regal name Michael I (Polish: Michał I; Lithuanian: Mykolas I), was the ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 29 September 1669 until his death in 1673.
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Max Brod
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- opinion journalistwritertranslatorjuristlyricist
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Max Brod was an Israeli author, composer and journalist, born as a German-speaking Czech. He is notable for promoting the work of writer Franz Kafka and composer Leoš Janáček.
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Stanislav Grof
- Enrolled in Charles University
- In 1956 graduated with Doctor of Medicine in medicine
- Occupations
- academicuniversity teacherpsychiatristwriterpsychologist
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Stanislav Grof is a Czech-born American psychiatrist. Grof is one of the principal developers of transpersonal psychology and research into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of psychological healing, deep self-exploration, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche.
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Jan Werich
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- directortelevision actorplaywrightfilm actorsinger
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Jan Werich was a Czech actor, playwright and writer.
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Karel Havlíček Borovský
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- publisherpolitical prisonerwriteropinion journalistliterary critic
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Karel Havlíček Borovský was a Czech writer, poet, critic, politician, journalist, and publisher.
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Zdeněk Svěrák
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- teachersongwriterscreenwriterplaywrightfilm actor
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Zdeněk Svěrák is a Czech actor, humorist, playwright and screenwriter. He is one of the most well-known and popular Czech cultural personalities. Since 1968 he has appeared in 32 films.
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Hans Selye
- Enrolled in Charles University
- In 1929 studied medicine
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- university teacherendocrinologistpsychologistphysiologistphysician
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János Hugo Bruno "Hans" Selye CC was a Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist who conducted important scientific work on the hypothetical non-specific response of an organism to stressors. Although he did not recognize all of the many aspects of glucocorticoids, Selye was aware of their role in the stress response.
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Carl Menger
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- professoreconomist
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Carl Menger von Wolfensgrün was an Austrian economist who contributed to the marginal theory of value. Menger is considered the founder of the Austrian school of economics.
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Karel Hynek Mácha
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- prose writerwriterplaywrightvisual artistpoet
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Karel Hynek Mácha was a Czech romantic poet. His poem Máj is among the most important poems in the history of Czech literature.
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Karel Jaromír Erben
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- editorjuristcollectorpoettranslator
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Karel Jaromír Erben was a Czech folklorist. He is best known for his collection Kytice, which contains poems based on traditional and folkloric themes. He also wrote Písně národní v Čechách ("Folk Songs of Bohemia") which contains 500 songs and Prostonárodní české písně a říkadla ("Czech Folk Songs and Nursery Rhymes"), a five-part book that brings together most of Czech folklore.
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Věra Jourová
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- university teacherjuristpolitician
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Věra Jourová is a Czech politician and lawyer who served as Vice-President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency from 2019 to 2024, and as the European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality from 2014 to 2019. She served as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies between 2013 and 2014 and as the Czech Minister for Regional Development in 2014.
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Markéta Pekarová Adamová
- Enrolled in Charles University
- 2005-2008 graduated with bachelor's degree in andragogy
- Occupations
- politician
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Markéta Pekarová Adamová is a Czech politician who served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies from 2021 to 2025 and as leader of TOP 09 from 2019 to 2025. Pekarová Adamová was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2013 until 2025, when she decided not to seek re-election.
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Max Wertheimer
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- university teacherphilosopherpsychologist
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Max Wertheimer was a psychologist who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler. He is known for his book Productive Thinking and for conceiving the phi phenomenon as part of his work in Gestalt psychology.
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Lucie Vondráčková
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Studied culturology
- Occupations
- actorsingermusicianchild actor
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Lucie Vondráčková is a Czech actress and singer.
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Jan Evangelista Purkyně
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- neurologistbiologistphysicianphysiologistpolitician
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Jan Evangelista Purkyně was a Czech anatomist and physiologist. In 1839, he coined the term "protoplasma" for the fluid substance of a cell. He was one of the best known scientists of his time. Such was his fame that when people from outside Europe wrote letters to him, all that they needed to put as the address was "Purkyně, Europe".
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Ivan Bartoš
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Studied library science and information science
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- computer scientistministerpoliticianmusician
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Ivan Bartoš is a Czech civil rights activist and politician for the Czech Pirate Party, who served as the Minister of Regional Development and Deputy Prime Minister for Digitalization in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala from December 2021 to September 2024. He has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic since October 2017, and was chairman of the Pirate Party from 2009 to 2014, and again from 2016 to 2024.
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Bernard Bolzano
- Enrolled in Charles University
- 1796-1805 studied mathematics, philosophy, and theology
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- philosopher of sciencetheologianmathematicianCatholic priestaesthetician
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Bernard Bolzano was a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian extraction, also known for his liberal views.
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George Voskovec
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- film actorvisual artistpoetdirectortranslator
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Jiří Voskovec, known in the United States as George Voskovec, was a Czech-American actor. Throughout much of his career, he was associated with actor and playwright Jan Werich. In the U.S., he is known for his role as the polite Juror #11 in the 1957 film 12 Angry Men.
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Alois Jirásek
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- politicianwriterhistorianplaywrightpedagogue
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Alois Jirásek was a Czech writer, author of historical novels and plays. Jirásek was a high school history teacher in Litomyšl and later in Prague until his retirement in 1909. He wrote a series of historical novels imbued with faith in his nation and in progress toward freedom and justice. He was close to many important Czech personalities like Mikoláš Aleš, Josef Václav Sládek, Karel Václav Rais or Zdeněk Nejedlý. He attended an art club in Union Cafe with them. He worked as an editor in Zvon magazine and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1918, 1919, 1921 and 1930.
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Adam Vojtěch
- Enrolled in Charles University
- 2006-2009 graduated with bachelor's degree in media studies
- 2006-2012 graduated with magister degree in law
- 2011-2013 graduated with master's degree in media studies
- Occupations
- singerjuristlawyerpoliticianmusician
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Adam Vojtěch is a Czech politician and lawyer serving as Minister of Health since 15 December 2025, in the third cabinet of Andrej Babiš. He served as Minister of Health from 13 December 2017 to 21 September 2020, in both the first and second cabinets of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, and then for a second time from May until December 2021. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2017 until 2021.
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Stanislav Gross
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Studied in 1993-1999
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
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Stanislav Gross was a Czech lawyer and politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic and leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party from 2004 until 2005 when he resigned as a result of his financial irregularities. He previously served as minister of the Interior in cabinets of Miloš Zeman and Vladimír Špidla from 2000 to 2004. Gross was Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1992 to 2004.
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Vaclav Smil
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- science communicatoruniversity teacherwritereconomistnaturalist
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Vaclav Smil is a Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His interdisciplinary research interests encompass energy, environmental, food, population, economic, historical and public policy studies. He has also applied these approaches to energy, food and environmental affairs of China.
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Josef Kajetán Tyl
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- lyricistpoetdirectortranslatortheatre critic
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Josef Kajetán Tyl was a Czech dramatist, writer and actor. He was a notable figure in the Czech National Revival movement and is best known as the author of the current national anthem of the Czech Republic titled Kde domov můj?.
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Viktor Dyk
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- chess playertheatre criticjournalistwritertranslator
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Viktor Dyk was a nationalist Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer. He was sent to jail during the First World War for opposing the Austro-Hungarian empire. He was one of the signatories of the Manifesto of Czech writers. Dyk co-founded a political party and entered politics. He died at age 53, leaving his many poems, plays and writings.
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Alois Rašín
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- juristeconomistjournalistlawyerpolitical prisoner
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Alois Rašín was a Czech and Czechoslovak politician, economist, one of the founders of Czechoslovakia and first Ministry for Finance. He was the author of the first law of Czechoslovakia and creator of the country's currency, the Czechoslovak koruna. Rašín was a representative of conservative liberalism and was mortally wounded in assassination for being viewed as a head of the nation's capitalism.
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Jan Patočka
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- pedagoguewritertranslatoraestheticianuniversity teacher
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Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher. Having studied in Prague, Paris, Berlin, and Freiburg, he was one of the last pupils of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Freiburg he also developed a lifelong philosophical friendship with Husserl's assistant Eugen Fink. Patočka worked in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for almost his entire career, but never joined the Communist Party and was affected by persecution, which ended in his death as a dissident spokesperson of Charter 77.
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Josef Dobrovský
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- philologisttextologistnational revival activistlinguisthistorian
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Josef Dobrovský was a Czech philologist and historian. He was one of the most important figures of the Czech National Revival along with Josef Jungmann.
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Jaroslav Vrchlický
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- librettistliterary criticjournalistlinguistpedagogue
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Jaroslav Vrchlický was a Czech lyrical poet. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature eight times.
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Lubomír Štrougal
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Graduated with Doctor of Laws
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lubomír Štrougal was a Czech politician who was the prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1970 to 1988.
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Jiří Wolker
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- literary criticjournalisttheatre criticwritertranslator
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Jiří Wolker was a Czech poet. He was also marginally journalist and playwright. Although he lived a short life, he became one of the most important Czech poets.
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Pál Maléter
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Studied medicine
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Pál Maléter was the military leader of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution who served as minister of defence in the third government of Imre Nagy.
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Zdeněk Hřib
- Enrolled in Charles University
- 1999-2006 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticianmanager
- Biography
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Zdeněk Hřib is a Czech healthcare manager and politician, who has served as chair of the Czech Pirate Party since November 2024, and served as the Mayor of Prague from November 2018 to February 2023.
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Oleh Olzhych
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- political activistprehistorianuniversity teacherpoettranslator
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Oleh Oleksandrovych Kandyba, better known his pen name of Oleh Olzhych (Ukrainian: Олег Ольжич), was a Ukrainian poet and political activist. He was forced to emigrate from Ukraine in 1923 due to occupation by the Soviet Union and lived in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He graduated in 1929 from Charles University with a degree in archaeology. In 1929 he joined the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and became head of their cultural and educational branch.
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John Neumann
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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John Nepomucene Neumann CSsR was a Bohemian-born American prelate of the Catholic Church.
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Karel Janeček
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Studied probability theory and mathematical statistics
- Occupations
- mathematicianeconomistentrepreneurteacher
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Karel Janeček is a Czech mathematician, entrepreneur, anti-corruption campaigner, creator of the D21 – Janeček method voting system and the online game Prezident 21.
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Josef Škvorecký
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- literary criticlinguistwritertranslatorprose writer
- Biography
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Josef Škvorecký CM was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher. He spent half of his life in Canada, publishing and supporting banned Czech literature during the communist era. Škvorecký was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1980. He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country. Škvorecký's fiction deals with several themes: the horrors of totalitarianism and repression, the expatriate experience, and the miracle of jazz.
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Pavel Fischer
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- diplomatambassadorpolitician
- Biography
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Pavel Fischer is a Czech politician and diplomat who has been Senator from Prague 12 since 2018. Fischer previously served as Czech Ambassador to France from 2003 to 2010. He was a presidential candidate in 2018, when he finished third with 10.23% of the vote, and in 2023, when he finished fourth with 6.75% of the vote. He was elected to the Czech Senate in 2018.
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Jaroslav Heyrovský
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- scientistteacherphysicistinventorchemist
- Biography
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Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959 for his invention of polarography.
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Johann Stamitz
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Studied philosophy
- Occupations
- conductorphilosophermusicologistcomposerviolinist
- Biography
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Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz was a Czech composer and violinist. Johann is considered the founding father of the Mannheim school, a composition style that his two surviving sons, Carl and Anton Stamitz, continued. His music is stylistically transitional between the Baroque and Classical periods and he is recognized for many innovations.
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Karel Poláček
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- editing staffscreenwriterwriterjournalistfilm screenwriter
- Biography
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Karel Poláček was a Czechoslovak writer, humorist and journalist of Jewish descent.
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David Švehlík
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- actorchild actortelevision actor
- Biography
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David Švehlík is a Czech actor.
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Karel Kramář
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- political prisonerpolitician
- Biography
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Karel Kramář was a Czech politician. He was a representative of the major Czech political party, the Young Czechs, in the Austrian Imperial Council from 1891 to 1915 (where he was also known as Karl Kramarsch), becoming the party leader in 1897.
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Jan Hamáček
- Enrolled in Charles University
- 1997-2001 studied economics and translator-interpreter
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jan Hamáček is a Czech politician who was leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) from February 2018 until October 2021, and minister of the Interior from June 2018 to December 2021. He also served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies from 2013 to 2017, and was acting minister of Foreign Affairs from June to October 2018 and from 12 to 21 April 2021. Hamáček was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2006 to 2021.
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Jan Lipavský
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Studied in 2010
- Occupations
- foreign ministerpoliticianmanager
- Biography
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Jan Lipavský is a Czech politician and information technology manager, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic from December 2021 to December 2025, in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala. A former member of the Czech Pirate Party, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from October 2017 to October 2021.
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Vilém Flusser
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- writerart historianuniversity teacherphilosopherphotographer
- Biography
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Vilém Flusser was a Czech-born Brazilian philosopher, writer and journalist, best known for his contributions to media studies, communication theory, and the philosophy of language. He lived for a long period in São Paulo (where he became a Brazilian citizen) and later in France, and his works are written in many different languages.
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Zuzana Navarová
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- composersongwritersingerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Zuzana Navarová de Tejada was a Czech singer and songwriter. She began her career in the early 1980s as a member of Nerez, and gradually become one of the most significant personalities of the Czech folk and world music scene. Her style was partially inspired by Latin American music.
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Roman Prymula
- Occupations
- politicianpedagogueepidemiologistphysicianchess player
- Biography
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Roman Prymula is a Czech physician, professor of epidemiology, and a retired army colonel.
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Marek Hilšer
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Studied international relations
- Occupations
- scientistteacherpoliticianactivistphysician
- Biography
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Marek Hilšer is a Czech politician and university lecturer who served as the senator for Prague 2 from 2018 to 2024. He also stood in the 2018 and 2023 Czech presidential elections.
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Krystyna Pyszková
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Studied law
- Occupations
- modelbeauty pageant contestant
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Krystyna Pyszková is a Czech model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss World 2023. She also won Miss Czech Republic 2022 and is the second Czech woman to win Miss World.
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Jan Kodeš
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- tennis coachtennis player
- Biography
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Jan Kodeš is a Czech former professional tennis player. A three-time major singles champion, Kodeš was one of the premier players in the early 1970s.
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Vladimír Franz
- Occupations
- pedagoguecomposeruniversity teacherpainterlawyer
- Biography
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Vladimír Franz, is a Czech composer, painter, university scholar and occasional journalist, poet and playwright. Since the mid-1980s, he has composed stage music for more than 150 theatre performances—for many of which he was awarded national-level prizes. He has also composed a symphony, several operas, oratorios, a musical, a ballet, film music, and music for documentaries and radio plays. His second main area of activities in the field of arts is represented by painting. Since 1991 he has been a lecturer at the Prague's Faculty of Theatre. In 2012 he was also a registered candidate in the 2013 Czech presidential election. The attention of local and global media has been focused on him due to his extraordinarily extensive tattoos.
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Josef Jungmann
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- writerhistorianphilologisttranslatorlexicographer
- Biography
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Josef Jungmann was a Czech linguist and poet. He was a leading figure of the Czech National Revival and together with Josef Dobrovský, he is considered to be a creator of the modern Czech language. The Josef Jungmann Award for the best translation into Czech is named after him.
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Jerome of Prague
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- theologianphilosopher
- Biography
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Jerome of Prague was a Czech scholastic philosopher and theologian. Jerome was one of the chief followers of Jan Hus and was burned for heresy at the Council of Constance.
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Tomáš Halík
- Enrolled in Charles University
- 1966-1971 studied philosophy and sociology
- Occupations
- pedagogueteacherCatholic priestuniversity teachersociologist
- Biography
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Tomáš Halík is a Czech Catholic priest, philosopher, and theologian. He is a professor of sociology at the Charles University in Prague, pastor of the Academic Parish by St. Salvator Church in Prague, and president of the Czech Christian Academy.
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Misha Glenny
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- historianwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Michael V. E. "Misha" Glenny is an English journalist and broadcaster, specialising in southeast Europe, global organised crime, and cybersecurity. He has been Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) in Vienna since 2022.
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Jiří Macháček
- Occupations
- singerscreenwritersongwriteractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Jiří Macháček is a Czech actor and singer.
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Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
- Occupations
- linguistesperantologistprofessorphoneticianphilologist
- Biography
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Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay, also known as Ivan Alexandrovich Baudouin de Courtenay, was a Polish linguist and Slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations.
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Petr Kolář
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Studied ethnography and folkloristics
- Occupations
- diplomat
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Petr Kolář is a Czech politician and diplomat, who has served as the Czech ambassador to several countries, including Russia (2010–2012) and the United States (2005–2010).
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Janek Ledecký
- Occupations
- composersinger
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Jan Ledecký, better known as Janek Ledecký, is a Czech singer, songwriter, guitarist, and composer born in Prague. After graduating from Karla Sladkovského high school, he attended the law faculty of Charles University in Prague, earning a degree in law. Since 1981, he has played in the multiple award-winning rock band Žentour as lead vocalist and guitarist. In 1992, he launched a solo career, which he maintains to this day, having released over a dozen successful albums. He has also written and performed in several musicals, including Galileo, Hamlet, and Iago.
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Michal Viewegh
- Enrolled in Charles University
- In 1988 studied Czech studies and pedagogy
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Michal Viewegh is a Czech writer. He is the most published Czech author of all time, with over a million books sold. In 1993, he earned the prestigious Jiří Orten award for Czech writers 30 years old or younger.
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Matěj Stropnický
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Studied media studies, area studies, and journalism
- Occupations
- writerjournalistactorpolitician
- Biography
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Matěj Stropnický is a Czech left-wing politician, journalist, actor and former leader of the Green party. His father is Martin Stropnický, actor and former Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Pavel Kohout
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Studied aesthetics, theatre studies, and comparative literature
- Occupations
- playwrightjournalistdirectorwritertranslator
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Pavel Kohout is a Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring participant and dissident in the 1970s until he was not allowed to return from Austria. He was a founding member of the Charter 77 movement.
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Michal Horáček
- Occupations
- writerentrepreneurjournalistlyricistpoet
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Michal Horáček is a Czech entrepreneur, lyricist, poet, writer, journalist and music producer. From 2007 until 2010, he was the chairman of the Czech Academy of Popular Music. He founded Czech betting company Fortuna. He stood to become Czech president in the 2018 presidential election, but came in 4th in the first round, failing to advance.
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František Kriegel
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
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František Kriegel was a Czechoslovak politician, physician, and a member of the Communist Party reform wing of the Prague Spring (1968). He was the only one of the political leaders who, during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, declined to sign the Moscow Protocol.
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Jiří Ovčáček
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- journalistspokesperson
- Biography
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Jiří Ovčáček is a Czech journalist and news columnist. He previously worked as the spokesman for Miloš Zeman during Zeman's presidency.
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Andrija Mohorovičić
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- university teachermeteorologistgeologistgeophysicistseismologist
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Andrija Mohorovičić was a Croatian geophysicist and academic. He is best known for the eponymous Mohorovičić discontinuity and is considered one of the founders of modern seismology. He is also considered among the greatest Croatian natural scientists.
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Karel Janoušek
- Occupations
- military personnelfighter pilotnon-fiction writeraircraft pilotediting staff
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Karel Janoušek, KCB was a senior Czechoslovak Air Force officer. He began his career as a soldier, serving in the Austrian Imperial-Royal Landwehr 1915–16, Czechoslovak Legion 1916–20 and Czechoslovak Army 1920–24.
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Karl Koecher
- Occupations
- spytranslator
- Biography
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Karl František Koecher is a Czechoslovak mole known to have penetrated the CIA during the Cold War.
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Michal Šimečka
- Occupations
- political scientistpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Michal Šimečka is a Slovak politician, journalist, and researcher, who served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament between 2022 and 2023. He also became a Member of the European Parliament between 2019 and 2023. In 2020, Šimečka was elected vice-president of the European political group Renew Europe. He is a co-founder of the social-liberal Progressive Slovakia party, leading it from 2022. He is currently an opposition leader against the Fico government.
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Ivan Olbracht
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- children's writerwriterfilm screenwriteropinion journalistlinguist
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Ivan Olbracht, born Kamil Zeman, was a Czech writer, journalist, censor and translator of German prose.
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Jiří Šlitr
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Studied in 1945-1949
- Occupations
- songwriterrecording artistmusicianpianistjazz musician
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Jiří Šlitr was a Czech songwriter, pianist, singer, actor and painter. Together with Jiří Suchý he significantly influenced Czech pop music and theatre in the 1960s.
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Jaroslav Bašta
- Enrolled in Charles University
- 1967-1970 studied medieval archaeology
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianarchaeologist
- Biography
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Jaroslav Bašta was a Czech politician and diplomat. He was a signatory of Charter 77. Between 1998 and 2000 he served in the cabinet of Miloš Zeman as Minister without portfolio. Bašta became the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Russia in September 2000. He served for five years in Russia, later becoming Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Ukraine, where he worked for three years until stepping down for health reasons in 2010.
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Eduard Hanslick
- Occupations
- opinion journalistmusic criticcomposerwriteraesthetician
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Eduard Hanslick was an Austrian music critic, aesthetician and historian. Among the leading critics of his time, he was the chief music critic of the Neue Freie Presse from 1864 until the end of his life. His best known work, the 1854 treatise Vom Musikalisch-Schönen (On the Musically Beautiful), was a landmark in the aesthetics of music and outlines much of his artistic and philosophical beliefs on music.
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Olga Richterová
- Enrolled in Charles University
- Studied translator-interpreter
- Occupations
- linguisttranslatorpolitician
- Biography
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Olga Richterová is a Czech linguist and politician. She was the vice-chairwoman of the Czech Pirate Party from January 2018 to January 2022 and is a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic since the 2017 parliamentary election. Richterová was re-elected in the October 2021 Czech parliamentary election on a joint list of the Pirates and Mayors electoral alliance and became a vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies.
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Ivan Klíma
- Occupations
- playwrightjournalistpedagogueopinion journalistwriter
- Biography
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Ivan Klíma was a Czech novelist and playwright. He received the Magnesia Litera award and the Franz Kafka Prize, among other honours.
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Petr Pithart
- Occupations
- pedagoguepolitical scientistjuristtranslatoropinion journalist
- Biography
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Petr Pithart is a Czech politician, lawyer and political scientist who served as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (then a federal region of Czechoslovakia) from 6 February 1990 to 2 July 1992. He was also the Senator for Chrudim from 1996 to 2012 and served as President of the Senate from 8 January 1996 to 16 December 1998 and again from 19 December 2000 to 15 December 2004.
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Alice Masaryková
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical prisonerwritertranslatorsociologist
- Biography
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Alice Masaryková or Alice Garrigue Masaryk was a Czech teacher, sociologist and politician. She is a prominent figure within the field of applied sociology and known to many as the daughter of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and the First Lady of Czechoslovakia.
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Marek Benda
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marek Benda is a Czech politician and member of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS). He is currently the longest serving member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic, having served from 1990 to 2002, and then again from 2004 until present. Since 2021 he has been the leader of the ODS group in the Chamber of Deputies.
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Jan Janský
- Occupations
- physicianpsychiatristneurologist
- Biography
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Jan Janský was a Czech serologist, neurologist and psychiatrist. He is credited with the classification of blood into four types (I, II, III, IV).
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Vladimír Špidla
- Occupations
- historianpoliticianarchaeologist
- Biography
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Vladimír Špidla is a Czech politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from July 2002 to August 2004 and as European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities from November 2004 to February 2010. He also served as chief adviser to Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka from 2014 to 2017.
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František Hrubín
- Occupations
- playwrightwritertranslatorcivil servantchildren's writer
- Biography
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František Hrubín was a Czech poet and writer.
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David Navara
- Enrolled in Charles University
- 2004-2010 graduated with magister degree in logic
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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David Navara is a Czech chess grandmaster. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002, he is a 13-time national champion (in 2004, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024).
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Vladimír Clementis
- Occupations
- writerjuristdiplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Vladimír "Vlado" Clementis was a Slovak politician, lawyer, publicist, literary critic, author and a prominent member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. Between 1948 and 1950, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. In 1952, he was accused of "Titoism" and "national deviation" during the Slánský trial and executed.
