11 Notable alumni of
University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice
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The University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice is 2410th in the world, 779th in Europe, and 17th in the Czech Republic by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 11 notable alumni from the University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Vít Rakušan
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- local politicianentrepreneurteacherpolitician
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Vít Rakušan is a Czech pedagogue and politician who has served as the leader of the Mayors and Independents (STAN) political party since 2019 and its first vice-chairman from 2016 to 2019. He has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since October 2017; an elected representative of the Central Bohemia Region since 2012, and was the mayor of the City of Kolín from 2010 to 2019. From 2021 to 2025, he served as First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala.
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Tomáš Zdechovský
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- writerpoetjournalistpolitician
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Tomáš Zdechovský is a Czech politician and businessperson. In 2004, he founded Commservis.com, a communications and PR agency, of which he was CEO until his election as a Member of the European Parliament in 2014. Since 2014 he has been a Member of the European Parliament with KDU-ČSL, which is part of the European Peoples Party.
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Jan Skopeček
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- university teachereconomistpolitician
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Jan Skopeček is a Czech Civic Democratic politician who has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) since March 2017, and was deputy president of the Chamber of Deputies from 2021 to 2025.
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Martin C. Putna
- Enrolled in the University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice
- 1998-2000 graduated with bachelor's degree in Catholic theology
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- university teacherteacherpedagogueliterary criticopinion journalist
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Martin C. Putna is a Czech literary historian, university teacher, publicist and essayist. He works at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague.
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Jan Bartošek
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- politician
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Jan Bartošek is a Czech politician and member of the Chamber of Deputies for the KDU-ČSL since October 2013.
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Hynek Kmoníček
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- diplomat
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Hynek Kmoníček is a Czech diplomat and the current Czech Ambassador to Vietnam. Previously, Kmoníček served as foreign policy advisor of the President Miloš Zeman, and held ambassadorial posts including Czech Permanent representative to the United Nations in New York and subsequently as Ambassador to India, Australia, the United States, and Vietnam.
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Jiří Zimola
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- teacherpolitician
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Jiří Zimola is a Czech Social Democrat politician, who served as Governor of the South Bohemian Region from 2008 until his resignation in 2017. Zimola left the Social Democratic Party in 2020 and became leader of a new party called Change 2020.
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Jiří Hájíček
- Enrolled in the University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice
- Studied in 1985-1989
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- writerbankerfarmeragricultural engineer
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Jiří Hájíček is a contemporary South Bohemian Czech writer. He started writing poetry in the 1980s in a youth poetry programme hosted by Mirek Kovářík. He won the 2006 Magnesia Litera prize for prose with his novel Selský baroko. In the European Society of Authors' 2013 Finnegan's List, Jaroslav Rudiš selected Hájíček's 2012 novel Rybí krev (Fish Blood) to be more widely translated into European languages. Rybí krev also won the Magnesia Litera Book of the Year for 2013. In 2016, his novel Zloději zelených koní was adapted into a film by Dan Wlodarczyk.
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Miluše Horská
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- politicianpedagogue
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Miluše Horská is a Czech pedagogue and politician who has been Senator representing Pardubice since 2010. She was elected to the Senate in 2010 Election as an independent candidate. In Senate is she member of KDU-ČSL (the Catholic Party) and independents group.
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Václav Jehlička
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- teacherpolitician
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Václav Jehlička is a Czech politician. In 1996 he was elected a member of the Senate and from January 2007 to May 2009 he was Minister of Culture.
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Dana Kuchtová
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- politician
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Dana Kuchtová is a Czech politician, teacher and former environmental and anti-nuclear activist.
