, the first woman to become a
United States Secretary of State, was of Czech descent and was born in
Prague , a prominent Brazilian politician of Czech origin who was President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. •
Madeleine Albright, the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State •
Ivana Bacik, Teachta dála of Ireland •
Yehuda Bauer, an Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust •
Edouard Borovansky, a Czech-born Australian ballet dancer, choreographer and director •
Georgina Bouzova, an English television actress •
Louis Brandeis, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939 •
Thomas Cech, a Nobel Laureate in chemistry •
Anton Cermak, the mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1931 until his assassination in 1933 •
Eugene Cernan, a retired United States Navy officer and a former NASA astronaut and engineer •
Miloš Forman, a Czech-American director, screenwriter, professor, and an emigrant from Czechoslovakia •
André Glucksmann, a French philosopher and writer •
George Halas, a player, coach, owner and pioneer in professional American football •
Hippolyte Havel, a Czech anarchist who lived in Greenwich Village, New York •
Juscelino Kubitschek, a prominent Brazilian politician of Czech descent who was President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961 •
Milan Kundera, a writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981 •
Lenka, an Australian singer and songwriter •
Jim Lovell, a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy •
Felix Moscheles, an English painter, peace activist and advocate of Esperanto •
Kim Novak, is an American actress best known for her performance in the 1958 film
Vertigo •
Fredy Perlman, an author, publisher and activist •
Jan Pinkava, a Czech-British animator and film director •
Václav Smil, a Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst •
Josef Škvorecký, a leading contemporary Czech writer and publisher who has spent much of his life in Canada •
Tom Stoppard, a British playwright, knighted in 1997 •
Roberto Weiss, an Italian-British scholar and historian •
John Zerzan, an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author •
Robert Vanasek, an American politician •
Exene Cervenka, an American singer •
Ewa Farna, a Polish-Czech pop-rock singer ==Politics==