Czech diaspora
Communities
Distribution by country
Below is a list of top 15 countries with the most Czech-born people. In the case of Germany, it is noteworthy that many might be Sudeten Germans, expelled from the Czech Republic following Germany's defeat in WW2.
- Madeleine Albright, the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State
- 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