List of people from Moravia
Notable people from Moravia include:
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- Tomáš Baťa, entrepreneur, founder of Bata Shoes company
- Thomas J. Bata, entrepreneur, son of Tomáš Baťa and former head of the Bata shoe company
- Otakar Borůvka, mathematician, publisher of Borůvka's algorithm
- Zdeněk Burian, painter, book illustrator, paleontology reconstructor
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- Miroslav Donutil, actor
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- Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, violinist
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- Emil Filla, painter
- Rudolf Firkušný, pianist
- Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis
- Bohuslav Fuchs, modernist architect
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- Anna Rosina Gambold, missionary and diarist
- Kurt Gödel, theoretical mathematician
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- Hugo Haas, film actor, director and writer
- Anton Hanak, sculptor
- Stefan von Haschenperg,, military engineer in England
- Dagmar Havlová, actress and former First Lady of the Czech Republic
- Josef Hoffmann, architect
- Bohumil Hrabal, writer
- Edmund Husserl, philosopher
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- Markéta Irglová, songwriter, musician, singer
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- Leoš Janáček, composer
- Maria Jeritza, soprano
- Jobst of Moravia, King of the Romans, margrave of Moravia
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- Georg Joseph Kamel, botanist, Jesuit missionary
- Jan Keller, sociologist
- Antonín Kohout, cellist, member of the Smetana Quartet
- Luboš Kohoutek, astronomer
- John Amos Comenius, educator and theologian
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold, film music composer
- Leon Koudelak, guitarist
- Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano
- Karel Kryl, popular musician and songwriter, critic of the communism in Czechoslovakia
- Ernst Křenek, composer
- Otakar Kubín, avant-garde painter
- Milan Kundera, writer
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- Ivan Lendl, tennis player
- Adolf Loos, architect, author of essay ''Ornament and Crime''
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- Ernst Mach, physicist and philosopher
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, philosopher and politician, first president of Czechoslovakia
- Christian Mayer, astronomer
- Jan Milíč z Kroměříže, religious reformer
- Mojmir I of Moravia, first known ruler
- Mojmir II of Moravia, last known ruler
- Alfons Mucha, painter
- Vladimír Menšík, popular actor and entertainer
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- František Palacký, historian and politician
- Franz Petrasch general officer in the Habsburg military
- Anton Pilgram, architect, sculptor and woodcarver
- George Placzek, physicist, participant in Manhattan Project
- Bolek Polívka, actor, mime, playwright and screenwriter
- Georg Prochaska, ophthalmologist and physiologist
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- King Rastislav of Moravia
- Karl Renner, politician, co-founder of Friends of Nature movement
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- Emilie Schindler, Sudeten German humanitarian, wife of Oskar Schindler
- Oskar Schindler, Sudeten German entrepreneur, known for saving the lives of almost 1,200 Jews during WWII
- Joseph Schumpeter, economist and political scientist
- Peter Sís, illustrator, animator and writer
- Jan Skácel, poet
- Duke Slavomir of Moravia, leader of Moravia around 871
- Leo Slezak, operatic tenor
- John Sobieslaw of Moravia, Patriarch of Aquileia
- Františka Stránecká, writer and folklore collector
- Tom Stoppard, British playwright
- King Svatopluk I of Moravia, ruler of Great Moravia
- Svatopluk II, Moravian prince of Nitra
- Ludvík Svoboda, General of I Czechoslovak Army Corps, seventh president of Czechoslovakia
- Jan Syrový, general, politician
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- Anna Ticho, Israeli artist
- Miroslav Tichý, photographer
- Pavel Tichý, logician, philosopher
- František Tomášek, Archbishop of Prague
- Ivana Trump, fashion model, TV presenter
- Ernst Tugendhat, German philosopher
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- Pavel Vranický, classical composer
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- Jan Eskymo Welzl, globetrotter and gold-digger, chief of the Siberian Yupik peoples
- Otto Wichterle, chemist, inventor of contact lenses
- Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčkova, women's education and women's rights activist
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- Emil Zátopek, long-distance runner, 4 times Olympic winner