List of people from Moravia

Notable people from Moravia (Czech Republic) include:

Alphabetical order

Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), entrepreneur, founder of Bata Shoes company
Thomas J. Bata (1914-2008), entrepreneur, son of Tomáš Baťa and former head of the Bata shoe company
Otakar Borůvka (1899–1995), mathematician, publisher of Borůvka's algorithm
Zdeněk Burian (1905–1981), painter, book illustrator, paleonthology reconstructor

Hugo Haas (1901–1968), film actor, director and writer
Anton Hanak (1875–1934), sculptor
Stefan von Haschenperg, (floruit 1540s), military engineer in England
Dagmar Havlová (1953-), actress and former First Lady of the Czech Republic (1997–2003)
Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), architect
Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997), writer
Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), philosopher

Leoš Janáček (1854–1928), composer
Maria Jeritza (1887–1982), soprano
Jobst of Moravia (Jodok of Luxemburg) (1351–1411), King of the Romans (antiking), margrave of Moravia

Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1701), botanist, Jesuit missionary
Antonín Kohout (1919–2013), cellist, member of the Smetana Quartet
Luboš Kohoutek (1935–), astronomer
Jan Ámos Komenský (Comenius) (1592–1670), educator and theologian, last bishop of Unity of the Brethren
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957), film music composer
Leon Koudelak (1961–), guitarist
Magdalena Kožená (1973–), mezzo-soprano
Karel Kryl (1944–1994) popular musician and songwriter, critic of the communism in Czechoslovakia
Ernst Křenek (1900–1991), composer
Otakar Kubín (1883–1969), avant-garde painter
Milan Kundera (1929–), writer

Ernst Mach (1838–1916), physicist and philosopher
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), philosopher and politician, first president of Czechoslovakia
Christian Mayer (1719–1783), astronomer
Jan Milíč z Kroměříže, religious reformator
Mojmir I of Moravia, first known ruler
Mojmir II of Moravia, last known ruler
Alfons Mucha (1860–1939), painter
Vladimír Menšík (1929-1988), popular actor and entertainer

František Palacký (1798–1876), historian and politician, "The Father of the Nation"
Franz Petrasch (1744–1820) general officer in the Habsburg military during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars
Anton Pilgram (1450–1516), architect, sculptor and woodcarver
George Placzek (1905–1955), physicist, participant in Manhattan Project
Bolek Polívka (1949–), actor, mime, playwright and screenwriter
Georgius Prochaska (1749–1820), ophthalmologist and physiologist

Duke Slavomir of Moravia, leader of Moravia around 871
Emilie Schindler (1907–2001), Sudeten German humanitarian, who, along with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II
Jan Skácel (1922–1989), poet
Jan Syrový (1888–1970), general, politician
John Sobieslaw of Moravia (1352–1394), Patriarch of Aquileia
Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), economist and political scientist
King Svatopluk I of Moravia (c. 840–894), ruler of Great Moravia
Leo Slezak (1873–1946), operatic tenor
Ludvík Svoboda (1895–1979), General of I Czechoslovak Army Corps, seventh president of Czechoslovakia
Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), Sudeten German entrepreneur, known for saving the lives of almost 1,200 Jews during WWII
Peter Sís (1949–), illustrator, animator and writer
Svatopluk II (c. 884–906), Moravian prince of Nitra
Tom Stoppard (1937–), British playwright

Anna Ticho (1894–1980), Israeli artist
Miroslav Tichý (1926–2011), photographer
Pavel Tichý (1936–1994), logician, philosopher
František Tomášek (1899–1992), Archbishop of Prague
Ivana Trump (1949–), fashion model, developer, socialite, first wife of US president Donald Trump
Ernst Tugendhat (1930–), philosopher

Jan "Eskymo" Welzl (1868–1948), globetrotter and gold-digger, chief of the Siberian Yupik peoples
Otto Wichterle (1913–1998), chemist, inventor (contact lenses)

↑ Neues Preussisches Adels-Lexicon, Gebrüder Reichenbach, 1836-1843, Leipzig. (German)

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