Czech diaspora
The Czech diaspora refers to both historical and present emigration from the Czech Republic, as well as from the former Czechoslovakia and the Czech lands (including Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia). The country with the largest number of Czechs living abroad is the United States.
Famous people of Czech descent
- 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 on 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[1] 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.
- 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.
Destinations
Europe
- Austria (Vienna)
- Czechs and Slovaks in Bulgaria
- Czechs of Croatia
- Czechs in Poland
- Czechs in Romania
- Czech migration to France
- Czech migration to the United Kingdom
Israel
North America
South America
Oceania
See also
- History of the Czech Republic
- List of Czechs
- Category:People of Czech descent
Further reading
- Dejmek, Andrea Theresa. The Canadian Czech Diaspora: Bilingual and Multilingual Language Inheritance and Affiliations, McGill University, 2007.
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1 Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here. 2 Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace. 3 Azerbaijan and Georgia are transcontinental countries. Both have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus. 4 Kazakhstan is a transcontinental country. Has a small part of its territories located west of the Urals in Eastern Europe. 5 Armenia and Cyprus(Northern Cyprus) are entirely in Southwest Asia but having socio-political connections with Europe. | |