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.

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.^[1]

Germany: 603,049

United States: 110,257

Slovakia: 89,560

United Kingdom: 45,578

Austria: 37,118

Canada: 22,677

Switzerland: 15,522

Australia: 14,045

Spain: 11,539

Russia: 11,249

Italy: 9,536

France: 8,907

Ireland: 6,972

Poland: 5,952

Greece: 4,516

Famous people of Czech descent

Madeleine Albright, the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State, was of Czech descent and was born in Prague

Juscelino Kubitschek, 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
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^[2] 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

References

^ "República Checa - Emigrantes totales 2019". datosmacro.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-06-29.
^ "Viktor Dolista: JK, tchecos, boêmios e ciganos - 27/09/2016 - Opinião".

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[1] "República Checa - Emigrantes totales 2019". datosmacro.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-06-29.

[2] "Viktor Dolista: JK, tchecos, boêmios e ciganos - 27/09/2016 - Opinião".

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Czech diaspora

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Communities

Distribution by country

Famous people of Czech descent

See also

Further reading

References