List of Czech Americans

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This is a list of notable Czech Americans who were born in Czech lands or are ethnically Czech, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

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To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Czech American or must have references showing they are Czech American and are notable.

List

• Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State
• Alfred Bader, son of Czech immigrant,founder of Aldrich Chemical Company, art collector, philanthropist
• Richard Bassett, desc. of Augustine Herman, signer of the US constitution
• George Blanda, former football player
• Louis D. Brandeis, Justice of the US Supreme Court
• Barbara Pierce Bush, desc. of Moravian Brethren from Bohemia who founded the city of Bethlehem, PA, former First Lady.
• Thomas Cech, Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry
• Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago
• Eugene Cernan, Astronaut
• Carl Cori, Nobel Prize laureate
• Amy Fadhli, fitness model 1996 (Czech mother and Iraqi father)
• Rudolf Firkusny, pianist of note
• Abraham Flexner, son of Czech immigrant, reformer of American medical education
• Simon Flexner, son of Czech immigrant, founder and first director of the Rockefeller Institute (now University)
• Milos Forman, film director
• Rudolf Friml, composer of operettas
• George S. Halas, “Papa Bear”, player-coach of the Chicago Bears
• John Havlicek, basketball player
• Augustine Herman, creator of first accurate map of MD & VA
• Al Hostak, middleweight boxing champion
• Ales Hrdlicka, founder of American physical anthropology
• Karel Husa, Pullitzer Prize-winning composer
• Josef Allen Hynek, astronomer, professor, and ufologist
• Karl Jansky, discoverer of radio astronomy
• Otto Kerner, Jr., Governor of Illinois
• John Kerry, grandson of Moravian immigrant, US Senator
• Joseph Maria Koudelka, second bishop of Diocese of Superior
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Hollywood composer
• Ivan Kral, musician and director
• Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald empire
• Ivan Lendl, tennis player
• Jim Lovell, astronaut
• Jan Matulka, painter
• Jason Mraz, Singer-Songwriter
• Stanley Frank Musial, baseball player of international fame
• Martina Navratilova, tennis player
• John Neumann, first American male Saint
• Kim Novak, motion picture actress
• Jarmila Novotná, opera singer
• Frederick Philipse, wealthiest person in New Amsterdam
• Albin Polasek, sculptor
• Mila Rechcigl, one of the founders and long-time President of SVU
• John G. Roberts, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, mother is of Czech ancestry
• Joseph Alois Schumpeter, notable economist at Harvard University
• Rudolf Serkin, eminent pianist
• Peter Sis, writer and illustrator of children's books
• Josef Skvorecky, writer
• Sissy Spacek, actress, her father is of Czech origin
• George Szell, prominent conductor and composer of Cleveland Orchestra
• Helen Taussig, granddaughter of Czech immigrant, medical researcher at Johns Hopkins University who alerted physicians of the dangers of thalidomide
• Judy Baar Topinka, Fmr. Illinois State Treasurer and Fmr. Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party
• Oldrich Vasicek, mathematician, author of several financial models including Vasicek model
• Karl Wallenda, founder of the Flying Wallenda, with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus
• Jaromír Weinberger, composer
• René Wellek, founder of literary criticism and comparative literature
• Franz Werfel, writer
• Isaac Mayer Wise, Rabbi and founder of American reformed Judaism
• David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary

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