• Source: 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


Austria (Vienna)
Czechs and Slovaks in Bulgaria
Czechs of Croatia
Czechs in Poland
Czechs in Romania
Czechs in Serbia
Czechs in Ukraine
Czechs in France
Czechs in the United Kingdom
Czech diaspora in Israel
Czech Americans (Baltimore, Omaha, Texas)
Czech Canadians
Czech Mexicans
Czechs in Argentina
Czech Brazilians
Czech Australians




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.
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
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 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




See also


History of the Czech Republic
List of Czechs




Further reading


Dejmek, Andrea Theresa. The Canadian Czech Diaspora: Bilingual and Multilingual Language Inheritance and Affiliations, McGill University, 2007.




References

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