Czechmatediary

My life-long project is finally completed! Here is a pretty cool list of famous Czechs and Slovaks (full-blooded or partial) living abroad. Some of those names were quite the surprise! Did you know for example that there are currently 5 Czech Victoria Secret models? Most of these people live in America but that is where my Google search ended up leading me. What I am trying to say is that this list is far from including ALL of the celebrities but it is the best one out there. So enjoy it! And let me know if you can think of any other additions….MOVIES

1. George Voskovec (actor)
2. Lucky Vanous (actor)
3. Jon Voight (his grandfather, Mr. Voytka, came to the US from Kosice)
4. Tom Stoppard(skreen-writer)
5. David Mrnka (producer)
6. Ric Ocasek (lead singer of “Cars”; married to Pavlina Porizkova)
7. Rudy Linka (jazz guitarist)
8. Robert Urich (Slovak actor)
9. Mary Lynn Rajskub (actor from “24″)
10. Kim Novak (most known from Hickock’s movie Vertigo)
11. Peter Lorre ( actor from Casablanca; native of Rozembork)
12. Paul Newman (mother is native from Pticie, Slovakia)
13. Milos Forman (director; producer)
14. Tom Selleck (Magnum P.I.; father comes from Slovakia)
15. Sissy Spacek (actor)
16. Herbert Lom(Pink Panther)
17. Marketa Irglova (received Oscar for the title song from the movie “Once”)

MUSIC/ART

1. Rudolf Firkusny (Czech-American pianist)
2. Rudolf Friml (coposer and pianist)
3. Jan Hammer (musician)
4. Rafael Kubelik (conductor and composer)
5. Sona Cervena (opera singer)
6. John Kriza (ballet dancer of the Amerian Ballet Theatre)
7. Milan Kundera (writer)
8. Peter Sis (children’s book author and illustrator)
9. Andy Warhol (artist)

SPORTS

1. Richard Zednik (hockey player)
2. George Halas (”Pappa Bear”; founder of Chicago Bears)
3. Jaromir Jagr (hockey player)
4. Dominik Hasek (hockey player)
5. Pavel Nedved (soccer player)
6. Ivan Lendl (tennis player)
7. Martina Navratilova (tennis player)
8. Martina Hingins (tennis player)

POLITICS

1. Madeleine Allbright (politician)
2. Joseph Mathew Gaydos (democratic congressman)
3. Jan Svejnar (politician)
4. Michael Medved (political talk-show host)
5. Dan Senor (Republican strategist to Fox News; his mother is a native of Kosice, Slovakia)
6. Anton Cermak (mayor of Chicago)

SCIENCE

1. Otto Wichterle (contact lenses inventor; didn’t actually live abroad but his patent was sold to the US)
2. Jaroslav Heyrovsky (Nobel prize chemist)
3. Stanislav Grof (founder of Holotrophic breathing)
4. Imrich Lichtenfeld (founder of Craf Maga)
5. Miroslav Plavec (astronomer)
6. Sigmund Freud (psychologist)
7. Gerty and Carl Cori (received a Nobel Prize in Medicine for their studies in sugar metabolism)
8. Joseph Golberger (Slovak physician that discovered cure for pellarga)

MODELS

1. Petra Nemcova (Victoria Secret model from Karvina)
2. Eva Herzigova (Victoria Secret model from Litvinov)
3. Pavlina Porizkova (actress, model)
4. Karolina Kurkova (Victoria Secret model from Decin)
5. Daniela Pestova (Victoria Secret model from Teplice)
6. Adriana Karembeu (Victoria Secret model from Slovakia)
7. Ivana Trump (ex-wife of Donald Trump)

ENTREPRENEURS

1. Ivanka Trump (enterpreneour, daughter of Donald Trump)
2. Steve Pavlina (master of blogging)
3. Yaro Starak (master of blogging)
4. Ray Kroc (founder of Mc Donnald’s)
5. Tomas Bata (shoemaker)

These following 2 celebrities are unverified; their last names are definitely Czech/Slovak but I couldn’t find it in writing anywhere: Jason Varitek, Jason MrazSources:http://www.svu2000.org/cs_america/culturslo.htmhttp://www.everyculture.com/multi/Bu-Dr/Czech-Americans.htmlhttp://www.wikipedia.org