List of Czech Americans

List of Czech Americans

This is a list of notable Czech Americans who were born in Czech lands or are ethnically Czech.

List

* Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State
* Alfred Bader, founder of Aldrich Chemical Company, art collector, philanthropist
* Richard Bassett, signer of the US constitution
* George Blanda, former football player
* Louis D. Brandeis, Justice of the US Supreme Court
* Thomas Cech, Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry
* Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago
* Eugene Cernan, Astronaut
* Carl Cori, Nobel Prize laureate
* Amy Fadhli,(Czech mother and Iraqi father) Fitness model 1996
* Rudolf Firkusny, pianist of note
* Abraham Flexner, reformer of American medical education
* Simon Flexner, 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
* Jaromir Jagr, NHL star, currently Captain of the NY Rangers, won two Stanley Cups with the Pittsburgh Penguins in the early 1990s.
* Karl Jansky, discoverer of radio astronomy
* Otto Kerner, Jr., Governor of Illinois
* John Kerry, US Senator
* Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Hollywood composer
* Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald empire
* Ivan Lendl, tennis player
* Jim Lovell, Astronaut
* 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
* 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, movie star
* George Szell, prominent conductor and composer of Cleveland Orchestra
* Helen Taussig, medical researcher at Johns Hopkins University who alerted physicians of the dangers of thalidomide
* Karl Wallenda, founder of the Flying Wallenda, with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus
* Jaromír Weinberger, composer
* Rene 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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