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. -
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. - 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
- Lewis Hodous, American missionary and Sinologist
- 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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