# List of people from Moravia

Notable people from Moravia include:
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z
* See also
* External links

## A

* Karel Abraham (1990–), motorcycle racer

## B

* Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), entrepreneur, founder of Bata Shoes company
* Thomas J. Bata (1914–2008), entrepreneur, son of Tomáš Baťa and former head of the Bata shoe company
* Otakar Borůvka (1899–1995), mathematician, publisher of Borůvka's algorithm
* Zdeněk Burian (1905–1981), painter, book illustrator, paleontology reconstructor

## D

* Miroslav Donutil (1951–), actor

## E

* Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1814–1865), violinist

## F

* Emil Filla (1882–1930), painter
* Rudolf Firkušný (1912–1994), pianist
* Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), father of psychoanalysis
* Bohuslav Fuchs (1895–1972), modernist architect

## G

* Anna Rosina Gambold (1762–1821), missionary and diarist
* Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), theoretical mathematician

## H

* Hugo Haas (1901–1968), film actor, director and writer
* Anton Hanak (1875–1934), sculptor
* Stefan von Haschenperg, (floruit 1540s), military engineer in England
* Dagmar Havlová (1953–), actress and former First Lady of the Czech Republic (1997–2003)
* Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), architect
* Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997), writer
* Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), philosopher

## I

* Markéta Irglová (1988–), songwriter, musician, singer

## J

* Leoš Janáček (1854–1928), composer
* Maria Jeritza (1887–1982), soprano
* Jobst of Moravia (Jodok of Luxemburg) (1351–1411), King of the Romans (antiking), margrave of Moravia

## K

* Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1701), botanist, Jesuit missionary
* Jan Keller (1955–), sociologist
* Antonín Kohout (1919–2013), cellist, member of the Smetana Quartet
* Luboš Kohoutek (1935–), astronomer
* John Amos Comenius (1592–1670), educator and theologian
* Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957), film music composer
* Leon Koudelak (1961–), guitarist
* Magdalena Kožená (1973–), mezzo-soprano
* Karel Kryl (1944–1994), popular musician and songwriter, critic of the communism in Czechoslovakia
* Ernst Křenek (1900–1991), composer
* Otakar Kubín (1883–1969), avant-garde painter
* Milan Kundera (1929–2023), writer

## L

* Ivan Lendl (1960–), tennis player
* Adolf Loos (1870–1933), architect, author of essay Ornament and Crime

## M

* Ernst Mach (1838–1916), physicist and philosopher
* Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), philosopher and politician, first president of Czechoslovakia
* Christian Mayer (1719–1783), astronomer
* Jan Milíč z Kroměříže, religious reformer
* Mojmir I of Moravia, first known ruler
* Mojmir II of Moravia, last known ruler
* Alfons Mucha (1860–1939), painter
* Vladimír Menšík (1929–1988), popular actor and entertainer

## P

* František Palacký (1798–1876), historian and politician
* Franz Petrasch (1744–1820) general officer in the Habsburg military
* Anton Pilgram (1450–1516), architect, sculptor and woodcarver
* George Placzek (1905–1955), physicist, participant in Manhattan Project
* Bolek Polívka (1949–), actor, mime, playwright and screenwriter
* Georg Prochaska (1749–1820), ophthalmologist and physiologist

## R

* King Rastislav of Moravia
* Karl Renner (1870–1950), politician, co-founder of Friends of Nature movement

## S

* Emilie Schindler (1907–2001), Sudeten German humanitarian, wife of Oskar Schindler
* Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), Sudeten German entrepreneur, known for saving the lives of almost 1,200 Jews during WWII
* Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), economist and political scientist
* Peter Sís (1949–), illustrator, animator and writer
* Jan Skácel (1922–1989), poet
* Duke Slavomir of Moravia, leader of Moravia around 871
* Leo Slezak (1873–1946), operatic tenor
* John Sobieslaw of Moravia (1352–1394), Patriarch of Aquileia
* Františka Stránecká (1839–1888), writer and folklore collector
* Tom Stoppard (1937–), British playwright
* King Svatopluk I of Moravia (c. 840–894), ruler of Great Moravia
* Svatopluk II (c. 884–906), Moravian prince of Nitra
* Ludvík Svoboda (1895–1979), General of I Czechoslovak Army Corps, seventh president of Czechoslovakia
* Jan Syrový (1888–1970), general, politician

## T

* Anna Ticho (1894–1980), Israeli artist
* Miroslav Tichý (1926–2011), photographer
* Pavel Tichý (1936–1994), logician, philosopher
* František Tomášek (1899–1992), Archbishop of Prague
* Ivana Trump (1949–2022), fashion model, TV presenter
* Ernst Tugendhat (1930–2023), German philosopher

## V

* Pavel Vranický (1756–1808), classical composer

## W

* Jan Eskymo Welzl (1868–1948), globetrotter and gold-digger, chief of the Siberian Yupik peoples
* Otto Wichterle (1913–1998), chemist, inventor of contact lenses
* Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčkova (1868–1915), women's education and women's rights activist

## Z

* Emil Zátopek (1922–2000), long-distance runner, 4 times Olympic winner