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 Czech New Zealanders
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.
: 1,200,285
: 603,049
: 89,560
: 45,578
: 37,118
: 22,677
: 15,522
: 14,045
: 11,539
: 11,249
: 9,536
: 8,907
: 6,972
: 5,952
: 4,516
Famous people of Czech descent
Madeleine Albright, the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State Ivana Bacik, Teachta dála of Ireland 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 Ivan Mládek, a Czech recording artist Ewa Farna, a Polish-Czech pop-rock singer
Politics 2025
RegionANOSpoluSTANPiratesSPDAUTOOthersTurnoutAbroad3.9539.2621.4828.242.042.322.6079.38Czech Republic34.5123.3611.238.977.786.777.2768.95Source: Volby 2023
First round RegionPetr PavelAndrej BabišDanuše NerudováPavel FischerJaroslav BaštaMarek HilšerKarel DivišTomáš Zima Europe55.503.6629.437.121.042.670.430.15 Americas58.574.9326.196.282.601.080.360.00 Asia58.037.0922.636.571.343.290.600.45 Africa59.503.5018.0010.503.503.001.001.00 Australia and Oceania53.425.1429.115.484.451.710.340.34 Czech Republic 35.435.013.96.84.52.61.40.6Source: Czech Statistical Office Second round RegionPetr PavelAndrej Babiš Europe95.644.36 Americas94.025.98 Asia93.416.59 Africa94.265.74 Australia and Oceania89.1710.83Czech Republic Total58.3241.68Source: Czech Statistical Office
2021
+ Results Party Votes % Pirates and Mayors 6,654 50.47% SPOLU 4,517 34.26% ANO 659 4.99% Freedom and Direct Democracy 289 2.19% Green Party 245 1.86% Tricolour–Svobodní–Soukromníci 212 1.61% Přísaha 211 1.60% Czech Social Democratic Party 201 1.53% Free Bloc 68 0.52% Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia 50 0.38% Swiss Democracy 19 0.14% Czech Crown 17 0.13% We Will Open Czechia 11 0.08% Alliance of National Forces 9 0.07% Sources Movement 9 0.07% Alliance for the Future 7 0.05% Urza.cz 6 0.05%Source:
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.
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