Notable people from Moravia include:
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
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