# Czech diaspora > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Czech_diaspora > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Czech_diaspora.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_diaspora > Source revision: 1352127562 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Czech emigrants and their descendants This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Czech diaspora" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Countries with significant Czech population and descendants.   Czech Republic   + 1,000,000   + 100,000   + 10,000   + 1,000 Czech wedding guests in Nova Vesi, near [Srbac](/source/Srbac), 1934. The **Czech diaspora** refers to both historical and present [emigration](/source/Emigration) from the [Czech Republic](/source/Czech_Republic), as well as from the former [Czechoslovakia](/source/Czechoslovakia) and the [Czech lands](/source/Czech_lands) (including [Bohemia](/source/Bohemia), [Moravia](/source/Moravia) and [Silesia](/source/Silesia)). The country with the largest number of [Czechs](/source/Czechs) living abroad is the [United States](/source/United_States). ## Communities - Austria ([Vienna](/source/History_of_Czechs_in_Vienna)) - [Czechs and Slovaks in Bulgaria](/source/Czechs_and_Slovaks_in_Bulgaria) - [Czechs of Croatia](/source/Czechs_of_Croatia) - [Czechs in Poland](/source/Czechs_in_Poland) - [Czechs in Romania](/source/Czechs_of_Romania) - [Czechs in Serbia](/source/Czechs_in_Serbia) - [Czechs in Ukraine](/source/Czechs_in_Ukraine) - [Czechs in France](/source/Czechs_in_France) - [Czechs in the United Kingdom](/source/Czechs_in_the_United_Kingdom) - [Czech diaspora in Israel](/source/Czech_diaspora_in_Israel) - [Czech Americans](/source/Czech_Americans) ([Baltimore](/source/History_of_Czechs_in_Baltimore), [Omaha](/source/Czechs_in_Omaha%2C_Nebraska), [Texas](/source/Czech_Texans)) - [Czech Canadians](/source/Czech_Canadians) - [Czech Mexicans](/source/Czech_Mexicans) - [Czechs in Argentina](/source/Czechs_in_Argentina) - [Czech Brazilians](/source/Czech_Brazilians) - [Czech Australians](/source/Czech_Australians) - [Czech New Zealanders](/source/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](/source/Expulsion_of_Germans_from_Czechoslovakia) following Germany's defeat in [WW2](/source/World_War_II).[1] [United States](/source/United_States): 1,200,285 [Germany](/source/Germany): 603,049 [Slovakia](/source/Slovakia): 89,560 [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom): 45,578 [Austria](/source/Austria): 37,118 [Canada](/source/Canada): 22,677 [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland): 15,522 [Australia](/source/Australia): 14,045 [Spain](/source/Spain): 11,539 [Russia](/source/Russia): 11,249 [Italy](/source/Italy): 9,536 [France](/source/France): 8,907 [Ireland](/source/Republic_of_Ireland): 6,972 [Poland](/source/Poland): 5,952 [Greece](/source/Greece): 4,516 ## Famous people of Czech descent [Madeleine Albright](/source/Madeleine_Albright), the first woman to become a [United States Secretary of State](/source/United_States_Secretary_of_State), was of Czech descent and was born in [Prague](/source/Prague) [Juscelino Kubitschek](/source/Juscelino_Kubitschek), a prominent Brazilian politician of Czech origin who was President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. Main category: [People of Czech descent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_of_Czech_descent) - [Madeleine Albright](/source/Madeleine_Albright), the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State - [Ivana Bacik](/source/Ivana_Bacik), Teachta dála of Ireland - [Yehuda Bauer](/source/Yehuda_Bauer), an Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust - [Edouard Borovansky](/source/Edouard_Borovansky), a Czech-born Australian ballet dancer, choreographer and director - [Georgina Bouzova](/source/Georgina_Bouzova), an English television actress - [Louis Brandeis](/source/Louis_Brandeis), an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939 - [Thomas Cech](/source/Thomas_Cech), a Nobel Laureate in chemistry - [Anton Cermak](/source/Anton_Cermak), the mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1931 until his assassination in 1933 - [Eugene Cernan](/source/Eugene_Cernan), a retired United States Navy officer and a former NASA astronaut and engineer - [Miloš Forman](/source/Milo%C5%A1_Forman), a Czech-American director, screenwriter, professor, and an emigrant from Czechoslovakia - [André Glucksmann](/source/Andr%C3%A9_Glucksmann), a French philosopher and writer - [George Halas](/source/George_Halas), a player, coach, owner and pioneer in professional American football - [Hippolyte Havel](/source/Hippolyte_Havel), a Czech anarchist who lived in Greenwich Village, New York - [Juscelino Kubitschek](/source/Juscelino_Kubitschek), a prominent Brazilian politician of Czech[2] descent who was President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961 - [Milan Kundera](/source/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](/source/Lenka), an Australian singer and songwriter - [Jim Lovell](/source/Jim_Lovell), a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy - [Felix Moscheles](/source/Felix_Moscheles), an English painter, peace activist and advocate of Esperanto - [Kim Novak](/source/Kim_Novak), is an American actress best known for her performance in the 1958 film *[Vertigo](/source/Vertigo_(film))* - [Fredy Perlman](/source/Fredy_Perlman), an author, publisher and activist - [Jan Pinkava](/source/Jan_Pinkava), a Czech-British animator and film director - [Václav Smil](/source/V%C3%A1clav_Smil), a Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst - [Josef Škvorecký](/source/Josef_%C5%A0kvoreck%C3%BD), a leading contemporary Czech writer and publisher who has spent much of his life in Canada - [Tom Stoppard](/source/Tom_Stoppard), a British playwright, knighted in 1997 - [Roberto Weiss](/source/Roberto_Weiss), an Italian-British scholar and historian - [John Zerzan](/source/John_Zerzan), an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author - [Robert Vanasek](/source/Robert_Vanasek), an American politician - [Exene Cervenka](/source/Exene_Cervenka), an American singer - [Ewa Farna](/source/Ewa_Farna), a Polish-Czech pop-rock singer ## Politics ### 2025 Main article: [2025 Czech parliamentary election](/source/2025_Czech_parliamentary_election) Region ANO Spolu STAN Pirates SPD AUTO Others Turnout Abroad 3.95 39.26 21.48 28.24 2.04 2.32 2.60 79.38 Czech Republic 34.51 23.36 11.23 8.97 7.78 6.77 7.27 68.95 Source: Volby ### 2023 Main article: [2023 Czech presidential election](/source/2023_Czech_presidential_election) #### First round Region Petr Pavel Andrej Babiš Danuše Nerudová Pavel Fischer Jaroslav Bašta Marek Hilšer Karel Diviš Tomáš Zima Europe 55.50 3.66 29.43 7.12 1.04 2.67 0.43 0.15 Americas 58.57 4.93 26.19 6.28 2.60 1.08 0.36 0.00 Asia 58.03 7.09 22.63 6.57 1.34 3.29 0.60 0.45 Africa 59.50 3.50 18.00 10.50 3.50 3.00 1.00 1.00 Australia and Oceania 53.42 5.14 29.11 5.48 4.45 1.71 0.34 0.34 Czech Republic 35.4 35.0 13.9 6.8 4.5 2.6 1.4 0.6 Source: Czech Statistical Office #### Second round Region Petr Pavel Andrej Babiš Europe 95.64 4.36 Americas 94.02 5.98 Asia 93.41 6.59 Africa 94.26 5.74 Australia and Oceania 89.17 10.83 Czech Republic Total 58.32 41.68 Source: Czech Statistical Office ### 2021 Main article: [2021 Czech parliamentary election](/source/2021_Czech_parliamentary_election) 2021 Czech parliamentary election results by country. 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:[3] ## See also - [History of the Czech Republic](/source/History_of_the_Czech_Republic) - [List of Czechs](/source/List_of_Czechs) ## Further reading - Dejmek, Andrea Theresa. *The Canadian Czech Diaspora: Bilingual and Multilingual Language Inheritance and Affiliations*, McGill University, 2007. v t e European diasporas Britain and Ireland Cornish English Irish Manx Scottish Welsh Caucasus Armenians Azerbaijanis Circassians Chechens Georgians Central Europe Austrians Czechs Croats Germans Volksdeutsche Hungarians Kashubians Poles Slovaks Slovenes Swiss Eastern Europe Belarusians Crimean Tatars Russians Ukrainians Northern Europe Danes Estonians Finns Icelanders Latvians Lithuanians Norwegians Swedes Southeastern Europe Albanians Kosovars Aromanians Bosnians Bulgarians Cypriots Greek Cypriots Turkish Cypriots Greeks Macedonians Romanians Moldovans Serbs Turks Meskhetian Turks Southwestern Europe Italians Internal migration Maltese Portuguese Spaniards Asturians Basques Canarians Catalans Galicians Western Europe Belgians Flanders Walloons Dutch French Quebecois Bretons Corsicans Luxembourgers Comprehensive group Argentina Australia Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Cuba Haiti Mexico Morocco New Zealand Pakistan Peru Puerto Rico South Africa Tunisia United States Venezuela v t e Czech diaspora Asia Israel Americas Argentina Brazil Canada Mexico United States Baltimore Nebraska South Dakota Texas Venezuela Europe Austria Vienna Bulgaria Croatia France Germany Italy Poland Romania Serbia Ukraine United Kingdom Oceania Australia New Zealand ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["República Checa - Emigrantes totales 2019"](https://datosmacro.expansion.com/demografia/migracion/emigracion/republica-checa). *datosmacro.com* (in Spanish). 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