Czech diaspora

{{Short description|Czech emigrants and their descendants}} {{more citations needed|date=October 2016}} [[File:Map of the Czech Diaspora in the World.svg|thumb|Countries with significant Czech population and descendants. {{Legend|#000000|Czech Republic}} {{Legend|#0b2c51|+ 1,000,000}} {{Legend|#11457e|+ 100,000}} {{Legend|#1d6ec9|+ 10,000}} {{Legend|#8cbdf3|+ 1,000}}|300x300px]] [[File:Чешки сватови у Новој Веси 1934. године.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Czech wedding guests in Nova Vesi, near [[Srbac]], 1934.|300x300px]]

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 ([[History of Czechs in Vienna|Vienna]]) * [[Czechs and Slovaks in Bulgaria]] * [[Czechs of Croatia]] * [[Czechs in Poland]] * [[Czechs of Romania|Czechs in Romania]] * [[Czechs in Serbia]] * [[Czechs in Ukraine]] * [[Czechs in France]] * [[Czechs in the United Kingdom]] * [[Czech diaspora in Israel]] * [[Czech Americans]] ([[History of Czechs in Baltimore|Baltimore]], [[Czechs in Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha]], [[Czech Texans|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 [[Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia|Sudeten Germans, expelled from the Czech Republic]] following Germany's defeat in [[World War II|WW2]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=República Checa - Emigrantes totales 2019 |url=https://datosmacro.expansion.com/demografia/migracion/emigracion/republica-checa |access-date=2022-06-29 |website=datosmacro.com |language=es}}</ref>

{{Flag|United States}}: 1,200,285

{{Flag|Germany}}: 603,049

{{Flag|Slovakia}}: 89,560

{{Flag|United Kingdom}}: 45,578

{{Flag|Austria}}: 37,118

{{Flag|Canada}}: 22,677

{{Flag|Switzerland}}: 15,522

{{Flag|Australia}}: 14,045

{{Flag|Spain}}: 11,539

{{Flag|Russia}}: 11,249

{{Flag|Italy}}: 9,536

{{Flag|France}}: 8,907

{{Flag|Ireland}}: 6,972

{{Flag|Poland}}: 5,952

{{Flag|Greece}}: 4,516

==Famous people of Czech descent== [[Image:Albrightmadeleine.jpg|thumb|[[Madeleine Albright]], the first woman to become a [[United States Secretary of State]], was of Czech descent and was born in [[Prague]]]] [[Image:Juscelino Kubitschek in 1956.jpg|thumb|[[Juscelino Kubitschek]], a prominent Brazilian politician of Czech origin who was President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961.]] {{maincat|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<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-03-09 |title=Viktor Dolista: JK, tchecos, boêmios e ciganos - 27/09/2016 - Opinião |url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/opiniao/2016/09/1817133-jk-tchecos-boemios-e-ciganos.shtml |access-date=2026-03-09 |website=Folha de S.Paulo}}</ref> 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 (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 * [[Ewa Farna]], a Polish-Czech pop-rock singer {{clear}}

==Politics== ===2025=== {{Main|2025 Czech parliamentary election}} {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%; line-height:13px;" |- style="height:42px;" ! rowspan="2" style="width:120px;" |Region ![[ANO (political party)|ANO]] ![[Spolu]] ![[Mayors and Independents|STAN]] ![[Czech Pirate Party|Pirates]] ![[Freedom and Direct Democracy|SPD]] ![[Motorists for Themselves|AUTO]] !Others ! rowspan="2" style="width:20px;" |Turnout |- class="sorttop" ! class="unsortable" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|ANO (political party)}};" | ! class="unsortable" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spolu (2025)}};" | ! class="unsortable" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Mayors and Independents}};" | ! class="unsortable" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Czech Pirate Party}};" | ! class="unsortable" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Freedom and Direct Democracy}};" | ! class="unsortable" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Motorists for Themselves}};" | ! class="unsortable" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Other}};" | |- |Abroad |3.95 |style="background:lightgreen"|'''39.26''' |21.48 |28.24 |2.04 |2.32 |2.60 |79.38 |- class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9" !Czech Republic |{{Party shading/ANO (political party)}}|'''34.51''' |23.36 |11.23 |8.97 |7.78 |6.77 |7.27 |68.95 |- class="sortbottom" | colspan="9" align="left" |Source: [https://www.volby.cz/app/ps2025/en/home Volby] |} ===2023=== {{Main|2023 Czech presidential election}} ==== First round ==== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%; line-height:13px;" |- style="height:42px;" ! style="width:120px;" rowspan="2"| Region ![[Petr Pavel|Petr Pavel]] ![[Andrej Babiš|Andrej Babiš]] ![[Danuše Nerudová|Danuše Nerudová]] ![[Pavel Fischer|Pavel Fischer]] ![[Jaroslav Bašta|Jaroslav Bašta]] ![[Marek Hilšer|Marek Hilšer]] ![[Karel Diviš|Karel Diviš]] ![[Tomáš Zima|Tomáš Zima]] |- class="sorttop" ! style="color:inherit;background:#008B00;"| ! style="color:inherit;background:#00BFFF;"| ! style="color:inherit;background:#CD1076;"| ! style="color:inherit;background:#0000FF;"| ! style="color:inherit;background:#1D70B7;"| ! style="color:inherit;background:#E63636;"| ! style="color:inherit;background:#FFD700;"| ! style="color:inherit;background:#C0C0C0;"| |- |colspan=10| |- | Europe |style="background:#E0E0E0;"|'''55.50''' |3.66 |29.43 |7.12 |1.04 |2.67 |0.43 |0.15 |- | Americas |style="background:#E0E0E0;"|'''58.57''' |4.93 |26.19 |6.28 |2.60 |1.08 |0.36 |0.00 |- | Asia |style="background:#E0E0E0;"|'''58.03''' |7.09 |22.63 |6.57 |1.34 |3.29 |0.60 |0.45 |- | Africa |style="background:#E0E0E0;"|'''59.50''' |3.50 |18.00 |10.50 |3.50 |3.00 |1.00 |1.00 |- | [[Australia and Oceania]] |style="background:#E0E0E0;"|'''53.42''' |5.14 |29.11 |5.48 |4.45 |1.71 |0.34 |0.34 |- class="sortbottom" ! Czech Republic !style="background:#E0E0E0;"|35.4 !35.0 !13.9 !6.8 !4.5 !2.6 !1.4 !0.6 |- class="sortbottom" |colspan=9 align=left|Source: [https://www.volby.cz/pls/prez2023/pe2?xjazyk=CZ Czech Statistical Office] |- |} ==== Second round ==== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%; line-height:13px;" |- style="height:42px;" ! style="width:120px;" rowspan="2"| Region ![[Petr Pavel|Petr Pavel]] ![[Andrej Babiš|Andrej Babiš]] |- class="sorttop" ! style="color:inherit;background:#008B00;"| ! style="color:inherit;background:#00BFFF;"| |- |colspan=10| |- | Europe |style="background:#E0E0E0;"|'''95.64''' |4.36 |- | Americas |style="background:#E0E0E0;"|'''94.02''' |5.98 |- | Asia |style="background:#E0E0E0;"|'''93.41''' |6.59 |- | Africa |style="background:#E0E0E0;"|'''94.26''' |5.74 |- | [[Australia and Oceania]] |style="background:#E0E0E0;"|'''89.17''' |10.83 |- class="sortbottom" !Czech Republic Total !style="background:#E0E0E0;"|58.32 !41.68 |- class="sortbottom" |colspan=9 align=left|Source: [https://www.volby.cz/pls/prez2023/pe2?xjazyk=CZ Czech Statistical Office] |- |}

===2021=== {{Main|2021 Czech parliamentary election}} [[File:2021 Czech general election abroad results.png|thumb|2021 Czech parliamentary election results by country.]] {| class="wikitable" |+ 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% |- |align=left colspan=3|Source:<ref>{{cite web|title=Výsledky voleb do Poslanecké sněmovny 2021 ve světě – Deník.cz|url=https://www.denik.cz/volby-ps2021/zahranici/|website=denik.cz|access-date=14 January 2022|language=cs}}</ref> |}

== 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.

==References== {{Reflist}}

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