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Největší Čech (The Greatest Czech ) is the Czech spin-off of the BBC Greatest Britons show ;[1 ] a television poll of the populace to name the greatest Czech in history.[2 ] The series was broadcast by the national public-service broadcaster, Czech Television .[1 ] The presenter of the programme was Marek Eben ,[3 ] who was also nominated to be in the Top 100; however, since he was presenting the show he was not eligible to be included in the final list.
King Charles IV , the winner of the poll
The counting and ranking of the nomination votes took place during January 2005; the top 100 were announced on 5 May; and the final rankings were announced on 10 June 2005. The first round was won by the fictional genius Jára Cimrman , but he was disqualified.[4 ] [5 ]
List of Greatest Czechs
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King Charles IV , Bohemian king (1346–1378) and Emperor (1355–1378), founder of Charles Bridge and Charles University – 68,713 votes
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937) – first Czechoslovak president (1918–1935) – 55,040 votes
Václav Havel (1936–2011) – last Czechoslovak (1989–1992) and first Czech president (1993–2003)
John Amos Comenius (1592–1670) – philosopher and pedagogue, "Teacher of Nations"
Jan Žižka (1360–1424) – Hussite general, leader of Czech resistance to the Holy Roman Empire and Catholic Church
Jan Werich (1905–1980) – actor, playwright and author
Jan Hus (1369–1415) – religious reformer
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) – composer
Karel Čapek (1890–1938) – writer, author of R.U.R.
Božena Němcová – writer, author of The Grandmother
Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884) – composer
Emil Zátopek (1922–2000) – athlete, Olympic winner
Karel Gott (1939–2019) – pop singer
George of Poděbrady (1430–1471) – utraquist king
František Palacký (1798–1876) – historian and politician
Ottokar II of Bohemia (1233–1278) – king, known as "Iron and Gold King"
Saint Wenceslaus (907–935) – duke (922–935) and patron saint of Bohemia
Václav Klaus (1941–) – second president of the Czech Republic (2003–2013)
Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890–1967) – chemist, Nobel prize laureate
Saint Agnes of Bohemia (1211–1282) – princess and saint, founder of first Prague hospital
Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932) – first republic businessman
Edvard Beneš (1884–1948) – second Czechoslovak president (1935–1938, in exile 1940–1945, 1945–1948)
Otto Wichterle (1913–1998) – chemist, inventor of contact lenses
Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986) – poet, Nobel Prize laureate
Zdeněk Svěrák (1936–) – playwright, screenwriter, actor and "cimrmanologist "
Emmy Destinn (1878–1930) – opera singer
Jaromír Jágr (1972–) – ice hockey player
Maria Theresa (1717–1780) – queen
Karel Kryl (1944–1994) – dissident singer-songwriter
Miloš Forman (1932–2018) – film director
Vlasta Burian (1891–1962) – actor, "king of comedians"
Roman Šebrle (1974–) – decathlete, Olympic winner
Ivan Hlinka (1950–2004) – ice hockey player and coach
Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821–1856) – journalist and writer
Daniel Landa (1968–) – singer
Milada Horáková (1901–1950) – victim of Nazism and later communism (hanged in 1950)
Vladimír Menšík (1929–1988) – actor
Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923) – writer, author of The Good Soldier Švejk
Alfons Mucha (1860–1939) – art nouveau painter
Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869) – biologist and physician
Pavel Nedvěd (1972–) – footballer (European footballer of the year 2003)
Jan Janský (1873–1921) – neurologist and psychiatrist, discoverer of four blood types
František Křižík (1847–1941) – inventor, engineer and industrialist
Jan Železný (1966–) – Olympic athlete
Jan Palach (1948–1969) – protester against Soviet invasion of 1968 (self-immolated)
Věra Čáslavská (1942–2016) – Olympic athlete
Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) – composer
Alois Jirásek (1851–1930) – playwright and author
Jaromír Nohavica (1953–) – musician
Jan Masaryk (1886–1948) – Czechoslovak secretary of foreign affairs (1940–48)
Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) – writer
Jan Neruda (1834–1891) – writer
Josef Jungmann (1773–1847) – linguist and translator
Gregor Mendel (1822–1884) – geneticist, "father of genetics"
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) – writer
František Tomášek (1899–1992) – archbishop of Prague
Saint Adalbert (956–997) – saint
Josef Bican (1913–2001) – football player
Josef Kajetán Tyl (1808–1856) – playwright
Lucie Bílá (1966–) – pop singer
Karel Hynek Mácha (1810–1836) – poet
Saint Ludmila (860–921) – grandmother of the Czech patron St. Wenceslaus
Boleslav Polívka (1949–) – actor
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552–1612) – king
Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829) – philologist
Josef Lada (1753–1829) – painter
Rudolf Hrušínský (1920–1994) – actor
Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1271–1305) – king
Madeleine Albright (1937–2022) – politician, US secretary of state
Aneta Langerová (1986–) – pop singer, Česko hledá SuperStar winner
Ottokar I of Bohemia (1155–1230) – king, conqueror
Ludvík Svoboda (1895–1975) – communist president
Dominik Hašek (1965–) – ice hockey player
John of Bohemia (1296–1346) – king, father of Charles IV
Milan Baroš (1981–) – footballer
Karel Jaromír Erben (1811–1870) – poet
Saint Zdislava (1200–1252) – saint
Jaroslav Foglar (1907–1999) – writer
Ladislav Smoljak (1931–2010) – actor and writer, actor and "cimrmanologist"
Olga Havlová (1933–1996) – wife of Václav Havel, former Czechoslovak and Czech president
Martina Navratilova (1956–) – tennis player
Helena Růžičková (1936–2004) – actress
Pavel Tigrid (1917–2003) – writer
Elisabeth of Bohemia (1292–1330) – queen
Milan Kundera (1929–2023) – writer
Vladimír Remek (1948–) – cosmonaut and politician
Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (915-972?) – king
Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová (1785–1845) – writer
Mikoláš Aleš (1852–1913) – painter
Emil Holub (1847–1907) – physician, traveler and writer
František Fajtl (1912–2006) – fighter pilot in World War II
Klement Gottwald (1896–1953) – first Communist president of Czechoslovakia
Zdeněk Matějček (1922–2004)– pediatrician
Jiří Voskovec (1905–1981)– actor
Marta Kubišová (1942–) – singer and actress
Jiřina Bohdalová (1931–) – actress
Miloslav Šimek (1940–2004) – actor
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) – psychiatrist, teacher of Carl Gustav Jung
Samo (600–658) – ruler of the so-called Samo's Realm
Miloš Zeman (1944–) – third Czech president (since 2013)
The Greatest Villain
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At the same time as the nominations, an Internet vote for the greatest villain of Czech history was held.[6 ] The top ten were:
Klement Gottwald (1896–1953) – first Communist president of Czechoslovakia (1948–53)
Stanislav Gross (1969–2015) – 20th/21st-century politician, Czech Republic PM
Václav Klaus (1941–) – 20th/21st-century politician, president of Czech Republic
Vladimír Železný (1945–) – 20th/21st-century television businessman, founder of TV Nova , charged with an extensive tunnelling fraud
Miroslav Kalousek (1960–) – 20th/21st-century politician, leader of Christian Democratic party
Miroslav Grebeníček (1947–) – leader of Communist Party of Moravia and Bohemia
Viktor Kožený (1963–) – 20th/21st-century financial figure, fugitive financier, nicknamed "the pirate of Prague"
Milouš Jakeš (1922–2020) – 20th-century politician, General Secretary of Czechoslovak Communist Party before and during Velvet Revolution
Zdeněk Škromach (1956–) – former minister of work and social affairs
Gustáv Husák (1913–1991) – 20th-century politician, last Communist president of Czechoslovakia
Jára Cimrman
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The first round of official voting for Greatest Czech was won by the fictional character Jára Cimrman created by Czech humorists Jiří Šebánek , Zdeněk Svěrák (who himself took the 25th place) and Ladislav Smoljak (79th). The fact that he is not a real person disqualified him from taking the title, as the rules stated that "it is only possible to vote for someone who was either born on, lived on, or in any way acted on the soil of Bohemia , Moravia or Czech Silesia ."[7 ]
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