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Czech diaspora

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Countries with significant Czech population and descendants.
  Czech Republic
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Czech wedding guests in Nova Vesi, near Srbac, 1934.

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

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Distribution by country

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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]

Germany: 603,049

United States: 110,257

Slovakia: 89,560

United Kingdom: 45,578

Austria: 37,118

Canada: 22,677

 Switzerland: 15,522

Australia: 14,045

Spain: 11,539

Russia: 11,249

Italy: 9,536

France: 8,907

Ireland: 6,972

Poland: 5,952

Greece: 4,516

Famous people of Czech descent

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Madeleine Albright, the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State, was of Czech descent and was born in Prague
Juscelino Kubitschek, a prominent Brazilian politician of Czech origin who was President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961.
  • Madeleine Albright, the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State
  • 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[2] 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

Politics

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2025

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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

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First round

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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

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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

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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

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Further reading

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  • Dejmek, Andrea Theresa. The Canadian Czech Diaspora: Bilingual and Multilingual Language Inheritance and Affiliations, McGill University, 2007.

References

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  1. ^ "República Checa - Emigrantes totales 2019". datosmacro.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-06-29.
  2. ^ "Viktor Dolista: JK, tchecos, boêmios e ciganos - 27/09/2016 - Opinião".
  3. ^ "Výsledky voleb do Poslanecké sněmovny 2021 ve světě – Deník.cz". denik.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 14 January 2022.