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The Most Famous

CELEBRITIES from Czechia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Czech Celebrities. The pantheon dataset contains 181 Celebrities, 2 of which were born in Czechia. This makes Czechia the birth place of the 21st most number of Celebrities behind Philippines and Georgia.

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Czech Celebrities of all time. This list of famous Czech Celebrities is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Victor Kugler (1900 - 1981)

With an HPI of 56.52, Victor Kugler is the most famous Czech Celebrity.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Victor Kugler (5 June 1900 – 14 December 1981) was one of the people who helped hide Anne Frank and her family and friends during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. In Anne Frank's posthumously published diary, Het Achterhuis, known in English as The Diary of a Young Girl, he was referred to under the pseudonym Mr. Kraler.

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2. Hana Brady (1931 - 1944)

With an HPI of 51.06, Hana Brady is the 2nd most famous Czech Celebrity.  Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages.

Hanička "Hana" Brady (born Hana Bradyová; 16 May 1931 – 23 October 1944) was a Czechoslovak Jewish girl murdered in the gas chambers at German concentration camp at Auschwitz, located in the occupied territory of Poland, during the Holocaust. She is the subject of the 2002 non-fiction children's book Hana's Suitcase, written by Karen Levine.

Pantheon has 2 people classified as celebrities born between 1900 and 1931. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased celebrities include Victor Kugler and Hana Brady.

Deceased Celebrities

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