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The first Czech female racer who in 1928 drove her Bugatti in one of the most demanding car races in the world, the Sicilian Targa Florio, where she finished fifth.

Journalist, writer and translator, a friend of Franz Kafka, whose prose she translated into Czech.

Noblewoman and horse rider, she was the first woman to participate in the famed Great Pardubice Steeplechase in 1927, one of the most difficult horse races in Europe.

A humanitarian worker of Jewish origin, who shortly before the outbreak of World War II saved thousands of German and Czech Jews from Nazi persecution and the Holocaust.

World-renowned soprano who, after her engagement in Vienna, performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1921-1932.

The first Czech female pilot.

Czech noblewoman, patron, muse and inspiration for many artists, including Rainer Maria Rilke, Max Švabinský and Karl Kraus.

Fashion designer and owner of a renowned clothing salon in Prague, which became a model for all similar Czech companies in the 1930s and 1940s.

Daughter of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, and one of the first female university graduates in Bohemia, she pushed for numerous innovations in social policy and health care.

World-famous opera singer and soprano who performed on stages in Berlin, London, Vienna and Paris.