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Painter, draftswoman and graphic artist.

An opera singer, mezzo-soprano and alto who emigrated to West Germany after 1962.

Javelin thrower who won the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Art collector, patron and founder of the Museum Kampa in Prague.

The first Czech female composer and conductor.

Journalist and member of the anti-Nazi resistance.

A scout leader who joined the anti-totalitarian resistance after the Communist Party took power in 1948.

Journalist and member of the anti-Nazi resistance.

Sculptor, representative of the interwar avant-garde.

A native of the Moravian metropolis of Brno from a German-Jewish family, she commissioned architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to design the famous functionalist Villa Tugendhat, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001.