99 Notable alumni of Masaryk University

František Moravec is a Czech parasitologist who specialises on the Nematodes, especially the nematodes parasites of fishes. His research is mainly in the field of taxonomy of the Nematoda.

Aleš Svoboda was a Czech linguist, university professor, and a prominent representative of the Prague School of linguistics.

František Wolf was a Czech mathematician known for his contributions to trigonometry and mathematical analysis, specifically the study of the perturbation of linear operators.

Vojtěch Kučera is a Czech poet and literary editor. He studied geography at the Faculty of Science of the Masaryk University in Brno. He is a longtime editor-in-chief of the poetry magazine Weles.

Zuzka Bebarová-Rujbrová is a Czech politician. She was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic from 1996 to 2017, representing South Moravian Region for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia

Paul Mauffray is an American conductor and laureat of the 2007 Bartók International Opera Conducting Competition, The American Prize for Conductors, and 1996 Freedman Conducting Competition. He has studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Louisiana State University, Justus Liebig University, Masaryk University (Brno), and earned a Masters of Music degree in Orchestra Conducting as an Associate Instructor...

Emil Paleček was a Czech biochemist, who researched how DNA can be used to diagnose genetic diseases. Paleček discovered that nucleic acids could be analysed by electrochemical research, contradicting previous assumptions from the 1950s that DNA molecules were too large to be affected by electrochemistry.

Marek Pivovar was a Czech writer, dramaturge, playwright and radio director.

Vojtěch Adam is a Czech politician. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic from 2008 to 2017, representing South Moravian Region for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia

Dita Přikrylová is a Czech software engineer, a social entrepreneur, and the founder of Czechitas, a non-profit organization based upon Girls Who Code which provides technical education and networking possibilities for women and youth in information technologies.

Milan Tošnar was a Czech athlete (hurdler), coach and sports official. He was the first Czechoslovak runner for 110 metres Hurdles, which exceeded 15 seconds. Multiple representative of Czechoslovakia. Medalist in international university competitions.

Dr. Jaroslav Brožek, CSc. was a Czech artist and professor of art, theorist in color theory, art teaching and methodologies. He authored a number of publications about color and its effects on human perception, and together with other authors he prepared textbooks for primary schools as well as art schools in the Czech Republic.

Miroslav Tetter was a Czech politician and academic. He was a representative of the South Bohemian Region from 2000 to 2008 and Mayor of České Budějovice from 1998 to 2006 and again in 2010. In his earlier political career he served in the České Budějovice City Council.

Martin Potůček is Czech academic and journalist.

Luděk Navara is a Czech non-fiction author, publicist, and historian.

Vital Voranaŭ is a Belarusian-Polish playwright, translator, writer, academic, and poet. He is a co-founder of Belarusian Cultural and Scientific Centre in Poznań and the publishing house Bely Krumkacz. He was born in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR and now lives in Poland. He completed his doctorate at Masaryk University in Czech Republic and teaches Irish literature and history of Belarus in...

František Emmert is a Czech historian and writer. He is an author of books about modern European and Czech history.

Jan Firbas, was a Czech linguist and a prominent representative of the Prague School of linguistics.

Vladimír Vetchý is a former Czech politician for Czech Social Democratic Party. He served as defense minister from 22 July 1998 to 3 May 2001 in Miloš Zeman's Cabinet. Vetchý was criticized for failing to meet targets relating to the Czech Republic's NATO accession, leading to his dismissal.

Jan Beránek is a Czech ecological activist, energy expert, politician, employee of Greenpeace and former member and chairman of Czech Green Party.

Martin Černohorský was a Czech physicist, professor of physics at Masaryk University, and the first rector of the Silesian University in Opava. Černohorský died on 9 February 2024, at the age of 100.

Hana Librová is a Czech biologist and later sociologist and environmentalist. She contributed to the establishment of the Department of Environmental Studies at Masaryk University. She has carried out research on environmental lifestyle and environmental values.

Martin Dubéci is a Slovak politician and member of Progressive Slovakia, who is serving as a deputy speaker of the National Council of Slovakia.

Jitka Seitlová is a Czech politician and current senator for Přerov District, a position which she has held since 2014. She also served for the same district between 1996 and 2007. She won in the 1996 Czech Senate election, ahead of ODS candidate Stanislav Žalud. In November 2020, she was elected as deputy speaker (Vice-President) of the Senate.

Antonín Přidal was a Czech translator, writer, journalist and university lecturer. He translated from English, Spanish and French.

Hana Horáková is a basketball player from the Czech Republic who plays for BK Brno. She was a member of the national team that won the European title in 2005 by defeating Russia in the final. Playing as a guard she also competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, the 2008 Summer Olympics in...

Jiří Mihola is a Czech politician and former member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU-ČSL) from October 2013 to October 2021.

Eva Vítečková is a Czech basketball player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Zdeněk Rotrekl was a Czech Catholic poet, literary historian and writer. He was severely persecuted for his work and Roman Catholic beliefs during Czechoslovakia's Communist era from 1948 to 1989, including thirteen years in prison. The Communist government also banned his work for more than forty years. The Prague Daily Monitor has called him "one of the most distinguished personalities...

Jan Trefulka was a Czech writer, translator, literary critic and publicist.

Bozhin Georgiev Laskov (Bulgarian: Божин Георгиев Ласков; (15 February 1922 – 31 March 2007) was a naturalised Slovak association football player of Bulgarian descent and origin, who played as a striker, noted for his tall stature, impressive physique and great heading. In addition, post-retirement Laskov served as a otorhinolaryngologist and a trained Bulgarian Orthodox priest. After 1946, he lived and...

Miloslav Petrusek was a prominent Czech sociologist who served as a dean of Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague between 1992–1997, as well as the prorector for academic affairs of the university in 1997–2000. For his consistent contribution to sociology and education, he received numerous awards, such as Ordre des Palmes Académiques or Golden Medal of Masaryk...

Jiří Pernes was a Czech historian.

Venceslas Kruta is a French archaeologist and historian. He is the director of European protohistory studies at the École pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), and Professor emeritus at the Sorbonne University. Kruta has also directed the Centre d'Études Celtiques in Paris and the journal Études Celtiques, and has chaired the editorial board of the journal Gallia (CNRS).

Jaroslav Šabata was a Czech political scientist, psychologist, and dissident during Czechoslovakia's Communist era. A leading dissident based in Brno, Šabata was a signatory of Charter 77 in 1977. He served as the spokesman of Charter 77, the organization named for the document, from 1978 to 1981.

Leo Eitinger was a Norwegian psychiatrist, author and educator. He was a Holocaust survivor who studied the late-onset psychological trauma experienced by people who went through separation and psychological pain early in life only to show traumatic experience decades later. He devoted a long period studying posttraumatic stress disorder among Holocaust survivors, which had led Holocaust survivors including Paul Celan...

Ondřej Liška is a Czech politician, who served as Minister of Education under Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek in his second cabinet. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for South Moravia from the 2006 legislative election until May 2010. He was the chairman of the Green Party.

Jiří Zlatuška is a Czech informaticist, university professor and politician. He was elected in the parliamentary election in 2013 to the Chamber of Deputies on the ANO 2011 platform. From 2015 to 2019, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Informatics of the Masaryk University.

Tomáš Julínek is a Czech politician and physician. From 2006 to 2009, Julínek served as the Minister of Health of the Czech Republic. He is a member of the Civic Democratic Party.

Ernst Wiesner, also known as Arnošt Wiesner was a modernist architect, one of the foremost interwar period architects of Brno. His ancestors with German surnames Wiesner came from the area of modern Austria.

Jiří Levý was a Czech literary theoretician, literary historian and translation theoretician. Levý's work was crucial for the development of translation theory in Czechoslovakia and it has subsequently influenced scholars internationally.

Lukáš Vlček is a Czech politician and businessman who served as Czech Minister of Industry and Trade in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala from October 2024 to December 2025. He has served as first vice-chairman of Mayors and Independents since July 2022. He has been both a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic and mayor of...

Eliška Wagnerová was a Czech judge and politician. A member of the Green Party, she served as president of the Supreme Court from 1998 to 2002 and was a Senator from 2012 to 2018. Wagnerová died on 18 January 2025 at the age of 76.

Martin Palouš is the ex-Permanent Representative to the United Nations for the Czech Republic. He presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 11 September 2006. Palouš is married to Pavla Paloušová and they have two children.

Marie Chatardová is a Czech diplomat who has served in a number of ambassador posts during her career. In 2017, Forbes magazine named Chatardová as the fourth most influential woman in the Czech Republic.

Petr Váša is a Czech poet, rock singer-songwriter, experimental actor, artist and educator. In 1985 he founded his first band called Z kopce (Czech "downhill"). From 1999 he performed with Ty Syčáci. He is also member of the rock band Jasná Páka.

Jiří Kratochvil is a Czech writer.

Jan Chvojka is a Czech politician and former member of the Chamber of Deputies, from 2017 until 2021. He served as Minister of Human Rights between December 2016 and 2017.

Adam Václavík is a Czech biathlete. He has competed in the Biathlon World Cup.

Luboš Perek was a Czech astronomer best known for his Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae co-written in 1967 with Luboš Kohoutek. He worked on the distribution of mass in the galaxy, high-velocity stars, planetary nebulae, definition of outer space, geostationary orbit, space debris, and management of outer space.

Miroslav Grebeníček is a Czech politician who was leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) from 1993 to 2005. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1993 to 2021, with only six months absence in 2013.

Ludvík Kundera was a Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian. He was a notable exponent of Czech avant-garde literature and a prolific translator of German authors. In 2007, he received the Medal of Merit for service to the Republic. In 2009, he was awarded the Jaroslav Seifert Award, presented by the Charter 77 Foundation. Kundera was a...

Petr Gazdík is a Czech politician who served as Minister of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala from December 2021 to June 2022 and was a leader of Mayors and Independents party from 2009 to 2014 and 2016 to 2019. Previously he was a mayor of Suchá Loz. He is married and...

Luboš Kohoutek was a Czech astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, including Comet Kohoutek which was visible to the naked eye in 1973. He also discovered a large number of planetary nebulae.

Jan Keller is a Czech sociologist and politician. Since 2014, he has been a Member of the European Parliament representing the Czech Republic, elected as a non-partisan for the Social Democratic Party. He publishes political commentaries and essays mainly in the Czech daily Právo.

Michal Hašek is a Czech politician and former Governor of the South Moravian Region. From 2002 until 2014, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP). He also served as shadow Minister of Agriculture in the shadow cabinet of former Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek.

Luděk Niedermayer is a Czech politician and economist, serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Czech Republic since July 2014, representing TOP 09, part of the European People's Party. He also currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs in the European Parliament.

Jaroslav Soukup is a retired Czech biathlete.

Josef Augusta was a Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach, and a silver medalist from the 1976 Winter Olympics. He was the father of former hockey player Patrik Augusta.

Milan Uhde is a Czech playwright and politician. He was a member of the Civic Democratic Party.

Kateřina Tučková is a Czech novelist and curator. She is best known as the author of Žítkovské bohyně, a Czech bestseller translated into 21 languages.

Šárka Kašpárková is a Czech former track and field athlete who specialised in the triple jump.

Tomáš Josef Špidlík, S.J. was a Czech Catholic prelate and theologian. Pope John Paul II made him a cardinal in 2003. He was a member of the Jesuits.

Martin Baxa is a Czech politician, who served as the Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic in the cabinet of Petr Fiala from 2021 to 2025. He has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) for the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) since October 2017. He previously served as mayor of Plzeň from 2010 to 2014, and again...

Petr Hladík is a Czech politician who served as Czech Minister of the Environment in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala from March 2023 to December 2025. He served as the deputy chairman of KDU-ČSL from March 2019 to October 2024.

Marcel Kolaja is a Czech software engineer, Internet freedom and digital rights activist and a former Czech Pirate Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2024 and Quaestor of the European Parliament from 2022 to 2024. He was a member of the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group along with three other European...

Jiří Grygar is a Czech astronomer, popularizer of science and Kalinga Prize (1996) laureate.

Mikuláš Bek is a Czech musicologist and politician, who served as Minister of Education, Youth and Sports in the cabinet of Petr Fiala from May 2023 to December 2025. He previously served as the Minister of EU Affairs from December 2021 to May 2023.

Alena Schillerová is a Czech politician and lawyer who has served as Minister of Finance in the government of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš since 2025. She previously held the same role from 2017 to 2021. Schillerová is the first woman in the history of the Czech Republic to hold the office.

Petr Nečas is a Czech former politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic and leader of the Civic Democratic Party from 2010 to 2013, and as Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1993 to 2013.

Lubomír Zaorálek is a Czech politician, who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka from 2014 to 2017, and Minister of Culture under Prime Minister Andrej Babiš from 2019 to 2021. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1996 to 2021, and was the election leader for the Social Democratic Party...

Miloš Vystrčil is a Czech politician serving as the President of the Senate since 2020 and Senator for Jihlava since 2010. Vystrčil previously served as Mayor of Telč and governor of Vysočina Region.

Karel Höger was a Czech film actor. He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1939 and 1977.

Iva Bittová is a Czech avant-garde violinist, singer, and composer. She began her career as an actor in the mid-1970s, appearing in several Czech feature films, but switched to playing violin and singing in the early 1980s. She started recording in 1986 and by 1990 her unique vocal and instrumental technique gained her international recognition. Since then, she has performed...

Robert Šlachta is a Czech politician and former police and customs officer who has been serving as the senator for Břeclav since 2024. He has been the leader of Přísaha since June 2021. He was previously head of the Unit for Combating Organised Crime (Czech: Útvar pro odhalování organizovaného zločinu, ÚOOZ) from January 2008 to June 2016.

Radim Uzel was a Czech sexologist, educator and science popularizer. He often spoke in the media about sexological topics and wrote several dozen books on the subject.

Jan Skácel was a Czech poet, widely acclaimed as one of the best poets who had been writing in Czech.

Markéta Gregorová is a Czech politician. She has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, representing the Czech Pirate Party. Gregorová serves as the Vice-Chair of the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, and is a member of the Committee on International Trade and the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union,...

Jiří Procházka is a Czech professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Light Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and the first Czech fighter to win a UFC championship. He was the inaugural Rizin Fighting Federation Light Heavyweight Champion and the inaugural Gladiator Fighting Championship Light Heavyweight...

Adam Ondra is a Czech professional rock climber, specializing in lead climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing. In 2013, Rock & Ice described Ondra as a prodigy and the leading climber of his generation. Ondra is the only male athlete to have won World Championship titles in both disciplines in the same year (2014) and is one of the two male...

Petr Fiala is a Czech politician and political scientist who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from 2021 to 2025 and leader of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) from 2014 to 2026. He previously served as the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports from 2012 to 2013. Prior to entering politics, he was the rector of Masaryk...

Bohuslav Sobotka is a Czech politician and lawyer who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from January 2014 to December 2017 and leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) from 2010 until his resignation in June 2017. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1996 to 2018. Sobotka also served as Minister...

Petr Duchoň is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party, part of the European Democrats and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Jaroslav Erik Frič was a Czech poet, musician, publisher and organizer of underground culture festivals.

Lumír Ondřej Hanuš is a Czech analytic chemist and leading authority in the field of cannabis research. In 1992, he and William Anthony Devane isolated and first described the structure of anandamide, an endogenous cannabinoid neurotransmitter.

Libor Michálek is a Czech financial analyst, politician, and whistleblower. He led successful corruption cases against the Czech National Property Fund and the Czech Ministry of the Environment, as a former employee of both. Michálek was the member of the Czech Senate for Prague 2 from 2012 to 2018, representing the Pirate Party. He was the first Pirate Party candidate...

Anna Hubáčková is a Czech politician, who served as Czech Minister of the Environment in the cabinet of Petr Fiala from December 2021 to November 2022. She was a member of the Czech Senate from 2016 to 2022, as a nominee of KDU-ČSL.

Otakar Borůvka was a Czech mathematician. He is best known for his work in graph theory.

Tomáš Zdechovský is a Czech politician and businessperson. In 2004, he founded Commservis.com, a communications and PR agency, of which he was CEO until his election as a Member of the European Parliament in 2014. Since 2014 he has been a Member of the European Parliament with KDU-ČSL, which is part of the European Peoples Party.

Jan Veleba is a Czech politician and agricultural functionary. He was a Senator of the Parliament of the Czech Republic since 2012 Czech Senate election. In March 2014 he was elected a new Chairman of the Party of Civic Rights after Zdeněk Štengl.

Jaroslav Kubera was a Czech politician for the Civic Democratic Party, who served in the Czech Senate representing Teplice from 2000 and the Senate President from 2018 until his death in 2020. He previously served as mayor of Teplice from 1994 to 2018.

Petr Hruška is a Czech poet, screenwriter, literary critic and academic.

Ivona Březinová is a Czech writer of fiction for children and adolescents.

Kateřina Konečná is a Czech politician who has been the leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) since 23 October 2021, and a Member of the European Parliament since 2014.

Jan Němec was a Czech filmmaker whose most important work dates from the 1960s. Film historian Peter Hames has described him as the "enfant terrible of the Czech New Wave."

Ondřej Sekora was a Czech painter, illustrator, writer, journalist and entomologist. He is known mainly as an author of children books. Sekora was also one of the first propagators of rugby in Czechoslovakia.

Michal Šalomoun is a Czech lawyer and politician who served as Czech Minister of Legislation and chairman of the Government Legislative Council in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala from December 2021 to October 2024, nominated by the Czech Pirate Party.

Olga Sehnalová is a Czech politician. Since July 2009, she has served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Czech Republic, representing the Social Democratic Party.