1880s
Maria Jeritza (06 oct 1887 – 10 jul 1982 | Brno, Czech Republic – Orange NJ) Moravian, operatic soprano, aka The Moravian Thunderbolt
1890s
1900s
Jarmila Novotná (23 sep 1907 – 09 feb 1994 | Prague, Czechoslovakia – New York NY) Czech-American, actress, operatic soprano
1910s
1920s
Lilli Schwenk Hornig (22 mar 1921 – 17 nov 2017 | Aussig, Czechoslovakia – Providence RI) author, feminist, translator, Czech-American, Manhattan Project scientist, founding director of HERS [Higher Education Resource Services]
Dina Gottliebová Babbitt (21 jan 1923 – 29 jul 2009 | Brno, Czechoslovakia – Felton CA) artist, sculptor, animator, watercolorist, Holocaust survivor, Auschwitz portrait painter
1930s
Barbara Elefant-Raiskin (11 oct 1930 – 18 jun 2013 | Czechoslovakia – Tel Aviv, Israel) poet, artist, author, painter, children’s writer, textbook author, university lecturer, Czech-American-Israeli
Livia Bitton-Jackson (28 feb 1931 – Samorin, Czechoslovakia) author, speaker, memoirist, history professor, Holocaust survivor, born Elli I. Friedman
Renata Laxova (15 jul 1931 – Brno, Czechoslovakia) essayist, Holocaust survivor, child saved by Kindertransport, pediatric geneticist / researcher, professor emerita of genetics, discovered rare genetic abnormality named Neu-Laxova syndrome
Zdena Salivarová (21 oct 1933 – Prague, Czechoslovakia) Czech-Canadian writer, publisher, translator
Miriam Kastner (22 jan 1935 – Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) Czech-American, professor, oceanographer, marine geochemist, Guggenheim Fellow
Sybille Pearson (25 jan 1937 – Prague, Czechoslovakia) Czech-American author, lyricist, librettist, playwright
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (15 may 1937 – Prague, Czechoslovakia) author, memoirist, US diplomat, politician, born Marie Jana Korbelová, first female United States Secretary of State
1940s
Olga Rozinka Beaver (12 nov 1942 – 12 jul 2012 | Prague, Czechoslovakia – Williamstown MA) Czech-American professor, mathematician, focus on mathematics of quantum logic
Jirina Marton (19 apr 1946 – Liberec, Czechoslovakia) Czech-born Canadian artist, children’s book illustrator
Helen Epstein (27 nov 1947 – Prague, Czechoslovakia) Czech-American journalist, biographer, memoirist
Hadassah Freilich Lieberman (28 mar 1948 – Prague, Czechoslovakia) author, political activist, research analyst, political family member, immigrant / women’s health / aging parent advocate
1950s
Lenka Pichlíková-Burke (28 jul 1954 – Prague, Czechoslovakia) Czech-born American actress, mime artist, translator, university professor