Born in Czechoslovakia...

Madeleine Korbel Albright was born on May 15, 1937, in Prague. At the age of 11 she came to the United States, joining her father, a diplomat Josef Korbel, who was on an official assignment for his country at the U.N. but who then used the opportunity to seek political asylum in the United States for himself and his family. Becoming a naturalized citizen, Albright pursued an academic career. Madeleine Albright was nominated by President Clinton in 1996 for the position of Secretary of State. Albright became the first female to hold this position and the highest-ranking female within the US government.

Although not Czech by nationality, the "father of psychoanalysis" was born in a town called Pribor (Freiberg), which was then a part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and today is located in the north-eastern part of the Czech Republic - Moravia. Freud spent the first three years of his life there (1856-1859) before his family moved to Leipzig (today's Germany), and then to Vienna (today's Austria). In 1937 the Nazis annexed Austria, and Freud, who was Jewish, was allowed to leave for England.