List of personalities of the city of Ostrava
This list contains personalities born in Ostrava as well as those who worked in Ostrava but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities born in Ostrava
To 1900
- Valentin Bernard Jestřábský (1630–1719), Roman Catholic priest and Baroque writer
- Alois Scholz (1821–1883), director of the Witkowitz iron works , father-in-law of the writer Maria Scholz and grandfather of the sculptor Helene Scholz-Zelezny
- Ferdinand Hochstetter (1861–1954), Austrian anatomist
- Wilhelm Piechula (1873–1951), Austrian politician and railroad worker
- Hermann Dostal (1874–1930), Austrian composer and arranger
- Franz Gallent (1877–1959), Austrian politician
- Rudolf Ernest (1881–1930), Austrian builder and architect
- Hans Otto Löwenstein (1881–1931), Austrian film director and producer
- Franz Löwy (1883−?), Austrian studio and society photographer
- Irene Kafka (1888–1942), translator and poet
- Eduard Pant (1887–1938), journalist and politician
- Gustav Heinisch (1892–1979), Austrian mining engineer
- Lev Prchala (1892–1963), Army General
- Karl Brand (1895–1917), poet and storyteller
- Josef Mattauch (1895–1976), German physicist
- Jožka Jabůrková (1896–1942), journalist and writer
- Gilda Langer (1896–1920), German actress
- Hermann Reusch (1896–1971), German mining assessor and industrialist
- Karol Šmidke (1897–1952), Slovak politician
- Robert Strobel (1898–1994), German journalist and legal scholar
1901 to 1925
- Alexander Sacher-Masoch (1901–1972), Austrian writer
- Ilse Weber (1903–1944), writer
- Hans Schoszberger (1907–1997), German architect
- Joseph Wechsberg (1907–1983), narrator, essayist and journalist
- Leopold Ludwig (1908–1979), German conductor
- Karl Scheit (1909–1993), Austrian guitarist, lutenist, composer and music teacher
- Zdeněk Jirotka (1911–2003), writer and columnist
- Egon Karter (1911–2006), Czech-Swiss actor, operetta singer and theater director
- Růžena Beinhauerová (1912–1968), Czechoslovak skier, rower and basketball player
- Stephan Körner (1913–2000), philosopher
- Artur London (1915–1986), politician
- Robert Stratil (1919–1976), German film architect
- Vlastimil Brodský (1920–2002), actor
- Lore Lorentz (1920–1994), German cabaret artist
- Oldřich Černík (1921–1994), politician
- Ruth Elias (1922–2008), survivor of the Shoah
- Ilja Hurník (1922–2013), composer and pianist
- Otmar Mácha (1922–2006), composer
- Rudolf Adametz (1923–1983), German politician
- Boris Čelovský (1923–2008), historian and philosopher
- Erhard Karkoschka (1923–2009), German composer
- Drahomír Kolder (1925–1972), politician
- Gerald Weinkopf (1925–1992), musician and television journalist
1926 to 1950
- Miroslav Klega (1926–1993), composer
- Karel Reisz (1926–2002), Czech-British director
- Oldřich Daněk (1927–2000), playwright, writer, director and screenwriter
- Věra Chytilová (1929–2014), film director and screenwriter
- Ota Filip (1930-2018), writer
- Peter Burian (* 1931), historian
- Jan Rys (1931–1986), Austrian writer, radio play author, poet, painter and translator
- Ilana Shenhav (1931–1986), artist
- Miroslav Wiecek (1931–1997), football player
- Naděžda Kniplová (1932–2020), Czech soprano opera singer
- Herbert Kochta (* 1932), German architect
- Walter Josef Lorenz (* 1932), German nuclear medicine specialist and biophysicist at Heidelberg University
- Johanna Anderka (* 1933), German writer and poet
- Dietmar Katzy (1935–2013), German politician
- Peter Moraw (1935–2013), German historian
- Jaroslav Opěla (1935–2016), conductor
- Petr Kaplan (1940–2007), rock singer and guitarist
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf (* 1940), pilot and religious leader
- Gerhard Heisler (* 1941), German photographer
- Kristian Kunert (* 1941), German educational scientist
- Hans Zdražila (* 1941), weightlifter
- Peter Rubin (* 1942), German singer, presenter, songwriter and guitarist
- Tomáš Čermák (* 1943), engineering scientist
- Friedrich Tomi (* 1943) German mathematician, professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
- Günter Gauglitz (* 1944), German chemist and university professor
- Werner Lippoldt (* 1944), German marksman
- Karel Loprais (* 1949), rally driver
- Libor Radimec (born 1950), football player
1951 to 1975
- Zdeněk Rygel (* 1951), football player
- Eva Jakoubková (1952–2005), film actress
- Jaromír Nohavica (* 1953), songwriter
- Rostislav Sionko (* 1953), football player and coach
- Zdeněk Šreiner (1954–2017), football player
- Evžen Tošenovský (* 1956), politician
- Lubomír Zaorálek (* 1956), politician
- Pavel Baran (* 1957), lecturer
- Petr Němec (* 1957), football player and coach
- Ivo Vondrák (* 1959), engineering scientist
- Václav Daněk (* 1960), football player and coach
- Ivan Lendl (* 1960), American tennis player
- Alena Peterková (* 1960), long-distance runner
- Taťána Kocembová (* 1962), sprinter
- Marie Hrachová (* 1963), table tennis player
- Zbynek Cerven (* 1963), television director
- Petr Hruška (* 1964), poet and literary scholar
- Pavel Malura (* 1970), football player and coach
- Richard Šmehlík (* 1970), ice hockey player
- Roman Šimíček (* 1971), ice hockey player
- Rudolf Wolf (* 1971), German-Czech ice hockey player
- Jindřich Dohnal (* 1972), football player
- Vladimír Vůjtek junior (* 1972), ice hockey player
- Vladimír Talla (* 1973), chess master and chess referee
- René Bolf (* 1974), football player
- Petr Hrubý (* 1974), German-Czech ice hockey player
- Marek Malík (* 1975), ice hockey player
- Martin Prusek (* 1975), ice hockey goalkeeper and coach
From 1976
- Marek Čech (* 1976), football goalkeeper
- Marek Jankulovski (* 1977), football player
- Filip Kuba (* 1976), ice hockey player
- Ivo Kresta (* 1977), basketball player
- Radek Philipp (* 1977), ice hockey player
- Libor Sionko (* 1977), football player
- Patrik Gross (* 1978), Moravian-Silesian football player
- Jaroslav Němec (* 1978), artist and painter
- Martin Galia (* 1979), handball player
- Zbyněk Irgl (* 1980), ice hockey player
- Miroslav Matušovič (* 1980), football player
- Kateřina Baďurová (* 1982), pole vaulter
- Mario Lička (* 1982), football player
- Zuzana Gardavská (* 1983), grass skier
- Tomáš Grigar (* 1983), football goalkeeper
- Martin Walter (* 1983), German-Czech ice hockey player
- Petr Bolek (* 1984), soccer goalkeeper
- Libor Podmol (* 1984), freestyle motocross driver
- Lukáš Ševít (* 1984), natural toboggan runner
- Patrik Valčák (* 1984), ice hockey player
- Michal Papadopulos (* 1985), football player
- Lukáš Klimek (* 1986), Czech ice hockey player
- Pavel Malchárek (* 1986), football player
- Roman Polák (* 1986), ice hockey player
- Petr Kalus (* 1987), football player
- Petr Stýskala (* 1987), football player
- Tarra White (* 1987), porn actress
- Martina Jakubšová (* 1988), volleyball player
- Kateřina Cachová (* 1990), heptathlete
- Nikola Ogrodníková (* 1990), javelin thrower
- Jan Veselý (* 1990), basketball player
- Petr Mrázek (* 1992), ice hockey goalkeeper
- Gabriela Capová (* 1993), ski racer
- Michaela Doleželová (* 1994), ski jumper
Well-known residents of Ostrava
- Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788–1857), German poet and writer
- Johann Gregor Mendel (1822–1884), Augustinian monk and natural scientist
- Josef Spoth (1842–1915), Austrian miner, mine director
- Theodor Andrèe (1847–1915), mountain director
- Leoš Janáček (1854–1928), Czech composer
- August Fillunger (1856–1917) Austrian miner
- Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian neurologist and depth psychologist
- Vojtěch Martínek (1887–1960), writer, prose writer, poet, literary critic and publicist (worked and died in Ostrava)
- Alfred Neubauer (1891–1980), race director of the Mercedes Grand Prix team from 1926 to 1955
- Krista Lavíčková (1917–1944), Nazi victim
- Emil Zatopek (1922-2000). Czech athlete and Olympic champion
- Vítězslav Gardavský (1923–1978), writer
- Hilde Zemann, German photographer (1922–2011)
- Herbert Thomas Mandl (1926–2007), Czech musician, philosopher and writer
- Alfred Biolek (* 1934), German television entertainer and talk show host
- Jiří Urbánek (1944–2009), fusion and jazz musician
- Milan Baros (* 1981), Czech football player
- Patricia Janečková (* 1998), Slovak opera singer