
Emil František Burian was a Czech poet, journalist, singer, actor, musician, composer, dramatic adviser, playwright and director. He was also active in Communist Party of Czechoslovakia politics.

General Alexej Čepička was a Czechoslovak communist politician who served as defense minister from 1950 to 1956.

Milan Čič was a Slovak lawyer and politician who served as Prime Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic from 1989 to 1990.

Pavel Dostál was the Czech Minister of Culture from 1998 to 2005.

Jan Drda was a Czech journalist, politician, playwright, screenwriter and author of modern fairytales. He was the Czech State Prize Laureate in 1949 and 1953, and was a nominated again for the same prize in 1965.
Milada Emmerová is a Czech doctor, politician and former Minister of Health for the Czech Republic. She is a member of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD). Currently she is senator of Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.

Richard Falbr is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Czech Social Democratic Party, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

Robert Fico is a Slovak politician who served as Prime Minister of Slovakia from 2006 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2018. He has been the first leader of the Direction – Social Democracy (SMER-SD) party since 1999. First elected to Parliament in 1992, he was later appointed to the Council of Europe. Following his party's victory in the 2006 parliamentary election, he formed the first Fico Cabinet.

Norbert Frýd was a Czech writer, journalist and diplomat. He is known mainly for his autobiographical novel Krabice živých, in which he describes his experiences in Nazi concentration camps. During World War II, he was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Dachau-Kaufering concentration camps.

Julius Fučík was a Czechoslovak journalist, critic, writer, an active member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and part of the forefront of the anti-Nazi resistance. He was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the Nazis.

Ivan Gašparovič is a Slovak politician and lawyer who was President of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014. He was also the first and currently the only Slovak president to be re-elected.

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

František Halas was one of the most significant Czech lyric poets of the 20th century, an essayist, and a translator.

Štefan Harabin is a former Slovak judge and politician. He served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Slovakia for two terms and Minister of Justice from 2006 to 2009. In 2019 he ran unsuccessfully for President of Slovakia.

Adolf Hoffmeister was a Czechoslovak illustrator, caricaturist, painter, writer, poet, journalist, politician, diplomat and traveler.

Zdeněk Jičínský was a Czech lawyer, politician, co-architect of the Constitution of the Czech Republic, and Charter 77 signatory. He served as a Deputy from 1996 to 2002 and from 2003 until 2010.

Bohumil Jílek was a Czechoslovak politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1925 to 1929.

Záviš Kalandra was a Czechoslovak historian, theatre critic and theorist of literature.

Prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Kárník, DrSc. was a Czech historian and pedagogue.

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

Přemysl Kočí was a Czech operatic baritone, actor, music educator, stage director, theatre manager and official of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

Daniela Kovářová is a Czech politician who served as Minister of Justice in the caretaker government of Jan Fischer from 2009 to 2010.

Karl Kreibich (1883–1966), also known as Karel Kreibich, was a Sudeten German communist politician and author in Czechoslovakia. Kreibich emerged as the main leader of the revolutionary socialist movement amongst German workers in Bohemia after the First World War. He was a leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and a functionary of the Communist International. During the First Czechoslovak Republic, he was elected to parliament thrice. During the Second World War he was part of the exiled Czechoslovak State Council, based in London. After the war he served as Czechoslovak ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Jan Křen was a Czech historian, academic, dissident during Czechoslovakia's communist era, and a Charter 77 signatory. He specialized in the study of Czech-German relations.

František Kriegel was a Czechoslovak politician, physician, and a member of the Communist Party reform wing of Prague Spring (1968). He was the only one of the political leaders who, during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, declined to sign the Moscow Protocol.

Laco Novomeský was a Slovak poet, writer, publicist and communist politician. Novomeský was a member of the DAV group; after The Second World War he was commissioner of education and culture of Socialist Czechoslovakia. A prominent Czechoslovak politician, he was persecuted in the 1950s and later rehabilitated in the 1960s.

Luisa Landová-Štychová was a Czechoslovakian politician. In 1920 she was one of the first group of women elected to the Chamber of Deputies.

Lubomír Ledl was a Czech politician who served as a member of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia.

Marie Majerová was a Czech writer and translator.

Jiří Maštálka is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left party group in the European Parliament.

Vladimír Mečiar is a Slovak politician who served as Prime Minister of Slovakia three times, from 1990 to 1991, from 1992 to 1994 and from 1994 to 1998. He was the leader of the People's Party - Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (ĽS-HZDS). Mečiar led Slovakia during the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992–93 and was one of the leading presidential candidates in Slovakia in 1999 and 2004. He has been criticized by his opponents as well as by Western political organisations for having an autocratic style of administration and for his connections to organized crime and his years in government became infamously known as Mečiarizmus.

Alois Muna, also Alois Můňa, was a Czechoslovak politician and one of the founders and interwar period general secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

Vojtěch Mynář was a Czech politician, who from 2012 until 2014, was a Member of the European Parliament, representing the Czech Republic. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party.

General Petr Pavel is a Czech army officer who served from 2015 to 2018 as the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. He is the first person from a former Eastern Bloc state and the first former communist to hold the position. Prior to his current role he was Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Army from 1 July 2012 to 1 May 2015.

Petr Pithart is a Czech politician, lawyer and political scientist who served as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 6 February 1990 to 2 July 1992. He was also the Senator for Chrudim from 1996 to 2012 and served as President of the Senate from 8 January 1996 to 16 December 1998 and again from 19 December 2000 to 15 December 2004.

Bedřich Reicin was a Czechoslovak army officer and politician.

Pavel Rychetský is a Czech lawyer and former politician who is the 3rd and current Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic. The Senate confirmed him on 16 July 2003 and on 6 August 2003 he was sworn in by President Václav Klaus and reappointed in 2013 by President Miloš Zeman.

Rudolf Schuster is the former President of Slovakia, his term of office ran from 1999 to 2004. He was elected on 29 May 1999 and inaugurated on 15 June. In the presidential elections of April 2004, in which he sought re-election, Schuster was defeated. He received only 7.4% of the vote, with three other candidates receiving more than that. He was succeeded by Ivan Gašparovič.

Jiřina Šiklová was a Czech sociologist notable for her political engagement and studies of gender in the Czech Republic and former Soviet countries. She was an active campaigner for political reform in Communist Czechoslovakia and was a signatory of Charter 77.

Karol Śliwka was a Polish communist politician from Zaolzie region in the First Czechoslovak Republic. Śliwka was one of the most prominent political leaders of the Polish minority in Zaolzie and a member of National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic from 1925 to 1938.

Jan Stráský was a Czech politician, who served as the last Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia in 1992.

Jan Šverma was a Czechoslovak journalist, communist activist and resistance fighter against the Nazi-backed Slovak State, considered a national hero in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
Ludvík Svoboda was a Czech general and politician. He fought in both World Wars, for which he was regarded as a national hero, and he later served as President of Czechoslovakia from 1968 to 1975.

Václav Vacek was a Czech writer, and a communist politician. He served as a Senator in the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia and after the Prague Uprising as the Mayor of Prague. He was also a founding member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia after the schism in Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1921.

Otakar Vávra was a Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was born in Hradec Králové, Austria-Hungary, now part of the Czech Republic.

Jiří Wolker was a Czech poet, journalist and playwright. He was one of the founding members of KSČ - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia - in 1921.