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Beno Blachut was a lauded Czech operatic tenor. An icon in his own nation, Blachut drew international acclaim through his many commercial recordings of Czech music. He was an instrumental part of the post-World War II school of Czech opera singers that were responsible for popularizing Czech opera internationally. He was highly regarded for his interpretations of roles in operas by Leoš Janáček, Antonín Dvořák, and Bedřich Smetana.

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Tomáš Edvard Schiffauer, more commonly known as Edvard Schiffauer, is a Czech composer of classical music. Schiffauer is mainly a composer of music for theater. He also composed vocal pieces like operas, an oratorio, a mass and others, along with chamber music, such as sonatas, sonatinas, a string quartet, pieces for a brass quintet, a wind octet, a string trio and more.

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Karel Fiala was a Czech operatic tenor and film actor. He was known for his work in operettas and musicals, but received worldwide attention for his portrayal of Mozart's Don Giovanni in the film Amadeus.

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Ilja Hurník was a Czech composer and essayist.

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Heidi Janků is a Czech singer and actress. She released her first single, "Já Jsem Já" in 1982.

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Richard Kubla was a Czech tenor who had an active international career in operas, concerts, and recitals from 1910-1945. He had a particularly lengthy association with the National Theatre Prague where he was heard annually from 1924-1945.

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Jaromír Nohavica or Jarek Nohavica is a Czech recording artist, songwriter, lyricist, poet, and former informant for the StB.

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Věra Špinarová was a Czech singer. She was born in Pohořelice, Czechoslovakia, and moved to Ostrava, now Czech Republic, with her parents at the age of seven. She learned to play the violin as a child.

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Joseph Wechsberg was a Jewish Czech writer, journalist, musician, and gourmet. Born in Ostrava, in Moravia, Czechoslovakia, he and his wife requested and received asylum in the United States in 1939 when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia. His mother was among the Czech Jews interned by the Nazis and later died at Auschwitz. Over his career he was a prolific writer who wrote over two dozen works of nonfiction, including books on music and musicians, and contributed numerous articles to publications such as The New Yorker.