57 Czech male poets

Michal Ajvaz is a Czech novelist, poet and translator, an exponent of the literary style known as magic realism.

Eduard Albert, was a Czech surgeon, professor and historian.

Egon Bondy, born Zbyněk Fišer, was a Czech philosopher, writer, and poet, one of the leading personalities of the Prague underground.

Petr Borkovec is a Czech poet, translator and journalist.

Bedřich Bridel, or Fridrich Bridelius was a Czech baroque writer, poet, and missionary.

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.

Jaroslav Durych was a Czech prose writer, poet, playwright, journalist, and military surgeon.

Viktor Dyk was a nationalist Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer. He was sent to jail during the First World War for opposing the Austro-Hungarian empire. He was one of the signatories of the Manifesto of Czech writers. Dyk co-founded a political party and entered politics. He died at age 53, leaving his many poems, plays and writings.

Otokar Fischer was a Czech translator, playwright, poet and critic.

Josef Václav Frič was a Czech poet, journalist and radical democrat revolutionary. He was a participant in the revolution of 1848.

Karel Havlíček Borovský was a Czech writer, poet, critic, politician, journalist, and publisher.

Zbyněk Hejda was a Czech poet, essayist and translator.

Adolf Heyduk was a distinguished Czech poet and writer. Many of his poems were later set to music by Antonín Dvořák. The best known and most widely performed is the poignant and tender Songs My Mother Taught Me with its hauntingly exquisite setting, included in the repertoire of many renowned instrumentalists and vocalists.

Karel Hlaváček was a Czech Symbolist and Decadent poet and artist.

Vladimír Holan was a Czech poet famous for employing obscure language, dark topics and pessimistic views in his poems. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in the late 1960s. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

Josef Hora was a Czech poet, literary critic and journalist.

Michal Horáček is a Czech entrepreneur, lyricist, poet, writer, journalist and music producer. From 2007 until 2010, he was the chairman of the Czech Academy of Popular Music. He founded Czech betting company Fortuna. He stood to become Czech president in the 2018 presidential election, but came in 4th in the first round, failing to advance.

Václav Hrabě was a Czech poet and writer, and the most important member of the Beat Generation in former Czechoslovakia.

František Hrubín was a Czech poet and writer. He was a lifetime member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

Petr Hruška is a Czech poet, screenwriter, literary critic and academic.

Boleslav Jablonský was a Czech poet and Catholic priest.

Alois Isidor Jeitteles was an Austrian doctor, journalist and writer, best known for Ludwig van Beethoven's setting of his poem sequence, An die ferne Geliebte.

Jan z Jenštejna, German: Johann II. von Jenstein, Johannes VI. von Jenstein. Johann von Jenzenstein, Johann von Genzenstein was the Archbishop of Prague from 1379 to 1396. He studied in Bologna, Padova, Montpellier and Paris. He was also a poet, writer and composer.

Ivan Martin Jirous was a Czech poet and dissident, best known as the artistic director of the Czech psychedelic rock group The Plastic People of the Universe, and later one of the key figures of the Czech underground during the communist regime. He is more frequently known as Magor, which can be roughly translated as "shithead", "loony", or "fool", a nickname given to him by the experimental poet Eugen Brikcius.

Josef Jungmann was a Czech poet and linguist, and a leading figure of the Czech National Revival. Together with Josef Dobrovský, he is considered to be a creator of the modern Czech language.

Václav Kliment Klicpera was a Czech playwright, author, and poet. He was one of the first presenters of Czech drama, and was especially influential in the foundation of comedic Czech theatre.

Milan Kohout is a Czech–American performance artist, writer, and university lecturer. He was a signatory of the Charter 77 human rights declaration against the communist government of Czechoslovakia.

Pavel Kohout is a Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring participant and dissident in the 1970s until he was not allowed to return from Austria. He was a founding member of the Charter 77 movement.

Jiří Kolář Czech pronunciation (help·info) was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work included both literary and visual art.

Ludvík Kundera was a Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian. He was a notable exponent of the Czech avant-garde literature and a prolific translator of German authors. In 2007, he received the Medal of Merit for service to the Republic. In 2009, he was awarded the Jaroslav Seifert Award, presented by the Charter 77 Foundation. Kundera was a cousin of Czech-French writer Milan Kundera and nephew of the pianist and musicologist also named Ludvík Kundera.

Milan Kundera is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera's Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979. He was given a Czech citizenship in 2019. He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores".

Jaroslav Kvapil was a Czech poet, theatre director, translator, playwright, and librettist. From 1900 he was a director and Dramaturg at the National Theatre in Prague, where he introduced plays by Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen and Maxim Gorky into the repertory. Later he was a director at the Vinohrady Theatre (1921–1928). He wrote six plays, but is today chiefly remembered as the librettist of Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka.

Miloš Macourek was a Czech poet, playwright, author and screenwriter.

Rudolf Mayer was a Czech poet. He was a member of the Májovci group of Czech novelists and poets and is best known for his poem "Midday".

Luděk Navara is a Czech non-fictional author, publicist, scenarist and historian. He graduated at Faculty of Civil Engineering of Brno University of Technology and later in history at Faculty of Philosophy of Masaryk University. Since 1995 he has been editor by newspaper MF Dnes. He cooperates also with Česká televize in Brno. His predominant coverage of history and journalism are crimes of Communism and Nazism, and flight and expulsion of Germans during and after WWII.

Vítězslav Nezval was one of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the twentieth century and a co-founder of the Surrealist movement in Czechoslovakia.

Josef Boleslav Pecka, was a Czech social democratic journalist, poet and politician.

Eduard Petiška was a Czech poet, translator, playwright and novelist, the author of many books for children and young people, and a translator and theorist of children's literature. He wrote over ninety books, which were translated to dozens of languages.

Karel Píč was a leading Czech Esperantist, a member of the Academy of Esperanto, a poet and writer of short stories, essays, and novels in Esperanto.

Rio Preisner was a Czech poet, philosopher, translator, and scholar of Czech and German literature.

Ondřej Přikryl was a Czech poet, pharmacist and politician. Born in Výšovice near Prostějov, he studied medicine at Charles University in Prague, graduating in 1886. He devoted himself to medicine and eventually began to have political influence. Between 1914 and 1919 he served as the mayor of Prostějov, and in 1902, 1906 and 1913 he was elected to the Moravian Assembly. After World War I, he was elected to the Czechoslovak senate in the 1920 elections, a position which he held until 1925.

Karel Václav Rais was a Czech realist novelist, author of the so-called country prose, numerous books for youth and children, and several poems.

Václav Renč was a Czech poet, dramatist and translator. Like other Catholic ruralistic writers, his themes included God, traditions and the countryside.

Karel Sabina was a Czech writer and journalist.

Josef Václav Sládek was a Czech poet, journalist and translator, member of the literary group Lumírovci (cs:Lumírovci), pioneer of children's poetry in Czech lands.

Fráňa Šrámek was a Czech anarchist, impressionist, and vitalist poet, novelist, and playwright.

Stanislav Kostka Neumann was Czech writer, poet, and journalist. He has undergone many stages of creative: symbolist, anarchist, landscape lyric, civilist, communist and others. He was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. He was a mentor of Jaroslav Seifert.

Jiří Stránský was a Czech author, playwright, translator, screenwriter, twice a political prisoner of the communist regime, and human rights advocate. He was the grandson of Czechoslovak politician Jan Malypetr.

Jiří Suchý is a Czech film actor, writer and stage actor. He also writes music. Currently he is the owner of the theatre Semafor in Prague where he has performed for many years and which he helped to establish in 1959.

Zdeněk Svěrák is a Czech actor, humorist, playwright and scriptwriter, and one of the most well-known and popular Czech cultural personalities. Since 1968 he has appeared in 32 films.

Josef Kajetán Tyl was a significant Czech dramatist, writer, and actor. He was a notable figure in the Czech National Revival movement and is best known as the author of the current national anthem of the Czech Republic titled Kde domov můj?.

Milan Uhde is a Czech playwright and politician. He is a member of the Civic Democratic Party.

Jan Erazim Vocel was a Czech poet, archaeologist, historian and cultural revivalist. Though as heir to his father's trade he was to become a baker, his parents, observing his youthful enthusiasm for Gothic history, eventually heeded his academic calling.

Jaroslav Vrchlický was a Czech lyrical poet. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature eight times.

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

Jan Zahradníček was a Czech journalist, translator, and one of the most important Czech Catholic poets of the 20th century. Because of his faith and his anti-totalitarian work, he was imprisoned as an enemy of the Communist Party after the Communist coup of 1948.

Julius Zeyer was a Czech prose writer, poet, and playwright.