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'''Největší Čech''' (''The Greatest Czech'') is the [[Czech Republic|Czech]] [[Greatest Britons spin-offs|spin-off of the BBC ''Greatest Britons'' show]]; a [[television]] poll of the populace to name the greatest [[Czechs|Czech]] in history. It was shown on the national public-service broadcaster, [[Česká televize]]. Moderator of TV programme was [[Marek Eben]]. He was in top 100 too, but as moderator of show was displaced from official issue.

'''Odo''' (or '''Eudes''') (c. [[860]] - [[January 1]], [[898]]) was a king of the [[Franks]] ([[888]] - [[898]]). He was a son of [[Robert the Strong]], count of [[Anjou]], and is sometimes referred to as duke of [[France]] and also as count of [[Paris, France|Paris]].

The Collection of the nomination votes took place during January 2005; the top 100 were announced on [[5 May]]; and the final rankings were announced on [[10 June]] [[2005]].

For his skill and bravery in resisting the attacks of the [[Normans]], Odo was chosen king by the western Franks when the emperor [[Charles the Fat]] was deposed in [[887]], and was crowned at [[Compiegne|Compiègne]] in February [[888]].

== The top ten are: ==

He continued to battle against the Normans, whom he defeated at [[Montfaucon]] and elsewhere, but was soon involved in a struggle with some powerful nobles, who supported the claim of Charles, afterwards [[Charles III of France|King Charles III]], to the Frankish kingdom.

# [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor|King Charles IV]], Bohemian king (1346 - 1378) and Emperor (1355 - 1378), founder of Charles Bridge and Charles University - 68,713 votes

# [[Tomáš Masaryk|Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk]] - first Czechoslovak president (1918 - 1935) - 55,040 votes

# [[Václav Havel]] - last Czechoslovak (1989 - 1992) and first Czech president (1993 - 2003) - 52,233 votes

# [[Comenius|Jan Amos Komenský]] - "Teacher of nations"

# [[Jan Žižka]] - [[Hussite]] general

# [[Jan Werich]] - actor, playwright and writer

# [[Jan Hus]] - religious reformer

# [[Antonín Dvořák]] - composer

# [[Karel Čapek]] - writer, in his work R.U.R. has popularized the word "robot" (invented by his brother [[Josef Čapek]])

# [[Božena Němcová]] - writer (wrote highlight piece of Czech literature "Babička ("Grandmother"))

== 11-100 ==

To gain prestige and support Odo owned himself a vassal of the [[Germanic peoples|German]] king, [[Arnulf of Carinthia]], but in [[894]] Arnulf declared for Charles. Eventually, after a struggle which lasted for three years, Odo was compelled to come to terms with his rival, and to surrender to him a district north of the Seine. He died at La Fère on [[January 1]], [[898]].

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See [[Ernest Lavisse|E Lavisse]], ''Histoire de France'', tome ii. (Paris, 1903); and E Favre, ''Eudes, comte de Paris et roi de France'' (Paris, 1893).

<li> [[Bedřich Smetana]] - composer

<li> [[Emil Zátopek]] - athlete

<li> [[Karel Gott]] - most famous Czech singer (more than 30 times Golden Nightingale winner)

<li> [[George of Podebrady]] - Czech utraquist king

<li> [[František Palacký]] - Czech historian

<li> [[Otakar II of Bohemia|Přemysl Otakar II]] - king of Bohemia, known as "Iron and Gold King"

<li> [[Saint Wenceslas]] - duke (922 - 935) and patron saint of Bohemia

<li> [[Václav Klaus]] - second president of the Czech Republic (2003 to present)

<li> [[Jaroslav Heyrovský]] - Czech chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel prize]] laureate

<li> [[Saint Agnes of Bohemia]] - Bohemian princess and saint, founder of first Prague hospital

<li> [[Tomáš Baťa]] - first republic businessman

<li> [[Edvard Beneš]] - second Czechoslovak president (1935 - 1938, in exile 1940 - 1945, 1945 - 1948)

<li> [[Otto Wichterle]] - Czech chemist, inventor of contact lenses

<li> [[Jaroslav Seifert]] - Czech poet, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate

<li> [[Zdeněk Svěrák]] - Czech playwright, screenwriter, actor and "cimrmanologist"

<li> [[Emmy Destinn|Ema Destinnová]] - Czech opera singer

<li> [[Jaromír Jágr]] - Czech ice-hockey player

<li> [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] - Ruler of Danubian personal union and reformer

<li> [[Karel Kryl]] - Czech anticommunist songster and emigrant

<li> [[Miloš Forman]] - Czech exile director

<li> [[Vlasta Burian]] - Czech actor, "king of comedians"

<li> [[Roman Šebrle]] - Czech decathlete, Olympic winner

<li> [[Ivan Hlinka]] - coach of Czech ice-hockey representation in Nagano 1998

<li> [[Karel Havlíček Borovský]] - Bohemian journalist and writer

<li> [[Daniel Landa]] - Czech singer

<li> [[Milada Horáková]] - Czech victim of Nazism and later communism (hanged in 1950)

<li> [[Vladimír Menšík]] - Czech actor

<li> [[Jaroslav Hašek]] - Czech writer (author of [[The Good Soldier Švejk]]

<li> [[Alfons Mucha]] - Bohemian seccesion painter

<li> [[Jan Evangelista Purkyně]] - Bohemian biologist and doctor

<li> [[Pavel Nedvěd]] - Czech football player (European footballer of the year 2003)

<li> [[Jan Janský]] - Czech neurologist and psychiatrist

<li> [[František Křižík]] - Czech inventor, engineer and industrialist

<li> [[Jan Železný]] - Czech Olympic winner (javelin)

<li> [[Jan Palach]] - Czech protestor against Soviet invasion (self-immolated)

<li> [[Věra Čáslavská]] - Czech Olympic winner

<li> [[Leoš Janáček]] - Czech composer

<li> [[Alois Jirásek]] - Czech playwright and prose-writer

<li> [[Jaromír Nohavica]] - Ostravian songster and guitarist

<li> [[Jan Masaryk]] - politician killed by the communists

<li> [[Bohumil Hrabal]] - writer

<li> [[Jan Neruda]] - writer

<li> [[Josef Jungmann]] - Czech linguist and translator

<li> [[Gregor Mendel]] - Czech genetic

<li> [[Franz Kafka]] - writer

<li> [[František Tomášek]]

<li> [[Adalbert of Prague|Saint Adalbert]]

<li> [[Josef Bican]] - football player

<li> [[Josef Kajetán Tyl]] - playwright

<li> [[Lucie Bílá]] - pop singer

<li> [[Karel Hynek Mácha]] - Czech poet, creator of the poem Máj (May)

<li> [[Saint Ludmila]] - grandmother of the Czech patron St. Wenceslas

<li> [[Boleslav Polívka]] - actor, comic actor

<li> [[Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor]] - Czech king

<li> [[Josef Dobrovský]] - writer

<li> [[Josef Lada]] - painter

<li> [[Rudolf Hrušínský]] - actor

<li> [[Wenceslaus II of Bohemia]]

<li> [[Madeleine Albright]] - politician

<li> [[Aneta Langerová]] - pop singer, winner of the Pop star (Superstar in Czech) competition

<li> [[Otakar I of Bohemia|Přemysl Otakar I]] - Czech king, conqueror

<li> [[Ludvík Svoboda]] - Czech communist president

<li> [[Dominik Hašek]] - ice hockey player (goaltender)

<li> [[John of Luxemburg]] - Czech king, father of Charles IV

<li> [[Milan Baroš]] - football player

<li> [[Karel Jaromír Erben]] - poet

<li> [[Saint Zdislava]]

<li> [[Jaroslav Foglar]] - writer

<li> [[Ladislav Smoljak]] - actor and writer

<li> [[Olga Havlová]] - wife of Václav Havel, former Czechoslovak and Czech president

<li> [[Martina Navratilova|Martina Navrátilová]] - tennis player

<li> [[Helena Růžičková]] - actress

<li> [[Pavel Tigrid]] - writer

<li> [[Elisabeth I of Bohemia]] - queen

<li> [[Milan Kundera]] - writer

<li> [[Vladimír Remek]] - cosmonaut

<li> [[Boleslav I of Bohemia]] - king

<li> [[Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová]] - writer

<li> [[Mikoláš Aleš]] - painter

<li> [[Emil Holub]] - doctor, traveller and writer

<li> [[František Fajtl]] - WW2 pilot

<li> [[Klement Gottwald]] - First Communist president of Czechoslovakia

<li> [[Zdeněk Matějček]] - pediatrist

<li> [[Jiří Voskovec]] - actor

<li> [[Marta Kubišová]] - singer

<li> [[Jiřina Bohdalová]] - actress

<li> [[Miloslav Šimek]] - actor

<li> [[Sigmund Freud]] - famous psychaiatrist, teacher of Carl Gustav Jung

<li> [[Samo]] - ruler of the so called Samo's Realm

<li> [[Miloš Zeman]] - politician

</ol>

==The Greatest Villain==

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At the same time as the nominations, an Internet vote for the greatest villain of Czech history was held. The top ten were:

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Preceded by:<br>[[Charles the Fat]]

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[[List of French monarchs]]

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Succeeded by:<br>[[Charles the Simple]]

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#[[Klement Gottwald]] - first Communist president of Czechoslovakia (1948-53)

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#[[Stanislav Gross]] - Czech Republic PM

''This entry was originally from the [[1911 Encyclopedia Britannica]]. Please update as needed.''

#[[Václav Klaus]] - president of Czech Republic

#[[Vladimír Železný]] - founder of [[TV Nova]], charged with an extensive [[Tunneling (fraud)|tunnelling]] fraud

#[[Miroslav Kalousek]] - leader of Christian Democratic party

#[[Miroslav Grebeníček]] - leader of Communist Party of Moravia and Bohemia

#[[Viktor Kožený]] - Czech fugitive financier, nicknamed "the pirate of Prague"

#[[Milouš Jakeš]] - General Secretary of Czechoslovak Communist Party before and during Velvet Revolution

#[[Zdeněk Škromach]] - former minister of work and social affairs

#[[Gustáv Husák]] - last Communist president of Czechoslovakia

==Jára Cimrman==

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The first round of official voting of Greatest Czech was won by the fictional character [[Jára Cimrman]] who was created by Czech humourists [[Jiří Šebánek]], [[Zdeněk Svěrák]] (who himself took the 25th place) and [[Ladislav Smoljak]] (79th). The fact that he isn't a real person disqualified him from taking the title, because [[Česká televize]] breach the rules, that clearly stated, that "in the contest is possible to vote for everyone who was either born, or lived, or acted anyway on the soil of [[Bohemia]], [[Moravia]] or [[Czech Silesia]]."

While [[Cimrman]] did not live, nor wasn't born in this countries, he indusputably acted (since 1966) and acts on the [[mindset|mentality]] of [[Czechs|local people]].

references: [http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2005/Art/0127/news3.php The Prague Post]

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