Sports & Acrobatics
- Hugo Bezdek, football, basketball and baseball coach, u inductee in the college Football Hall of Fame (1954).
- George Blanda, of Czech mother, former football player.
- Amy Fadhli, fitness model 1996 (Czech mother and Iraqi father).
- George S. Halas, "Papa Bear", player-coach of the Chicago Bears.
- John Havlicek, of Czech ancestry, basketball player.
- Al Hostak, middleweight boxing champion.
- Chris Kanyon, WWE wrestler, real name was Christopher Klucsarits.
- Jessica Korda, pro golfer
- Katie Ledecky, swimmer, 2012 Olympic 800m freestyle champion
- Ivan Lendl, tennis player.
- Evan Frank Lysacek, a figure skater; the 2010 Olympic champion and the 2009 World champion.
- Stanley Frank Musial, of Czech mother, baseball player of international fame.
- Martina Navratilova, tennis player.
- John Pesek, an American professional wrestler, known as 'The Nebraska Tiger Man'; inductee in the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame (2005).
- Jack Root from Frahelz, Bohemia, an American boxer, was first-ever World Light-Heavyweight Champion and later declared also the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
- Karl Wallenda, founder of the Flying Wallenda, with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
- Joe Nemechek, NASCAR driver, grandfather was from Praque
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“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)