Kroměříž is a city in the Zlín region. It lies on the Morava River at
the southern end of the Upper Moravian Basin and at the same time in the
southern tip of the fertile Haná. Approximately 28,000 inhabitants live
here, making it the second largest city in the region after Zlín.
In 1997, Kroměříž was declared the most beautiful historical city of
the Czech Republic, and a year later, the local Archbishop's Palace,
together with the Flower Garden and the Podzámecká Garden, was included
in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List.
The international
festival of military brass music and the international sacred music
festival FORFEST are traditionally held in the city. On the outskirts of
the city is the Kroměříž Agricultural Research Institute (formerly the
Cereal Research Institute, etc., founded in 1951), which deals with
research and breeding of cereals.
The historic center of the city was preserved and repaired in the
1990s - the Great Square with the arcade and the Archbishop's Castle
next to it. Together with the two gardens (Květná zahrada, Podzámecká
zahrada) it has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List since
1998, and in addition, Titian's famous work Apollo and Marsyas can be
found in the local gallery. The Kroměříž Sacramentary (Sacramentarium
Cremsiriense), one of the oldest liturgical books preserved in the Czech
lands, is stored in the castle library. In addition to the castle, there
are historically valuable churches in Kroměříž: the church of St.
Morice, church of St. John the Baptist, the Church of the Assumption of
the Virgin Mary, the Orthodox Church of St. Cyril and Methodius and the
Church of St. Cyril and Methodius on the premises of the Psychiatric
Hospital. Further, for example, the chapel of the Holy Cross in Octárn,
the chapel of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross of the Congregation of
the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross, the Mill Gate, the bishop's
mint, which houses the largest collection of coins in Central Europe,
the archbishop's wine cellars, the Museum of Kroměříž and the Artuš
Gallery, etc.
Near Kroměříž is the nature park Záhlinické
rybníky, where you can see cormorants and where beavers were planted. To
the west of Kroměříž is the Strž hydroelectric power plant from 1923 on
the Morava River, where Kaplan turbines were used for probably the first
time in the history of the Czech Republic.
Hejtmanský House (sometimes called Syrakovský)
Parish office near
St. Morice
Heppnar's Inn
The fountain on the Great Square
Princely house
Flower garden
Liechtenstein seminar
Marian
Column on the Great Square
Maximilian's water supply
Town Hall
near the Town Hall (sometimes referred to as the Old Tavern)
Municipal Brewery (sometimes referred to as the Old Brewery)
Mill
gate
Mühlmann House
Upper cellar
The castle garden
Provostship
Town hall
Regency House
Birthplace of Max Švabinský
Rosary house opposite the town hall
Rožní house opposite the castle
Column of the Holy Trinity
Column with a statue of St. John of
Nepomuk
Jewish Town Hall
The location of the city also corresponds to the local dialect, which (when taking into account the characteristics of the so-called urban dialect) is Hana, or more precisely East Hana, i.e. without the prosthetic v- (on, window, not von, window) and partly also without the adverbial j- (Iřik, ido/idu instead of Jiřík, I go). Just a few kilometers south of Kroměříž (from the village of Trávník) the area of East Moravian dialects begins.
The original form of the name of the settlement was
Kroměžir (in the masculine gender) and was derived from the personal
name Kroměžir. The meaning of the local name was "Kroměžir's estate".
From the 14th century, the permutation of final vowels into the present
form is documented. The name was adopted into German before the
transliteration and remained so until the 20th century.
Kroměříž
is nicknamed Hanácké Athény.
In the Middle Ages, there was a ford over the Morava River and
the intersection of the Amber and Salt Trails (which was a de facto
continuation of the famous Silk Trail).
The first written
report about Kroměříž comes from 1110. On the Arabic map, known as
the Tabula Rogeriana, the city is referred to as Agra. In 1207,
Přemysl Otakar confirmed the ownership of the village of Kroměříž to
Bishop Robert I of Olomouc, which was bought by his predecessor
Bishop Jan II. from Prince Ota Černý for 300 hryvnias.
The
city was founded by Olomouc bishop Bruno of Schauenburg around 1263.
The Olomouc bishops built a representative summer residence in
Kroměříž, and relocated part of the diocese's administration here.
During the Moravian margrave wars, John IX found refuge here. from
Wednesday. During the Hussite wars, when the bishop was Jan XII.
Železný, the Hussite Catholic army under his command was defeated in
the so-called Battle of Kroměříž in June 1423, after which the city
suffered greatly. At the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries, Bishop
Stanislav I. Thurzo began the reconstruction of the Gothic castle
into a castle. In 1550, Bishop Jan Skála from Doubravka, who was
also an important historian and writer, granted privileges to the
miller's guild in Kroměříž. Bishop František of Ditrichštejn started
the construction of the Franciscan monastery at the beginning of the
17th century. During the Thirty Years' War, the city suffered a lot
from the invasion of Swedish troops twice in a row (1643 and 1645)
and subsequently from the plague. The tragic fate of the Jews of
Kroměříž during the Thirty Years' War is colorfully described in the
dirge Kroměřížská selicha, which was preserved in a manuscript from
1702. In the sixties of the 17th century, Olomouc bishop Karel II
began an extensive restoration of the city.
Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn. In the years 1806–1813, 1815–1821 and
1845–1847, the headquarters of the 3rd Infantry Regiment was located
in Kroměříž. In 1848, the Reichstag met in Kroměříž. On the
24th-26th In August 1885, a meeting of the Russian Tsar Alexander
III took place in the city. with the Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph
I., the city thus became the center of attention of the whole of
Europe. It is interesting that to this day it remains a secret what
was really going on in Kroměříž at that time. On April 15 and 16,
1905, Professor Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk lectured in Kroměříž on the
topic of the problem of a small nation. On August 27, 1929, Masaryk
visited the city officially, as president of the Czechoslovak
Republic.
Due to its enormous cultural importance (the city
has been the cultural center of Haná and the whole of Central
Moravia since the 17th century), the city earned the nickname of the
Athena of Haná. The city of Kroměříž, the second largest city in the
Zlín region by population and the former district city, is a strong
natural regional center located on the Moravia River.
20th
century
The city was known as a city of soldiers (two barracks)
and students (a number of secondary education schools) and
pensioners. On the site of the Žižka barracks today is Hanácké
náměstí, on the site of the Rybalka barracks Tesco. Soldiers from
the Fisherman's Barracks also served in the Hvězda area near Velké
Těšan.
The municipal government is represented by a council with 27 members.
After the municipal elections of 2014, the director of the Slovan
Primary School, Jaroslav Němec, from the ANO movement, was elected mayor
of the city on November 6. The city council was formed by the coalition
ANO, KDU-ČSL, ČSSD and Zdravé Kroměřížsko. The city council had 9
members.
After the municipal elections of 2018, Jaroslav Němec
(Independent) was re-elected mayor of the city on November 1. Candidates
from KDU-ČSL, ZVUK 12 and independents (11.72 percent and three
mandates), ODS (8.95 percent and three mandates), Czech Pirate Party
(7.48 percent and two representatives), ČSSD ( 6.12 percent and two
deputies) and KSČM (6.10 percent and two deputies).
Structure
The development of the number of inhabitants for the
entire municipality and for its individual parts is presented in the
table below, which also shows the affiliation of individual parts to the
municipality or subsequent separation. The population is constantly
changing and increasing. Regarding the number of houses, the total
number including Vázan and Kotojed is given for Kroměříž in 1961.
The D1 highway passes through the city with exit 258-Kroměříž-západ.
Furthermore, two sections of road I/47 from Vyškov and on to Hulín lead
through it. From this exit in a southeast direction through Kotojedy and
Trávník road II/367 leads to Tlumačov. To the south, to Zdounky, road
II/432 leads through Vážany. Road II/428 enters the city from the west,
from Morkovic–Slížan. From the north of Chropyně road II/435. Road III.
classes are:
III/36726 Hradisko–Měrůtky
III/36733 junction between
II/367 and I/47 (Tovačovskýho and Hulínská streets)
III/36734
Kotojedy–Vážany
III/36735 Kotojedy–Těšnovice–Velké Těšany
III/36736 Těšnovice–Bařice
III/36738 Lubná–Zlámanka
III/4326
branch from I/47 to Bílany
III/43215 Kroměříž–Rataje
III/43220
Jarohněvice–Drahlov–Zlámanka–Lhotka
Public transport in Kroměříž
is operated by Kroměřížská techniké služby, s.r.o. on 8 bus lines. In
the cadastre of the city, there is a sports airport in the locality of
Hrubý rybník (Bagrák). Not far from the airport, the Kotojedka river
flows into the Morava River.
Regular passenger rail transport in
Kroměříž is provided by Czech Railways on line number 303 Kojetín –
Kroměříž – Hulín – Valašské Meziříčí and on line number 305
Kroměříž–Zdounky–Zborovice. Check-in for international and domestic
passengers including reservation documents (seats, beds and sunbeds) is
ensured at the railway station. Payment by credit card as well as
payment in euros is possible. There is a barrier-free toilet in the
station, which is equipped with a Euro lock.
There is a bicycle
rental office at the Kroměříž railway station (344754) and routes 303
and 305 are routes with free transportation of borrowed bicycles.
Kroměříž is a station where you can store your rented bike for free.
Another railway stop in the city is the Kroměříž-Oskol stop (339440) on
line 305 and the stop in the local part of Kotojedy (345058). On route
number 303, stop in the local part of Postoupka (345157).
Over 30 films or series were filmed (at least in part) in Kroměříž,
among them, for example, the musical film Thirty Virgins and Pythagoras
(where you can see, for example, Justiční akademie or Květná zahrada,
1973) with Jiří Menzl in the lead role, the Slovak children's series
Jedno malé housing estate (where you can see the Oskol housing estate,
the Slovan school, etc., 1978), several episodes of the eight-part
historical Yugoslav-French television film Seobe, 1988 (also in film
distribution as a two-part film), Trenck – Zwei Herzen gegen were filmed
in the Kroměříž castle die Krone (In the Name of Love and Duty) – the
castle and its surroundings, 2003, some scenes from the films Requiem
for a Doll (1991), The Royal Affair (2012) or Inheritance or The Whore
Doesn't Tell (2013), scenes from the narrative series I, Mattoni.
Miloš Forman filmed the Oscar-winning film Amadeus (1984), Miloslav
Šmídmajer the fairy tale Hell with the Princess at the castle here.
Scenes of Chetnik humoresques were also shot in the town and the
Podzámecká Garden. The city is also depicted in the series about the
architecture of the Czech Republic Šumná města. In 2017, the film Maria
Theresa was filmed at the Kroměříž castle. In 2021, the continuation of
the Maria Theresa miniseries took place here.
Kroměříž is home to a number of schools and forms an important center
of education in the region. Among other things, there are 9 secondary
schools (three of which are also higher vocational schools) and two
gymnasiums. Since 2005, the national educational institution of justice
has been located here - the Judicial Academy, which continued the
tradition of the Judicial School established in Kroměříž in 1995. The
presence of many schools and the high level of education earned the city
the nickname Hanácké Athena.
Secondary and higher vocational
education
Gymnasium
Archbishop's Gymnasium in Kroměříž - church
gymnasium (founded by the Archbishopric of Olomouc), the school has its
own boarding school right in the building
Kroměříž Gymnasium
Piarist grammar school in Kroměříž (defunct)
Conservatory
Conservatory of P.J. Vejvanovský Kroměříž
Conservatory of the
Evangelical Academy, relocated to Olomouc
Secondary schools and
Higher vocational schools
Secondary School of Entrepreneurship and
Higher School of Entrepreneurship, s. r. o.
Higher Vocational School
of Pedagogy and Social Sciences and Secondary Pedagogical School,
Kroměříž
Higher Vocational School of Food and Secondary Industrial
School of Dairying Kroměříž
Secondary medical school, Kroměříž
Other
Judicial Academy
Secondary school - Center for technical
training, Kroměříž
Business Academy Kroměříž
Vocational school and
practical school, Kroměříž
Secondary medical school, Kroměříž
Hotel and service secondary school, Kroměříž
Taufer Secondary
Vocational Veterinary School, Kroměříž
Athletic Club Kroměříž – athletics
HK Kroměříž – ice hockey club
SK Hanácká Slavia Kroměříž – football club, operating at the Jožka
Silného Stadium
TJ SLAVIA Kroměříž – a unity uniting 8 sections
(basketball, judo, karate, skittles, modern gymnastics, recreational
sports, table tennis, chess; the chess section has been playing in the
Czech Extraliga since the 2019/2020 season)
TJ Slavia Kroměříž –
basketball team
TJ Sokol Kroměříž - the most famous is the men's
volleyball team, which became the champion of Czechoslovakia three times
during the first republic (1929, 1932, 1936).
Defunct sports
grounds
Velodrome – cycling track in places called Rejdište
Defunct football clubs
MSV Kremsier
VTJ Kroměříž
The housing estate of family houses Barbořina (according to the
nearby wooded hill, Barbaraberg in German – St. Barbara's hill), mainly
panel housing estates Slovan, Zachar and Oskol (the names of the three
elementary schools also correspond to these three), Horní Zahrady, Dolní
Zahrady, Zámoraví.
On the basis of the provisional municipal
order from 1849, which ordered that all suburban municipalities should
be merged with the cities into a single municipality, in 1853 the serf
villages of Bělidla, Novosada, Štěchovice and the above-mentioned Oskol
were joined. The Jewish town was connected to the city as early as 1851.
It was separated from the city by a separation wall and was located
between today's Tylova and Moravcova streets. The building of the
so-called Jewish Town Hall, which is the only significant preserved
monument of the former Jewish town, still stands in Moravcová Street. In
1858, the cadastral territories of the settlements Bělidla, Novosady,
Oskol, Za Kovářská branou, Sladovna, Štěchovice and Židovská obec were
abolished.
Lutold of Kroměříž († after 1329), Silesian clergyman and elected but
unconfirmed bishop of Wrocław
Jan Milič from Kroměříž (between 1320
and 1325–1374), preacher (probably born in Kroměříž or Tečovice)
Bartolomej Paprocký of Hlohol and Paprocké Vůla (1540/1543–1614), Polish
and Czech historian, heraldist and genealogist
Mikuláš František
Faber (?–1673), Czech clergyman and music composer, died in Kroměříž
Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (1639/1640–1693), baroque music composer
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704), Czech-Austrian baroque music
composer of German nationality
Jan Cantius Solik (?–1739),
Franciscan, traveler and author of a guide for pilgrims to the Holy Land
Adolf Jiří Groll (1682–1743), Superior General of the Piarists in Rome,
Bishop of Győr
Jakub Josef Římař (1682–1755), Franciscan missionary,
traveler, expert on Egypt
Edmund Pascha (1714–1772), preacher,
organist and composer
Gandolf Blaník (before 1715–1779), preacher,
guardian of the Kroměříž Franciscans, died in Kroměříž
Karel Josef
Adolf (1715–1771), Czech painter, restorer and chamberlain in the
service of the bishops of Olomouc, died in Kroměříž
Jan Václav Prchal
(1744–1811), Baroque sculptor, born in Kroměříž
Václav Jan
Frierenberger (1759–1823), general from the Napoleonic Wars, died in
Kroměříž
Antonín Hirnle (1759–1824), Roman Catholic clergyman,
archbishop's chancellor in Prague, son of sculptor František Hirnle
Tomáš Josef Povondra (1786–1832), Piarist, Catholic priest, born in
Kroměříž
Alois Wehrle (1791–1835), professor of chemistry,
metallurgy, metallurgy and mineralogy, born in Kroměříž
Ferdinand
Laurencin (1819–1890), music composer and critic publishing under the
pseudonym Philokales, born in Kroměříž
Ferdinand Urbanek (1821–1887),
sugar entrepreneur, politician and organizer of cultural life, born in
Kroměříž
Karel Leopold Klaudy (1822–1894), pedagogue, politician,
mayor of Prague and lawyer
Emanuel Baumgarten (1828–1908), writer,
journalist, poet, politician, born in Kroměříž
Vilibald Mildschuh
(1834–1896), lawyer and municipal politician, member of the Land
Assembly
Ferdinand Stolička (born in the hunting lodge Zámeček near
Kroměříž) (1838–1874), traveler, geologist, naturalist, the first Czech
in the Himalayas
Maximilián Mayer-Wallerstein-Ahrdorff (1845–1928),
Catholic priest and poet, born in Kroměříž
Antonín Hulka (1849–1910),
notary, politician and member of the Moravian Regional Assembly
Jan
Kratzl (1854–1925), forest engineer, surveyor and politician
Max
Grünfeld (1856–1933), German-writing Jewish writer and pedagogue, born
in Kroměříž
František Norbert Drápalík (1861–1920), abbot of the
Premonstratensian canon in the New Kingdom
Max Švabinský (1873–1962),
painter and engraver, born in Kroměříž in Jánská Street
Otakar
Pinsker (1873–1935), journalist, editor and columnist
Vilibald
Mildschuh (1878–1939), national economist, statistician, professor at
the Czech Law Faculty of the Charles University, born in Kroměříž
Max
Spielmann (1881–1970), architect
Amálie Pouchlá (1881–1964), Czech
politician and feminist, the first deputy mayor in the history of
Czechoslovakia
Hermann Pokorny (1882–1960), cryptologist of the
Austro-Hungarian army, born in Kroměříž
Václav Talich (1883–1961),
conductor
Richard Sicha (1883–1963), Czech writer, fighter for the
independence of the Czechoslovak state
Rudolf Kroutil (1884–1964),
divisional general, officer of the Czechoslovak Legions in Russia,
important functionary of Kroměříž football
Jan Rypka (1886–1968),
orientalist, translator from Persian and Turkish
Třasoň, Eugen
(1886–1950), conductor, choirmaster of the Moravian singing association
and pedagogue
Robert Land (1887–1942), real name Robert Liebmann,
film director, born in Kroměříž, popularized the famous actresses
Marlene Dietrich and Lilian Harvey
Sylvestr Harna (1890–1948),
legionnaire artist, sculptor and teacher
Josef Friedrich (1890–1968),
Czech Esperantist, railway advisor in Košice, committee member and
president of the Czechoslovak Esperantist Association
Rudolf Jílovský
(1890–1954), comedian, singer, chansonist, actor and editor
Jaroslav
Vyplel (1890–1969), teacher, poet and translator
Antonín Moudrý
(1892–1948), architect
Milena Ivšínová (1893–1959), writer
Alois
Hložek (1893–1961), Czech and Czechoslovakian soldier and politician
Augustin Krist (1894–1964), Czechoslovak international football referee
Ludvík Svoboda (1895–1979), general and president of the Czechoslovakia,
lived in a house in Generála Svoboda Street
Ludvík Nábělek
(1896–1982), doctor and anti-fascist fighter
Marie Glabazňová
(1896–1980), writer, teacher and Catholic poet
Hynek Baťa
(1898–1968), Czech tanner and director of the Baťa factories
Bedřich
Spáčil (1898–1974), professor of financial law
Jindřich Spáčil
(1899–1978), teacher, writer and amateur archaeologist
Martin Miller
(1899–1969), British film actor of Jewish origin, born in Kroměříž
Eduard Žáček (1899–1973), functionalist architect
Karel Minář
(1901–1973), painter, graphic artist, illustrator, sculptor and
professor at AVU in Prague
Josef Silný (1902–1981), footballer, born
in Kroměříž
Jaromír Berák (1902–1964), lawyer, politician of the
Czechoslovak People's Party, born in Kroměříž
Josef Jedlička
(1904–1993), Czech violinist, professor of violin playing at the
conservatory in Brno
Olga Barényi (1905–1978), writer, writing in
Czech until 1945 and then in German in Austrian and German exile
Jaromír Tomeček (1906–1997), writer of works with mainly natural themes
Oldřich Králík (1907–1975), literary historian, textologist, critic,
editor and teacher
František Kožík (1909–1997), writer, author of the
memoir My Kroměříž (1995), which describes his childhood spent in
Kroměříž in the years 1913–1925
Miloslav Veselský (1910–1913), Czech
politician, member of the Moravian Regional Assembly and mayor of
Kroměříž in 1910–1913
Alexej Čepička (1910–1990), communist
politician, one of the architects of the project to liquidate the
Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia
Otmar Riedl (1914–1994), soldier,
member of the Czechoslovak Foreign Army and member of the Benjamin
Airborne
Walter Staffa (1917–2011), German physician and Sudeten
German official
René Zahradník (1920–1994), politician of the
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and member of the House of Nations of
the Federal Assembly for normalization
Erich Hubala (1920–1994),
historian, professor of art history at the University of Würzburg, born
in Kroměříž
Eduard Šabatka (1921–2007), footballer and ice hockey
player
Alois Poledňák (1922–1984), communist politician, director of
the Czechoslovak State Film in the 1960s
Jaroslav Koutecký
(1922–2005), professor, physical chemist
Zora Rozsypalová
(1922–2010), Czech theater and film actress
Jaroslav Pinkava
(1922–1999), historian and writer
Karel Prager[33][34] (1923–2001),
architect (Nová scéna ND, Federal Assembly, etc.), born in Kroměříž
Igor Němec (1924–2005), bohemian and Slavist, born in Kroměříž
Miloš
Macourek (1926–2002), poet, playwright, author of fairy-tale prose and
film screenwriter, born in Kroměříž
Jaroslav Frydrych (1928–1982),
academic painter, born in Kroměříž
Josef Karlík (1928–2009), actor
Josef Veselý (1929–2010), Czech Catholic priest, poet, journalist,
writer and political prisoner of the communist regime
Jaroslav Válek
(1932–1982), editor, actor, humorist and comedian known as "The Sad Man"
Miloš Smetana (1932–2009), screenwriter and dramaturg, born in Kroměříž
Stanislav Kratochvíl (* 1932), psychologist, author of several books,
head of the clinical psychology department of the Psychiatric Hospital
in Kroměříž
Bořivoj Navrátil (1933–2011), actor, born in Kroměříž
Jaroslav Bořuta (1934–1998), Czech ice hockey forward
Ivan Drímal
(1936–2016), Moravian politician, born in Kroměříž
Arne Linka
(1938–1999), professor, composer, musicologist and theorist
Jana
Andresíková (1941–2020), actress born in Kroměříž
Zdenka Švarcová
(1942), Czech Japanologist, university teacher and translator from
Japanese
Milan Pitlach (* 1943), Czech architect and photographer
living in Germany
Věra Vlčková (1944–1989), Czech theater and film
actress
Karel Kryl (1944–1994), singer, songwriter, poet and graphic
artist, born in Kroměříž
Boris Krajný (* 1944), pianist, born in
Kroměříž
Jiří Vrána (1947–2006), Czech musician and composer
Radomír Malý (* 1947), historian, journalist, politician and university
teacher, born in Kroměříž
Karel Mišurec (* 1949), Czech theater actor
Stanislav Hubík (* 1949), Czech philosopher of communication,
sociologist and Marxist theoretician, university teacher
Jiří
Malenovský (* 1950), Czech lawyer, university professor and judge
Petr Uličný (* 1950), football player and later football coach, born in
Kroměříž
Karel Čermák (1951–2013), Czech swimmer and founder of TJ PS
Kroměříž
Zdeněk Junák (* 1951), actor, born in Kroměříž
Pavel
Svoboda, (1953) Czech politician
Jiří Růžička (* 1953), jazz pianist
Miloš Černoušek (* 1954), actor known under the stage name Cyril Drozda
Stanislav Hložek (* 1954), pop singer, born in Kroměříž
Miloš Malý (*
1954), Czech politician, born in Kroměříž
Naděžda Rozehnalová (*
1955), lawyer and university teacher, born in Kroměříž
Mirek Sova (*
1956), guitarist, born in Kroměříž
Michal Peprník (* 1960),
Americanist and professor of American literature
Zdenek Plachý
(1961–2018), Czech music composer and theater and television director
Radek Bajgar (born 1962), Czech columnist, producer, screenwriter and
director, originally a doctor
Michaela Šojdrová (* 1963), Czech
politician
Antonín Tesař (*1963), Czech photographer
Pavel Štercl
(* 1966), Czech and Czechoslovakian water slalom skier and canoeist
Petr Štercl (* 1966), Czech and Czechoslovakian water slalom skier and
canoeist
Jiří Pokorný (* 1967), Czech theater director and playwright
Olga Sehnalová (* 1968), doctor and social democratic politician
Pavel Hapal (* 1969), footballer, born in Kroměříž
Pavel Novotný (*
1973), footballer, born in Kroměříž
Michal Malacka (* 1973), Czech
lawyer and university teacher
Radek Vondráček (* 1973), Czech
politician
Markéta Pilátová (* 1973), Czech writer, Hispanic scholar
and journalist
Ondřej Císař (* 1974), Czech sociologist and political
scientist
Paula Wild (* 1974), former Czech model and porn actress
Tomáš Netopil (* 1975), violinist and conductor, born in Kroměříž
Renata Berková (* 1975), Czech triathlete, Olympian
Patrik Vrbovský
aka Rytmus (* 1977), singer-rapper, born in Kroměříž
Andrea Tögel
Kalivodová (* 1977), Czech opera singer-mezzo-soprano
Bohumil Kartous
(* 1977), Czech political activist, university teacher and columnist
Jakub Uličník (* 1982), theater actor and member of the group All X,
born in Kroměříž
Kazma Kazmitch (born 1985), internet entertainer
Zdeněk Klesnil (* 1986), former Czech football striker
Václav
Ondřejka (* 1988), Czech football striker
Barbora Silná (* 1989),
Austrian figure skater, born in Kroměříž
Ondřej Soldán (born 1991),
Czech musician and poet
Gabriela Gunčíková (* 1993), singer born in
Kroměříž
Stanislav Vávra (* 1993), Czech football striker
David
Klammert (* 1994), Czech wrestler-judoka
Štěpán Gajdoš (* 1997),
Czech director, screenwriter and actor