Ája Vrzáňová (1931), double world champion in figure skating in women contest in 1949 and 1950, fourfold Czechoslovakian Champion from 1947 to 1950, European champion in 1950. Under the influence of pressure put on her by the communist regime she decided to ask for political asylum in London in 1950 and later she immigrated to the United States of America. There she was active as a professional figure skater in Ice revue Ice Follies and later Ice Capades for another 16 years. In 2004 President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus awarded her the Order of Merit of the First Grade.
Augustin Bubník (1928) a holder of silver medal from Winter Olympic Games 1948 and world champion in 1949. In a manipulated process he was captured together with other 10 ice hockey players and in 1950 he was sentenced for high treason and espionage to 14 years in prison. He was kept in Bory prison and in one of the worst camps of forced labour in Jáchymov. After he was released in 1955 he was not allowed to join the representation or the top competition again.
Sandra Kalniete was born in 1952 in Siberian Togur, 400 km to the north of Novosibirsk, where her family was expatriated together with other 15 thousand Latvians in 1941, one year after the occupation of Latvia by Soviet army. She was fully rehabilitated only at the tome independence in 1990 — 1991. At the end of the 80s she was one of the leaders of the Popular Front founded with the aim to restore independence of Latvia on the Sovjet Union. She became famous thanks to her book In Ball shoes through Siberian Snow.
In 1979 she graduated from the State Theatre, Music and Film Institute in St. Petersburg in subject film direction and television production. In 1979 — 1980 she worked as an assistant director and editor in Riga. In 1980 — 1992 she was a director of film studio Telemafilma. Since 1995 she has been a member of Latvian Guild Council and since 2000 a member of Latvian Cameramen Guild.
MUDr. Přemysl Sobotka is a senator of Liberec election district, where he has been elected three times (1996, 1998, 2004). Since the end of 2004 he has been the chairman of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic…. He took a patronage over the second year of Mene Tekel festival
He published many specialist essays and he is the co-author of the most used alternative history textbook for the secondary schools “The History of the Czech Crown Lands”, which was translated into several European languages. In 2006 he stood for a seat of the Senate of the Parliament of the CR successfully. He is a member of Committee for EU Matters and a member of the Permanent Committee for the Countrymen living abroad.