Svatopluk I or Zwentibald I was the ruler of Great Moravia that attained its maximum territorial expansion in his reign (869 or 870–871, 871–894). His career had already started in the 860s, when he governed a principality, the location of which is still a matter of debate among historians, within Moravia under the suzerainty of his uncle, Rastislav. Svatopluk dethroned Rastislav, who was a vassal of Louis the German and betrayed him to the Franks in 869 or 870, but in a year he was also imprisoned by them.

Having been released due to the Moravians' rebellion against the Franks, Svatopluk joined the rebels and defeated the invaders. Although he was obliged to pay tribute to East Francia according to the peace treaty concluded at Forchheim (Germany) in 874, he was able to expand in territories outside the Franks' sphere of interest in the following years. His forces even invaded the March of Pannonia within East Francia in 882.

Svatopluk established good relationship with the popes, thus he and his people were taken under the protection of the Holy See in 880.Pope Stephen V even addressed him "king" in a letter written in 885. In matters of religion, Svatopluk wanted to appease the German clergy who opposed the liturgy officiated in Old Church Slavonic; therefore Methodius's disciples were expelled from Moravia in 886, after their teacher's death.

Svatopluk Havelka (born 2 May 1925 – 24 February 2009) was a Czech composer.

Svatopluk Havelka was born at Vrbice in the Karviná district. He studied composition privately with Karel Boleslav Jirák from 1945 to 1947, while a student of musicology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University under Josef Hutter and Antonín Sychra. Havelka subsequently became a member of the music department of Czechoslovak Radio in Ostrava. At the same time he was the founder and artistic director of the NOTA Ensemble (1949–1950). For the next four years he was an instructor and composer with the Army Art Ensemble. Beginning in 1954 he devoted himself to freelance composing. He was especially prolific as a film composer, providing music for more than 200 films, including several from the Czech "New Wave" in the 1960s. His early style was marked by traits of the folk music of his native Moravia, but he later turned to more complex techniques, particularly in the large-scale orchestral and choral works he composed in the 1960s and 70s. Beginning in the late 1970s his attention became focused on Christian subjects, and he composed many biblically based chamber works and choral-orchestral pieces. Havelka died on 24 February 2009 in Prague.

Svatopluk Innemann (February 18, 1896 – October 30, 1945) was a Czech film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor and actor. Innemann, brother of Miroslav Innemann and Liduška Innemannová, was one of the pioneers of Czech cinema.

Innemann, was a son of the Czech director Rudolf Innemann and opera singer Ludmila Lvová – Innemannová. He was born in Slovenia during their engagement, but was raised in Prague, where he studied to be a pork butcher. Around 1918 he became interested in film, and began to work as a camera operator. As cameraman, he co-created his first film with Otta Heller. From 1919 he worked independently.

Innemann's early career was varied; he was involved in operettas, comedies and melodramas, short films and documentaries, often as cameraman. He made his directorial debut in silent films with the fairy-tale Červená karkulka (Little Red Riding-hood) in 1920. In 1925 he directed the popular comedy Z českých mlýnů (From the Czech Mills) and made a biographical film about Josef Kajetán Tyl, an important personality of the Czech National Revival. In 1927 he directed Milenky starého kriminálníka (The Lovers of an Old Criminal), starring the Czech actor Vlasta Burian, known in Czechoslovakia as the "King of Comedians". He directed a total of 16 silent films: in 1931 he directed his first sound film, Poslední bohém (The Last Bohemian), about the Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek, and made the popular comedy Muži v offsidu (Men in Offside) with Hugo Haas in the title role. It remains popular in the Czech Republic.