Born there

• Countess Sofija Jelačić   (1834 - 1877), wife of the Croatian ban and general Josip Jelačić von Bužim
• Božena Benešová (1873 - 1936), a female lyricist, writer
• Emanuel Weidenhoffer (1874 - 1939), Austrian politician
• General Josef Šnejdárek
  Josef Šnejdárek
  Josef Šnejdárek was a Czech soldier. He served 43 years in the French Foreign Legion and later was a military officer for Czechoslovakia...
  
   (1875 - 1945)
• Antonín Šebestík (1882 - 1956), composer, educator, conductor
• Rudolf Firkušný
  Rudolf Firkusny
  - Life :Born in Moravian Napajedla, Firkušný started his musical studies with the composers Leoš Janáček and Josef Suk, and the pianist Vilém Kurz. Later he studied with Alfred Cortot and Artur Schnabel. He began performing on the continent of Europe in the 1920s, and made his debuts in London in...
  
   (1912 - 1994), a pianist
• Jaroslav Petrík (1941 - 1990), a dramaturgist
• Stanislav Horák (1962), film director

Lived there

• Vincenc Prasek
  Vincenc Prasek
  Vincenc Prasek was a Czech educator, linguist and historian active in the region of Silesia...
  
   (1843 - 1912), historian, linguist
• Aristides Baltazzi (1853 - 1914), Viennese jockey
• Josef Bulva
  Josef Bulva
  Josef Bulva is a Czech pianist who began his training at the age of nine at the music school of Napajedla, and at the age of thirteen gave his first concerts playing works by Mozart, études by Liszt and the “Paganini Variations” by Brahms...
  
   (born 1943), pianist
• Stanislav Horák (born 1962), film director