Which one of these well known UK playwrights was born in Czechoslovakia?

Tom Stoppard (1937 - ) was born Tomáš Sträussler, in Zlín, Czechoslovakia. Just before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, the town's patron, Jan Antonín Baťa, transferred his Jewish employees, mostly physicians, to branches of his firm outside Europe. The Sträussler family fled to Singapore, where Baťa had a factory.

Before the Japanese occupation of Singapore, Stoppard, his brother, and their mother fled to India, while his doctor father remained in Singapore as a British army volunteer. Stoppard was four years old when his father died.

The boys attended Mount Hermon School, in Darjeeling, an American multi-racial school, where Tomáš became Tom and his brother Petr became Peter. In 1945, his mother, Martha, married British army major Kenneth Stoppard, who gave the boys his English surname and, in 1946, moved the family to England.

Stoppard worked as a journalist for the Western Daily Press from 1954 until 1958, when the Bristol Evening World offered him the position of feature writer, humour columnist, and secondary drama critic, which took Stoppard into the world of theatre. At the Bristol Old Vic, at the time a well-regarded regional repertory company, Stoppard formed friendships with director John Boorman and actor Peter O'Toole early in their careers.

Stoppard has written nearly 40 plays, and some of his better known include `Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' (1966), `Arcadia' (1993), `The Real Thing' (1982) and `The Real Inspector Hound' (1968).