Cyril Bouda, christened Cyrill Mikoláš Bouda (14 November 1901 – 29 August 1984), was a Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator, professor at CTU and at Charles University in Prague.

Both of his parents were artists; his father was a high school teacher of drawing, his mother Anna Boudová Suchardová (sister of sculptors Stanislav Sucharda and Vojtěch Sucharda) was an artist and industrial designer.

In 1946–1972 he then worked as a teacher and later as a professor at the Faculty of Education of Charles University in Prague and in Brandýs nad Labem (1964–1972).

[citation needed] At first he devoted himself to free graphics (drypoint, colour etching, lithography) and to painting pictures.

[7] He also translated his illustrations into the form of cartoons (e.g. the fairy tale Hrnečku, cook!, 1953).