Rudolf Battěk (2 November 1924 – 17 March 2013) was a Czech sociologist, politician, and political dissident during Czechoslovakia Communist era.

[1] In 1950, Battěk married his wife, Dagmar (née Brzická), and soon after returned to education, finishing university studies in 1952 and began working as an economist.

[1] Battěk co-founded and was vice-chairman the Club of Committed Non-Party Members (KAN) in May 1968, which promoted political plurality and a broad human rights advocacy.

[2] KAN was later proscribed by the Czechoslovak National Front, under pressure from Soviet Union following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in September 1968.

[2] In 1996, Battěk ran as a candidate for the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic as an independent from ward 8 in Prague, but lost the election.