List of people from Prague
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Prague, the capital of today's Czech Republic, has been for over a thousand years the centre and the biggest city of the Czech lands. A city of such size and historic importance boasts of many famous people who were born or died here, who studied, lived or saw their success here.
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[edit] Monarchs
- Charles IV (1316 - 1378) - Holy Roman Emperor, under his rule Charles University in Prague or Charles Bridge were set up, made the city his main seat
- Rudolf II (1552 - 1612) - Holy Roman Emperor, made the city capital of Austrian empire, attracted both scientists and charlatans here
[edit] Writers and artists
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) - composer, some of his best opera successes during his lifetime happened in Prague
- Hans Hampel (1822 - 1884) - composer
- Bedřich Smetana (1824 - 1884) - composer, lived and died in the city
- Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904) - composer, lived most of his life here
- Josef Václav Myslbek (1848 - 1922) - sculptor, born in Prague, author of the Wenceslas Monument
- Leoš Janáček (1854 - 1928) - composer, studied in Prague
- Alfons Mucha (1860 - 1939) - painter and decorative artist, spent last decades of his life in Prague
- Jože Plečnik (1872 - 1957) - Slovene architect, built several churches and parts of the Prague Castle
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) - poet, born and studied
- Emmy Destinn (1878 - 1930) - opera soprano, born in Prague
- Jaroslav Hašek (1883 - 1923) - writer, humorist and satirist, lived here for most of his life, described the city in many stories
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) - German-language fiction writer, born in Prague
- Karel Čapek (1890 - 1938) - writer, lived and died
- Jaroslav Seifert (1901 - 1986) - poet, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, lived
- Vladimír Holan (1905 - 1980) - poet, born, lived and died
- Bohumil Hrabal (1914 - 1997) - writer, lived and died
- Lída Baarová (1914 - 2000) - actress, lived and died
- Milan Kundera (1929) - writer, studied, lectured at FAMU
- Miloš Forman (1932) - Academy Awards winning film director, actor and script writer, studied and lived in Prague
- Jan Saudek (1935) - art photographer, born and lives in Prague
- Jiří Menzel (1938) - Academy Award winning film director, born here
[edit] Others
- Jan Žižka (c.1360 - 1424) - general and Hussite leader, participated in start of the rebellion in Prague, later defended it against Crusaders
- Jan Hus (1369 - 1415) - religious thinker and reformer, most important preaching done in Prague
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1525 - 1609) - important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic and philosopher
- Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601) - astronomer, spent end of life near Prague
- Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) - astronomer, in 1601 succeeded Tycho Brahe as imperial mathematician, the next 11 years in Prague would be the most productive of his life[1]
- Christian Doppler (1803 – 1853), mathematician and physicist, lectured several years in Prague, published his paper on Doppler effect there
- František Křižík (1847 - 1941) - inventor, electrical engineer and entrepreneur, set up his company in Prague
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850 - 1937) - philosopher, politician, lived here for substantial part of life
- Karel Baxa (1863 - 1938) - politician, mayor of the city for almost two decades
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) - physicist, served as professor at the German part of Charles University, 1911 - 1912. [2]
- Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890 - 1967) - chemist, inventor of the polarographic method, recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959
- Reinhard Heydrich (1904 - 1942) - Nazi general and protector, assassinated in Prague while serving as governor of the occupied country
- František Plánička (1904 - 1996) - football goalkeeper, captain of the Czechoslovakia national team
- Jan Patočka (1907 - 1977) - philosopher, born, lived and died here
- Emil Zátopek (1922 - 2000) - athlete, lived and died
- Václav Havel (1936) - writer, dramatist, politician, born and lives here
- Pavel Nedvěd (1972) - football player, played for Prague teams between 1990 and 1996
- Ivan Kral (1948) - guitarist, singer, producer and director
- Tomáš Rosický (1980) - footballer was born in Prague.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Caspar, Max: Kepler, pp 111–122, transl. and ed. by C. Doris Hellman; with a new introduction and references by Owen Gingerich; bibliographic citations by Owen Gingerich and Alain Segonds. New York: Dover, 1993 ISBN 0-486-67605-6
- ^ Jozsef Illy: Albert Einstein in Prague, 1979 [1]
