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Prague, capital of today Czech Republic, is for over thousand years center and biggest city of Czech lands. City of such size and importance boasts of many famous people who were born or dies here, who studied, lived or saw their sucess here. Prague (Czech: Praha, see also other names) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ...
Bohemia, Moravia, Austrian Silesia - 1892, then part of Austria-Hungary The Czech lands (in Czech: české země) is an auxiliary term used mainly for Bohemia + Moravia + Czech Silesia, today identical with the Czech Republic. ...
Partial list of famous people connected with Prague
- 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
- Jan Hus (1369 - 1415) - religious thinker and reformer, most important preaches made in Prague
- Jan Žižka (c. 1370-1424) - general and Hussite leader, participade on start of the rebellion in Prague, later defended it against crusaders
- Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601) - astronomer, spent end of life near Prague
- Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) - astronomer, worked together with Brahe
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) - composer, some of his best opera sucesses during lifetime happened in Prague
- Bedřich Smetana (1824 - 1884) - composer, lived and died in the city
- Leoš Janáček (1824 - 1928) - composer, studied in Prague
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850 - 1937) - philosopher, politician. Lived here for substantial part of life.
- Jan Patočka (1907 - 1977) - philosopher, born, lived and died here
- Emmy Destinn (1878 - 1930) - opera soprano, born in Prague
- Madeleine Albright (1937) - American politician, born
- Miloš Forman (1932) - Academy Awards winning film director, actor and script writer, studied and lived
- Václav Havel (1936) - writer, dramatist, politician, born and lived
- Jiří Menzel (1938) - Academy Award winning film director, born
- Milan Kundera (1929) - writer, studied
- Jaroslav Hašek (1883 - 1923) - writer, humorist and satirist, lived there for most of his life, described the city in many stories
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) - physicist, served as professor at the German technical university, 1911 - 1912
- Bohumil Hrabal (1914 - 1997) - writer, lived and died
- Josef Václav Myslbek - sculptor, born, most known sculpture here
- Alfons Mucha (1860 - 1939) - painter and decorative artist, lived last decades and died
- Martina Navrátilová (1956) - tennis player, early life in Prague
- Emil Zátopek (1922 - 2000) - athlete, lived and died
- Pavel Nedvěd (1972) - football player, played in a Prague's club 1991-96
- Jan Saudek (1935) - art photographer, born and lives
- František Křižík (1847 - 1941) - inventor, electrical engineer and entrepreneur, set up his company in Prague
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) - writer, born and lived
- Jaroslav Seifert (1901 - 1986) - poet, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, lived
- Karel Čapek (1890 - 1938) - writer, lived
- Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904) - composer, most of time lived there
- Reinhard Heydrich (1904 - 1942) - Nazi general and protector, shot in Prague while serving as governor of occupied country
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) - poet, born and studied
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1525 - 1609) - important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic and philosopher
- Jože Plečnik (1872 - 1957) - Slovenian architect, built several churches and parts of Prague Castle
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