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Famous personalities
| Bata Tomás | 1876 - 1932 | Industrialist and businessman (Bata shoes) |
| Čapek Karel | 1890 - 1938 | Writer and dramatist, works: The White Illness, Krakatit, War with the Newts |
| Čáslavská Věra | *1942 | Gymnast, multiple Olympic champion |
| Destinová Ema | 1878 - 1930 | Opera singer |
| Drtikol František | 1883 - 1961 | Photographer, painter and graphic designer |
| Dvořák Antonín | 1841 - 1904 | Composer, works: Symphony No.9 "From the New World", Rusalka, Slavonic Dances |
| Forman Milosh | *1932 | Film director, works: One Flew Over the Cuckoo´s Nest, Hair, Amadeus, Man on the Moon |
| Freud Sigmund | 1856 - 1939 | Psychiatrist, the founder of psychoanalysis |
| Gočár Josef | 1880 - 1945 | Architect, works: the Church of St. Wenceslas in Prague, the Phoenix Palace in Prague |
| Hašek Jaroslav | 1883 - 1923 | Writer and journalist, works: The Good Soldier Shvejk |
| Havel Václav | *1936 | Czech president, prominent playwright and poet, one of the leading intellectual figures and moral forces in Eastern Europe, works: The Garden Party, The Memorandum, Audience, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration |
| Heyrovský Jaroslav | 1890 - 1967 | Chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1959, best known for inventing polarography |
| Hrabal Bohumil | 1914 - 1997 | Writer, works: Closely Watched Trains, The Gentle Barbarian |
| Hrozný Bedřich | 1879 - 1952 | Orientalist, deciphered the ancient language of the Hittites |
| Jágr Jaroslav | *1972 | Hockey player, Olympic champion in 1998 |
| Janáček Leoš | 1854 - 1928 | Composer, works: Her Step-Daughter, The Cunning Little Vixen |
| Janský Jan | 1873 - 1921 | Doctor, discoverer of the four basic blood groups |
| Kafka Franz | 1883 - 1924 | Prague German writer, works: The Trial, The Castle, America |
| Kašpar Jan | 1883 - 1927 | Czech aviation engineer and pioneer |
| Kotěra Jan | 1871 - 1923 | Architect, works: the Law Faculty building in Prague |
| Kubelík Rafael Jeroným | 1914 - 1996 | Conductor, composer and violinist |
| Kupka František | 1871 - 1957 | Graphic artist, painter and illustrator |
| Lendl Ivan | *1960 | Tennis player, 270 weeks at the top of the world rankings |
| Lexa František | 1876 - 1960 | Egyptologist and archaeologist |
| Mahler Gustav | 1860 - 1911 | Composer and conductor, works: symphonies and cycles of songs, Earth Song |
| Martinů Bohuslav | 1890 - 1959 | Composer, teacher and violinist, works: Greek Passions, "Shpalíček" |
| Masaryk Tomáš Garrigue | 1850 - 1937 | Politician, philosopher and the first president of Czechoslovakia (1918 - 1935) |
| Maxová Tereza | *1971 | The world known top model |
| Mendel Johann Gregor | 1822 - 1884 | Founder of genetics |
| Mucha Alfons | 1860 - 1939 | Painter, graphic artist and designer, works: advertising posters, The Slav Epic |
| Navrátilová Martina | *1956 | Tenis player, holder of nineteen Wimbledon titles |
| Purkyně Jan Evangelista | 1787 - 1869 | Scholar, scientist and philosopher |
| Radetzky of Radeč, Count Jan Josef Václav | 1766 - 1858 | Field marshal |
| Saudek Jan | *1935 | Photographer |
| Seifert Jaroslav | 1901 - 1986 | Poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1984 |
| Skupa Josef | 1892 - 1957 | Designer, puppeteer (creator of the characters Spejbl and Hurvínek) and dramatist |
| Smetana Bedřich | 1824 - 1894 | Composer, works: Libushe, The Bartered Bride, My Country |
| Sudek Josef | 1896 - 1976 | Artistic photographer |
| Škoda Emil | 1839 - 1900 | Industrialist (engineering) |
| Wichterle Otto | 1913 - 1998 | Chemist, inventor of soft contact lenses |
| Zátopek Emil | 1922 - 2000 | Athlete, multiple Olympic champion |
| Zítek Josef | 1832 - 1909 | Architect, works: the National Theatre in Prague |
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