List of people from Prague

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. Notable people who were born or died, studied, lived or saw their success in Prague are listed below.


The arts

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Monument to Franz Kafka (Prague, August 2004)
 
Portrait of a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 
A portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke painted two years after his death by Leonid Pasternak
 
An oil portrait of Smetana, 1854, by Geskel Saloman

Monarchs

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Portrait of Emperor Rudolf II as Vertumnus by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
 
Jaroslav Heyrovský, recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959 for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis

The sciences

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In sports

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Other fields

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František Křižík

Notes

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  1. ^ Illy, Jozsef (March 1979). "Albert Einstein in Prague" (requires HTTP cookies enabled) pp. 76–84. Isis. OCLC 481047814.
  2. ^ s.r.o, Ušetřeno cz. "Nikola Tesla: Geniální objevy a vynálezy pána blesků obdivujeme dodnes". www.elektrina.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 10 December 2021.