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PRAGUE

Most Famous People Born in Prague, Czech Republic

Notable people

3,713

Peak decade

1940s

Median birth year

1932

Most distinctive

Education 9.1×

A Bohemian capital with a 20th-century literary shadow. Prague's distinctive professions tilt toward canoeists, kayakers, and rowers — a quirk of the Vltava and a strong Czechoslovak Olympic tradition — alongside the dramatists and educators of a city that has always taken letters seriously. The modern half is split between footballers and ice hockey players; the older half stretches back through dukes and bishops to the founders of the Přemyslid dynasty.