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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.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Prague during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Prague Is Known For
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Actor is Prague's biggest profession — 9% of all notables (339).
Prague over-indexes on education — 9.1× the global rate.
Prague under-produces politician — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Prague's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
1875 - 1926
Julius Fučík (composer)
1872 - 1916
Emmy Destinn
1878 - 1930
Emil Orlík
1870 - 1932
Rudolf Friml
1879 - 1972
Antonín Švehla
1873 - 1933
Karel Hašler
1879 - 1941
Františka Plamínková
1875 - 1942
Antonín Slavíček
1870 - 1910
Olga Engl
1871 - 1946
Stanislav Kostka Neumann
1875 - 1947
Otakar Ostrčil
1879 - 1935
Karel Hlaváček
1874 - 1898
Hans Eppinger
1879 - 1946
Rudolf Charousek
1873 - 1900
Jan Janský
1873 - 1921
Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic
1871 - 1951
Ladislav Šaloun
1870 - 1946
Paul Leppin
1878 - 1945
Paul Frankl
1878 - 1962
Josef Mařatka
1874 - 1937
Jaro Fürth
1871 - 1945
Oskar Kraus
1872 - 1942
Hans Fahrni
1874 - 1939
Anton Heida
Born 1878
Heinrich Mache
1876 - 1954
Otakar Lebeda
1877 - 1901
Edwin Plimpton Adams
1878 - 1956
Karl Přibram
1877 - 1973
Arthur Mahler
1871 - 1944
Wolfgang Neff
1875 - 1936
Victor Hadwiger
1878 - 1911
Karel Hoffmann
1872 - 1936
František Erben
1874 - 1942
Grete Meisel-Hess
1879 - 1922
Paul Adler
1878 - 1946
Helena Malířová
1877 - 1940
Josef Geitler von Armingen
1870 - 1923
Rolf Kinzl
1878 - 1938
Ernestine von Fürth
1877 - 1946
Antonín Benjamin Svojsík
1876 - 1938
Emil Faktor
1876 - 1942
Emanuel Lešehrad
1877 - 1955
Miroslav Šustera
1878 - 1961
Heinrich Hilgenreiner
1870 - 1954
Egon Pollak (Dirigent)
1879 - 1933
Felix Lederer
1877 - 1957
Vladimír List
1877 - 1971
Jan Jesenský
1870 - 1947
Kamil Vladislav Muttich
1873 - 1924
Antonin Nechodoma
1877 - 1928
Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková
1877 - 1937
Hans Winterstein (Physiologe)
1879 - 1963
Henrik Moor
1876 - 1940
Adolph Wiesner
1871 - 1942
Josef Skružný
1871 - 1948
Emmerich Teuber
1877 - 1943
Bedrich Bendelmayer
1872 - 1932
Karel Pelant
1874 - 1925
Robert Robitschek
1874 - 1967
Arnošt Czech Czechenherz
1878 - 1951
Vilém Funk
1875 - 1955
Venceslas Dédina
1872 - 1945
Rudolf Tayerlé
1877 - 1942
Oskar Wiener
1873 - 1944
Michael Kácha
1874 - 1940
Rudolf Růžička (Orientalist)
1878 - 1957
Wilhelm Friedrich Wiechowski
1873 - 1928
Hans Oberländer
1870 - 1942
Richard von Schoeller
1871 - 1950
Georg August Wagner
1873 - 1947
Friedrich F. G. Kleinwächter
1877 - 1959
Rudolf Czapek
1871 - 1935
Otto Pohl
1872 - 1940
Wilhelm Teuber-Weckersdorf
1879 - 1968
Elsa Reich
1879 - 1913
Alois Herzog
1872 - 1956
Oswald Richter
1878 - 1955
Konrad Wallerstein
1879 - 1944
Karl Görge
1872 - 1933
Olly Schwarz
1877 - 1960
Karl Wilhelm Wolf-Czapek
1877 - 1913
Ernst Lohsing
1878 - 1942
Ernst August Pribram
1879 - 1940
Karel Freja
1877 - 1937
Emil Engelmuller
1873 - 1944
Elsa Lewinsky
1877 - 1901
Alfred Weiner
1877 - 1954
Oskar Brugnak
1875 - 1928
Leopoldine Ullmann
1875 - 1902