Olga Fikotová

female, 77 years old
Olga Fikotová is a Czechoslovakian and later American athlete who competed mainly in the Discus. She competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1956 S...
Michal Viewegh

Michal Viewegh

female, 47 years old
Michal Viewegh (born March 31 1962, Prague) is one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers and the bestselling one. He writes about romantic...
Otto Jelinek

Otto Jelinek

male, 69 years old
Otto John Jelinek, PC (born Prague, Czechoslovakia, May 20, 1940-) is a businessman and former figure skater and Canadian Politician. Jelinek's...
Ferdinand Peroutka

Ferdinand Peroutka

male, deceased (1978)
Ferdinand Peroutka was a Czech journalist and writer. Peroutka was born to a Czech-German family in Prague in 1895. In 1913 he began his career as...
Emmy Destinn

Emmy Destinn

female, deceased (1930)
Emmy Destinn was a renowned Czech operatic soprano. Destinn was born Emilie Pauline Kittel or Ema Pavlína Věnceslava Kittlová in Prague, in wha...
Karel Svoboda

Karel Svoboda

male, deceased (2007)
Karel Svoboda (19 December 1938 - 28 January 2007) was a Czech composer of popular music. He wrote music for many TV series in the 1970s.
Jan Švankmajer

Jan Švankmajer

male, 75 years old
Jan Švankmajer is a Czech surrealist artist. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly i...

Jan Kaplický

male, 72 years old
Jan Kaplický (born 18 April 1937) is a world-renowned British architect of Czech origin. He is the leading architect behind Future Systems, one of t...
Jaroslav Foglar

Jaroslav Foglar

male, deceased (1999)
Jaroslav Foglar was a famous Czech author who wrote many novels about young Boy Scouts and their adventures in nature and dark city streets. While...

Jiří Menzel

male, 71 years old
Jiří Menzel, is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and scriptwriter. He became famous in 1967, when his first feature film "Closely Wa...