- Franz Kafka
What will be my fate as a writer is very simple. My talent for portraying my dreamlike inner life has thrust all matters into the background; my life has dwindled dreadfully, nor will it cease to dwindle. Nothing else will ever sat - Václav Havel
Václav Havel, GCB, CC, (born October 5, 1936 in Prague) is a Czech writer and dramatist. He was the ninth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989-1992) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003). - Václav Klaus
Václav Klaus is the second President of the Czech Republic and a former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (1992-7). A free market oriented economist, he is generally ranked among the most important Czech politicians since the fall of the communist regime. - Ivan Passer
Ivan Passer Czech-born film director & screenwriter. One of the key figures in the Czech New Wave in the early sixties, Passer worked closely with Miloš Forman on many of his films, and directed his first feature in 1965. Following the Soviet invasion in 1968, Passer defected to the West, aided by Carlo Ponti and has been living and working in the United States since then. - Madeleine Korbel Albright
Madeleine Albright (1937 - ) was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. As the Nazis invaded that country before World War II, Albright and her family fled and eventually settled in the U.S. She graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and she later received master's and doctorate degrees from Columbia University in New York. By the late 1970s, she was working in the White House for President Jimmy Carter 's national security team. - Jan Neruda
Jan Nepomuk Neruda (July 9, 1834 – August 22, 1891) was a Czech journalist, writer and poet, one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of "the May school". Jan Neruda was born in Prague, Bohemia, son of a small grocer who lived in the Malá Strana (Lesser Quarter) district of Prague. After studying philosophy and philology, he worked as a teacher until 1860, when he became a freelance journalist and writer. - Max Brod
Max Brod and graduated in 1907 to work in the civil service. From 1912 he was a pronounced Zionist (which he attributed to the influence of Martin Buber) and when Czechoslovakia became independent in 1918, he briefly served as vice-president of the "Jüdischer Nationalrat". From 1924, already an established writer, he worked as a critic for the "Prager Tagblatt". In 1939, as the Nazis took over Prague, … - Jaroslav Seifert
Jaroslav Seifert (September 23, 1901 – January 10, 1986) was a Nobel prize winning Czech writer, poet and journalist. Born in Žižkov, a suburb of Prague in what was then part of Austria-Hungary, his first collection of poems was published in 1921. He was a member of the Communist Party, the editor of a number of communist newspapers and magazines - "Rovnost", "Srsatec", and "Reflektor" - and the employee of a communist publishing house. - Lenka Reinerová
Lenka Reinerová is the last Czech author who writes exclusively in German. - Jan Saudek
Jan Saudek (b. 13 May 1935, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech art photographer. Many of his family members died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II. Jan and his brother Karel were held in a children's concentration camp near the Polish border. He survived the war and worked for a printer starting in 1950. - Jan Werich
Jan Werich (born 6 February, 1905, Prague - died 31 October, 1980, Prague) was a Czech actor, playwright and writer. Between 1916 to 1924 he attended "reálné gymnasium" (equivalent to high school) in Křemencová Street in Prague (where his future partner, Jiří Voskovec, also studied). He studied law at the Law School of Charles University from 1924 to 1927, … - Lucy Lee
Lucy Lee (born April 10, 1984 as Adéla Uhrigová, in Prague, Czechoslovakia (present Czech Republic)), is a porn star of Czech descent. There is another porn star of Korean descent, also named Lucy Lee. - Jerome Of Prague
Jerome of Prague was one of the chief followers and most devoted friends of John Hus. He was born in Prague to a wealthy family; after taking his bachelor's degree at the University of Prague in 1398, he secured in 1399 permission to travel. In 1401 he returned to Prague, but in 1402 visited England, and in Oxford copied out the "Dialogus" and "Trialogus" of John Wyclif, and thus evinced his interest in Lollardry. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets. His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets. He wrote in both verse and a highly lyrical prose. - Franz Werfel
Franz Werfel (September 10, 1890 - August 26, 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote in German. - Egon Erwin Kisch
Egon Erwin Kisch (Prague, April 29, 1885 - March 31, 1948) was a Czechoslovakian writer and journalist, who wrote in German. He was noted for his development of literary reportage. - Pavel Tigrid
Pavel Tigrid (born October 27, 1917 in Prague, Czechoslovakia as Pavel Schoenfeld, died August 31, 2003 in Héricy near Paris, France. Publicist, publisher and author of Czech origin. He left Czechoslovakia as a young man to evade the Nazis. In Great Britain, he adopted the pseudonym Tigrid (after Tigris) for his work as a broadcaster of anti-fascist propaganda and kept it for the rest of his life. Returning after the end of World War II, he continued his publishing career, … - Jaroslav Hašek
Jaroslav Hašek (April 30, 1883 in Prague - January 3, 1923 in Lipnice nad Sázavou) was a Czech humorist and satirist who became well-known mainly for his world-famous novel "The Good Soldier Švejk", an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I, which has been translated into sixty languages. He also wrote some 1,500 short stories. He was a journalist, bohemian, and practical joker. - Ivan Klíma
Ivan Klíma is a famous contemporary Czech novelist and playwright. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Less well known than the work of his contemporary Milan Kundera, Klíma' s writings are generally seen to be much more overtly political, though there are numerous similarities between their works, most notably a tendency towards adultery in their protagonists. Klima's early childhood in Prague was happy and uneventful, … - Tomáš Halík
Tomáš Halík is a Czech public intellectual, Roman Catholic priest and scholar. He studied sociology and philosophy in Prague and in Bangor, UK. During Communist rule, he was banned from teaching and worked in various occupations, e.g. as a psychotherapist for drug addicts and alcoholics. He studied theology clandestinely in Prague and in 1978 he was secretly ordained as a Catholic priest in Germany. - Olga Fikotová
Olga Fikotová is a Czechoslovakian and later American athlete who competed mainly in the Discus. She competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in the Discus where she won the gold medal ahead of Soviet pair Irina Beglyakova and Nina Ponmaryova. During the games she fell in love with the American athlete Harold Connolly who won the hammer throw. The couple married after the Olympics but divorced in 1973. - Michal Viewegh
Michal Viewegh (born March 31 1962, Prague) is one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers and the bestselling one. He writes about romantic relationships of his contemporaries with humour, and variously successful irony and attempts at deeper meaningfulness; he is sometimes compared to Nick Hornby by his fans. His books, which since late 1990es he publishes regularly every spring, sell over 50 000 copies, … - Otto Jelinek
Otto John Jelinek, PC (born Prague, Czechoslovakia, May 20, 1940-) is a businessman and former figure skater and Canadian Politician. Jelinek's family fled to Canada from Czechoslovakia in 1948 at the beginning of the Cold War. He and his sister, Maria, became figure skaters and achieved prominence in 1962 when they won the gold medal at the World Figure Skating Championships that was held that year in Jelinek's birthplace of Prague. The pair had been warned not to return, … - Ferdinand Peroutka
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 a journalist. After World War I, he became a editor-in-chief of a new newspaper "Tribuna" ("Tribune"). - Emmy Destinn
Emmy Destinn was a renowned Czech operatic soprano. Destinn was born Emilie Pauline Kittel or Ema Pavlína Věnceslava Kittlová in Prague, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At first Destinn devoted herself to studying the violin, and intended to shine as a virtuoso on that instrument. When she was well on in her teens, however, her voice was so rich and full that she changed her mind and determined upon an operatic career. - Karel Svoboda
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 is a Czech surrealist artist. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Quay and many others. Švankmajer has gained a reputation over several decades for his distinctive use of stop-motion technique, and his ability to make surreal, nightmarish and yet somehow funny pictures. - Jan Kaplický
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 the most innovative design offices in the world. He is perhaps best known for the futuristic Selfridges Building in Birmingham, England, and the remarkable Media Centre at Lord's Cricket Ground in London. - Jaroslav Foglar
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 they may be considered ideological, his stories are not mere fables, but are based upon his long-term work with children on summer camps and in club-rooms. He edited several journals for young people: * "Mladý hlasatel" ("Young herald"), 1938 - 1941 * "Junák" ("Scout"), 1945 - 1949 * "Vpřed" ("Ahead"), … - Jiří Menzel
Jiří Menzel, is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and scriptwriter. He became famous in 1967, when his first feature film "Closely Watched Trains" (based on the novel by Hrabal) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He was nominated again in the same category in 1986 with his dark comedy "My Sweet Little Village". His film "Larks on a String" was filmed in 1969, but was initially banned by the Czech government. - Jan Hammer
Jan Hammer (born 17 April 1948, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a composer and keyboardist. His music is as firmly rooted in the fundamentals of classical, jazz and rock, as it is committed to the future of synthesized sound, electronics, television, film and animation. His career spans from the early 1970s and still continues today. His compositions have won him several Grammy awards. - Antonín Novotný
Antonín Novotný was President of Czechoslovakia from 1957 to 1968 and ruled as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1953 to 1968. He was born in Letňany, now part of Prague. Antonín Novotný became a member of the Communist party in 1921. He later worked as a delegate to the 7th congress of Comintern (1935). Due to his involvement in the party's underground struggle, … - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles IV (German: "Karl IV", Czech: "Karel IV.", Hungarian: "IV. Károly"; 14 May 1316 - 29 November 1378), born Wenceslaus (Václav), of the House of Luxembourg, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1355 until his death. He was the eldest son and heir of John the Blind, from whom he inherited Luxembourg and Bohemia on 26 August 1346. - Ivo Lukačovič
Ivo Lukačovič is the founder, chairman and vision-maker of Seznam.cz, Czech major search engine. - Hugo Bergmann
Samuel (Schmuel) Hugo Bergman(n), or Samuel Bergman (December 25, 1883, Prague - June 18, 1975, Jerusalem) was a Czech-born German and Israeli Jewish philosopher. He emigrated to Palestine in 1920, and founded, together with Martin Buber, a movement promoting a "dual-national" area where Jews and Arabs could live under equal conditions. He translated several of Rudolf Steiner's books about threefolding to Hebrew. - Jaroslav Ježek
Jaroslav Ježek (September 25 1906 - January 1 1942) was a Czech composer. He was born in Prague, and died in New York City. The almost blind Ježek studied composition under Josef Suk and Alois Hába at the Prague Conservatory. When Ježek met playwrights/comedians Jan Werich and Jiří Voskovec (aka George Voskovec), leaders of the Osvobozené Divadlo (Liberated Theatre) in Prague, he took up the post as main composer and conductor. - Petr Korda
Petr Korda (Pronounced: KOR-da) (b. January 23 1968, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He is best known for winning the Australian Open in 1998. - Josef Nesvadba
Josef Nesvadba was a Czech science fiction writer, the best known from the 1960es generation and translated also in the West. Nesvadba had a degree in psychiatry, he was a pioneer of group psychotherapy in Czechoslovakia. He originally translated poetry from English and wrote several theatrical plays as a student at the turn of 1940-50es; towards the end of the decade he started to write short stories, his interest being satirical SF. As befitting his background, … - Milena Jesenská
Milena Jesenská (August 10, 1896, Prague – May 17, 1944, Ravensbrück, Germany) was a Czech journalist, writer, and translator. - Karel Hynek Mácha
Karel Hynek Mácha (November 16, 1810 – November 5, 1836) was a Czech romantic poet.
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