Martin Straka

Martin Straka

male, 37 years old
Martin Straka (born September 3, 1972 in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech ice hockey centre who currently plays for the New York Rangers of the...
Josef Groll

Josef Groll

male, deceased (1887)
Josef Groll (born in Vilshofen on 21 August 1813, died in Vilshofen on 22 October 1887) was a Bavarian brewer, best known for his invention of...
Bedřich Smetana

Bedřich Smetana

male, deceased (1884)
Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer. He is best known for his symphonic poem "Vltava" (better known as "The Moldau"), the second in a cycle of s...
Josef Kajetán Tyl

Josef Kajetán Tyl

male, deceased (1856)
Josef Kajetán Tyl was a significant Czech dramatist and songwriter. He was born in Kutná Hora, died in Plzen. He wrote the Czech national anthem "K...

Emil Škoda

male, deceased (1900)
Emil Ritter von Škoda (November 19, 1839, Pilsen, Bohemia - August 8 1900, Amstetten, Austria) was a Czech engineer and industrialist.

Ernst von Mansfeld

male, deceased (1626)
Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld (also sometimes called Ernst, Graf von Mansfield, Ernst, Count of Mansfeld or Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld) (c. 1580 -...
Latin Counts

Latin Counts

The Latin Counts originated in the Pilsen neighborhood in the early 1960s, some contest that the gang actually originated in the Back of the Yards...

Emil Lederer

male, deceased (1939)
Emil Lederer (22 July 1882 in Pilsen - 29 May 1939 in New York City) was a Bohemian-born German economist and sociologist.
Rudolf Karel

Rudolf Karel

male, deceased (1945)
Rudolf Karel (*November 9, 1880 in Pilsen - murdered March 6, 1945 in Theresienstadt) was a distinguished Czech composer.

Libor Pešek

male, 76 years old
Libor Pešek KBE (born June 22, 1933) is a Czech conductor. Pešek was born in Prague and studied conducting, piano, cello and trombone at the Ac...