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Jan Hus

Jan Hus 208 Jan Hus, sometimes anglicized as John Goose or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as Iohannes Hus or Johannes Huss, was a Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church reformer and...

John Amos Comenius

John Amos Comenius 203 John Amos Comenius was a Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education. He served as the last bishop of the Unity of the Brethren before becoming a...

Tomáš Masaryk

Tomáš Masaryk 172 Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was a Czechoslovak statesman, political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1935. He is regarded as the founding father of...

Miroslav Tyrš

Miroslav Tyrš 161 Miroslav Tyrš was a Czech philosopher, art historian, sports organizer and together with Jindřich Fügner the cofounder of the Sokol movement.

Jan Žižka

Jan Žižka 150 Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha was a Czech military leader and Knight who was a contemporary and follower of Jan Hus, and a prominent Radical Hussite who led the Taborite faction during the Hussite...

Karel Havlíček Borovský

Karel Havlíček Borovský 143 Karel Havlíček Borovský was a Czech writer, poet, critic, politician, journalist, and publisher.   

Alois Jirásek

Alois Jirásek 143 Alois Jirásek was a Czech writer, author of historical novels and plays. Jirásek was a high school history teacher in Litomyšl and later in Prague until his retirement in 1909. He wrote a series of...

František Palacký

František Palacký 139 František Palacký was a Czech historian and politician. He was the most influential person of the Czech National Revival, called "Father of the Nation".

Bedřich Smetana

Bedřich Smetana 136 Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival". He has been...

Jan Neruda

Jan Neruda 117 Jan Nepomuk Neruda was a Czech journalist, writer, poet and art critic; one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of the "May School".

Božena Němcová

Božena Němcová 117 Božena Němcová was a Czech writer of the final phase of the Czech National Revival movement.       

Petr Bezruč

Petr Bezruč 111 Petr Bezruč was the pseudonym of Vladimír Vašek, a Czech poet and short story writer who was associated with the region of Austrian Silesia.

Svatopluk Čech

Svatopluk Čech 95 Svatopluk Čech was a Czech writer, journalist and poet.                                             

Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Dvořák 95 Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic era nationalist example of...

Karel Hynek Mácha

Karel Hynek Mácha 84 Karel Hynek Mácha was a Czech romantic poet. His poem Máj is among the most important poems in the history of Czech literature.

Josef Kajetán Tyl

Josef Kajetán Tyl 78 Josef Kajetán Tyl was a Czech dramatist, writer and actor. He was a notable figure in the Czech National Revival movement and is best known as the author of the current national anthem of the Czech...

Jaroslav Vrchlický

Jaroslav Vrchlický 71 Jaroslav Vrchlický was a Czech lyrical poet. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature eight times.

Josef Mánes

Josef Mánes 66 Josef Mánes was a Czech painter.                                                                   

Ludvík Svoboda

Ludvík Svoboda 65 Ludvík Svoboda was a Czech general and politician. He fought in both World Wars, for which he was regarded as a national hero, and he later served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1968 to 1975.

George of Poděbrady

George of Poděbrady 64 George of Kunštát and Poděbrady, also known as Poděbrad or Podiebrad, was the sixteenth King of Bohemia, who ruled in 1458–1471. He was a leader of the Hussites, but moderate and tolerant toward the...

Josef Jungmann

Josef Jungmann 59 Josef Jungmann was a Czech linguist and poet. He was a leading figure of the Czech National Revival and together with Josef Dobrovský, he is considered to be a creator of the modern Czech language....

Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek 56 Karel Čapek was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel War with the Newts (1936) and play R.U.R., which introduced...

Jiří Wolker

Jiří Wolker 54 Jiří Wolker was a Czech poet. He was also marginally journalist and playwright. Although he lived a short life, he became one of the most important Czech poets.

Ján Kollár

Ján Kollár 54 Ján Kollár was a Slovak writer, archaeologist, scientist, Lutheran pastor, politician, and main ideologist of Pan-Slavism.

Lale Sokolov

Lale Sokolov 48 Ludwig Sokolov, was an Austro-Hungarian-born Slovak-Australian businessman and Holocaust survivor. 

Mikoláš Aleš

Mikoláš Aleš 48 Mikoláš Aleš was a Czech painter. Aleš is estimated to have had over 5,000 published pictures; he painted for everything from magazines to playing cards to textbooks. His paintings were not...

Prokop the Great

Prokop the Great 46 Prokop the Great or Prokop the Bald or the Shaven was a Czech Hussite general and a prominent Taborite military leader during the Hussite Wars. On his mother's side, he came from a German patrician...

Jan Šverma

Jan Šverma 45 Jan Šverma was a Czech journalist, communist activist and resistance fighter against the Nazi-backed Slovak State. Šverma was considered a national hero in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.

Edvard Beneš

Edvard Beneš 44 Edvard Beneš was a Czech politician and statesman who served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938, and again from 1939 to 1948. During the first six years of his second stint, he led...

Zdeněk Fibich

Zdeněk Fibich 44 Zdeněk Fibich was a Czech composer of classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works, symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas, melodramas including the substantial trilogy...

Vítězslav Hálek

Vítězslav Hálek 43 Vítězslav Hálek was a Czech poet, writer, journalist and dramatist. He was known for his optimistic work, which earned him fame and recognition during his lifetime.

Jindřich Fügner

Jindřich Fügner 43 Jindřich Fügner was a Czech sports administrator. He was the co-founder and the first starosta (leader) of the Sokol movement.

Jan Evangelista Purkyně

Jan Evangelista Purkyně 41 Jan Evangelista Purkyně was a Czech anatomist and physiologist. In 1839, he coined the term "protoplasma" for the fluid substance of a cell. He was one of the best known scientists of his time. Such...

Josef Dobrovský

Josef Dobrovský 41 Josef Dobrovský was a Czech philologist and historian. He was one of the most important figures of the Czech National Revival along with Josef Jungmann.

Leoš Janáček

Leoš Janáček 40 Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, music theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic music, including Eastern European folk music, to create an original,...

Petr Chelčický

Petr Chelčický 37 Petr Chelčický was a Czech Christian spiritual leader and author in 15th-century Bohemia, now the Czech Republic. He was one of the most influential thinkers of the Bohemian Reformation. Chelčický...

Stanislav Kostka Neumann

Stanislav Kostka Neumann 36 Stanislav Kostka Neumann was a Czech poet, literary critic, journalist and translator. He was known for his anarchist and communist views, which influenced his work. He is the father of the actor...

Otakar Jaroš

Otakar Jaroš 36 Otakar Jaroš was a Czech officer in the Czechoslovak forces in the Soviet Union. He was killed in the Battle of Sokolovo and became the first member of a foreign army decorated with the highest...

Milan Rastislav Štefánik

Milan Rastislav Štefánik 35 Milan Rastislav Štefánik was a Slovak politician, diplomat, aviator and astronomer. During World War I, he served at the same time as a general in the French Army and as Minister of War for...

František Ladislav Rieger

František Ladislav Rieger 35 František Ladislav Rieger was a Czech politician and publicist made famous for his leadership of the early Czech nationalist movement.

Karel Jaromír Erben

Karel Jaromír Erben 34 Karel Jaromír Erben was a Czech folklorist. He is best known for his collection Kytice, which contains poems based on traditional and folkloric themes. He also wrote Písně národní v Čechách which...

Josef Suk (composer)

Josef Suk (composer) 32 Josef Suk was a Czech composer, violinist, and Olympic silver medalist. He studied under Antonín Dvořák, whose daughter he married.

Karel Václav Rais

Karel Václav Rais 31 Karel Václav Rais was a Czech writer and poet. He was a realist novelist and author of the so-called country prose. but he also wrote numerous books for youth and children.

Vladislav Vančura

Vladislav Vančura 31 Vladislav Vančura was a Czech writer. He was also active as a film director, playwright and screenwriter. A member of the Czech resistance during WWII, he was captured and executed by the Nazis.

Jaroslav Seifert

Jaroslav Seifert 30 Jaroslav Seifert was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. Seifert was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness...

Julius Fučík (journalist)

Julius Fučík (journalist) 29 Julius Fučík was a Czech journalist, critic, writer, and active member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. For his part at the forefront of the anti-Nazi resistance during the Second World War, he...

Vítězslav Nezval

Vítězslav Nezval 28 Vítězslav Nezval was a Czech poet, writer and translator. He was one of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the 20th century and a co-founder of the Surrealist movement...

Otokar Březina

Otokar Březina 27 Václav Jebavý ; mostly known by his pen name of Otokar or Otakar Březina ; was a Czech poet and essayist, considered the greatest of Czech Symbolists.

Pavel Jozef Šafárik

Pavel Jozef Šafárik 27 Pavel Jozef Šafárik was a Slovak philologist, poet, literary historian, historian and ethnographer. He was one of the first scientific Slavists.

Jerome of Prague

Jerome of Prague 27 Jerome of Prague was a Czech scholastic philosopher and theologian. Jerome was one of the chief followers of Jan Hus and was burned for heresy at the Council of Constance.

Karolina Světlá

Karolina Světlá 26 Karolina Světlá was a Czech writer and feminist. She is among the most important Czech female writers of the 19th century.

František Čelakovský

František Čelakovský 26 František Ladislav Čelakovský was a Czech poet, translator, linguist and literary critic. He was a major figure in the Czech National Revival. His most notable works are Ohlas písní ruských and...

František Křižík

František Křižík 26 František Křižík was a Czech inventor, electrical engineer and entrepreneur.                       

Ottokar II of Bohemia

Ottokar II of Bohemia 25 Ottokar II, the Iron and Golden King, was a member of the Přemyslid dynasty who reigned as King of Bohemia from 1253 until his death in 1278. He also held the titles of Margrave of Moravia from 1247,...

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt 25 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the US, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more...

Jan Opletal

Jan Opletal 24 Jan Opletal was a student of the Medical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague, who was shot at a Czechoslovak Independence Day rally on 28 October 1939. He was severely injured at this...

Eliška Krásnohorská

Eliška Krásnohorská 24 Eliška Krásnohorská was a Czech feminist author. She was introduced to literature and feminism by Karolína Světlá. She wrote works of lyric poetry and literary criticism, however, she is usually...

Jindřich Šimon Baar

Jindřich Šimon Baar 22 Jindřich Šimon Baar was a Czech Catholic priest and writer, realist, author of the so-called country prose. He joined the Czech Catholic modern style, but later severed the ties with that movement....

Josef Václav Sládek

Josef Václav Sládek 22 Josef Václav Sládek was a Czech poet, journalist and translator. He was a member of the literary group Lumírovci, and a pioneer of children's poetry in Czech lands.

Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia

Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia 20 Wenceslaus I, Wenceslas I or Václav the Good was the Prince (kníže) of Bohemia from 921 until his death, probably in 935. According to the legend, he was assassinated by his younger brother,...

Jan Sladký Kozina

Jan Sladký Kozina 20 Jan Sladký Kozina was a leader of the Chods peasant rebellion.                                     

Karel Klostermann

Karel Klostermann 20 Karel Klostermann was a Czech-German writer. He wrote under the alias Faustin.                     

Josef Lada

Josef Lada 19 Josef Lada was a Czech painter, illustrator, cartoonist and writer. He was pioneer of the Czech comicbook tradition and founder of the "Czech modern fairytale" genre. He is considered one of the...

Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky 19 Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his...

Ivan Olbracht

Ivan Olbracht 18 Ivan Olbracht, born Kamil Zeman, was a Czech writer, journalist, censor and translator of German prose.

František Škroup

František Škroup 18 František Jan Škroup was a Czech composer and conductor. His brother Jan Nepomuk Škroup was also a successful composer and his father, Dominik Škroup, and other brother Ignác Škroup were lesser known...

Josef Hybeš

Josef Hybeš 18 Josef Hybeš byl rakouský, český a československý sociálně demokratický politik a novinář. Již v mládí organizoval v oblasti Vídně a na jižní Moravě dělnické hnutí a stávky textilních dělníků. Za...

Fráňa Šrámek

Fráňa Šrámek 17 František Šrámek, known as Fráňa Šrámek, was a Czech and Czechoslovak anarchist, poet, playwright and writer.

Václav Brožík

Václav Brožík 17 Václav Brožík was a Czech painter who worked in the academic style.                                 

Jan Želivský

Jan Želivský 16 Jan Želivský was a prominent Czech priest during the Hussite Reformation.                           

Ján Nálepka

Ján Nálepka 15 Ján Nálepka was a Slovak captain who organized and led an anti-fascist Slovak partisan detachment in the Soviet Union during World War II.

Karel Sladkovský

Karel Sladkovský 14 Karel Sladkovský byl český novinář a politik, během revolučního roku 1848 představitel radikálních českých demokratů. Později byl vězněn, po roce 1860 opět aktivní politik, poslanec Českého zemského...

Brothers Čapek

Brothers Čapek 14 The Brothers Čapek were Josef and Karel Čapek, Czech writers who sometimes wrote together. They are commemorated both for their literary/artistic works and political activism against oppressive...

Josef Václav Myslbek

Josef Václav Myslbek 14 Josef Václav Myslbek was a Czech sculptor and medalist credited with founding the modern Czech sculpting style. He was born and did much of his work when the area was Bohemia.

Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin 14 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first person to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin...

Milada Horáková

Milada Horáková 14 Milada Horáková was a Czech politician and a member of the underground resistance movement against Nazi Germany and then against the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. She was focused on preserving...

Julius Zeyer

Julius Zeyer 13 Julius Zeyer was a Czech prose writer, poet and playwright.                                         

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor 13 Charles IV was Holy Roman Emperor from 1355 until his death in 1378. He was elected King of Germany in 1346 and became King of Bohemia that same year. He was a member of the House of Luxembourg from...

Jan Palach

Jan Palach 13 Jan Palach was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation in 1969 at the age of 20 was a political protest against the Warsaw Pact...

Marie Majerová

Marie Majerová 13 Marie Majerová was a Czech writer and translator.                                                   

Eduard Vojan

Eduard Vojan 12 Eduard Vojan was a Czech actor of early cinema.                                                     

Max Švabinský

Max Švabinský 12 Max Švabinský was a Czech painter, draughtsman, graphic designer, and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Švabinský is considered one of the more notable artists in the history of Czech...

Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin 12 Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian...

Václav Kliment Klicpera

Václav Kliment Klicpera 12 Václav Kliment Klicpera was a Czech playwright and poet. He was a prolific author of his own plays and was one of the first presenters of Czech-language drama. He was especially influential in the...

Peter Jilemnický

Peter Jilemnický 12 Peter Jilemnický was a Slovak writer, journalist, educator and Communist politician of Czech origin.

Jan Blahoslav

Jan Blahoslav 12 Jan Blahoslav was a Czech humanistic writer, poet, translator, etymologist, hymnographer, grammarian, music theorist and composer. He was a Unity of the Brethren bishop, and translated the New...

Bohuslav Martinů

Bohuslav Martinů 11 Bohuslav Jan Martinů was a Czech composer of modern classical music. He wrote 6 symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores, and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and instrumental works. He...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 10 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Classical composer and musician. In his brief life, he completed more than 800 works including outstanding examples of most of the genres of his time: symphonies,...

Alphonse Mucha

Alphonse Mucha 10 Alfons Maria Mucha, known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, he was widely known for his...

Petr Brandl

Petr Brandl 10 Petr Brandl was a Czech painter of the late Baroque in the bilingual Kingdom of Bohemia. Brandl was the sixth child in a Czech-German family. His father, Michal Brandl, worked as a tailor and was of...

Josef Hora

Josef Hora 10 Josef Hora was a Czech poet, literary critic and translator.                                       

Antonín Benjamin Svojsík

Antonín Benjamin Svojsík 9 Antonín Benjamin Svojsík was a Czech pedagogue and pioneer of Scouting. He introduced Scouting into Czechoslovakia and founded the Czechoslovak Scouting organisation Junák.

Matěj Kopecký

Matěj Kopecký 9 Matěj Kopecký was a Czech puppeteer. For six generations his descendants followed the art of puppeteering.

Josef Thomayer

Josef Thomayer 8 Josef Thomayer byl český lékař – profesor vnitřního lékařství, jeden ze zakladatelů české lékařské vědy. Velkou měrou se zasloužil o zlepšení podmínek na českých klinikách. Jde o tvůrce českého...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 8 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political,...

Pavel Křížkovský

Pavel Křížkovský 8 Pavel Křížkovský was a Czech choral composer and conductor.                                         

Prokop Diviš

Prokop Diviš 8 Prokop Diviš O.Praem. was a Czech canon regular, theologian, and natural scientist. In an effort to prevent thunderstorms, he inadvertently developed one of the earliest grounded lightning rods.

Bolesław I the Brave

Bolesław I the Brave 8 Bolesław I the Brave, less often known as Bolesław the Great, was Duke of Poland from 992 to 1025 and the first King of Poland in 1025. He was also Duke of Bohemia between 1003 and 1004 as Boleslaus...

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka 7 Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse...

Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav

Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav 7 Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav was a Slovak poet, dramatist, translator, and for a short time, member of the Czechoslovak parliament. Originally, he wrote in a traditional style, but later became...

Bohumír Šmeral

Bohumír Šmeral 7 Bohumír Šmeral was a Czech politician, leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party, and one of the founders of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

Jaroslav Ježek (composer)

Jaroslav Ježek (composer) 7 Jaroslav Ježek was a Czech composer, pianist and conductor, author of jazz, classical, incidental and film music.

Otakar Ševčík

Otakar Ševčík 7 Otakar Ševčík was a Czech violinist and influential teacher. He was known as a soloist and an ensemble player, including his occasional performances with Eugène Ysaÿe.

Vít Nejedlý

Vít Nejedlý 7 Vít Nejedlý byl český hudební skladatel, dirigent, publicista, redaktor a muzikolog, syn hudebního vědce a politika Zdeňka Nejedlého.

Jaroslav Heyrovský

Jaroslav Heyrovský 7 Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959 for his invention of polarography.

Bořivoj I, Duke of Bohemia

Bořivoj I, Duke of Bohemia 6 Bořivoj I was the first historically documented Duke of Bohemia and progenitor of the Přemyslid dynasty. His reign over the Duchy of Bohemia is believed to have started about the year 870, but in...

Carl Borivoj Presl

Carl Borivoj Presl 6 Carl Borivoj Presl was a Czech botanist. The standard author abbreviation C.Presl is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Přemyslid dynasty

Přemyslid dynasty 6 The Přemyslid dynasty or House of Přemysl was a Bohemian royal dynasty that reigned in the Duchy of Bohemia and later Kingdom of Bohemia and Margraviate of Moravia, as well as in parts of Poland,...

Ladislav Stroupežnický

Ladislav Stroupežnický 6 Ladislav Stroupežnický was a Czech author, playwright, and dramatist, best known for the frequently staged play Naši furianti.

Karl Burian (Offizier)

Karl Burian (Offizier) 6 Karl Burian war ein österreichischer Offizier. Als legitimistischer Widerstandskämpfer verlor er sein Leben im Kampf gegen den Nationalsozialismus.

Jan Roháč of Dubá

Jan Roháč of Dubá 6 Jan Roháč of Dubá was a Bohemian Hussite general who originated in the Bohemian gentry.             

Neklan

Neklan 6 Neklan was the sixth of the seven Bohemian mythical princes between the founder of the Přemyslid dynasty Přemysl the Ploughman and the first historical prince Bořivoj. The names of the princes were...

Jan Valerián Jirsík

Jan Valerián Jirsík 6 Jan Valerián Jirsík was a Roman Catholic clergyman, who was appointed the fourth Bishop of České Budějovice in 1851.

Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz 6 Adam Bernard Mickiewicz was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. He also largely...

George Voskovec

George Voskovec 5 Jiří Voskovec, known in the United States as George Voskovec, was a Czech-American actor. Throughout much of his career, he was associated with actor and playwright Jan Werich. In the U.S., he is...

Emmy Destinn

Emmy Destinn 5 Emmy Destinn was a Czech operatic dramatic soprano. She had a career both in Europe and at the New York Metropolitan Opera. She was one of the greatest opera singers of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Arthur Adamov

Arthur Adamov 5 Arthur Adamov was a playwright, one of the foremost exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd.         

František Hrubín

František Hrubín 5 František Hrubín was a Czech poet and writer.                                                       

Antonín Jaroslav Puchmajer

Antonín Jaroslav Puchmajer 5 Antonín Jaroslav Puchmajer byl český spisovatel, básník, překladatel, vlastenecký kněz a první český romista.

Alois Eliáš

Alois Eliáš 5 Alois Eliáš was a Czech general and politician. He served as prime minister of the puppet government of the German-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from 27 April 1939 to 27 September 1941...

Jan Zajíc

Jan Zajíc 4 Jan Zajíc was a Czech student who killed himself by self-immolation as a political protest.         

Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur 4 Louis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was...

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven 4 Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of classical music, and his symphonies redefined the medium for later...

Heliodor Píka

Heliodor Píka 4 General Heliodor Píka was a Czechoslovak army officer who was the first victim of judicial murder of the Czechoslovak Communist show trials.

Antal Stašek

Antal Stašek 4 Antal Stašek was a Czech writer and lawyer.                                                         

Karl Marx

Karl Marx 4 Karl Marx was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto, and his...

Jan Masaryk

Jan Masaryk 4 Jan Garrigue Masaryk was a Czech diplomat and politician who served as the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1940 to 1948. American journalist John Gunther described Masaryk as "a brave,...

Jára Cimrman

Jára Cimrman 4 Jára Cimrman or Jára da Cimrman, also known as "the Master", is a fictional Czech polymath, created by Ladislav Smoljak, Jiří Šebánek and Zdeněk Svěrák. The fictional personality is presented as a...

Zdeněk Nejedlý

Zdeněk Nejedlý 4 Zdeněk Nejedlý was a Czech musicologist, historian, music critic, author, and politician whose ideas dominated the cultural life of what is now the Czech Republic for most of the twentieth century....

František Sokol-Tůma

František Sokol-Tůma 3 František Sokol-Tůma, byl český spisovatel, novinář a dramatik.                                     

Jindřich Plachta

Jindřich Plachta 3 Jindřich Plachta was a Czech actor and comedian. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1926 and 1951, but he was also an active theatre actor. He was known for his tall, thin figure.

Bartholomew the Apostle

Bartholomew the Apostle 3 Bartholomew was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Most scholars today identify Bartholomew as Nathanael, who appears in the Gospel of John.

Marie Kudeříková

Marie Kudeříková 3 Marie Kudeříková was a student active in the Czech resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II. In 1941 she was arrested by Gestapo and at a subsequent trial she was sentenced to death. She was...

Artuš Scheiner

Artuš Scheiner 3 Artuš Scheiner was a Czech painter, decorative artist and illustrator. He was known best for his precise gouache drawing, mostly in secessional style. He produced many paintings, illustrations,...

Alexander Suvorov

Alexander Suvorov 3 Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov-Rymniksky, Prince of Italy was a Russian general and military theorist in the service of the Russian Empire.

Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor

Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 3 Rudolf II was Holy Roman Emperor (1576–1612), King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia (1575–1608/1611) and Archduke of Austria (1576–1608). He was a member of the House of Habsburg.

Elizabeth of Bohemia (1292–1330)

Elizabeth of Bohemia (1292–1330) 3 Elizabeth of Bohemia was a princess of the Bohemian Přemyslid dynasty who became Queen of Bohemia as the first wife of King John the Blind. She was the mother of Emperor Charles IV, King of Bohemia,...

Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin 3 Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading composer of his era...

Jaroslav Stránský

Jaroslav Stránský 3 Jaroslav Stránský byl český a československý prvorepublikový i poválečný politik, novinář a právník. Za druhé světové války i po roce 1948 působil v československém exilu.

Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov 3 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs. Pavlov also conducted...

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky 3 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian philosopher, novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature,...

August Bebel

August Bebel 3 Ferdinand August Bebel was a German social democratic politician. He is best known as one of the founders of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP) in 1869, which in 1875 merged with...

Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine 3 Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a Jewish born German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by...