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Prague, the capital of today's Czech Republic, has been for over a thousand years the centre and the biggest city of the Czech lands. Notable people who were born or died, studied, lived or saw their success in Prague are listed below. ==The arts== * H. G. Adler (1910–1988) – German-language writer; born and lived in Prague * Filip Albrecht (born 1977) — lyricist, film producer, writer; lives in Prague * Lída Baarová (1914–2000) — actress; lived and died in Prague Max Brod (1884–1968) – German-language writer; born and lived in Prague * Karel Čapek (1890–1938) — writer; lived and died in Prague * Gene Deitch (born 1924) — American-born animator; lives in Prague * Emmy Destinn (1878–1930) — operatic soprano; born in Prague * Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) — composer; lived most of his life in Prague * Miloš Forman (born 1932) — film director, won twice Academy Award for Best Director; studied and lived in Prague * Karel Gott (born 1939) — singer; lives in Prague * Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923) — writer, humorist and satirist; lived in Prague for most of his life, described the city in many stories * Václav Havel (1936–2011) — dramatist, writer and politician — President of Czechoslovakia and Czech republic (its first; 1993–2003); born and lived in Prague * Vladimír Holan (1905–1980) — poet; born, lived and died in Prague * Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) — writer; lived and died in Prague * Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) — composer; studied in Prague * Fanny Janauschek (1830–1904) — actress; migrated to the United States in 1867 * Franz Kafka (1883–1924) — German-language fiction writer; born and lived in Prague * Tomas Kalnoky (born 1980) — guitarist, singer; born in Prague * Egon Erwin Kisch (1885–1948) – German-language journalist and writer; born, lived, and died in Prague * Stefan Kisyov (born 1963) — novelist; lives in Prague * Paul Kornfeld (1889–1942) – German-language playwright and novelist; born and lived in Prague * Ivan Kral (born 1948) — guitarist, singer, record producer and film director; born in Prague * Milan Kundera (born 1929) — writer; studied, lectured at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague * Jiří Menzel (born 1938) — film director (his first feature film, ''Closely Watched Trains'' (1966) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film); born in Prague * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) — composer; some of his best opera successes were during his time in Prague * Alfons Mucha (1860–1939) — Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist; spent last decades of his life in Prague * Josef Václav Myslbek (1848–1922) — sculptor; born in Prague and creator of the Wenceslas Monument in Prague's Wenceslas Square * Zuzana Navarová (1959–2004) — singer; lived and died in Prague * Jože Plečnik (1872–1957) — Slovene architect; built several churches and parts of the Prague Castle * Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) — German-language poet; born and studied in Prague * Karel Roden (born 1962) — actor; lives in Prague * Jan Saudek (born 1935) — art photographer; born and lives in Prague * Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986) — poet and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1984); lived in Prague * Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884) — composer; lived and died in Prague * Jiří Suchý (born 1931) — actor, singer, playwright, writer; born and lives in Prague * Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914) — novelist, pacifist activist and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1905) * Johannes Urzidil (1896–1970) — German-language writer; born and lived in Prague, described the city in many stories (''The Lost Beloved'', 1956, ''Prague Triptych'', 1960) * Marja Vallila (1950- ) - sculptor * Robert Vano (born 1948) — art photographer; lives in Prague * Felix Weltsch (1884–1964) – German-language writer; born and lived in Prague * Robert Weltsch (1891–1982) – German-language journalist; born and lived in Prague * Franz Werfel (1890–1945) – German-language writer; born and lived in Prague * Jan Werich (1905–1980) — actor, singer, playwright, writer; born, lived and died in Prague 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of people from Prague」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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