People
- Emanuele d'Astorga
- Arthur Breisky
- Max Dvořák, art historian
- Seligmann Heller
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
- Cola di Rienzo - medieval Italian politician, imprisoned for a time at the Roudnice castle
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