Other Fields
- Karel Baxa (1863–1938) — politician; mayor of Prague for almost two decades
- Charles Fried (1935) - United States Solicitor General, 1985-89.
- Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942) — Nazi general and protector; assassinated in Prague during Operation Anthropoid while serving as governor of the occupied country
- Jan Hus (1369–1415) — priest, philosopher, reformer; most-important preaching done in Prague
- František Křižík (1847–1941) — inventor, electrical engineer and entrepreneur — the main-belt asteroid 5719 Křižík was named in his honor; set up his company in Prague
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1525–1609) — Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic and philosopher; lived most of his life in Prague
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937) — philosopher, politician; lived in Prague for substantial part of life
- Jan Patočka (1907–1977) — philosopher; born, lived and died in Prague
- Jan Žižka (circa 1360–1424) — general and Hussite leader; participated in start of the rebellion in Prague, later defended it against Crusaders
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“The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey,
The fields are fragrant and the woods are green.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Most books belong to the house and street only, and in the fields their leaves feel very thin. They are bare and obvious, and have no halo nor haze about them. Nature lies far and fair behind them all. But this, as it proceeds from, so it addresses, what is deepest and most abiding in man. It belongs to the noontide of the day, the midsummer of the year, and after the snows have melted, and the waters evaporated in the spring, still its truth speaks freshly to our experience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)