List of People From Prague - The Arts

The Arts

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) — composer; some of his best opera successes were during his time in Prague
• Hans Hampel (1822–1884) — composer
• Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884) — composer; lived and died in Prague
• Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) — composer; lived most of his life in Prague
• Bedřich Münzberger (1828–1946) - architect
• Josef Václav Myslbek (1848–1922) — sculptor; born in Prague and creator of the Wenceslas Monument in Prague's Wenceslas Square
• Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) — composer; studied in Prague
• Alfons Mucha (1860–1939) — painter and decorative artist; spent last decades of his life in Prague
• Jože Plečnik (1872–1957) — Slovene architect; built several churches and parts of the Prague Castle
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) — poet; born and studied in Prague
• Emmy Destinn (1878–1930) — operatic soprano; born in Prague
• Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923) — writer, humorist and satirist; lived in Prague for most of his life, described the city in many stories
• Franz Kafka (1883–1924) — German-language fiction writer; born in Prague
• Karel Čapek (1890–1938) — writer; lived and died in Prague
• Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986) — poet and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1984); lived in Prague
• Vladimír Holan (1905–1980) — poet; born, lived and died in Prague
• Jan Werich (1905–1980) — actor, singer, playwright, writer; born, lived and died in Prague
• Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) — writer; lived and died in Prague
• Lída Baarová (1914–2000) — actress; lived and died in Prague
• Gene Deitch (born 1924) — American-born animator; lives in Prague
• Milan Kundera (born 1929) — writer; studied, lectured at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
• Jiří Suchý (born 1931) — actor, singer, playwright, writer; born and lives in Prague
• Miloš Forman (born 1932) — film director, actor and screenwriter — won the Academy Award for Best Director for his feature films Amadeus (1984) and One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975); studied and lived in Prague
• Jan Saudek (born 1935) — art photographer; born and lives in Prague
• Václav Havel (1936–2011) — dramatist, writer and politician — President of Czechoslovakia (its last; 1989–1992); and President of the Czech Republic (its first; 1993–2003); born and lived 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
• Karel Gott (born 1939) — singer; lives in Prague
• Ivan Kral (born 1948) — guitarist, singer, record producer and film director; born in Prague
• Robert Vano (born 1948) — art photographer; lives in Prague
• Zuzana Navarová (1959–2004) — singer; lived and died in Prague
• Karel Roden (born 1962) — actor; lives in Prague
• Stefan Kisyov (born 1963) — novelist; lives in Prague
• Jiří Růžek (born 1967) — art photographer; lives in Prague
• Tomas Kalnoky (born 1980) — guitarist, singer; born in Prague