Notable Alumni of Czech Technical University in Prague [Sorted List]

1. Václav Frič

1839-1916 (aged 77)

scientific collector trader of naturalia historian taxidermist photographer

Václav Frič was a Czech naturalist and natural history dealer.

2. Vladimír Jindřich Bufka

1887-1916 (aged 29)

visual artist photo artist non-fiction writer photographer

Vladimír Jindřich Bufka was a Czech photographer and popularizer of photography as well as an important exponent of pictorialism in Czech photography during the early 20th century. Bufka's creative works span a wide range; he practiced landscape photography, architectural photography, photojournalism, still life photography, portrait photography, astrophotography and photomicrography. He was familiar with various photography techniques of the time including...

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3. Vladimír List

1877-1971 (aged 94)

pedagogue general contractor electrical engineer university teacher electrotechnician

Vladimír List was a Czech electrical engineer, scientist and university teacher. He was active in area of technical standardization.

4. Jaroslav Joseph Polivka

1886-1960 (aged 74)

engineer architect

Jaroslav Josef Polivka, Czech structural engineer who collaborated with Frank Lloyd Wright between 1946 and 1959.

5. Jan Krejčí

1825-1887 (aged 62)

mineralogist university teacher geologist pedagogue politician

Jan Krejčí was a Czech geologist, educator, journalist and politician. He wrote the first Czech textbook of geology in 1860, whose revised edition was released again in 1877 under the title Geologie čili nauka o tvarech zemských se zvláštním ohledem na krajiny Československé.

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6. Max Urban

1882-1959 (aged 77)

photographer camera operator film director architect urban planner

Max Urban was a Czech architect and filmmaker. After studying at the Czech Technical University in Prague he worked as a pioneering filmmaker in the years before the First World War. He collaborated with his wife, the actress Andula Sedláčková, and worked as a screenwriter, cinematographer and film director. After the conflict, and Czechoslovakia's independence from Austria-Hungary, he focused on...

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7. Zdeněk Ziegler

1932-2023 (aged 91)

graphic artist typographer pedagogue university teacher architect

Zdeněk Ziegler was a Czech graphic artist.

8. Petr Duchoň

1956-. (aged 70)

physicist politician

Petr Duchoň is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party, part of the European Democrats and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Transport and Tourism.

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9. Charles Jonas

1840-1896 (aged 56)

journalist linguist editor politician

Charles Jonas was a Czech American journalist, linguist, and political activist. He was the 16th lieutenant governor of Wisconsin and served in the Wisconsin Legislature, representing Racine County. Later in life, he was an American consul general to Austria-Hungary, and the Russian and German empires.

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10. Eva Tylová

1959-. (aged 67)

politician

Eva Tylová is a Czech environmentalist and politician.

11. Franz Xaver Fieber

1807-1872 (aged 65)

botanist entomologist

Franz Xaver Fieber was a German Bohemian botanist and entomologist.

12. Josef Richard Vilímek

1835-1911 (aged 76)

poet writer printer opinion journalist publisher

Josef Richard Vilímek was a Czech publisher. He established a well known publishing house and was father of publisher Josef Richard Vilímek (1860 - 1938).

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13. Jan Hendrych

1936-. (aged 90)

painter pedagogue sculptor restorer teacher

Jan Hendrych is a Czech sculptor, painter, restorer, curator and professor emeritus at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

14. Vladimir Šubic

1894-1946 (aged 52)

architect

Vladimir Šubic was a Slovene architect. He designed several moderate functionalist buildings in Ljubljana, most notably the Nebotičnik skyscraper, which was the tallest building in Yugoslavia upon its completion. His architectural design was rational and economic, following metropolitan patterns and American high-rise examples.

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15. Jan Kmenta

1928-2016 (aged 88)

university teacher economist

Jan Kmenta was a Czech-American economist. He was the Professor Emeritus of Economics and Statistics at the University of Michigan and Visiting Professor at CERGE-EI in Prague, until summer 2016.

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16. Pavel Beneš

1894-1956 (aged 62)

aerospace engineer technician military flight engineer

Pavel Beneš was a chief designer at ČKD-Praga, one of the largest engineering companies in the former Czechoslovakia and today's Czech Republic.

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17. Petr Vaníček

1935-. (aged 91)

university teacher geophysicist

Petr Vaníček is a Czech Canadian geodesist and theoretical geophysicist who has made important breakthroughs in theory of spectrum analysis and geoid computation.

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18. Emil Weyr

1848-1894 (aged 46)

mathematician university teacher

Emil Weyr was an Austrian-Czech mathematician, known for his numerous publications on geometry.

19. Božena Laglerová

1886-1941 (aged 55)

aircraft pilot

Božena Gabriela Vítězslava Laglerová was a Czech pioneer aviator. She become the first female pilot in Austria-Hungary. She competed in air competitions.

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20. Dimitrij Andrusov

1897-1976 (aged 79)

geologist paleontologist university teacher

Dimitrij Andrusov was a Slovak geologist of Russian origin, member of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He was first professor of geology on Slovak colleges. He is considered the founder of modern Slovak geology.

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21. František Pošepný

1836-1895 (aged 59)

geologist teacher inventor

František "Franz" Pošepný was a Czech scientist working in geology and related fields.

22. Vladislav Titelbah

1847-1925 (aged 78)

ethnographer painter illustrator

Vladislav Titelbah was a Czech-born Serbian painter. In his aquarelles and drawings, he depicted rural interiors, persons, and scenes. He also copied Serbian folk embroidery and other products of folk art from Serbia. He made around 1,000 works.

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23. Jaromír Drábek

1965-. (aged 61)

politician economist

Jaromír Drábek is a Czech politician, who served as the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from July 2010 to October 2012. He was also the Deputy Leader of the TOP 09.

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24. Antonín Engel

1879-1958 (aged 79)

teacher pedagogue architect urban planner

Antonín Engel was a Czech architect, urban planner and architectural theorist. His most known works are the Prague Waterworks building in Podolí, the Ministry of Railways and Ministry of Defense buildings and the urban conception of the Prague quarter, Dejvice. He is considered the last master of neo-Renaissance and neo-classicism in Czech culture.

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25. Filip Maximilian Opiz

1787-1858 (aged 71)

botanical collector scientific collector mycologist entomologist botanist

Philipp Maximilian Opiz (5 June 1787 in Čáslav – 20 May 1858 in Prague) was a Czech-German forester and botanist. He made contributions to European botany during the early 19th century. Showing an early interest in botany from childhood, he produced floristic writings and established connections with prominent botanists while working as a government official in various Bohemian towns. Opiz...

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26. Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann

1822-1897 (aged 75)

architect general contractor

Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann was a Czech architect working in Revivalism architecture, particularly Renaissance Revival architecture.

27. Hermann Škorpil

1858-1923 (aged 65)

botanist architect anthropologist teacher historian

Václav Hermenegild Škorpil was an archaeologist and museum worker credited along with his brother Karel with the establishment of those two disciplines in Bulgaria, as well as a geologist, botanist, architect and librarian.

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28. František Zelenka

1904-1944 (aged 40)

graphic artist typographer artist production designer architect

František Zelenka was a Czech functionalist architect, graphic, stage and costume designer.

29. Ivan Wilhelm

1942-. (aged 84)

nuclear physicist pedagogue physicist

Ivan Wilhelm is a Czech nuclear physicist and former rector of the Charles University in Prague.

30. Zdenko Hans Skraup

1850-1910 (aged 60)

university teacher chemist

Zdenko Hans Skraup was a chemist from Austria-Hungary, who discovered the Skraup reaction, the first quinoline synthesis.

31. Emanuel Czuber

1851-1925 (aged 74)

university teacher surveyor geodesist mathematician statistician

Emanuel Czuber was an Austrian mathematician.

32. Petr Moos

1946-2024 (aged 78)

university teacher politician technician pedagogue engineer

Petr Moos was a Czech transportation engineer, academic and politician, who served as Minister of Transport in 1998. From 1994, he served as the first dean of the Faculty of Transportation Sciences of the Czech Technical University in Prague.

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33. Bedřich Feuerstein

1892-1936 (aged 44)

scenographer non-fiction writer architect costume designer writer

Bedřich Feuerstein was a Czech architect, painter and essayist.

34. Oldřich Vlasák

1955-2024 (aged 69)

politician

Oldřich Vlasák was a Czech conservative politician for the Civic Democratic Party who served as Vice-President of the European Parliament between 2012 and 2014. He was an advocate for the interests of self-governing municipalities, cities and regions.

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35. Jaroslav Fragner

1898-1967 (aged 69)

photographer designer teacher scenographer painter

Jaroslav Fragner was a Czech modernist architect. Fragner was one of the prominent designers of functionalist architecture in the Czech Republic. He contributed to the renovation of Prague Castle and designed several small weekend houses for relatives and friends, including Milča Mayerová. He was a member of the avant garde group Devětsil and later Mánes Union of Fine Arts.

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36. Vlastislav Hofman

1884-1964 (aged 80)

graphic artist scenographer painter typographer architect

Vlastislav Hofman was an artist and architect who lived and worked first in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and later in Czechoslovakia. Though he was a painter, set designer, graphic artist, furniture designer, and author, Hofman is best known as an architect strongly influenced by Cubism.

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37. Daniela Filipiová

1957-. (aged 69)

architect politician

Daniela Filipiová is a Czech architect and politician. She served as Minister of Health for the Czech Republic from 23 January 2009 to 8 May 2009. A member of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) Filipiová was a Senator representing Prague 8.

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38. Jiří Kroha

1893-1974 (aged 81)

director art theorist pedagogue architect scenographer

Jiří Kroha was a Czech architect, painter, sculptor, scenographer, designer and pedagogue. He was an important exponent of Czech architecture and design during inter-war period.

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39. Josef Vavroušek

1944-1995 (aged 51)

pedagogue ecologist politician

Josef Vavroušek was a Czech environmentalist, scientist and politician. He was the founder of the Environment for Europe process.

40. Miloš Tichý

1966-. (aged 60)

astronomer

Miloš Tichý is a Czech astronomer.

41. František Laudát

1960-. (aged 66)

technician pedagogue politician

František Laudát is a Czech politician, who served as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 2013 until 2017. He previously served as an MP from 2006 to 2013. He has been a member of TOP 09 since 2009. From 1991 to 2009, he was a member of the Civic Democratic Party.

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42. Vladimír Mařík

1952-. (aged 74)

academic

Vladimír Mařík is a Czech scientist.

43. Emil Votoček

1872-1950 (aged 78)

university teacher chemist composer

Emil Votoček was a Czech chemist, composer and music theorist. He is noted for his chemistry textbooks and multilingual dictionaries in both chemistry and music.

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44. Jiří Kejval

1967-. (aged 59)

rower athlete entrepreneur

Jiří Kejval is a Czech sports official, businessman and since 2012 President of the Czech Olympic Committee (Czech NOC). During his active sports career he competed at international level and for eighteen years was President of the Czech Rowing Association.

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45. Vladimír Karfík

1901-1996 (aged 95)

teacher pedagogue university teacher architect

Vladimir Karfík was a Czech modernist architect and university professor. His life, professional career and his work reflected changes characteristic for the 20th century.

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46. Zoe Klusáková-Svobodová

1925-2022 (aged 97)

university teacher writer pedagogue translator economist

Zoe Klusáková-Svobodová was a Czech economist, academic, writer and translator. She was the daughter of Ludvík Svoboda, the President of Czechoslovakia from 1968 to 1975, and the widow of Czechoslovak diplomat, Milan Klusák.

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47. Zdeněk Bažant

1937-. (aged 89)

mechanical engineer materials scientist university teacher inventor scientist

Zdeněk Pavel Bažant is McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University's Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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48. Jan Vodňanský

1941-2021 (aged 80)

playwright actor librettist philosopher writer

Jan Vodňanský was a Czech writer, songwriter, singer and humorist. He was best known for his collaboration with musician Petr Skoumal.

49. Václav Aulický

1944-. (aged 82)

architect

Václav Aulický is a Czech architect and university professor. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. His buildings have hi-tech and postmodern elements.

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50. Emil Belluš

1899-1979 (aged 80)

general contractor teacher university teacher architect

Emil Belluš was a Slovak functionalist architect.

51. Richard Weiner

1884-1937 (aged 53)

journalist chemist opinion journalist writer translator

Richard Weiner was a Czech writer, poet, and journalist. He is considered one of the most notable 20th century Czech authors, and influenced the literary work of many of his peers, as well as younger writers. His works, however, are little known outside of the Czech Republic. Because of his enigmatic writings, he has often been likened to Franz Kafka,...

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52. Jan Kasl

1951-. (aged 75)

teacher architect politician

Jan Kasl is a Czech architect and former politician who served as the Mayor of the City of Prague from 1998 to 2002, and who led the European Democrats from 2002 to 2006.

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53. Bohdan Sláma

1967-. (aged 59)

actor screenwriter director university teacher teacher

Bohdan Sláma is a Czech film director. He studied at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU).

54. Nikola Dobrovic

1897-1967 (aged 70)

urban planner architect

Nikola Dobrović was a Serbian architect, teacher, and urban planner. Dobrović designed a number of buildings including the Yugoslav Ministry of Defence building, later destroyed during the Kosovar War by NATO bombings.

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55. Dobroslav Chrobák

1907-1951 (aged 44)

translator writer

Dobroslav Chrobák was a Slovak writer, essayist and critic.

56. Friedrich Reinitzer

1857-1927 (aged 70)

university teacher chemist botanist

Friedrich Richard Reinitzer was an Austrian botanist and chemist. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, he discovered properties of liquid crystals (named later by Otto Lehmann).

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57. Kristiina Mäki

1991-. (aged 35)

long-distance runner middle-distance runner

Kristiina Hannele Sasínek Mäki, née Kristiina Hannele Mäki is a Finnish-born runner who represents the Czech Republic in international competitions.

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58. Milan Šrejber

1963-. (aged 63)

tennis player businessperson manager

Milan Šrejber is a former tennis player from Czechoslovakia, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There he reached the semi-finals of the men's doubles competition, partnering Miloslav Mečíř. The pair was defeated by America's eventual winners Ken Flach and Robert Seguso, but still won the bronze medal. The right-hander won one career singles title...

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59. Karel Škorpil

1859-1944 (aged 85)

anthropologist art historian teacher historian archaeologist

Karel Václav Škorpil was a Czech-Bulgarian archaeologist and museum worker credited along with his brother Hermann with the establishment of those two disciplines in Bulgaria.

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60. George Klir

1932-2016 (aged 84)

computer scientist mathematician university teacher

George Jiří Klir was a Czech-American computer scientist and professor of systems sciences at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York.

61. Josef Chochol

1880-1956 (aged 76)

scenographer architectural theoretician architect urban planner

Josef Chochol was a Czech architect. He was a key member of Mánes Union of Fine Arts and worked in a Cubist style.

62. Martin Rajniš

1944-. (aged 82)

designer teacher pedagogue architect

Martin Rajniš is a Czech architect, urbanist and professor. His architecture design career spans over fifty years and he taught at Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague from 1990 a 1997 and later at the Technical University of Liberec. He designed high-tech buildings in the 1980s and 1990s, and since 2000, he shifted the materiality and aesthetics of...

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63. Pavel Janák

1882-1956 (aged 74)

architectural theoretician university teacher architect exhibition curator designer

Pavel Janák was a Czech modernist architect, furniture designer, town planner, professor and theoretician.

64. Antonín Baudyš

1946-2010 (aged 64)

politician astrologer physicist technician engineer

Antonín Baudyš was a Czech academic and politician who served as defense minister from 1993 to 1994. He was the first defense minister of the Czech Republic.

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65. Josef Pleskot

1952-. (aged 74)

urban planner exhibition curator architect

Josef Pleskot is a Czech architect. He is known mainly as the designer of the pedestrian tunnel in the Deer Moat at the Prague Castle, and administrative building of the ČSOB in Prague. In 2009, he was voted the most significant Czech architect of the 1989-2009 period.

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66. Franz Anton von Gerstner

1796-1840 (aged 44)

engineer professor civil engineer railway engineer

Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner was a civil engineer, professor and railway pioneer born in the Kingdom of Bohemia in what was then the Habsburg monarchy.

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67. Emerik Blum

1911-1984 (aged 73)

chief executive officer mayor

Emerik Blum was a Yugoslav businessman, philanthropist and politician who served as the 26th mayor of Sarajevo from 1981 to 1983. However, he is best known for being the founder and first director of one of Southeast Europe's largest conglomerates, Energoinvest.

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68. Jan Mühlfeit

1962-. (aged 64)

programmer life coach manager

Jan Mühlfeit is a Czech manager, global strategist, coach and mentor. He spent almost 22 years working for Microsoft, the last 15 of which were in top management. His last post before he left in 2014 was Chairman Europe of the Microsoft Corporation, a position he held from 2007. He acts as an advisor to a number of governmental and...

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69. Miroslav Žamboch

1972-. (aged 54)

writer science fiction writer physicist nuclear physicist

Miroslav Žamboch is a Czech physicist and author known for writing novels and short stories in the science fiction and fantasy genres.

70. Dalibor Dědek

1957-. (aged 69)

entrepreneur patron of the arts

Dalibor Dědek is a Czech businessman and cofounder of the Jablotron Group. According to Forbes in 2021, Dědek is the 59th wealthiest Czech, with a fortune exceeding 5 billion Czech crowns.

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71. Vlastimil Picek

1956-. (aged 70)

politician

Vlastimil Picek is a Czech politician. He served as the Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic from March 2012 to January 2013. From 2007 to 2012, he was the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic. He was the fourth person and the first member of Czech Air Force to serve at this...

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72. Tomáš Březina

1957-. (aged 69)

entrepreneur politician

Tomáš Březina is a Czech politician and businessman.

73. Jakub Arbes

1840-1914 (aged 74)

science fiction writer playwright writer translator politician

Jakub Arbes was a Czech writer and intellectual. He is best known as the creator of the literary genre called romanetto and spent much of his professional life in France.

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74. Ivan M. Havel

1938-2021 (aged 83)

university teacher teacher computer scientist philosopher researcher

Ivan Miloš Havel was a Czech scientist and philosopher. He was the brother of President Václav Havel, with whom he was one of the founders of the Civic Forum.

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75. Ivan Krasko

1876-1958 (aged 82)

politician writer translator chemist poet

Ivan Krasko was a Slovak poet, translator and representative of modernism in Slovakia.

76. Jiří Dienstbier Jr

1969-. (aged 57)

lawyer politician journalist

Jiří Dienstbier Jr. is a Czech politician, lawyer and the Senator for Kladno from 2011 to 2020, representing the Social Democratic Party (ČSSD). He previously served as Minister for Human Rights, Equal Opportunities and Legislation in Bohuslav Sobotka's cabinet, and at various points he has been Deputy Leader of ČSSD, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and shadow minister...

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77. Vlado Milunić

1941-2022 (aged 81)

designer urban planner architect

Vladimir Milunić was a Czech-Croatian architect. He was noted for designing the "Dancing House" in Prague with Frank Gehry. He also taught at the Czech Technical University in Prague.

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78. Petr Uhl

1941-2021 (aged 80)

writer opinion journalist political activist politician political prisoner

Petr Uhl was a Czech journalist, activist and politician. A member of the Civic Forum, he served in the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia from 1990 to 1992. He was also a signatory of Charter 77.

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79. Veljko Vlahović

1914-1975 (aged 61)

politician political commissar

Veljko Vlahović was a Montenegrin politician and career army officer. He was one of the prominent members of the Montenegrin branch of the Yugoslav Communist Party from 1935 which established the SFR Yugoslavia following World War II. He studied in Belgrade, Prague, and the Sorbonne (in Paris), and finished his postgraduate studies in Moscow. He fought in the Spanish Civil...

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80. Jaroslav Havlíček

1896-1943 (aged 47)

science fiction writer screenwriter writer

Jaroslav Havlíček was a Czech novelist. He was an exponent of naturalism and psychological novel in Czech literature.

81. Jan Kašpar

1883-1927 (aged 44)

aerospace engineer aircraft pilot technician

Jan Kašpar was a Czech aviator, aircraft constructor, designer and engineer. He is considered an aviation pioneer in the Czech lands.

82. Ivan Pilný

1944-. (aged 82)

engineer entrepreneur politician

Ivan Pilný is a Czech politician and former Microsoft executive who briefly served as Finance Minister of the Czech Republic from 24 May 2017 to 13 December 2017. From 2013 to 2017 Pilný was a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP).

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83. Dana Drábová

1961-2025 (aged 64)

physicist scientist politician nuclear physicist

Dana Drábová was a Czech physicist and politician. She was the chair of the State Office for Nuclear Safety from 1999 to 2025, and served as President of the 2023 meetings of the parties to the Convention on Nuclear Safety.

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84. Petr Nárožný

1938-. (aged 88)

television actor stage actor actor film actor

Petr Nárožný is a Czech actor, television presenter, comedian, and entertainer.

85. Vladimir Prelog

1906-1998 (aged 92)

university teacher chemist engineer

Vladimir Prelog ForMemRS was a Croatian-Swiss organic chemist who received the 1975 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions. Prelog was born, and spent his infancy, in Sarajevo, and youth in Zagreb, Osijek and Prague. He later lived and worked in Prague, Zagreb and Zürich.

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86. Alois Eliáš

1890-1942 (aged 52)

military personnel soldier resistance fighter politician

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 but maintained contact with the government-in-exile. Because of his participation in the anti-Nazi resistance, he was the only head of government who was murdered by the Nazis...

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87. Emil Škoda

1839-1900 (aged 61)

entrepreneur technician industrialist university teacher mechanical engineer

Emil Ritter von Škoda was a Czech engineer and industrialist, founder of Škoda Works, the predecessor of today's Škoda Auto and Škoda Transportation.

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88. František Křižík

1847-1941 (aged 94)

inventor industrialist entrepreneur electrotechnician electrical engineer

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

89. Pavel Bobek

1937-2013 (aged 76)

singer actor architect

Pavel Bobek was a Czech singer.

90. Jiří Grossmann

1941-1971 (aged 30)

actor television actor songwriter writer prose writer

Jiří Grossmann was a Czech theatre actor, poet and composer.

91. Břetislav Staš

1928-2021 (aged 93)

seismologist geophysicist

Břetislav Staš was a Czech seismologist and geophysicist. He is the father of Czech actress Simona Stašová and the first husband of Czech actress Jiřina Bohdalová.

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92. Otto Wichterle

1913-1998 (aged 85)

inventor research fellow chemist university teacher writer

Otto Wichterle was a Czech chemist, best known for his invention of modern soft contact lenses.

93. Markéta Pekarová Adamová

1984-. (aged 42)

politician

Markéta Pekarová Adamová is a Czech politician who served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies from 2021 to 2025 and as leader of TOP 09 from 2019 to 2025. Pekarová Adamová was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2013 until 2025, when she decided not to seek re-election.

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94. Miroslav Zikmund

1919-2021 (aged 102)

film director film journalist journalist film producer screenwriter

Miroslav Zikmund was a Czech travel writer and explorer.

95. Karel Havlíček

1969-. (aged 57)

economist entrepreneur minister politician

Karel Havlíček is a Czech politician, who has served as First Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and Minister of Industry and Trade since 15 December 2025, in the third cabinet of Andrej Babiš. He also served as the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and Trade, and Minister of Transport between 2019 and 2021, during Babiš's first term...

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96. Alois Wachsman

1898-1942 (aged 44)

scenographer painter illustrator architect

Alois Wachsman was a Czech painter, stage designer and architect.

97. Josef Koudelka

1938-. (aged 88)

photographer photojournalist

Josef Koudelka is a Czech-French photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and has won awards such as the Prix Nadar (1978), a Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), a Grand Prix Henri Cartier-Bresson (1991), and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (1992). Exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art and...

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98. Václav Havel

1936-2011 (aged 75)

director film director dissident writer philosopher

Václav Havel was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of...

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99. Josef Mocker

1835-1899 (aged 64)

general contractor teacher designer architect restorer

Josef Mocker was a Czech architect and restorer. He worked in a purist neo-Gothic style and is the author of the reconstruction of many important monuments in Bohemia.

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100. Josef Hlávka

1831-1908 (aged 77)

general contractor master builder politician entrepreneur architect

Josef Hlávka was an architect, builder, philanthropist and founder of the oldest foundation for sciences and arts in Bohemia.