List of Famous people born in Prague

Antonín Josef Novotný was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1968, and also held the post of President of Czechoslovakia from 1957 to 1968. An ardent hardliner, Novotný was forced to yield the reins of power to Alexander Dubček during the short-lived reform movement of 1968.

Jaroslav Seifert was a Nobel Prize–winning Czechoslovak writer, poet and journalist. In 1984 Jaroslav Seifert won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man".

Pavel Bořkovec was a Czech composer and music teacher.

Václav Hampl is a Czech physiologist and politician who was a Senator from Prague 1 since 2014 till 2020. From 2006 to 2014, Hampl served as Rector of the Charles University.