List of Famous people born in Prague, Czech Republic
Jana Hlaváčová
Jana Hlaváčová is a Czech actress. She starred in the film Operace Silver A under director Jiří Strach in 2007.
Eva Klepáčová
Eva Klepáčová was a Czech actress, voice actor and presenter. One of her best known film roles is the character Kate from Czech Fairy tale Playing with the Devil (1956) directed by Josef Mach. She is also well known as a dubbing actress. In 2007, The Presidium of the Actors Union presented her with the Award for Lifetime Achievement in dubbing. She appeared in 19 films and television shows between 1955 and 1996.
Václav Vydra
Václav Vydra is a Czech theater, television and film actor. He was born as the son of Václav Vydra and Dana Medřická. His grandfather Václav Vydra was also a notable actor in Czechoslovakia and Director of the National Theater from 1945 to 1949.
Hana Vagnerová
Hana Vagnerová is a Czech stage and television actress.
Stanislav Grof
Stanislav Grof, also known as Stan Grof, is a Czech-born psychiatrist who has been living in the United States from the 1960s. Grof is one of the principal developers of transpersonal psychology and research into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of exploring, healing, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche. Grof received the VISION 97 award granted by the Foundation of Dagmar and Václav Havel in Prague on October 5, 2007.
Edita Brychta
Edita Brychta is an English actress. Her birth name was Edita Brychtová.
Václav Eusebius František, Prince of Lobkowicz
Václav Eusebius František, Prince of Lobkowicz was a Bohemian military leader and diplomat of the Lobkowicz family. After 1646, he was Duke of Sagan.
Hans Kelsen
Hans Kelsen was an Austrian jurist, legal philosopher and political philosopher. He was the author of the 1920 Austrian Constitution, which to a very large degree is still valid today. Due to the rise of totalitarianism in Austria, Kelsen left for Germany in 1930 but was forced to leave this university post after Hitler's seizure of power in 1933 because of his Jewish ancestry. That year he left for Geneva and later moved to the United States in 1940. In 1934, Roscoe Pound lauded Kelsen as "undoubtedly the leading jurist of the time". While in Vienna, Kelsen met Sigmund Freud and his circle, and wrote on the subject of social psychology and sociology.
Jan Faktor
Johann Ernst von Thun
Johann Ernst Graf von Thun und Hohenstein was Bishop of Seckau from 1679 to 1687 and Prince-archbishop of Salzburg from 1687 until his death.