List of Famous people born in Prague, Czech Republic

Mikolas Josef

First Name Mikolas
Last Name Josef
Born on October 4, 1995 (age 30)
Born in Czech Republic

Mikoláš Josef Čapoun, known professionally as Mikolas Josef, is a Czech singer, songwriter, music producer, music video director, and choreographer. He represented the Czech Republic in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, with the song "Lie to Me", reaching sixth place. Josef is the most successful Czech entrant to date in Eurovision history.

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Jan Tříska

First Name Jan
Last Name Tříska
Born on November 4, 1936
Died on September 25, 2017 (aged 80)
Born in Czech Republic

Jan Triska or Jan Tříska was a Czech actor. He played Captain Henry Wirz in the American television film Andersonville and the serial murderer Joseph Paul Franklin in the feature film The People vs. Larry Flynt.

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Eva Saxl

First Name Eva
Last Name Saxl
Born on April 1, 1920
Died on January 1, 2002 (aged 81)
Born in Czech Republic

Eva Saxl (1921–2002) was a self-taught manufacturer of insulin and an advocate for people with diabetes. Saxl was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

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Petr Korda

First Name Petr
Born on January 23, 1968 (age 58)
Born in Czech Republic
Height 190 cm | 6'3

Petr Korda is a Czech former professional tennis player. He won the 1998 Australian Open and was runner-up at the 1992 French Open, reaching a career-high ranking of No. 2 in February 1998. Korda tested positive for doping in June 1998 at Wimbledon, was subsequently banned from September 1999 for 12 months, although he retired shortly before the ban.

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Avital Ronell

First Name Avital
Last Name Ronell
Born on April 15, 1952 (age 74)
Born in Czech Republic

Avital Ronell is an American academic who writes about continental philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the humanities and in the departments of Germanic languages and literature and comparative literature at New York University, where she co-directs the trauma and violence transdisciplinary studies program.

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Vladimír Franz

First Name Vladimír
Last Name Franz
Born on May 25, 1959 (age 66)
Born in Czech Republic

Vladimír Franz, is a Czech composer, painter, university scholar and occasional journalist, poet and playwright. Since mid-1980s he has composed stage music for more than 150 theatre performances—for many of them he was awarded national-level prizes—he has also composed a symphony, several operas, oratorios, a musical, ballet, as well as film music and music for documentaries and radio plays. His second main area of activities in the field of arts is represented by painting. Since 1991 he has been a lecturer at the Prague's Faculty of Theatre. In 2012 he was also a registered candidate in the 2013 Czech presidential election. The attention of local as well as world media has been attracted to him usually due to his extraordinarily extensive tattoo.

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Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs

First Name Alf
Born in Czech Republic

Alfred Dubs, Baron Dubs is a British Labour politician and former Member of Parliament.

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Alena Šeredová

First Name Alena
Last Name Šeredová
Born on March 21, 1978 (age 48)
Born in Czech Republic
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Alena Šeredová is a Czech model and actress who lives and works in Italy.

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Hana Mandlíková

First Name Hana
Last Name Mandlíková
Born on February 19, 1962 (age 64)
Born in Czech Republic
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Hana Mandlíková is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia who later obtained Australian citizenship. During her career, she won four Grand Slam singles titles: the 1980 Australian Open, 1981 French Open, 1985 US Open, and the 1987 Australian Open. She was also the runner-up at four Grand Slam singles events, including the Wimbledon finals of 1981 and 1986, and won one Grand Slam women's doubles title, at the 1989 US Open with Martina Navratilova. Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1994, she is considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time.

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Václav Havel

First Name Václav
Born on October 5, 1936
Died on December 18, 2011 (aged 75)
Born in Czech Republic

Václav Havel was a Czech statesman, writer and former dissident, who served as the last President of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first President of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs.

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