List of Famous people born in Prague, Czech Republic

Gerty Cori

Gerty Theresa Radnitz
First Name Gerty
Born on August 15, 1896
Died on October 26, 1957 (aged 61)
Born in Czech Republic

Gerty Theresa Cori was an Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for her significant role in the "discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen".

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Otto Gold

First Name Otto
Last Name Gold
Born on May 18, 1909
Died on April 7, 1977 (aged 67)
Born in Czech Republic

Otto Gold was a Czechoslovak figure skater and coach.

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Ota Hofman

First Name Ota
Last Name Hofman
Born on April 10, 1928
Died on May 17, 1989 (aged 61)
Born in Czech Republic

Ota Hofman, alias Ota Dvorský was Czechoslovak writer of children's literature and young adult literature and a screenwriter.

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Ondřej Sosenka

First Name Ondřej
Last Name Sosenka
Born on December 9, 1975 (age 50)
Born in Czech Republic

Ondřej Sosenka is a Czech professional cyclist who last rode for the UCI Professional Continental team PSK Whirlpool-Author. He won the Peace Race in 2002. He broke the five-year-old UCI hour record on 19 July 2005 in Moscow, Russia, riding 49.7 kilometres (30.9 mi) in one hour.

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Petr Bříza

First Name Petr
Born on December 9, 1964 (age 61)
Born in Czech Republic
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Petr Bříza is a former Czech ice hockey goaltender. He played in goal on the bronze medal winning ice hockey team for Czechoslovakia at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

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Ludek Kopriva

First Name Ludek
Died on October 2, 2004 (aged 34)
Born in Czech Republic
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Ernst Kolman

First Name Ernst
Last Name Kolman
Born on December 6, 1892
Died on January 22, 1979 (aged 86)
Born in Czech Republic

Ernst Kolman or Arnošt Yaromirovich Kolman ; 6 December 1892 – 22 January 1979) was a Marxist philosopher, who renounced his former activities as an ideological enforcer in Soviet science. At the age of 84 he sought asylum in Sweden and published a retraction of his previous activity.

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Nikolaus Lobkowicz

First Name Nikolaus
Born on July 9, 1931
Died on September 19, 2019 (aged 88)
Born in Czech Republic
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Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia

First Name Saint
Last Name Bohemia
Born on November 30, 0906
Died on September 28, 0935 (aged 28)
Born in Czech Republic

Wenceslaus I, Wenceslas I or Václav the Good was the duke (kníže) of Bohemia from 921 until his assassination in 935. His younger brother, Boleslaus the Cruel, was complicit in the murder.

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Edvard Jelínek

First Name Edvard
Born on June 6, 1855
Died on March 15, 1897 (aged 41)
Born in Czech Republic
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