100 Notable Alumni of Czech Technical University in Prague

Václav Havel

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1936-2011 (aged 75)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: Studied in 1955-1957
Occupations: writerhuman rights activistpoetphilosopherfilm director
Biography: 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 communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays and memoirs.

Christian Doppler

Born in: Austria
Years: 1803-1853 (aged 50)
Occupations: physicistpedagogueprofessorastronomermathematician
Biography: Christian Andreas Doppler was an Austrian mathematician and physicist. He formulated the principle – now known as the Doppler effect – that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer.

Otto Wichterle

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1913-1998 (aged 85)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
Occupations: politicianinventorresearch fellowchemistuniversity teacher
Biography: Otto Wichterle was a Czech chemist, best known for his invention of modern soft contact lenses.

Markéta Pekarová Adamová

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1984-.. (age 41)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: 2009-2011 graduated with engineer's degree in economics and management
Occupations: politician
Biography: Markéta Pekarová Adamová is a Czech politician who is the President of the Chamber of Deputies since 2021 and leader of TOP 09 since 2019. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2013.

Miroslav Zikmund

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1919-2021 (aged 102)
Occupations: photographerfilmmakerworld travelerfilm directorfilm journalist
Biography: Miroslav Zikmund was a Czech travel writer and explorer.

Josef Koudelka

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1938-.. (age 87)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: 1961-1967 studied engineering
Occupations: photographerphotojournalist
Biography: 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 the International Center of Photography, New York; the Hayward Gallery, London; the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Vladimir Prelog

Born in: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Years: 1906-1998 (aged 92)
Occupations: engineeruniversity teacherchemist
Biography: 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.

Petr Nárožný

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1938-.. (age 87)
Occupations: film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
Biography: Petr Nárožný is a Czech actor, television presenter, comedian, and entertainer.

Alois Eliáš

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1890-1942 (aged 52)
Occupations: resistance fighterpoliticianmilitary personnelsoldier
Biography: 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 during World War II.

Emil Škoda

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1839-1900 (aged 61)
Occupations: politicianentrepreneurtechnicianindustrialistuniversity teacher
Biography: Emil Ritter von Škoda was a Czech engineer and industrialist, founder of Škoda Works, the predecessor of today's Škoda Auto and Škoda Transportation.

František Křižík

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1847-1941 (aged 94)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: Studied in 1866
Occupations: politicianrailway engineerscientistinventorindustrialist
Biography: František Křižík was a Czech inventor, electrical engineer, and entrepreneur.

Dana Drábová

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1961-.. (age 64)
Occupations: physicist
Biography: Dana Drábová is a Czech physicist and politician. She is the chair of the State Office for Nuclear Safety and she was President of the 2023 meetings of the parties to the Convention on Nuclear Safety.

Pavel Bobek

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1937-2013 (aged 76)
Occupations: singeractorarchitect
Biography: Pavel Bobek was a Czech singer.

Jiří Grossmann

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1941-1971 (aged 30)
Occupations: screenwriterpoetactortelevision actorsongwriter
Biography: Jiří Grossmann was a Czechoslovak theatre actor, poet, and composer.

Břetislav Staš

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1928-2021 (aged 93)
Occupations: seismologistgeophysicist
Biography: 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.

Jakub Arbes

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1840-1914 (aged 74)
Occupations: politicianjournalistscience fiction writerplaywrightwriter
Biography: 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.

Ivan M. Havel

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1938-2021 (aged 83)
Occupations: university teacherteachercomputer scientistphilosopherresearcher
Biography: 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.

Ivan Krasko

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1876-1958 (aged 82)
Occupations: translatorchemistpoetpoliticianwriter
Biography: Ivan Krasko was a Slovak poet, translator and representative of modernism in Slovakia.

Jiří Dienstbier Jr

Born in: United States
Years: 1969-.. (age 56)
Occupations: politicianjournalistlawyer
Biography: 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 of Justice. He was also the ČSSD candidate for the first direct presidential elections in the Czech Republic in 2013.

Vlado Milunić

Born in: Croatia
Years: 1941-2022 (aged 81)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: Studied in 1960-1966
Occupations: designerurban plannerarchitect
Biography: 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.

Josef Hlávka

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1831-1908 (aged 77)
Occupations: general contractormaster builderpoliticianentrepreneurarchitect
Biography: Josef Hlávka was a Czech architect, builder, philanthropist and founder of the oldest Czech foundation for sciences and arts.

Petr Uhl

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1941-2021 (aged 80)
Occupations: political prisonerjournalistwriteropinion journalistpolitical activist
Biography: 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.

Jaroslav Havlíček

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1896-1943 (aged 47)
Occupations: writerscience fiction writerscreenwriter
Biography: Jaroslav Havlíček was a Czech novelist. He was an exponent of naturalism and psychological novel in Czech literature.

Veljko Vlahović

Born in: Montenegro
Years: 1914-1975 (aged 61)
Occupations: politicianpolitical commissar
Biography: 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 War and was active in organizing the Communist Youth League of Yugoslavia (SKOJ).

Karel Havlíček

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1969-.. (age 56)
Occupations: ministerpoliticianeconomistentrepreneur
Biography: Karel Havlíček is a Czech politician. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Minister of Industry and Trade and Minister of Transport in Second Cabinet of Andrej Babiš.

Jan Kašpar

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1883-1927 (aged 44)
Occupations: aircraft pilottechnicianaerospace engineer
Biography: Jan Kašpar was a Czech aviator, aircraft constructor, designer and engineer. He is considered an aviation pioneer in the Czech lands.

Ivan Pilný

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1944-.. (age 81)
Occupations: engineerpolitician
Biography: 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).

Miroslav Žamboch

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1972-.. (age 53)
Occupations: nuclear physicistwriterscience fiction writerphysicist
Biography: Miroslav Žamboch is a Czech physicist and author known for writing novels and short stories in the science fiction and fantasy genres.

Jan Mühlfeit

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1962-.. (age 63)
Occupations: life coachmanagerprogrammer
Biography: 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 international organisations, such as AIESEC, the World Economic Forum, the European Commission, and the OECD.

Vlastimil Picek

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1956-.. (age 69)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: Studied in 1993
Occupations: politician
Biography: 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 position. He was appointed by President Václav Klaus and took office on 1 March 2007. He was replaced by Major General Petr Pavel as from 1 July 2012. On 18 September 2012 he was appointed the 1st Deputy Defence Minister. On 13 December 2012, he was dismissed by then new minister Karolína Peake and on 21 December 2012 reinstalled by Prime Minister Petr Nečas, after Nečas dismissed Peake. In March, 2013, he was appointed Minister of Defence.

Emerik Blum

Born in: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Years: 1911-1984 (aged 73)
Occupations: chief executive officermayor
Biography: Emerik Blum was a Bosnian Jewish businessman, philanthropist and politician who served as the 26th mayor of Sarajevo from 1981 to 1983. He is known for being the founder and first director of one of Southeast Europe's largest conglomerates, Energoinvest.

Dalibor Dědek

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1957-.. (age 68)
Occupations: entrepreneurpatron of the arts
Biography: 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.

Pavel Janák

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1882-1956 (aged 74)
Occupations: designerteacherarchitectural theoreticianexhibition curatoruniversity teacher
Biography: Pavel Janák was a Czech modernist architect, furniture designer, town planner, professor and theoretician.

Tomáš Březina

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1957-.. (age 68)
Occupations: entrepreneurpolitician
Biography: Tomáš Březina is a Czech politician and businessman.

Josef Pleskot

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1952-.. (age 73)
Occupations: urban plannerexhibition curatorarchitect
Biography: 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.

Antonín Baudyš

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1946-2010 (aged 64)
Occupations: engineerpoliticianastrologerphysicisttechnician
Biography: 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.

Franz Anton von Gerstner

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1796-1840 (aged 44)
Occupations: civil engineerrailway engineerengineerprofessor
Biography: 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.

Bohdan Sláma

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1967-.. (age 58)
Occupations: film directoractorscreenwriterdirectoruniversity teacher
Biography: Bohdan Sláma is a Czech film director. He studied at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU).

Dobroslav Chrobák

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1907-1951 (aged 44)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: Studied in 1926-1934
Occupations: translatorwriter
Biography: Dobroslav Chrobák was a Slovak writer.

Friedrich Reinitzer

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1857-1927 (aged 70)
Occupations: university teacherchemistbotanist
Biography: 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).

George Klir

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1932-2016 (aged 84)
Occupations: university teachercomputer scientistmathematician
Biography: George Jiří Klir was a Czech-American computer scientist and professor of systems sciences at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York.

Nikola Dobrovic

Born in: Hungary
Years: 1897-1967 (aged 70)
Occupations: urban plannerarchitect
Biography: 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.

Josef Chochol

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1880-1956 (aged 76)
Occupations: architecturban plannerscenographerarchitectural theoretician
Biography: Josef Chochol was a Czech architect.

Milan Šrejber

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1963-.. (age 62)
Occupations: businesspersonmanagertennis player
Biography: 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 (Rye Brook, 1988), and reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 23 in October 1986.

Karel Škorpil

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1859-1944 (aged 85)
Occupations: historianarchaeologistdiplomatanthropologistart historian
Biography: 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.

Martin Rajniš

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1944-.. (age 81)
Occupations: pedagoguearchitectdesignerteacher
Biography: 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 his designs from steel and concrete to "naturalistic" wood, stone and glass, resulting in a number of experimental and organically shaped structures. Rajniš is critical of engineered communist-era architecture, especially concrete tower blocks.

Richard Weiner

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1884-1937 (aged 53)
Occupations: journalistchemistopinion journalistwritertranslator
Biography: 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, although mutual influences can be ruled out with near certainty. He has been called "the poet of anxiety", others spoke of him as "the Odd-man out" of Czech literature. Karel Čapek, his contemporary, dubbed him "the man of pain."

Jan Kasl

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1951-.. (age 74)
Occupations: politicianteacherarchitect
Biography: 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.

Kristiina Mäki

Born in: Finland
Years: 1991-.. (age 34)
Occupations: long-distance runnermiddle-distance runner
Biography: Kristiina Hannele Sasínek Mäki, née Kristiina Hannele Mäki is a Finnish-born runner who represents the Czech Republic in international competitions.

Emil Votoček

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1872-1950 (aged 78)
Occupations: composeruniversity teacherchemist
Biography: 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.

Jiří Kejval

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1967-.. (age 58)
Occupations: entrepreneurrowerathlete
Biography: 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.

Vladimír Karfík

Born in: Slovenia
Years: 1901-1996 (aged 95)
Occupations: university teacherarchitectteacherpedagogue
Biography: Vladimir Karfík was a Czech modernist architect and university professor. His life, professional career and his work reflected changes characteristic for the 20th century.

Zdeněk Bažant

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1937-.. (age 88)
Occupations: civil engineerexecutiveecologistteachermechanical engineer
Biography: 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.

Emil Belluš

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1899-1979 (aged 80)
Occupations: teacherarchitect
Biography: Emil Belluš was a Slovak functionalist architect.

Zoe Klusáková-Svobodová

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1925-2022 (aged 97)
Occupations: translatoreconomistuniversity teacherwriterpedagogue
Biography: 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.

Vlastislav Hofman

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1884-1964 (aged 80)
Occupations: graphic artistpainterarchitectscenographertypographer
Biography: 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.

Jaroslav Fragner

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1898-1967 (aged 69)
Occupations: pedagoguephotographerdesignerteacherscenographer
Biography: 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.

Václav Aulický

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1944-.. (age 81)
Occupations: architect
Biography: 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.

Jiří Kroha

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1893-1974 (aged 81)
Occupations: directorart theoristpedagoguearchitectscenographer
Biography: 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.

Daniela Filipiová

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1957-.. (age 68)
Occupations: architectpolitician
Biography: 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.

Jan Vodňanský

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1941-2021 (aged 80)
Occupations: lyricistplaywrightactorlibrettistphilosopher
Biography: Jan Vodňanský was a Czech writer, songwriter, singer and humorist. He was best known for his collaboration with musician Petr Skoumal.

František Laudát

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1960-.. (age 65)
Occupations: politiciantechnicianpedagogue
Biography: 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 1991-2009 he was a member of the Civic Democratic Party.

Miloš Tichý

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1966-.. (age 59)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: 2010-2012 graduated with master's degree; 2012-2018 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
Occupations: astronomer
Biography: Miloš Tichý is a Czech astronomer.

Josef Vavroušek

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1944-1995 (aged 51)
Occupations: politicianpedagogueecologist
Biography: Josef Vavroušek was a Czech environmentalist, scientist, politician, and founder of the Environment for Europe process.

Vladimír Mařík

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1952-.. (age 73)
Occupations: academic
Biography: Vladimír Mařík is a Czech scientist.

Bedřich Feuerstein

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1892-1936 (aged 44)
Occupations: essayistwriternon-fiction writerscenographerpainter
Biography: Bedřich Feuerstein was a Czech architect, painter and essayist.

Jaromír Drábek

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1965-.. (age 60)
Occupations: politicianeconomist
Biography: 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.

Oldřich Vlasák

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1955-2024 (aged 69)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Oldřich Vlasák was a Czech conservative politician who advocated for the interests of self-governing municipalities, cities and regions. He served as Vice-President of the European Parliament between 2012 and 2014.

Filip Maximilian Opiz

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1787-1858 (aged 71)
Occupations: mycologistbotanistentomologist
Biography: Philipp Maximilian Opiz (5 June 1787 in Čáslav – 20 May 1858 in Prague) was a Czech-German forester and botanist.

Hermann Škorpil

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1858-1923 (aged 65)
Occupations: historianarchaeologistbotanistarchitectanthropologist
Biography: 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.

Antonín Engel

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1879-1958 (aged 79)
Occupations: architecturban plannerteacherpedagogue
Biography: 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.

Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1822-1897 (aged 75)
Occupations: architectgeneral contractor
Biography: Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann was a Czech architect working in Revivalism architecture, particularly Renaissance Revival architecture.

František Zelenka

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1904-1944 (aged 40)
Occupations: production designercostume designerartistgraphic artistscenographer
Biography: František Zelenka was a Czech functionalist architect, graphic, stage and costume designer.

Alois Wachsman

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1898-1942 (aged 44)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: Studied in 1917-1922
Occupations: architectscenographerpainterillustrator
Biography: Alois Wachsman was a Czech painter, stage designer and architect.

Zdenko Hans Skraup

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1850-1910 (aged 60)
Occupations: professoruniversity teacherchemist
Biography: Zdenko Hans Skraup was a chemist from Austria-Hungary, who discovered the Skraup reaction, the first quinoline synthesis.

Ivan Wilhelm

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1942-.. (age 83)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: Studied in 1959-1964
Occupations: physicistnuclear physicistpedagogue
Biography: Ivan Wilhelm is a Czech nuclear physicist and former rector of the Charles University in Prague.

Petr Moos

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1946-2024 (aged 78)
Occupations: engineeruniversity teacherpoliticiantechnicianpedagogue
Biography: 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.

Emanuel Czuber

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1851-1925 (aged 74)
Occupations: statisticiangeodesistprofessoruniversity teachersurveyor
Biography: Emanuel Czuber was an Austrian mathematician.

Dimitrij Andrusov

Born in: Estonia
Years: 1897-1976 (aged 79)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: Studied in 1923
Occupations: university teachergeologistpaleontologist
Biography: 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.

Božena Laglerová

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1886-1941 (aged 55)
Occupations: aircraft pilot
Biography: Božena Laglerová was a pioneer aviator.

František Pošepný

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1836-1895 (aged 59)
Occupations: inventorgeologistteacher
Biography: František "Franz" Pošepný was a Czech scientist working in geology and related fields.

Jan Kmenta

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1928-2016 (aged 88)
Occupations: university teachereconomist
Biography: 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.

Vladimir Šubic

Born in: Slovenia
Years: 1894-1946 (aged 52)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: Studied in 1919-1922
Occupations: architect
Biography: 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.

Vladislav Titelbah

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1847-1925 (aged 78)
Occupations: ethnographerpainterillustrator
Biography: 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.

Pavel Beneš

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1894-1956 (aged 62)
Occupations: technicianmilitary flight engineeraerospace engineer
Biography: Pavel Beneš was a chief designer at ČKD-Praga, one of the largest engineering companies in the former Czechoslovakia and today's Czech Republic.

Petr Vaníček

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1935-.. (age 90)
Occupations: university teachergeophysicist
Biography: Petr Vaníček is a Czech Canadian geodesist and theoretical geophysicist who has made important breakthroughs in theory of spectrum analysis and geoid computation.

Emil Weyr

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1848-1894 (aged 46)
Occupations: mathematicianuniversity teacher
Biography: Emil Weyr was an Austrian-Czech mathematician, known for his numerous publications on geometry.

Jaroslav Joseph Polivka

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1886-1960 (aged 74)
Occupations: engineerarchitect
Biography: Jaroslav Josef Polivka, Czech structural engineer who collaborated with Frank Lloyd Wright between 1946 and 1959.

Jan Krejčí

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1825-1887 (aged 62)
Occupations: translatorjournalistbotanistteachermineralogist
Biography: Jan Krejčí was a Czech educator, geologist, 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.

Max Urban

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1882-1959 (aged 77)
Occupations: directorscreenwriterphotographercamera operatorfilm director
Biography: 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 his architectural career. Amongst his most notable work was the Barrandov Studios in Prague, noted for its modern design. He also designed the Barrandov Terraces complex of buildings.

Petr Duchoň

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1956-.. (age 69)
Occupations: physicistpolitician
Biography: 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.

Zdeněk Ziegler

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1932-2023 (aged 91)
Occupations: graphic artisttypographerpedagogueuniversity teacherarchitect
Biography: Zdeněk Ziegler was a Czech graphic artist.

Charles Jonas

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1840-1896 (aged 56)
Occupations: editorpoliticianjournalistlinguist
Biography: Charles Jonas was a Czech American immigrant, 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.

Eva Tylová

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1959-.. (age 66)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Eva Tylová is a Czech environmentalist and politician.

Josef Richard Vilímek

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1835-1911 (aged 76)
Occupations: publisherjournalistpoetwriterprinter
Biography: Josef Richard Vilímek was a Czech publisher. He established a well known publishing house and was father of publisher Josef Richard Vilímek (1860 - 1938).

Franz Xaver Fieber

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1807-1872 (aged 65)
Occupations: botanistentomologist
Biography: Franz Xaver Fieber was a German Bohemian botanist and entomologist.

Vladimír List

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1877-1971 (aged 94)
Occupations: general contractorelectrical engineerpedagogue
Biography: Vladimír List was a Czech electrical engineer, scientist and university teacher active in area of technical standardization. From 1895 to 1899 List had studied mechanical engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague but became interested in electrotechnics. In 1900 and 1901 he studied it at the Montefiore Institute in Liège, Belgium. After return he became chief designer in František Křižík's company where he worked on problems of electrification of railways and the industry (1902–08). In 1904 he married Helena Gebauerová, daughter of bohemist Jan Gebauer. In 1908 List became professor at the Czech Technical University in Brno (during 1917-18 he served as its rector).

Jan Hendrych

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1936-.. (age 89)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: In 2016 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
Occupations: painterpedagoguesculptorrestorerteacher
Biography: Jan Hendrych is a Czech sculptor, painter, restorer, curator and professor emeritus at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

Vladimír Jindřich Bufka

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1887-1916 (aged 29)
Occupations: photographervisual artistphoto artistnon-fiction writer
Biography: 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 gum bichromate, platinum print, bromoil process and autochrome. He also gave lectures and seminars on photography, contributed to various specialized magazines and published a number of books. He died of leukemia at the age of 28.

Václav Frič

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1839-1916 (aged 77)
Occupations: photographertrader of naturaliahistoriantaxidermist
Biography: Václav Fric was a Czech naturalist and natural history dealer.