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: directorfilm directordissidentwriterphilosopher
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.

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: inventorresearch fellowchemistuniversity teacherwriter
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 42)
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 served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies from 2021 to 2025 and as leader of TOP 09 from 2019 to 2025. Pekarová Adamová was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2013 until 2025, when she decided not to seek re-election.

Miroslav Zikmund

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

Dana Drábová

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1961-2025 (aged 64)
Occupations: physicistscientistpoliticiannuclear physicist
Biography: Dana Drábová was a Czech physicist and politician. She was the chair of the State Office for Nuclear Safety from 1999 to 2025, and served as President of the 2023 meetings of the parties to the Convention on Nuclear Safety.

Petr Nárožný

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1938-.. (age 88)
Occupations: television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
Biography: Petr Nárožný is a Czech actor, television presenter, comedian, and entertainer.

Josef Koudelka

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1938-.. (age 88)
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: university teacherchemistengineer
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.

Alois Eliáš

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1890-1942 (aged 52)
Occupations: military personnelsoldierresistance fighterpolitician
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: entrepreneurtechnicianindustrialistuniversity teachermechanical engineer
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: inventorindustrialistentrepreneurelectrotechnicianelectrical engineer
Biography: František Křižík was a Czech inventor, electrical engineer and entrepreneur.

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: actortelevision actorsongwriterwriterprose writer
Biography: Jiří Grossmann was a Czech 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.

Karel Havlíček

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1969-.. (age 57)
Occupations: economistentrepreneurministerpolitician
Biography: Karel Havlíček is a Czech politician, who has served as First Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and Minister of Industry and Trade since 15 December 2025, in the third cabinet of Andrej Babiš. He also served as the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and Trade, and Minister of Transport between 2019 and 2021, during Babiš's first term as Prime Minister.

Jakub Arbes

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1840-1914 (aged 74)
Occupations: science fiction writerplaywrightwritertranslatorpolitician
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: politicianwritertranslatorchemistpoet
Biography: Ivan Krasko was a Slovak poet, translator and representative of modernism in Slovakia.

Jiří Dienstbier Jr

Born in: United States
Years: 1969-.. (age 57)
Occupations: lawyerpoliticianjournalist
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. He left ČSSD, which had changed its name to Social Democracy, in June 2025.

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 an architect, builder, philanthropist and founder of the oldest foundation for sciences and arts in Bohemia.

Petr Uhl

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1941-2021 (aged 80)
Occupations: writeropinion journalistpolitical activistpoliticianpolitical prisoner
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.

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).

Jaroslav Havlíček

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

Jan Kašpar

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1883-1927 (aged 44)
Occupations: aerospace engineeraircraft pilottechnician
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 82)
Occupations: engineerentrepreneurpolitician
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).

Emerik Blum

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

Jan Mühlfeit

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1962-.. (age 64)
Occupations: programmerlife coachmanager
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.

Miroslav Žamboch

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1972-.. (age 54)
Occupations: writerscience fiction writerphysicistnuclear physicist
Biography: Miroslav Žamboch is a Czech physicist and author known for writing novels and short stories in the science fiction and fantasy genres.

Dalibor Dědek

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1957-.. (age 69)
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.

Vlastimil Picek

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1956-.. (age 70)
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.

Tomáš Březina

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1957-.. (age 69)
Occupations: entrepreneurpolitician
Biography: Tomáš Březina is a Czech politician and businessman.

Pavel Janák

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1882-1956 (aged 74)
Occupations: architectural theoreticianuniversity teacherarchitectexhibition curatordesigner
Biography: Pavel Janák was a Czech modernist architect, furniture designer, town planner, professor and theoretician.

Antonín Baudyš

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

Josef Pleskot

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1952-.. (age 74)
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.

Josef Mocker

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1835-1899 (aged 64)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: 1856-1862 studied civil engineering
Occupations: general contractorteacherdesignerarchitectrestorer
Biography: Josef Mocker was a Czech architect and restorer. He worked in a purist neo-Gothic style and is the author of the reconstruction of many important monuments in Bohemia.

Franz Anton von Gerstner

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1796-1840 (aged 44)
Occupations: engineerprofessorcivil engineerrailway engineer
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 59)
Occupations: actorscreenwriterdirectoruniversity teacherteacher
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).

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.

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, essayist and critic.

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).

Kristiina Mäki

Born in: Finland
Years: 1991-.. (age 35)
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.

Milan Šrejber

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1963-.. (age 63)
Occupations: tennis playerbusinesspersonmanager
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: anthropologistart historianteacherhistorianarchaeologist
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.

George Klir

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

Josef Chochol

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1880-1956 (aged 76)
Occupations: scenographerarchitectural theoreticianarchitecturban planner
Biography: Josef Chochol was a Czech architect. He was a key member of Mánes Union of Fine Arts and worked in a Cubist style.

Martin Rajniš

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1944-.. (age 82)
Occupations: designerteacherpedagoguearchitect
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 75)
Occupations: teacherarchitectpolitician
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.

Emil Votoček

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1872-1950 (aged 78)
Occupations: university teacherchemistcomposer
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 59)
Occupations: rowerathleteentrepreneur
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: teacherpedagogueuniversity teacherarchitect
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.

Zoe Klusáková-Svobodová

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1925-2022 (aged 97)
Occupations: university teacherwriterpedagoguetranslatoreconomist
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.

Zdeněk Bažant

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1937-.. (age 89)
Occupations: mechanical engineermaterials scientistuniversity teacherinventorscientist
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.

Jan Vodňanský

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

Václav Aulický

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1944-.. (age 82)
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.

Emil Belluš

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

Jaroslav Fragner

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

Vlastislav Hofman

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

Daniela Filipiová

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1957-.. (age 69)
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.

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.

Josef Vavroušek

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

Miloš Tichý

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1966-.. (age 60)
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.

František Laudát

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1960-.. (age 66)
Occupations: technicianpedagoguepolitician
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 to 2009, he was a member of the Civic Democratic Party.

Vladimír Mařík

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1952-.. (age 74)
Occupations: academic
Biography: Vladimír Mařík is a Czech scientist.

Bedřich Feuerstein

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

Oldřich Vlasák

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

Jaromír Drábek

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1965-.. (age 61)
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.

Antonín Engel

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1879-1958 (aged 79)
Occupations: teacherpedagoguearchitecturban planner
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.

Filip Maximilian Opiz

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1787-1858 (aged 71)
Occupations: botanical collectorscientific collectormycologistentomologistbotanist
Biography: Philipp Maximilian Opiz (5 June 1787 in Čáslav – 20 May 1858 in Prague) was a Czech-German forester and botanist. He made contributions to European botany during the early 19th century. Showing an early interest in botany from childhood, he produced floristic writings and established connections with prominent botanists while working as a government official in various Bohemian towns. Opiz founded the influential "Pflanzentauschanstalt" (plant exchange institution) in Prague in 1819, established a cryptogamic herbarium, edited the botanical journal "Naturalientausch" (1826–1828), and created numerous sets of exsiccatae (dried herbarium specimens) for distribution.

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.

Hermann Škorpil

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

František Zelenka

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1904-1944 (aged 40)
Occupations: graphic artisttypographerartistproduction designerarchitect
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: scenographerpainterillustratorarchitect
Biography: Alois Wachsman was a Czech painter, stage designer and architect.

Ivan Wilhelm

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1942-.. (age 84)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: Studied in 1959-1964
Occupations: nuclear physicistpedagoguephysicist
Biography: Ivan Wilhelm is a Czech nuclear physicist and former rector of the Charles University in Prague.

Zdenko Hans Skraup

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

Emanuel Czuber

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

Petr Moos

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1946-2024 (aged 78)
Occupations: university teacherpoliticiantechnicianpedagogueengineer
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.

Božena Laglerová

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1886-1941 (aged 55)
Occupations: aircraft pilot
Biography: Božena Gabriela Vítězslava Laglerová was a Czech pioneer aviator. She become the first female pilot in Austria-Hungary. She competed in air competitions.

Dimitrij Andrusov

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

František Pošepný

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

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.

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.

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.

Pavel Beneš

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1894-1956 (aged 62)
Occupations: aerospace engineertechnicianmilitary flight 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 91)
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)
Enrolled in the Czech Technical University in Prague: Studied in 1865-1868
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: mineralogistuniversity teachergeologistpedagoguepolitician
Biography: Jan Krejčí was a Czech geologist, educator, 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: photographercamera operatorfilm directorarchitecturban planner
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 works was the Barrandov Studios in Prague, noted for its modern design. He also designed the Barrandov Terraces complex of buildings.

Zdeněk Ziegler

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

Petr Duchoň

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1956-.. (age 70)
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.

Charles Jonas

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1840-1896 (aged 56)
Occupations: journalistlinguisteditorpolitician
Biography: Charles Jonas was a Czech American 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 67)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Eva Tylová is a Czech environmentalist and politician.

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.

Josef Richard Vilímek

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1835-1911 (aged 76)
Occupations: poetwriterprinteropinion journalistpublisher
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).

Jan Hendrych

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1936-.. (age 90)
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 List

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1877-1971 (aged 94)
Occupations: pedagoguegeneral contractorelectrical engineeruniversity teacherelectrotechnician
Biography: Vladimír List was a Czech electrical engineer, scientist and university teacher. He was active in area of technical standardization.

Václav Frič

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1839-1916 (aged 77)
Occupations: scientific collectortrader of naturaliahistoriantaxidermistphotographer
Biography: Václav Frič was a Czech naturalist and natural history dealer.

Vladimír Jindřich Bufka

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1887-1916 (aged 29)
Occupations: visual artistphoto artistnon-fiction writerphotographer
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.