page_title: List of people from Prague
section_title: The arts
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Prague / The arts
context_page_description: Prague, the capital of today's Czech Republic, has been for over a thousand years the centre and the biggest city of the Czech lands. Notable people who were born or died, studied, lived or saw their success in Prague are listed below.
context_section_description: H. G. Adler (1910–1988) — German-language writer; born and lived in Prague
  Filip Albrecht (born 1977) — lyricist, film producer, writer; lives in Prague
  Jana Andrsová (born 1939) — actress and ballerina; born and lives in Prague
  Lída Baarová (1914–2000) — actress; lived and died in Prague
  Max Brod (1884–1968) — German-language writer; born and lived in Prague
  Karel Čapek (1890–1938) — writer; lived and died in Prague
  Gene Deitch (born 1924) — American-born animator; lives in Prague
  Emmy Destinn (1878–1930) — operatic soprano; born in Prague
  Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) — composer; lived most of his life in Prague
  Miloš Forman (1932–2018) — film director,  won twice Academy Award for Best Director; studied and lived in Prague
  Karel Gott (1939–2019) — singer; lived in Prague
  Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923) — writer, humorist and satirist; lived in Prague for most of his life, described the city in many stories
  Václav Havel (1936–2011) — dramatist, writer and politician; President of Czechoslovakia  and Czech republic (its first; 1993–2003); born and lived in Prague
  Maxim Havlíček — painter; born in Prague
  Vladimír Holan (1905–1980) — poet; born, lived and died in Prague
  Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) — writer; lived and died in Prague
  Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) — composer; studied in Prague
  Fanny Janauschek (1830–1904) — actress; migrated to the United States in 1867
  Franz Kafka (1883–1924) — German-language fiction writer; born and lived in Prague
  Tomas Kalnoky (born 1980) — guitarist, singer; born in Prague
  Egon Erwin Kisch (1885–1948) – German-language journalist and writer; born, lived, and died in Prague
  Stefan Kisyov (born 1963) — novelist; lives in Prague
  Daria Klimentová (born 1971) - ballet dancer; born and raised in Prague
  Paul Kornfeld (1889–1942) — German-language playwright and novelist; born and lived in Prague
  Ivan Kral (born 1948) — guitarist, singer, record producer and film director; born in Prague
  Milan Kundera (born 1929) — writer; studied, lectured at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
  Jiří Menzel (born 1938) — film director (his first feature film, Closely Watched Trains (1966) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film); born in Prague
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) — composer; some of his best opera successes were during his time in Prague
  Alfons Mucha (1860–1939) — Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist; spent last decades of his life in Prague
  Josef Václav Myslbek (1848–1922) — sculptor; born in Prague and creator of the Wenceslas Monument in Prague's Wenceslas Square
  Zuzana Navarová (1959–2004) — singer; lived and died in Prague
  Jože Plečnik (1872–1957) — Slovene architect; built several churches and parts of the Prague Castle
  Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) — German-language poet; born and studied in Prague
  Karel Roden (born 1962) — actor; lives in Prague
  Jan Saudek (born 1935) — art photographer; born and lives in Prague
  Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986) — poet and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1984); lived in Prague
  Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884) — composer; lived and died in Prague
  Jiří Suchý (born 1931) — actor, singer, playwright, writer; born and lives in Prague
  Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914) — novelist, pacifist activist and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1905)
  Johannes Urzidil (1896–1970) — German-language writer; born and lived in Prague, described the city in many stories (The Lost Beloved, 1956, Prague Triptych, 1960)
  Marja Vallila (1950–2018) — sculptor
  Robert Vano (born 1948) — art photographer; lives in Prague
  Sonja Vectomov (born 1979) — composer, musician; lives in Prague
  Felix Weltsch (1884–1964) — German-language writer; born and lived in Prague
  Robert Weltsch (1891–1982) — German-language journalist; born and lived in Prague
  Franz Werfel (1890–1945) — German-language writer; born and lived in Prague
  Jan Werich (1905–1980) — actor, singer, playwright, writer; born, lived and died in Prague
  David Woodard (born 1964) — American-born writer and businessman; lives in Prague
caption: Monument to Franz Kafka (Prague, August 2004)
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