Prague
Famous Citizens
Eduard Benes (1884–1948), statesman.
Karel Capek (1890–1938), author.
John Amos Comenius (1592–1670), educational reformer and theologian.
Antonin Dvorak (1841–1904), composer.
The Astrological Clock is found in Old Town square, the center of Prague. ()
Vaclav Havel (b. 1936), dramatist, statesman, and president.
Jaroslav Heyrovsky (1890–1967), chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for polarography.
Jan Hus (c. 1369–1415), religious reformer.
Franz Kafka (1883–1924), writer.
Ivan Klima (b. 1931), author.
Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980), artist and writer.
Milan Kundera (b. 1929), writer.
Thomas Garrique Masaryk (1850–1937), founder-president of Czechoslovakia.
