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Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
Václav Havel
Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
Bertha von Suttner
Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
Jaroslav Hašek
Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist (1883-1923)
Jaroslav Seifert
Czechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate (1901–1986)
Karl Kautsky
Czech-Austrian Marxist theorist (1854–1938)
Jan Neruda
Czech poet, theater reviewer, publicist, journalist and writer (1834-1891)
Franz Werfel
Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet (1890-1945)
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884–1968)
Hans Kelsen
Austrian lawyer (1881–1973)
Julius Fučík
Czech journalist and revolutionary (1903–1943)
Cosmas of Prague
Bohemian priest (c.1045–1125)
Ernest Gellner
Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist
Alois Senefelder
German actor and inventor of lithography (1771-1834)
Pavel Kohout
Czech poet, playwright, exil writer, film director, politic writer and bookwriter (born 1928)
Ivan Klíma
Czech playwright, author, publicist, and university educator
Karel Hynek Mácha
Czech poet, traveller, playwright, lawyer and writer (1810–1836)
Eduard Hanslick
Austrian musician and musicologist (1825–1904)
Egon Erwin Kisch
Austrian/Czech publicist and writer (1885-1948)
Jerome of Prague
Czech philosopher
Leo Perutz
Austrian mathematician and writer (1882-1957)
Patrik Ouředník
Czech archivist, poet, literary theorist, translator and bookwriter
Petr Ginz
Czech victim of Holocaust (1928–1944)
Vilém Flusser
Czech philosopher and photographer
Eliška Krásnohorská
Czech feminist author, editor (1847-1926)
Jáchym Topol
Czech writer and journalist (born 1962)
Vladimír Holan
Czech poet and translator (1905-1980)
Józef Czapski
Polish artist, author, critic and Polish Army officer during WWII (1896-1993)
Karel Sabina
Czech writer, poet, journalist, philosopher, translator, literary critic and politician (1813–1877)
Julius Zeyer
Czech poet, playwright, bookwriter and historic literature writer (1841-1901)
Karolina Světlá
Czech writer and bookwriter (1830-1899)
Daniela Hodrová
Czech writer (1946–2024)
Saul Friedländer
Israeli historian and Holocaust survivor (born 1932)
Jakub Arbes
Czech theater reviewer, publicist, bookwriter and writer
Julius Pokorný
linguist (1887-1970)
Michal Šanda
Czech poet, writer
Jan Sokol
Czech philosopher (1936–2021)
Dolly Buster
Czech-German pornographic actress, film producer and director
Ladislav Fuks
Czech novelist and writer (1923–1994)
Stanislav Kostka Neumann
Czech poet, journalist, literary and art critic and translator (1875–1947)
Michal Viewegh
Czech bookwriter
Marie Pujmanová
Czechoslovak writer, poet and bookwriter (1893–1958)
Anton Heinrich Springer
German art historian (1825–1891)
Karel Teige
Czech photographer, literature reviewer, literary theorist, translator, typographer and science writer (1900–1951)
René Wellek
Czech-born American literatury critic (1903–1995)
Eduard Bass
Czech theater reviewer, theater manager, actor, publicist, translator, satirist, writer and singer (1888–1946)
Hugo Bergmann
Israeli philosopher born in Austria-Hungary (1883-1975)
Petr Zelenka
Czech playwright and film director
Vlastimil Tusar
Czechoslovak politician and union member (1880-1924)
Ota Pavel
Czech writer and sport publicist (1930–1973)
Robert von Zimmermann
Czech-Austrian philosopher (1824-1898)
Václav Čtvrtek
Czech poet and writer (1911–1976)
Michal Ajvaz
novelist, poet, translator
Jan Otčenášek
Czech bookwriter and scriptwriter (1924-1979)
Zecharias Frankel
Bohemian-German rabbi and historian (1801-1875)
Alberto Vojtěch Frič
Czech botanist, traveller, ethnographer, photographer and writer (1882–1944)
Ferdinand Blumentritt
Austrian ethnographer and educator (1853-1913)
Karl Deutsch
Czech political scientist (1912–1992)
František Hrubín
Czech poet, playwright, translator, scriptwriter and writer (1910–1971)