List of personalities from Jičín
The list of personalities of the city of Jičín in the Czech Republic contains people who played an important role in the history of the city of Jičín (German Jitschin , previously Gitschin ). These are personalities who were born or died here or who worked here.
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Jičín or Jitschin or Gitschin or in today's districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity here is irrelevant.
20th century personalities
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Josef Štefan Kubín (around 1920)
Karl Kraus (around 1920)
- August Miřička (1863–1946), lawyer
- Josef Štefan Kubín (1864–1965), ethnographer and writer
- Karl Weinfurter (1867–1942), translator and writer
- Karl Kraus (1874–1936), writer
- Robert Winterstein (1874–1940), politician and minister of justice in Austria
- Paul Winterstein (1876–1945), career officer
- Vlastislav Hofman (1884–1964), architect, town planner, architectural theorist, painter, graphic artist and scenographer
- Zdenko von Kraft (1886–1979), writer
- Ernst Polak (1886–1947), literary critic and literary agent
- Jan Morávek (1887–1960), historian and archivist
- Josef Honys (1919–1969), poet, artist and representative of Czech experimental art of the 1960s
- Zdeněk Řehoř (1920–1994), actor
- Josef Smolík (1922–2009), Protestant theologian, pastor of the Evangelical Church of the Bohemian Brethren, university professor at Prague's Hus and Comenius faculties, dean of Charles University, ecumenist and peace activist
- Zuzana Kočová (1922–1988), director, playwright and writer
- Lucie Radová , b. Libuše Straková (1931–2016), painter, book illustrator, organist and restorer
- Rainer Schandry (* 1944), professor emeritus for biopsychology at the LMU Munich and author of several specialist books
- Robert Dellnitz (* 1969), national volleyball player.
- Milena Oda (* 1975), writer
21st century personalities
Jana Plodková (2012)
- Jana Plodková (* 1981), actress
- Jaroslav Soukup (* 1982), biathlete
- Barbora Řeháčková (* 1989), jazz singer
Personalities who died in Jičín (Jitschin / Gitschin)
- Rudolf von Stubenberg († 1620), aristocrat who took an active part in the estates politics of Bohemia
- Elisabeth Katharina Smiřická von Smiřice († 1620), noblewoman, her family was one of the richest families in Bohemia
- Josef Gočár († 1945), architect and urban planner, is considered one of the protagonists of modern Czech architecture
- Adalbert Hartmann († 1949), lawyer and politician (NSDAP)
Personalities related to the city
- Jacob Bassevi von Treuenburg (1580–1634), imperial court banker
- Albrecht von Waldstein (1583–1634), general
- František Cyril Kampelík (1805–1872), Czech educator and founder of self-help cooperatives
- Jan Gebauer (1838–1907), linguist and literary historian, attended the school there
- Josef Gočár (1880–1945), architect
- Josef Váchal (1884–1969), writer, painter, designer and printer