List of personalities from the city of Jihlava
The following overview contains well-known personalities of the city of Jihlava (German Iglau ).
sons and daughters of the town
- Peter Pauspertl von Drachenthal († 1566), Jihlava councilor and promoter of the cloth makers' guild
- Paul Ignaz Bayer (1656–1733), Bohemian architect and builder
- Dominik Oesterreicher (1750–1809), painter and professor
- Barbara Krafft (1764–1825), Austrian painter
- Karl Friedrich von Kübeck (1780–1855), Austrian statesman
- Hieronymus Josef Freiherr von Zeidler (1790–1870), abbot of the Strahov Premonstratensian Monastery
- Karl Wilhelm Ritter von Dietrich (1811–1889), German-Austrian provincial attorney and mayor of the city of Opava
- Johann Florian Heller (1813–1871), doctor and chemist
- Josef Vincenc Melion (1813–1905), doctor
- Johann Adolf von Tomaschek (* 1822), Austrian lawyer
- Karl Tomaschek (also Carl Tomaschek ; 1828–1878), Austrian Germanist, literary historian and university professor
- Ernst Rudolf Neubauer (1828–1890), poet
- Ottokar Lorenz (1832–1904), historian
- Heinrich Wilhelm Reichardt (1835–1885), botanist
- Wilhelm Eitner (1843–1921), chemist
- Julius von Latscher-Lauendorf (1846–1909), General
- Heinrich Breitenstein (1848–1930), doctor, zoologist, geographer and writer
- Richard Maria Werner (1854–1913), Austrian Germanist
- Vincenc František Faltis (1856–1951), Czech conductor
- Theodor Kern (around 1858–1919), industrialist
- Ferdinand Skaret (1862–1941), politician
- Fridolin Krasser (1863–1922), botanist
- Julius Tandler (1869–1936), doctor and social democratic politician
- Carl Meinhard (1875–1949), actor
- Karl Hans Strobl (1877–1946), Austrian writer
- Franz Mannsbarth (1877–1950), Austrian aviation pioneer
- Christine Touaillon (1878–1928), Austrian literary historian, writer and feminist
- Hans Krebs (1888–1947), publicist and politician
- Ernst Sommer (1888–1955), German-speaking writer
- Josef Witiska (1894–1946), lawyer
- Jára Pospíšil (1905–1979), Czech tenor singer
- Raimund Siegl (1906–1946), politician
- Louis Fürnberg (1909–1957), German writer, poet and musician
- Rudi Weissenstein (1910–1992), photographer
- Alfred Habermann (1930–2008), German-Czech blacksmith, sculptor, draftsman, restorer and designer
- Franz Pitzal (* 1936), German Catholic parish priest and author
- Rupert Timpl (1936-2003), biochemist
- Peter Tomschiczek (* 1940), painter
- Zdeněk Měřínský (1948–2016), archaeologist
- Luboš Urban (* 1957), soccer player and coach
- Patrik Augusta (* 1969), ice hockey player
- Bobby Holík (* 1971), American-Czech ice hockey player
- Pavlína Kourková (* 1980), painter and illustrator
- Martin Prokop (* 1982), rally driver
- Dušan Karol (* 1983), tennis player
- Lukáš Krpálek (* 1990), judoka
- David Rittich (* 1992), ice hockey player
People connected to the city
- Wolfgang Heiligmair (* around 1492 in Gamnitz / Moravia; † around 1545), doctor and canon, 1533 pharmacy owner in Iglau
- Kaspar Stolzhagen (Caspar Stolzhagen; born November 24, 1550 in Bernau near Berlin, † January 17, 1594 in Iglau (Jihlava)), German theologian, pastor and superintendent
- Lucas Norbert Gleixner von Rosenbrunn (* 1569; † March 17, 1641), tin caster and councilor of the city of Iglau
- Gustav Mahler (* 1860 in Kalischt / Böhmen; † 1911 in Vienna) spent his first 15 childhood years in Iglau; his parents died there and were buried in Iglau.
- Wilhelm Cavallar von Grabensprung (1889–1957), officer and knight of the Military Order of Maria Theresa. Lived and worked here until he was expelled in 1948.
Honorary citizen of the city
- Theodor Kern (around 1858–1919), old Austrian industrialist and businessman .