List of personalities of the city of Karlovy Vary
The list of personalities of the city of Karlovy Vary contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the city of Karlovy Vary . These are personalities who have been granted honorary citizenship, who were born or worked here or who were famous bathers.
Honorary citizen
- Jean de Carro (1770–1857), French doctor, honorary citizen of the city, died here
- Eduard Hlawaczek (1808–1879), physician
sons and daughters of the town
To 1900
- Johann Wenzel Peter (1745–1829), animal painter
- Bernhard Mitterbacher (1767–1839), physician
- Josef Vitus Becher (1769–1840), pharmacist, first producer of Karlsbader Becherbitter
- Eduard Hlawaczek (1808–1879), physician and author
- August Pfizmaier (1808–1887), sinologist, Japanologist, linguist and translator
- Josef Loschmidt (1821–1895), physicist and chemist, born in Putschirn
- Heinrich Edler von Mattoni (1830–1910), entrepreneur, founder of the Kyselka spa and namesake of the Carlsbad mineral water Mattoni
- Ludwig Moser (1833–1916), entrepreneur
- Eduard Knoll (politician) (1839–1890), Mayor of Karlsbad from 1877 to 1890
- Philipp Knoll (1841–1900), pathologist, member of the Bohemian state parliament
- Rudolf Knoll (1844–1914), politician and administrative officer
- Ludwig Schäffler (1848–1915), Mayor of Karlsbad from 1894 to 1906
- Friedrich Teller (1852–1913), paleontologist and geologist
- Josef Hofmann (1858–1943), local history researcher and writer
- Alfred Bayer (1859–1916), builder and architect
- Sophie von Künsberg (1861–1938), writer
- Elise Beuer (1863 - after 1908), opera singer
- Julius Pupp (1870–1936), hotelier, owner of the Grandhotel Pupp
- Rudolf Lössl (1872–1915), politician (German Radical Party), high school professor and Germanist
- Emil Goldmann (1872–1942), legal historian
- Theodor Plaut (1874–1938), physician
- Alfred Grünberger (1875–1935), politician
- Oscar Adler (1879–1936), internist and university professor
- Richard Teschner (1879–1948), artist of the Viennese Art Nouveau
- Josef Zuth (1879–1932), music teacher, journalist and music researcher, born in Fischern
- Viktor Kafka (1881–1955), neuropsychologist and bacteriologist
- Carl Thiemann (1881–1966), graphic artist, painter
- Walther Klemm (1883–1957), painter and graphic artist
- Erwin Trojan (1888–1957), composer
- Walter Serner (1889–1942), writer
- Josef Dobrowsky (1889–1964), painter
- Bruno Adler (1889–1968), literary scholar and art historian
- Ernst Franz (1894–1915), racing cyclist, born in Fischern
- Franz Planer (1894–1963), cameraman
- Karl Hermann Frank (1898–1946), National Socialist politician
- Lily Pincus (1898–1981), social therapist, writer
- André Mattoni (1900–1985), actor
From 1901
- Herbert Lang (1911–1997), university professor in Prague and Munich
- Walter Becher (1912–2005), expellee politician, CSU member of the Bundestag from 1965 to 1980
- Maria Austria (1915–1975), Austrian-Dutch photographer
- Wolfgang Schöniger (1920–1971), analyst and microchemist
- Wilhelm Hager (1921–2006), sculptor and painter
- Kurt P. Lohwasser (1922–1999), painter and graphic artist
- Peter Berner (1924–2012), Austrian psychiatrist and psychologist
- Otto Häuser (1924–2007), writer, born in Schankau
- Traute Richter (1924–1986), actress
- Zbyněk Brynych (1927–1995), film director
- Martin Fleischmann (1927–2012), German-British chemist and university professor
- Robert Geipel (1929–2017), geographer and university professor
- Vera Schlosser (1929–2018), Swiss opera singer (soprano)
- Jan Pohan (1930–2015), actor, born in Drahowitz
- Peter Anselm Riedl (1930–2016), art historian and professor of art history
- Georg Riedel (* 1934), Swedish jazz bassist and film composer
- Horst Rudolf Übelacker (* 1936), publicist
- Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden (* 1937), founder and director of the Tölzer Boys Choir
- Gerd Lohwasser (1941–2016), politician and district council president of Middle Franconia
- Gernot Facius (* 1942), journalist
- Michael Klier (* 1943), film director and screenwriter
- Blandina Paschalis Schlömer OSCO (* 1943), Trappist and iconographer
- Marie Christine von Reibnitz (* 1945), Princess Michael of Kent, author
- Josef Herget (* 1957), German information scientist
- Antonín Bartoníček (* 1949), racing cyclist
- Jan Hloušek (1950–2014), geologist, mineralogist and historian
- Milan Augustin (* 1960), archivist and historian
- Aleš Háma (* 1973), actor, singer, guitarist, presenter and voice actor
- Karla Šlechtová (* 1977), politician
- Lukáš Došek (* 1978), football player
- Tomáš Došek (* 1978), football player
Worked in Karlsbad
- Josef Cosack (1801–1879), German entrepreneur and industrial pioneer, died here
- Joseph Labitzky (1802–1881), composer and conductor in Karlsbad
- Josef von Löschner (1809–1888), balneologist, contributed to spreading the popularity of the spa Karlsbad
- Barbara Bayer (1827–1887), baker, first producer of Karlovy Vary wafers
- August Labitzky (1832–1903), composer, music director and conductor in Karlsbad
- Franz Xaver Mayr (1875–1965), Austrian-Czechoslovak spa doctor
- František Běhounek (1898–1973), Czech physicist and writer, died here
- Jiří Bartoška (* 1947), Czech actor, co-founder of the film festival
Selection of famous visitors
- Madeleine Albright
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ludwig van Beethoven (lived in July / August 1812 in the house "Auge Gottes" on meadow no. 311)
- Johannes Brahms
- Frédéric Chopin
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Michael Douglas
- Antonín Dvořák
- Sigmund Freud
- Theodor Fontane (1893-98)
- Morgan Freeman (visited the Embassy Pub)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (lived in the "Drei Mohren" house)
- Edvard Grieg
- Vaclav Havel
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Emperor Joseph II
- Emperor Charles VI.
- Ferdinand Laub
- Franz Liszt
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Gustaf Mannerheim
- Karl Marx (in the house "Germania", Schloßplatz, 1874–76)
- Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart
- Niccolò Paganini
- Tsar Peter the Great
- Friedrich Schiller
- Heinrich Schliemann
- Robert Schumann
- Gustav Stresemann
- Ivan Turgenew (in the "Queen of England" house, Palace Square, 1874)
- Richard Wagner
- Albrecht von Wallenstein