List of personalities from Most
The list of personalities of the city of Most in the Czech Republic contains people who played an important role in the history of the city of Most. These are personalities who were born here, worked here or who were granted honorary citizenship.
sons and daughters of the town
- Hans Dernschwam (1494–1568), Fugger merchant
- Andreas Hammerschmidt (1610 / 11–1675), composer and organist
- Anton Laube (1718–1784), composer and church musician
- Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729–1774), Austrian composer
- Karl Huss (1761–1836), executioner, healer and collector
- Karl Bernth (1802–1879), poet and lawyer
- Eduard Lill (1830–1900), officer and engineer
- Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848–1904), inventor and designer
- Max Grünert (1849–1929), literary scholar and orientalist
- Emil Uhl (1864–1945), oriental painter
- Wenzel Hablik (1881–1934), painter, graphic artist and artisan
- Franz Sättler (1884 - around 1942), occultist and alchemist
- Karel Opočenský (1892–1975), chess master
- Fritz Loose (1897–1982), German aviation pioneer
- Hanns Blaschek (1907–1989), German administrative officer and painter
- Friedrich Herneck (1909–1993), German science historian
- Ludwig Wollenheit (* 1915), German painter and draftsman
- Hans Mayer-Foreyt (1916–1981), German painter and graphic artist
- Oldřich Stránský (1921–2014), Czech survivor of the Holocaust
- Ica Vilander (1921–2013), German photographer
- Günther Sterba (* 1922), German zoologist
- Karl Otto Zimmer (1923–2004), judge at the German Federal Social Court
- Hanns Gorschenek (1924–2006), German radio journalist
- Heini Halberstam (1926-2014), British mathematician
- Werner Karwath (1927–2019), German doctor and politician
- Judita Čeřovská (1929–2001), pop and chanson singer
- Helmuth Nürnberger (1930–2017), German Germanist
- Josef Masopust (1931–2015), football player
- Horst Schulz (* 1938), German politician
- Ernst Schneider (1941–2003), judge at the German Federal Court of Justice
- Manfred Kupferschmied (* 1941), German soccer player and coach
- Kai Ehlers (* 1944), German journalist, publicist, writer, researcher and organizer
- Peter Drescher (* 1946), German writer
- Jiří Kimla (* 1947), writer
- Jan Mühlstein (* 1949), journalist
- Ivan Hlinka (1950–2004), ice hockey player and coach
- Pavel Chaloupka (* 1959), football player and coach
- Richard Pitterle (* 1959), German politician Die Linke
- Libor Pimek (* 1963), Belgian tennis player
- Vladimír Růžička senior (* 1963), ice hockey player and coach
- Petr Svoboda (born 1966), ice hockey player
- Petr Molnár (* 1969), ice hockey player
- Martin Ručínský (* 1971), ice hockey player
- Luděk Pachl (* 1971), artist
- Martin Reichel (* 1973), Czech-German ice hockey player
- David Balázs (* 1974), ice hockey player
- Petr Franěk (* 1975), ice hockey goalkeeper
- Vlastimil Kroupa (* 1975), ice hockey player
- Angel Nikolov (* 1975), ice hockey player
- Petr Johana (* 1976), ice hockey player
- Pavel Rosa (* 1977), ice hockey player
- Marek Židlický (* 1977), ice hockey player
- Kamil Piroš (* 1978), ice hockey player
- Tomáš Divíšek (* 1979), ice hockey goalkeeper
- Marek Pinc (* 1979), ice hockey goalkeeper
- Tomáš Kůrka (* 1981), ice hockey player
- Michal Fikrt (* 1982), ice hockey goalkeeper
- Petr Macholda (* 1982), German-Czech ice hockey player
- Iveta Benešová (* 1983), tennis player
- Lukáš Kašpar (* 1985), ice hockey player
- Miriam Kolodziejová (* 1997), tennis player
People connected to the city
- Joseph Samuel Bloch (1850–1923), Austrian rabbi
- Bonifác Buzek (1788–1839), priest, educator, philosopher and educator, taught at the local grammar school
- Anton Dietzenschmidt (1893–1955), German playwright
- Ignaz Glaser (1853–1916), entrepreneur
- Caspar Güttel (1471–1542), Lutheran theologian and reformer
- Ignaz Killiches (1793–1877), doctor
- Alexander Kisch (1848–1917), rabbi
- Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848–1904), inventor and designer of the repeater with parcel load
- Stanislav Kostka Neumann (1875–1947), Czech poet
- Kurt Oberdorffer (1900–1980), Sudeten German, National Socialist historian and archivist
- Victor Ignaz Stephan Patzelt (born October 2, 1856 in Tetschen, † 1908 near Brüx), doctor and biologist, co-founder of the museum
- Ignaz Petschek (1857–1934), Bohemian banker, wholesaler and industrialist
- Karl Pistorius (1898–1966), opera singer
- Rolf Schneebiegl (1924-2004), German musician of folk music
- Paul Wirtz (1901–1946), District Administrator (NSDAP)
- The surgeon of Brüx ( Cirologus de Brox ), Egerland surgeon and medical writer around 1450