List of personalities of the city of Pilsen

This list contains people born in Pilsen (Czech: Plzeň) as well as those who worked in Pilsen but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Pilsen

Until 1800

Václav Koranda from Pilsen (1422 / 24–1519), theologian
Ignaz Franz Platzer (1717–1787), court sculptor
Joseph Andreas Lindauer (1784–1850), Bishop of Budweis
Johann Krasny (1800–1864), Austro-Hungarian master stonemason and sculptor

1801 to 1900

Franz von Škoda (1801–1888), Czech-Austrian physician
Josef von Škoda (1805–1881), Bohemian-Austrian physician
Gottfried Lindauer (1839–1926), Czech-New Zealand painter
Emil von Škoda (1839–1900), engineer and industrialist
Josef Finger (1841–1925), Austrian physicist and mathematician
Vojtěch Hřímalý (1842–1908), composer, violinist and conductor
Jan Hřímalý (1844–1915), violinist and music teacher
Antonín Popp (1850–1915), sculptor
Viktor Gluth (1852–1917), German composer and music teacher
Fritz Stattler (1867–1944), painter
Jaroslav Špillar (1869–1917), painter
Hermann Vogelstein (1870–1942), German rabbi
Ludwig Vogelstein (1871–1934), industrialist and philanthropist
Franz Hoffmann (1872–1946), Austrian military bandmaster and composer
Kamil Krofta (1876–1945), historian and diplomat
Václav Vydra (1876–1953), actor and theater director
Ladislaus Löwenthal (1879–1942), Austrian violinist and conductor
Rudolf Karel (1880–1945), composer and Nazi victim
Emanuel Ondříček (1880–1958), violinist, music teacher and composer
Emil Lederer (1882–1939), Bohemian-Austrian economist and sociologist
Oskar Baum (1883–1941), German writer
Josef Beran (1888–1969), Archbishop of Prague
Berthold Epstein (1890–1962), pediatrician
Otto Klein (1891–1968), physician and university professor
Fritz Härtl (1892–1974), German politician
Felix Tauer (1893–1981), orientalist, historian and philologist
Fritz von Scholz (1896–1944), SS group leader and lieutenant general
Jaroslav Černý (1898–1970), Egyptologist
Wolfgang Heinz (1900–1984), German actor and director

1901 to 1950

Eugen Lemberg (1903–1976), sociologist
Emil František Burian (1904–1959), composer, poet, publicist, singer, actor, musician, playwright, director and dramaturge
Annemarie Böll (1910–2004), German translator
Ulrich W. Hütter (1910–1990), Austrian-German engineer and university professor
František Rauch (1910–1996), pianist and music teacher
Věra Votrubcová (1911–1981), table tennis player
Gertrud Fussenegger (1912–2009), Austrian writer
Jiří Trnka (1912–1969), visual artist, illustrator, screenwriter and director
Oldřich Hanč (1915–1989), speed skater, pharmacologist and biochemist
Jan Hanč (1916–1963), athlete and writer
Miroslav Horníček (1918–2003), actor, writer, director, visual artist and theater theorist
Jiří Otter (1919–2018), Protestant theologian, resistance fighter, pastor and church councilor of the Church of the Bohemian Brethren
Ota Šik (1919–2004), Czech-Swiss painter and economist
Paul B. Weisz (1919–2012), American chemist
Miroslav Zikmund (* 1919), world traveler and writer
Vlasta Depetrisová (1920–2003), table tennis player
Vladimír Hönig (1920–1999), football player
Maria Zelzer (1921–1999), historian and archivist
Bohumil Soudský (1922–1976), prehistorian
Karel Černý (1922–2014), art director and set designer
Miroslav Holub (1923–1998), poet and doctor
Miloslav Bělohlávek (1923–2006), historian and archivist
Roman Bek (* 1924), philosopher and lecturer
Vladimír Bauer (* 1925), singer
Luboš Hruška (1927–2007), soldier
Zuzana Růžičková (1927–2017), harpsichordist
Věra Kohnová (1929–1942), concentration camp victim
Václav Štekl (1929–1994), actor
Kurt Dietmar Richter (1931–2019), German composer and conductor
Jiří Suchý (* 1931), actor
Karla Erbová (* 1933), poet
Jan Vlachý (1937–2010), information scientist
Karel Gott (1939–2019), pop singer
Peter Grünberg (1939–2018), German physicist
Jan Stráský (1940–2019), politician
Max Köhler (1942–2015), German painter and photographer
Vaclav Smil (* 1943), American professor
Daniel Strož (* 1943), Czech politician
František Plass (* 1944), football player and coach
Jiří Adámek (* 1947), mathematician, computer scientist and university professor
František Lobkowicz (* 1948), bishop
Pavel Nový (* 1948), actor
Milan Kajkl (1950–2014), ice hockey player

1951 to 1975

Čestmír Fous (* 1952), ice hockey goalkeeper
Jarmila Nygrýnová (1953–1999), long jumper
Vítězslav Ďuriš (* 1954), ice hockey player
Jindřich Panský (* 1960), table tennis player
Jan Kohout (* 1961), diplomat and politician
Jaroslav Šilhavý (* 1961), football player and coach
Radomír Šimůnek senior (1962–2010), cross-country cyclist
Josef Řezníček (born 1966), ice hockey player
Robert Jelinek (* 1970), Austrian artist
Daniel Šmejkal (* 1970), football player and coach
Lubor Tesař (* 1971), cyclist
Martin Straka (* 1972), ice hockey player
Aleš Jindra (* 1973), football player and coach
Dagmar Damková (* 1974), football referee and language teacher

Robert Vágner (* 1974), football player

Radek Vít (* 1974), German-Czech ice hockey player

Michal Mařík (* 1975), ice hockey goalkeeper

Tomáš Ortel (* 1975), right-wing extremist singer and drummer

Jan Štochl (* 1975), handball player

Petr Stoilov (* 1975), football player

Jan Velkoborský (* 1975), football player

Pavel Vít (* 1975), German-Czech ice hockey player

From 1976

Patrik Ježek (* 1976), football player

Jiří Mužík (* 1976), athlete

Petr Štochl (* 1976), handball player

Petr Sýkora (* 1976), ice hockey player

Pavel Trnka (* 1976), ice hockey player

Karel Nocar (* 1977), handball player

Sylvia Plischke (* 1977), Austrian tennis player

Alois Mráz (* 1978), handball player

Petr Smíšek (* 1978), football player

Adam Homolka (* 1979), racing cyclist

Daniel Huňa (* 1979), football player

Jaromír Šimr (* 1979), football player

Jiří Hynek (* 1981), handball player

Petr Čech (* 1982), soccer goalkeeper

Filip Jícha (* 1982), handball player and coach

Michal Kesl (* 1982), racing cyclist

Václav Vraný (* 1982), handball player

Michal Daněk (* 1983), football goalkeeper

Kateřina Emmons (* 1983), marksman

Pavel Fořt (* 1983), football player

David Limberský (* 1983), football player

Sandra Záhlavová (* 1985), tennis player

Andrea Hlaváčková (* 1986), tennis player

Jiřina Ptáčníková (* 1986), pole vaulter

Aleš Razým (* 1986), cross-country skier

Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová (* 1986), tennis player

Pavel Čmovš (* 1990), football player

Pavel Francouz (* 1990), ice hockey goalkeeper
Jan Lecjaks (* 1990), football player
Andrej Šustr (* 1990), ice hockey player
Kristýna Petrová (* 1992), chess player
Jakub Klášterka (* 1994), racing car driver
Dominik Kubalík (* 1995), ice hockey player
Petra Ševcíková (* 2000 in Pilsen), cyclist
Jonáš Forejtek (* 2001), tennis player

Well-known residents of Plzeň

Wenceslas II (1271–1305), King of Bohemia; Founder of Pilsen
Jan Žižka (1360–1424), the most important military leader of the Hussites ; worked 1419-1420 in the Hussite Pilsen and later tried repeatedly unsuccessfully to take the city, which had returned to Catholicism
Václav Koranda († 1453), radical Hussite clergyman; worked in Pilsen until 1420
Hilary von Leitmeritz (1412 / 1413–1468), administrator of the Archdiocese of Prague and papal legate
Rudolf II (1552–1612), Holy Roman Emperor; settled 1599–1600 with his court in Pilsen
Ernst von Mansfeld (1580–1626), General of the Estates Army in the Thirty Years War; took the city in 1618 and occupied it with drastic consequences until 1621
Sebastian Willibald Schießler (1790–1867), writer, honorary citizen of the city
Josef Kajetán Tyl (1808–1856), playwright; died in Pilsen
Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), composer; studied in Pilsen
Joseph Groll (1813–1887), master brewer
František Křižík (1847–1941), industrialist and inventor; invented a new type of arc lamp in Pilsen, founded an electrotechnical factory and is the author of the first Pilsen electric tram
Karel Klostermann (1848–1923), writer; taught in Pilsen at the German secondary school; buried in Pilsen
Josef Skupa (1892–1957), puppeteer, creator of the Spejbl and Hurvínek puppets ; lived and worked in Pilsen