Tom Lehrer's 'Alma's Song'
People from Prague
- Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) — composer; lived most of his life in Prague
- Václav Havel (1936–2011) — dramatist, writer and politician; President of Czechoslovakia and Czech republic (its first; 1993–2003); born and lived in Prague
- Franz Kafka (1883–1924) — German-language fiction writer; born and lived in Prague
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) — composer; some of his best opera successes were during his time in Prague
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) — German-language poet; born and studied in Prague
- Franz Werfel (1890–1945) — German-language writer; born and lived in Prague. Married Alma Mahler.
- Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) — astronomer; spent end of life near Prague
- Albert Einstein (1879–1955) — physicist, served as professor at the German part of the Charles University in Prague (1911–1912)
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) — inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist, studied at Charles University in Prague (1880)
- Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) — astronomer; in 1601, he succeeded Tycho Brahe as imperial mathematician and the next eleven years lectured for several years in Prague and published his paper on Doppler effect there
- Martina Navratilova (born 1956), tennis player; 18 times Grand Slam champion, born in Prague.
- Tom Stoppard. Playwright.
People from Vienna
- Alfred Adler (1870–1937), founder of individual psychology.
- Hans Asperger (1906–1980), pediatrician; discoverer of Asperger syndrome.
- Martin Buber (1878–1965), philosopher.
- Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994), philosopher.
- Viktor Frankl (1905–1997), neurologist and psychiatrist; founder of logotherapy.
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863–1914), heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary.
- Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830-1916), Emperor of Austria.
- Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), neurologist; founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology.
- Karl von Frisch (1886–1982), animal psychologist, beekeeper and zoologist; co-recipient 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), economist; co-recipient of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Article.
- Theodor Herzl (1860–1904), journalist; founder of modern political Zionism.
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000), architect and painter.
- Melanie Klein. (1882 –1960) psychoanalyst.
- Karl Kraus (1874–1936), satirist; publisher of the newspaper Die Fackel.
- Niki Lauda (1949–2019), entrepreneur and race car driver.
- Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989), behavioural scientist; co-recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- Franz Mesmer (1734 – 1815)
- Karl Polanyi (1886–1964), economic historian.
- Karl Popper (1902–1994), philosopher.
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), composer, music theorist and painter.
- Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961), physicist; co-recipient of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Franz Schubert (1797–1828), composer.
- Johann Strauss II (1825–1899), composer.
- Josef Strauss (1827–1870), composer.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher.
- Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), writer.
- Theodor W. Adorno (1903 –1969) philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist.
People from Budapest
- Theodor Herzl - journalist, political activist, and father of modern political Zionism
- Michael Polanyi
- Thomas Szász - psychiatrist and activist
- Robert Capa - photographer
- André Kertész - photographer
- Arthur Koestler - writer and journalist
- Lajos Kossuth (1802 – 1894) Orator and politician
- Zsa Zsa Gabor - actress and socialite
- Harry Houdini - escapologist and stuntperson
- Ernő Rubik - inventor of the Rubik's cube
- Franz Liszt - composer and pianist
- Imre Nagy - leader of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
- Franz Alexander - psychoanalyst and physician
- Michael Balint - psychoanalyst
- John von Neumann - mathematician and physicist
- Géza Róheim - psychoanalyst and anthropologist
- Edward Teller - nuclear physicist
- George Soros - investor and philanthropist
- Raoul Wallenberg – honorary citizen
- Leo Szilard - nuclear physicist
- Eugene Wigner - nuclear physicist
- Michael Curtiz - Film director

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