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

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.

Theodor Herzl - journalist, political activist, and father of modern political Zionism
Michael Polanyi
Thomas Szász - psychiatrist and activist