Vyšehrad Cemetery

The centerpiece of the cemetery is the Slavín tomb designed by Antonín Wiehl, a large and notable tomb located within Vyšehrad cemetery.

Vyšehrad cemetery
Vyšehrad cemetery Arcade, Prague.
Details
Established	1869
Country	Czech Republic
Coordinates	50°03′54″N 14°25′04″E / 50.06500°N 14.41778°E / 50.06500; 14.41778
Type	Public
Find a Grave	Vyšehrad cemetery

Some of the famous Czechs interred here:

• Zdeněk Miler (1921-2011), animator
• Mikoláš Aleš (1852–1913), painter
• Karel Ančerl (1908–1973), conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra
• Josef Bican (1913–2001), footballer
• Josef Čapek (1887–1945), painter and writer (cenotaph)
• Karel Čapek (1890–1938), writer
• Antonin Chittussi (1847–1891), painter
• Emmy Destinn (Ema Destinnová, 1878–1930), opera singer
• Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), composer^: #3716
• Ludmila Dvořáková (1923–2015) opera singer
• Petr Eben (1929–2007), composer and organist
• Zdeněk Fibich (1850–1900), composer
• Vlastimil Fišar (1926–1991), composer
• Eduard Haken (1910–1996), operatic bass
• Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890–1967), Nobel prize winning founder of polarography
• Milada Horáková (1901–1950), doctor, victim of 1950s Czechoslovak communist party show trials (cenotaph)
• František Hrubín (1910–1971), writer and poet, friend of Jaroslav Seifert
• Ivan Jandl (1937–1987), actor
• Rafael Kubelík (1914–1996), conductor and composer
• Vilém Kurz (1872–1945), pianist and piano teacher
• Karel Hynek Mácha (1810–1836), romantic poet
• Hana Mašková (1949–1972), figure skater
• Waldemar Matuška (1932–2009), singer and actor
• Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), artist and designer^: #9155
• Josef Václav Myslbek (1848–1922), sculptor
• Jan Neruda (1834–1891), poet and writer
• Božena Němcová (1820–1862), writer, author of the novel Babička ("The Grandmother")
• Zdeněk Nejedlý (1878–1962), musicologist, critic, and Communist politician
• František Ondříček (1857–1922), violinist and composer
• Otakar Ostrčil (1879–1935), composer and conductor of the National Theater
• Zdenka Procházková 1926–2021, actress
• Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869), anatomist and physiologist, known for the Purkinje effect and Purkinje cells
• Jana Rybářová (1936–1957), actress
• Ladislav Šaloun (1870–1946), Art Nouveau sculptor
• Olga Scheinpflugová (1902–1968), actress and wife of Karel Čapek
• Václav Smetáček (1906–1998), composer and oboist
• Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), composer
• Pavel Štěpán (1925–1998), pianist and piano teacher
• Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová (1899–1975), pianist and piano teacher
• Josef Suk (1929–2011), violinist and grandson of composer Josef Suk
• Max Švabinský (1873–1962), painter
• Vladislav Vančura (1891–1942), avant-garde writer and filmmaker
• Helena Zmatlíková (1923–2005), illustrator

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