He wrote many operas, often using his own librettos, such as The Revenge of Catullus based on the work of Vrchlický (1917), Alladina and Palomid (based on the work of Maeterlinck, 1925), Ňura (1932), How the Death came in the World (1936), Jiří from Kunštát and Poděbrady (based on the work of Alois Jirásek, 1941), Cradle (composed on the work of Jirásek, 1951), Eupyros (1960).
Jaroslav Tůma | Jaroslav Hašek | Jaroslav Drobný | Jaroslav Vrchlický | Jaroslav Marvan | Jaroslav Pollák | Jaroslav Havlíček | Jaroslav Věšín | Jaroslav Vanek | Jaroslav Skobla | Jaroslav Rudnyckyj | Jaroslav Levinský | Jaroslav Kysela | Jaroslav Katriňák | Jaroslav Jakubovic | Jaroslav Holík | Jaroslav Halák | Jaroslav Halak | Jaroslav Drobný (footballer) | Jaroslav Dietl |
Among notable persons associated with the district are inventor Josef Ressel, composers Zdeněk Fibich and Vítězslav Novák, writers Karel Václav Rais and Jaroslav Vrchlický, painters Antonín Slavíček, Antonin Chittussi and Adolf Kosárek.