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.
Václav Havel | Karel Gott | Karel Čapek | Karel Appel | Karel Teige | Karel Reisz | Karel Goeyvaerts | Karel van Mander | Karel Václav Rais | Gilles de Rais | Vaclav Vaca | Václav Klaus | Václav Hudeček | Karel Husa | Václav Patejdl | Vaclav Klaus | Václav Kaplický | Karel Roden | Karel Kovařovic | Karel Halík | Jan Karel Lenstra | Václav Trégl | Václav Neckář | Shah Muhammad Rais | Rais Lebled | Rais Khan | Karel Zeman | Karel van der Toorn | Karel Svoboda | Karel Štěpánek |
His illustrations can also be found in other works by Alois Jirásek, Jan Neruda, Karel Václav Rais und František Ladislav Čelakovský.
He's done illustrations for several books of Svatopluk Čech, Jan Neruda, Karel Václav Rais, Václav Beneš Třebízský, Kronbauer – those were published for almost two decades with Viktor Oliva's illustrations.