He was a native of Lanškroun, the youngest of seven children of a shopkeeper and bookseller.
In 1882 Piffl graduated from the Lanškroun Grammar School, and then he entered the Augustinian monastery and started a brilliant career of a Roman Catholic clergyman (theological school teacher, monastery provost, princely archbishop, Bishop of Vienna, and the cardinal since 1914).

He was a chemist, pharmacist, botanist and textile entrepreneur. He came to Lanškroun at the invitation of Francis Jakob Pernikarz, settled there for good and married Pernikarz’s daughter Anna.
Erxleben opened the pharmacy At the Good Samaritan with a botanic garden.

Bohumil Modrý was a famous goalkeeper of LTC Prague and the Czechoslovak national ice hockey team. As a young boy he used to visit the swimming pool of Lanškroun with his parents.

He was a reputable lawyer and provincial prosecutor in Prague.
His financial circumstances allowed him to become a patron of his native town.
He established a foundation for students and relatives. He also established a foundation for St Wenceslas’ Church in order to support another curate.

He was a great Czech polymath of the period after the Battle of the White Mountain – a doctor, physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher.
He was a personal doctor of two emperors, the dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the Charles’ University and in 1662 the Rector of the Charles’ University.

He was an important warrior – artilleryman and gained the rank of general field marshal.
Bärnkopp took part in campaigns in Bohemia and Silesia. He created excellent Austrian artillery thanks to it he conquered an impregnable fortress in Klodsko within 24 hours where he fought side by side with general Laudon. He was promoted to the estate of the nobility.

He is a descendant of branched Praveček’s and Vacek’s families of musicians. Praveček was a composer and conductor, experienced teacher at specialized military and civil universities, art adviser, juror and chairman of juries at festivals and contests of big brass bands both in his own country and abroad.

Jindřich Štýrský was born on August 11, 1899, in Čermná at Kyšperk (what is now Letohrad). He studied at the Grammar School at Hradec Králové and later on at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Prague.

The Mayor of Lanškroun in 1861-1891. He founded the municipal savings bank and was instrumental in building the tobacco factory, constructing the Lanškroun-Rudoltice railway branch line and founding the Grammar School.

He was an excellent musician, opera singer, actor, conductor and director. He took over the pharmacy from his uncle, Eduard Erxleben. He conducted a school orchestra already as a student. He studied music in Prague and Vienna.

He was a Czech Brethren preacher, author of a hymnbook of Czech Brethren. Weisse was a monk in Breslau, before 1520 he transferred to Czech Brethren.

He was bishop in Chur, Litomyšl and Olomouc, archbishop in Magdeburg, a chancellor of Charles IV.
In 1371 he founded an Augustinian monastery in Lanškroun, in front of the town walls on what is now the place of St Magdalene’s Church.

He was a regional historian, chronicler and the first postmaster of the town of Lanškroun.
In 1808 he opened a drapery shop in Lanškroun. He was the first to install a steam boiler at the Erxleben’s still.