Plzeň – Cheb line Nr. 180: Plzeň – Domažlice – Furth im Wald (Germany) line Nr. 183: Plzeň – Klatovy – Železná Ruda line Nr. 160: Plzeň – Žatec line Nr. 190: Plzeň – České Budějovice Plzeň main railway station (Plzeň hlavní nádraží) serves all five of these lines. Road The most important transport link in the city is the D5 highway connecting Prague and Nuremberg. Air A public domestic and private international airport is located 11 km south-west from Plzeň, at the nearby village of Líně. Notable people Emil Škoda (1839–1900), engineer and industrialist Josef Finger (1841–1925), physicist and mathematician Emma B. Mandl (1842–1928), Chicago charities founder Friedrich Goldscheider (1845–1897), ceramist and industrialist František Křižík (1847–1941), inventor Augustin Němejc (1861–1938), painter Rudolf Karel (1880–1945), composer Emil Lederer (1882–1939), economist and sociologist Růžena Šlemrová (1886–1962), actress Josef Beran (1888–1969), cardinal, Czech primate, archbishop of Prague Josef Skupa (1892–1957), puppeteer Jaroslav Vogel (1894–1970), conductor, composer Ladislav Sutnar (1897–1976), graphic designer, pioneer of information design and information architecture Jaroslav Černý (1898–1970), Oxford professor and Egyptologist Siegfried Lederer (1904–1972), Auschwitz escapee Jiří Trnka (1912–1969), artist Miroslav Štandera (1918–2014), fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force during World War II Ota Šik (1919–2004), economist Karel Černý (1922–2014), art director Miroslav Holub (1923–1998), poet Josef Rösch (1925–2016), interventional radiologist Kurt Dietmar Richter (1931−2019), German composer, conductor Karla Erbová (born 1933), poet, prose writer, and journalist Gabriela Basařová (1934–2019), professor of chemistry, researched fermentation chemistry, brewing, and malting Peter Grünberg (1939–2018), German physicist, 2007 Nobel prize winner Karel Gott (1939–2019), singer Jaroslav Beneš (born 1946), fine art photographer Tomáš Šmíd (born 1956), tennis player Vítězslav Lavička (born 1963), football manager Tomáš Cihlář (born 1967), chemist and virologist David Kotyza (born 1967), tennis coach Martin Straka (born 1972), ice hockey player Luboš Motl (born 1973), physicist Jiří Mužík (born 1976), track and field athlete Petr Sýkora (born 1976), ice hockey player Milan Kraft (born 1980), ice hockey player Petr Čech (born 1982), football player Kateřina Emmons (born 1983), sport shooter, Olympic medalist Andrea Hlaváčková (born 1986), tennis player Barbora Strýcová (born 1986), tennis player Andrej Šustr (born 1990), ice hockey player Pavel Francouz (born 1990), ice hockey player Dominik Kubalík (born 1995), ice hockey player Twin towns – sister cities Plzeň is twinned with: Birmingham, United States Liège, Belgium Limoges, France Regensburg, Germany Takasaki, Japan Winterthur, Switzerland Žilina, Slovakia Gallery References External links Tourist Information Server Official