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Ladislav Karel Feierabend was an important Czechoslovak politician and economist. From 1938 to 1939 he was the minister of agriculture. After he went into exile in London in 1940, he held the post of Czechoslovak finance minister in the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London. Feierabend was a member of the Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants and after the war he joined the Czech National Social Party. After the Communist coup in February 1948, Feierabend decided to emigrate from Czechoslovakia. First of all, he went to London and then to the United States of America, where he actively participated in the radio station, Voice of America, between 1965 and 1969. He was also involved in the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in Washington.

Ferenc Fejtő (1909–2008) was a Hungarian-born French historian, journalist, writer and political scientist. He was born in Nagykanizsa, to a Jewish-Hungarian family of booksellers and publishers. He studied in both Zagreb and Nagykanizsa. Fejtő applied to the Science University of Budapest and at Eötvös Loránd University, but because of the anti-Semitic, “Numerus Clausus” law, he could not attend those schools and instead studied Hungarian, French and German language and literature at the University of Pécs from 1927. Following the abolition of “Numerus Clausus”, Fejtő studied Hungarian and German language and literature at the Science University of Budapest from 1929. He was a member of the Bartha Miklós Society, and joined the illegal communist movement. In 1932, Fejtő was sentenced to one year in prison for organizing a Marxist study group. He diverged from the communists and became a social-democratic journalist. In 1935, together with the poet Attila József and the publicist Pál Ignotus, he founded the anti-Nazi and anti-Stalinist literary periodical Szép Szó. In 1938, following a six-month prison sentence for an article criticizing the German-sympathetic government, he left Hungary and moved to France. In 1943–1944 he took part in the French Resistance.

Ferenc Fábri is a journalist. He started to attend the experimental summer camps organized in Bánk in the 1930s and continue to do so until the 1960s. Fábri is one of the old campers who is personally dedicated to preserving the heritage of the founder, reformist pedagogue Eszter Leveleki. A part of Leveleki’s bequest was handed over to him (e.g. diaries, picture albums, posters). Ferenc Fábri safeguards this heritage and draws on it in the various activities (organizing camps, founding the Eszter Leveleki Foundation). He also wrote many articles and edited books on the festivals.

Poet Ferenc Juhász (1928–2015) was born in Bia, a village near Budapest. After World War II, he published his first poems and was hailed as a prodigy of Hungarian poetry.

From 1951 to 1974, Juhász served as an editor for Szépirodalmi Publishing House, which published literature in Hungary. In the 1950s, Juhász began to suffer political attacks because of his poetry.

A leading figure of West Bohemian underground culture and leader of the artistic group the Pathological Orchestra of the City of Marianske. He was also the author of its chronicle. He was known as a “mad” poet, artist and performer. The nickname “Mad” refers to his wild and vivacious nature and his unchained and energetic performances. His companions considered him a Czech form of the accursed poet, who lived according to his own rules during any regime. He was a lifelong “alternative” person and freedom-seeker. At end of his days he lived as a homeless person in Marianske Lazne. He died of a heart attack.