List of Slovaks

Anton Bernolák, Ľudovít Štúr, Andrej Hlinka, Štefan Banič, Jozef Miloslav Hurban, Aurel Stodola, Adam František Kollár, Milan Hodža, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Gustáv Husák, Alexander Dubček

This is a list of notable people who either:

are or were citizens of Slovakia or Czechoslovakia,
are or were of Slovak identity or ancestry.

Politics

Politicians (contemporary)

Robert Fico (1964) - fifth prime minister of modern Slovakia
Mikuláš Dzurinda (1955) - fourth prime minister of modern Slovakia
Ivan Gašparovič (1941) - 3rd president of Slovakia, previously chairman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
Jozef Moravčík (1945) - second prime minister of modern Slovakia
Michal Kováč (1930) - the first president of modern Slovakia
Vladimír Mečiar (1942) - first and third prime minister of modern Slovakia
Rudolf Schuster (1934) - the second president of modern Slovakia (He is of German and Hungarian ancestry)
Peter Tomka (1956) - Judge on the International Court of Justice

Politicians (19th and 20th century)

Ferdinand Čatloš (1895–1972) - politician, Minister of Defence
Štefan Marko Daxner (1822–1892) - Slovak lower nobleman, politician, lawyer, and poet
Alexander Dubček (1921–1992) - leader of the Prague spring
Andrej Hlinka (1864–1938) - popular priest and national leader before World War II
Fedor Hodža (1912–1968) - politician and lawyer; the son of Milan Hodža.
Milan Hodža (1878–1944) - prime minister of Czechoslovakia, politician and journalist
Gustáv Husák (1913–1991) - president of Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s
Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880–1919) - astronomer, scientist, politician, and general; one of the founders of Czechoslovakia
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937) - the first president of Czechoslovakia; son of a Slovak father and Czech mother
Jozef Tiso (1887–1947) - president of the First Slovak Republic
Vojtech Tuka (1880–1946) - Slovak People's Party politician, teacher
Alexander Mach (1902–1980) - Slovak People's Party politician, journalist
Martin Rázus (1888–1937) - politician, priest
Jan Šverma (1903–1944) - partisan, communist politician
Karol Sidor (1901–1953) - far right Slovak nationalist politician and commander of the Hlinka Guard
Samuel Zoch (1882–1928) - priest, politician, Župan of Bratislava
Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817–1886) - priest, politician
Michal Miloslav Hodža (1811–1870) - leader of a Slovak national group, Lutheran priest, poet, linguist
Vladimír Clementis (1902–1952) - communist politician
Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský (1847–1916) - publicist, politician
Pavel Blaho (1867–1927) - publicist, politician
Milan Ivanka (1876–1956) - politician
Rudolf Markovič (1868–1934) - politician

WWII Partisans, Soldiers

Otto Smik (1922–1944) - Royal Air Force ace, Wing Commander
General Ján Golian (1906–1945) - one of the main organizers of the Slovak National Uprising
Jozef Gabčík (1912–1942) - soldier involved in the Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
Augustín Malár (1894–1946) - Slovak General during World War II.
Michael Strank - U.S. marine during World War II; the leader of the group of U.S. marines who raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima; they were photographed in Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Jan Šverma (1903–1944) - partisan
Rudolf Viest (1890–1945) - He was Slovak division general, commander of the partisan army during the Slovak National Uprising and the only Slovak general during the interwar period in the first Czechoslovak republic.
Jozef Turanec (1892–1957) - Slovak General during World War II.
Gustáv Wendrinský (1923–1945) - Slovak SS–Oberscharführer
Ludovit Kukorelli (1914–1944) Slovak partisan organiser.
Karol Adler (1910–1944) Slovak Partisan
Zela Steiner (1930–1944) Slovak-Jewish Partisan
Ján Ušiak (1914-1944]] Slovak Partisan
Viliam Žingor (1912-1950) Slovak nationalist Partisan
Ján Šmigovsky (1904-1945) American born Slovak fascist commander

Fighters, warriors, revolutionaries

Matej Kocak (1882–1918) - United States Marine Corps sergeant World War I
Juraj Ottlýk (1657-1730) Kuruc General
Adam Javorka (1683-1747) [[Kuruc general
Juraj Šucha (1500-1552) warrior against Ottomans
Ján Francisci-Rimavsky (1822-1905) Slovak freedom-fighter in 1848 Slovak Uprising
Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817–1886) Slovak freedom fighter leader of Anti-Hungarian 1848 Sovak Uprising

First Ladies

Livia Klausová - first lady of the Czech Republic
Silvia Gašparovičová - first lady of Slovakia

Religion

Notable religious figures

Pavol Peter Gojdič (Pavol Gojdič) (1888–1960)
Metod Dominik Trčka (Dominik Trčka) (1886–2012)
Zdenka Schelingová (1916–1955)
Basil Hopko (1904–1976)
Anna Kolesárová (1928–1944)

Religious Leaders

Štefan Moyses (1797–1869) - bishop, patriot, the first president of the Matica Slovenská, the first Slovak cultural institution
Jozef Roháček (1877–1962) - Protestant activist and scholar (first Slovak Bible translated from the original languages)
Alexander Rudnay (1760–1831)(hung.: Rudnay Sándor) - archbishop
Ján Sokol (1933- ) - He is a Slovak priest and former Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Trnava
Moses Sofer (1762-1839) Rabbi of Bratislava
Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl (1903–1957) Rabbi

Science and Technology

Philosophers, Polyhistors, Teachers

Martin Palkovič (Martin Palkovich) (1606–1662) – philosopher, professor in Trnava, Košice and Vienna
Pavol Jozef Šafárik (Paul Joseph Schaffarik, Pavel Josef Safarik) (1795–1861) – poet, professor, polyhistor
Samuel Augustini ab Hortis (1729–1792) - theorist
Igor Hrušovský (1907–1978) - philosopher, theorist
Ivan Branislav Zoch (1843–1921) - physicist, polyhistor
Jozef Alauda - philosopher
Peter Krištof Akai - philosopher
Jan Komar (1939–2000) - philosopher, humanist, poet
Marina Čarnogurská – sinologist and philosopher, acknowledged translator of Tao Te Ting

Linguists, Humanists and Historians

Anton Bernolák (1762–1813) – lower nobleman, Jesuit, author of the first Slovak language standard (in the 1780s), which was based on western Slovak dialects
Milan Stanislav Ďurica sk:Milan Stanislav Ďurica (1925) - priest, historian, Professor of the University in Padua, author of the controversial bookHistory of Slovakia and Slovaks.
Ľudovít Štúr (Ludevít Štúr) (1815–1856) - best known for his role in the development of the modern Slovak language (in 1844 he suggested that the central Slovak dialect should be used as the literary language of the Slovaks and in 1846 he codified the new language standard in his Nauka reči Slovenskej [Theory of the Slovak language])
Martin Hattala (1821–1903) - linguist
Jozef Mistrík (1921–2001) – linguist
Pavol Križko (1841–1902) - historian
Adam František Kollár (Adam Franz Kollar) (1718–1783) - historian, royal councilor and librarian of the Imperial Library in Vienna
Janko Matúška (1821–1877), He was the author of the Slovak national anthem

Inventors and Engineers

Jozef Murgaš (1864–1929) – inventor of the wireless telegraph (forerunner of the radio). Murgas' "Rotary-spark-system" allowed for much faster communication, through the use of musical tones. He patented his new invention, which is now listed as the "Wireless Telegraphy Apparatus", as well as more inventions in this field. These patents would go on to form the foundations for the invention of the radio. Also devised a system which greatly improved the Morse code. His other patents include the spinning reel (for fishing), the wave meter, the electric transformer, the magnetic detector, and an engine producing electromagnetic waves.
Aurel Stodola (1859–1942) – engineer and professor, enabled the construction of steam and gas turbines (around 1900), constructor of a movable artificial arm (the Stodola arm) in 1915
John Dopyera (Ján Dopjera) (1893–1988) – inventor of music instruments, invented the Dobro resonator guitar
Peter Danišovič (1907) – professor, engineer and builder of dams in Slovakia. He is the author of the Gabčíkovo - Nagymaros project, of which Gabčíkovo Dam was completed. Other projects he worked on include Domaša, Orava Dam (Oravská priehrada), Ilava Dam, Ladce Dam, and Dubnica Dam.
Robert Nalevanko (1990- ) Is the inventor of the reverberating, self-propelled, glow in the dark dildo for the visually impaired. (and Barboushki)

Aviation

Ján Bahýľ (1865–1916) – military engineer, inventor of the motor-driven helicopter (four years before Bréguet and Cornu). Bahyl was granted 7 patents in all, including the invention of the tank pump, air balloons combined with an air turbine, the first petrol engine car in Slovakia (with Anton Marschall) and a lift up to Bratislava castle.
Štefan Banič (1870–1941) - the inventor of the military parachute and of the first actively used parachute
Ivan Alexander Getting (1912—2003) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, credited (along with Bradford Parkinson) with the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS).

Natural Sciences and Medicine

Vojtech Alexander (1857–1916) - revolutionary radiologist
Cyprián z Červeného Kláštora (Frater Cyprianus, Jaisge) (1724–1775) - monk and natural scientist, author of the oldest herbarium in Slovakia
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923–2008) - American physician and Nobel Prize winner of Slovak descent
Jozef Ľudovít Holuby (1836–1923) - botanist, gave their current names to many plants
Zachariáš Teofil Husty (18th century) - one of the first pharmacologists, physician, set up a medicare system in 1786
Andreas Jaszlinszky (18th century) - Jesuit physics professor
Ján Jesenský (Johann Jessenius) (1566–1621) - physician, surgeon, anatomist, rector of Charles University, Protestant activist and politician
František Krommel - biologist
Dušan Makovický (1866–1921) - physician, writer, translator, personal doctor of Leo Tolstoy
Izabela Textorisová (1866–1949) - first Slovak female botanist
Ján Fridrichovský (1896–1978) - first Slovak professor of dentistry and founder of stomatosurgery in Slovakia

Geology, Mineralogy

Dionýz Štúr (1827–1893) - geologist, botanist, director of the Imperial Geological Institute

Dimitrij Andrusov (1897–1976) - famous geologist

Geography

Archeology

Andrej Kmeť (1841–1908) - botanist, archaeologist
Vojtech Budinský-Krička (1903–1994) - archaeologist
Ján Kollár - pastor, writer, archaeologist, academic

Physics

Dionýz Ilkovič (1907–1980) - famous Slovak physicist
Pavel Kray (1735–1804) – field marshal, mathematician, engineer, architect, participant of the Seven Years War and of the Turkish War (1788–1789), defeated the Peasant Uprising in Transylvania in 1786
Ivan Wilhelm cs:Ivan Wilhelm (1942 Trnava) - nuclear physicist, former rector of Charles University in Prague
MUDr. Rafat Mansour (1972) - famous Slovakian surgeon

Mathematics

Jozef Balala - mathematician
Juraj Bosák - mathematician known mainly for his work in graph theory
Ivan Dobrakov - mathematician
Anton Dubec - mathematician
Ján Dubovszky - mathematician
Jur Hronec - mathematician
Anton Huťa - mathematician
Vojtech Illenčík - mathematician
Igor Kluvánek - mathematician
Kornélia Kropiláková - mathematician
Samuel Mikovíny - Hungarian mathematician, engineer and map maker
Tibor Neubrunn - mathematician
Tibor Šalát - mathematician, author of many mathematical textbooks in Slovak language
Peter Štefan - mathematician
Ivan Teplička - mathematician
Štefan Znám - mathematician

Computer Science

Norbert Frištacký - IEEE The Computer Pioneer Award (for pioneering digital devices) [1]
Jozef Gruska [2] - professor of quantum computing, IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
Juraj Hromkovič - Slovak computer scientist living in Switzerland
Ján Procivňák - WOW FRI Student of Millenium (GM Award Holder)

Astronomy

Astronomers

Jakub Pribicer (1539–1582) Astronomer

Astronomers (20th century)

Milan Rastislav Štefánik
Milan Antal
Antonín Bečvář
Ladislav Brožek
Štefan Gajdoš
Ľubor Kresák
Dušan Kalmančok
Ľudmila Pajdušáková
Vladimír Porubčan
Alexander Pravda
Ladislav E. Roth [3] - planetary scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, United States. He participated in the exploration of Mars, Venus, the Moon, and the satellites of Saturn. He has also done experimental and theoretical research of various new technologies, such as microwave remote sensing and radar altimetry.
Juraj Tóth

Astronauts

Ivan Bella (1964) – the first astronaut of Slovakia (in 1998)
Eugene Cernan (1934) – U.S. astronaut, last man to set foot on the Moon, son of the Slovak immigrant Ondrej Čerňan.

Culture

Literature

See list of Slovak prose and drama authors.

See list of Slovak poets.

Journalism

Daniel Gabriel Lichard (1812–1882) - important publisher and the first Slovak professional journalist

Music

Classical

Composers

For a longer list, see separate article.

Alexander Albrecht (1885–1958) – composer, conductor, teacher
Ján Levoslav Bella (1843–1936) – composer, author of the first Slovak opera "Kováč Wieland"
Juraj Beneš (1940–2004) – composer
Ján Cikker (1911–1989) – composer, teacher
Viliam Figuš-Bystrý (1875–1937) – composer, teacher
Tibor Frešo (1918–1987) – composer, conductor
Frico Kafenda (1883–1963) – composer, teacher, pianist, conductor
Dezider Kardoš (1914–1991) – composer, teacher
Rudolf Macudzinski (1907–1986) – pianist, teacher, composer
Jozef Malovec (1933–1998) – composer
Adalbert Keler (1820–1882) – a German-Slovak composer, conductor
Ladislav Kupkovič (1936) – composer, conductor
Ján Móry (Johann Mory) (1892–1978) – composer
Alexander Moyzes (1906–1984) – composer
Mikuláš Moyzes (1872–1944) – composer
Andrej Očenáš (1911–1995) – composer, teacher
Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský (1881–1958) – composer
Eugen Suchoň (1908–1993) – the most important Slovak composer, teacher
Iris Szeghy (1956) – woman composer
Miroslav Bázlik (1931) – composer, pianist, teacher, philosopher, mathematician
Ilja Zeljenka (1932–2007) – composer
Norbert Bodnár (1956) – composer, teacher

Conductors

Peter Breiner (1957) – conductor, composer, pianist
Ondrej Lenárd (1942) – conductor
Anton Paulik (1901–1975) - Austrian conductor born in Bratislava
Ľudovít Rajter (1906–2000) - conductor, teacher, composer
Ladislav Slovák (1919–1999) – conductor

Instrumentalists

Klára Havlíková (1931–2007) – pianist
Ondrej Kandráč (1978) – violinist
Leo Kestenberg (1882–1962) – pianist, teacher
Ferdinand Klinda (1929) – organist, teacher
Marián Lapšanský (1947) – pianist
Peter Michalica (1945) – violinist
Ivan Sokol (1937) – organist, teacher
Peter Toperczer (1944) – pianist, teacher
Dalibor Karvay (1985) – violinist

Opera Singers

Helena Bartošová (1905–1981) – soprano
Janko Blaho (1901–1981) – tenor
Zuzana Božíková (1990-) – contralto (youngest opera singer in Slovakia's history; also a model)
Margita Česányiová (1911) – soprano
Peter Dvorský (1951) – tenor (currently the most famous one)
Edita Gruberová (1946-) – soprano
Mária Kišonová-Hubová (1915) – soprano
Sergej Kopčák (1948) – bass
Jozef Kundlák (1956-) - tenor
Peter Mikuláš (1954) – bass
Lucia Popp (1939–1993) – soprano
Luba Orgonasova (1961-) – soprano

Misc

Ján Albrecht (1919–1996) – violist, musicologist, teacher
Paulin Bajan (1721–1792)
Andrew Breiner (1889–1965) – Surrealist author and composer of works such as Ignorance and Falsifiable
Pantaleon Roskovsky (1734–1789)
Jozef Kresánek (1913–1986) - musicologist, teacher, composer
Ibrahim Maiga (1954-)^[1]
Dusan Martincek
Peter Petko (1713–1793)
Karol Smith – famous piano producer from Bratislava in the early 19th century

Jazz

Peter Lipa (1943) - the most important current Jazz singer, composer
Gabriel Jonáš (1948) – Jazz musician, multiinstrumentalist, composer
Karol Arnold Zavodny (1944) - Jazz musician, singer, trumpet player

Popular Music (20th century)

Jano Baláž (1951) - guitarist, singer, composer
Oliver Buc (1975) - guitarist, singer, composer currently living in Chicago, US
Karol Duchoň (1950–1985) - singer (pre-rock period)
Gejza Dusík (1907–1988) - composer, musician, author of many evergreens (1st half of the 20th century)
Martin Ďurinda (1961) – singer of Tublatanka (a band having reacher its height around 1990)
Jozef Ráž (1954) - current singer of Elán (a band having reached its height in the 1980s)
Karol Elbert (1911) - composer, musician (1st half of the 20th century)
Boris Filan (1949) - text-writer for many Slovak bands
Marika Gombitová (1956) - singer, composer, musician in the 1980s and early 1990s
Pavol Habera (1962) - singer, composer, musician (reached his height around 1990)
Pavol Hammel (1948) - singer, composer, musician (reached his height the 1970s and 1980s)
Jana Kocianová (1946) - singer (pre-rock period)
Marcela Laiferová (1945) - singer (pre-rock period)
Ján Lehotský (1947) - composer, musician, singer of Modus (a band having reached its height in the late 1970s)
Laco Lučenič (1952) - musician, producer, member of Modus
Richard Müller (1961) - the best-known current Slovak pop-rock singer
Peter Nagy (1959) - pop singer, text-writer (reached his height in the late 1980s and early 1990s)
Vašo Patejdl (1954) - the most important Slovak pop composer in the 1980s and 1990s, singer, musician
Kamil Peteraj (1945) - text-writer
Dežo Ursiny (1947–1995) - composer, rock singer, musician in the 1960s and 1970s
Jaroslav Filip (1949–2000) - musician, composer, humorist, dramaturg, actor and promoter of Internet in Slovakia
Marián Varga (1947) - rock composer, musician in the 1960s and 1970s
František Krištof Veselý (1903–1977) - singer from the early popular music period
Pavol Zelenay (1928) - swing composer, musician
Miroslav Žbirka (1952) - singer, composer from the 1970s to the 1990s

Fine Arts

Painters, Graphic Artists

Janko Alexy (1894–1970) - painter
Miloš Alexander Bazovský (1899–1968) - painter, graphic artist
Peter Michael Slavomil Bohúň (1822–1879) - painter, graphic artist
Martin Benka (1888–1971) - painter, illustrator
Andrej Barčík (1924–2004) - painter
Ladislav Cemicky (1909–2000) -painter
Albín Brunovský (1935–1997) - graphic artist, painter, illustrator
Josef Czauczik (1781–1857) - painter
Lajos Csordák (1864–1937) - painter
Ľudovít Fulla (1902–1980) - painter, graphic artist, illustrator
Edmund Gwerk (1859–1956) - painter
Mikuláš Galanda (1895–1938) - painter, graphic artist, illustrator
Elemír Halász-Hradil (1873–1948) - painter
Jozef Hanula (1863–1944) - painter
Vincent Hložník (1919–1997) - painter
Gyula Jakoby (1903–1985) - painter
Jozef Božetech Klemens (1817–1883) - painter, sculptor, polyhistor
Jozef Kostka (1938–1981) - painter
Rudolf Krivos (1933–1988) - painter
Ján Kupecký (Johann Kupecky) (1667–1740) - painter
Anton Lehmden (1929) - Aistrian painter; born in Slovakia
Karol Ľudovít Libay (Karl Ludwig Libay) (1816–1888) - painter
Palo Macho (1965) - painter
Cyprián Majerník (1909–1945) - painter
Ján Mudroch (1909–1968) – painter, teacher
Master of the Altar of Košice (Majster košického oltára) (15th century) – the most important Slovak painter of the 15th century
Master of the Altar of Smrečany (Majster smrečianskeho hlavného oltára) (15th century) – painter
Master of the Hlohovec Nativity (15th-16th century) - painter
Master of Lúčky (Master of Honneshau, Majster z Lúčok) (15th century) – painter
Master of Okoličné (Majster okoličiansky) (15th-16th century) – painter
Theodor Jozef Mousson (1887–1946) – painter, born in Hungary, working in Slovakia
Endre Nemes (1909–1985) - painter
Zolo Palugay (1898–1935) - painter
Milan Paštéka (1931–1998) - painter
Ján Rombauer (Johann Rombauer) (1782–1849) - painter
Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková (1909-) - painter
Dominik Skutecký (1849–1921) - painter
Koloman Sokol (1902–2003) - painter
Andrej Smolák - painter
Karl Sovanka (1883–1961) - painter, sculptor
Teodor Jozef Tekel (1902—1975) - painter
Imrich Weiner-Kráľ (1901–1978) - painter
Ladislav Záborský (1921) - painter
Viera Žilinčanová (1932) - painter
Ernest Zmeták (1919–2004) - painter
Dušan Mravec (1980) - painter

Sculptors

Stefan Belohradsky (1930- ) constructivistic sculptor and architect
Jozef Damko (1872–1955) - sculptor
Ján Anton Kraus (Johann Anton Kraus) (1728–1795)- sculptor
Robert Kühmayer (1883–1972) - sculptor; born in Bratislava
Ján Kulich - famous sculptor
Ľudovít Mack (Ludwig Mack) (1876–1963) – sculptor
Fraňo Štefunko (1903–1974) - sculptor

Photographers

Pavol Socháň (1862–1941) - ethnographer, photographer, writer
Mária Holoubková (1903) - photographer
Dežo (Dezider) Hoffmann (1912–1986) - Hungarian photoreporter and photographer
Martin Martinček (1913–2004) - master photographer, lawyer
Karol Kállay (1926)
Zuzana Mináčová (1931)
Tibor Huszár (1952) - portrait photographer
Peter Župník (1961) - fine art photographer
Radovan Stoklasa (1978) - photographer (News Agency of the Slovak Republic)
Vladimír Kampf (1966) - photographer, publicist
Tono Stano (1960) - photographer; his famous photograph Sense inspired the poster for the film Showgirls.

Architects

Emil Belluš (1899–1980) – architect
Bohuslav Fuchs (1895–1972) – architect; a Czech also active in Slovakia
Milan Michal Harminc (1869–1964) - architect
Dušan Jurkovič (1868–1947) – architect
Dušan Kuzma (1927) – architect
Gedeon Majunke (1857–1921) - architect
Ferdinand Milučký (1929) - architect
Ivan Matušík (1930) - architect
Alfred Piffl (1907) - architect, artist, archeological historian also responsible for preservation of Bratislava Castle
John F. Lipaj (1923) - American born architect

Film and Theatre

Actors

Andrej Bagar (1900–1966) - actor, director
Ján Borodáč (1892–1964) - director, actor, founder of Slovak professional theatre
Michal Dočolomanský (1942–2008) - actor
Naďa Hejná-Pietrová (1906–1994) - actress
Mikuláš Huba (1919–1986) - actor
Ladislav Chudík (1924) - actor
Ján Jamnický (1908–1972) - theater director, actor
Milan Kňažko (1945) - actor, former Slovak Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Culture
Jozef Kroner (1924–1998) - actor, starred in the first Czechoslovak, Czech and Slovak film awarded by Oscar: The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze, 1965)
Juraj Kukura (1947) - well-known Slovak actor (theater, film), who has also been working in Germany.
Hana Meličková (1900–1978) - actress
Barbara Nedeljáková (1979) - actress, starred in the famous Hollywood horror film Hostel
Paul Newman (1925–2008) - world-famous US actor, director, entrepreneur, philanthropist, of ethnic Slovak mother
Emília Vášáryová (1942) - actress
Viliam Záborský (1920–1982) - actor
Karol L. Zachar (1918–2003) - actor, director
Barbora Bobulova - actress

Filmmakers

Paľo Bielik (1910–1983) - director, actor
Fero Fenič - director and founder of the largest film festival in Central Europe Febiofest
Dušan Hanák (1938) - director
Juraj Herz (1934) - Slovak director and actor born in Kežmarok
Juraj Jakubisko (1938) - director (sometimes nicknamed Slovak Fellini)
Ján Kadár (1918-1879) - director
Viktor Kubal (1923–1997) - cartoon-film maker
Karol Plicka - ethnographer, filmmaker, and photographer
Dušan Rapoš (1953) - Slovak director
Ivan Reitman (1946) - probably the most famous film director and producer born in Slovakia
Martin Šulík (1963) - director
Pavol Barabáš (1959) - documentarist, famous for filming people living in extreme conditions

Dance, Choreography

Štefan Nosáľ (1927) – folklore dancer

Finance and Economics

Lubos Pastor [4] - Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago
Martin Javorka
Lubomir Ivanov Financial Planner

Law

William T. Dzurilla (1953) - international attorney and law clerk to Justice Byron White of the United States Supreme Court (1982–1983).

Sports

Ivan Bátory (1975) - cross-country skiing
Imre Bugár (1955) - ethnic Hungarian athlete
Zoltán Demján (1955) - mountain-climber
Karol Divín (1936) - figure-skating
Bohumil Golián (?) - volleyball-player
Jozef Gönci (1974) - sport shooter
Jozef Krnáč (1977) - judo
Jozef Lohyňa (1963) - wrestler
Ondrej Nepela (1951–1989) - figure-skating
Jozef Plachý (1949) - athlete
Jozef Pribilinec (1960) - race walker, Olympic gold medalist
Richard Réti - Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess grandmaster
Jozef Sabovčík - figure-skating
Alojz Sokol (Aloisius Szokol) (1871–1932) - athlete, pioneer of the Olympic movement in historic Hungary
Jana Šeďová (1974) - snowboard
Anton Tkáč (1951) - cyclist
Július Torma (1922–1991) - boxer
Elmer Valo (1921–1998) - baseball player
Roman Volák (1977) - karate
Ján Zachara (1928) - boxer
Radoslav Židek (1981) - snowboarder, first Slovak medallist from independent Slovakia at the Winter Olympics

Football

Jozef Adamec (1942) - former footballer
Peter Dubovský (1972–2000) - footballer
Marek Hamšík (1987) - midfielder, currently playing for Italian side SSC Napoli
Karol Jokl (1945–1996) - footballer
Marek Mintál (1977) - footballer
Ľubomír Moravčík (1965) - footballer
Ján Popluhár (1935) - footballer
Viliam Schrojf (1931) - footballer
Martin Škrtel (1985) - Liverpool F.C. player
Jozef Vengloš (1936) - football manager and former footballer, managed Aston Villa, Celtic Glasgow, the Czechoslovak and the Slovak national teams, current director of FIFA's Technical Study Group.
Vladimír Weiss senior (1964) - Head coach of Slovakia national football team
Vladimír Weiss junior (1989) - winger, considered as one of the most talented Slovak players of his generation

Ice Hockey

See the long list in a separate article.

Ľuboš Bartečko - (1976)
Peter Bondra - (1968)
Zdeno Cíger - (1969)
Pavol Demitra - (1974)
Vladimír Dzurilla - (1942–1995)
Marián Gáborík - (1982)
Jozef Golonka - (1938)
František Gregor - (1938)
Jaroslav Halák - (1985)
Michal Handzuš - (1977)
Marcel Hossa - (1981)
Marián Hossa - (1979)
Zdeno Chára - (1977)
Igor Liba - (1960)
Vincent Lukáč - (1954)
Stan Mikita - (1940)
Ladislav Nagy - (1979)
Žigmund Pálffy - (1972)
Dárius Rusnák - (1959)
Ján Starší - (1933)
Jozef Stümpel - (1972)
Miroslav Šatan - (1974)
Anton Šťastný - (1959)
Marián Šťastný - (1953)
Peter Šťastný - (1956)
Róbert Švehla - (1969)
Ladislav Troják - (1914–1948)
Ľubomír Višňovský - (1976)

Tennis

Karol Beck (1982)
Dominika Cibulková (1989)
Karina Habšudová (1973)
Daniela Hantuchová (1983) - Slovakia's most successful female player
Dominik Hrbatý (1978)
Karol Kučera (1974)
Miloslav Mečíř (1964)
Magdaléna Rybáriková (1988)
Marián Vajda (1965) - coach of a world top tennis-player Novak Đoković

Water sports

Juraj Bača (1977) - speed canoeing
Jana Dukátová (1983) - water slalom
Peter and Pavol Hochschorner (1979) - water slalom
Elena Kaliská (1972) - water slalom
Slavomír Kňazovický (1967) - speed canoeing
Michal Martikán (1979) - water slalom, Olympic gold medalist, Atlanta 1996, Beijing 2008
Juraj Minčík (1977) - water slalom
Martina Moravcová (1976) - swimmer
Michal Riszdorfer (1977) - speed canoeing
Richard Riszdorfer (1981) - speed canoeing
Erik Vlček (1981) - speed canoeing

Figure Skating

Modelsports

Jozef Gábriš (Joseph Gabris) - born in Bratislava. Most popular and successful Control Line aerobatics pilot (F2B) of former Czechoslovakia.
Karol Rybecký - born in Viničné (Schwansbach), near to Pezinok. Won several ECH in the indoor class F1D (ultralight airplane models)
Michal Navrátil - born in Szered (1880), was the only person from Slovakia who was travelling on the famous liner R.M.S. Titanic

Other

==Medieval rulers==

Mojmir I (8th century)
Pribina (8th century) Prince of Nitrava
Kocel (8th century) Prince of Balaton
Rastislav (9th century) King of Great Moravia
Slavomir (9th century) King of Great Moravia
Svatopluk I (9th century) King of Great Moravia
Predslav (10th century) Prince of Nitrava
Mojmir II (10th century) King of Great Moravia
Svatopluk II (10th century) King of Great Moravia

Historical personalities

Móric Benyovszky (1746–1786) - Hungarian globetrotter, explorer, soldier, writer, and the King of Madagascar with Hungarian and Slovak ancestry.
Juraj Jánošík (1688–1713) - the Slovak equivalent of Robin Hood, the topic of many Slovak legends, books and films
György Thurzó (1567-1616) Palatine of Hungary, warrior against Ottomans, of Slovak ancestry
Rafael Podmanický (?-1559) Knight noble, of Slovak ethnicity

Noble families

see dedicated article

Svatopluk I King of Great Moravia
House of Mojmir Slovak noble house
Donč of Balassa (?-1344) - noble in the early 14th century^[5]
Podmanický – a prominent Slovak noble family (from the 15th century onwards)
Leustach z Jelšavy (14th century) - a Slovak noble and warrior
Turzo (14th century) - prominent Slovak noble family

Models

Michaela Kocianova - Victoria's Secret Model
Viera Schottertova - famous Slovak model
Denisa Dvončová - famous Slovak model, winner of Elite Model Look 2003
Saša Gachulincová - famous Slovak model, 2nd in Elite Model Look 2005
Silvia Lakatošová - famous Slovak model
Adriana Sklenaříková - famous Slovak model, face of "Wonderbra" adverts
Martina Valková - famous Slovak model, one of the European finalists (the only one from Eastern Europe) in the casting for the Hollywood movie Troy (leading female role)
Linda Nývltová - famous Slovak model
Michaela Hlaváčková
Eva Cifrová - Slovak model

Miscellaneous

Zbygnew Marian Willzek (late 1950–present) - Australian bagman. Also known as Ziggythe Bagman or Tim Jenkins
Ľudovít Lačný (1926) - excellent chess composer, FIDE master
Ján Literát z Madočian (?-1390) - yeoman, the most famous counterfeiter of documents in historic Hungary
Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849) - Hungarian national poet, born to a Slovak mother
Michaela Mansour (1979) Sobrance
Pavol Rothan (Paul Rubigall(us) ) (1510–1577) – writer, politician, scientist, entrepreneur
Rudolf Vrba (1924–2006) - Auschwitz survivor, author of the Vrba-Wetzler report

References

^ "Sänger aus Mali drängt ins EU-Parlament" Der Standard, May 27, 2009

External links

Slovak People

[1] "Sänger aus Mali drängt ins EU-Parlament" Der Standard, May 27, 2009

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