User:Ruziklan/List of Slovaks

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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,

Politicians (contemporary)

 * Robert Fico (1964) - fourth prime minister of modern Slovakia
 * Ferenc Gyurcsány (1961) - sixth prime minister of modern Hungary.
 * Gábor Demszky, (1952) - Mayor of Budapest.
 * Béla Bugár, (1958) He is the former leader of Party of the Hungarian Coalition
 * Pál Csáky, (1956) He is the leader of Party of the Hungarian Coalition
 * Mikuláš Dzurinda (1955) - third prime minister of modern Slovakia
 * Ivan Gašparovič (1941) - 3rd president of Slovakia, previously chairman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
 * Michal Kováč (1930) - the first president of modern Slovakia
 * Vladimír Mečiar (1942) - first prime minister of modern Slovakia
 * Rudolf Schuster (1934) - the second president of modern Slovakia (He is German and Hungarian ancestry)
 * Peter Tomka (1956), Judge on the International Court of Justice

Politicians (19th and 20th century)

 * János Kádár (1912–1989) the communist leader of Hungary, his mother was a Slovak
 * Alexander Dubček (1921-1992) - leader of the Prague spring
 * Andrej Hlinka (1864-1938) - national leader before World War II
 * Milan Hodža (1878-1944) - prime minister of Czechoslovakia, politician and journalist
 * Gustáv Husák (1913-1991) - president of Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s
 * Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894) - regent-president of Hungary, born in a lower nobleman's family of Slovak (father) and German (mother) descent
 * 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; with a Slovak father and Moravian mother
 * Jozef Tiso (1887-1947) - president of the first Slovak Republic
 * András L. Áchim (1871-1911) peasant politician
 * Vojtech Tuka (1880-1946), Nazi politician, teacher
 * Alexander Mach (Sano Mach), Nazi politician
 * Martin Rázus (1888-1937), politician, priest
 * Jan Šverma (1903 –1944), partisan, communist politican
 * Franz Karmasin (1901-1970),Carpathian German politicain
 * Samuel Zoch (1882-1928), priest, politician, Župan of Bratislava
 * Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817-1886), priest,politican
 * Michal Miroslav Hodža
 * 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

Fighters, Warriors, Soldiers and Revolutionaries

 * Jozef Gabčík (1912-1942) - soldier involved in the Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
 * 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
 * Theodor von Lerch (1869-1945) - general staff officer; born in Bratislava; instructor of the Japanese army, introduced skiing in Japan, writer
 * Abrahám Rúfus (Abrahám Ryšavý / Červený) (around 1300) - warrior, reconquered southwestern Slovakia from Austria in 1291
 * 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
 * Ladislav Škultéty-Gábriš (1738-1832), nicknamed the ”Eternal Soldier” - serving as much as 80 years as sergeant of the Austrian army, the longest lasting military service ever recorded, took part in more than 250 battles and survived five Habsburg emperors

First Ladies

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

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)

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) - archbishop
 * Juraj Selepčéni Pohronec (Szelepcsény György) – archbishop

Philosophers, Polyhistors, Teachers

 * Martin Palkovič (Martin Palkovich) (1606-1662) – philosopher, professor in Trnava, Košice and Vienna
 * Matej Bel (Matthias Bél, Bél Mátyás) (1684-1749) – polyhistor, teacher, one of the greatest Slovak scholars of the eighteen century. His father was Slovak, while his mother was Hungarian.
 * 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, polyhistorian
 * Albert Laski (Łaski) (1536-1605) – writer, alchemist, humanist, noble (his family stems originally from Poland)
 * 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 (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 dobro resonator guitar

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
 * Andrej Kvasz (1883-1974) - aviation pioneer (he was Hungarian citizen)

Electrotechnics

 * Anyos Jedlik (Štefan Anián Jedlík, Anianus Jedlik) (1800-1895) -hungarian inventor born in Kingdom of Hungary, constructed the electromagnetic rotor – a predecessor of the modern electromotor – three years before Faraday and the unipolar dynamo six years before W. Siemens

Natural Sciences and Medicine

 * Pavol Adami (1739-1814) - veterinarian
 * 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) - American physician and Nobel Prize winner of Slovak descent
 * Samuel Genersich (1768-1844) - botanist, physician
 * 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
 * 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
 * Pavol Olexik (1801-1878) - pioneer of genetics
 * Ján Severíni (1716-1789) - historian, natural scientist, author of the first high school textbooks of biology in the Kingdom of Hungary (together with Matej Piller)
 * 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

 * Juraj Bohus (Georg Bohus) (1687-1722) - geographer, historian, teacher

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 (1942 Trnava) - nuclear physicist, former rector of Charles University in Prague

Mathematics

 * Jozef Balala, mathematician
 * Jur Hronec, mathematician
 * Anton Dubec, mathematician
 * Ján Dubovszky, mathematician
 * Peter Stefan, mathematician
 * Ivan Teplička, mathematician
 * Štefan Znám, mathematician

Computer Science

 * Jozef Gruska, professor of quantum computing, IEEE Computer Pioneer Award


 * Norbert Frištacký - IEEE Computer Pioneer Award (for pioneering digital devices)

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 -  planetary scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, USA. 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.

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

Composers

 * Alexander Albrecht (1885-1958) – composer, conductor, teacher
 * Ján Levoslav Bella (1843-1936) - composer, author of the first Slovak opera „Kováč Wieland“
 * Juraj Beneš - 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) – 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) - women composer
 * Miroslav Bázlik (1931) - composer, pianist, teacher, philosopher, mathematician
 * Ilja Zeljenka (1932) – 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)- 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
 * Margita Česányiová (1911) – soprano
 * Peter Dvorský (1951) – tenor (currently 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
 * 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

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
 * Judit Halász, Hungarian singer

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) - painter; born in Slovakia
 * Karol Ľudovít Libay (Karl Ludwig Libay) (1816-1888) - painter
 * Palo Macho (1965) - painter
 * Cyprián Majerník (1909-1945) - painter
 * Ladislav Medňanský (Ladislav Mednyánszky) (1852-1919) - Slovak-Hungarian painter (changed his own name from a Magyar one (Laszlo) to a Slovak one (Ladislav))
 * 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
 * Andy Warhol (baptized Andrew Warhola, his father's pre-immigration family name was Varchola) (1928-1987) &mdash; one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. He introduced Pop-Art to the world, and was the first artist to use a photographic silk-screen technique in his work. He was born in the United States as the son of emigrants from eastern Slovakia (members of the Rusyn nationality from the village of Miková, his parents' first language was Rusyn, he took over the religious views of his parents and he always wanted to return to the country of his parents, which obviously was not possible because of the communist regime in Central Europe. The Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art is located in Medzilaborce, eastern Slovakia.
 * Imrich Weiner-Kráľ (1901-1978) - painter
 * Ladislav Záborský (1921) - painter
 * Viera Žilinčanová (1932) - painter
 * Ernest Zmeták (1919-2004) - painter
 * Dušan Mravec (1980) - painter

Sculptors

 * Ján Brokoff (Johann Brokoff) (1652-1718) - sculptor
 * 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) - 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 (He was Czech ancestry)
 * 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

Actors

 * Andrej Bagar (1900-1966) - actor, director
 * Ján Borodáč (1892-1964) - director, actor, founder of Slovak professional theatre
 * Michal Dočolomanský (1942) - actor
 * Naďa Hejná-Pietrová (1906-1994) - actress
 * Mikuláš Huba (1919-1986) - actor
 * Ladislav Chudík (1924) - actor
 * Ján Jamnický (1908-1972) - theater director, actor
 * 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
 * Emília Vášáryová (1942) - actress
 * Viliam Záborský (1920-1982) - actor
 * Karol L. Zachar (1918-2003) - actor, director
 * Barbora Bobulova

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

 * Rudolf Laban (1875-1958) - dance theoretician; born in Bratislava
 * Štefan Nosáľ (1927) – folklore dancer

Finance and Economics

 * Lubos Pastor - Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago

Sports

 * Ivan Bátory (1975) - cross-country skiing
 * Imre Bugár| (1955) - athlete
 * Zoltán Demján (1955) - mountain-climber
 * Karol Divín (1936) - figure-skating
 * Zdenek Ďuriš (1953) - sports physiotherapist and masseur of a top tennis player Marcos Baghdatis and a canoeing Olympic champion Michal Martikán. A regular member of the Slovak Olympic team, Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams.
 * Milan Dvorščík (1970)- cyclist
 * Bohumil Golian (?) - volleyball-player
 * Jozef Gönci (1974) - sport shooter
 * Jozef Lohyňa (1963) - wrestler
 * Ondrej Nepela (1951-1989) - figure-skating
 * Jozef Plachý (1949) - athlete
 * Jozef Pribilinec (1960) - race walker, Olympic gold medalist
 * Richard Réti - 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
 * Ján Zachara (1928) - boxer
 * Radoslav Židek (1981) - snowboarder, first Slovak medallist from independent Slovakia at the Winter Olympics

Soccer

 * Jozef Adamec (1942) - soccer player
 * Peter Dubovský (1972-2000) - soccer player
 * Karol Jokl (1945-1996) - soccer player
 * Marek Mintál (1977) - soccer player
 * Ľubomír Moravčík (1965) - soccer player
 * Ján Popluhár (1935) - soccer player
 * Viliam Schrojf (1931) - soccer player
 * Jozef Vengloš (1936) - soccer coach and former player, managed Aston Villa, Celtic Glasgow, the Czechoslovak and the Slovak national teams, current director of FIFA's Technical Study Group.

Ice Hockey
see the long list in a separate article


 * Peter Bondra - (1968)
 * Zdeno Cíger - (1969)
 * Vladimír Dzurilla - (1942-1995)
 * Marián Gáborík - (1982)
 * Jozef Golonka - (1938)
 * František Gregor - (1938)
 * Marcel Hossa - (1981)
 * Marián Hossa - (1979)
 * Stan Mikita - (1940)
 * Dárius Rusnák - (1959)
 * Ján Starší - (1933)
 * Miroslav Šatan - (1974)
 * Anton Šťastný - (1959)
 * Marián Šťastný - (1953)
 * Peter Šťastný - (1956)
 * Róbert Švehla - (1969)
 * Ladislav Troják - (1914-1948)
 * Ľuboš Bartečko - born in Kežmarok (1976)
 * Žigmund Pálffy - born in Skalica (1972)
 * Ľubomír Višňovský- born in Topoľčany (1976)
 * Ladislav Nagy - born in Šaca (1979)
 * Michal Handzuš - born in Banská Bystrica (1977)
 * Jozef Stümpel - born in Nitra (1972)

Tennis

 * Karol Beck (1982) - tennis player
 * Karina Habšudová (1973) - tennis-player
 * Daniela Hantuchová (1983) - tennis-player
 * Martina Hingis (1980) - tennis-player, former No. 1
 * Dominik Hrbatý (1978) - tennis-player
 * Karol Kučera (1974) - tennis-player
 * Miloslav Mečíř (1964) - tennis-player
 * Marián Vajda (1965) - coach of a world top tennis-player Novak Đoković

Water sports

 * 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
 * Juraj Minčík (1977) - water slalom
 * Martina Moravcová (1976) - swimmer

Figure Skating

 * Jacqueline Baranikova (1989)

Historical personalities

 * Elizabeth Báthory-Nádasdy (countess Alžbeta Bátoriová, the "Bloody Lady of Čachtice") (1560-1614), Hungarian countess, presumably the most infamous mass murderer in Slovak and Hungarian history
 * Móric Beňovský (Maurycy Beniowski, Baron Maurice Auguste de Benyowski, many other name versions) (1746-1786) - Slovak globetrotter, explorer, soldier, writer, and the King of Madagascar
 * Juraj Jánošík (1688- 1713) - the Slovak equivalent of Robin Hood, the topic of many Slovak legends, books and films
 * Stibor of Stiborice and Beckov (?-1414) - an ethnic Polish noble, who lived in present-day Slovakia, he gained huge properties in western and central upper - kingdom of Hungary after 1388 and was sometimes referred to as a petty king

Nobles and noble families
see dedicated article


 * Balassa {Balaša) - a prominent Hungarian noble family (from the 14th century onwards)
 * Bubek (Bebek) - a prominent Slovak-Hungarian noble family around the 15th century
 * Druget (Drugeth) - a prominent Slovak noble family from the 14th to the 17th century (originally from Naples)
 * knight Donč of Balaša (?-1344)- an important Slovak noble in the early 14th century
 * Forgách (Forgáč) - a prominent Hungarian noble family in the Middle Ages
 * Alexander of Hunt-Poznan (around 1200) - a prominent Slovak noble
 * Lords of Jelšava (Ilsvay) – a prominent Slovak noble family around the 14th century
 * Palóci(Lords of Pavlovce) – a prominent Slovak noble family in the Middle Ages
 * Omodej of Aba (Aba Amádé, Amadeus) (?-1311) – a prominent noble in eastern Slovakia
 * Cseszneky a prominent Slovak-Hungarian noble family in Žitný ostrov
 * Perényi (Peréni), Lords of Perín) - a prominent Hungarian noble family from the 13th to the 16th century
 * Podmanický – a prominent Slovak noble family (from the 15th century onwards)
 * Poznan – a prominent Slovak noble family in Great Moravia and later in Hungary (wrongly called Pázmány by Hungarian texts)
 * Kozma of Poznan (12th century) – a prominent Slovak noble
 * Rozgonyi (Rozgoň), Lords of Rozhanovce) – a prominent Hungarian noble family in the late Middle Ages
 * Széchy (Séči), Lords of (Rimavská)Seča) - a prominent Hungarian noble family from the 17th century
 * Thököly (Tököly, Tökölli, Tököli) - a prominent Hungarian noble family living in Kežmarok, Slovakia in the 16th and 17th century
 * Leustach z Jelšavy (14th century) - a Slovak noble and warrior

Models

 * 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

Miscellaneous

 * 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
 * Pavol Rothan (Paul Rubigall(us) ) (1510-1577) – writer, politician, scientist, entrepreneur
 * Rudolf Vrba (1924-2006) - Auschwitz survivor, author of the Vrba-Wetzler report

VERSION AFTER MY LARGE EDIT IN THE PAST
This is a list, in alphabetical order within categories, of notable people who either:
 * are or were citizens of Slovakia or Czechoslovakia,
 * are or were of Slovak identity or ancestry,
 * were born in the territory of present-day Slovakia and/or who have lived there for most of their lives.

Politicians (contemporary)

 * Béla Bugár, (1958) He is the former leader of Party of the Hungarian Coalition
 * Pál Csáky, (1956) He is the leader of Party of the Hungarian Coalition
 * Mikuláš Dzurinda (1955) - third prime minister of modern Slovakia
 * Robert Fico (1964) - fourth prime minister of modern Slovakia
 * Ivan Gašparovič (1941) - 3rd president of Slovakia, previously chairman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
 * Michal Kováč (1930) - the first president of modern Slovakia
 * Vladimír Mečiar (1942) - first prime minister of modern Slovakia
 * Rudolf Schuster (1934) - the second president of modern Slovakia
 * Peter Tomka (1956), Judge on the International Court of Justice

Politicians (19th and 20th century)

 * János Kádár (1912–1989) - the communist leader of Hungary (his mother was a Slovak)
 * Alexander Dubček (1921-1992) - leader of the Prague spring
 * Andrej Hlinka (1864-1938) - national leader before World War II
 * Milan Hodža (1878-1944) - prime minister of Czechoslovakia, politician and journalist
 * Gustáv Husák (1913-1991) - president of Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s
 * Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894) - regent-president of Hungary, born in a lower nobleman's family of Slovak (father) and German (mother) descent
 * 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; with a Slovak father and Moravian mother
 * Jozef Tiso (1887-1947) - president of the first Slovak Republic
 * Vojtech Tuka (1880-1946) - politican, Prime Minister of Slovak government during World War II
 * Alexander Mach (Sano Mach) - Minister of Slovak government during World War II
 * Martin Rázus (1888-1937) - politican, priest
 * Jan Šverma (1903 –1944) - partisan, communist politican
 * Franz Karmasin (1901-1970) - Carpathian German politican
 * Samuel Zoch (1882-1928) - priest, politican (first Bratislavsky župán)
 * Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817-1886) - priest,politican
 * Michal Miroslav Hodža
 * Vladimír Clementis (1902-1952) - communist politican

Medieval rulers

 * Koceľ (Gozil, Chozilo, Chezilo) (9th century) - prince of the Balaton Principality, son of Pribina.
 * Mojmír I (Moimay, Moymar) (?-846) - founder and first prince of Great Moravia, an empire originally encompassing Moravia and Slovakia.
 * Mojmír II (894-907?) - last king of Great Moravia, son of Svätopluk I.
 * Pribina (Priwina, Priuuinna) (? - 861) - first known prince of the Principality of Nitra (much of present-day Slovakia) and of the Balaton Principality.
 * Rastislav (Rastic, Rasticlao, Rastislaus) (? - 870) - prince of Great Moravia, invited Saints Cyril and Methodius to Christianize his Empire.
 * Slavomír (?-?) - leader of a Great Moravian uprising against Frankish occupation in 871.
 * Svätopluk I(?-894) - king of Great Moravia, responsible for the empire’s greatest territorial expansion.
 * Svätopluk II (?-?906) - ruler of the Principality of Nitra, son of Svätopluk I.

Fighters, Warriors, Soldiers and Revolutionaries

 * Jozef Gabčík (1912-1942) - soldier involved in the Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
 * 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
 * Theodor von Lerch (1869-1945) - general staff officer; born in Bratislava; instructor of the Japanese army, introduced skiing in Japan, writer
 * Abrahám Rúfus (Abrahám Ryšavý / Červený) (around 1300) - warrior, reconquered southwestern Slovakia from Austria in 1291
 * 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
 * Ladislav Škultéty-Gábriš (1738-1832), nicknamed the ”Eternal Soldier” - serving as much as 80 years as sergeant of the Austrian army, the longest lasting military service ever recorded, took part in more than 250 battles and survived five Habsburg emperors

First Ladies

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

Saints

 * Saint Gorazd (9th century) – a disciple of Cyril and Methodius, 881-884 probably bishop
 * Saint Zorard (Svorad, Svoradus) (around 1000) - hermit at Skalka near Trenčín, born in Lesser Poland or in northern Slovakia, adopted the name Andrew (Ondrej, Andrej)
 * Saint Benedict (original name Stojislav) (? – 1034) – hermit at Skalka near Trenčín, disciple of St. Zorard
 * Saint Bystrík (Latin: Beztertus Nitriensis, Bestredius, Bestridus, Bestricus, Bistridus, Bistritus; Hungarian: Beszteréd, Besztrik, Besztríd, Beszter) - probably bishop of Nitra, murdered in 1046 during a pagan revolt near Budapest
 * the three Košice martyrs tortured to death in Košice by Gabriel Bethlen’s men in 1619:
 * Saint Štefan Pongrác - a Hungarian-Transylvanian Catholic priest
 * Saint Melichar Grodecki - a Polish-Moravian Catholic
 * Saint Marek Križin - a Croatian Catholic canon

Blessed

 * Blessed Maurus (c. 1000 – c. 1070)
 * Blessed Pavol Peter Gojdič (Pavol Gojdič) (1888 – 1960)
 * Blessed Metod Dominik Trčka (Dominik Trčka) (1886-2012)
 * Blessed Zdenka Schelingová (1916 - 1955)
 * Blessed Basil Hopko (1904 - 1976)

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) - archbishop
 * Juraj Selepčéni Pohronec (Szelepcsény György) – archbishop
 * Chatam Sófer (1762-1839) - a famous (German born) rabbi of Bratislava

Philosophers, Polyhistors, Teachers

 * Martin Palkovič (Martin Palkovich) (1606-1662) – philosopher, professor in Trnava, Košice and Vienna
 * Matej Bel (Matthias Bél, Bél Mátyás) (1684-1749) – polyhistor, teacher, one of the greatest Slovak scholars of the eighteen century. His father was Slovak, while his mother was Hungarian.
 * Pavol Jozef Šafárik (Paul Joseph Schaffarik, Pavel Josef Safarik) (1795-1861) – poet, professor, polyhistor
 * Samuel Augustini ab Hortis (1729-1792) - theorist
 * Ján Henkel (Johannes Henkel/Henckel) (1490-1535) - humanist
 * Igor Hrušovský (1907-1978) - philosopher, theorist
 * Ivan Branislav Zoch, (1843-1921) physicist, polyhistorian
 * Albert Laski (Łaski) (1536-1605) – writer, alchemist, humanist, noble (his family stems originally from Poland)
 * 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 (1925) - priest, historian, Professor of the University in Padua, author of the controversial bookHistory of Slovakia and Slovaks.
 * Martin Hattala (1821-1903) - linguist
 * Adam František Kollár (Adam Franz Kollar) (1718-1783) - historian, royal councilor and librarian of the Imperial Library in Vienna
 * Pavol Križko (1841-1902) - historian
 * Janko Matúška (1821-1877), He was the author of the Slovak national anthem
 * Jozef Mistrík (1921-2001) – linguist
 * Ján Sambucus (Johann Sambucus) (1531-1584) – a famous humanist at the royal court in Vienna, a historian of the emperor Maximilian II, publisher of works of the Ancients, creator of the biggest private library in the world at that time
 * 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])

Inventors and Engineers

 * Ján Vlk Kempelen (Johann Wolfgang von Kempelen, Kempelen Farkas) (1734-1804) - poly-technician and inventor, built the first fountain and pressure water piping, designed a chess machine, a speaking machine and a special typewriter for the blind
 * 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.
 * Jozef Maximilián Petzval (Josef Maximilian Petzval, Petzval Józeph Miksa) (1807-1891) – mathematician, optician, constructor of camera zoom lens, he is considered by many to be the founder of modern photography, he is most renowned for his work on optical lenses in the 1840s (invention of the portrait objective), which was instrumental in the construction of modern cameras, he is also remembered for greatly improving the telescope, microscope and designing the opera glass.
 * Ján Andrej Segner (Johann Andrea von Segner, Segner János András) (1704-1777) - physician, physicist, mathematician, designed a reactive water engine - the so-called Segner wheel, inventor of the water turbine principle (which is the basis for the functioning of modern space rockets)
 * 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 dobro resonator guitar

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

Electrotechnics

 * Anyos Jedlik (Štefan Anián Jedlík, Anianus Jedlik) (1800-1895) - hungarian inventor, constructed the electromagnetic rotor – a predecessor of the modern electromotor – three years before Faraday and the unipolar dynamo six years before W. Siemens

Mining

 * Ján Dernschwam (Hans Dernschwam) (1494-1567) - a mining expert, chief manager of the Fugger-Thurzo Company in Banská Bystrica
 * Jozef Karol Hell (Joseph Karl Hell) (1713-1789) - mining engineer active in central Slovakia, has influenced the mining technology considerably, inventor of the water-pillar pump machine (his first machine could pump water up from the depth of 212 meters), which is used till today for oil extraction
 * Izák Potter (Issac Potter) (1690-1735) - born in England, living and working in Banská Štiavnica, engineer, constructor of the first atmospheric steam engine in Europe (in Nová Baňa, in 1723)
 * Ján Thurzo I (Johannes Thurzo I) (1437-1508) - mining engineer, entrepreneur, together with the Fuggers founder of the biggest copper producing and trading company in the world of the 1st half of the 16th century

Natural Sciences and Medicine

 * Pavol Adami (1739-1814) - veterinarian
 * Vojtech Alexander (1857-1916) - revolutionary radiologist
 * Johann Andreas Bäumler (1847-1926) - mycologist
 * Cyprián z Červeného Kláštora (Frater Cyprianus, Jaisge) (1724-1775) - monk and natural scientist, author of the oldest herbarium in Slovakia
 * Ján Fridrichovský (1896-1978) - first Slovak professor of dentistry and founder of stomatosurgery in Slovakia
 * Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923) - American physician and Nobel Prize winner of Slovak descent
 * Samuel Genersich (1768-1844) - botanist, physician
 * 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
 * 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
 * Pavol Olexik (1801-1878) - pioneer of genetics
 * Karol Rayger (Rayger Károly) (1641-1707) - introduced the pulmonary test of new-born children still used in forensic medicine
 * Ján Severíni (1716-1789) - historian, natural scientist, author of the first high school textbooks of biology in the Kingdom of Hungary (together with Matej Piller)
 * Izabela Textorisová (1866-1949) - first Slovak female botanist
 * Rudolf Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg, 1924-2006) - was a professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia who was known internationally for his work on diabetes, cancer, and the chemistry of the brain, also Auschwitz survivor, author of the Vrba-Wetzler report.

Geology, Mineralogy

 * Dimitrij Andrusov (1897-1976) - famous geologist
 * Dionýz Štúr (1827-1893) - geologist, botanist, director of the Imperial Geological Institute

Geography

 * Juraj Bohus (Georg Bohus) (1687-1722) - geographer, historian, teacher

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
 * Filip Anton Eduard Lenard (Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard, Lénárd Fülöp) (1862-1947) – a German Nobel prize holder (1905) for physics born in Bratislava, founder of quantum physics*Ivan Wilhelm (1942 Trnava) - nuclear physicist, former rector of Charles University in Prague

Mathematics

 * Jozef Balala, mathematician
 * Jur Hronec, mathematician
 * Anton Dubec, mathematician
 * Ján Dubovszky, mathematician*Dávid Frölich, mathematician, astronomer, teacher, a follower of Copernicus
 * Štefan Schwarz, mathematician
 * Peter Stefan, mathematician
 * Ivan Teplička, mathematician
 * Štefan Znám, mathematician

Computer Science

 * Jozef Gruska, professor of quantum computing, IEEE Computer Pioneer Award


 * Norbert Frištacký - IEEE Computer Pioneer Award (for pioneering digital devices)

Astronomers

 * Maximilián Hell (Maximilian Hell, Hell Miksa) (1720-1792) – Jesuit priest, astronomer and mathematician, designed the observatory of the Trnava University, director of the Imperial Observatory in Vienna
 * Jakub Pribicer (1539-1582) Astronomer

Astronomers (20th century)

 * Milan Antal
 * Antonín Bečvář
 * Ladislav Brožek
 * Štefan Gajdoš
 * Ľubor Kresák
 * Dušan Kalmančok
 * Ľudmila Pajdušáková
 * Vladimír Porubčan
 * Alexander Pravda
 * Ladislav E. Roth -  planetary scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, USA. 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.

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

Composers

 * Alexander Albrecht (1885-1958) – composer, conductor, teacher
 * Ján Levoslav Bella (1843-1936) - composer, author of the first Slovak opera „Kováč Wieland“
 * Juraj Beneš - composer
 * Ján Cikker (1911-1989) - composer, teacher
 * Viliam Figuš-Bystrý (1875-1937) – composer, teacher
 * Tibor Frešo (1918-1987) – composer, conductor
 * Ján Nepomuk Hummel (Johann Nepomuk Hummel) (1778-1837) – composer, pianist; born in Bratislava*Frico Kafenda (1883-1963) – composer, teacher, pianist, conductor
 * Dezider Kardoš (1914-1991) - composer, teacher
 * Johann Kusser (1626-1695) - composer, organist, born in Bratislava
 * Johann Siegmund Kusser (Johann Sigismund Kusser/Cusser/Cousser) (1660-1727) - conductor, composer, born in Bratislava*Rudolf Macudzinski (1907-1986) – pianist, teacher, composer
 * Jozef Malovec (1933) – 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
 * Franz Schmidt (1874-1939) - composer, born and studying in Bratislava
 * Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský (1881-1958) - composer
 * Eugen Suchoň (1908-1993) – the most important Slovak composer, teacher
 * Iris Szeghy (1956) - women composer
 * Miroslav Bázlik (1931) - composer, pianist, teacher, philosopher, mathematician
 * Ilja Zeljenka (1932) – 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)- 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
 * Margita Česányiová (1911) – soprano
 * Peter Dvorský (1951) – tenor (currently 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
 * 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

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
 * Judit Halász, Hungarian singer

Painters, Graphic Artists
Master of the Altar of Košice (Majster košického oltára) (15th century) – the most important Slovak painter of the 15th century
 * 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) - painter; born in Slovakia
 * Karol Ľudovít Libay (Karl Ludwig Libay) (1816-1888) - painter
 * Palo Macho (1965) - painter
 * Cyprián Majerník (1909-1945) - painter
 * Ladislav Medňanský (Ladislav Mednyánszky) (1852-1919) - Slovak-Hungarian painter (changed his own name from a Magyar one (Laszlo) to a Slovak one (Ladislav))
 * Karol Marko (Karl Marko) (1791-1860) - painter
 * Ján Mudroch (1909-1968) – painter, teacher		*Ján Mudroch (1909-1968) – painter, teacher
 * Master John of Banská Bystrica (15th-16th century) - painter
 * Master Martin (of Spiš) (15th century) - painter
 * Master Nicolaus of Levoča (Majster Mikuláš z Levoče) (15th century) - painter
 * Master of the Altar of Smrečany (Majster smrečianskeho hlavného oltára) (15th century) – painter
 * Master of the Hlohovec Nativity (15th-16th century) - painter
 * Master of the Legend of St. Anthony (Hans Moler, St. Anthony-Master) (around 1500) - 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
 * Adam Friedrich Oeser (1717-1799) - painter, sculptor, born and working in Bratislava
 * 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
 * Andy Warhol (baptized Andrew Warhola, his father's pre-immigration family name was Varchola) (1928-1987) &mdash; one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. He introduced Pop-Art to the world, and was the first artist to use a photographic silk-screen technique in his work. He was born in the United States as the son of emigrants from eastern Slovakia (members of the Rusyn nationality from the village of Miková, his parents' first language was Rusyn, he took over the religious views of his parents and he always wanted to return to the country of his parents, which obviously was not possible because of the communist regime in Central Europe. The Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art is located in Medzilaborce, eastern Slovakia.
 * Imrich Weiner-Kráľ (1901-1978) - painter
 * Ladislav Záborský (1921) - painter
 * Viera Žilinčanová (1932) - painter
 * Ernest Zmeták (1919-2004) - painter
 * Dušan Mravec (1980) - painter

Sculptors

 * Ján Brokoff (Johann Brokoff) (1652-1718) - sculptor
 * 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
 * Master MS (Majster MS) (15th-16th century) - sculptor
 * Master Paul of Levoča (Majster Pavol z Levoče) (1470-1535) – one of the most important European late Gothic carvers / sculptors, his most famous piece is the magnificent Gothic High Altar in the St. James Church in the town of Levoča, which is the highest wooden altar in the world (18.6 meters high).
 * Master of the Figures of Banská Štiavnica (Majster banskoštiavnických figúr) (15th century) – Gothic carver
 * Alojz Rigele (1879-1940) - sculptor
 * Alojz Stróbl (1856-1926) - sculptor
 * Fraňo Štefunko (1903-1974) - sculptor
 * Viktor Tilgner (1844-1896) - sculptor, born in Bratislava

Photographers

 * Pavol Socháň (1862 - 1941) - ethnographer, photographer, writer
 * Mária Holoubková (1903) - photographer
 * Dežo (Dezider) Hoffmann (1912-1986) - 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
 * Ignác Feigler I (Ignaz Feigler I) (1791-1847) – a major architect of Bratislava, author of many buildings of the town
 * Ignác Feigler II (Ignaz Feigler II) (1820-1894)- a major architect of Bratislava*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

Actors

 * Andrej Bagar (1900-1966) - actor, director
 * Ján Borodáč (1892-1964) - director, actor, founder of Slovak professional theatre
 * Michal Dočolomanský (1942) - actor
 * Naďa Hejná-Pietrová (1906-1994) - actress
 * Mikuláš Huba (1919-1986) - actor
 * Ladislav Chudík (1924) - actor
 * Ján Jamnický (1908-1972) - theater director, actor
 * 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
 * Emília Vášáryová (1942) - actress
 * Viliam Záborský (1920-1982) - actor
 * Karol L. Zachar (1918-2003) - actor, director
 * Barbora Bobulova

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

 * Rudolf Laban (1875-1958) - dance theoretician; born in Bratislava
 * Štefan Nosáľ (1927) – folklore dancer

Finance and Economics

 * Lubos Pastor - Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago

Sports

 * Ivan Bátory (1975) - cross-country skiing
 * Imrich Bugár (1955) - athlete
 * Zoltán Demján (1955) - mountain-climber
 * Karol Divín (1936) - figure-skating
 * Zdenek Ďuriš (1953) - sports physiotherapist and masseur of a top tennis player Marcos Baghdatis and a canoeing Olympic champion Michal Martikán. A regular member of the Slovak Olympic team, Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams.
 * Milan Dvorščík (1970)- cyclist
 * Bohumil Golian (?) - volleyball-player
 * Jozef Gönci (1974) - sport shooter
 * Jozef Lohyňa (1963) - wrestler
 * Ondrej Nepela (1951-1989) - figure-skating
 * Jozef Plachý (1949) - athlete
 * Jozef Pribilinec (1960) - race walker, Olympic gold medalist
 * Richard Réti - 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
 * Ján Zachara (1928) - boxer
 * Radoslav Židek (1981) - snowboarder, first Slovak medallist from independent Slovakia at the Winter Olympics

Soccer

 * Jozef Adamec (1942) - soccer player
 * Peter Dubovský (1972-2000) - soccer player
 * Karol Jokl (1945-1996) - soccer player
 * Marek Mintál (1977) - soccer player
 * Ľubomír Moravčík (1965) - soccer player
 * Ján Popluhár (1935) - soccer player
 * Viliam Schrojf (1931) - soccer player
 * Jozef Vengloš (1936) - soccer coach and former player, managed Aston Villa, Celtic Glasgow, the Czechoslovak and the Slovak national teams, current director of FIFA's Technical Study Group.

Ice Hockey
see the long list in a separate article


 * Peter Bondra - (1968)
 * Zdeno Cíger - (1969)
 * Vladimír Dzurilla - (1942-1995)
 * Marián Gáborík - (1982)
 * Jozef Golonka - (1938)
 * František Gregor - (1938)
 * Marcel Hossa - (1981)
 * Marián Hossa - (1979)
 * Stan Mikita - (1940)
 * Dárius Rusnák - (1959)
 * Ján Starší - (1933)
 * Miroslav Šatan - (1974)
 * Anton Šťastný - (1959)
 * Marián Šťastný - (1953)
 * Peter Šťastný - (1956)
 * Róbert Švehla - (1969)
 * Ladislav Troják - (1914-1948)
 * Ľuboš Bartečko - born in Kežmarok (1976)
 * Žigmund Pálffy - born in Skalica (1972)
 * Ľubomír Višňovský- born in Topoľčany (1976)
 * Ladislav Nagy - born in Šaca (1979)
 * Michal Handzuš - born in Banská Bystrica (1977)
 * Jozef Stümpel - born in Nitra (1972)

Tennis

 * Karol Beck (1982) - tennis player
 * Karina Habšudová (1973) - tennis-player
 * Daniela Hantuchová (1983) - tennis-player
 * Martina Hingis (1980) - tennis-player, former No. 1
 * Dominik Hrbatý (1978) - tennis-player
 * Karol Kučera (1974) - tennis-player
 * Miloslav Mečíř (1964) - tennis-player
 * Marián Vajda (1965) - coach of a world top tennis-player Novak Đoković

Water sports

 * 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
 * Juraj Minčík (1977) - water slalom
 * Martina Moravcová (1976) - swimmer

Figure Skating

 * Jacqueline Baranikova (1989)

Historical personalities

 * Elizabeth Báthory-Nádasdy (countess Alžbeta Bátoriová, the "Bloody Lady of Čachtice") (1560-1614), Hungarian countess, presumably the most infamous mass murderer in Slovak and Hungarian history
 * Móric Beňovský (Maurycy Beniowski, Baron Maurice Auguste de Benyowski, many other name versions) (1746-1786) - Slovak globetrotter, explorer, soldier, writer, and the King of Madagascar
 * Juraj Jánošík (1688- 1713) - the Slovak equivalent of Robin Hood, the topic of many Slovak legends, books and films
 * Juliana Korponaiová-Géciová (Julie Korponay), the „White Lady of Levoča“(1680-1714) – a legendary person responsible for the capitulation of the town of Levoča during the Francis II Rákóczi Uprising
 * Stibor of Stiborice and Beckov (?-1414) - an ethnic Polish noble, who lived in present-day Slovakia, he gained huge properties in western and central upper - kingdom of Hungary after 1388 and was sometimes referred to as a petty king

Nobles and noble families
see dedicated article


 * Balassa {Balaša) - a prominent Hungarian noble family (from the 14th century onwards)
 * Bubek (Bebek) - a prominent Slovak-Hungarian noble family around the 15th century
 * Cseszneky a prominent Slovak-Hungarian noble family in Žitný ostrov
 * Druget (Drugeth) - a prominent Slovak noble family from the 14th to the 17th century (originally from Naples)
 * knight Donč of Balaša (?-1344)- an important Slovak noble in the early 14th century
 * Forgách (Forgáč) - a prominent Hungarian noble family in the Middle Ages
 * Alexander of Hunt-Poznan (around 1200) - a prominent Slovak noble
 * Lords of Jelšava (Ilsvay) – a prominent Slovak noble family around the 14th century
 * Kozma of Poznan (12th century) – a prominent Slovak noble
 * Leustach z Jelšavy (14th century) - a Slovak noble and warrior
 * Palóci(Lords of Pavlovce) – a prominent Slovak noble family in the Middle Ages
 * Omodej of Aba (Aba Amádé, Amadeus) (?-1311) – a prominent noble in eastern Slovakia
 * Perényi (Peréni), Lords of Perín) - a prominent Hungarian noble family from the 13th to the 16th century
 * Podmanický – a prominent Slovak noble family (from the 15th century onwards)
 * Poznan – a prominent Slovak noble family in Great Moravia and later in Hungary (wrongly called Pázmány by Hungarian texts)
 * Rozgonyi (Rozgoň), Lords of Rozhanovce) – a prominent Hungarian noble family in the late Middle Ages
 * Széchy (Séči), Lords of (Rimavská)Seča) - a prominent Hungarian noble family from the 17th century
 * Thököly (Tököly, Tökölli, Tököli) - a prominent Hungarian noble family living in Kežmarok, Slovakia in the 16th and 17th century

Models

 * Denisa Dvončová - famous Slovak model, winner of Elite Model Look 2003
 * Saša Gachulincová - famous Slovak model, 2nd in Elite Model Look 2005
 * Michaela Hlaváčková
 * Silvia Lakatošová - famous Slovak model
 * Linda Nývltová - famous Slovak model
 * Adriana Sklenaříková - famous Slovak model, face of "Wonderbra" adverts
 * Viera Schottertova - famous Slovak model
 * 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)

Miscellaneous

 * Samuel Fischer (1859-1934) - founder of the Fischer-Verlag (in 1886), born in Slovakia*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
 * Pavol Rothan (Paul Rubigall(us) ) (1510-1577) – writer, politician, scientist, entrepreneur