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This is a list of notable people who either:

Politics[edit]

Politicians (contemporary)[edit]

Politicians (19th and 20th century)[edit]

Fighters, Warriors, Soldiers and Revolutionaries[edit]

First Ladies[edit]

Religion[edit]

Notable religious figures[edit]

Religious Leaders[edit]

  • 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

Science and Technology[edit]

Philosophers, Polyhistors, Teachers[edit]

Linguists, Humanists and Historians[edit]

  • 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 [1] (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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Natural Sciences and Medicine[edit]

Geology, Mineralogy[edit]

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

Geography[edit]

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

Archeology[edit]

Physics[edit]

  • 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 [2] (1942 Trnava) - nuclear physicist, former rector of Charles University in Prague

Mathematics[edit]

Computer Science[edit]

Astronomy[edit]

Astronomers[edit]

Astronomers (20th century)[edit]

Astronauts[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Literature[edit]

Journalism[edit]

Music[edit]

Classical[edit]

Composers[edit]
Conductors[edit]
Instrumentalists[edit]
Opera Singers[edit]
Misc[edit]

Jazz[edit]

  • Peter Lipa (1943) - the most important current Jazz singer, composer
  • Gabriel Jonáš (1948) – Jazz musician, multiinstrumentalist, composer

Popular Music (20th century)[edit]

  • 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

Fine Arts[edit]

Painters, Graphic Artists[edit]

Sculptors[edit]

Photographers[edit]

Architects[edit]

Film and Theatre[edit]

Actors[edit]

Filmmakers[edit]

Dance, Choreography[edit]

Finance and Economics[edit]

Sports[edit]

Soccer[edit]

Ice Hockey[edit]

see the long list in a separate article

Tennis[edit]

Water sports[edit]

Figure Skating[edit]

Other[edit]

Historical personalities[edit]

  • 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[edit]

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[edit]

Miscellaneous[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "A Gyurcsányi név pontos eredete". index. no date. Retrieved 5 March 2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ "A kötelékek fontosságáról". Új Szó. 09/05/2007. Retrieved 17 April 2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

VERSION AFTER MY LARGE EDIT IN THE PAST[edit]

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.

Politics[edit]

Politicians (contemporary)[edit]

Politicians (19th and 20th century)[edit]

Medieval rulers[edit]

Fighters, Warriors, Soldiers and Revolutionaries[edit]

First Ladies[edit]

Religion[edit]

Saints[edit]

Saint Svorad

Blessed[edit]

Religious Leaders[edit]

  • 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

Science and Technology[edit]

Philosophers, Polyhistors, Teachers[edit]

Linguists, Humanists and Historians[edit]

  • 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 [6] (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[edit]

  • Ján Vlk Kempelen[citation needed] (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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Mining[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Geology, Mineralogy[edit]

Geography[edit]

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

Archeology[edit]

Physics[edit]

  • 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 [7] (1942 Trnava) - nuclear physicist, former rector of Charles University in Prague

Mathematics[edit]

Computer Science[edit]

Astronomy[edit]

Astronomers[edit]

  • 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)[edit]

Astronauts[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Literature[edit]

Journalism[edit]

Music[edit]

Classical[edit]

Composers[edit]
Conductors[edit]
Instrumentalists[edit]
Opera Singers[edit]
Misc[edit]

Jazz[edit]

  • Peter Lipa (1943) - the most important current Jazz singer, composer
  • Gabriel Jonáš (1948) – Jazz musician, multiinstrumentalist, composer

Popular Music (20th century)[edit]

  • 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

Fine Arts[edit]

Painters, Graphic Artists[edit]

Master of the Altar of Košice (Majster košického oltára) (15th century) – the most important Slovak painter of the 15th century

Sculptors[edit]

Photographers[edit]

Architects[edit]

Film and Theatre[edit]

Actors[edit]

Filmmakers[edit]

Dance, Choreography[edit]

Finance and Economics[edit]

Sports[edit]

Soccer[edit]

Ice Hockey[edit]

see the long list in a separate article

Tennis[edit]

Water sports[edit]

Figure Skating[edit]

Other[edit]

Historical personalities[edit]

Nobles and noble families[edit]

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[edit]

Miscellaneous[edit]

See also[edit]

External links[edit]


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