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 [[Slovaks|Slovak]] identity or ancestry.
==Politics==
===Politicians (contemporary)===
*[[Robert Fico]] (1964) - fourth prime minister of modern [[Slovakia]]
*[[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 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]]
*[[Alexander Dubček]] (1921-1992) - leader of the [[Prague spring]]
*[[Andrej Hlinka]] (1864-1938) - 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 German mother
*[[Jozef Tiso]] (1887-1947) - president of the [[Slovak Republic (1939–1945)|First Slovak Republic]]
*[[András L. Áchim]] (1871-1911) peasant politician
*[[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
*[[Samuel Zoch]] (1882-1928), priest, politician, [[Župa]]n of [[Bratislava]]
*[[Jozef Miloslav Hurban]] (1817-1886), priest,politician
*[[Michal Miloslav Hodža]] (1811-1870), leader of a Slovak national group, lutheran priest, poet, luinguist
*[[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===
*[[Ferdinand Čatloš]] (1895-1972) - he was one of the main leaders of the [[Slovak National Uprising]]
*[[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]]
*[[Augustín Malár]] (1894-1946) - Slovak General during [[World War II]].
*[[Abrahám Rúfus]] (Abrahám Ryšavý / Červený) (around 1300) - warrior, reconquered southwestern Slovakia from Austria in 1291
*[[Michael Strank]] - [[United States Marine Corps|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
*[[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]]
===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)
===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
*[[Ján Sokol]] (1933- ) - He is a Slovak priest and currently Archbishop of the [[Archdiocese of Trnava]]
==Science and Technology==
===Philosophers, Polyhistors, Teachers===
*[[Martin Palkovič]] ([[Martin Palkovich]]) (1606-1662) – philosopher, professor in Trnava, Košice and Vienna
*[[Matej Bel]]<ref name='petro'>{{cite book | last = Petro | first = Peter | authorlink = | title = A History of Slovak Literature | publisher = McGill-Queen's Press | date = 1995 | location = Montréal}}</ref> (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) – [[Zeman (nobleman)|lower nobleman]], Jesuit, author of the first Slovak language standard (in the 1780s), which was based on western Slovak dialects
*[[Milan Stanislav Ďurica]] [http://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Stanislav_%C4%8Eurica] (1925) - priest, historian, Professor of the University in Padua, author of the controversial book''History 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 Dams|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]].
====Aviation====
*[[Ján Bahýľ]] (1865-1916) – military engineer, inventor of the motor-driven [[helicopter]] (four years before [[Breguet Aviation|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]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/cash/cash12.html|title=Czech and Slovak History: An American Bibliography}}</ref><ref name='tibensky'>{{cite book | last = Tibenský | first = Ján | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Dejiny vedy a techniky na Slovensku | publisher = Osveta | date = 1979 | location = Bratislava | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = }}</ref><ref name='encyklopedia'>{{cite encyclopedia |last= |first= |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |encyclopedia=Encyklopédia Slovenska |title=Jedlík, Štefan Anián |url= |accessdate=2008-02-17 |edition= |date= |year=1978 |publisher=Veda |volume=2 |location=Bratislava |id= |doi= |pages= |quote= }}</ref><ref name='energetickyslovnik'>{{cite encyclopedia |last= |first= |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |encyclopedia=Energetický slovník |title=Jedlík Štefan Anián |url=http://www.javys.sk/sk/index.php?page=energeticky-slovnik/J/2920 |accessdate=2008-02-17 |edition= |date= |year= |publisher=Jadrová a vyraďovacia spoločnosť, a.s. |volume= |location=Jaslovské Bohunice |id= |doi= |pages= |quote= }}</ref><ref name='osobnosti'> {{cite web|url=http://www.osobnosti.sk/index.php?os=zivotopis&ID=58905 |title=Štefan Anián Jedlík |accessdate=2008-02-17 |language=Slovak }}</ref><ref name='damborak'> {{cite web|url=http://www.gymdb.sk/esf/word/slovenski_vynalezcovia.doc |title=Slovenskí vynálezcovia |accessdate=2008-02-17 |last=Damborák |first=Marián |format=DOC }}</ref> (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 [[Michael Faraday|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
*[[Jan Jesenius|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 [http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/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]] [http://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/gruska/], professor of [[Quantum computer|quantum computing]], [[IEEE]] Computer Pioneer Award
*[[Norbert Frištacký]] - [[IEEE]] Computer Pioneer Award (for pioneering digital devices)
===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]] [http://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/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.
==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=====
*[[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 Kardos|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
*[[Zuzana Božíková]] (1990-) – contralto (youngest opera singer in Slovakia's history; also the most beautiful model in the world)
*[[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 (opera)|Ignorance]] and [[Falsifiable (opera)|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
===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
*[[Július Jakoby|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 Mednyánszky|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) — 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 [[Rusyns|Rusyn nationality]] from the village of [[Miková]], his parents' first language was [[Rusyn language|Rusyn]], he took over the religious views of his parents{{Fact|date=November 2007}} and he always wanted to return to the country of his parents,{{Fact|date=November 2007}} which obviously was not possible because of the communist regime in [[Central Europe]]. The [[Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art]] is located in [[Medzilaborce]], [[Regions of Slovakia|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====
*[[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
*[[Dezider Hoffmann|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]].
*[[Ivan Kresanek]] (1980) - aviation photographer
===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
*[[Dusan Kuzma|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
===Film and Theatre===
====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, [[Cinema of the Czech Republic|Czech]] and [[Cinema of Slovakia|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
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*[[Barbara Nedeljáková]] (1979) - actress, starred in the famous [[Hollywood]] horror film [[Hostel (film)|Hostel]]
*[[Emília Vášáryová]] (1942) - actress
*[[Viliam Záborský]] (1920-1982) - actor
*[[Karol Zachar|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====
*[[Štefan Nosáľ]] (1927) – folklore dancer
==Finance and Economics==
*[[Lubos Pastor]] [http://gsbportal.chicagogsb.edu/portal//server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_0_314_215_0_43/http%3B/gsbportal.chicagogsb.edu/Facultycourse/Portlet/FacultyDetail.aspx?&min_year=20064&max_year=20073&person_id=694017] - Professor of Finance at [[the University of Chicago]]
==Sports==
*[[Ivan Bátory]] (1975) - cross-country skiing
*[[Imrich Bugár|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
===Football===
*[[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 [[Slovakia|Slovak]] national teams, current director of [[FIFA]]'s Technical Study Group.
===Ice Hockey===
:''See the long list in a [[List of Slovak ice hockey players|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)
*[[Karina Habšudová]] (1973)
*[[Daniela Hantuchová]] (1983)
*[[Martina Hingis]] (1980), former No. 1
*[[Dominik Hrbatý]] (1978)
*[[Karol Kučera]] (1974)
*[[Miloslav Mečíř]] (1964)
*[[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)
==Other==
===Historical personalities===
*[[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
===Nobles and noble families===
see [[Slovak noble families|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
*knight [[Donc|Donč]] of Balaša (?-1344)- an important Slovak noble in the early 14th century
*[[Palóci]]([[Lords of Pavlovce]]) – a prominent Slovak noble family in the Middle Ages
*[[Podmanický]] – a prominent Slovak noble family (from the 15th century onwards)
*[[Poznan (family)|Poznan]] – a prominent Slovak noble family in [[Great Moravia]] and later in Hungary (called Pázmány by Hungarian texts)
*[[Kozma of Poznan]] (12th century) – a prominent Slovak noble
*[[Leustach z Jelšavy]] (14th century) - a Slovak noble and warrior
===Modelsports===
*[[Jozef Gábriš]] (Joseph Gabris) - born in Bratislava. Most popular and successfull controlline aerobatics pilot (F2B) of former [[Czechoslovakia]].
*[[Ing. Karol Rybecký]] - born in Viničné (Schwansbach), near to Pezinok. Won several ECH in the indoor class F1D
===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
*[[Adolf Burger]] (1917) – [[Holocaust]] survivor involved in [[Operation Bernhard]]
== References==
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== See also ==
*[[List of people by nationality]]
== External links ==
*[http://www.european-people.com/Slovaks/Slovaks.html Slovak People]
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[[Category:Slovak politicians]]