List Of Slovaks

See also: History of Bratislava - Historic personalities

Politicians and rulers

  • Alexander Dubček (1921-1992) – Prague spring leader
  • Mikulš Dzurinda – third prime minister of modern Slovakia
  • Ivan Gašparovič - the third president of Slovakia and previously chairman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
  • Andrej Hlinka (1864-1938) – a national leader before World War II
  • Pavol Hrušovsk – the current chairman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
  • Gustv Husk (1913-1991) – president of Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s
  • Koceľ (Gozil, Chozilo, Chezilo) (9th century) – ruler of the Balaton Principality, son of Pribina
  • Michal Kovč (1930) – the first president of modern Slovakia
  • Vladimr Mečiar (1942) – first prime minister of modern Slovakia
  • Mojmr I (Moimay, Moymar) (?-846) – first ruler (Prince) of Great Moravia. He probably lived in the Devn castle and initially ruled over present-day southern Moravia and a small part of western Slovakia. In 833, he crossed the White Carpathians, and attacked Pribina and his Nitrian Principality (see below). Prince Mojmir successfully defeated Pribina, who fled Nitra, and so Mojmir became the first ruler of what was to become known as the Great Moravian Empire.
  • Pribina (Priwina, Priuuinna) (? – 861)- the first known ruler (Prince) of what is called the Slovak nation today. He lived in the town of Nitra at the beginning of the 9th century, and ruled over the territory of present-day Slovakia from the Nitra castle, called the Nitrian Principality (Principality of Nitra). Initially, Pribina probably was a pagan, but he probably later became a Christian. He is responsible for building the first known church of Western and Eastern Slavs on Slovak soil in 828. Later, in 839, he founded and became the ruler of the Balaton Principality.
  • Rastislav (Rastic, Rasticlao, Rastislaus) (? - 870) – ruler of Great Moravia
  • Rudolf Schuster (1934)– the second president of modern Slovakia
  • Milan Rastislav Štefnik(1880-1919) - an astronomer, scientist, politician and a general in the French Army, one of the founders of Czechoslovakia, he tragically died in a plane crash near Bratislava (the plane was shot down).
  • Svtopluk(?-894) – king of Great Moravia, responsible for the empire’s greatest expansion
  • Svtopluk II (? - ?906) – ruler of the Nitrian principality
  • Jozef Tiso (1887-1947) – president of the WWII Slovak Republic

Saints

  • St. Zorard (Svorad, Svoradus) (around 1000) - hermit at Skalka near Trenčn, born in Lesser Poland or in northern Slovakia, adopted the name Andrew (Ondrej, Andrej)
  • St. Benedict (original name Stojislav) (? – 1034) – hermit at Skalka near Trenčn, disciple of St. Zorard
  • St. Gorazd (9th century) – a disciple of Cyril and Methodius, 881-884 probably bishop
  • St. Štefan Pongrc - a Hungarian-Transylvanian Catholic priest tortured to death in Kosice by Gabriel Bethlen’s men in 1619
  • St. Melichar Grodecki - a Polish-Moravian Catholic tortured to death in Kosice by Gabriel Bethlen’s men in 1619
  • St. Marek Križin - a Croatian Catholic canon tortured to death in Kosice by Gabriel Bethlen’s men in 1619

Writers

Historic scientists and inventors

  • Vojtech Alexander (Adalbert Alexander) (1857-1916) – one of the greatest radiologists in the world, founder of radiology in historic Hungary, described the development of the tuberculosis, owner of the first X-ray apparatus in Slovakia, wrote poems in Slovak
  • Jn Bahľ (1865-1916) – military engineer, inventor of the motor-driven helicopter (four years before Brguet 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
  • Johann Andreas Bumler (1847-1926) – famous mycologist
  • Matej Bel (Matthias Bl, Bl Mtys) (1684-1749) – polyhistor, teacher, one of the greatest Slovak scholars of the eighteen century
  • Anton Bernolk (1762-1813) – author of the first Slovak language standard (in the 1780s), which was based on western Slovak dialects
  • Gregor Berzeviczy (Berzevici) (1763-1822) – economist
  • Juraj Bohus (Georg Bohus) (1687-1722) – geographer, historian, teacher
  • Vojtech Budinsk-Krička (1903-1994) – archaeologist
  • Cyprin z Červenho Klštora (Frater Cyprianus, Jaisge) (1724-1775) – a (German born) monk and natural scientist living in Slovakia, set up the oldest herbarium of Slovakia
  • Jn Dernschwam (Hans Dernschwam) (1494-1567) – a mining expert, chief manager of the Fugger-Thurzo Company in Banska Bystrica
  • Dvid Frlich (Frhlich) (1595-1648) – mathematician, astronomer, teacher, a follower of Kopernikus
  • Samuel Genersich (1768-1844) – botanist, physician
  • Christian Genersich (1759-1825) – theologian, mineralogist, topographer
  • Martin Hattala (1821-1903) - linguist
  • 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
  • Maximilin Hell (Maximilian Hell, Hell Miksa) (1720-1792) – Jesuit priest and astronomer, designed the observatory of the Trnava University, director of the Imperial Observatory in Vienna
  • Jn Henkel (Johannes Henkel/Henckel) (1490-1535) - humanist
  • Jozef Ľudovt Holuby (1836-1923) – botanist, gave their current names to many plants
  • Jn Hunfalvy (Johann Hunsdorfer, Hunfalvy Jnos) (1820-1888)- geographer
  • Štefan Anin Jedlk (Anianus Jedlik, Jedlik nyos Istvn) (1800-1895) – constructed the electromagnetic rotor- a predecessor of the modern electro-motor – three years before Faraday and the unipolar dynamo six years before W. Siemens
  • Zachariš Teofil Husty (18th century) – one of the first pharmacologists, physician, set up the medicare system in 1786
  • Jn Jesensk (Johann Jessenius) (1566-1621) – physician, surgeon, anatomist, rector of the Charles University, conducted the first public dissection (in Prague in 1600), Protestant activist
  • Jśn Vlk Kempelen (Johann Wolfgang von Kempelen) (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
  • Andrej Kmeť (1841-1908) – botanist, archaeologist
  • Adam František Kollr (Adam Franz Kollar) (1718-1783) – historian, royal councelor and librarian of the Imperial Library in Vienna
  • Pavol Križko (1841-1902) - historian
  • Albert Laski (Łaski) (1536-1605) – writer, alchemist, humanist, noble (his family stems originally from Poland)
  • Filip Anton Eduard Lenard (Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard) (1862-1947) – a German Nobel prize holder (1905) for physics born in Bratislava, founder of quantum physics
  • Jn Lipsk (Johann von Lipsky, Lipszky Jnos) (1766-1826) – cartographer, author of the first lexicon of names of towns and villages in historic Hungary
  • Samuel Mikovni (1700-1750) – cartographer, author of a separate cartographic method, constructor of artificial water reservoirs near mines
  • Jozef Mistrk (1921-2001) – linguist
  • 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 a engine producing electromagnetic waves.
  • Martin Palkovič (Martin Palkovich) (1606-1662) – philosopher, professor in Trnava, Košice and Vienna
  • Jozef Maximilin Petzval (Josef Maximilian Petzval, Petzval Jzeph 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 1840's (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.
  • Karol Rayger (Rayger Kroly) (1641 – 1707) – introduced the pulmonary test of new-born children used in forensic medicine till today
  • Izk Potter (Issac Potter) (1690-1735) – born in England, living and working in Banska Stiavnica, engineer, constructor of the first athmospheric steam engine in Europe (in Nova Bana, in 1723)
  • Jn 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
  • Jn Andrej Segner (Johann Andrea von Segner, Segner Jnos Andrs) (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)
  • Jn Selye (Hans Hugo Brugo Selye, Selye Jnos) (1907-1982) – discovered the stress (reaction) and the adaptational syndrome; born in Komrno, working in Canada
  • Jn Severni (1716-1789) – historian, natural scientist, author of the first high school textbooks of biology in historic Hungary (together with Matej Piller)
  • Tobias Gottfried Schrer (Christian Oeser) (1791-1850) – writer, teacher in Bratislava
  • Karol Smith (?) – famous piano producer from Bratislava in the early 19th century
  • Leonhard Stckel (1510-1560) – a famous Protestant teacher, writer
  • 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
  • Dionz Štr (1827-1893) – famous geologist, botanist, director of the Imperial Geological Institute
  • Ľudovt Štr (1815-1856) - best known for his development and establishment of the modern Slovak language (in 1844 it was declared that the central Slovak dialect would be used as the literary language of Slovakia and in 1846 the new language standard was codified for the first time by Štr in his "Nauka reči slovenskej" of the Slovak language)
  • Alexander Zahlbruckner (1860-1938)- Austrian lichenologist, born and studying in Slovakia

20th century astronomers

Classic Music

Popular Music (in the 20th century)

  • Karol Duchoň (1950-1985) – singer (pre-rock period)
  • Gejza Dusk (1907-1988) – composer, musician, author of many evergreens (1st half of the 20th century)
  • Martin Ďurinda (?) – singer of Tublatanka (a band having reacher its height around 1990)
  • Jozef Rž (?) – current singer of Eln (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 Gombitov (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)
  • Gabriel Jonš (1948) – Jazz musician, multiinstrumentalist, composer
  • Jan Kocianov (1946) – singer (pre-rock period)
  • Marcela Laiferov (1945) – singer (pre-rock period)
  • Jn Lehotsk (1947) – composer, musician, singer of Modus (a band having reached its height in the late 1970s)
  • Peter Lipa (1943) – the most important current Jazz singer, composer
  • 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
  • Richard Mller (1961) – the best-known current Slovak pop-rock singer
  • Dežo Ursiny (1947 – 1995) – composer, rock singer, musician in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Marin Varga (1947) – rock composer, musician in the 1960s and 1970s
  • František Krištof Vesel (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

Painters, sculptors, photographers

Architects

Theater

Filmmakers

Sportsmen (except hockey players)

Hockey players

Others

  • Balaša (Balassa) – a prominent Slovak noble family (from the 14th century onwards)
  • Margita Bangova (c. 1936–) - beggar
  • Bubek (Bebek) - a prominent Slovak-Hungarian noble family around the 15th century
  • Alžbeta Btoriov, the „Bloody Lady of Čachtice“ (Elizabeth Bthory-Ndasdy) (1560-1614) – the most famous mass murderer in Slovak and Hungarian history, a countess of the Čachtice castle (near Trencin), she is said to have tortured and killed a lot of young women in her castle (20 - 2000 victims depending on the source) in order to bathe in their blood
  • Ivan Bella (1964) – the first astronaut of Slovakia (in 1998)
  • Mric Beňovsk (Maurycy Beniowski, Baron Maurice Auguste de Benyowski,many other name versions) (1746-1786) - Slovak globetrotter, explorer, soldier, writer, and the King of Madagascar
  • Matthew Csk III (of Trencin) (Matš Čk III, Csk Mt) (about 1260 – 1321) - ruler of the Vh and the Tatras region
  • knight Donč of Balaša (?-1344)- an important Slovak noble in the early 14th century
  • Druget (Drugeth) – a prominent Slovak noble family from the 14th to the 17th century (originally from Naples)
  • Samuel Fischer (1859-1934) – founder of the Fischer-Verlag (in 1886), born in Slovakia
  • Forgč (Forgach) – a prominent Slovak noble family in the Middle ages
  • General Jn Golian (1906-1945) – one of the main organizers of the Slovak National Uprising
  • Alexander of Hunt-Poznan (around 1200) - a prominent Slovak noble
  • Juraj Jnošk (1688- 1713) - the Slovak equivalent of Robin Hood, the topic of many Slovak legends, books and films
  • Juliana Korponaiov-Gciov (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 Rkczi Uprising
  • Pavel Kray (Paul 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
  • Lords of Jelšava (Ilsvay) – a prominent Slovak noble family around the 14th century
  • Lords of Pavlovce (Palci) – a prominent Slovak noble family in the Middle ages
  • Leustach z Jelšavy (14th century) – a Slovak noble and warrior
  • Rudolf Laban (1875-1958) – dance theoretician; born in Bratislava
  • Ľudovt Lačn (1926) – excellent chess composer, FIDE master
  • Theodor von Lerch (1869-1945) – general staff officer; born in Bratislava; instructor of the Japanese army, introduced skiing in Japan, writer
  • Daniel Gabriel Lichard (1812-1882) – important publisher and the first Slovak professional journalist
  • Dušan Makovick (1866-1921) – physician, writer, translator, personal doctor of Leo Tolstoy
  • Jn Litert z Madočian (?-1390) – yeoman, the most famous counterfeiter of documents in historic Hungary
  • Štefan Moyses (1797- 1869) – bishop, patriot, the first president of the Matica Slovensk, the first Slovak cultural institution
  • Štefan Nosľ (1927) – folklore dancer
  • Omodej of Aba (Amad, Amadeus) (?-1311) – a prominent noble in eastern Slovakia
  • Peter Pzmaň (Pter Pzmny) (1570-1637) – archbishop, leading personality of counter-reformation in historic Hungary
  • Perni (Pernyi, Lords of Pern) - a prominent Slovak noble family from the 13th to the 16th century
  • Podmanick – a prominent Slovak noble family (from the 15th century onwards)
  • Poznan – a prominent Slovak noble family in Great Moravia and later in Hungary
  • Kozma of Poznan (12th century)– a prominent Slovak noble
  • Friedrich Rck (1825-1884) – admiral, oceanographer, discoverer, born in Slovakia
  • Pavol Rothan (Paul Rubigall(us) ) (1510-1577) – writer, politician, scientist, enterpreneur
  • Rozgoň (Rozgonyi, Lords of Rozhanovce) – a prominent Hungarian-Slovak noble family in the late Middle ages
  • Alexander Rudnay (1760-1831) - archbishop
  • Abrahm Rfus (Abrahm Ryšav / Červen) (around 1300) – warrior, reconquered southwestern Slovakia from Austria in 1291
  • Juraj Selepčni Pohronec (Szelepcsny Gyrgy) – archbishop
  • Chatam Sfer (1762-1839) – a famous (German born) rabbi of Bratislava
  • Stibor of Stiborice and Beckov (?-1414) - an ethnic Polish noble, who lived in Slovakia, he gained huge properties in western and central Slovakia after 1388 and was sometimes referred to as a petty Slovak king
  • Sči (Szchy, Lords of (Rimavsk)Seča) – a prominent Slovak noble family from the 17th century
  • Pavol Jozef Šafrik (Pavel Josef Šafařk) (1795-1861) – poet, professor, polyhistor
  • Ladislav Škultty-Gbriš (1738-1832), 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 Hapsburg emperors
  • Thkly(Tkly, Tklli,Tkli) – a prominent Hungarian-Slovak noble family living in Slovakia in the 16th and 17th century
  • Jn Thurzo I (Johannes Thurzo I) (1437-1508) – mining engineer, enterpreneur, together with the Fuggers founder of the biggest copper producing and trading company in the world of the 1st half of the 16th century - probably the first capitalist company in the world

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