List of Famous people born in Bratislava Region, Slovakia

Johann Sigismund Kusser or Cousser was a composer born in the Kingdom of Hungary who was active in Germany, France, and Ireland.

Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard was a Austro-Hungarian physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his work on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties. One of his most important contributions was the experimental realization of the photoelectric effect. He discovered that the energy (speed) of the electrons ejected from a cathode depends only on the wavelength, and not the intensity of, the incident light.

Hans Neusidler, was a German composer and lutenist of the Renaissance.

Monika Hilmerová is a Slovak actress. She is a winner of the Silver Dolphin award received in 2001 at the annual Festroia International Film Festival in Setúbal, Portugal as the Best Actress for her performance in Der Lebensborn - Pramen života . The actress appears in multi-language productions, including the Czech, Slovak, English and/or German. Among others, she co-starred in the Golden Globe-nominated Uprising (2001) by Jon Avnet, Silvio Soldini's movie Brucio nel vento (2002) and the U.S. Emmy Award-winning TV-miniseries Frankenstein (2004) by Kevin Connor. In March 2010, the actress was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Ödön Széchenyi was an Imperial Ottoman pasha. He was the son of István Széchenyi and was in charge of the State Fire Brigade in Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.

Scarlett Chorvat is a Slovak American actress. She moved to the U.S. at the age of five.

Alois Machatschek was an Austrian architect, architectural historian, university professor and architectural preservationist.

Johann Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the classical to the romantic musical era.

George Feher was an American biophysicist working at the University of California San Diego.