List of Famous people born in Košice Region, Slovakia

Martina Hingis

Martina Hingis is a Swiss former professional tennis player. She spent a total of 209 weeks as the singles world No. 1 and 90 weeks as doubles world No. 1, holding both No. 1 rankings simultaneously for 29 weeks. She won five Grand Slam singles titles, thirteen Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar-year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and seven Grand Slam mixed doubles titles; for a combined total of twenty-five major titles. In addition, she won the season-ending WTA Finals two times in singles and three times in doubles, an Olympic silver medal, and a record seventeen Tier I singles titles.

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David Dobrik

Dávid Julián Dobrík
First Name David
Last Name Dobrik
Born on July 23, 1996 (age 27)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Dávid Julián Dobrík is a Slovak-born YouTube personality. He found early success on the video sharing platform Vine, before starting his vlog on his YouTube channel in 2015. Dobrik is known for being the leader of the popular YouTube ensemble The Vlog Squad, which features prominently in his vlogs and comprises rotating selections of his friend group. As of September 2020, Dobrik's vlog channel had accumulated 18 million subscribers and 7.7 billion views. The channel was the fifth-most viewed creator channel on YouTube in 2019, with 2.4 billion views that year. In March 2020, he was called "Gen Z's Jimmy Fallon" by The Wall Street Journal.

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Marek Svatoš

First Name Marek
Last Name Svatoš
Born on June 17, 1982
Died on November 5, 2016 (aged 34)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

Marek Svatoš was a Slovak professional ice hockey winger. He last played during the 2013–14 season in the Slovak Extraliga with Košice, the same club with which he began his career in 1999. Svatoš played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for several seasons, mostly with the Colorado Avalanche; his last stint in the NHL was in the 2010–11 season, during which he played with the Nashville Predators and Ottawa Senators after beginning the season in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) with Avangard Omsk.

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Anna Karolína Schmiedlová

Anna Karolína Schmiedlová is a tennis player from Slovakia.

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Gustav Heckenast

First Name Gustav
Born on September 2, 1811
Died on April 12, 1878 (aged 66)
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Richard Raši

First Name Richard
Last Name Raši
Born on April 2, 1971 (age 52)

Richard Raši is a Slovak physician and politician who served as Slovakia's Deputy Prime Minister for Investments and Information. A member of the Voice – Social Democracy political party, Raši previously served as Mayor of the city of Košice. He also served from 3 June 2008 until 8 June 2010 as Minister of Health in the First cabinet of Robert Fico.

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Sándor Márai

Grosschmid Sándor Károly Henrik
First Name Sándor
Last Name Márai
Born on April 11, 1900
Died on February 21, 1989 (aged 88)

Sándor Márai [] was a Hungarian writer and journalist.

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Emery Roth

Róth Imre
First Name Emery
Last Name Roth
Born on January 1, 1871
Died on August 20, 1948 (aged 77)

Emery Roth was an American architect of Hungarian-Jewish descent who designed many of the definitive New York City hotels and apartment buildings of the 1920s and 1930s, incorporating Beaux-Arts and Art Deco details. His sons continued in the family enterprise, largely expanding the firm under the name Emery Roth & Sons.

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Béla Illés

First Name Béla
Last Name Illés
Born on March 22, 1895
Died on January 5, 1974 (aged 78)

Béla Illés, March 22, 1895 - Budapest, January 5, 1974) was a Hungarian left-wing writer and journalist who spent much of his life in exile in the Soviet Union.

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Géza von Radványi

Grosschmid Géza
First Name Géza
Last Name Radványi
Died on November 27, 1986 (aged 16)

Géza von Radványi was a Hungarian film director, cinematographer, producer and writer.

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