List of Famous people born in Nitra Region, Slovakia

Ivan Reitman

First Name Ivan
Last Name Reitman
Died on February 12, 2022 (aged 52)

Ivan Reitman, is a Czechoslovak-Canadian film and television director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his comedy work, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. He is the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998.

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Rudolf Vrba

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First Name Rudolf
Last Name Vrba
Died on March 27, 2006 (aged 36)

Rudolf "Rudi" Vrba was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He became known for having escaped from the camp in April 1944, at the height of the Holocaust, and for having co-written a detailed report about the mass murder that was taking place there. Distribution of the report by George Mantello in Switzerland is credited with having halted the mass deportation of Hungary's Jews to Auschwitz in July 1944, saving more than 200,000 lives. After the war Vrba trained as a biochemist, working mostly in England and Canada.

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Tamás Priskin

Tamás Priskin is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays for Győri ETO FC as a striker.

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Jusztinián György Serédi

Szapucsek György
First Name Jusztinián
Born on April 24, 1884
Died on March 29, 1945 (aged 60)

Jusztinián György Serédi OSB was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Esztergom and Prince Primate of Hungary. He helped save many thousands of Polish refugees, including thousands of Polish Jews, by helping Henryk Sławik and his associates, like József Antall Senior.

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Tomáš Galis

First Name Tomáš
Last Name Galis
Born on December 22, 1950 (age 74)

Tomáš Galis is the current Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Žilina.

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Robert Fico

First Name Robert
Last Name Fico
Born on September 15, 1964 (age 60)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Robert Fico is a Slovak politician who served as Prime Minister of Slovakia from 2006 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2018. He has been the leader of the Direction – Social Democracy (SMER-SD) party since 1999. First elected to Parliament in 1992, he was later appointed to the Council of Europe. Following his party's victory in the 2006 parliamentary election, he formed the first Fico Cabinet.

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Dominik Hrušovský

First Name Dominik
Last Name Hrušovský
Born on June 1, 1926
Died on July 27, 2016 (aged 90)

Dominik Hrušovský was a prelate of the Catholic Church who served outside his homeland during its years of Communist control, largely devoted to the pastoral care of Catholic Slovaks abroad. Late in his career he returned to Slovakia. He was also Apostolic Nuncio to Belarus.

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Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch

First Name Leopold
Last Name Kollonitsch
Born on October 26, 1631
Died on January 20, 1707 (aged 75)

Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch, also spelt Collonicz, Colonitz, Kollonitz, Kolonits, and Kolonić, and called in Hungarian Kollonich Lipót, was a cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, Archbishop of Kalocsa and later of Gran, or Esztergom, and Primate of Hungary. Also a count of the Holy Roman Empire, he was a leading figure of the Hungarian Counter-reformation.

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Ottokár Prohászka

First Name Ottokár
Last Name Prohászka
Born on October 10, 1858
Died on April 2, 1927 (aged 68)

Ottokár Prohászka was a Hungarian Roman Catholic theologian and Bishop of Székesfehérvár from 1905 until his death. Prohászka was a prominent anti-Semite, and used literature as an outlet for his hostile opinions.

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Jozef Stümpel

First Name Jozef
Born on July 20, 1972 (age 52)
Height 191 cm | 6'3

Jozef Stümpel is a Slovak professional ice hockey centre currently playing for HK MŠK Žiar nad Hronom of the 2. Hokejová liga, the third tier league of Slovak ice hockey.

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