List of Famous people born in Slovakia, First Czechoslovak Republic

Katarína Hasprová is a singer from Slovakia, best-known outside her home country for singing "Modlitba" at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998.

Jozef Chovanec is a Czechoslovak former professional football player and manager.

Eva Sládeková is a Slovak badminton player. She is a two-time national badminton champion in the women's singles, and also, a member of the badminton team for M-Šport Trenčín Club, under her personal coach and former partner Michal Matejka.

Jozef Lenárt was a Slovak politician who was Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1963 to 1968.

Jozef Pribilinec is a Slovak track and field athlete who mainly competed in racewalking. He was born in Kremnica. Pribilinec competed for the former Czechoslovakia at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea where he won the gold medal in the men's 20 kilometre walk event.

Dr. Ágoston Trefort was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education from 1872 until his death. He was the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1885.

Ján Chryzostom Korec, SJ was a Slovak Jesuit priest and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was ordained as a priest in 1950 and consecrated as a bishop in 1951.

Ármin Vámbéry, also known as Arminius Vámbéry, was a Hungarian Turkologist and traveller.

Vojtech Christov is a former Czechoslovak football referee. He is known for having refereed in two FIFA World Cups, one match in 1982 and one in 1986. He was assistant referee in the 1982 FIFA World Cup Final. He also refereed two matches in the 1984 UEFA European Football Championship in France, including the UEFA Euro 1984 Final and one match in the Olympic Football Tournament 1980 in Moscow. At club level, he refereed in the Czechoslovak First League between 1974 and 1992, taking charge of 198 matches during that period.