List of Famous people born in Slovakia
Ödön Széchenyi
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.
Ivana Reitmayerová
Ivana Reitmayerová is a Slovak former competitive figure skater. She is the 2008 Ondrej Nepela Memorial champion, 2008 Triglav Trophy silver medalist, and a two-time Slovak national champion. She competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Jana Čepelová
Jana Čepelová is a Slovak tennis player.
Yehuda Zvi Blum
Yehuda Zvi Blum is an Israeli professor of law and diplomat. In 1978–1984, Blum served as Israel Ambassador to the United Nations.
Nela Pocisková
Nela Pocisková is a Slovak singer and actress who was the Slovak entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with Kamil Mikulčík. The song Leť tmou was chosen after a national final. They were the first singers to represent Slovakia at the contest since the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 but failed to reach the Eurovision final.
Aleksandar Bugarski
Aleksandar Bugarski (1835–1891) was a Serbian architect who combined the new with the old styles giving the city a distinct feature of its own.
Ján Zachara
Ján Zachara is a former Czechoslovak boxer who won the gold medal in the featherweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Zachara also competed in 1956, losing in a quarterfinal to Pentti Hämäläinen of Finland on points. He was born in Kubrá, a borough of Trenčín, present-day Slovakia.
François Honti
František Havránek
František Havránek was a Czech football manager and former player.
Vladimír Weiss
Vladimír Weiss is a Slovak football coach and former player. He was the coach of the Georgian national team from 2016 to 2020.