List of Famous people born in Slovakia

Jozef Tomko is a Slovak Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples from 1985 to 2001 and was made a cardinal in 1985.

Prince Leopold Clement Philipp August Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was an Austro-Hungarian officer and the heir apparent to the wealth of the House of Koháry. His death in a murder–suicide shocked the royal courts of Austria and Germany.

Josef von Báky was a Hungarian filmmaker. He was also known as Josef v. Baky and József Baky. He was born in the village of Zobor in the Kingdom of Hungary. He worked as an assistant to Géza von Bolváry.

Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pázmánd was a Hungarian author and inventor, known for his chess-playing "automaton" hoax The Turk and for his speaking machine.

István Friedrich was a Hungarian politician, footballer and factory owner who served as Prime Minister of Hungary for three months between August and November in 1919. His tenure coincided with a period of political instability in Hungary immediately after World War I, during which several successive governments ruled the country.

Sándor Prokopp was a Hungarian sport shooter who competed for Hungary at the 1908, 1912 and the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Jozef Kožlej is a retired Slovak international professional footballer who played for clubs in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Greece and Cyprus.

Károly (Carl) Thern was a Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor and arranger. He was of German descent, but was among the second generation of composers who developed the language of Hungarian art music.

Count Gyula Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka was a Hungarian statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Hungary (1867–1871) and subsequently as Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (1871–1879). Andrássy was a conservative; his foreign policies looked to expanding the Empire into Southeast Europe, preferably with British and German support, and without alienating Turkey. He saw Russia as the main adversary, because of its own expansionist policies toward Slavic and Orthodox areas. He distrusted Slavic nationalist movements as a threat to his multi-ethnic empire.

Lucia Popp was a Slovak operatic soprano. She began her career as a soubrette, and later moved into the light-lyric and lyric coloratura soprano repertoire and then the lighter Richard Strauss and Wagner operas. Her career included performances at Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, and La Scala. Popp was also a highly regarded recitalist and lieder singer.