List of Famous people born in Slovakia
Adriana Karembeu
Adriana Sklenaříková is a Slovak fashion model and actress. She is a former Guinness record holder for the longest legs among female models.
Zsolt Harsányi
Zsolt Harsányi, also known as Zsolt von Harsanyi or Zsolt de Harsanyi, was a prolific and renowned Hungarian author, dramatist, translator, and writer.
Martina Repiská
Martina Repiská is a Slovak badminton player. She started playing badminton at the age of nine in her hometown, then playing competitively in the junior international tournament when she was twelve. She became the member of the national team in 2009, and won her first international title at the 2017 Morocco International tournament. Repiská competed at the 2019 European Games.
Zoltán Halmay
Zoltán Halmay was a Hungarian Olympic swimmer. He competed in four Olympics, winning the following medals:
- 1900: silver, bronze
- 1904: gold
- 1906: gold, silver
- 1908: silver
Pavol Rankov
Pavol Rankov is a Slovak writer. Rankov was born in Poprad and went to school in Bratislava. He studied library science at the Comenius University, graduating in 1987. He then worked at the Slovak National Library in Martin and at the Slovak Pedagogic Library in Bratislava. In 1993, Rankov joined the staff of the Comenius University. He won the European Book Prize as well as the Angelus Award for his novel Stalo sa prvého septembra, translated into English as It Happened on September the First .
Jana Čižnárová
Charles Korvin
Charles Korvin was an American film, television and stage actor. He was also a professional still and motion picture photographer and a master chef.
Adam Friedrich Oeser
Adam Friedrich Oeser was a German etcher, painter and sculptor.
Rudolf Laban
Rudolf von Laban, also known as Rudolf Laban, was an Austro-Hungarian dance artist and theorist. He is considered as one of the pioneers of modern dance in Europe as the "Founding Father of the Expressionist Dance" in Germany. His work laid the foundations for Laban Movement Analysis, Labanotation, other more specific developments in dance notation and the evolution of many varieties of Laban movement analysis. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of dance, though his legacy remains tainted by his role in the Nazi movement of the 1930s in Europe.
Mikuláš Dzurinda
Mikuláš Dzurinda is a Slovak politician who was Prime Minister of Slovakia from 30 October 1998 to 4 July 2006. He is the founder and leader of the Slovak Democratic Coalition (SDK) and then the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union. From 2002 to 2006, his party formed a coalition government with the Christian Democratic Movement, the Alliance of the New Citizen and the Party of the Hungarian Coalition. Mikuláš Dzurinda's 2nd government was labelled as a reformist one, pro-market and most effective one in economic matters in Slovakia since 1993. Carried out reforms included flat tax 19%, pension reform, education financing reform. During his term Slovakia joined both the European Union and NATO.