List of Famous people born in Slovakia
Attila Végh
Attila Végh is a Slovak mixed martial artist who competed in the Light Heavyweight divisions of Bellator Fighting Championships and Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki (KSW). He won the Bellator 2012 Summer Series Light Heavyweight Tournament and then the Bellator Light Heavyweight Championship. After losing it in his first defense, he was released from the promotion. A professional competitor since 2008, he has also competed for M-1 Global.
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová is a tennis player from Slovakia.
Martin Kližan
Martin Kližan is a Slovak professional tennis player. Winner of the boys' singles title at the French Open in 2006, Kližan turned pro in 2007 and has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 24, achieved in April 2015.
Marián Gáborík
Marián Gáborík is a Slovak professional ice hockey right winger currently under contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL). He began his playing career in the Slovak Extraliga with Dukla Trenčín for two seasons before being drafted third overall in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft by the Minnesota Wild, becoming the highest drafted Slovak player in NHL history. Spending eight seasons with the Wild before signing with the New York Rangers in 2009, Gáborík is the Wild's all-time leading goal scorer. He has also played for the Columbus Blue Jackets and Los Angeles Kings. On 13 June 2014, Gáborík won his first Stanley Cup while playing for the Kings.
Juraj Kucka
Juraj Kucka is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian top division club Parma and the Slovak national team.
Lajos Aulich
Lajos Aulich was the third Minister of War of Hungary.
Emília Vášáryová
Emília Vášáryová, Doctor Artis Dramaticae (hon.) is a Slovak stage and screen actress, referred to as the "First Lady of Slovak Theater". During her over five decades long career, she has received numerous awards including the Meritorious Artist (1978), Alfréd Radok Award (1996), Czech Lion Award Golden Goblet Award (2008), and most recently the honorary degree Doctor Artis Dramaticae Honoris Causa (2010) as the only female to date, and ELSA (2010). While her sister is former diplomat Magdaléna Vášáryová, Czech media regards her as an "Honorary Consul of Czech and Slovak Relations".
Ján Danko
František Rábek
Ernest Nagel
Ernest Nagel was an American philosopher of science. Along with Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach, and Carl Hempel, he is sometimes seen as one of the major figures of the logical positivist movement. His 1961 book The Structure of Science is considered a foundational work in the logic of scientific explanation.