List of Famous people born in Trenčín Region, Slovakia
Ján Svorada
Ján Svorada is a retired Slovak and Czech road racing cyclist. Svorada was born in Czechoslovakia; when that country split up in 1993, Svorada raced for Slovakia until 1996, when he started racing for the Czech Republic.
Ján Chryzostom Korec
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.
Eva Sládeková
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.
Miloslav Mečíř
Miloslav Mečíř is a former professional tennis player from Slovakia. He won the men's singles gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games, where he represented Czechoslovakia, and played in two Grand Slam singles finals. In 1987 he won the WCT Finals, the season-ending championship for the World Championship Tennis tour.
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.
Marcel Hossa
Marcel Hossa is a Slovak former professional ice hockey left winger. Hossa previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers and Phoenix Coyotes, having been drafted by the Canadiens in the first round, 16th overall, in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft.
Sándor Rudnay
Alexander Stefan Rudnay de Rudna et Divékujfalu was a Hungarian–Slovak Roman Catholic prelate. He started as a parish priest, but later he became the Archbishop of Esztergom, the Prince Primate of Hungary and a Cardinal.
Salomon Stricker
Salomon Stricker was an Austrian pathologist and histologist.
Imre Esterházy
Milan Rastislav Štefánik
Milan Rastislav Štefánik was a Slovak politician, diplomat, aviator, Freemason, and astronomer. During World War I, he served at the same time as a general in the French Army and as Minister of War for Czechoslovakia. As one of the leading members of the Czechoslovak National Council, he contributed decisively to the cause of Czechoslovakian sovereignty, since the status of Czech- and Slovak-populated territories was one of those in question until shortly before the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1918.