List of Famous people born in Žilina region, First Czechoslovak Republic

Peter Sagan

First Name Peter
Last Name Sagan
Born on January 26, 1990 (age 34)
Height 184 cm | 6'0

Peter Sagan is a Slovak professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Bora–Hansgrohe. Sagan had a successful junior cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing career, winning the Junior Mountain Bike World Championship in 2008, before moving to road racing.

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Peter Lorre

First Name Peter
Last Name Lorre
Born on June 26, 1904
Died on March 23, 1964 (aged 59)
Height 160 cm | 5'3

Peter Lorre was a Hungarian-American actor. Lorre began his stage career in Vienna before moving to Germany where he worked first on the stage, then in film in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Lorre caused an international sensation in the German film M (1931), directed by Fritz Lang, in which he portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls.

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Stan Mikita

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First Name Stan
Last Name Mikita
Born on May 20, 1940
Died on August 7, 2018 (aged 78)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Stanley Mikita was a Slovak-born Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League, generally regarded as the best centre of the 1960s. In 2017, he was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players. He was the first Slovak born player to win the Stanley Cup, which he did in 1961.

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Petra Vlhová

First Name Petra
Last Name Vlhová
Born on June 13, 1995 (age 29)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Petra Vlhová is a Slovak World Cup alpine ski racer who specialises in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom. Vlhová won the World Cup overall title in 2021, becoming the first Slovak skier to achieve this feat.

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Martin Dúbravka

First Name Martin
Last Name Dúbravka
Born on January 15, 1989 (age 35)
Height 191 cm | 6'3

Martin Dúbravka is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Newcastle United and the Slovakia national team.

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Tomáš Hubočan

First Name Tomáš
Last Name Hubočan
Born on September 17, 1985 (age 39)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Tomáš Hubočan is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a defender for Omonia Nicosia.

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Jozef Vengloš

First Name Jozef
Born on February 18, 1936
Died on January 26, 2021 (aged 84)

Dr. Jozef Vengloš was a Slovak professional football player and manager. He held a doctorate in Physical Education and also specialised in Psychology. He had been selected by FIFA on various occasions to lecture at the FIFA academies throughout the world.

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Jozef Tiso

First Name Jozef
Born on October 13, 1887
Died on April 18, 1947 (aged 59)

Jozef Gašpar Tiso was a Slovak politician and Roman Catholic priest who was president of the Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany during World War II, from 1939 to 1945. In 1947, after the war, he was executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Bratislava.

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Marek Mintál

First Name Marek
Last Name Mintál
Born on September 2, 1977 (age 47)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Marek Mintál is a Slovak retired footballer. He is the current manager of 1. FC Nürnberg II and assistant coach of the Slovakia national football team.

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Andrej Hlinka

First Name Andrej
Born on September 27, 1864
Died on August 16, 1938 (aged 73)

Andrej Hlinka was a Slovak Catholic priest, journalist, banker, and politician, one of the most important Slovak public activists in Czechoslovakia before Second World War. He was the leader of the Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, papal chamberlain, inducted papal protonotary, member of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia, and chairman of the St. Vojtech Fellowship.

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