List of people from Bratislava
This is an alphabetically sorted list of personalities from Bratislava in Slovakia. Due to the city's former multi-cultural character, in addition to Slovaks it includes people of German, Austrians, Hungarian and other nationalities.
Coat of Arms of Bratislava
A
- Christian Attersee (born 1940), Austrian painter
- Lajos Aulich (1793–1849), Hungarian general and third Defence minister of Hungary.
B
- Fritz Balogh (1920–1951), German football player
- Kázmér Batthyány (1807–1854), Hungarian politician, minister
- Lajos Batthyány (1807–1849), Hungarian magnate, first prime minister of Hungary.[1]
- Shlomo Breznitz (born 1936), Israeli author, psychologist, and president of the University of Haifa
C
- Ján Čapkovič (born 1948), Slovak football player
- Ján Čarnogurský (born 1944), Slovak politician
D
- Herta Däubler-Gmelin (born 1943), German politician
- Árpád Degen (1866–1934), Hungarian biologist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Ernő Dohnányi (1877–1960), Hungarian pianist and composer
- Marek Dolezaj (born 1998), Slovak professional basketball player
- Jana Dukátová (born 1983), Slovak slalom canoeist
- Bucura Dumbravă (1868–1926), Romanian writer and esotericist
E
- Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher (1804–1849), Austrian botanist.[2]
- Yvette Estermann (born 1967), Swiss politician
- Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231), Catholic Saint.[3]
F
- János Fadrusz (1858–1903), Hungarian sculptor
- Martin Fehérváry (born 1999), ice hockey player
- Gisi Fleischmann (1894–1944), leader of the Bratislava Working Group
- Flora Frangepán (fl. 1743), Hungarian writer
- Ľubomír Ftáčnik (born 1957), Slovak chess master
- Ferdinand Udvardy (1895-1945), World War I flying ace of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
G
- Jozef Golonka (born 1938), Slovak ice hockey player and coach
- Edita Gruberová (1946–2021), Slovak soprano
- Berthold Grünfeld (1932–2007), Norwegian psychiatrist and professor
H
- Jaroslav Halák (born 1985), Slovak ice hockey player
- Erzsébet Házy (1929–1982), Hungarian opera singer
- Ludwig von Höhnel (1857–1942), Austrian explorer
- Olga Horak (born 1926), Australian survivor of the Holocaust; author
- Katarína Horáková (born 1934), university biology professor[4]
- Dominik Hrbatý (born 1978), Slovak tennis player
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837), Austrian composer and pianist.[5]
- Gustáv Husák (1913–1991), Slovak politician
- Michal Hvorecký (born 1976), Slovak author
J
- Miroslava Jánošíková (born 1969), Czech Olympic judoka
- Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria (1833–1905), Austrian archduke
K
- Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734–1804), Hungarian inventor
- József Kiss de Elemér et Ittebe (1896-1918) World War I flying ace of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Ignác Kolisch (1837–1889), Hungarian banker and chess master
- Roman Kratochvíl (born 1974), Slovak football player
- Ján Kubiš (born 1952), Slovak politician
- Karol Kučera (born 1974), Slovak tennis player
- Kristína Kučová (born 1990), Slovak tennis player
- Jana Kulan (born 1987), Slovak-born Azerbaijani volleyball player
L
- Rudolf Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian dance artist and theorist
- Yehoshua Lakner (1924–2003), Israeli composer
- Philipp Lenard (1862–1947), Hungarian physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.[6]
- Ľuba Lesná (born 1954), contemporary Slovak writer
- Imi Lichtenfeld (1910–1998), Israeli martial artist; founded the Krav Maga self-defense system
- Zuzana Licko (born 1960), American typeface designer
- Johanna Loisinger (1865–1951), Austrian opera singer
- Viliam Loviska (born 1964), sculptor
- Malte Ludin (born 1942), German filmmaker
M
- Peter Machajdík (born 1961), composer
- Róbert Mak (born 1991), professional footballer
- Ján Markoš (born 1985), author and chess player
- Herbert Thomas Mandl (1926–2007), Czechoslovak-German-Jewish author, concert violinist, philosopher and inventor
- Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806–1856), Austrian composer
- Roman Mikulec (born 1972), Slovak politician and former soldier, Interior Minister of Slovakia from March 2020
N
- Ondrej Nepela (1951–1989), Slovak figure skater
O
- Adam Friedrich Oeser (1717–1799), German painter and sculptor
- Juraj Okoličány (1943–2008), Czechoslovak ice hockey referee and a Slovak ice hockey administrator
- Vladimir Oravsky (1947), Slovak-Swedish author and film director
P
- Peter Podhradský (born 1979), Slovak ice hockey player
- Julius Podlipny (1898–1991), Slovak and Romanian painter
- Zuzana Pramuková (born 1981), Slovak footballer
R
- Yossele Rosenblatt (1882–1933), Ukrainian-born chazzan and composer
- Milan Rufus (1928–2009), poet, essayist, children's writer and academic
- Adam Ružička (born 1999), ice hockey player
- Jakub Rybárik (born 1986), actor
S
- Jozef Sabovčík (born 1963), Slovak figure skater
- Július Satinský (1941–2002), Slovak author and actor
- Franz Schmidt (1874–1939), Austrian composer
- Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers (1775–1852), Austrian naturalist
- Johann Andreas Segner (1704–1777), German physicist
- Radovan Sloboda (born 1982), Slovak professional ice hockey player
- Samuel Benjamin Sofer (1815–1871), Rabbi of Bratislava
- Shimon Sofer (1820–1883), Austrian Orthodox Jewish rabbi
- Majk Spirit (born 1984), Slovak rapper
- Anton Šťastný (born 1959), Slovak ice hockey player
- Peter Šťastný (born 1956), Slovak ice hockey player and politician
- Pavol Steiner (1908–1969), Olympic water polo player, swimmer, and cardiac surgeon
- Ludwig Straus (1835–1899) Austrian violinist.[7]
- Martin Suchý (born 1982), Slovak football player
T
- Alfred Tauber (1866–1942), Austrian mathematician
- Yvonne Tobis (born 1948), Israeli Olympic swimmer
- Vojtech Tuka (1880–1946), prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of the Slovak Republic (1939–1945), war criminal
U
- Jenő Uhlyárik (1893–1974), Hungarian fencing-master
V
- Alexander Vencel (born 1967), Slovak football player
- Ingrid Veninger (born 1968), actress, writer, director, producer, and film professor who later immigrated to Canada
- Jan Vilcek (born 1933), professor in the Department of Microbiology at the NYU School of Medicine
- Róbert Vittek (born 1982), Slovak football player
Z
- Hanna Zemer (1925–2003), Israeli journalist
- Veronika Zuzulová (born 1984), Slovak alpine skier
References
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- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 287.
- "Katarína Horáková". Databazeknih.cz. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 885.
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- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 1002.
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