91 Notable Alumni of the Comenius University in Bratislava

Zuzana Čaputová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1973-.. (age 52)
Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava: 1991-1996 graduated with master's degree
Occupations: activistpoliticianlawyerenvironmentalistjurist
Biography: Zuzana Čaputová is a Slovak politician, lawyer and environmental activist who served as the fifth president of Slovakia from 2019 to 2024. Čaputová is the first woman to hold the presidency, as well as the youngest president in the history of Slovakia, elected at the age of 45.

Alexander Dubček

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1921-1992 (aged 71)
Occupations: diplomatpolitician
Biography: Alexander Dubček was a Slovak statesman who served as the First Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) (de facto leader of Czechoslovakia) from January 1968 to April 1969 and as Chairman of the Federal Assembly from 1989 to 1992 following the Velvet Revolution. He oversaw significant reforms to the communist system during a period that became known as the Prague Spring, but his reforms were reversed and he was eventually sidelined following the Warsaw Pact invasion in August 1968.

Igor Matovič

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1973-.. (age 52)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Igor Matovič is a Slovak politician and former businessman. He previously served as Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia and Minister of Finance from April 2021 to December 2022 and prime minister from March 2020 to March 2021.

Maroš Šefčovič

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1966-.. (age 59)
Occupations: diplomatpolitician
Biography: Maroš Šefčovič is a Slovak diplomat and politician serving as Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal since 2023, as well as Vice-President of the European Commission for Interinstitutional Relations since 2019, previously holding the office from 2010 to 2014. He has been a member of the European Commission since 2009. Šefčovič also stood for office in the 2019 Slovak presidential election, which he lost to Zuzana Čaputová.

Magdaléna Vášáryová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1948-.. (age 77)
Occupations: politicianwriterdiplomatactor
Biography: Magdaléna Vášáryová is a Slovak actress and diplomat, prominent for her liberal anti-nationalist stances.

Ivan Korčok

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1964-.. (age 61)
Occupations: diplomatpolitician
Biography: Ivan Korčok is a Slovak politician and retired executive diplomat who was Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia from 2020 to 2022 as an independent nominee of the Freedom and Solidarity political party.

Jožo Ráž

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1954-.. (age 71)
Occupations: singer
Biography: Jozef "Jožo" Ráž is a Slovak singer–songwriter and bassist from Bratislava known mainly for his work with the group Elán.

Iveta Radičová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1956-.. (age 69)
Occupations: politiciansociologist
Biography: Iveta Radičová is a Slovak sociologist and former politician who served as prime minister of Slovakia from 2010 to 2012. The first woman to hold the position, Radičová led a coalition government as a member of the SDKÚ-DS. As prime minister, she was responsible for managing the economy after the Great Recession, and she supported budget cuts to reduce the government deficit.

Ľudovít Ódor

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1976-.. (age 49)
Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava: 1994-1999 graduated with master's degree in management and mathematics
Occupations: politicianbankereconomist
Biography: Ľudovít Ódor is a Slovak economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Slovakia from May to October 2023, heading a technocratic cabinet. From July to October 2023, he also served as Minister of the Interior. Prior to his appointment as prime minister, Ódor served as Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Slovakia, from 2018 to 2023. He was the first Slovak prime-minister from the ethnic Hungarian minority in Slovakia.

Ladislav Chudík

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1924-2015 (aged 91)
Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava: Studied in 1944
Occupations: drama teacheractorfilm actoruniversity teachertelevision actor
Biography: Ladislav Chudík was a Slovak actor. He appeared in more than fifty films.

Adriana Krnáčová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1960-.. (age 65)
Occupations: opinion journalistpoliticianart historian
Biography: Adriana Krnáčová is a Czech businesswoman and a politician. She was the mayor of Prague from November 2014 until November 2018, becoming the first woman to serve in this position.

Milan Rúfus

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1928-2009 (aged 81)
Occupations: translatorpoetessayistwriterlinguist
Biography: Milan Rúfus was a Slovak poet, essayist, translator, children's writer and academic. Rúfus is the most translated Slovak poet into other languages.

Martin Ďurinda

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1961-.. (age 64)
Occupations: singerpianist
Biography: Martin "Maťo" Ďurinda is the vocalist and guitarist of the Slovak hard rock/heavy metal band Tublatanka. His hometown is Bratislava, Slovakia.

Emil Benčík

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1933-.. (age 92)
Occupations: writerjournalistlinguist
Biography: Emil Benčík is a Slovak writer, journalist and translator. He established the feature radio documentary in Slovakia and created the first family radio series in the country called Čo nového, Bielikovci, which during its 17 years run established itself as one of the most popular programs in Slovakia's history with almost 1 in 2 Slovaks tuning in regularly.

Marek Krajčí

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1974-.. (age 51)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Marek Krajčí is a Slovak politician.

Tibor Gašpar

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1962-.. (age 63)
Biography: Tibor Gašpar is a Slovak police officer and politician. He was the President of police of Slovakia from 2012 to 2018. He has served as a Member of the National Council since 2023.

Anna Záborská

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1948-.. (age 77)
Occupations: politicianphysician
Biography: Anna Záborská is a Slovak politician of the Christian Union party, living in Bojnice. From 2004 to 2019 she was a Member of the European Parliament, where she was a member of the Group of the European People's Party (EPP). She was a member of the Christian Democratic Movement party (KDH).

Ivan Mikloš

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1960-.. (age 65)
Occupations: politicianeconomist
Biography: Ivan Mikloš is a Slovak politician who served as Minister of Finance of Slovakia from 2002 to 2006, and Deputy Prime Minister for Economy between 1998 and 2002.

Pavol Rusko

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1963-.. (age 62)
Occupations: journalistpolitician
Biography: Pavol Rusko is retired Slovak politician, television magnate and convicted fraudster. He served as the Minister of Economy of Slovakia between 2003 and 2005 and Managing Director of TV Markíza, at the time Slovakia's most viewed private TV station, between 1996 and 2000. He currently serves a 19-year prison sentence for forging promissory notes in a conspiracy to defraud TV Markíza.

František Mikloško

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1947-.. (age 78)
Occupations: mathematicianpolitician
Biography: František Mikloško is a Slovak politician. He was the Speaker of the Slovak National Council from 1990 to 1992 and a long serving MP of the National Council of the Slovak Republic (1990-2010). For most of his career, he was a member of Christian Democratic Movement.

Matúš Šutaj Eštok

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1987-.. (age 38)
Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava: Studied law
Occupations: lawyerpolitician
Biography: Matúš Šutaj Eštok is a Slovak politician who has served as the Minister of Interior of Slovakia since 2023. He was an MP of the National Council.

Pavol Paška

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1958-2018 (aged 60)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Pavol Paška was a Slovak politician who served as Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2014. He was a member of the Direction – Social Democracy (Smer-SD) party.

Peter Colotka

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1925-2019 (aged 94)
Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava: In 1950 studied legal science
Occupations: politicianacademicjuristuniversity teacherjudge
Biography: Peter Colotka was a Slovak academic, lawyer and politician. He was the Prime Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic from 1969 to 1988.

Jana Žitňanská

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1974-.. (age 51)
Occupations: writerjournalistpolitician
Biography: Jana Žitňanská is a Slovak journalist and politician. She has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2014 as well as the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR). Žitňanská worked as a member of the Broadcasting and Retransmission Council between 2001 and 2007.

Milan Šášik

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1952-2020 (aged 68)
Occupations: Catholic deaconGreek-Catholic priestCatholic priestCatholic bishop
Biography: Milan Šašik, CM was a Ruthenian Catholic hierarch from Slovakia who served as Bishop of the Eparchy of Mukachevo from 2010 until his death in 2020.

Jozef Mihál

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1965-.. (age 60)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Jozef Mihál is a Slovak politician and tax consultant. He was Deputy Prime Minister; Minister for Labour, Social Affairs, and Family; and deputy leader of Freedom and Solidarity (SaS).

Milan Ftáčnik

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1956-2021 (aged 65)
Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava: Studied in 1980
Occupations: teacherpolitician
Biography: Milan Ftáčnik was a Slovak politician, Minister of Education of the Slovak Republic from 1998 to 2002 and Mayor of Bratislava from 2010 to 2014. Prior to this he was also Mayor of Petržalka from 2006 to 2010.

Ondrej Dostál

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1971-.. (age 54)
Occupations: politicianjournalistsociologist
Biography: Ondrej Dostál is a Slovak politician and former journalist, currently serving as member of the National Council of Slovakia in the caucus of Freedom and Solidarity and the chairman of the Civic Conservative Party.

Yvette Estermann

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1967-.. (age 58)
Occupations: politicianphysician
Biography: Yvette Estermann is a Slovakian-born physician and politician who served on the National Council (Switzerland) from 2007 to 2023. During the 2023 Swiss federal election she did not run for re-election and is due to leave her post on 3 December 2023.

Karl-Heinz Brunner

Born in: Germany
Years: 1953-.. (age 72)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Karl-Heinz Brunner is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was elected a member of the German parliament (Bundestag) in the federal election of 2013 until October 2021.

Antonín Mrkos

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1918-1996 (aged 78)
Occupations: discoverer of asteroidsastronomer
Biography: Antonín Mrkos was a Czech astronomer.

David Tencer

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1963-.. (age 62)
Occupations: theologianCatholic priestfriarCatholic bishop
Biography: Dávid Bartimej Tencer OFM Cap. is a Slovak prelate of the Catholic Church and has served as the Bishop of Reykjavík since 2015.

Ľubomír Galko

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1968-.. (age 57)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Ľubomír Galko is a Slovakia politician. He has served as a Member of the National Council of Slovakia since 2023, having previously served as an MP from 2011 to 2020. Galko served as the Minister of Defence of Slovakia between 2010 and 2011.

Peter Osuský

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1953-.. (age 72)
Occupations: physician
Biography: Peter Osuský is a Slovak politician, serving as the member of the National Council. In addition to being a MP, he is also a councilor in the Bratislava Old Town council, university professor and physician. Osuský is active as a co-editor of the Encyclopaedia Beliana.

Jan Vilcek

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1933-.. (age 92)
Occupations: immunologistscientistmicrobiologist
Biography: Jan T. Vilček is a Slovak-American biomedical scientist, educator, inventor and philanthropist. He is a professor in the department of microbiology at the New York University School of Medicine, and chairman and CEO of The Vilcek Foundation. Vilček received his M.D. degree from Comenius University Medical School in Bratislava in 1957; and his Ph.D. in Virology from the Institute of Virology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, in 1962.

Vladimír Palko

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1957-.. (age 68)
Occupations: politicianuniversity teachermathematician
Biography: Vladimír Palko is a Slovak politician. He is a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic and former interior minister of Slovakia. On 12 March 2008 he established a new party called Conservative Democrats of Slovakia after he left Christian Democratic Movement in February 2008, due to his scepticism and disappointment about leadership of Pavol Hrušovský.

František Trstenský

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1973-.. (age 52)
Occupations: Catholic priesttheologianCatholic bishop
Biography: František Trstenský is the current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spiš.

Martin Bútora

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1944-.. (age 81)
Occupations: politicianjournalistdiplomatwritersociologist
Biography: Martin Bútora is a Slovak sociologist, writer, university professor and diplomat.

František Šebej

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1947-.. (age 78)
Occupations: pedagoguepoliticianwriterjournalist
Biography: František Šebej is a Slovak politician and academic. He was member of the National Council of Slovakia between 1998 and 2002 and once more from 2010 until 2018. Between 1990 and 1992 he was member of the House of the Nation of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia.

Miklós Duray

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1945-2022 (aged 77)
Occupations: opinion journalistpoliticiangeologist
Biography: Miklós Duray was an ethnic Hungarian politician active in Slovakia. He served as a Member of the National Council from 1994 to 2010. Previously he was a member of the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly from 1990 to 1994.

Milan Chautur

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1957-.. (age 68)
Occupations: Catholic priestCatholic bishop
Biography: Milan Chautur, C.Ss.R. is a Slovak Greek Catholic hierarch, who served as the first Bishop of the Slovak Catholic Eparchy of Košice from 30 January 2008 until his resignation on 24 June 2021.

Martin Hojsík

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1977-.. (age 48)
Occupations: politicianactivist
Biography: Martin Hojsík is a Slovak activist, an environmental expert and a politician elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019. In addition to his committee assignments, Hojsík is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals and a member of the political group Renew Europe. He is also a vice chairman of the political party Progressive Slovakia and their expert on environmental issues and sustainability.

Boris Zala

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1954-.. (age 71)
Occupations: politicianassistant professoruniversity teacher
Biography: Boris Zala is a Slovak politician for the parliamentary party SMER-SD, a member of the Slovak parliament, and the current Chairman of the parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee. He is also Assistant Professor at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Columnist, Chair of the Political Science, and European Studies Department at UKF's Faculty of Philosophy.

Gyula Bárdos

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1958-.. (age 67)
Occupations: journalistpolitician
Biography: Gyula Bárdos is an ethnic Hungarian politician in Slovakia, who was candidate in 2014 Slovak presidential election, running as a member of the Party of the Hungarian Community (SMK–MKP). He came in fifth with 5.1%. His daughter is actress Judit Bárdos.

Basil Hopko

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1904-1976 (aged 72)
Occupations: Catholic priestCatholic bishop
Biography: Basil or Vasiľ Hopko was an eparch (bishop) of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 14 September 2003 for his martyrdom under Communist occupation.

Pavel Traubner

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1941-2024 (aged 83)
Occupations: professorneurologistphysician
Biography: Pavel Traubner was a Slovak neurologist.

Árpád Érsek

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1958-.. (age 67)
Occupations: civil servant
Biography: Árpád Érsek is a Slovak politician of Hungarian ethnicity from the former Most–Híd party who served as the Minister of Transport and Minister of the Environment in 2020.

Dušan Čaplovič

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1946-.. (age 79)
Occupations: politicianarchaeologistprehistorian
Biography: Dušan Čaplovič is a Slovak politician, formerly a historian and archaeologist. In 2006–2010, he was the Deputy Prime Minister for Knowledge Society, European Affairs, Human Rights and Minorities. Čaplovič is also vice-chairman of Direction – Social Democracy.

Ivan Štefanec

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1961-.. (age 64)
Occupations: politicianmanagereconomist
Biography: Ivan Štefanec is a Slovak politician and business manager, former member of the Slovak Parliament and current member of the European Parliament for Christian Democratic Movement.

Pavel Vilikovský

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1941-2020 (aged 79)
Occupations: translatorediting staffopinion journalistprose writerwriter
Biography: Pavel Vilikovský was a Slovak writer. He was born in Palúdzka, now part of Liptovský Mikuláš. He attended the FAMU film school in Prague, before switching to Comenius University in Bratislava where he studied languages. He worked as an editor at various journals and publishing houses. Although he started writing in the 1960s, his literary output only became freely available after the Velvet Revolution. He published more than a dozen books, of which Letmý sneh (2014) has been translated into English, as Fleeting Snow. In 1997, Vilikovský won the Vilenica Prize.

Branislav Ondruš

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1973-.. (age 52)
Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava: 1991-1996 studied political science
Occupations: journalistpolitician
Biography: Branislav Ondruš is a Slovak television presenter and politician of Hlas–SD who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024. He previously served in the National Council of Slovakia, as news presenter at TV Markíza, as news presenter at TV JOJ and as state secretary at the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, and Family.

Peter Zajac

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1946-.. (age 79)
Occupations: translatorliterary theoristGermanistuniversity teacherart critic
Biography: Peter Zajac is a Slovak literary critic and politician who served as an MP of the National Council between 1998 and 2001 and again between 2010 and 2012. He is married to the science fiction writer Alta Vášová. In 2020 president Zuzana Čaputová awarded Peter Zajac Ľudovít Štúr Order, 1st class.

Rudolf Chmel

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1939-.. (age 86)
Occupations: pedagoguepoliticianwriterdiplomat
Biography: Rudolf Chmel is a Slovak politician who was Minister of Culture in the government of Slovakia from 2002 to 2005 and again in 2006. He was also the last ambassador of Czechoslovakia accredited to Hungary, a member of the Parliament of Slovakia, and a writer and editor. From 2010 to 2012, he was the Deputy Prime Minister in Iveta Radičová's government.

Ivan Kamenec

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1938-.. (age 87)
Occupations: historianuniversity teacher
Biography: Ivan Kamenec is a Slovak historian.

Barbora Mokošová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1997-.. (age 28)
Occupations: artistic gymnast
Biography: Barbora Mokošová is a Slovak artistic gymnast. She is the 2020 European bronze medalist on the uneven bars and the first gymnast representing Slovakia to receive a medal at the European Championships. She represented Slovakia at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games. She is also a two-time World Challenge Cup champion on the uneven bars.

Simona Petrík

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1982-.. (age 43)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Simona Petrík is a Slovak politician who served as a member of the National Council of Slovakia from 2016–2020 and is serving again from 2023.

Andrej Žarnov

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1903-1982 (aged 79)
Occupations: translatorphysicianpoetwriterlinguist
Biography: Andrej Žarnov, born František Šubík, was a Slovak Catholic modernist (Catholic Moderna) writer and physician.

Jozef Heriban

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1953-.. (age 72)
Occupations: screenwriterfilm directorpoliticianwriterplaywright
Biography: Jozef Heriban is a Slovak writer, scenarist and film director. He devotes his time to literature and film. He is the former President of the Slovak PEN Centre, a Vice-President of the Board of the Slovak Audiovisual Fund and a member of the Slovak Film and Television Academy. He was married to well-known television talk show host and former Director of the Slovak Institute in Vienna Alena Heribanová and has two daughters, writer and journalist Tamara Šimončíková Heribanová and marketing and PR manager Barbara Jagušák.

Dušan Kováč

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1942-.. (age 83)
Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava: Studied in 1964
Occupations: historianwriter
Biography: Dušan Kováč is a Slovak historian and writer. He specializes in Slovak and Central European history of the 19th and 20th centuries, the author or co-author of several synthetic works about Slovak history. The head of the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (1990-1998), the scientific secretary of the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (since 1998). The member of several Slovak and foreign scientific organisations like the Collegium Carolinum in Munich or the Royal Historical Society in London. He is a brother of the Slovak ex-president Michal Kováč.

József Berényi

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1967-.. (age 58)
Occupations: politician
Biography: József Berényi is a Hungarian minority politician from Slovakia. He was the Chairman of the Party of the Hungarian Coalition of Slovakia in 2010-2016.

Zuzka Zguriška

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1900-1984 (aged 84)
Occupations: writertranslatorplaywrightteacher
Biography: Zuzka Zguriška, born as Ľudmila Šimonovičová, married Dvořáková, was a Slovak novelist, play-writer and translator, and occasional actress. Zguriška is a belated representative of classical Slovak Realism.

Zuzana Martináková

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1961-.. (age 64)
Occupations: writerjournalistpolitician
Biography: Zuzana Martináková is a Slovak politician and a former journalist. She is the leader of the political party Free Forum.

Anton Štefánek

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1877-1964 (aged 87)
Occupations: politicianjournalistwritersociologistuniversity teacher
Biography: Anton Štefánek was a Slovak politician and sociologist who was involved in the campaign for Czech and Slovak unity and independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was an important promoter of the concept of Czechoslovakism and served for 14 years in the Czechoslovak National Assembly and the Senate of Czechoslovakia in the 1920s and 1930s. He also pursued an academic career at Comenius University in Bratislava, culminating in his serving as rector of the university for several years after the Second World War. He was forced into retirement a year after the Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948.

Branislav Škripek

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1970-.. (age 55)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Branislav Škripek is a Slovak politician. He has served as Member of the National Council of Slovakia since 2023, having previously served as an MP from 2012 to 2014. From 2014 to 2019 he served as a Member of the European Parliament.

Ján Packa

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1956-.. (age 69)
Biography: Ján Packa is the former president of the Slovak Police Force the National Police in Slovakia.

Rudolf Baláž

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1940-2011 (aged 71)
Occupations: Catholic priestCatholic bishop
Biography: Rudolf Baláž was a Slovak Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Banská Bystrica from 1990 until his death in 2011. Baláž was ordained as a Catholic priest on 23 June 1963. He died on 27 July 2011 at the age of 70.

Tamara Heribanová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1985-.. (age 40)
Occupations: journalistwriter
Biography: Tamara Heribanová is a Slovak writer, journalist and presenter.

Juraj Hromkovič

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1958-.. (age 67)
Occupations: computer scientistuniversity teacher
Biography: Juraj Hromkovič is a Slovak Computer Scientist and Professor at ETH Zürich. He is the author of numerous monographs and scientific publications in the field of algorithmics, computational complexity theory, and randomization.

Silvia Gašparovičová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1941-.. (age 84)
Occupations: civil engineer
Biography: Silvia Gašparovičová née Beníková was the First Lady of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014 as wife of former President Ivan Gašparovič.

Ľubomír Belák

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1951-.. (age 74)
Occupations: composertelevision producermusiciansingeropinion journalist
Biography: Ľubomír Belák is a Slovak musician, vocalist, music composer and TV producer. His father Michal Belák was a presenter, singer and actor, and his mother Pavla Adámková Beláková was a singer in choir of the Slovak National Theater. His older sister Jana Beláková was a singer and his younger sister Daniela Luthová is a vogue designer. In 1983 he graduated from Philosophical Faculty at the Comenius University in Bratislava.

Pavol Rankov

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1964-.. (age 61)
Occupations: writerjournalistprose writer
Biography: 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 (alebo inokedy), translated into English as It Happened on September the First (or Whenever).

Yuri Dojc

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1946-.. (age 79)
Occupations: photographer
Biography: Yuri Dojc is a Slovak-Canadian fine arts photographer. Dojc currently resides in Toronto, Canada, with work internationally exhibited in countries such as Brazil, Slovakia, Rwanda as well as across Canada.

Vladimir Fekete

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1955-.. (age 70)
Occupations: Catholic priestCatholic bishop
Biography: Bishop Vladimír Fekete, S.D.B. is a Slovak-born Roman Catholic prelate as the Apostolic Prefect of Apostolic Prefecture of Azerbaijan (since 5 November 2009 until 4 August 2011 as Superior of the Mission sui iuris) and Titular Bishop of Municipa (since 8 December 2017).

Miroslav Wlachovský

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1970-.. (age 55)
Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava: Studied in 1994
Occupations: civil servantdiplomat
Biography: Miroslav Wlachovský is a Slovak diplomat. He served as the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia from May to October 2023. Previously he served as Slovak ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2011 to 2015 and to Denmark from 2018 to 2022.

Ľuba Lesná

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1954-.. (age 71)
Occupations: journalistwriter
Biography: Ľuba Lesná is a contemporary Slovak investigative journalist, filmmaker, novelist, and playwright. While her earlier work focused on plays, since Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution she has worked primarily as a journalist, writing also several books and a novel, Prípad medička (The Medical Student Case), being rewritten as a play. Lesná worked with Prime Minister Iveta Radičová, as an analyst in the Slovak Office of the Government from 2010-2012.

Jan Oravec

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1964-.. (age 61)
Occupations: economist
Biography: Ján Oravec is a well-known Slovak economist. In 2020, he ran as a non-party candidate on the candidate list of the Freedom and Solidarity party in the parliamentary elections. He was elected as a deputy of the Slovak parliament. From March 2020 to the end of September 2022, he worked as a Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic. From October 1, 2022 to October 1, 2023, he served as a member of the Parliamentary Committee for European Affairs. From 2013 to 2020, he was the president of the Association of Entrepreneurs of Slovakia and from 2004 to 2020, a member of the Presidium of the Republic of Employers' Union. From 2004 to 2014, he represented Slovak employers in tripartite negotiations and in the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels.

Henrieta Todorova

Born in: Bulgaria
Years: 1933-2015 (aged 82)
Occupations: university teacherhistorianarchaeologist
Biography: Henrieta Todorova was a Bulgarian archaeologist, specialist in prehistory, professor, corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin, and a foreign member of the academy Leibniz Scientific Society (Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften) in Berlin.

Pavol Šajgalík

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1955-.. (age 70)
Occupations: scientist
Biography: Pavol Šajgalík is a Slovak physicist, specialized in materials science. He has served as the president of the Slovak Academy of Sciences since 2015 and his current term will end in 2025.

Renáta Kaščáková

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1965-.. (age 60)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Renáta Kaščáková is a Slovak politician. She served as a member of the National Council from 2016 to 2020 representing the Freedom and Solidarity party.

Mira Nábělková

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1956-.. (age 69)
Occupations: linguist
Biography: Mira Nábělková is a Slovak linguist.

Marko Škop

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1974-.. (age 51)
Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava: In 2005 graduated with doctorate
Occupations: film directordocumentarianscreenwriter
Biography: Marko Škop is a Slovak film director.

Oskar Dvořák

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1991-.. (age 34)
Biography: Oskar Dvořák is a Slovak politician. Since 2023 he serves as an MP of the National Council of Slovakia.

László Szarka

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1953-.. (age 72)
Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava: Studied in 1971-1976
Occupations: historianuniversity teacher
Biography: László Szarka is a Hungarian historian.

František Lipka

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1946-.. (age 79)
Occupations: poetsommelierwriterdiplomatlinguist
Biography: František Lipka is a Slovak diplomat, poet and translator, who contributed to the process of the creation of independent Montenegro.

Stanislav Piętak

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1946-.. (age 79)
Occupations: parsonuniversity teacherProtestant theologian
Biography: Stanislav Piętak is a Czech theologian and pedagogue.

Bohuslav Kokotek

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1949-2016 (aged 67)
Occupations: politicianjournalistChristian minister
Biography: Bohuslav Kokotek was a Polish Czech Lutheran clergyman, journalist, activist of the Polish minority in the Czech Republic, and local politician.

Zuzana Beňušková

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1960-.. (age 65)
Occupations: ethnologist
Biography: Prof. PhDr. Zuzana Beňušková, CSc. is a Slovak ethnologist, ethnographer, cultural and social anthropologist. She is a professor of ethnology at University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra. Her fields of research are ethnic minorities, social relations, customs, cultural regions of Slovakia and history of ethnology.

Tatiana Štefanovičová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1934-2021 (aged 87)
Occupations: archaeologisthistorian
Biography: Tatiana Štefanovičová was a Slovak archaeologist and historian, one of leading experts in early history of Slovakia. Along with other research activities, she worked on excavations unearthing the oldest archeological remains of Bratislava at most Bratislava Castle.

Milan Mišík

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1928-2011 (aged 83)
Occupations: geologistbotanist
Biography: Milan Mišík was Slovak geologist and university professor. He excelled particularly as an expert in microfacies analysis, stratigraphy, sedimentology, petrography of sedimentary rocks, but also in paleogeography, general and structural geology and tectonics. His best known scientific works were dealing with carbonate rocks and exotic conglomerates.

Viera Prokešová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1957-2008 (aged 51)
Occupations: writerjournalistpoet
Biography: Viera Prokešová was a Slovak writer and translator.

Zora Mintalová-Zubercová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1950-.. (age 75)
Occupations: historian
Biography: Zora Mintalová-Zubercová is a Slovak ethnographer, historian, museologist and popular science author, best known for her study of food history and material culture of Slovakia and the history of the Slovak Red Cross. Her work has, among others, earned her the Pitrè Prize as well as the National Medal of Science of the Slovak Republic.