100 Notable alumni of
Comenius University in Bratislava
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The Comenius University in Bratislava is 451st in the world, 155th in Europe, and 1st in Slovakia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Comenius University in Bratislava sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Zuzana Čaputová
- Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava
- 1991-1996 graduated with master's degree
- 1991-1996 studied legal science
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianactivistjuristenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Zuzana Čaputová is a Slovak politician, lawyer and environmental activist. She is the fifth president of Slovakia, a position she has held since 15 June 2019. 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.
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Alexander Dubček
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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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.
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Robert Fico
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Fico is a Slovak politician currently serving as the Prime Minister of Slovakia since 2023, having served previously from 2006 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2018. He founded the Direction – Social Democracy (Smer) party in 1999 and has led the party since its foundation. Fico holds a record as the longest-serving prime minister in the country's history, having served for a total of over 10 years. First elected to Parliament in 1992 (whilst within Czechoslovakia), he was later appointed to the Council of Europe. Following his party's victory in the 2006 parliamentary election, he formed the first Fico Cabinet.
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Gustáv Husák
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- politicianlawyerjurist
- Biography
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Gustáv Husák was a Czechoslovak politician who served as the long-time First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1969 to 1987 and the President of Czechoslovakia from 1975 to 1989.
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Igor Matovič
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Vladimír Mečiar
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Vladimír Mečiar is a Slovak former politician who served as the prime minister of Slovakia from June 1990 to May 1991, June 1992 to March 1994, and again from December 1994 to October 1998. He was the leader of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS), a populist party in Slovakia.
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Miroslav Lajčák
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Miroslav Lajčák is a Slovak politician and diplomat, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. In addition, Lajčák also served as President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 72nd session from 2017 until 2018.
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Maroš Šefčovič
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- diplomatpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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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 member of the European Commission since 2009. Šefčovič also stood for office in the 2019 Slovak presidential election, which he lost against Zuzana Čaputová.
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Magdaléna Vášáryová
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianactordiplomat
- Biography
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Magdaléna Vášáryová is a Slovak actress and diplomat, prominent for her liberal anti-nationalist stances.
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Ivan Gašparovič
- Occupations
- pedagoguepoliticianteacher
- Biography
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Ivan Gašparovič is a Slovak politician and lawyer who was the third president of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014. He was also the first and currently the only Slovak president to be re-elected.
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Jožo Ráž
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Jozef "Jožo" Ráž is a Slovak singer–songwriter and bassist from Bratislava known mainly for his work with the group Elán.
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Iveta Radičová
- Occupations
- sociologistpolitician
- Biography
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Iveta Radičová is a Slovak politician who served as prime minister of Slovakia from 2010 to 2012. She was 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. For the final months of her tenure, she also served as Minister of Defence. Prior to her tenure as prime minister, she was a member of parliament, the Minister of Labor, Social Affairs, and Family, and an unsuccessful presidential candidate in the 2009 presidential election.
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Robert Kaliňák
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Kaliňák is a Slovak politician who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia and Minister of Defence in the Fourth cabinet of Robert Fico since 25 October 2023.
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Adriana Krnáčová
- Occupations
- art historianpoliticianopinion journalist
- Biography
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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.
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Ladislav Chudík
- Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava
- Studied in 1944
- Occupations
- television actoruniversity teacherfilm actoractordrama teacher
- Biography
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Ladislav Chudík was a Slovak actor. He appeared in more than fifty films.
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Ľudovít Ódor
- Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava
- 1994-1999 graduated with master's degree in mathematics and management
- Occupations
- bankerpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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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.
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Milan Rúfus
- Occupations
- writeressayistpoettranslatorlinguist
- Biography
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Milan Rúfus was a Slovak poet, essayist, translator, children's writer and academic. Rúfus is the most translated Slovak poet into other languages.
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Daniel Lipšic
- Occupations
- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Daniel Lipšic is a Slovak politician and Jurist. He is a former Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice and former Minister of Interior. Until 28 May 2012 he was a member of the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), in which he served as vice-president and a Member of Parliament. Through his legal and political career, he is noted for his hard-line stance regarding officials from the former communist Czechoslovak regime, as well as crimes committed during this period. A public anti-corruption activist, he is outspoken against perceived corruption in the political or financial sphere.
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Ivan Korčok
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Ivan Korčok is a Slovak politician and retired 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.
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Emil Benčík
- Occupations
- linguistjournalistwriter
- Biography
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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.
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Martin Ďurinda
- Occupations
- singerpianistmusician
- Biography
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Martin "Maťo" Ďurinda is the vocalist and guitarist for the Slovak hard rock/heavy metal band Tublatanka. His hometown is Bratislava, Slovakia.
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Pavol Hammel
- Occupations
- singercomposerrecord producer
- Biography
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Pavol Hammel is a Slovak musician, singer and producer.
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Marek Krajčí
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marek Krajčí is a Slovak politician.
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Anna Záborská
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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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).
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Ivan Mikloš
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Ivan Mikloš is a Slovak politician and the former Minister of Finance of Slovakia (2010–2012). He previously served as Slovakia's Minister of Finance from 2002 to 2006, and Deputy Prime Minister for Economy between 1998 and 2002.
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Tibor Gašpar
- Biography
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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.
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Pavol Rusko
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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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.
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František Mikloško
- Occupations
- politicianmathematician
- Biography
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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.
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Lucia Žitňanská
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Lucia Žitňanská is a Slovak politician and member of Most–Híd. She served as Minister of Justice in the third government of Robert Fico from 2016–2018. In 2006 she served as deputy prime minister and Minister of Justice of Slovakia and in 2010 until 2012 she again served as Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Iveta Radičová.
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Martina Lubyová
- Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianeconomistjuristdocent
- Biography
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Martina Lubyová was a Slovak economist and politician. She served as Slovakia's minister of education, science, research, and sport between 2017 and 2020. She was a member of the Slovak National Party.
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Pavol Paška
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Jana Žitňanská
- Occupations
- journalistwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Jana Žitňanská is a Slovak politician. Since 2014 she has been a Member of the European Parliament, where she is a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR). She is also a journalist.
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Martin Glváč
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Martin Glváč born 20 November 1967) is a Slovak politician for the Direction - Social Democracy (Slovak: Smer-SD). He was Minister of Defence in Fico's Second Cabinet from 2012 to 2016. and a Deputy Speaker of the National Council between 2016 and 2020. He did not run again in the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election.
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Milan Šášik
- Occupations
- Catholic priestGreek-Catholic priestCatholic deaconCatholic bishop
- Biography
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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.
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Ondrej Dostál
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- journalistpoliticiansociologist
- Biography
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Ondrej Dostál is a Slovak politician and former journalist, currently serving as member of the National Council in the caucus of Freedom and Solidarity and the chairman of the Civic Conservative Party.
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Milan Ftáčnik
- Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava
- Studied in 1980
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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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. He was also a teacher at the Department of Applied Informatics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Comenius University in Bratislava.
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Karl-Heinz Brunner
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Yvette Estermann
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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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.
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Milan Čič
- Occupations
- juristlegal scholarpoliticianjudge
- Biography
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Milan Čič was a Slovak lawyer and politician who served as the prime minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic from 1989 to 1990.
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Jozef Mihál
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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).
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Lucia Kurilovská
- Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava
- In 1989 graduated with Doctor of Laws
- Occupations
- university teacherjurist
- Biography
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Lucia Kurilovská is a Slovak lawyer, academic and politician. She currently serves as the State Secretary at the Ministry of the Interior Affairs.
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Jozef Pročko
- Occupations
- television directorstage actoractortelevision presenter
- Biography
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Jozef Pročko is a Slovak comedian and politician. Since 2020 he has served as a Member of the National Council.
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Irena Bihariová
- Occupations
- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Irena Bihariová is a Slovak lawyer and politician. She was the leader of Progressive Slovakia from June 2020 to May 2022. In 2022, a meeting of the Progressive Slovakia party took place, where the only candidate, Michal Šimečka, ran. He was elected chairman of the Party and Irena Bihariová was elected vice-president of the Party.
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Antonín Mrkos
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- astronomerdiscoverer of asteroids
- Biography
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Antonín Mrkos was a Czech astronomer.
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Peter Osuský
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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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.
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Jan Vilcek
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- researcherimmunologistmicrobiologistscientist
- Biography
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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.
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David Tencer
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- friarCatholic priesttheologianCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Dávid Bartimej Tencer, OFM Cap., is a Slovak prelate of the Catholic Church and has served as the Bishop of Reykjavík since 2015.
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Ivan Šimko
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ivan Šimko is Slovak politician and former defense and interior affairs minister.
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Ľubomír Galko
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ľubomír Galko is a former minister of defense of Slovakia. A former member and vice-chairman for regions of Freedom and Solidarity (Sloboda a Solidarita, SaS), he is now a member of the extra-parliamentary Democratic Party (Demokratická strana, DS), though he has retained his seat in parliament.
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Ivo Nesrovnal
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ivo Nesrovnal, LL.M. is a Slovak lawyer, politician. He served as the Mayor of Bratislava from 2014 to 2018.
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Imrich Karvaš
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- lawyereconomistpedagoguebanker
- Biography
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Imrich Karvaš was a Slovak economist.
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Stano Kropilák
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- politicianbasketball player
- Biography
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Stanislav Kropilák was a Slovak basketball player. At a height of 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), he was a power forward-center. He is considered to be one of the best European players of his generation. Kropilák was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991. His nickname as a player was Kily.
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Vladimír Palko
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- university teacherpoliticianmathematician
- Biography
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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 on February 2008, due to his scepticism and disappointment about leadership of Pavol Hrušovský.
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Miroslav Čiž
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- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Miroslav Číž was a Slovak politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 until his death in 2022.
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František Šebej
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- journalistwriterpoliticianpedagogue
- Biography
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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.
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Miklós Duray
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- geologistpoliticianopinion journalist
- Biography
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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.
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Martin Bútora
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- university teachersociologistwriterdiplomatjournalist
- Biography
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Martin Bútora is a Slovak sociologist, writer, university professor and diplomat.
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Pavol Hrušovský
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Pavol Hrušovský is a former Slovak politician, who served as the Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic (the Slovak parliament) from 15 October 2002 to 7 February 2006 and party leader of the Christian Democratic Movement (2000–2009).
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Milan Chautur
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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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.
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František Trstenský
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- theologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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František Trstenský is the current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spiš.
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Basil Hopko
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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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.
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Gyula Bárdos
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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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.
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Árpád Érsek
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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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.
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Boris Zala
- Occupations
- university teacherassistant professorpolitician
- Biography
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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.
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Dušan Čaplovič
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- archaeologistpoliticianprehistorian
- Biography
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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.
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Pavel Vilikovský
- Occupations
- writerprose writeropinion journalistediting stafftranslator
- Biography
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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.
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Ivan Štefanec
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- managerpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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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.
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Gustáv Murín
- Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava
- Graduated with doctor rerum naturalium
- Occupations
- writerbiologistuniversity teacherscreenwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Gustáv Murín is a Slovak author and journalist. He has written critically on corruption in Slovak politics. His Small World was published in France as Le monde est petit. He was president of the PEN centre of Slovakia 2000 – 2004, 2009 – 2011.
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Peter Zajac
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- university teachergermanistliterary theoristtranslatoressayist
- Biography
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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.
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Ivan Kamenec
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- university teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Ivan Kamenec is a Slovak historian.
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Barbora Mokošová
- Occupations
- artistic gymnast
- Biography
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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.
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Rudolf Chmel
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- writerpoliticianpedagoguediplomat
- Biography
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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.
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Martin Hojsík
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- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Andrej Žarnov
- Occupations
- writerpoetphysiciantranslatorlinguist
- Biography
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Andrej Žarnov, born František Šubík, was a Slovak Catholic modernist (Catholic Moderna) writer and physician.
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Dušan Kováč
- Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava
- Studied in 1964
- Occupations
- writerhistorian
- Biography
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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.
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Simona Petrík
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Anton Štefánek
- Occupations
- university teachersociologistwriterjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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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.
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Jozef Heriban
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- writerpoliticianfilm directorscreenwriterplaywright
- Biography
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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.
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József Berényi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Zuzka Zguriška
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- playwrighttranslatorwriterteacher
- Biography
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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.
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Ján Packa
- Biography
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Ján Packa is the former president of the Slovak Police Force the National Police in Slovakia.
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Zuzana Martináková
- Occupations
- journalistwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Zuzana Martináková is a Slovak politician and a former journalist. She is the leader of the political party Free Forum.
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Branislav Škripek
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Branislav Škripek is a Slovak politician. He served as a Member of the National Council (2012–2014) and the European Parliament (2014–2019).
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Rudolf Baláž
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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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.
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Tamara Heribanová
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Tamara Heribanová is a Slovak writer, journalist and presenter.
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Juraj Hromkovič
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- university teachercomputer scientist
- Biography
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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.
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Ľubomír Belák
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- opinion journalistsingermusiciantelevision producercomposer
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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 Bratilava.
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Juraj Hipš
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- politician
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Juraj Hipš is a Slovak educator, activist in the field of education and teaching methodology and politician. In 2019, he entered politics as the chief education expert of the TOGETHER – Civic Democracy party. He was also its chairman from April 2020 to August 2021.
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Pavol Rankov
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- prose writerjournalistwriter
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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).
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Silvia Gašparovičová
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- civil engineer
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Silvia Gašparovičová née Beníková was the First Lady of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014 as wife of former President Ivan Gašparovič.
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Yuri Dojc
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- photographer
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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.
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Vladimir Fekete
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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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).
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Ľuba Lesná
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- writerjournalist
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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.
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Silvia Hroncová
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- managertheatrologist
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Silvia Hroncová is a Slovak manager and publisher. From May to October 2023 she served as the minister of culture of Slovakia.
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Jan Oravec
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- economist
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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.
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Ingrid Brocková
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- diplomat
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Ingrid Brocková is a Slovak diplomat. Since 2020, she has served as the State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. In the past, she had been the World Bank representative in Slovakia (2001-2008) and Slovakia's permanent envoy to OECD (2009-2015).
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Hana Librová
- Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava
- Graduated with Candidate of Sciences
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- writeruniversity teacherpedagogueecologistsociologist
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Hana Librová is a Czech biologist, sociologist and environmentalist. She founded the Department of Environmental Studies at Masaryk University. She has carried out research on environmental lifestyle and environmental values.
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Henrieta Todorova
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- archaeologisthistorianuniversity teacher
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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.
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Renáta Kaščáková
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- politician
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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.
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Miroslav Wlachovský
- Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava
- Studied in 1994
- Occupations
- diplomatcivil servant
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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.
