93 Notable Alumni of the Comenius University in Bratislava

Alexander Dubček

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1921-1992 (aged 71)
Occupations: diplomatpolitician
Biography: Alexander Dubček was a Slovak politician 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. 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.

Zuzana Čaputová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1973-.. (age 50)
Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava: 1991-1996 graduated with master's degree; 1991-1996 studied legal science
Occupations: environmentalistjuristactivistpoliticianlawyer
Biography: 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.

Gustáv Husák

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1913-1991 (aged 78)
Occupations: juristlawyerpolitician
Biography: 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.

Robert Fico

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1964-.. (age 59)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Robert Fico is a Slovak politician who served as the prime minister of Slovakia from 2006 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2018 (when he resigned). He has been the first leader of the Direction – Social Democracy (SMER-SD) party since 1999. 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.

Igor Matovič

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1973-.. (age 50)
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.

Vladimír Mečiar

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1942-.. (age 81)
Occupations: lawyerpolitician
Biography: 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.

Miroslav Lajčák

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1963-.. (age 60)
Occupations: international forum participantpoliticiandiplomat
Biography: Miroslav Lajčák is a Slovak politician and diplomat, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. In addition, Lajčak also served as President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 72nd session from 2017 until 2018.

Maroš Šefčovič

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1966-.. (age 57)
Occupations: international forum participantpoliticiandiplomat
Biography: Maroš Šefčovič is a Slovak diplomat and politician serving 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.

Andrej Danko

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1974-.. (age 49)
Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava: Studied in 1992-1998
Occupations: politician
Biography: Andrej Danko is a Slovak politician who has been Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic from 2016 to 2020 and Chairman of the Slovak National Party since 2012.

Magdaléna Vášáryová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1948-.. (age 75)
Occupations: diplomatactorpoliticianwriter
Biography: Magdaléna Vášáryová is a Slovak actress and diplomat, prominent for her liberal anti-nationalist stances.

Ivan Gašparovič

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1941-.. (age 82)
Occupations: teacherpoliticianpedagogue
Biography: Ivan Gašparovič is a Slovak politician and lawyer who was third president of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014. He was also the first and currently the only Slovak president to be re-elected.

Jožo Ráž

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1954-.. (age 69)
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 67)
Occupations: politiciansociologist
Biography: Iveta Radičová served as the first woman prime minister of Slovakia from 2010 to 2012. She led a coalition government, in which she also briefly held the post of Minister of Defence in the last five months of the coalition. Previously she had served as minister of Labour from 2005 to 2006 in the second Dzurinda government.

Adriana Krnáčová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1960-.. (age 63)
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.

Robert Kaliňák

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1971-.. (age 52)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Robert Kaliňák is a Slovak politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior of Slovakia from 4 July 2006 to 12 March 2018. He is a member of the Direction – Social Democracy party. Kaliňák previously served as Minister of the Interior from 4 July 2006 to 8 July 2010. Kaliňák resigned on 12 March 2018 after the murder of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak. He left as the longest serving minister in the history of modern Slovakia.

Milan Rúfus

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

Daniel Lipšic

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1973-.. (age 50)
Occupations: juristpolitician
Biography: 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.

Emil Benčík

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1933-.. (age 90)
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 49)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Marek Krajčí is a Slovak politician, former minister of health of Slovakia. Amidst pressure from the public and rival political parties on 11 March 2021 Krajčí announced his intentions to resign in the following weeks. He was a deputy in the National Council from 2016 to 2020 for the Ordinary People party. Following his resignation, he returned to the parliament

Pavol Hammel

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1948-.. (age 75)
Occupations: record producercomposersinger
Biography: Pavol Hammel is a Slovak musician, singer and producer.

Martin Ďurinda

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1961-.. (age 62)
Occupations: musicianpianistsinger
Biography: Martin Ďurinda is the vocalist and guitarist for the Slovak hard rock/heavy metal band Tublatanka. His hometown is Bratislava, Slovakia.

Ivan Mikloš

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1960-.. (age 63)
Occupations: politicianeconomist
Biography: 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.

Ivan Korčok

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1964-.. (age 59)
Occupations: diplomatpolitician
Biography: Ivan Korčok is a Slovak politician. He served as Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the Matovič Cabinet led by Prime Minister Igor Matovič from April 2020 until his resignation in late March 2021. He was appointed back on the 1 April 2021 under Eduard Heger's Cabinet.

Anna Záborská

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1948-.. (age 75)
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).

Pavol Rusko

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1963-.. (age 60)
Occupations: journalistpolitician
Biography: Pavol Rusko is retired Slovak politician, television magnate and convinced 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.

Lucia Žitňanská

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1964-.. (age 59)
Occupations: lawyerpolitician
Biography: 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.

Tibor Gašpar

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1962-.. (age 61)
Biography: Tibor Gašpar was the President of police of Slovakia. He assumed office in 2012.

František Mikloško

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1947-.. (age 76)
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.

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.

Jana Žitňanská

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1974-.. (age 49)
Occupations: politicianwriterjournalist
Biography: 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.

Milan Šášik

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

Karl-Heinz Brunner

Born in: Germany
Years: 1953-.. (age 70)
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.

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. He was also a teacher at the Department of Applied Informatics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Comenius University in Bratislava.

Yvette Estermann

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1967-.. (age 56)
Occupations: politicianphysician
Biography: Yvette Estermann is a Slowakian-born Swiss politician and member of the National Council from the Canton of Lucerne.

Antonín Mrkos

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

Milan Čič

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1932-2012 (aged 80)
Occupations: juristjudgepoliticianlegal scholar
Biography: Milan Čič was a Slovak lawyer and politician who served as the prime minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic from 1989 to 1990.

Jozef Mihál

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1965-.. (age 58)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Jozef Mihál MP 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).

Ján Vilček

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1933-.. (age 90)
Occupations: scientistmicrobiologistimmunologist
Biography: Jan T. Vilček is a 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, a native of Bratislava, Slovakia, (then part of Czechoslovakia) received his M.D. degree from Comenius University Medical School, Bratislava in 1957; and his Ph.D. in Virology from the Institute of Virology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1962. In 1964, Vilček, with his wife Marica, defected from Communist Czechoslovakia during a three-day visit to Vienna. In 1965, the Vilčeks immigrated to the United States, and have since lived in New York City. Vilček devoted his scientific career to studies of soluble mediators that regulate the immune system (cytokines), including interferon and tumor necrosis factor (TNF).

Ivo Nesrovnal

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1964-.. (age 59)
Occupations: lawyerpolitician
Biography: Ivo Nesrovnal, LL.M. is a Slovak lawyer, politician. He served as the Mayor of Bratislava from 2014 to 2018.

Ľubomír Galko

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1968-.. (age 55)
Occupations: politician
Biography: 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.

František Šebej

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1947-.. (age 76)
Occupations: journalistpedagoguepoliticianwriter
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.

Vladimír Palko

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1957-.. (age 66)
Occupations: mathematicianpoliticianuniversity teacher
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 on February 2008, due to his scepticism and disappointment about leadership of Pavol Hrušovský.

Imrich Karvaš

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1903-1981 (aged 78)
Occupations: lawyerbankerpedagogueeconomist
Biography: Imrich Karvaš was a Slovak economist.

Milan Chautur

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1957-.. (age 66)
Occupations: Catholic priest
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.

Pavol Hrušovský

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1952-.. (age 71)
Occupations: lawyerpolitician
Biography: Pavol Hrušovský was 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).

Irena Bihariová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1980-.. (age 43)
Occupations: juristpolitician
Biography: 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.

Martin Bútora

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1944-.. (age 79)
Occupations: sociologistuniversity teacherpoliticianjournalistdiplomat
Biography: Martin Bútora is a Slovak sociologist, writer, university professor and diplomat.

Árpád Érsek

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1958-.. (age 65)
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.

Basil Hopko

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1904-1976 (aged 72)
Occupations: Catholic priest
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.

Dušan Čaplovič

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1946-.. (age 77)
Occupations: prehistorianpoliticianarchaeologist
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.

Miroslav Čiž

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1954-2022 (aged 68)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Miroslav Číž was a Slovak politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 until his death in 2022.

Pavel Vilikovský

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1941-2020 (aged 79)
Occupations: writertranslatorcontributing editoropinion journalistprosaist
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.

Gyula Bárdos

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1958-.. (age 65)
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.

Ivan Štefanec

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1961-.. (age 62)
Occupations: economistpoliticianmanager
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.

Stano Kropilák

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1955-2022 (aged 67)
Occupations: basketball playerpolitician
Biography: 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.

Boris Zala

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1954-.. (age 69)
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.

Rudolf Chmel

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1939-.. (age 84)
Occupations: diplomatpedagoguepoliticianwriter
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.

Anton Štefánek

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1877-1964 (aged 87)
Occupations: writerministersociologistsenatorpolitician
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.

Ivan Šimko

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1955-.. (age 68)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Ivan Šimko is Slovak politician and former defence minister.

Ivan Kamenec

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1938-.. (age 85)
Occupations: historianuniversity teacher
Biography: Ivan Kamenec is a Slovak historian.

Dušan Kováč

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1942-.. (age 81)
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.

Andrej Žarnov

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

József Berényi

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1967-.. (age 56)
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: teacherwritertranslatorplaywright
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.

Ján Packa

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1956-.. (age 67)
Biography: Ján Packa is the former president of the Slovak Police Force the National Police in Slovakia.

Jozef Heriban

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1953-.. (age 70)
Occupations: writerplaywrightscreenwriterfilm directorpolitician
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.

Simona Petrík

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1982-.. (age 41)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Simona Petrík is a Slovak politician who served as a member of the National Council of Slovakia from 2016–2020.

Juraj Hromkovič

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1958-.. (age 65)
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.

Rudolf Baláž

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1940-2011 (aged 71)
Occupations: Catholic priest
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.

Barbora Mokošová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1997-.. (age 26)
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.

Tamara Heribanová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1985-.. (age 38)
Occupations: journalistwriter
Biography: Tamara Heribanová is a Slovak writer, journalist and presenter.

Zuzana Martináková

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1961-.. (age 62)
Occupations: politicianwriterjournalist
Biography: Zuzana Martináková is a Slovak politician and a former journalist. She is the leader of the political party Free Forum.

Ľubomír Belák

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1951-.. (age 72)
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 Bratilava.

Pavol Rankov

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1964-.. (age 59)
Occupations: writerjournalistprosaist
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).

Silvia Gašparovičová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1941-.. (age 82)
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.

Ľuba Lesná

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1954-.. (age 69)
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.

Yuri Dojc

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1946-.. (age 77)
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 68)
Occupations: Catholic priest
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).

Jan Oravec

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1964-.. (age 59)
Occupations: economist
Biography: Ján Oravec CSc. is a Slovak economist and current secretary of state of Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic. He is the president of The Entrepreneurs Association of Slovakia. In 2004, he became a member of the European committee and in 2013 he became a member of its presidium.

Marko Škop

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1974-.. (age 49)
Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava: In 2005 graduated with doctorate
Occupations: screenwriterfilm directordocumentarian
Biography: Marko Škop is a Slovak film director.

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.

Mira Nábělková

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1956-.. (age 67)
Occupations: linguist
Biography: Mira Nábělková is a Slovak linguist.

Igor Štohl

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1964-.. (age 59)
Occupations: chess playerauthor
Biography: Igor Štohl is a Slovak chess player who holds the titles of Grandmaster (GM) (1992), Slovak Chess Championship winner (1984).

František Lipka

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1946-.. (age 77)
Occupations: diplomatlinguistpoetsommelierwriter
Biography: František Lipka is a Slovak diplomat, poet and translator, who contributed to the process of the creation of independent Montenegro.

Bohuslav Kokotek

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

László Szarka

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1953-.. (age 70)
Enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava: Studied in 1971-1976
Occupations: historian
Biography: László Szarka is a Hungarian historian.

Stanislav Piętak

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1946-.. (age 77)
Occupations: evangelical theologianparsonuniversity teacher
Biography: Stanislav Piętak is a Czech theologian and pedagogue.

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.

Zuzana Beňušková

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1960-.. (age 63)
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.

Milan Mišík

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1928-2011 (aged 83)
Occupations: geologist
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.

Svetlana Žuchová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1976-.. (age 47)
Occupations: writerpsychiatristtranslator
Biography: Svetlana Žuchová is a Slovak writer and translator. She was educated at Vienna University and Comenius University in Bratislava. As a short story writer, she has twice won prizes in the Slovak literary competition Poviedka. Her first collection of short stories Dulce de Leche appeared in 2003 and won the Ivan Krasko Prize. She has published three novels since then: Yesim (2006), Zlodeji a svedkovia (Thieves and Witnesses, 2011), and Obrazy zo života M. (Scenes from the Life of M., 2013). All three have made the shortlist for Anasoft Litera, Slovakia's most prestigious literary prize. In 2015, Obrazy zo života M. won Zuchova the EU Prize for Literature. The novel has been translated into Italian with the title Marisia. Frammenti di una vita by Tiziana D'Amico for Mimesis.

Viera Prokešová

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

Zora Mintalová-Zubercová

Born in: Slovakia
Years: 1950-.. (age 73)
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 Crosss. Her work has, among others, earned her the Pitrè Prize as well as the National Medal of Science of the Slovak Republic.