Ivan Gašparovič

male, 68 years old
World War I, Lučenec, Martin, Slovakia, Communist Party of Slovakia, Banská Bystrica, Velvet Revolution…ComeniusUniversity
Ivan Gašparovič, Slovak politician and law professor, became President of Slovakia on June 15, 2004. Gašparovič was born in Poltár, near Lučen...

Miroslav Kusý

male, 78 years old
Marxist, bratislava, slovak, scientist, politician, ComeniusUniversity…Charles University of Prague
Miroslav Kusý is a Slovak political scientist and former politician. Miroslav Kusý graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of Charles Un...

Vladimír Porubčan

male
Astronomer, bratislava, slovak, Slovak Academy of Sciences, ComeniusUniversity, Meanings of asteroid names
Prof. RNDr. Vladimír Porubčan, DrSc., born in 1940, is a Slovak astronomer. He is a member of Astronomical Institute of Slovak Academy of Sc...
Eugene Cernan

Eugene Cernan

male, 75 years old
astronaut, Apollo 17, Apollo 10, Gemini 9A, Extra-vehicular activity, Purdue University alumni…purdue university, Northwestern University, ComeniusUniversity
Eugene Andrew Cernan (born March 14, 1934) is a former American astronaut of Czech and Slovak ancestry. He has been into space three times: as...
Viera Scheibner

Viera Scheibner

female, 74 years old
vaccine, bratislava, vaccination, Non-fiction writer, ComeniusUniversity, micropaleontology
Viera Scheibner, PhD, (1935 - present) (real name Viera Scheibnerová) is a retired micropaleontologist (a branch of geology). From 1958 until 1968 s...

Tibor Šalát

male
mathematician, bratislava, slovak, ComeniusUniversity, Erdős number 1, number theory
Tibor Šalát was a Slovak mathematician. His works dealt mostly with number theory and real analysis. He was also a teacher and a prolific author of...

Silvia Gašparovičová

female, 68 years old
civil engineering, bratislava, ComeniusUniversity, Slovak Technical University, Slovak first ladies, née Beníková
Silvia Gašparovičová "née Beníková" (born January 13, 1941 in Bratislava) is the current first lady of Slovakia, wife of Ivan Gašparovič. Gašparov...

Andrej Šeban

male, 47 years old
jazz guitarist, slovenian, bratislava, slovak, tutu, Jazz fusion…ComeniusUniversity
Andrej Šeban, born in Bratislava on June 26, 1962, is a well-known Slovak jazz fusion guitarist. As a child, Andrej took piano lessons from la P...
Jan Vilcek

Jan Vilcek

male
Tumor necrosis factors, slovak, From Bratislava, Slovak American, American, pathogenesis…ComeniusUniversity
Jan T. Vilcek M.D., Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Microbiology at the NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Vilcek, a native of Bratislava,...

Ivan Hrušovský

male, deceased (2001)
music education, composer, slovak, composition, philosophy, From Bratislava…ComeniusUniversity
Ivan Hrušovský is a Slovak composer and educator. Hrušovský was born in Bratislava, Slovakia (Czechoslovakia at the time). There, he studied musi...