Anton Bernolák

male
Anton Bernolák was the author of one of the first Slovak language standards (in the 1780s), which he based on western Slovak dialects.
Gabriel Bethlen

Gabriel Bethlen

male, deceased (1629)
Gabriel Bethlen (de Iktár) (English, Romanian; Hungarian: "Bethlen Gábor", German: "Gabriel Bethlen von Iktár", Slovak: "Gabriel Betlen"; 158...
Martin Hattala

Martin Hattala

male, deceased (1903)
Martin Hattala was Slovak pedagogue, Roman Catholic theologian and linguist. He is best known for his reform of the Štúr's Slovak language, so...

Ján Hollý

male
Ján Holly was a Slovak poet and translator. He was the first greater Slovak poet, who wrote in Slovak exclusively (his predecessors mostly wrote i...

Francis Ii Rákóczi

male, deceased (1735)
Ferenc (Francis) II Rákóczi was the leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs in 1703-11 as the prince ("fejedelem") of the Estates Co...
Jozef Karol Hell

Jozef Karol Hell

male, deceased (1789)
Jozef Karol Hell (Slovak), Hell József Károly, Joseph Karl Hell (German) (1713-1789) was a mining engineer and inventor who, in 1755, invented th...

Rastislav

male
Rastic or Rastiz (in modern Slovak "Rastislav", in modern Czech "Rostislav") (died after 870) was the second ruler of Great Moravia between 846 and...

Grigorij Mesežnikov

male, 51 years old
Grigorij Mesežnikov is a Slovak political analyst. He was born in the USSR. In 1979 he moved to Slovakia with his wife, who was pregnant with t...
Miroslav Šatan

Miroslav Šatan

male, 35 years old
Miroslav Šatan is a professional ice hockey player who plays for the New York Islanders. The proper Slovak pronunciation of his name is SHAH-tahn, b...
Vojtech Alexander

Vojtech Alexander

male, deceased (1916)
Vojtech Alexander (Slovak), Alexander Béla (1857, Kežmarok - 1916, Budapest) was one of the most influential radiologists in the world. He was th...