List of people from Bratislava

This is an alphabetically sorted list of personalities from Bratislava in Slovakia. Due to the city's former multi-cultural character, in addition to Slovaks it includes people of German, Austrian, Hungarian and other nationalities.

Coat of Arms of Bratislava

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B

C

D

E

  • Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher (1804–1849), Austrian botanist
  • Yvette Estermann (born 1967), Swiss politician

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G

H

J

K

L

  • Rudolf Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian dance artist and theorist
  • Lajos Aulich (1793–1849), second Minister of War of Hungary; professional soldier and lieutenant colonel in the Austrian army; fought against Habsburg pressure in the Hungarian War of Liberation
  • Yehoshua Lakner (1924–2003), Israeli composer
  • Philipp Lenard (1862–1947), Hungarian physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Ľuba Lesná (born 1954), contemporary Slovak writer
  • Imi Lichtenfeld (1910–1998), Israeli martial artist; founded the Krav Maga self-defense system
  • Zuzana Licko (born 1960), American typeface designer
  • Johanna Loisinger (1865–1951), Austrian opera singer
  • Malte Ludin (born 1942), German filmmaker

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  • Peter Machajdik (born 1961), composer
  • Róbert Mak (born 1991), professional footballer
  • Herbert Thomas Mandl (1926–2007), Czechoslovak-German-Jewish author, concert violinist, professor of music, philosopher, and inventor
  • Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806–1856), Austrian composer
  • Roman Mikulec (born 1972), Slovak politician and former soldier, Interior Minister of Slovakia from March 2020

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O

P

R

  • Yossele Rosenblatt (1882–1933), Ukrainian-born chazzan and composer
  • Milan Rufus (1928–2009), poet, essayist, children's writer and academic

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  • Alfred Tauber (1866–1942), Austrian mathematician
  • Vojtech Tuka (1880–1946), prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of the Slovak Republic during WWII, war criminal

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V

  • Alexander Vencel (born 1967), Slovak football player
  • Jan Vilcek (born 1933), professor in the Department of Microbiology at the NYU School of Medicine
  • Róbert Vittek (born 1982), Slovak football player

Z

  • Hanna Zemer (1925–2003), Israeli journalist
  • Veronika Zuzulová (born 1984), Slovak alpine skier
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