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

A

Christian Attersee (born 1940), Austrian painter
Lajos Aulich (1793–1849), Hungarian general

B

Fritz Balogh (1920–1951), German football player
Kázmér Batthyány (1807–1854), Hungarian politician, minister
Lajos Batthyány (1807–1849), Hungarian magnate, first prime minister of Hungary
Shlomo Breznitz (born 1936), Israeli author, psychologist, and president of the University of Haifa

C

Ján Čapkovič (born 1948), Slovak football player
Ján Čarnogurský (born 1944), Slovak politician

D

Herta Däubler-Gmelin (born 1943), German politician
Degen Àrpàd (1866–1934), Hungarian biologist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Ernő Dohnányi (1877–1960), Hungarian pianist and composer
Jana Dukátová (born 1983), Slovak slalom canoeist
Bucura Dumbravă (1868–1926), Romanian writer and esotericist

E

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

F

János Fadrusz (1858–1903), Hungarian sculptor
Gisi Fleischmann (1894–1944), leader of the Bratislava Working Group
Flora Frangepán (fl. 1743), Hungarian writer
Ľubomír Ftáčnik (born 1957), Slovak chess master

G

Jozef Golonka (born 1938), Slovak ice hockey player and coach
Edita Gruberová (born 1946), Slovak soprano
Berthold Grünfeld (1932–2007), Norwegian psychiatrist and professor

H

Jaroslav Halák (born 1985), Slovak ice hockey player
Erzsébet Házy (1929–1982), Hungarian opera singer
Ludwig von Höhnel (1857–1942), Austrian explorer
Olga Horak (born 1926), Australian survivor of the Holocaust; author
Dominik Hrbatý (born 1978), Slovak tennis player
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837), Austrian composer and pianist
Gustáv Husák (1913–1991), Slovak politician
Michal Hvorecký (born 1976), Slovak author

J

Miroslava Jánošíková (born 1969), Czech Olympic judoka
Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria (1833–1905), Austrian archduke

K

Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734–1804), Hungarian inventor
Ignác Kolisch (1837–1889), Hungarian banker and chess master
Roman Kratochvíl (born 1974), Slovak football player
Ján Kubiš (born 1952), Slovak politician
Karol Kučera (born 1974), Slovak tennis player
Kristína Kučová (born 1990), Slovak tennis player

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

M

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

N

Ondrej Nepela (1951–1989), Slovak figure skater

O

Adam Friedrich Oeser (1717–1799), German painter and sculptor
Juraj Okoličány (1943–2008), Czechoslovak ice hockey referee and a Slovak ice hockey administrator

P

Peter Podhradský (born 1979), Slovak ice hockey player
Julius Podlipny (1898–1991), Slovak and Romanian painter

R

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

S

Jozef Sabovčík (born 1963), Slovak figure skater
Július Satinský (1941–2002), Slovak author and actor
Franz Schmidt (1874–1939), Austrian composer
Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers (1775–1852), Austrian naturalist
Johann Andreas Segner (1704–1777), German physicist
Samuel Benjamin Sofer (1815–1871), Rabbi of Bratislava
Shimon Sofer (1820–1883), Austrian Orthodox Jewish rabbi
Anton Šťastný (born 1959), Slovak ice hockey player
Peter Šťastný (born 1956), Slovak ice hockey player and politician
Majk Spirit (born 1984), Slovak rapper.

T

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

U

Jenő Uhlyárik (1893–1974), Hungarian fencing-master

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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