List of Slovak Americans

This is a list of notable Slovak Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Slovak American or must have references showing they are Slovak American and are notable.

List

Arts, culture, and entertainment

• Jon Bon Jovi – rock musician
• Jim Caviezel – film actor
• Steve Ditko – comic book artist and writer, co-creator of the Marvel Comics heroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.
• Moritz Fuerst – artist employed with United States Mint in the 19th century
• Angelina Jolie – actress, former fashion model and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency
• Peter Lorre – actor
• Paul Newman – actor and film director (his maternal grandparents were Slovak)
• Lizabeth Scott – actress
• Robert Urich – actor
• Jon Voight – actor
• Andy Warhol – artist
• Ivan Reitman – film director

Business

• John Dopyera – inventor, entrepreneur
• Justine Ezarik – Internet Blogger
• John D. Hertz – businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner, and philanthropist

Law and politics

• Michael Badnarik – software engineer, political figure, and radio talk show host
• William T. Dzurilla, international attorney and law clerk to Justice Byron White of the United States Supreme Court
• Carolyn Forché – professor, poet, editor, and human rights advocate
• Dennis "DJ" Mikolay - syndicated political columnist
• Michael Novak – philosopher, diplomat
• Tom Ridge – Republican, 43rd Governor of Pennsylvania and 1st Secretary of United States Department of Homeland Security.
• John Roberts – 17th Chief Justice of the United States^{[citation needed]}
• Joe Sestak – US Representative, Democrat, Pennsylvania 7th District; retired US Naval vice-admiral
• Mark Singel – 28th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania^{[citation needed]}
• Judy Baar Topinka – Republican politician in Illinois
• Jesse Ventura – 38th Governor of Minnesota, wrestler, television personality

Military

• Štefan Banič – inventor of the military parachute and one of the first actually used parachute
• Eugene Cernan – retired United States Navy officer and a former NASA astronaut involved in the Apollo program (Slovak father)
• Richard Marcinko – U.S. Navy SEAL and Founder of SEAL Team 6
• Michael Strank – Sergeant of the United States Marine Corps. Famous for Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.

Religion

• Joseph Victor Adamec – bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown
• Teresa Demjanovich – Roman Catholic nun
• John Hardon – priest, author, theologian, community leader
• Thomas Hopko – Orthodox Christian theologian
• Jaroslav Pelikan – Scholar of the history of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history

Science and medicine

• John Dopyera – inventor of the resonator acoustic guitar
• Mike Fincke – NASA astronaut- International Space Station Commander
• Daniel Carleton Gajdusek – Nobel Prize winner for discovery of viruses with prolonged incubation periods
• Ivan Alexander Getting – Electrical engineer inventor of GPS
• Jozef Murgaš – inventor, architect, botanist, painter, US patriot, and Roman Catholic priest.
• Douglas D. Osheroff – physicist
• Hugh David Politzer - physicist, Nobel Prize winner for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics

Sports

• Chuck Bednarik – former professional American football player for the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL.
• Jeff Bzdelik – basketball coach at Wake Forest University
• Jack Kralick – former pitcher for Washington Senators and Cleveland Indians.
• Andy Kosco – former baseball player
• Johnny Kucab – pitcher for Philadelphia Athletics in 1940s and 1950s.
• Pete Latzo – boxer
• Stan Mikita – professional ice hockey player
• Kelly Pavlik – undefeated WBO/World Boxing Council middleweight boxing champion.
• George Shuba – former outfielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
• Peter Stastny – professional ice hockey player
• Yan Stastny – professional ice hockey player
• Paul Stastny – professional ice hockey player