List of people from Bratislava

Coat of Arms of 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, Austrians, Hungarian and other nationalities.

A

• Christian Attersee (born 1940), Austrian painter
• Lajos Aulich (1793–1849), Hungarian general and third Defence minister of Hungary.

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
• Árpád Degen (1866–1934), Hungarian biologist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Ernő Dohnányi (1877–1960), Hungarian pianist and composer
• Marek Dolezaj (born 1998), Slovak professional basketball player
• 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
• Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231), Catholic Saint.

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
• Ferdinand Udvardy (1895-1945), World War I flying ace of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

G

• Jozef Golonka (born 1938), Slovak ice hockey player and coach
• Edita Gruberová (1946–2021), 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
• Katarína Horáková (born 1934), university biology professor
• 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
• József Kiss de Elemér et Ittebe (1896-1918) World War I flying ace of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
• 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
• Jana Kulan (born 1987), Slovak-born Azerbaijani volleyball player

L

• Rudolf Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian dance artist and theorist
• 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
• Viliam Loviska (born 1964), sculptor
• Malte Ludin (born 1942), German filmmaker

M

• Peter Machajdik (born 1961), composer
• Róbert Mak (born 1991), professional footballer
• Ján Markoš (born 1985), author and chess player
• Herbert Thomas Mandl (1926–2007), Czechoslovak-German-Jewish author, concert violinist, 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
• Vladimir Oravsky (1947), Slovak-Swedish author and film director

P

• Peter Podhradský (born 1979), Slovak ice hockey player
• Julius Podlipny (1898–1991), Slovak and Romanian painter
• Zuzana Pramuková (born 1981), Slovak footballer

R

• Yossele Rosenblatt (1882–1933), Ukrainian-born chazzan and composer
• Milan Rufus (1928–2009), poet, essayist, children's writer and academic
• Jakub Rybárik (born 1986), actor

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
• Radovan Sloboda (born 1982), Slovak professional ice hockey player
• Samuel Benjamin Sofer (1815–1871), Rabbi of Bratislava
• Shimon Sofer (1820–1883), Austrian Orthodox Jewish rabbi
• Majk Spirit (born 1984), Slovak rapper
• Anton Šťastný (born 1959), Slovak ice hockey player
• Peter Šťastný (born 1956), Slovak ice hockey player and politician
• Pavol Steiner (1908–1969), Olympic water polo player, swimmer, and cardiac surgeon
• Ludwig Straus (1835–1899) Austrian violinist.
• Martin Suchý (born 1982), Slovak football player

T

• Alfred Tauber (1866–1942), Austrian mathematician
• Yvonne Tobis (born 1948), Israeli Olympic swimmer
• Vojtech Tuka (1880–1946), prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of the Slovak Republic (1939–1945), 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