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.

Contents
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

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

B

• Fritz Balogh (1920–1951), German football player
• Lajos Batthyány (1807–1849), Hungarian magnate, first prime minister of Hungary
• Kázmér Batthyány (1807–1854) Hungarian politician, minister.

C

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

D

• Degen Àrpàd (1866–1934) Hungarian biologist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Herta Däubler-Gmelin (* 1943), German politician
• Ernő Dohnányi (1877–1960), Hungarian pianist and composer

E

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

F

• János Fadrusz (1858–1903) Hungarian sculptor
• Gisi Fleischmann (1894–1944), leader of the Bratislava Working Group
• Ľubomír Ftáčnik (* 1957), Slovak chess master
• Bruno Frei (Benedikt Freistadt, 1897 – 1988), political journalist, publicist, author, Marxist (de)

G

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

H

• Jaroslav Halák (* 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 and author
• Dominik Hrbatý (* 1978), Slovak tennis player
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837), Austrian composer and pianist
• Gustáv Husák (1913–1991), Slovak politician
• Michal Hvorecký (* 1976), Slovak author

K

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

L

• Lajos Aulich (1793–1849), was the second Minister of War of Hungary, a professional soldier and lieutenant colonel in the Austrian army, he fought against Habsburg pressure in the Hungarian War of Liberation.
• Lajos Landerer (1800–1854), Hungarian typographer, printer. The Nemzeti dal, or "National Song," written by Sándor Petőfi, was the poem that inspired the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 was printed in his press.
• Lajos Lóczy (1849–1920), Hungarian geologist and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Philipp Lenard (1862–1947) Hungarian physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Rudolf Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian dance artist and theorist
• Yehoshua Lakner (1924–2003), Israeli composer
• Imi Lichtenfeld (1910–1998), Israeli martial artist who founded the Krav Maga self-defense system
• Zuzana Licko (* 1960), American typeface designer
• Johanna Loisinger (1865–1951), Austrian opera singer
• Malte Ludin (* 1942), German filmmaker

M

• Herbert Thomas Mandl (1926–2007), Czechoslovak-German-Jewish author, concert violinist, professor of music, philosopher, and inventor
• Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806–1856), Austrian composer

N

• Ondrej Nepela (1951–1989), Slovak figure skater

O

• Adam Friedrich Oeser (1717–1799), German painter and sculptor
• Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria (1833–1905), Austrian archduke

P

• Johan Paulik (* 1975), Slovak pornographic actor
• Peter Podhradský (* 1979), Slovak ice hockey player

R

• Rómer Flóris Ferenc (1815–1889) The father of the Hungarian Archaeology, painter, the member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the bishop of Nagyvárad.
• Béla Radnay (1873–1923), Hungarian sculptor
• Milan Richter (* 1948), Slovak Jewish poet, dramatist, translator, former diplomat and publisher
• Yossele Rosenblatt (1882–1933), Ukrainian-born chazzan and composer
• Milan Rufus (1928–2009), poet, essayist, children's writer and academic

S

• Ödön Széchenyi (1839–1922), Hungarian count, son of István Széchenyi
• Jozef Sabovčík (* 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
• Anton Šťastný (* 1959), Slovak ice hockey player
• Peter Šťastný (* 1956), Slovak ice hockey player and politician

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

Z

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