List of people from Košice

This is a list of notable people from Košice, Slovakia

B

• Frigyes Bán, Hungarian film director
• János Batsányi, poet and Hungarian language regenerate, worked and lived in Košice
• Gyula Benczúr, painter, started to learn in secondary school in Košice
• Jiří Bicek, ice-hockey player, won Stanley cup 2003 with New Jersey Devils
• Stephen Bocskay, prince of Transylvania, died in Košice

C

• Michal Čekovský, basketball player, currently with the Maryland Terrapins
• Lajos Csordák, painter, was born and died in Košice

D

• Vladimír Dravecký, Slovak ice-hockey player for the HC Oceláři Třinec, in the Czech Extraliga

E

• János Esterházy, ethnic Hungarian politician in former Czechoslovakia, won parliament mandate in Košice in 1935

G

• Radola Gajda, commander of the Russian Czechoslovak Legion, fascist politician, was given command of the 11th Division in Košice in 1922
• Dr. William Ganz, cardiologist co-invented the pulmonary artery catheter, born in Košice^[1]
• Béla Gerster, architect of the Corinth Canal and co-architect of the Panama Canal, born in Košice
• Jozef Gönci, Slovak sport shooter and Olympic bronze medallist twice

H

• Martina Hingis, Swiss naturalised tennis player born in Košice, in former Czechoslovakia

I

• Julia Indichova, American reproductive healthcare activist and author, born in Košice, in former Czechoslovakia

J

• Július Jakoby, painter, born and died in Košice
• Vladimír Janočko, Slovak football player, born in Košice
• Tomáš Jurčo, Slovak ice-hockey player for the Chicago Blackhawks in the NHL

K

• Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author, regenerator of the Hungarian language, studied, lived and worked in Košice
• Karol Kisel, Slovak footballer, born in Košice
• Gyula Kosice, Argentine sculptor, plastic artist, theoretician and poet
• Juraj Kuniak, Slovak poet and writer, born in Košice
• Andrej Kvašňák, legendary Slovak football player

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• Paul Lukas, Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning Hungarian actor, started acting in Košice

M

• Pál Maléter, military leader of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, started to serve as a professional army officer in the Hungarian military in Košice
• Sándor Márai, Hungarian writer, born in Košice
• Martin Marinčin, Slovak ice-hockey player for the Edmonton Oilers team in the NHL

N

• Ladislav Nagy, ice-hockey player and former NHL player
• Imre Németh, Hungarian hammer fall champion, born in Košice

P

• Róbert Petrovický, Slovak ice hockey and former NHL player, born in Košice
• István Pongrácz, martyr killed by George I Rákóczi's soldiers in 1619
• Jozef Psotka, mountaineer, born in Košice

R

• Arpád Račko, sculptor, worked in Košice
• Francis II Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania and leader of anti-Habsburg uprisings, stayed in Košice and his remains are buried there

S

• Blessed Sister Sára Salkaházi, Sister of Social Service, martyr murdered by the Arrow Cross Party in Budapest
• Marek Sapara, football player
• Anna Karolína Schmiedlová, tennis player
• Rudolf Schuster, former Košice mayor and the second president of Slovakia (1999–2004)
• Margita Slachtová, founder of Sister of Social Service, born 1884 in Košice
• Koloman Sokol, artist, founder of Slovak graphic art, deemed "Slovak Picasso", studied in Košice
• Egon Steuer, head coach of the national basketball team of the Netherlands, born in Košice
• Aurel Stodola, engineer, physicist and inventor, studied in Košice
• Marek Svatoš, former ice hockey player for the Colorado Avalanche
• Ferenc Szálasi, politician leader of the Arrow Cross Party, born in Košice
• Róza Déryné Széppataki, first Hungarian opera singer

T

• Ladislav Troják, ice hockey player

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