List of Slovaks
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The Slovak people are an ethnic group predominantly residing in the modern-day nation of Slovakia and its surrounding areas. Slovaks have played an active role in European history, including politically, militarily, scientifically, culturally, and religiously. Ethnic Slovaks have inhabited Central Europe since the Middle Ages. Slovaks were minority citizens of Hungary, and subsequently Austria-Hungary, from the 7th Century until the formation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 by the Treaty of Versailles. After Slovak calls for greater autonomy dissolved the Czechoslovak parliament, the Slovak Republic was formed in 1993. The major language among Slovaks is Slovak.
The page lists notable people who are citizens of Slovakia, Czechoslovakia, or are of Slovak identity, ancestry or ethnicity.
Politics
Politicians (contemporary)
Presidents:
Michal Kováč (1930–2016) – first president of Slovakia
Rudolf Schuster (1934) – second president (Schuster is of German and Hungarian ancestry)
Ivan Gašparovič (1941) – third president (previously Chairman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic)
Andrej Kiska (1963) – fourth president (co-founder of a non-profit charitable organization called Dobrý anjel)
Zuzana Čaputová (1973) – fifth president and first female president
Peter Pellegrini (1975) – sixth president and eighth prime minister
Prime ministers of the Slovak Republic:
Vladimír Mečiar (1942) – first and third prime minister
Jozef Moravčík (1945) – second prime minister
Mikuláš Dzurinda (1955) – fourth prime minister
Robert Fico (1964) – fifth, seventh and twelfth prime minister
Iveta Radičová (1956) – sixth and first female prime minister
Peter Pellegrini (1975) – eighth prime minister
Igor Matovič (1973) – ninth prime minister
Eduard Heger (1976) – tenth prime minister
Ľudovít Ódor (1976) – eleventh and first ethnic Hungarian prime minister
Speakers of National Council of the Slovak Republic:
Pavol Hrušovský (1952) – Third and Sixth speaker of Parliament
Richard Sulík (1968) – Fifth speaker of Parliament
Other:
Irena Bihariová – Slovak Romani lawyer and politician, leader of Progressive Slovakia from June 2020 to May 2022
Augustín Čisár – Diplomat and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Republic to the Russian Federation.
Miroslav Jenča – Former United Nations ambassador of Slovakia to Mexico
Miroslav Lajčák (1963) – Former minister of foreign affairs of Slovakia and president of the United Nations General Assembly for the 72nd session
Jesse Ventura (1951) – 38th governor of the U.S. state of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003, as well as an actor, author, and former professional wrestler. His parents were from Slovakia, and his legal name is James George Janos.
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