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. Some of this list might have Slovak immigrant ancestors of German, Hungarian, or Romani descent.

List

Arts, culture, and entertainment

Business

Law and politics

Military

Religion

Science and medicine

  • Gene Cernan – NASA astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot
  • 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
  • Ján Vilček – biomedical scientist, educator, inventor and philanthropist; currently a professor in the Department of Microbiology at the New York University School of Medicine and President of the Vilcek Foundation

Sports

See also

References

  1. USA WEEKEND Magazine
  2. Newsletter – Fall 2002 Archived July 15, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Reader feedback: Don't forget Czechoslovak films". The Slovak Spectator. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007.
  4. "Zakladatel Uberu ma Sloveske korene" (in Slovak). dennikn.sk. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  5. Scalzo, Joe (September 30, 2007). "Pavlik credits Valley support for victory". The Vindicator. p. 1.
  6. "Having a hand in baseball history". The Chicago Tribune. April 17, 2006.
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