List of people from Košice
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
- David Dobrik, YouTube personality
- 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
- Edith Eger, Holocaust survivor, psychologist and author of “The Choice”
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
- Christián Jaroš, Slovak ice hockey player for the Ottawa Senators
- Tomáš Jurčo, Slovak ice hockey player for the Springfield Thunderbirds in the AHL
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
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
W
- Dominika Wittenberg Gašparová, Slovak author and food columnist, born i Kosice.
References
- Maugh II, Thomas H. (2009-11-13). "Dr. William Ganz dies at 90; cardiologist co-invented flexible balloon catheter". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
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