List of personalities from the city of Košice
The following list contains people who were born in Košice as well as those who temporarily lived and worked there, each listed chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities born in Košice
To 1900
- Jakob Kaschauer (around 1400–1463), sculptor, painter and glass painter
- Johann Spillenberger (1628–1679), painter, draftsman and etcher
- Ladislaus Amade von Várkonyi (1703–1764), poet
- Gustav Heckenast (1811–1878), Hungarian bookseller, publisher and printer
- Imre Henszlman (1813–1888), Hungarian archaeologist and esthete
- Gyula Andrássy (1823–1890), Hungarian patriot and politician
- Gustav Marek (1840–1896), German crop scientist
- Robert Ultzmann (1842–1889), Austrian urologist
- Elka Gerster (1855–1920), Hungarian soprano
- Marie Barkany (1862–1928), Hungarian theater actress
- Josef Weiß (1864–1945), pianist and composer
- Endre Puky (1871–1941), Hungarian politician
- Margit Slachta (1884–1974), Hungarian MP, founder of the order, teacher
- Sándor Prokopp (1887–1964), Hungarian sports marksman
- József Reményi (1887–1977), Hungarian sculptor and medalist
- Karl Graf von Bothmer (1891–1971), Hungarian consul general in Vienna and envoy in Switzerland
- Ferenc Szálasi (1897–1946), Hungarian party leader and war criminal
- Sándor Márai (1900–1989), Hungarian poet, writer and playwright
1901 to 1950
- Günther Baszel (1902–1973), Austrian painter, sculptor and craftsman
- Zoltán Schönherz (1905–1942), communist functionary in Czechoslovakia and Hungary
- Alexander Altmann (1906–1987), Orthodox Jewish scientist and rabbi
- Géza von Radványi (1907–1986), Hungarian film director and screenwriter
- Erna Diez (1913–2001), Austrian classical archaeologist
- Ladislav Troják (1914–1948), ice hockey player
- Imre Németh (1917–1989), Hungarian hammer thrower
- William Ganz , b. Vilém Ganz (1919–2009), American cardiologist
- Jacob Gilboa (1920–2007), Israeli composer
- Milan Munclinger (1923–1986), flautist, conductor, composer and musicologist
- Vladimír Šrámek (1923–2004), composer
- Gyula Kosice , b. Fernando Fallik (1924–2016), Argentine object artist
- Dušan Zbavitel (1925–2012), Czechoslovak indologist and translator
- Jiří Levý (1926–1967), literary theorist and historian
- Mikuláš Athanasov (1930-2005), wrestler
- Andreas Okopenko (1930–2010), Austrian writer
- Martin Hollý junior (1931–2004), Slovak director, screenwriter and actor
- László Tábori , b. László Talabircsuk (1931–2018), American middle and long distance runner
- Waldemar Matuška (1932–2009), pop singer and actor
- Rudolf Schuster (* 1934), President of Slovakia
- Dénes Törzs (* 1934) German actor, program speaker and presenter of Hungarian descent.
- Inge von Weidenbaum (* 1934), German Germanist and translator
- Andrej Kvašňák (1936–2007), football player
- Laco Tropp (1939–2018), jazz musician
- Mária Mračnová (* 1946), high jumper
1951 to 1980
- Stanislav Seman (* 1952), football goalkeeper and coach
- Marian Palla (* 1953), writer, visual artist and publicist
- Vincent Lukáč (born 1954), ice hockey player
- Pavol Paška (1958–2018), politician
- Cyril Vasiľ (* 1965), Curial Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church
- Roman Pivarník (* 1967), football player and coach
- Róbert Štefko (* 1968), Czech long-distance runner
- Branjo Heisig (1969–1997), German-Slovak ice hockey player
- Tomáš Medveď (* 1973), football player
- Róbert Petrovický (* 1973), ice hockey player
- Marek Forgáč (* 1974), Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Košice
- Jozef Gönci (* 1974), marksman
- Silvia Gajdošová (* 1975), national soccer player
- Mikuláš Maník (* 1975), chess player
- Juraj Faith (* 1976), ice hockey player
- Vladimír Janočko (* 1976), football player
- Karol Kisel (* 1977), soccer player
- Maroš Kováč (* 1977), racing cyclist
- Jiří Bicek (* 1978), ice hockey player
- Jaroslav Kmiť (* 1979), ice hockey player
- Martina Hingis (* 1980), tennis player
- Ján Kozák junior (* 1980), ice hockey player
- Gabriel Spilar (* 1980), ice hockey player
- Rastislav Staňa (* 1980), ice hockey goalkeeper
- Veronika Sabolová (* 1980), luge athlete
- Marcel Šterbák (* 1980), ice hockey player
- Radoslav Zabavník (* 1980), football player
From 1981
- Marek Svatoš (1982-2016), ice hockey player
- Matej Kazár (* 1983), biathlete
- Tomáš Slovák (* 1983), ice hockey player
- Anton Gavel (* 1984), basketball player
- Vladimír Dravecký (* 1985), ice hockey player
- Michal Shejbal (* 1985), handball player
- Dávid Halász (* 1986), ice hockey player
- Csaba Szücs (* 1987), handball player
- Michal Kopčo (* 1988), handball player
- Radek Deyl (* 1989), ice hockey player
- Jakub Jakubov (* 1989), soccer goalkeeper
- Alexandra Bezeková (* 1992), athlete
- Martin Marinčin (* 1992), ice hockey player
- Ivana Reitmayerová (* 1992), figure skater
- Jana Čepelová (* 1993), tennis player
- Silvia Szücs (* 1993), handball player
- Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (* 1994), tennis player
- David Dobrik (* 1996), web video producer
- Veselý Marek (* 1996), film director, producer and screenwriter
- Erik Černák (born 1997), ice hockey player
- Kristína Schmiedlová (* 1997), tennis player
- Viktória Kužmová (* 1998), tennis player
People related to Košice
- Mária Bartuszová (1936–1996), sculptor
- Dominika Sýkorová (* 1988), soccer player
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Prange: Spillenberger, Johann von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 698 f. ( Digitized version ).