Slovak diaspora

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According to contemporary Czech Republic-Slovakia sources, 630,000 lived in present-day Hungary at the time of the disintegration of Hungarian Kingdom,Conférence de la paix 1919-1920. Recueil des actes de la conférence. Partie IV. s.l.: s.n.. 350 000 – 450 000,“Slovaks abroad” in: Slovakia and the Slovaks, A concise encyclopaedia. s.l.: s.n.. 450,000 / 500,000 – 550,000 of Slovaks. The above-mentioned sums of Slovaks and Hungarians speaking Slovaks also speak in favor of a number between 400,000 and 500,000 in 1918 (this number has been growing steadily in recent Hungarian censuses, although the teaching of Slovak language has been declining - in the end it was practically non-existent) and thus Hungarians had no reason to learn the language) according to the Hungarian censuses, as well as the fact that in 1946 the Czechoslovakia commission preparing for the exchange of the population directly in Hungary counted 473,556 Slovaks applying for the exchange. As of 1990 and 2001, it is stated that the actual number of Slovaks in Hungary is 70,000 or respectively 110,000.Baláž C. Slovenská republika a zahraniční Slováci. Desaťročie Slovenskej republiky, 2004. In summary, according to statistics, the number of Slovaks in Hungary decreased, depending on the source, from 400,000 - 500,000 / over 300,000 / 145,000 at the beginning of the 20th century to today's official 18,000 people, a decrease in the number of nationalities by 95.5% / 94.2% / 87.5% in only 80 years without. Today, the number of Slovaks is paradoxically higher in distant Serbia or Romania, although there were significantly fewer Slovaks in these countries than in Hungary at the time of the disintegration of Hungarian Kingdom.

** Census data from 1910 (similarly from 1900) are skewed to the detriment of non-Hungarians mainly due to a specially defined issue implemented by Hungarian census commissioners (see *), further distortion proves the discrepancy of numbers with the development of birth rates and mortality of individual nationalitiesDeák, L. Viedenská arbitráž 2. november 1938 Dokumenty I. s.l.: s.n.. and demographically impossible increases of the Hungarian population in individual municipalities compared to previous censuses (so-called statistical Hungarianization)

*** If we compare this number with the data from 1941 and the numbers of the population exchange, we will also get a "deficit" of 22,037 Slovaks at the level of official statistics.

• Ondrej Beňo
• Samuel Tešedík
• Ján Valašťan Dolinský
• Matej Markovič
• Samuel Mojžišovič
• Ľudovít Augustín Haan
• Sándor Petőfi (considered himself Hungarian but was of Slovak descent)

• Gregor Papuček
• Jozef Markuš
• Juraj Antal Dolnozemský
• Ondrej Francisci
• Pavel Ondrus
• Pál Závada
• Štefan Markuš

• Ladislav Kubala

• Ľudové noviny, a weekly in Slovak
• National Slovak self-government Budapest
• Research Institute of Slovaks in Hungary
• Institute of Slovak Culture in Hungary
• House of Slovak Culture in Békéšská Čaba
• Internet portal Slovák v Maďarsku, Nezávislý portál www.oslovma.hu

• Slovak Primary School, Kindergarten and College, Sarvaš Základná škola Sarvaš
• Slovak Bilingual Primary School and Kindergarten, Slovenský Komlóš
• General school with Slovak as the language of instruction, Nové Mesto pod Šiatrom Základná škola Nové Mesto pod Šiatrom
• Slovak grammar school, primary school, kindergarten and college, Békešská Čaba Gymnázium, všeobecná škola a kolégium, Békéšská Čaba
• Kindergarten, primary school, grammar school and college with Slovak as the language of instruction, Budapest

• Jon Voight, an American actor, father Ján Vojtka from Košice
• Eugene Cernan, a United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut and the last astronaut on the Moon. His father was Slovaks, his mother was Czechs. He kept visiting Slovakia until he was 70 years old.
• Renée Geyer, an Australian singer who has long been regarded as one of the finest exponents of jazz, soul and R&B idioms.
• Lukáš Hrádecký, a Slovak-born Finnish football goalkeeper.
• Tim Hudak, a politician in Ontario, Canada, and the Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PC Party).
• Angelina Jolie, an American actress and film director. Grandfather Jon Voight was from Košice.
• Jon Bon Jovi, an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. Grandmother Slovak. He's also Sicilian, German, Russian
• Jim Caviezel, an American actor. His grandmother, named Helena, was Slovaks
• Mike Cervenak, an American baseball player.
• Ricardo de Jaxa Malachowski, a Peruvian architect of Polish and Slovak origin.
• Stan Mikita, a Slovak-born Canadian retired professional ice hockey player. Originally named Stanislav Guoth, born in Sokolce, Banská Bystrica
• Paul Newman, an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and professional racing driver. His mother Terézia Fecková born in Pitičie, Humenné.
• Andrew Poje, a Canadian ice dancer.
• Ivan Reitman, Slovak-Jewish-Canadian film director and film producer, his parents Klára and Ladislav from Komárno.
• Jason Reitman, film director
• Joe Sestak, a former U.S. Navy three-star Admiral and former American politician.
• Jesse Ventura, an American politician, actor, author, veteran, and former professional wrestler.
• Tony Curtis, actor, mother came from Vaľkovo, Poltár.
• Pola Negri, first female-European Hollywood star, birthname Barbara Apolónia Chalupcová, born in Poland to a Polish mother and Slovak father from Kysuce
• Steve Ihnat, actor, birthname Štefan Ihnát, parents from Michalovce district
• Jessica Biel, Slovak-Jewish-American actress, Moritz Biel emigrated from Porúbka, Žilina
• Dave Grohl, rock musician, his ancestry is Slovak, Irish and German
• Steve Ditko, Marvel Comics author and artist, both parents Slovak-Americans.
• Justin Jedlica, known as human Ken doll. Both parents are from Bratislava
• Michael Fincke, American astronaut, holder of a record for most time spent in Space.
• Chuck Bednarik, professional American football player, studied at Slovak school in Pennsylvania, parents were from Široké
• Lizabeth Scott, birthname Ema Macová, both parents Slovaks who emigrated to the USA.
• Peter Lorre, actor, birthname Ladislav Lowenstein, a Slovak-Jewish-American born in Ružomberok, present-day Slovakia, back in 1904 part of Austria-Hungary
• David Dobrik, YouTuber, born in Slovakia, as of 2021 still holder of the Slovak citizenship, born in Košice
• David Boreanaz, actor, his grandmother was Slovak
• Andy Warhol, modern artist, Slovaks-Ruthenians ethnic, parents from Miková, Stropkov.
• Frank Lowy, businessman and philanthropist, Slovaks-Jews-Hungarians ethnic, born in Fiľakovo, Slovakia, back then part of Czechoslovakia,
• John Dopyera, birthname Ján Dopjera, inventor and entrepreneur funder of a musical instrument dobro. Born in Šaštín-Stráže
• Joseph Murgas, birthname Jozef Murgaš, a scientist and inventor born in Tajov, Banská Bystrica
• Maximilian Hell, a Slovak-German Jesuit priest and astronomer, born in Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia, back then part of the Hungarian Kingdom
• Joseph Goldberger, An American physician and epidemiologist of a Slovak-Jewish ancestry born in Giraltovce
• Josef Chaim Sonnenfeld, rabbi and co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis, a Haredi Judaism community in Jerusalem, born in Vrbové.
• Milan Misik, originally named Milan Mišík, a respected geologist and university professor, born in Skalica
• John D. Hertz, a Slovak-Jewish ethnic, businessman, racehorse owner and philanthropist founder of the Yellow cab company, born in Martin
• Stefan Banic, originally named Štefan Banič, parachute inventor, born in Smolenice
• Michael Strank, US marine corps sergeant, killed in the battle of Iwo Jima, one of the flag raisers, helped to raise the 2nd flag on Mount Suribachi, born in Jarabina
• Peter Sagan, a Slovak professional bicycle racer, earned 3 world championships, born in Žilina
• Katarina Van Derham, an American model and actress, born in Ľubochňa
• Vladimir Furdik, actor and stunt performer, born in Bratislava
• Audrey Hepburn, British actress of Slovak-Dutch ancestry. Her grandparents were from Topoľčany district where they owned a sugar refinery
• Tom Selleck, American actor, his father was from eastern Slovakia
• Robert Urich, American actor and producer, maternal grandparents from Bardejov, eastern Slovakia and his father from western Slovakia
• Ivan A. Getting, physicist and engineer, born to Slovak and German immigrants in the US, his Slovak side is from Bytča
• Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, medical researcher and Nobel prize holder, an ethnic Slovak-Hungarian, father from Smrdáky
• Diana Krall, a Canadian jazz singer, her grandfather was named Kráľ (ENG: King) and he was from Žilina Region
• Joe Baksi, a professional heavy weight US box player, a child of Slovaks immigrants from Krásna nad Hornádom, today known as Krásna - a city district of Košice
• Carolyn Forché, professor, editor, human rights activist, her ancestors came from the Tatra Mountains
• Michael Badnarik, a software engineer, US political figure, both of his parents were Slovaks.
• Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber, his grandparents came from Valaškovce, Humenné
• Matthew Daddario siblings - Matthew Daddario, Alexandra, Catherine, their ancestors came from Krížová Nová Ves, today known as Krížová Ves, Kežmarok
• Austin Mahone, singer, songwriter who worked himself up from YouTube, his grandfather was a Slovaks-Ruthenians (Eastern Slovakia area)
• Bianca Maria Kajlich, her father Ján Kajlich was born in Bratislava

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