Sports
- Ivan Bátory (1975) - cross-country skiing
- Imre Bugár (1955) - ethnic Hungarian athlete
- Karol Divín (1936) - figure-skating
- Bohumil Golián (?) - volleyball-player
- Jozef Gönci (1974) - sport shooter
- Jozef Krnáč (1977) - judo
- Ondrej Nepela (1951–1989) - figure-skating
- Jozef Plachý (1949) - athlete
- Jozef Pribilinec (1960) - race walker, Olympic gold medalist
- Jack Quinn (1883-1946) - baseball player
- Richard Réti - Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak chess grandmaster
- Jozef Sabovčík - figure-skating
- Peter Sagan (1990) - cyclist
- Alojz Sokol (Aloisius Szokol) (1871–1932) - athlete, pioneer of the Olympic movement in historic Hungary
- Anton Tkáč (1951) - cyclist
- Július Torma (1922–1991) - boxer
- Elmer Valo (1921–1998) - baseball player
- Ján Zachara (1928) - boxer
- Radoslav Židek (1981) - snowboarder, first Slovak medallist from independent Slovakia at the Winter Olympics
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“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
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—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)