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.
Arts, culture, and entertainment
Jon Bon Jovi – rock musician, singer, songwriter and actor (paternal grandmother of Slovak descent)
David Boreanaz – actor (mother was half Slovak descent)
Jim Caviezel – film actor (paternal grandmother of Slovak descent)
Scarlett Chorvat – film and television actress
Laco Déczi (Ladislav Déči) – Slovak-American jazz trumpeter and composer, leader of Jazz Celula New York
Steve Ditko – comic book artist and writer, co-creator of the Marvel Comics heroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange
Moritz Fuerst – artist employed with United States Mint in the 19th century
Dave Grohl – rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and film director, of part Slovak descent
Angelina Jolie – actress, former fashion model and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency; daughter of Jon Voight (paternal grandfather of Slovak descent)
Justin Jedlica – "human Ken doll"
Katrina Leskanich – musician, author and former lead singer of English pop rock band Katrina and The Waves
Pola Negri – actress, her father, Juraj Chalupec, was a Slovak immigrant
Paul Newman – actor and film director (maternal grandparents were Slovak)
John Ondrasik – musician, performing as "Five for Fighting"
Robert Urich – actor
Jon Voight – actor (paternal grandfather was a Slovak immigrant from Košice; paternal grandmother was also of Slovak descent)
James Haven – actor and producer
Andy Warhol – artist
James Warhola – artist
Austin Mahone – singer and songwriter
John Dopyera – inventor, entrepreneur
John D. Hertz – businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner, and philanthropist
iJustine – blogger
Travis Kalanick – founder of UBER (paternal grandfather was a Slovak immigrant from Valaškovce)
Law and politics
Michael Badnarik – software engineer, political figure, and radio talk show host
Mark Critz - US Congressman
William T. Dzurilla – international attorney and law clerk to Justice Byron White of the United States Supreme Court
Carolyn Forché – professor, poet, editor, and human rights advocate
Joseph M. Gaydos – Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
John Katko - U.S. Representative from New York.
Dennis "DJ" Mikolay – syndicated political columnist
Michael Novak – philosopher, diplomat
Vincent Obsitnik – diplomat
Tom Ridge – Republican, 43rd Governor of Pennsylvania and 1st Secretary of United States Department of Homeland Security
Joe Sestak – US Representative, Democrat, Pennsylvania 7th District; retired US Naval vice-admiral
Mark Singel – 28th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
Judy Baar Topinka – Republican politician in Illinois
Jesse Ventura – 38th Governor of Minnesota, wrestler, television personality
Pete Visclosky – U.S. Representative for Indiana's 1st congressional district
Štefan Banič – constructor of a parachute-like device which he donated to the US Army, but was not used
Eugene Cernan – retired United States Navy officer and a former NASA astronaut involved in the Apollo program (Slovak father)
Matej Kocak – Sergeant of the United States Marine Corps; double Medal of Honor recipient in World War I
Richard Marcinko – U.S. Navy SEAL and founder of SEAL Team 6
Michael Strank – Sergeant of the United States Marine Corps; famous for Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Joseph Victor Adamec – bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona–Johnstown
David Allen Zubik – the twelfth and current bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]
David A. Bednar – member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
Teresa Demjanovich – Roman Catholic nun
John Hardon – priest, author, theologian, community leader
Thomas Hopko – Orthodox Christian theologian
Jaroslav Pelikan – scholar of the history of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history
Science and medicine
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
Chuck Bednarik – former professional American football player for the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL
George Blanda – former quarterback and kicker for the Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers
Jeff Bzdelik – basketball coach; currently an assistant with the Houston Rockets, former assistant with the Memphis Grizzlies, and former head coach of the Denver Nuggets, U.S. Air Force Academy, University of Colorado, and Wake Forest University
Scott Kazmir – MLB player
Andy Kosco – former baseball player
Jack Kralick – former pitcher for Washington Senators and Cleveland Indians
Leslie Krichko – Olympic skier
Johnny Kucab – pitcher for Philadelphia Athletics in 1940s and 1950s
Kyle Kuric – professional basketball player in Spain, currently with Gran Canaria
Pete Latzo – boxer
Bethanie Mattek-Sands – professional tennis player
Stan Mikita – professional ice hockey player
Andy Pafko – baseball center fielder for the Chicago Cubs (1943–51), Brooklyn Dodgers (1951–52) and Milwaukee Braves (1953–59)
Kelly Pavlik – undefeated WBO/World Boxing Council middleweight boxing champion
Mike Piazza – professional baseball player
George Shuba – former outfielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers
Paul Stastny – professional ice hockey player
Peter Šťastný – professional ice hockey player
Yan Stastny – professional ice hockey player
Elmer Valo – right fielder, coach and scout in Major League Baseball
Jason Varitek – former captain and catcher for Boston Red Sox (1997–2011)
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