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The President of the Slovak Republic is the head of state of Slovakia and the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. The president is directly elected by the people for five years, and can be elected for a maximum of two consecutive terms. The presidency is largely a ceremonial office, but the president does exercise certain limited powers with absolute discretion. The president's official residence is the Grassalkovich Palace in Bratislava.
Ivan Gašparovič is a Slovak politician and lawyer who was President of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014. He was also the first Slovak president to be re-elected.
The Chairman of the Government of the Slovak Republic, also known as the Prime Minister, is the head of the Government of Slovakia. On paper he is the third highest constitutional official in Slovakia after the President of Slovakia and the Speaker of the National Council. In practice, he is the country's leading political figure.
The 2010 Bratislava shooting, or Devínska Nová Ves shooting, occurred on 30 August 2010, when seven people were killed and at least 17 were injured by a lone gunman who opened fire in Devínska Nová Ves district in a suburb of the Slovak capital, Bratislava. The gunman then committed suicide. The shooting spree took place both inside a local panel building and later in the street outside.
Peter Dzúrik was a Slovakia international football defender or defensive midfielder. He played 45 matches and scored two goals for Slovakia.
Zoltán Pálkovács was a Slovak judoka of Hungarian ethnicity. He was born in Rimavská Sobota and died in a traffic accident in Vienna.
Pál Kadosa was a pianist and Hungarian composer of the post-Bartók generation. His early style was influenced by Hungarian folklore while his later works were more toward Hindemith and expressively forceful idioms. He was born in Levice. He studied at the national Hungarian Royal Academy of Music under Zoltán Székely and Zoltán Kodály. He was appointed to the faculty of the Fodor School in 1927 where he taught until 1943 when he was forced out due to wartime political issues.
Zoltán Halmay was a Hungarian Olympic swimmer. He competed in four Olympics, winning the following medals:
Molnár is a Hungarian surname meaning "miller". The word might be a loanword from Slavic "mlynar" with the same meaning however most likely derived from the old Germanic "Mulinari".
Hajdúnánás is a town in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.
Zoltán Kelemen is a Romanian figure skater. He is an eight-time Romanian national champion. He qualified for the free skate at the 2014 Winter Olympics, the 2014 World Championships, five European Championships, and two World Junior Championships.
Zoltán Harsányi is a Slovak footballer who plays for Balmazújvárosi FC.
Zoltán Tóth is a Hungarian former competitive figure skater. He is a five-time Hungarian national champion and competed in two Winter Olympics.
Veresegyház is a town in Pest county, Hungary.
Zoltán Csizmadia is a Hungarian judoka.
Marek Matuszek is a Slovak judoka.
Semir Pepic is an Australian judoka. He formerly represented Slovakia. He has six Gold medals from the Australian National Judo Championships and has represented Australia in the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
Csizmadia is a Hungarian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Balog is a Hungarian surname of nobility, see article Balog (genus), a variant of Balogh. Notable people with the surname include:
Zoltan Zinn-Collis was a Slovak survivor of the Holocaust. He was one of only five living Holocaust survivors in Ireland. He died in his Athy home in Ireland on December 10 2012. He thought himself to be born on August 1, but he was not certain.
Zoltán Bognár is a profession sukel Slovak footballer of Hungarian ethnicity currently plays for Slovak club TJ OFC Gabčíkovo.
Béla von Kehrling was a Hungarian tennis, table tennis, and football player but eventually a winter sportsman familiar with ice-hockey and occasionally competing in bobsleigh. He competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics and the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Zoltán Opata was a Hungarian football player and manager. As a player, he won six Hungarian league championships with Budapest-based powerhouse MTK in the 1920s and regularly appeared for Hungary national football team. After retiring from playing he became a manager and had successful spells with clubs in Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland.
Zoltan is a hand gesture in which a person has their hands stacked on top of each other, only touching at the tips of the thumbs, in order to form a letter "Z". Originally used in the 2000 stoner film Dude, Where's My Car?, the Zoltan hand gesture also became popular in 2012 with members of the Pittsburgh Pirates, as well as residents of Pittsburgh rallying around the team.
