Famous Slovak people

Ivan Reitman

Ivan Reitman is a Slovak-Canadian film producer and director, best known for his comedy work, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. He is the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 2000.
Reitman was born in Komárno, Czechoslovakia.

Reitman's first producing job was with the then-new station CITY-TV in Toronto. In Toronto, he produced the stage production Spellbound which evolved into Broadway production The Magic show. Reitman's first commercial film ventures were as producer of two films for director David Croneberg, Shivers and Rabid. His big break came when he produced National Lampoons  Animal House in 1978 and directed Meatballs in 1979. From there, he directed and produced a number of comedies including Stripes, Ghostbusters, Legal Eagles, Twins, Ghostbusters II , Kindergarten Cop, Dave, Junior, Six days, Seven Nights, Evolution, My super ex-boyfriend, and No Strings Attached. In the early 1990s, Reitman began to direct fewer films, but increased his role as a producer and executive producer through his company, Northern Lights Entertainment. He helped to produce the animated film Heavy Metal, as well as the live-action films Spacehunter Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Beethoven, Beethovens 2nd, Space Jam, Howard Stern's film Private Parts, Road Trip, Old School, EuroTrip and Trailer park boys: The movie.  He next produced the comedy I love you, man, starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel. Also in 2009, he produced the Academy  Award-nominated film.

Reitman has been married to Geneviève Robert since 1976. Reitman has a son and two daughters. His son, Jason Reitman, is a film director best known for his films Juno, Thank you for smoking and Up in the Air, for which he won a Golden Globe for his screenplay. His daughter Catherine Reitman is a member of The Groundlings comedy troupe in Los Angeles. His other daughter, Caroline Reitman, is a sophomore at Santa Barbara City College. Reitman's wife is a convert to Judaism.

In 2009, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions as a director and producer, and for his promotion of the Canadian film and television industries".

In April 2011 he received the Mayor's prize at his native city of Komárno, Slovakia.

Lehàr Ferenc

Franz Lehár was born in the northern part of Komàrom.

While his younger brother Anton entered cadet school in Vienna to become a professional officer, Franz studied violin at the Prague Conservatory, where his violin teacher was Antonin Bennewitz, but was advised by Antonin Dvoràk to focus on composition. However, the Conservatory's rules at that time did not allow students to study both performance and composition, and Bennewitz and Lehár senior exerted pressure on Lehár to take his degree in violin as a practical matter, arguing that he could study composition on his own later.  

After graduation in 1888 he joined his father's band in Vienna, as assistant bandmaster. Two years later he became bandmaster at Losoncz, East Slovakia, making him the youngest bandmaster in the Austro-Hungarian Army at that time, but he left the army and joined the navy.

He is most famous for his operettas – the most successful of which is The Merrz Window, but he also wrote sonatas, symphonic poems and marches. He also composed a number of waltzes (the most popular being Gold und Silber), some of which were drawn from his famous operettas. Individual songs from some of the operettas have become standards, notably "Vilja" from The Merry Widow and "You Are My Heart's Delight"  from The Land of Smiles.

He died in 1948 because in cancer, more than thousand people went to his funeral and said him their last goodbyes. A band performed 
the Volga-song there, as he wished before his death. 

V.Làszlò

Born in february 22 in 1444 in Komorn. V. László is Habsburg Alberts and Szilágyi Erzsébets child. His short life which was just 17 years was very eventful an filled with intrigue.

In our country V.László was the second one who is from the Harsburg-house and is the one and only king who reigned and was born on a hungarian land. He was crowned when he was only a 3 months old baby, but officially he became a ruler of Hungary in 1444. He was in Styria for 12 years when he was under the supervision of the Austrian Emperor III.Frederick .This time Hunyadi János was the ruler of Hungary. 1455 was an important year in V.László’s life.Then he visited Buda. An unexpected welcome awaited him there , under duress he made an oath with Szilágyi Erzsébett that Hunyadi won’t get hurt at all but he broke the oath and murdered Hunyadi.

V. László then returned home and started to organize his wedding. On november 23. 1457 after 3 days of sickness he died at the age of 17. 

Michal and Richard Riszdorfer

-the Riszdorfer brothers are known as the most successful canoeists in Komárno

-Michal is now 40 years old and Richard is 36

-Michal has won in his career on world Championship 8 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 2 bronze medals

-Richard has won on world Championship 5 gold medals and on European Championship 6 gold medals

-in 2004 they won with other 2 canoeists bronze medal at Olympic Games in Athens, they competed in K4 category for 1000m

-four years later, in 2008 they have done better and won a silver medal at Olympic Games in Peking, they competed in the same category

-in 2008 it was their last competition

-they opened a fitness and wellness centre in Komárno

-nowadays they help and motivate young canoeists to be at least as successful as they were in their career

-Michal is a personal trainer in their fitness centre and Richard makes cross fit trainings for people who want to lose weight or just keep their stamina strong

Konkoly Thege

He spent his childhood in Hurbanovo, already as a 15-year constructed his own steam engine. After finishing secondary education in the academic year 1857 - 1858 he studied at the University of Budapest physics, among his teachers included the Stephen eater. Since 1860, he continued to study law at Berlin, where in 1862 he received his doctorate. He had universal interests earned diplomas ship's captain and driving. After graduating he went on a two-year study visit to the famous Observatory to be acquainted with their activities, programs and specialized instrumentation and established personal contacts. Observatory in Hurbanovo, founded in 1871, has for several years became known worldwide. Since 1890 he was the Director of the State Institute for meteorology and Earth magnetism in Budapest.He was the designer of many astronomical instruments, therefore Hurbanovo was one of the most important scientific institutions in Europe. In his scientific activity he is devoted to the observation of sunspots, bright comets (the spectrum), solar prominences, meteors and determination of the exact time. He implemented systematically and geomagnetic and meteorological observations. Later he devoted astrophysics researchers - astrophotometry, spectroscopy, research of solar photosphere and chromosphere, photography, star clusters, nebulae, spectroscopic and spectrophotometric observations. His observations of Halley's Comet in 1910 was still in the mid-80s of the 20th century placed in the scientific literature.
A testament to his extraordinary scientific work are publications, which were attached as a proposal dr. Konkoly a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. A 7-year period has published 40 original scientific papers, based on their own observations. He was a member of scientific societies as Astronomische Gesellschaft, the Royal Astronomical Society and others. For his meritorious work received much recognition and awards - honorary doctorate from the University of Philadelphia, Regulations Litteris et Artibus, Prussia, Württemberg and Serbian series as well as gold medals for shooting a starry sky. On May 18, 1899 to devote all equipment Observatory State. . They chose him for several years as a Member of the Hungarian Parliament, his publications were rich. Multiple instruments are designed and constructed by him. In 1899 all his property, including observatories,  he donated to the state. Although he  never been seriously ill,but in February 17, 1916 in Budapest, he died of heart failure. It is buried in Hurbanovo.