page_title: Trnava
section_title: Famous people
hierarchical_section_title: Trnava / Famous people
context_page_description: Trnava is a city in western Slovakia, 47 km to the north-east of Bratislava, on the Trnávka river. It is the capital of a kraj and of an okres. It is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishopric. The city has a historic center. Because of the many churches within its city walls, Trnava has often been called "parva Roma", i.e. "Little Rome", or more recently, the "Slovak Rome".
context_section_description: Blažej Baláž, painter
  Mária Balážová, painter
  Juraj Beneš, composer
  Anton Bernolák, priest, writer, the author of the first Slovak language standard
  Pavol Blažek, race walker
  Libor Charfreitag, hammer thrower
  Igor Matovič, Prime Minister of Slovakia
  Jozef Miso, football player
  Karol Dobiáš, football player
  Vilmos Fraknói, Hungarian-Jewish, Roman Catholic priest, historian, secretary of HAS, titular bishop, canon of Várad
  Károly Hadaly, Hungarian mathematician
  Maximilian Hell, Hungarian astronomer
  Jozef Heriban, Slovak novelist and screenwriter
  Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian scientist, inventor, teacher, member of the Order of Saint Benedict
  Miroslav Karhan, football player
  Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer
  Taťána Kuchařová, Miss Czech Republic 2006, Miss World 2006
  Louis I of Hungary, king
  Anton Malatinský, Slovak football coach
  Milan Mikuláš, triple jumper
  Nicolaus Olahus, Hungarian archbishop
  Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman
  Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský, composer and conductor
  Marek Ujlaky, football player
  Rudolf Vrba, professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia, author of the Vrba-Wetzler report
  Alfred Wetzler, author of the Vrba-Wetzler report
caption: Town hall of Trnava
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