Banská Štiavnica as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. Slovak-Hungarian Jesuit, astronomer, mathematician, and physicist (1720–1792), Austrian botanist (1766-1839), Slovak diplomat, member of Slovak National Council and writer): Maximilian Hell, Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Anton Hykisch and some more.
Celebrities from Banská Štiavnica