30 Slovak poets

Ján Botto was a Slovak poet, writer of the Štúr generation and co-founder of the first Slovak gymnasium in Revúca.

Radovan Brenkus is a Slovak writer, translator and critic.

Samo Chalupka was a Slovak romantic poet.

Jonatán Dobroslav Čipka was a Slovak priest, poet and author.

Pavol Dobšinský was a Slovak collector of folklore and writer belonging to the period of Romanticism and the Štúr generation. He is perhaps best known for creating the largest and most complete collection of Slovak folktales, Prostonárodnie slovenské povesti, self-published in a series of eight books from 1880 to 1883.

Ján Samuel Francisci-Rimavský, was a Slovak poet, novelist, translator, journalist and politician, who collaborated with the nationalist leader, Ľudovít Štúr. He used numerous pseudonyms, including Janko Francisci, Janko Rimavský, Slavoľub and Vratislav Rimavský.

Eliáš Galajda Ukrainian: Галайда Илля, was Ukrainian writer with Slovak citizenship.

Michal Miloslav Hodža was a Slovak national revivalist, Protestant priest, poet, linguist, and representative of the Slovak national movement in 1840s as a member of "the trinity" Štúr-Hurban-Hodža. Michal Miloslav Hodža is also the uncle of the Czechoslovak politician Milan Hodža.

Ján Hollý was a Slovak poet and translator. He was the first greater Slovak poet to write exclusively in the newly standardized literary Slovak language. His predecessors mostly wrote in various regional versions of Czech, Slovakized Czech or Latin. Hollý translated Virgil's Aeneid and wrote his own epic poetry in alexandrine verse to show that the Slovak language recently standardized by Anton Bernolák was capable of expressing complex poetic forms.

Pavol Hudák was a Slovak poet, journalist and publicist.

Svetozár Miloslav Hurban, pen name Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský was a Slovak poet, lawyer and nationalist newspaper editor who was twice imprisoned. Born in Hlboké, he was the son of Jozef Miloslav Hurban.

Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav was a Slovak poet, dramatist, translator, and for a short time, member of the Czechoslovak parliament. Originally, he wrote in a traditional style, but later became influenced by parnassism and modernism.

Baron Ján Jesenský was a Slovak lower nobleman of the House of Jeszenszky, poet, prose writer, translator, and politician. He was a prominent member of the Slovak national movement.

Ján Kollár was a Slovak writer, archaeologist, scientist, politician, and main ideologist of Pan-Slavism.

Janko Kráľ was one of the most significant and most radical Slovak romantic poets of the Ľudovít Štúr generation and a national activist.

Ivan Krasko was a Slovak poet, translator and representative of modernism in Slovakia.

Štefan Krčméry was a Slovak poet, literary critic, historian, journalist, translator, and administrator of Matica slovenská. He was born in Mošovce and died in Pezinok.

Juraj Kuniak is a Slovak poet and writer. He was born in Košice, Slovakia.

Anna Lacková-Zora was a Slovak author. She published under the pseudonyms of Zora-Lacková, aunt Zora, Zora and Lacková-Zora. At first she worked as a bank clerk, but then fully devoted herself to her literature work, which she began during World War I.

Laco Novomeský was a Slovak poet, writer, publicist and communist politician.

Janko Matúška was a Slovak poet, activist, occasional playwright, and clerk of the court. He is best known as the author of the Slovak national anthem, Nad Tatrou sa blýska based on melody of Slovak folk song Kopala studienku.

Martin Rázus was a Slovak poet, dramatist, writer, politician and Lutheran priest

Radoslav Rochallyi is a Slovak philosopher, writer and poet.

Vladimír Roy was a Slovak poet, translator and opera librettist.

Milan Rúfus was a Slovak poet, essayist, translator, children's writer and academic. Rúfus is the most translated Slovak poet into other languages.

Pavel Jozef Šafárik was an ethnic Slovak philologist, poet, literary historian, historian and ethnographer in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was one of the first scientific Slavists.

Andrej Sládkovič was a Slovak poet, critic, publicist and translator.

Samo Tomášik was a Slovak romantic poet and prosaist.

Miroslav Válek was a Slovak poet, publicist and politician. He was also the Minister of Culture in the government of Slovak Socialistic Republic within the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.

Andrej Žarnov, born František Šubík, was a Slovak Catholic modernist writer and physician.