Anton Neuwirth (1921–2004) was a Slovak medical doctor, political prisoner, Member of Parliament, presidential candidate and ambassador.
In 1947 he received a scholarship to work in Zürich with professor Paul Karrer, the 1937 Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate.
From 1992 to 2000 he was President of the Slovak branch of the International Paneuropean Union, the oldest European unification movement, created in 1923 by Count Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi's, based on the principles of liberalism, Christianity, social responsibility, and pro-Europeanism.
On 29 January 1993 he was elected Honorary President of the Slovak political party "Christian Democratic Movement" (Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie, KDH).
After having visited his daughter Anna Záborská in Strasbourg after her election as Member of the European Parliament, he died five days later on 21 September 2004 in Bojnice, where he was buried in the family grave.