František Hajnovič (7 May 1949 – 26 March 2021) was born in the Závod village, Malacky district.
[1][2] He was a Slovak economist and mathematician, who briefly served as the Minister of Finance under the prime minister Mikuláš Dzurinda.
[3] Between 1972 and 1994 he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Statistics and Informatics.
From 1994 until his retirement, with the exception of the period he served as the minister, he worked as a research economist and head of unit at the National Bank of Slovakia, focusing on macroeconomic imbalances and monetary policy questions.
[4] Hajnovič was the founding member of the Party of Democratic Left.