Ján Horecký (8 January 1920 - 11 August 2006)[1] was a Slovak linguist.

[2] In 1944 he graduated in Slovak and Latin language at the Slovak University in Bratislava (now Comenius University).

After graduation, Horecký became a researcher at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

[3] In addition to study of the Slovak language, he also studied Czech, Hungarian, Latin, Ancient Greek and various constructed languages.

He was particularly interested in the Romani language, a topic he collaborated on with his daughter, the Indologist Anna Rácová.