Juraj Kukura (born 15 March 1947, in Prešov) is a Slovak actor.

Kukura studied acting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU).

In 1985, when he emigrated to West Germany, his films were banned in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic until Communist rule ended during the Velvet Revolution of 1989.

[1][2] In October 2017, Kukura was awarded the Medal of Merit by the Czech president Miloš Zeman.

His son Philipp Kukura is a professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford.