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was a Slovak composer, organist, pianist, choir director and music teacher.
 Štefan Németh-Šamorínsky's name refers to his place of origin, Šamorín, in trilingual western Slovakia, which was called Šamorýn in Slovak until 1927 (Hungarian Somorja, German Sommerein). He received his basic musical education from his father, a teacher and choirmaster. At the age of ten he was already playing the organ at masses. From 1906 to 1914 he studied at the grammar school of the Poor Clares' monastery in Bratislava and at the same time attended the Municipal Music School, where he studied piano with Alexander Albrecht and violin with Vilhelm Antalffy. From 1908 to 1912 he was a violinist in the Municipal Symphony Orchestra led by Eugen Kossow and a member of the boys' choir of the Bratislava Church Music Association at St. Martin's Cathedral. He continued his studies at the Budapest Music Academy, where his teachers were Béla Bartók (piano), Dezső Antalffy-Zsiross (organ) and Leó Weiner (composition). In 1915 he had to interrupt his studies because he was drafted to the front as an officer candidate. After the end of the First World War he continued his studies, which he completed in 1921. He then attended master classes in Vienna (piano with Franz Schmidt, organ with Franz Schütz). Németh-Šamorínsky became a teacher at the Municipal Music School in Bratislava and worked as organist at St. Martin's Cathedral from 1921 to 1953. In 1924 he was also appointed professor at the Music Academy in Budapest. In the same year he founded the Béla Bartók Choir in Bratislava, with which he gave concerts at home and abroad and which he directed until 1945. From 1949 he taught piano and chamber music at the Academy of Performing Arts, now the Bratislava University of Performing Arts (VŠMU). He also worked as an organologist and designed more than thirty instruments throughout Slovakia. The elementary art school in Šamorín bears his name.