Andrej Halaša was a Slovak melodramatic promoter, translator, editor, and ethnographer. He was born in 1852 in Dolný Kubín, and he died in 1913 in Martin. He studied at the elementary schools in Revúca, and in Levoča, and then at the University of Law in Prešov. He started work in Dolný Kubín as a clerk lawyer, and in 1874 worked as an independent lawyer in Martin.