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A Hungarian family name


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  • B. B. Gabor
    B. B. Gabor
    B. B. Gabor was the stage name of Gabor Hegedus , a Hungarian-born Canadian pop singer. Generally classified as a one-hit wonder, Gabor is best known for his 1980 single "Soviet Jewellery ", although he had other minor hits with "Metropolitan Life", "Consumer" and "Jealous Girls".- History :B.B...

    , a Hungary-born Canadian pop singer
  • Dennis Gabor
    Dennis Gabor
    Dennis Gabor CBE, FRS, was a Hungarian electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the Nobel Prize in Physics.-Biography:He was born as Gábor Dénes, in Budapest, Hungary...

    , a Hungarian-born British physicist
  • Eva Gabor
    Eva Gabor
    Eva Gabor was a Hungarian-born socialite and actress. Best known for her role as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character Oliver Wendell Douglas, on Green Acres. Unlike her sisters, Eva had great success as an actress in film, Broadway and television...

    , a Hungarian-born American actress
  • Gabor sisters
    Gabor sisters
    The Gabor sisters are three famous Hungarian actresses/socialites:*Magda *Zsa Zsa *Eva...

    , the three famous actresses, Eva
    Eva Gabor
    Eva Gabor was a Hungarian-born socialite and actress. Best known for her role as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character Oliver Wendell Douglas, on Green Acres. Unlike her sisters, Eva had great success as an actress in film, Broadway and television...

    , Magda
    Magda Gabor
    Magdolna "Magda" Gabor was a Hungarian-born American entertainer and socialite. She was the elder sister of actresses Zsa Zsa Gabor and Eva Gabor, and known for her habitual marriages and divorces.-Early life:...

     and Zsa Zsa
    Zsa Zsa Gabor
    Zsa Zsa Gabor , also known as Sári Prinzessin von Anhalt, is a Hungarian actress, socialite and former beauty queen.-Early life:...

  • Jolie Gabor
    Jolie Gabor
    Jolie Gábor Christman de Szigethy was best known as "Mama Jolie", the mother of actresses/socialites Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eva Gabor and Magda Gabor....

    , mother of Gabor sisters
    Gabor sisters
    The Gabor sisters are three famous Hungarian actresses/socialites:*Magda *Zsa Zsa *Eva...

  • Magda Gabor
    Magda Gabor
    Magdolna "Magda" Gabor was a Hungarian-born American entertainer and socialite. She was the elder sister of actresses Zsa Zsa Gabor and Eva Gabor, and known for her habitual marriages and divorces.-Early life:...

    , a Hungarian entertainer
  • Zsa Zsa Gabor
    Zsa Zsa Gabor
    Zsa Zsa Gabor , also known as Sári Prinzessin von Anhalt, is a Hungarian actress, socialite and former beauty queen.-Early life:...

    , a Hungarian-American actress
  • Sasha Gabor
    Sasha Gabor
    "Sasha" Gabor Sarközi was a Norwegian pornographic actor. He came to Norway from Hungary as a refugee in 1957 ....

    , a pornographic actor
  • Gabriel Gabor, the Hungarian spelling of Gabriel Bethlen
    Gabriel Bethlen
    Gabriel Bethlen was a prince of Transylvania , duke of Opole and leader of an anti-Habsburg insurrection in the Habsburg Royal Hungary. His last armed intervention in 1626 was part of the Thirty Years' War...

     a leader of an anti-Hapsburg insurrection in Royal Hungary
    Royal Hungary
    Royal Hungary was the name of medieval Kingdom of Hungary where the Habsburgs were recognized as Kings of Hungary in the wake of the Ottoman victory at the Battle of Mohács and subsequent partition of the country....

    .

A Hungarian given name


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  • Gábor Baross
    Gábor Baross
    Gábor Baross , Hungarian statesman, was born at Pružina near Trencsén on 6 July 1848, and educated at Esztergom. He was for a time one of the professors there under Cardinal Kolos Vaszary. After acquiring considerable local reputation as chief notary of his county, he entered parliament in 1875...

    , Hungarian politician
  • Gábor Bódy
    Gábor Bódy
    Gábor Bódy was a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, theoretic, and occasional actor. A pioneer of experimental filmmaking and film language, Bódy is one of the most important figures of Hungarian cinema.- Biography :...

    , Hungarian director
  • Gábor Csupó
    Gábor Csupó
    Gábor Csupó is a Hungarian-born animator and co-founder of the animation studio Klasky Csupo, which has produced shows like Rugrats, Duckman, and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters....

    , Hungarian animator
  • Gábor Darvas
    Gábor Darvas
    Gábor Darvas was a Hungarian composer and musicologist. He was one of the first Hungarian composers to work in the field of electronic music. As a musicologist, his interest was primarily in music of the 15th and 16th centuries.He was born at Szatmárnémeti...

    , Hungarian composer and musicologist
  • Gábor Döbrentei
    Gábor Döbrentei
    Gábor Döbrentei , Hungarian philologist and antiquary, was born at Nagyszőlős.He completed his studies at the universities of Wittenberg and Leipzig, and was afterwards engaged as a tutor in Transylvania...

    , Hungarian philologist and antiquary
  • Gábor Domokos, Hungarian mathematician, developer of the Gömböc
    Gömböc
    A Gömböc is a convex three-dimensional homogeneous body which, when resting on a flat surface, has just one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium. Its existence was conjectured by Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold in 1995 and proven in 2006 by Hungarian scientists Gábor Domokos and...

  • Gábor Gyepes
    Gábor Gyepes
    Gábor Gyepes is a Hungarian international footballer, currently playing for Cardiff City in the Football League Championship.-Club career:Gyepes began his career at Ferencváros in his home country...

    , Hungarian footballer
  • Gábor Harangozó
    Gábor Harangozó
    Gábor Harangozó is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Hungarian Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists....

    , Hungarian politician
  • Gabor Herman
    Gabor Herman
    Gabor T. Herman is a pioneer in the field of computed tomography and the author of more than a dozen books and over 100 articles including several classic works in the field. He is recognized internationally for his major contributions to image processing and its medical applications.Herman earned...

    , researcher in the field of computed tomography
  • Gábor Horváth
    Gábor Horváth
    Gábor Horváth is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1993 to 2006. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with two golds and one silver .A member of the Budapest Honvéd FC club, Horváth also had outstanding success at the canoeing World...

    , Hungarian flatwater canoer
  • Gábor Király
    Gábor Király
    Gábor Ferenc Király is a Hungarian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He is currently playing for 1860 Munich, in the 2...

    , Hungarian football goalkeeper
  • Gábor Kuncze
    Gábor Kuncze
    Gábor Kuncze , Hungarian liberal politician, former chairman of the Hungarian Alliance of Free Democrats -Biography:...

    , Hungarian politician
  • Gabor A. Somorjai
    Gabor A. Somorjai
    Gabor A. Somorjai is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is a leading researcher in the field of surface chemistry. Somorjai won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1998 for his contributions to the field and was awarded a National Medal of Science in 2002...

    , Hungary-born chemist
  • Gábor Szabó
    Gábor Szabó
    Gábor Szabó was a Hungarian jazz guitarist, famous for mixing jazz, pop-rock and his native Hungarian music.-Biography:...

    , Hungarian jazz guitarist
  • Gábor Szegő
    Gábor Szego
    Gábor Szegő was a Hungarian mathematician.-Life:Szegő was born in Kunhegyes, Hungary into a Jewish family...

    , Hungarian mathematician
  • Gábor Talmácsi
    Gábor Talmácsi
    Gábor Talmácsi is a professional motorcycle racer. He was the 2007 Grand Prix motorcycle racing 125cc World Champion. He has a younger brother, Gergő, who is also a motorcycle racer.-Early years:...

    , Hungarian motorcycle racer
  • Gábor Totola
    Gábor Totola
    Gábor Totola is a Hungarian fencer, who won a silver medal in the team Épée competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona together with Krisztián Kulcsár, Ferenc Hegedüs, Ernõ Kolczonay and Iván Kovács....

    , Hungarian fencer
  • Gábor Wéber
    Gabor Weber
    Gabor Weber is a race car driver born in Hungary who competed in one race of the 2003 Porsche Supercup. In 2008 he competed in the SEAT León Eurocup.-External links:*...

    , Hungarian race car driver

Others


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  • Gabor, a character in James Bond series
  • Gabor filter
    Gabor filter
    A Gabor filter is a linear filter whose impulse response is defined by a harmonic function multiplied by a Gaussian function. Because of the multiplication-convolution property , the Fourier transform of a Gabor filter's impulse response is the convolution of the Fourier transform of the harmonic...

    , a linear filter used in image processing
  • Gabor Medal
    Gabor Medal
    The Gabor Medal is a medal awarded by the Royal Society of London for "acknowledged distinction of interdisciplinary work between the life sciences with other disciplines". The medal was created in 1989 to honour the memory of Dennis Gabor, and is awarded biennially...

    , a medal of Royal Society awarded to biologists, named after Dennis Gabor