Hungarians in Australia - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of notable Hungarian Australians and their descendants.

Peter Abeles
Peter Abeles
Sir Peter Emil Herbert Abeles, AC was an Australian transportation magnate. A refugee from Hungary, he became one of the most powerful businessmen in Australia, and was knighted in 1972.-Life:...

(Sir) - (1924-1999). Prominent businessman. Awarded Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).
Attila Abonyi
Attila Abonyi
Attila Abonyi is a Hungarian-born Australian football manager and former player.Born in Hungary, he took up soccer after emigrating to Australia at age 10. Attila played started playing professional club football for Melbourne Hungaria between 1962 and 1968, St...

- (1946- ). Soccer administrator and player for Melbourne Hungaria
Melbourne Hungaria
The Melbourne Hungaria Soccer Club is a defunct Australian association football club that was based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club was founded by Hungarian migrants in 1957 and quickly became one of the strongest football clubs in Australia in the 1960s and 1970s.-History:The foundations of the...

. Member of the Australian 1974 World Cup squad in West Germany
West Germany
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Larry Adler - company director.
Rodney Adler
Rodney Adler
Rodney Stephens Adler is an Australian businessman and former director of telecommunications company One.Tel and insurance company HIH, both of which collapsed in 2001. He was jailed in 2005 for his conduct related to the collapse of HIH....

- company director and former managing director of FAI Insurance.
Stephen Angyal - (1914- ). Former Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of New South Wales
University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

1960-1979. Winner of the Ollé Prize
Ollé Prize
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for Australian Chemistry, 1966.
Frank Arok - Australian soccer coach.
Géza Bachman - Musician. Played for Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra , commonly known as the Sydney Symphony, is an Australian symphony orchestra based in Sydney...

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István Bakos - assistant priest and Hungarian chaplain for the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta.
Suzanne Balogh
Suzanne Balogh
Suzanne Elspeth Balogh OAM is a sport shooter from Australia. Balogh competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in Trap. She also competed in the Double Trap event...

- trap shooter. Won gold for Australia in 2004 Athens Olympics. Won gold and bronze medals in Commonwealth of 2002 and 2006. Hungarian father.
Michael Peter Balzary, better known as Flea (musician)
Flea (musician)
Michael Peter Balzary , better known by his stage name Flea, is an Australian-American musician and occasional actor. He is best known as the bassist, co-founding member, and one of the composers of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers...

- (1962- ). Bassist, trumpet player and actor. Co-founder of the Silverlake Conservatory of Music
Silverlake Conservatory of Music
Silverlake Conservatory of Music is a non-profit educational organization formed in California. It was founded in 2001 by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, Michael "Flea" Balzary and Keith "Tree" Barry to foster music education...

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Hajnal Ban
Hajnal Ban
Hajnal Black is an Australian barrister, author and conservative politician. She is currently a councillor for Logan City, elected 15 March 2008. Previously she was a councillor for the Beaudesert Shire Council from 27 March 2004...

- (1977- ). Queensland barrister and author.
Emery Barcs - journalist and broadcaster.
Ivan Barko - academic and French scholar, University of Sydney.
Cheryl Bart
Cheryl Bart
Cheryl Sarah Bart AO is an Australian lawyer and company director.Bart was educated at Moriah College in Sydney and graduated from the University of New South Wales with degrees in commerce and law...

- lawyer and Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

Board member.
Gregory Benko
Gregory Benko
Gregory Benko is a retired Australian foil fencer who competed at four Olympic Games.After participating in the 1972 Summer Olympics, Benko was recruited as a member of the Wayne State University men's fencing team. He earned three varsity letters and three national championships in individual...

- Australian fencer at 1972 Summer Olympics
1972 Summer Olympics
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held in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, Germany
Germany
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George Berczeller (Best) - (1914-2008). Composer, pianist and entertainer.
Leslie Bodi - (1922- ). Professor Emeritus of German, Monash University
Monash University
Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....

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Zoltan Bodolai - writer.
George Bornemissza
George Bornemissza
George Francis Bornemissza is a Hungarian-born entomologist and ecologist. He studied science at the University of Budapest before obtaining his PhD in zoology at the University of Innsbruck in Austria in 1950. At the end of that year he emigrated to Australia...

- (1924- ). Entomologist. Awarded member of the Order of Australia
Order of Australia
The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...

(AO).
Rudolf Bozoky - (1933-2007). Architect, property developer and builder.
Stephen Leslie Bradley (Istvan Baranyay) - (1926-1968). Kidnapper and murderer of Graeme Thorne
Graeme Thorne kidnapping
The Graeme Thorne kidnapping is the name given to the 1960 kidnapping and murder of Graeme Thorne for money that his father, Bazil Thorne, had won in a lottery. A crime which caused massive shock at the time and gathered huge publicity, it was the first known kidnapping for ransom in Australian...

in 1960, one of Australia's best known crimes.
Joe Bugner
Joe Bugner
József Kreul "Joe" Bugner is a Hungarian-born British-Australian former top heavyweight boxer. He holds triple nationality, being a citizen of Hungary and a naturalized citizen of both Australia and the United Kingdom where he learned to box and spent his peak years.Born in Szőreg, a southeastern...

- (1950- ). Australian heavyweight boxer.
Judy Cassab
Judy Cassab
Judy Cassab CBE AO is an Australian painter. She has twice won the Archibald Prize.Judy Cassab was born Judit Kaszab in Vienna, Austria in 1920 to Hungarian parents...

- painter and twice winner of the Archibald Prize
Archibald Prize
The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after a bequest from J. F. Archibald, the editor of The Bulletin who died in 1919...

. Awarded Order of the British Empire
Order of the British Empire
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(OBE) and Order of Australia
Order of Australia
The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...

(AO).
Peter Christoff - Associate Professor (Environmental Studies), University of Melbourne. Opponent of climate change denial
Climate change denial
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Endre Csapo - Editor-in-chief, Hungarian Life (Magyar Élet) weekly newspaper.
Oszkar Csuvik - water polo champion and coach. Represented Hungary at 1948 London Olympic and coached Australian water polo team at 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
Tom Danos
Tom Danos
Tom Danos is a high profile barrister in Victoria, Australia. He mainly practices in the area of criminal law, and is Treasurer of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association....

- high profile Victorian barrister
Lászlo Deák - (1928-2002). hydrographer and Tasmanian community radio producer.
Adam Debreczeny - Novelist.
Andras Dezsery - book publisher.
Kriszta Doczy
Kriszta Doczy
Kriszta Doczy is a Hungarian/Australian film producer and founder of Contemporary Arts Media, a distributor of art films....

- (1948- ). Film producer and distributor.
András Domahidy
András Domahidy
András Domahidy is a contemporary Hungarian-Australian, novelist and retired librarian. His novels are written in Hungarian.Born in Satu Mare, Romania, András Domahidy completed a PhD in Law at Budapest University and served in the Hungarian Army towards the close of World War II...

- (1920- ). Novelist and librarian.
Eva Eden - Principal, Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne.
Anthony Endrey
Anthony Endrey
Anthony Endrey was a Hungarian-Australian lawyer and author. He was a Queen's Counsel and Master of the Supreme Court in Victoria, Australia, and a member of the Victorian Bar....

- Queen's Counsel, Master of the Supreme Court of Victoria, and author.
Andrew Fabinyi - book publisher. Awarded Order of the British Empire
Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...

(OBE)
Martin Fabinyi
Martin Fabinyi
Martin Fabinyi is an Australian film and television producer and director, songwriter and screenwriter and has written books on the local rock music scene. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Mushroom Pictures from its formation in 1995 to 2009. His film projects include the features Chopper ,...

- Australian film and television producer.
Stephen Fazekas de St. Groth
Stephen Fazekas de St. Groth
Stephen Nicholas Emery Egon Fazekas de St Groth is a Hungarian-Australia microbiologist. He completed his education in Hungary and moved to Australia in the 1950s where he researched with Frank Macfarlane Burnet at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, and later at...

- Microbiologist. Former Professor of Microbiology, John Curtin School of Medical Research
John Curtin School of Medical Research
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, Australian National University
Australian National University
The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...

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Stephen (Istvan) Ferencz – (1926-2004). Tasmanian winemaker.
István Forgács - Managing director of ship-building company based in the Hunter and Newcastle area of New South Wales.
Peter A.R. Fritz- (1943- ). Author and engineer. Member of the Order of Australia
Order of Australia
The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...

, awarded 1993.
Gabor Gero - Hungarian athlete at 1936 Berlin Olympic
Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, 29 athletics events were contested, 23 for men and 6 for women. The program of events was unchanged from the previous Games. There was a total of 776 participants from 43 countries competing.-Medal table:...

and athletics coach in Australia.
Renée Geyer
Renée Geyer
Renée Rebecca Geyer is an Australian singer who has long been regarded as one of the finest exponents of jazz, soul and R&B idioms. She had commercial success as a solo artist in Australia, with "It's a Man's Man's World", "Heading in the Right Direction" and "Stares and Whispers" in the 1970s and...

- (1953). Singer and author. Hungarian father.
Stephen (Istvan) Goetzel – (1856-?). mining engineer and Western Australian government prospector.
Bela Gosztola – (1909-1988). Hungarian Army medical officer, public service surgeon, District Medical Officer in Australian administered Territory of Papua and New Guinea.
Nick Greiner
Nick Greiner
Nicholas "Nick" Frank Hugo Greiner AC, is an Australian businessman and former politician. He was the 37th Premier New South Wales from 1988 to 1992. He was Leader of the New South Wales Division of the Liberal Party from 1983 to 1992 and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 to 1988. He is married...

- Liberal Party of Australia
Liberal Party of Australia
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New South Wales Premier. Born in Budapest, Hungary. Companion of the Order of Australia
Order of Australia
The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...

(AC).
John Harsányi - (1920-2000). Winner of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Academic. Emigrated to Australia and held positions at University of Queensland
University of Queensland
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and Australian National University
Australian National University
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. Made important contributions to game theory
Game theory
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Charles Haszler - medical practitioner and first President of the Papua-New Guinea Medical Society.
Charles Hegyalji
Charles Hegyalji
Charles Hegyalji was a Hungarian born gangland criminal in Melbourne, Australia. Hegylji was a key figure in the amphetamine trade. He was charged with attempted murder in 1997 after a gun battle with another criminal associate, and subsequently kept in custody for twelve months...

- (1956-1998). Melbourne gangland criminal known as "Mad Charlie". Murdered during Melbourne's wave of gangland killings. Dino Dibra
Dino Dibra
Dino Dibra was an Albanian-Australian suspected murderer and a victim of the infamous Melbourne gangland killings....

was implicated in his murder.Associate of Chopper Read
Chopper Read
Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read is an Australian ex-criminal, who wrote a series of semi-autobiographical and fictional crime novels. The 2000 film Chopper was based on his life.-Early life:...

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John (János) Herendi - (1925-2011). South Australian educator and President of the Federal Council of the Hungarian Associations in Australia and New Zealand for 3 years (1975-1977). Awarded Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to the Hungarian community and multiculturalism.
Alfred Horvath (1924-2000). Engineer, forester and roadwork contractor in South Australia
Rel Hunt
Rel Hunt
Hunt played Angus in Macbeth, an updated modern version of the Shakespeare play and portrayed Al Corley in the fictionalized 2005 American television movie/docudrama Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure, based on the creation and behind the scenes production of the 1980s prime time soap opera...

- (1974). Actor. Hungarian father.
Robt Imre - Lecturer in International Relations, University of Newcastle, New South Wales.
Alex Jobbāgy - artist and multimedia designer.
Annie Jones (actress)
Annie Jones (actress)
Annie Jones is an Australian actress who is best known for her role as Jane Harris in the soap opera Neighbours. She has won 2 Logie Awards.-Biography:...

- (1967- ). Actress. Winner of two Logie Awards.
Gary Jungwirth - local government activist, Mayor of Preston and Hume in Victoria, and the son of Sir John and Lady Edna Jungwirth.
Janos (John) Jungwirth - Hungarian Army officer in the 1848 Revolution, emigrated to South Australia in 1856 and to Victoria in 1857. Grandfather of Sir John Jungwirth.
John Jungwirth (Sir) - Senior Victorian public servant
Ken Jungwirth - Victorian Football League player for Melbourne and Carlton.
Béla Kardos - President of the Hungarian Council of New South Wales. Awarded Order of Australia Medal (OAM).
Lucy Kiraly
Lucy Kiraly
Lucy Kiraly is an Australian fashion model and television presenter.She was, with David Johnston, the presenter of the first TattsLotto draw conducted by Melbourne television station HSV7 on 22 June 1972. Born in Romania, she was educated at Monash University...

- professional model, Monash University
Monash University
Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....

graduate and television personality. First "barrel girl" when Tattslotto
Tattslotto
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game introduced to Australian television in 1972.
Alex Sandor Kolozsy -sculptor. Created five metre tall monument to late Australian rock and roll legend Johnny O'Keefe
Johnny O'Keefe
John Michael O'Keefe, known as Johnny O'Keefe was an Australian rock and roll singer whose career began in the 1950s. Some of his hits include "Wild One" , "Shout!" and "She's My Baby"...

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Vilmos (Bill) Kormos - Democratic Labor Party
Democratic Labor Party (historical)
The Democratic Labor Party was an Australian political party that existed from 1955 until 1978.-History:The DLP was formed as a result of a split in the Australian Labor Party that began in 1954. The split was between the party's national leadership, under the then party leader Dr H.V...

candidate for the Australian Senate
Australian Senate
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from Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

in 1958.
Judit Korner - beauty therapist. CEO of Madame Korner Beauty Therapy Salons and Colleges.
Francis Kotai - potter and ceramist.
Gabor Kovacs - prominent medical specialist in obstetrics and gynecology at Box Hill Hospital
Box Hill Hospital
Box Hill hospital is a teaching hospital in Melbourne, Victoria. It is one of the seven hospitals that are governed within the Eastern Health network which provides health care services across the Eastern metropolitan area of Victoria.-Services:...

, Victoria. Chairman of the IVF Directors Group, Fertility Society of Australia.
Martin Kovacs - late Professor of History at University of Regina, Canada. Graduate of Universities of Budapest (Hungary) and Melbourne (Australia). Author of numerous books, including a text on assimilation and immigration in Australia
Elemér Kozma (1929-2003). founder of manufacturing company Kozma Industries in Victoria.
George Kulcsar
George Kulcsar
George Kulcsar is a naturalised Australian footballer who played in Australia for AIS, Canberra City and St. George Saints, in Belgium for Royal Antwerp, in England for Bradford City and Queens Park Rangers, and in Singapore for Home United...

- (1967- ). Soccer footballer. Has played for AIS
AIS
-As a word:* Ais people, a Native American tribe living on the Treasure coast of Florida, United States which had completely disappeared by the mid-18th Century.*Plural of:** ai ** AI -Medicine:...

and Canberra City clubs.
Gabriel Kune - Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

. Cancer specialist.
Egon Kunz - librarian and author.
Géza Lakatos
Géza Lakatos
Knight Géza Lakatos de Csíkszentsimon was a general in Hungary during World War II who served briefly as Prime Minister of Hungary, under governor Miklós Horthy from August 29, 1944, until October 15,...

- (1890-1967). Prime Minister of Hungary, 29 August1944 - 16 October 1944. Military general.
Andrew Lederer - (1918-2004). Smallgoods manufacturer. Awarded member of the Order of Australia
Order of Australia
The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...

(AM).
Ernest (Erno) Leviny - (1818-1905). gold & silversmith, artistic jeweller, businessman.
Frank Lowy
Frank Lowy
Frank Lowy, AC is an Australian-Israeli businessman. He is a co-founder of the Westfield Group, operator of over 100 shopping centres in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Great Britain...

- prominent businessman and philanthropist. Co-founder, with John Saunders, of the Westfield Group, a conglomerate owner of shopping centres.
David Martin
David Martin (poet)
David Martin , known as an Australian poet, was born Lajos or Ludwig Detsinyi, into a Jewish family in Hungary . He used as well the names Louis Adam and Louis Destiny. He also wrote novels and short stories, and plays.He was brought up in Germany, where he first became a communist at age 17...

- poet.
Andrew Mattay - Colonel, Australian Army. Vietnam Veteran and Army Commanding Officer, Tasmania.
Andrew Mensaros
Andrew Mensaros
Andrew Mensaros, , was a politician in Western Australia. Born in Hungary, and educated at the University of Budapest. A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, he served as a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the division of Floreat from 1968 until his death in 1991...

- Liberal Party of Australia
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

former member of the Parliament of Western Australia and Minister in several governments.
Andor Meszaros - Australian medallic artist.
Michael Meszaros - sculptor and medallic artist. President of the Association of Sculptors of Victoria in 1993. Son of Andor Meszaros.
George Molnar
George Molnar
George Molnar was born in Nagyvarad, Hungary but came to Australia in the late 1930s, where he practiced as a cartoonist. His work featured in the Sydney Morning Herald and Daily Telegraph newspapers for many years....

- (1910-1998). Sydney Morning Herald cartoonist and prominent architect. Awarded Order of the British Empire
Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...

(OBE) and Order of Australia
Order of Australia
The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...

(AO).
George Molnar (philosopher)
George Molnar (philosopher)
George Molnar was a Hungarian-born philosopher whose principal area of interest was metaphysics, and who worked mainly at the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney. In the 1950s and 1960s he was a prominent member of the university's Libertarian Society and associate of the Sydney Push...

- (1934-1999). Philosopher, with interests in metaphysics, at the University of Sydney
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

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Les Murray
Les Murray (broadcaster)
Les James Murray AM is an Australian sports journalist, football broadcaster and analyst...

(László Ürge) - Head of Sport, SBS
Special Broadcasting Service
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Australia and prominent broadcaster. Member of the Order of Australia
Order of Australia
The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...

(AM).
Charles (Karoly) Nyulasy – (1821-1889). Mining engineer.
Andrew Olexander
Andrew Olexander
Andrew Phillip Olexander is an Australian politician. He was an independent member of the Victorian Legislative Council representing Silvan Province from November 2005 to November 2006, after being expelled from the parliamentary Liberal Party, which he had represented since 1999.His career has...

- former Liberal Party of Australia
Liberal Party of Australia
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and Independent Member of the Victorian Legislative Council
Victorian Legislative Council
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for Silvan Province
Silvan Province
Silvan Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1992 to 2006, with members holding alternating eight-year terms. It was considered a safe seat for the Liberal Party of Australia for much of its history, but was a surprise gain for...

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Desiderius Orban
Desiderius Orban
Desiderius Orban OBE was a renowned Hungarian-born Australian painter, printmaker and teacher. He was influenced by the paintings of Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne.-Biography:...

- painter and printmaker. President of the NSW Branch of the Contemporary Art Society of Australia. Awarded Order of the British Empire
Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...

(OBE) in 1975.
John Orcsik
John Orcsik
John Orcsik is an Australian actor of Hungarian descent.In the early 1970s he appeared in soap opera Bellbird, and played various guest roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police...

- (1945- ). Actor and television scriptwriter.
Jackie Orszaczky - (1948-2008). Musician, arranger and record producer.
Tibor Paul
Tibor Paul
Tibor Paul was a Hungarian-Australian conductor.He was born in Budapest. He studied piano and woodwind under Zoltán Kodály, Hermann Scherchen and Felix Weingartner. In 1930 he founded the Budapest Concert Orchestra. In 1939 he began conducting his own orchestra...

- (1909-1973). conductor of the ABC Symphony Orchestra.
Maria Pekli
Maria Pekli
Maria Pekli is an Australian judoka of Hungarian descent. She was Australian Champion in the u/57 kg division for seven consecutive years, between 1997-2003....

- (1972- ). Won Gold Medal
Gold Medal
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for Australia in Judo at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth . Won Bronze Medal
Bronze medal
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for Australia at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games
2000 Summer Olympics
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Gregory Pikler - Guitarist. Teacher at Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music is one of the oldest and most prestigious music schools in Australia...

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Robert Pikler - Founder of Musica Viva and the Sydney String Quartet.
John Polya - late associate professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Tasmania
University of Tasmania
The University of Tasmania is a medium-sized public Australian university based in Tasmania, Australia. Officially founded on 1 January 1890, it was the fourth university to be established in nineteenth-century Australia...

. Prominent supporter of dismissed Philosophy Professor Sydney Sparkes Orr
Sydney Sparkes Orr
Sydney Sparkes Orr was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania and the centre of the "Orr case", a celebrated academic scandal of the 1950s...

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Alex Pongrass - (1923-2000). Engineer, industrialist, soccer administrator and philanthropist. Instrumental, with Frank Lowy
Frank Lowy
Frank Lowy, AC is an Australian-Israeli businessman. He is a co-founder of the Westfield Group, operator of over 100 shopping centres in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Great Britain...

, in establishing the National Soccer League
National Soccer League
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. Awarded Member of the Order of Australia
Order of Australia
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(AM).
John (Janos) Radvansky (Baron) – (1924-2007). Hereditary nobleman, academic. Professor of Education at Monash University.
Steven Raskovy - represented Australia as a wrestler at the Tokyo Summer Olympics, 1964. One Nation Party
One Nation Party
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candidate at the Australian House of Representatives
Australian House of Representatives
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by-election
By-election
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for the Division of Higgins
Division of Higgins
The Division of Higgins is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria.The division was created in 1949 and is named after Justice H. B. Higgins , who was a Victorian Member of the legislative assembly , president of the Carlton Football Club , Australian Member of Parliament , and justice of the...

, 2009.
Dianne Reilly
Dianne Reilly
Dianne Ann Reilly is an Australian politician. She was a Labor member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2009, representing the district of Mudgeeraba....

- Australian Labor Party
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Queensland Legislative Assembly
The Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...

for Mudgeeraba
Electoral district of Mudgeeraba
The district of Mudgeeraba is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. Based on the Gold Coast, the district has been held by both sides of politics over the course of its short history....

(Gold Coast
Gold Coast, Queensland
Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...

) 2001-2009.
Sándor Rozsnyói
Sándor Rozsnyói
Sándor Rozsnyói was a Hungarian athlete, who mainly competed in the 3000 metre steeple chase.He competed for Hungary at the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia, where he won the silver medal in the men's 3.000m steeplechase.Rozsnyoi remained in Australia after the Olympics rather...

- steeplechase runnner at 1956 Melbourne Olympic and athletics coach.
Roza Sage
Roza Sage
Dr Roza Eva Maria Sage MP , an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the Blue Mountains for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2011.-Early years and background:...

- Liberal Party of Australia
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The other chamber is the Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney...

for the electoral district of Blue Mountains
John Saunders - co-founder, with Frank Lowy
Frank Lowy
Frank Lowy, AC is an Australian-Israeli businessman. He is a co-founder of the Westfield Group, operator of over 100 shopping centres in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Great Britain...

, of the Westfield Group, a large corporate owner of shopping centres.
Alex Somlyay
Alex Somlyay
Alexander Michael Somlyay MP , Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1990, representing the Division of Fairfax, Queensland. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, and came to Australia as a child. He was educated at the Australian...

- Liberal Party of Australia
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

Member of the House of Representatives for Fairfax (Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

).
Robert Stary
Rob Stary
Robert Stary is an Australian criminal defence lawyer, best known for defending Jack Thomas, the first Australian to be convicted under anti-terrorism laws introduced in Australia after the 11 September 2001 terror attacks in the United States. Stary has been a vocal critic of the legislation and...

- leading Victorian criminal lawyer, who represented notorious gangland criminal the late Carl Williams. He is also the Australian lawyer representing Julian Assange
Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher, journalist, writer, computer programmer and Internet activist. He is the editor in chief of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website and conduit for worldwide news leaks with the stated purpose of creating open governments.WikiLeaks has published material...

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Lajos Steiner
Lajos Steiner
Lajos Steiner was a Hungarian–born Australian chess master.Steiner was one of four children of Bernat Steiner, a mathematics teacher, and his wife Cecilia,, and a younger brother of Endre Steiner...

- late former chess International Master.
Miklos (Nicholas) Szabados
Miklos Szabados
Miklós Szabados was a Hungarian and Australian table tennis champion.Szabados won 15 World Championship titles, including the World Singles crown in 1931.-Table tennis career:...

- world champion table tennis player.
George Szekeres
George Szekeres
George Szekeres AM was a Hungarian-Australian mathematician.-Early years:Szekeres was born in Budapest, Hungary as Szekeres György and received his degree in chemistry at the Technical University of Budapest. He worked six years in Budapest as an analytical chemist. He married Esther Klein in 1936...

- (1911-2005). Mathematician. Taught at University of New South Wales
University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

.
Sandor Szoke
Sandor Szoke
Sandor Szoke was an Australian fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was a founding member of the VRI Fencing Club in May 1949, a week after the IOC awarded Melbourne the 15th Olympiad....

- (1926- ) Competed in fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics
1956 Summer Olympics
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in Melbourne
Melbourne
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István Törk - (1939-1992). Anatomist. Professor at University of New South Wales. Internationally recognised authority on brain anatomy.
Laszlo Toth - (1940- ). Australian geologist.
Tommy Tycho
Tommy Tycho
Thomas Tycho AM MBE is a multi-talented Hungarian-born Australian pianist, conductor, composer and arranger. He was associated with musical productions on Australian television for many years from its inception in 1956, including such programs as The Mavis Bramston Show...

- Musician. Musical director of television Channel 7, Sydney. Member of the Order of the British Empire
Order of the British Empire
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(MBE) and Member of the Order of Australia
Order of Australia
The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...

(AM).
Attila Urmenyhazi - Tasmanian writer.
Patrick Veszpremi
Patrick Veszpremi
Patrick Veszpremi is an Australian rules footballer who currently plays with the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League, having previously played for the Sydney Swans....

- Australian rules foootballer. Played in the Australian Football League
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

for both the Western Bulldogs
Western Bulldogs
The Western Bulldogs are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based at the Whitten Oval in West Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne...

and the Sydney Swans
Sydney Swans
The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...

.
Jason Voros
Jason Voros
Jason Alexander Voros is an Australian first class cricketer. A left-arm fast-medium bowler, he played one day cricket with the Canberra Comets in 1998–99....

- (1976- ). Australian cricketer.
Sigismund Wekey – (1825?-1889). Ex-army officer, prospector, director, author.
Stephen Wurm
Stephen Wurm
Stephen Adolphe Wurm was a Hungarian-born Australian linguist.- Biography :Wurm was born in Budapest, the second child to the German-speaking Adolphe Wurm and Hungarian-speaking Anna Novroczky, and was christened Istvan Adolphe Wurm...

- (1922-2001). Internationally recognised linguist and Professor of Linguistics at Australian National University
Australian National University
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Charles Zentai
Charles Zentai
Charles Zentai, is a Hungarian-born resident of Australia accused of a Holocaust-related war crime. He has resided in Perth, Australia for many years after living in the American- and French-occupied zones of post-World War II Germany.- Background :Zentai, who denies the charges against him, was...

- (1921- ). Alleged war criminal.

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