List of Hungarians
Encyclopedia
The following is a list of prominent Hungarians, the majority of whom grew to be famous within Hungary rather than abroad. For a list of famous Hungarian abroad see List of Hungarian Americans or List of famous Hungarians who were born outside present-day Hungary.

Artists

  • Gyula Aggházy
    Gyula Aggházy
    Gyula Aggházy was a Hungarian painter and teacher.Between 1869 and 1871 he attended the Vienna Academy and from 1871 onwards the Munich Academy. In 1874 he returned to Hungary and after a short stay in Szolnok, he travelled to Paris where he was a pupil of Munkácsy...

  • Károly Alexy
    Károly Alexy
    Károly Alexy was a Hungarian sculptor. His sculptural style integrated elements of classicism and romanticism....

  • Károly Antal
    Károly Antal
    Károly Antal was a twentieth century Hungarian sculptor. His sculptural style reflected neoclassicism style.Antal studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with István Szentgyörgyi between 1928-37...

  • Miklós Borsos
    Miklós Borsos
    Miklós Borsos was a Hungarian sculptor. His style integrated elements of archaic art and classicism with modern elements.Born in Nagyszeben, Transylvania , he and his family settled in Győr in 1921; Borsos and his wife lived in the same Győr house until the end of World War II.He became interested...

  • Sándor Bortnyik
    Sándor Bortnyik
    Sándor Bortnyik was a Hungarian painter and graphic designer. His work was greatly influenced by Cubism, Expressionism and Constructivism. He moved to Weimar in 1922 and was connected to the Bauhaus...

  • Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka
    Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka
    Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry was a Hungarian painter. He was one of the first Hungarian painters to become well known in Europe.Csontváry was born on 5 July 1853 in Kisszeben, Sáros County, Kingdom of Hungary , and died 20 June 1919 in Budapest. His ancestors were Poles who settled down in Hungary...

  • Gyula Donáth
    Gyula Donáth
    Gyula Donáth , was a Hungarian sculptor.He was born in Pest and studied in Vienna with G. Semper. From 1880 onwards he worked in Budapest. His sculptural style integrated elements of classicism and academic as well as the Art Nouveau styles...

  • János Fadrusz
    János Fadrusz
    János Fadrusz was a Hungarian sculptor. He was a celebrated artist of the age with many important public commission.-Early life:...

  • Béni Ferenczy
    Béni Ferenczy
    Béni Ferenczy was a Hungarian sculptor and graphic artist.Born the son of Károly Ferenczy, he studied art in Munich and Paris where he studied with both Bourdelle and Archipenko His art became mature after he had returned from emigration in Germany and the Soviet Union.After his experiences with...

  • István Ferenczy
    István Ferenczy
    István Ferenczy was a nineteenth century Hungarian sculptor.-Artistic education:Ferenczy was born in Rimaszombat...

  • Arpad Feszty
    Árpád Feszty
    Árpád Feszty was a Hungarian painter.He was born in the town of Ógyalla . His ancestors were German settlers . He was the fifth child of Silvester Rehrenbeck , an affluent landowner at Ógyalla, and his wife Jozefa...

  • János Horvay
    János Horvay
    János Horvay was a Hungarian sculptor, who earned reputation with his statues about Lajos Kossuth, leader of the Hungarian national uprising in 1848-49. However his most important work, the great Kossuth Memorial in Budapest proved to be a failure.Horvay was born on 29 May 1873 in Pécs...

  • László Hudec
    László Hudec
    László Ede Hudec or Ladislav Hudec was a Hungarian - Slovak architect active in Shanghai from 1918 to 1945 and responsible for some of that city's most notable structures...

  • Miklós Izsó
    Miklós Izsó
    Miklós Izsó - May 29, 1875, Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor. His sculptural style integrated elements of classicism and academic style.Izsó studied at the College in Sárospatak from 1840. He took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848...

  • Ede Kallós
    Ede Kallós
    Ede Kallós was a Hungarian sculptor. His sculptural style integrated elements of realism and academism style mainly engaged in creating art for tombs....

  • Paul László
    Paul László
    Paul László or Paul Laszlo was a Hungarian-born modern architect and interior designer whose work spanned eight decades and many countries...

  • Zsigmond Kisfaludi Stróbl
    Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl
    Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl was a Hungarian sculptor and artist. His sculptural style integrated elements of realism and academism style mainly engaged in creating portrait busts.-Early life:...

  • Miklós Ligeti
    Miklós Ligeti
    Miklós Ligeti was a Hungarian sculptor and artist. His sculptural style integrated elements of impressionism and realism.-Early life:...

  • Imre Makovecz
    Imre Makovecz
    Imre Makovecz , was a Hungarian architect active in Europe from the late 1950s onward.Makovecz was born and died in Budapest. He attended the Technical University of Budapest. He was founder and "eternal and executive president" of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.Makovecz was one of the most...

  • Ede Margó
    Ede Margó
    Ede Margó was a Hungarian sculptor and artist. His sculptural style integrated elements of impressionism and realism.He is best known for his work on the Resort Chapel in Zamárdi...

  • Csaba Markus
    Csaba Markus
    Csaba Markus is an artist, painter, sculptor and publisher. As an artist he primarily works in the field of printmaking, with a particular focus on serigraphy. His work also includes oil painting, drawing, photography and sculpture.-Life and work:...

  • Zsuzsa Máthé
    Zsuzsa Mathe
    Born on May 4, 1964, Budapest, Hungary, Zsuzsa Máthé was raised in a culture-rich civic environment, where playing the piano, speaking foreign languages was a natural must. By the age of 5 she spoke not only her mother tongue, Hungarian, but German and French as well. She exhibited a very early...

  • László Moholy-Nagy
    László Moholy-Nagy
    László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.-Early life:...

  • János Pásztor
    János Pásztor
    János Pásztor was a renowned Hungarian academic sculptor in the first decades of the 20th century.-Early life:...

  • József Róna
    József Róna
    József Róna was a Hungarian sculptor and artist.- Biography :He was apprenticed to a joiner, then worked in the workshop of a sculptor. He went to Vienna on a scholarship in 1879 and spent three years in the school of Zumbusch from 1882. While in Berlin in 1895, his first large scale statue...

  • Francois Szalay - Colos
    Francois Szalay - Colos
    Francois Colos was a Hungarian-born, US-established designer and artist. Beside his long career as a designer for prestigious French and American newspapers, magazines, and companies, he is the author of a 14-years...

  • Henriett Seth-F.
    Henriett Seth-F.
    Henriett Seth F. is a Hungarian autistic savant poet, writer and artist became world famous with one book title Autizmussal önmagamba zárva and her one sentence on many cubes from her book made one monodrama, title...

  • Albert Schickedanz
    Albert Schickedanz
    Albert Schickedanz was an Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style....

  • Pal Szinyei Merse
    Pál Szinyei Merse
    Pál Szinyei Merse was a Hungarian painter and politician.Born in Szinyeújfalu, Hungary , he learned painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich under Karl von Piloty. He was a friend of Wilhelm Leibl and Hans Makart...

  • László Szlávics, Jr.
    László Szlávics, Jr.
    László Szlávics a Hungarian sculptor and medallic artist. He publishes his works under the names László, ifj. Szlávics or Laszlo Szlavics, Jr.-Biography:...

  • Mor Than
    Mór Than
    Mór Than was a Hungarian painter.Born at Bečej, he was educated in Italy and Vienna beside his cooperation with similar famous painters in his homeland. He worked in a realistic – pre-impressionist style. His subjects were mostly historic events and portraits but also mythological or...

  • János Tornyai
    Janos Tornyai
    János Tornyai was a renowned Hungarian painter born and dead in Hódmezővásárhely.-Early life:Tornyai, the son of day labourers, studied at the School of Decorative Art in 1886-88, then a guest pupil of Bertalan Székely, Károly Lotz and János Gregus in 1888-89...

  • Lajos Vajda
    Lajos Vajda
    Hungarian Painter. He was a student of István Csók at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1927-30. He studied together with Dezsõ Korniss at Fernand Léger in Paris in 1930-34 where he was introduced to cubism and surrealism....

  • Victor Vasarely
    Victor Vasarely
    Victor Vasarely was a Hungarian French artist whose work is generally seen aligned with Op-art.His work entitled Zebra, created by Vasarely in the 1930s, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of Op-art...

  • Janos Vaszary
    Janos Vaszary
    János Vaszary was a Hungarian painter. He was born in Kaposvár, Hungary. His masters included Bertalan Székely at the School of Decorative Art. He went on with his studies in Munich and at the Académie Julian in Paris. He was particularly influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage and Puvis de...

  • Nandor Wagner
    Nandor Wagner
    Nandor Wagner ]] , nearby Mashiko, Tochigi) was a Hungarian artist and sculptor. He was the son of a dentist, born in Oradea , now Romania. Wagner studied at Budapest Art Academy before and after the World War II. He had three art periods as living in Hungary , Sweden and Japan respectively...

  • Istvan Orosz
    István Orosz
    István Orosz Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director, is known for his mathematically inspired works, impossible objects, optical illusions, double-meaning images and anamorphoses. The geometric art of István Orosz, with forced perspectives and optical...


Business professionals

  • Lea Gottlieb
    Lea Gottlieb
    Lea Gottlieb is an Israeli swimwear fashion designer. She emigrated to Israel from Hungary after World War II, and founded the Gottex company.-Early life:...

     (born 1918), Israeli fashion designer and founder of Gottex
    Gottex
    Gottex is an Israeli swimwear manufacturer. It is America's top imported swimsuit label.-History:Gottex was founded in 1956 by Lea Gottlieb, a new immigrant from Hungary who adapted her expertise as a raincoat manufacturer to create a pioneering swimsuit company.She sold her wedding ring for...

  • Radovan Jelašić
    Radovan Jelašic
    Radovan Jelašić is a Serbian economist. He is the former Governor of the Serbian National Bank....

    , governor of National Bank of Serbia
    National Bank of Serbia
    National Bank of Serbia is the central bank of Serbia; its main responsibilities are the protection of price stability and maintenance of financial stability....

  • Daniel Bálint, governor of Wakeboarding
    Wakeboarding
    Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water. It was developed from a combination of water skiing, snow boarding and surfing techniques....


Composers and Performers

  • Bálint Bakfark
    Bálint Bakfark
    Bálint Bakfark ; 1507 – August 15 or August 22, 1576) was a Hungarian composer and lutenist of the Renaissance...

    , composer
  • Béla Bartók
    Béla Bartók
    Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...

    , composer and pianist
  • Gergely Bogányi
    Gergely Bogányi
    Coming from a musical family, Gergely Bogányi is one of the youngest ever pianists to have won the Kossuth Prize, becoming one of the leading pianists of his generation.- Education :...

    , pianist
  • Ernő Dohnányi
    Erno Dohnányi
    Ernő Dohnányi was a Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist. He used the German form of his name Ernst von Dohnányi for most of his published compositions....

    , composer, pianist and conductor
  • Antal Doráti
    Antal Doráti
    Antal Doráti, KBE was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1947.-Biography:...

    , conductor
  • Peter Eötvös
    Peter Eötvös
    Péter Eötvös is a Hungarian composer and conductor.Eötvös was born in Odorheiu Secuiesc/Székelyudvarhely, Szeklerland, Transylvania . He studied composition in Budapest and Cologne. From 1962, he composed for film in Hungary. Eötvös played regularly with the Stockhausen Ensemble between 1968 and...

    , composer and conductor
  • Ferenc Erkel, composer
  • Peter Frankl
    Peter Frankl
    Peter Frankl is a Hungarian-born British pianist. He mainly performs music from the Classical period , the Romantic period and the early Modern period...

    , pianist
  • Zoltán Jeney
    Zoltán Jeney
    Zoltán Jeney is a Hungarian composer.Jeney first studied piano and attended Pongrácz's composition classes at the Debrecen Secondary Music School, later continuing composition studies with Ferenc Farkas at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest , and the pursuing postgraduate studies with...

    , composer
  • Joseph Joachim
    Joseph Joachim
    Joseph Joachim was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant violinists of the 19th century.-Origins:...

    , violinist
  • Pál Kadosa
    Pál Kadosa
    Pál Kadosa was a piano teacher and Hungarian composer of the post-Bartók generation. His early style was influenced by Hungarian folklore while his later works were more toward Hindemith and expressively forceful idioms. He was born in Léva. He studied at the national Hungarian Royal Academy...

    , composer
  • Zoltán Kocsis
    Zoltán Kocsis
    Zoltán Kocsis is a Hungarian pianist, conductor, and composer.Born in Budapest, he started his musical studies at the age of five and continued them at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in 1963, studying piano and composition...

    , pianist and conductor
  • Zoltán Kodály
    Zoltán Kodály
    Zoltán Kodály was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is best known internationally as the creator of the Kodály Method.-Life:Born in Kecskemét, Kodály learned to play the violin as a child....

    , composer
  • György Kurtág
    György Kurtág
    György Kurtág is a Hungarian composer of contemporary music.- Biography :György Kurtág was born in Lugoj in the Banat region, Romania.In 1946, he began his studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he met his wife, Márta, and also György Ligeti, who became a close friend...

    , composer
  • Franz Lehár
    Franz Lehár
    Franz Lehár was an Austrian-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow .-Biography:...

    , composer
  • György Ligeti
    György Ligeti
    György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...

    , composer
  • Franz Liszt
    Franz Liszt
    Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...

    , composer and pianist
  • Éva Marton
    Éva Marton
    Éva Marton is a Hungarian dramatic soprano, particularly known for her operatic portrayals of Puccini's Turandot and Tosca, and Wagnerian roles.- Vocal training and early years :...

    , soprano
  • János Négyesy
    János Négyesy
    János Négyesy is a Hungarian violinist with a particular interest in contemporary music. He performed world premieres of numerous works, the first two books of the Freeman Etudes by American composer John Cage among others...

    , violinist
  • Ervin Nyíregyházi
    Ervin Nyíregyházi
    Ervin Nyíregyházi was a Hungarian-born American pianist.-Childhood and early career:...

    , pianist
  • Eugene Ormandy
    Eugene Ormandy
    Eugene Ormandy was a Hungarian-born conductor and violinist.-Early life:Born Jenő Blau in Budapest, Hungary, Ormandy began studying violin at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music at the age of five...

    , conductor
  • György Pauk
    György Pauk
    -Biography:Born in Budapest, Hungary, Pauk entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music there at age twelve where he studied under Zoltán Kodály. In 1956 he left Hungary for the Netherlands and, after being persuaded by violinist Yehudi Menuhin, he permanently settled in London in 1961.Since then he...

    , violinist
  • László Polgár
    László Polgár (bass)
    László Polgár was an Hungarian operatic bass.Born in Budapest, Hungary, he studied with Eva Kutrucz at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, 1967–72, and later privately with Hans Hotter and Yevgeny Nesterenko. He made his debut at the Hungarian State Opera in 1971, as Count Ceprano in Rigoletto...

    , bass
  • Fritz Reiner
    Fritz Reiner
    Frederick Martin “Fritz” Reiner was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century.-Biography:...

    , conductor
  • Eduard Reményi, violinist
  • Speak
    Speak (artist)
    Tamás Deák better known by his stage name Speak, is a rap artist, model and actor based in Hungary. He gained considerable fame after the music video for his 2003 anti-war song, "Stop the War", became popularized through video sharing websites...

    , rapper
  • Georg Solti
    Georg Solti
    Sir Georg Solti, KBE, was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He was a major classical recording artist, holding the record for having received the most Grammy Awards, having personally won 31 as a conductor, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his...

    , conductor
  • László Vidovszky
    László Vidovszky
    The native form of this personal name is Vidovszky László. This article uses the Western name order.László Vidovszky is a Hungarian composer and pianist...

    , composer

Film artists

  • Johnny Weissmuller
    Johnny Weissmuller
    Johnny Weissmuller was an Austro-Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor best known for playing Tarzan in movies. Weissmuller was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal. He won fifty-two US National Championships and set sixty-seven...

  • Michael Curtiz
    Michael Curtiz
    Michael Curtiz was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director. He had early creditsas Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész...

  • Harry Houdini
    Harry Houdini
    Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational escape acts...

  • Cicciolina
  • Attila Dargay
    Attila Dargay
    Attila Dargay was an animator from Hungary. He was born in Mezőnyék.-Life:He finished his academic studies in 1948. He worked at Hungary's National Theatre as scenery painter; then he became an animated-film director in 1957. His films are popular among both children and adults...

  • Zsa Zsa Gabor
    Zsa Zsa Gabor
    Zsa Zsa Gabor is a Hungarian-born American stage, film and television actress.She acted on stage in Vienna, Austria, in 1932, and was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936. She emigrated to the United States in 1941 and became a sought-after actress with "European flair and style", with a personality that...

  • Paul Lukas
    Paul Lukas
    Paul Lukas was an Austrian-Hungarian-born actor.-Biography:Born Pál Lukács in Budapest, he arrived in Hollywood in 1927 after a successful stage and film career in Hungary, Germany and Austria where he worked with Max Reinhardt. He made his stage debut in Budapest in 1916 and his film debut in 1917...

  • Eva Gabor
    Eva Gabor
    Eva Gabor was a Hungarian-born socialite and actress. She was widely known for her role on Green Acres as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character, Oliver Wendell Douglas, Duchess in the 1970 Disney film The Aristocats, and Miss Bianca in Disney's The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under...

  • Lajos Koltai
    Lajos Koltai
    Lajos Koltai, ASC, HSC, is a Hungarian cinematographer and film director best known for his work with legendary Hungarian director Istvan Szabo, and Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore...

  • Róbert Koltai
    Róbert Koltai
    Róbert Koltai is a Hungarian actor, film director and screenwriter. He has appeared in over 90 films since 1967. He appeared in the 1976 film Man Without a Name, which was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement....

  • Alexander Korda
    Alexander Korda
    Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian-born British producer and film director. He was a leading figure in the British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner of British Lion Films, a film distributing company.-Life and career:The elder brother of filmmakers Zoltán Korda and Vincent...

  • Ferenc Rofusz
    Ferenc Rófusz
    Ferenc Rofusz is a Hungarian animator.-Biography:Rofusz was born in 1946 in Budapest. His interest in animation and film making started relatively early. During his studies he took special drawing and animating courses. He started to work at the Hungarian film studio Mafilm as set designer, set...

  • Vilmos Zsigmond
    Vilmos Zsigmond
    Vilmos Zsigmond, A.S.C. is a Hungarian-American cinematographer.In 2003, a survey conducted by the International Cinematographers Guild placed Zsigmond among the ten most influential cinematographers in history.-Biography:...

  • Gábor Reviczky
    Gábor Reviczky
    Gábor Reviczky is a Hungarian actor.-Selected filmography:* Paths of Death and Angels * The Summer Guest -References:...

  • László Kovács
    László Kovács (cinematographer)
    László Kovács, A.S.C. was a Hungarian cinematographer who was influential in the development of American New Wave films. Most famous for his award-winning work on Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces, Kovács was the recipient of numerous awards, including three Lifetime Achievement Awards...

  • Miklós Jancsó
    Miklós Jancsó
    Miklós Jancsó is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.Jancsó achieved international prominence from the mid-1960s onwards, with works including The Round Up , The Red and the White and Red Psalm .Jancsó's films are characterized by visual stylization,...

  • Károly Makk
  • George Pal
    George Pál
    George Pal , born György Pál Marczincsak, was a Hungarian-born American animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre...

  • Ferenc Rófusz
    Ferenc Rófusz
    Ferenc Rofusz is a Hungarian animator.-Biography:Rofusz was born in 1946 in Budapest. His interest in animation and film making started relatively early. During his studies he took special drawing and animating courses. He started to work at the Hungarian film studio Mafilm as set designer, set...

  • István Szabó
    István Szabó
    István Szabó is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.Szabó is the most internationally famous Hungarian filmmaker since the late 1960s. Working in the tradition of European, auteurist art cinema, he has made films that represent many of the psychological and political...

  • Béla Tarr
    Béla Tarr
    -Life:Tarr was born in Pécs, but grew up in Budapest. Both of his parents were close to theatre and film: his father was a scenery designer, while his mother has been working as a prompter at a theater for more than 50 years now...

  • Andrew Vajna
  • Béla Lugosi
    Béla Lugosi
    Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó , commonly known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian actor of stage and screen. He was best known for having played Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version, as well as having starred in several of Ed Wood's low budget films in the last years of his...

  • Peter Lorre
    Peter Lorre
    Peter Lorre was an Austrian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.He caused an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M...

  • Gyula Kabos
  • Gabriel Pascal
    Gabriel Pascal
    Gabriel Pascal was a Hungarian film producer and director.Born 1894 in Arad, Austria-Hungary , Pascal was the first film producer to bring the plays of George Bernard Shaw successfully to the screen. His most famous production was Pygmalion, for which Pascal himself received an Academy Award...


History and politics

  • Albert Apponyi
    Albert Apponyi
    Count Albert Apponyi de Nagyappony was a distinguished Hungarian nobleman and politician from an ancient noble family dating back to the 13th century. He was born on 29 May 1846, in Vienna, where his father, Count György Apponyi, was the resident Hungarian Chancellor at the time...

     (1846–1933), statesman
  • Almásy László
    László Almásy
    László Ede Almásy de Zsadány et Törökszentmiklós was a Hungarian aristocrat, motorist, desert researcher, aviator, Scout-leader and soldier who also served as the basis for the protagonist in Michael Ondaatje's 1992 novel The English Patient and the movie based on it.-Biography:Almásy was born in...

     (1895–1951), desert explorer, author, the inspiration for the fictionalised character of Almásy in Michael Ondaatje's, The English Patient
    The English Patient
    The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English accented Hungarian man, his Canadian nurse, a Canadian-Italian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out...

  • Andrássy Gyula (1823–1890), statesman
  • Antall József
    József Antall
    József Antall was the first democratically-elected Prime Minister of Hungary after the fall of Communism , teacher, librarian, historian and political figure...

     (1932–1993), Prime Minister (1990–1993)
  • Bakócz Tamás
    Tamás Bakócz
    Tamás Bakócz was a Hungarian archbishop, cardinal and statesman.In sources in Croatian, Tamás Bakócz is also referred under the name Toma Bakač....

     (1442–1521), archbishop, cardinal and statesman
  • Baross Gábor
    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...

     (1848–1892), statesman
  • George Soros
    George Soros
    George Soros is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philosopher, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Soros Fund Management. Soros supports progressive-liberal causes...

     (1930), stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist
  • Báthory Erzsébet (1560–1614), "serial killer" countess
  • Báthory István (Stephen Báthory):
    • Báthory István
      István Báthory
      Stephen VIII Báthory was a Hungarian noble.He was a son of Nicholas Báthory of the Somlyó branch of the Báthory family.In 1521, he was appointed deputy voivode of Transylvania, serving under the Voivoid John Zápolya...

       (1477–1534), Governor of Transylvania
      Transylvania
      Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical...

    • Báthory István (1533–1586), Prince of Transylvania
      Transylvania
      Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical...

       and King of Poland
  • Báthory Zsigmond
    Sigismund Báthory
    Sigismund Báthory was Prince of Transylvania.-Biography:Hailing from the Báthory family's Somlyó branch, he was the son of Christopher Báthory, Voivod of Transylvania, and nephew of Stephen Báthory, King of Poland...

     (1572–1613), prince of Transylvania
    Transylvania
    Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical...

  • Beöthy Ödön
    Ödön Beöthy
    Ödön Beöthy , Hungarian deputy and orator, was born in Nagyvárad, Hungary , his father being a retired officer and deputy lord-lieutenant of the county of Bihar....

    , (1796–1854), Hungarian deputy and orator
  • Béla Bugár
    Béla Bugár
    is a Slovak politician of Hungarian ethnicity. He is a member of the Slovak parliament since 1992, briefly serving as its acting Speaker in 2006. He is the leader of the political party Most-Híd....

     (1958– ), politician
  • Pál Csáky
    Pál Csáky
    Pál Csáky is a Slovak politician, member of Hungarian minority in Slovakia and the country's former Deputy Prime Minister for European affairs, human rights and minorities. Csáky has been an activist for the Hungarian minority in Slovakia since 1977 . His political activity started in 1989, and he...

     (1956– ), politician
  • Dessewffy Aurél
    Aurél Dessewffy
    Count Aurél Dessewffy de Csernek et Tarkeő , Hungarian journalist and politician, eldest son of Count József Dessewffy and Eleonóra Sztáray, was born at Nagymihály, county Zemplén, Austria-Hungarian Empire....

    , (1808–1842), journalist and politician
  • Fessler Ignaz Aurelius
    Ignaz Aurelius Fessler
    Ignaz Aurelius Fessler, aka Feßler was a Hungarian ecclesiastic, politician, historian and freemason.-Biography:Fessler was born in the village of Zurndorf in the county of Moson. In 1773, he joined the order of Capuchin friars, and in 1779 was ordained priest...

    , (1756–1839), court councillor and minister to Alexander I
  • Hadik Andreas
    Andreas Hadik
    Count András Hadik de Futak was a Hungarian Noble. He was Governor of Galicia and Lodomeria from January 1774 to June 1774, and the father of Karl Joseph Hadik von Futak...

     (1710–1790), Count
  • Herzl Tivadar
    Theodor Herzl
    Theodor Herzl , born Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl was an Ashkenazi Jew Austro-Hungarian journalist and the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the State of Israel.-Early life:...

     (1860–1904), journalist, modern Zionism*
  • Horthy Miklós
    Miklós Horthy
    Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya was the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar years and throughout most of World War II, serving from 1 March 1920 to 15 October 1944. Horthy was styled "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary" .Admiral Horthy was an officer of the...

     (1868–1957), admiral and regent. (1920–1944)
  • I. István (Stephen I, Szent István, Stephanus Rex) (975–1038) first Hungarian king
  • Catharina Anna Grandon de Hochepied
    Catharina Anna Grandon de Hochepied
    Catharina Anna Grandon de Hochepeid was a Hungarian and Swedish noble. As the wife of the Swedish ambassador in the Ottoman Empire, she became the likely first woman ever to have performed on stage in Islamic Turkey....

  • Friar Julian
    Friar Julian
    Friar Julian was one of a group of Hungarian Dominican friars who, in 1235, left Hungary in order to find those Magyars who — according to the chronicles — remained in the eastern homeland. After travelling a great distance, Friar Julian reached the capital of Volga Bulgaria, where he...

  • János Kádár
    János Kádár
    János Kádár was a Hungarian communist leader and the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, presiding over the country from 1956 until his forced retirement in 1988. His thirty-two year term as General Secretary makes Kádár the longest ruler of the People's Republic of Hungary...

     (1912–1989), communist leader
  • Károly Róbert
    Charles I of Hungary
    Charles I , also known as Charles Robert , was the first King of Hungary and Croatia of the House of Anjou. He was also descended from the old Hungarian Árpád dynasty. His claim to the throne of Hungary was contested by several pretenders...

     (Charles I) (1288–1342), king of Hungary (1308–1342)
  • Károlyi Mihály
    Mihály Károlyi
    Count Mihály Ádám György Miklós Károlyi de Nagykároly was briefly Hungary's leader in 1918-19 during a short-lived democracy...

     (1875–1955), first President of Hungary (1919)
  • Kossuth Lajos
    Lajos Kossuth
    Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva was a Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician and Regent-President of Hungary in 1849. He was widely honored during his lifetime, including in the United Kingdom and the United States, as a freedom fighter and bellwether of democracy in Europe.-Family:Lajos...

    , (1802–1894), Hungarian politician later Regent-President of Hungary
  • Kollek Teddy
    Teddy Kollek
    Theodor "Teddy" Kollek was mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993, and founder of the Jerusalem Foundation. Kollek was re-elected five times, in 1969, 1973, 1978, 1983 and 1989...

     (born Kollek Tivadar; 1911–2007), Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem
  • Kun Béla
    Béla Kun
    Béla Kun , born Béla Kohn, was a Hungarian Communist politician and a Bolshevik Revolutionary who led the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919.- Early life :...

    , (1886–1939 ?) Minister, revolutionist (1919)*
  • I. Lajos (Nagy Lajos) (Louis I) (1326–1382), king of Hungary (1342–1382)
  • Mindszenty József (1892–1975), cardinal, convicted by communist government
  • Nagy Imre
    Imre Nagy
    Imre Nagy was a Hungarian communist politician who was appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary on two occasions...

     (1896–1958), Prime Minister (1956)
  • Pataki, George
    George Pataki
    George Elmer Pataki is an American politician who was the 53rd Governor of New York. A member of the Republican Party, Pataki served three consecutive four-year terms from January 1, 1995 until December 31, 2006.- Early life :...

    , American, Governor of New York
    New York
    New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

  • Rákosi Mátyás
    Mátyás Rákosi
    Mátyás Rákosi was a Hungarian communist politician. He was born as Mátyás Rosenfeld, in present-day Serbia...

     (1892–1971), General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party
  • Szálasi Ferenc
    Ferenc Szálasi
    Ferenc Szálasi was the leader of the National Socialist Arrow Cross Party – Hungarist Movement, the "Leader of the Nation" , being both Head of State and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary's "Government of National Unity" for the final three months of Hungary's participation in World War II...

     (1897–1946), Head of Arrow Cross Party, Head of State, Prime Minister 1944–1945
  • Count Széchenyi István
    István Széchenyi
    Széchenyi committed suicide by a shot to his head on April 8, 1860. All Hungary mourned his death. The Academy was in official mourning, along with the most prominent persons of the leading political and cultural associations...

    , (1791–1860)
  • Tisza István
    István Tisza
    Count István Tisza de Borosjenő et Szeged was a Hungarian politician, prime minister, and member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences....

     (1861–1918), Hungarian Prime Minister 1903–1905 & 1913–17.
  • Toma András (Tamás András), Hungarian World War II prisoner who was found in a Russian mental hospital in the 1990s and returned to Hungary after 55 years.
  • Tőkés László
    László Tokés
    László Tőkés is a Romanian politician of Hungarian ethnicity, currently serving as a Member of the European Parliament and Vice President of the European Parliament ....

     (1952 – ), ethnically Hungarian Calvinist pastor in Romania
    Romania
    Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

     who helped trigger the revolution
    Romanian Revolution of 1989
    The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a series of riots and clashes in December 1989. These were part of the Revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several Warsaw Pact countries...

     that overthrew Nicolae Ceauşescu
    Nicolae Ceausescu
    Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian Communist politician. He was General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and as such was the country's second and last Communist leader...

     in 1989
  • Count Zrínyi Miklós (1508–1566), Hungarian general and hero who defended Szigetvár
    Szigetvár
    -History:The town's fortress was the setting of the Battle of Szigetvár in 1566. It was a sanjak centre at first in Budin Province , later in Kanije Province .There was already a bum in the marshland back in the Celtic and Roman times...

     against Ottoman
    Ottoman Empire
    The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

     Turks.
  • Count Zrínyi Miklós
    Miklós Zrínyi
    Miklós Zrínyi or Nikola Zrinski was a Croatian and Hungarian soldier, statesman and poet, member of the Zrinski noble family....

    , (1620–1664), Hungarian general, statesman and poet.
  • János Zsámboky, humanist
  • Tom Lantos
    Tom Lantos
    Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until his death, representing the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and a portion of southwest San Francisco...

     (1928–2008), former U.S. Congressman from California

Inventors

  • Donát Bánki
    Donát Bánki
    Donát Bánki was a Hungarian mechanical engineer, inventor of the carburetor, togetherwith János Csonka, in 1893, as the Bánki-Csonka engine....

    , inventor of the Crossflow turbine
  • János Csonka
    János Csonka
    Hungarian János Csonka was the co-inventor of the carburetor with Donát Bánki, patented on February 13, 1893.- Life :...

    , inventor of the carburetor
    Carburetor
    A carburetor , carburettor, or carburetter is a device that blends air and fuel for an internal combustion engine. It is sometimes shortened to carb in North America and the United Kingdom....

  • Ernő Rubik
    Erno Rubik
    Ernő Rubik is a Hungarian inventor, architect and professor of architecture. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including Rubik's Cube , Rubik's Magic, Rubik's Magic: Master Edition, Rubik's Snake and Rubik's 360....

    , inventor of Rubik's Cube
    Rubik's Cube
    Rubik's Cube is a 3-D mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik.Originally called the "Magic Cube", the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980 and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that...

  • Ottó Bláthy
    Ottó Bláthy
    Ottó Titusz Bláthy was a Hungarian electrical engineer. In his career, he became the co-inventor of the modern electric transformer, the tension regulator, , the AC watt-hour meter, the single-phase alternating current electric motor, the turbo generator, and the high efficiency turbo...

    , inventor of the voltage regulator
    Voltage regulator
    A voltage regulator is an electrical regulator designed to automatically maintain a constant voltage level. A voltage regulator may be a simple "feed-forward" design or may include negative feedback control loops. It may use an electromechanical mechanism, or electronic components...

    , co-inventor of the transformer
    Transformer
    A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors—the transformer's coils. A varying current in the first or primary winding creates a varying magnetic flux in the transformer's core and thus a varying magnetic field...

  • Miksa Déri
    Miksa Déri
    Miksa Déri was a Hungarian electrical engineer. He was, with his partners Károly Zipernowsky and Ottó Bláthy, co-inventor of the closed iron core transformer and the ZBD model AC electrical generator....

    , co-inventor of transformer
    Transformer
    A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors—the transformer's coils. A varying current in the first or primary winding creates a varying magnetic flux in the transformer's core and thus a varying magnetic field...

  • Ányos Jedlik
    Ányos Jedlik
    Stephen Ányos Jedlik was a Hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist, and Benedictine priest. He was also member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and author of several books. He is considered by Hungarians and Slovaks to be the unsung father of the dynamo and electric motor.-Career:He was born...

    , co-inventor of dynamo
    Dynamo
    - Engineering :* Dynamo, a magnetic device originally used as an electric generator* Dynamo theory, a theory relating to magnetic fields of celestial bodies* Solar dynamo, the physical process that generates the Sun's magnetic field- Software :...

  • János Irinyi
    János Irinyi
    János Irinyi ; , sometimes also spelled János Irínyi)was a Hungarian chemist and inventor of the noiseless and non-explosive match. He achieved this by mixing the phosphorus with lead dioxide instead of the potassium chlorate used previously.Irinyi also took part in the Hungarian Revolution of...

    , inventor of noiseless match
    Match
    A match is a tool for starting a fire under controlled conditions. A typical modern match is made of a small wooden stick or stiff paper. One end is coated with a material that can be ignited by frictional heat generated by striking the match against a suitable surface...

  • Kálmán Kandó
    Kálmán Kandó
    Kálmán Kandó de Egerfarmos et Sztregova was a Hungarian engineer, and a pioneer in the development of electric railway traction.-Education:...

    , inventor of electric railway traction
  • Tivadar Puskás
    Tivadar Puskás
    Tivadar Puskás was a Hungarian inventor, telephone pioneer, and inventor of the telephone exchange He was also the founder of Telefon Hírmondó.-Biography:...

    , inventor of telephone exchange
    Telephone exchange
    In the field of telecommunications, a telephone exchange or telephone switch is a system of electronic components that connects telephone calls...

  • Kálmán Tihanyi
    Kálmán Tihanyi
    Kálmán Tihanyi , was a Hungarian physicist, electrical engineer and inventor. One of the early pioneers of electronic television, he made significant contributions to the development of cathode ray tubes , which were bought and further developed by the Radio Corporation of America , and German...

    , inventor of cathode ray tubes, inventor of first manless aircraft in Great Britain
    Great Britain
    Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

  • Károly Zipernowsky
    Károly Zipernowsky
    Károly Zipernowsky was a Hungarian electrical engineer of Jewish descent. He was the co-inventor of the transformer and other AC technologies.-Biography:...

    , co-inventor of transformer
    Transformer
    A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors—the transformer's coils. A varying current in the first or primary winding creates a varying magnetic flux in the transformer's core and thus a varying magnetic field...

  • Csaba Horváth
    Csaba Horváth
    Csaba Horváth is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1990s. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, he won two medals with teammate György Kolonics...

    , inventor of high performance liquid chromatograph
  • László Bíró
    László Bíró
    László József Bíró was the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen.Bíró was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1899. He presented the first production of the ball pen at the Budapest International Fair in 1931...

    , inventor of the ballpoint pen
    Ballpoint pen
    A ballpoint pen is a writing instrument with an internal ink reservoir and a sphere for a point. The internal chamber is filled with a viscous ink that is dispensed at its tip during use by the rolling action of a small sphere...


Scientists

  • Avram Hershko
    Avram Hershko
    Avram Hershko is a Hungarian-Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.-Biography:Born Herskó Ferenc in Karcag, Hungary, Hershko emigrated to Israel in 1950. Received his M.D. in 1965 and his Ph.D in 1969 from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel...

     (born in 1937 as Herskó Ferenc), Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry
  • Zoltán Bay
  • Máté Hidvégi
    Máté Hidvégi
    Mate Hidvegi is a Hungarian biochemist and co-inventor of Avemar, a fermented wheat germ extract based nutraceutical.-Life :...

  • János Bolyai
    János Bolyai
    János Bolyai was a Hungarian mathematician, known for his work in non-Euclidean geometry.Bolyai was born in the Transylvanian town of Kolozsvár , then part of the Habsburg Empire , the son of Zsuzsanna Benkő and the well-known mathematician Farkas Bolyai.-Life:By the age of 13, he had mastered...

  • Farkas Bolyai
    Farkas Bolyai
    Farkas Bolyai was a Hungarian mathematician, mainly known for his work in geometry, and of his son János Bolyai.-Biography:...

  • Béla Barényi
    Bela Barenyi
    Béla Barényi was a Hungarian-Austrian engineer, regarded as the father of passive safety in automobiles. He was born in Hirtenberg near Vienna during the Austro-Hungarian Empire...

  • Maria Telkes
    Mária Telkes
    Mária Telkes was a Hungarian-American scientist and inventor who worked on solar energy technologies.Telkes moved to the United States after completing her PhD in physical chemistry in Hungary...

  • Charles Simonyi
    Charles Simonyi
    Charles Simonyi is a Hungarian-American computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship Office suite of applications. He now heads his own company, Intentional Software, with the aim of developing and marketing his...

     (Karoly)
  • Michael Somogyi
    Michael Somogyi
    Dr. Michael Somogyi was an Austro-Hungarian- born professor of biochemistry at the Washington University and Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, who prepared the first insulin treatment given to a child with diabetes in the USA in October 1922...

  • Thomas Sebeok
    Thomas Sebeok
    Thomas Albert Sebeok was a polymathic American semiotician and linguist.- Life and work :...

  • Victor Szebehely
    Victor Szebehely
    Victor G. Szebehely was a key figure in the development and success of the Apollo program.Szebehely was born in Budapest, Hungary. He went to the United States in 1947 and became a naturalized citizen in 1956...

  • Albert Szent-Györgyi
    Albert Szent-Györgyi
    Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle...

  • Leó Szilárd
    Leó Szilárd
    Leó Szilárd was an Austro-Hungarian physicist and inventor who conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb...

  • Edward Teller
    Edward Teller
    Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb," even though he did not care for the title. Teller made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy , and surface physics...

  • Eugene Wigner
  • Loránd Eötvös
    Loránd Eötvös
    Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény , more commonly called Baron Roland von Eötvös in English literature, was a Hungarian physicist. He is remembered today largely for his work on gravitation and surface tension.-Life:...

  • Franz Nopcsa von Felso-Szilvas
    Franz Nopcsa von Felso-Szilvás
    Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás was a Hungarian-born aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, and paleontologist...

  • Jozsef Szabo von Szentmiklos
    József Szabó von Szentmiklós
    József Szabó de Szentmiklós , Hungarian geologist, was born at Kalocsa.His first contribution to science was an essay on metallurgy, in which subject he had received special training. Afterwards he settled at Budapest and investigated the geology of the district, the results of which were published...

  • Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
    Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
    Richard Adolf Zsigmondy was an Austrian-Hungarian chemist and Nobel laureate for chemistry known for his research in colloids. The crater Zsigmondy on the Moon is named in his honour....

  • Dennis Gabor
    Dennis Gabor
    Dennis Gabor CBE, FRS was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics....

  • Gergely Berzeviczy
  • János Kornai
    János Kornai
    János Kornai , is an economist noted for his analysis and criticism of the command economies of Eastern European communist states.- Biography :...

  • Johann Baptiste Horvath
    Johann Baptiste Horvath
    Johann Baptiste Horvath was a Hungarian-born Jesuit Professor of Physics and Philosophy at the University of Trnava in modern-day Slovakia, which was then part of the Kingdom of Hungary...

  • Mate Hidvegi
    Máté Hidvégi
    Mate Hidvegi is a Hungarian biochemist and co-inventor of Avemar, a fermented wheat germ extract based nutraceutical.-Life :...

  • Eugene Wigner
  • Robert Bárány
    Robert Bárány
    Robert Bárány was a Austro-Hungarian otologist. For his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus of the ear he received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.- Biography :...

  • Georg von Békésy
    Georg von Békésy
    Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian biophysicist born in Budapest, Hungary.In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the function of the cochlea in the mammalian hearing organ.-Research:Békésy developed a method for dissecting the inner ear of human...

  • Cornelius Lanczos
    Cornelius Lanczos
    Cornelius Lanczos Löwy Kornél was a Hungarian-Jewish mathematician and physicist, who was born on February 2, 1893, and died on June 25, 1974....

  • George Andrew Olah
    George Andrew Olah
    George Andrew Olah is an American chemist. His research involves the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994...

  • Valentine Telegdi
    Valentine Telegdi
    Valentine Louis Telegdi FRS was a Hungarian-born U.S. physicist.He was the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago before he moved to ETH Zürich...

  • George de Hevesy
    George de Hevesy
    George Charles de Hevesy, Georg Karl von Hevesy, was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals.- Early years :Hevesy György was born in Budapest,...

  • Paul Erdős
    Paul Erdos
    Paul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician. Erdős published more papers than any other mathematician in history, working with hundreds of collaborators. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory...


Writers

  • Endre Ady
    Endre Ady
    Endre Ady was a Hungarian poet.-Biography:Ady was born in Érmindszent, Szilágy county . He belonged to an impoverished Calvinist noble family...

  • János Arany
    János Arany
    János Arany , was a Hungarian journalist, writer, poet, and translator. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 40 ballads which have been translated into over 50 languages, as well as the Toldi trilogy, to mention his most famous works.-Biography:He was born in...

  • Mihály Babits
    Mihály Babits
    Mihály Babits was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator.- Biography :...

  • Bálint Balassi
    Bálint Balassi
    Bálint Balassi baron of Kékkő and Gyarmat, , was a multilingual Hungarian Renaissance lyric poet, who wrote mostly in Hungarian...

  • János Batsányi
    János Batsányi
    János Batsányi was a Hungarian poet.In 1785, he published his first work, a patriotic poem, "The Valour of the Magyars"...

  • Elek Benedek
    Elek Benedek
    Elek Benedek was a Hungarian journalist and writer, known as "the great folk-tale teller".- Biography :...

  • Dániel Berzsenyi
    Dániel Berzsenyi
    Dániel Berzsenyi - February 24, 1836 in Nikla) was a Hungarian poet.Berzsenyi was one of the most contradictory poets of Hungarian literature. He lived the life of a farmer, and wished to be close to the events of Hungarian literature. This contradiction, which he believed he could solve, made him...

  • Mihály Csokonai Vitéz
    Mihály Csokonai Vitéz
    Mihály Csokonai Vitéz was a Hungarian poet.Having been educated in Debrecen, where he was born, Csokonai was appointed while still very young to the professorship of poetry there...

  • Péter Esterházy
    Péter Esterházy
    Péter Esterházy is one of the most widely known contemporary Hungarian writers. His books are considered to be significant contributions to postwar literature....

  • Mihály Fazekas
    Mihály Fazekas
    Mihály Fazekas was a Hungarian writer from Debrecen. He was an army private for seven years before being commissioned as a Hussar officer. As a hobby, Fazekas studied the natural sciences and wrote poetry...

  • András Fáy
    András Fáy
    András Fáy was a Hungarian poet and author.He was born at Kohány in the county of Zemplén, and was educated for the law at the Protestant college of Sárospatak. His Mesék , the first edition of which appeared at Vienna in 1820, evinced his powers of satire and invention, and won him the...

  • Géza Gárdonyi
    Géza Gárdonyi
    Géza Gárdonyi, born Géza Ziegler was a Hungarian writer and journalist. Although he wrote a range of works, he had his greatest success as a historical novelist, particularly with Eclipse of the Crescent Moon and Slave of the Huns.-Life:Gárdonyi was born in Agárdpuszta, Austria-Hungary, the son of...

  • Géza Gyóni
    Géza Gyóni
    Géza Gyóni was a Hungarian poet under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He died in a Tsarist prisoner of war camp during the First World War.-Early life:...

  • István Gyöngyösi
    István Gyöngyösi
    István Gyöngyösi , Hungarian poet, was born of poor but noble parents.His abilities early attracted the notice of Count Ferenc Wesselényi, who in 1640 appointed him to a post of confidence in Fülek castle. Here he remained till 1653, when he married and became an assessor of the judicial board...

  • Mór Jókai
    Mór Jókai
    Mór Jókai , born Móric Jókay de Ásva , outside Hungary also known as Maurus Jokai, was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist.-Early life:...

  • Attila József
    Attila József
    Attila József was one of the most important and well-known Hungarian poets of the 20th century.-Biography:The son of Áron József, a soap factory worker of Romanian origin from Bánát, and Hungarian peasant girl Borbála Pőcze, he was born in Ferencváros, a poor district of Budapest. He had two elder...

  • Kálmán Kalocsay
    Kálmán Kalocsay
    Kálmán Kalocsay , in Hungarian name order Kalocsay Kálmán is one of the foremost figures in the history of Esperanto literature...

  • Lajos Kassák
    Lajos Kassák
    Lajos Kassák was a Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, theoretician of the avant-garde and occasional translator, was the father of many modernisms....

  • József Katona
    József Katona
    József Katona was a Hungarian playwright and poet, creator of the Hungarian drama: author of the legendary historical tragedy: Bánk bán.-Biography:...

  • Ferenc Kazinczy
    Ferenc Kazinczy
    Ferenc Kazinczy was a Hungarian author, the most indefatigable agent in the regeneration of the Magyar language and literature at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century...

  • József Kármán
    Jozsef Karman
    József Kármán , sentimentalist Hungarian author, was born at Losonc in 1769, the son of a Calvinist pastor. He was educated at Losonc and Pest, whence he migrated to Vienna...

  • Zsigmond Kemény
    Zsigmond Kemény
    Baron Zsigmond Kemény was a Hungarian author.-Life and work:Kemény was born in Alvinc, Transylvania to a distinguished noble family, but family feuds left him with little personal wealth. His early schooling in Nagyenyed gave him knowledge of English law, French law and German law, politics and...

  • Imre Kertész
    Imre Kertész
    Imre Kertész is a Hungarian Jewish author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"....

  • Sándor Kisfaludy
    Sándor Kisfaludy
    Sándor Kisfaludy was a Hungarian lyric poet, Himfy's Loves his chief work, was less distinguished as a dramatist. He is considered to be the first romantic poet from Hungary. He was the brother of Károly Kisfaludy. He has been set to music by Zoltán Kodály.-References:...

  • Ferenc Kölcsey
    Ferenc Kölcsey
    Ferenc Kölcsey was a Hungarian poet, literary critic, orator, and politician, noted for his support of the liberal current inside the Habsburg Empire. He wrote the national anthem of Hungary in 1823....

  • Imre Madách
    Imre Madách
    Imre Madách de Sztregova et de Kelecsény was a Hungarian writer, poet, lawyer and politician. His major work is The Tragedy of Man . It is a dramatic poem approximately 4000 lines long, which elaborates on ideas comparable to Goethe's Faust...

  • Sándor Márai
    Sándor Márai
    Sándor Márai was a Hungarian writer and journalist.-Biography:...

  • Ferenc "Franz" Louis Molnár
    Ferenc Molnár
    LanguageFerenc Molnár was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. His Americanized name was Franz Molnar...

  • Ferenc Móra
    Ferenc Móra
    Ferenc Móra was a Hungarian novelist, journalist, and museologist.Ferenc Móra is universally recognized and acclaimed as a major writer and author in Hungarian literature.-Life:...

  • Zsigmond Móricz
    Zsigmond Móricz
    Zsigmond Móricz was a major Hungarian novelist and Social Realist. He was among the earliest significant literary figures writing in Hungarian.- Early life and education :...

  • András Petöcz
    András Petöcz
    András Petőcz is a Hungarian writer and poet -Life:Petőcz began his career in literary life in 1981. He was the chief editor for over two years of the art periodical Jelenlét ., which was published by the Faculty of Humanities at the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences in Budapest, and soon became...

  • Sándor Petőfi
    Sándor Petofi
    Sándor Petőfi , was a Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary. He is considered as Hungary's national poet and he was one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848...

  • Miklós Radnóti
    Miklós Radnóti
    Miklós Radnóti, birth name Miklós Glatter was a Hungarian poet who died in The Holocaust.-Personality and early life:...

  • Agnes Rapai
    Agnes Rapai
    The native form of this personal name is Rapai Ágnes. This article uses the Western name order.Ágnes Rapai is a Hungarian poet, writer, and translator.-Biography:...

  • Jenő Rejtő
    Jeno Rejto
    Jenő Rejtő was a Hungarian journalist, pulp fiction writer and playwright, who died as a forced labourer during World War II. He was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, on March 29, 1905, and died in Yevdokovo, Soviet Union on January 1, 1943...

  • Lőrinc Szabó
    Lorinc Szabó
    Lőrinc Szabó de Gáborján was a Hungarian poet and literary translator.-Biography:He was born in Miskolc as the son of an engine driver, Lőrinc Szabó sr., and Ilona Panyiczky. The family moved to Balassagyarmat when he was 3 years old. He attended school in Balassagyarmat and Debrecen. He studied...

  • Magda Szabó
    Magda Szabó
    Magda Szabó was a Hungarian writer, arguably Hungary's foremost woman novelist. She also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memories and poetry....

  • András Sütő
    András Süto
    András Sütő was an ethnic Hungarian writer and politician in Romania, one of the leading Hungarian writers in the 20th century.-Early life and education:...

  • Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos
    Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos
    Sebestyén "Lantos" Tinódi was a 16th century Hungarian lyricist, epic poet, political historian, and minstrel.- Biography :...

  • Árpád Tóth
    Árpád Tóth
    Árpád Tóth was a Hungarian poet and translator.Tóth went to Gymnasium in Debrecen and then studied German and Hungarian at the University of Budapest. In 1907, he poems began to appear in the papers A Hét and Vasárnapi Újság and after 1908 in Nyugat...

  • Mihály Vörösmarty
    Mihály Vörösmarty
    Mihály Vörösmarty was an important Hungarian poet and dramatist.He was born at Puszta-Nyék , of a noble Roman Catholic family. His father was a steward of the Nádasdys. Mihály was educated at Székesfehérvár by the Cistercians and at Pest by the Piarists...

  • Albert Wass
  • Ze'ev
    Ze'ev (caricaturist)
    Yaakov Farkash , better known by the pen name Ze'ev , was an Israeli caricaturist and illustrator.- Early life and World War II :...

  • Nikola Zrinski

Sports

  • The Golden Team, famous Hungarian national football team
  • Robert Antal
    Róbert Antal
    Róbert Antal was a Hungarian water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.Antal, who was Jewish, was born in Budapest and died in Toronto, Canada....

     (1921–95), Olympic champion water polo player
  • Péter Bakonyi
    Péter Bakonyi (fencer born 1938)
    Péter Bakonyi is a Hungarian fencer. He won bronze medals in the team sabre events at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics.-References:...

     (1938–), saber fencer, Olympic 3-time bronze
  • Viktor Barna
    Viktor Barna
    Viktor Győző Barna was a Hungarian and British champion table tennis player.-Personal life:...

     (born "Győző Braun") (1911–72), 22-time world champion table tennis player, International Table Tennis Foundation Hall of Fame ("ITTFHoF")
  • István Barta
    István Barta
    István Barta was a Hungarian water polo player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, in the 1928 Summer Olympics, and in the 1932 Summer Olympics....

     (1895–1948), Olympic champion water polo player, silver
  • Laszlo Bellak (1911–2006), 7-time world champion table tennis player, ITTFHoF
  • Gyula Bíró
    Gyula Bíró
    Gyula Bíró was a Jewish-Hungarian football player and manager. As part of Hungary, Bíró completed at 1912 Olympics....

     (1890–1961), midfielder/forward footballer (national team)
  • Balázs Borbély
    Balázs Borbély
    Balázs Borbély is a Slovakia international football midfielder who last played for Cyprus club AEL Limassol.-Club career:...

     (1979–), footballer
  • Gedeon Barcza
    Gedeon Barcza
    Gedeon Barcza was a Hungarian chess master.In 1940, Barcza took third place, behind Max Euwe and Milan Vidmar, at Maróczy Jubiläum in Budapest. In September 1942, he took sixth place at the first European Championship in Munich; the event was won by Alexander Alekhine...

     (1911–86), chess player
  • Zsolt Baumgartner
    Zsolt Baumgartner
    Zsolt Baumgartner is a former Formula One racing driver who raced for the Jordan and Minardi teams. He was the first Hungarian driver in Formula One.-Career:...

     (1981 – ), Formula One driver, 2003–04, Jordan-Ford (2 races, subbing for injured Ralph Firman
    Ralph Firman
    Ralph David Firman Jr. is an English-born racing driver who races under Irish citizenship and an Irish-issued racing licence. Earlier in his career he raced under a British licence...

    ) 2003, Minardi-Cosworth 2004, all 18 Grand Prix, 1 point (Indianapolis GrandPrix)
  • Tibor Benedek
    Tibor Benedek
    Tibor Benedek is a Hungarian water polo player, who played in the gold medal squads at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics...

     (1972–), waterpolo player, olympic champion: 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing
  • Pál Benkő
    Pál Benko
    Pal Benko is a chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems.- Early life :Benko was born in France but was raised in Hungary. He was Hungarian champion by age 20. He emigrated to the United States in 1958, after defecting following the World Student Team...

     (1928 – ), chess player
  • Gyula Breyer
    Gyula Breyer
    Gyula Breyer was a Hungarian chess player. He was a leading member of the hypermodern school of chess theory, which favored controlling the center with pressure from the flanks....

     (1894–1921), chess player
  • György Bródy
    György Bródy
    György Bródy was a Hungarian water polo player.-Career:At the 1928 Summer Olympics he was a reserve player of the Hungarian water polo team, but did not compete in a match of the 1928 tournament.He competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he was part of the...

     (1908–67), water polo goalkeeper, 2-time Olympic champion
  • Ákos Buzsáky
    Ákos Buzsáky
    Ákos Buzsáky is a Hungarian footballer who plays for Premier League club Queens Park Rangers as a midfielder, having previously played for MTK Hungária, FC Porto, Academica de Coimbra and Plymouth Argyle. He has been capped by Hungary at international level....

     (1982–), football player
  • Ibolya Csák
    Ibolya Csák
    Ibolya Csák was a Hungarian athlete.-Career:She was best known as the winner of the women's high jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. She won a gold medal in the European Championships in Athletics in 1938 in unusual circumstances...

    , winner of the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics
    1936 Summer Olympics
    The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain on April 26, 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona...

  • Zoltán Czibor
    Zoltán Czibor
    Zoltán Czibor Suhai , also referred to as Czibor Zoltán, was a Hungarian footballer who played for several Hungarian clubs, including Ferencváros TC and Honvéd, and Hungary before joining CF Barcelona. Czibor played as a left-winger or striker and was notable for having a powerful shot, good...

     (1929–97), soccer player
  • Tamás Darnyi
    Tamás Darnyi
    Tamás Darnyi is a Hungarian retired male swimmer. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest medley swimmers in history. He won four gold medals at two Olympic Games and was unbeaten in the individual medley events from 1985 until his retirement in 1993...

    , swimmer (four Olympic gold medals)
  • Krisztina Egerszegi
    Krisztina Egerszegi
    Krisztina Egerszegi is a Hungarian former world record holding swimmer and one of the greatest Hungarian Olympic champions of the modern era...

    , swimmer (five Olympic gold medals)
  • Ilona Elek
    Ilona Elek
    Ilona Elek, known also as Ilona Elek-Schacherer was a Hungarian Olympic fencer. Elek won more international fencing titles than any other woman.-Fencing career:...

    , sabre fencer (Olympic gold before and after World War II)
  • Árpád Élő
    Árpád Élo
    Arpad Emrick Elo is the creator of the Elo rating system for two-player games such as chess. Born in Egyházaskesző, Austro-Hungarian Empire, he moved to the United States with his parents as a child in 1913.Elo was a professor of physics at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was...

    , (1903–92), Hungarian-born American creator of the chess Elo rating system
  • Zsolt Erdei
    Zsolt Erdei
    Zsolt Erdei is a Hungarian boxer in the light heavyweight division. He is the former undefeated Lineal & WBO light heavyweight champion, and WBC cruiserweight champion. Erdei is also the first Hungarian to win a world title in two weight divisions.Erdei boxed at the 2000 Summer Olympics...

    , boxer, WBO light heavyweight world champion
  • Sándor Erdös
    Sándor Erdös
    Sándor Erdős is a Hungarian epee fencer. He is Jewish.- Olympics :Erdős won a gold medal in the team épée at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich....

    , épée fencer, Olympic champion
  • Dr. Dezsö Földes
    Dezso Földes
    The title of this article contains the characters ő and ö. Where they are unavailable, the name may be represented as Dezso Foldes.Dr. Dezső Földes was a Hungarian saber fencer...

    , saber fencer, 2-time Olympic champion
  • Samu Fóti
    Samu Fóti
    Samu Fóti was an Hungarian gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was Jewish....

    , Olympic silver (gymnastics team combined exercises)
  • Dr. Jenö Fuchs
    Jeno Fuchs
    Dr. Jenő Fuchs was a Hungarian Olympic champion sabre fencer.-Fencing career:...

    , saber fencer, 4-time Olympic champion
  • Támas Gábor
    Tamás Gábor
    Tamás Gábor was a Hungarian épée fencer.-World championships:In World Championships competition, Gabor’s individual medals were a bronze in 1961 and a silver in 1962...

    , épée fencer, Olympic champion
  • János Garay
    János Garay (fencer)
    János Garay was a Hungarian fencer, and one of the best sabre fencers in the world in the 1920s....

    , saber fencer, Olympic champion, silver, bronze
  • György Gedó
    György Gedó
    György Gedó is a former Hungarian boxer.Gedó was born in Újpest, Budapest, Hungary. He won the gold medal in the light flyweight division at the 1972 Summer Olympics...

    , Olympic champion light flyweight
    Light flyweight
    - Professional boxing :The weight limit at light flyweight in professional boxing is 108 pounds . When New York legalized boxing in 1920, the law stipulated a "junior flyweight" class, with a weight limit of 99 pounds. When the National Boxing Association was formed in 1921, it also recognized this...

     boxer
  • Sándor Geller, soccer goalkeeper, Olympic champion
  • Imre Gellért
    Imre Gellért
    Imre Gellért was an Hungarian gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics.In 1908 he participated in the individual all-around competition and finished 39th....

    , Olympic silver (gymnastics team combined exercises)
  • Zoltán Gera
    Zoltán Gera
    Zoltán Gera is a Hungarian footballer who currently plays for West Bromwich Albion. He usually plays as an attacking midfielder, though he has also played on both the right and left wings throughout his career...

     C, Ferencvaros
    Ferencváros
    Ferencváros is the 9th district of Budapest , Hungary.- Name :The southern suburb of Pest was named after King Francis I on 4 December 1792 when he was crowned king of Hungary.- History :The development of Ferencváros began in the late 18th century....

    , West Bromwich Albion
    West Bromwich Albion F.C.
    West Bromwich Albion Football Club, also known as West Brom, The Baggies, The Throstles, Albion or WBA, are an English Premier League association football club based in West Bromwich in the West Midlands...

     and Fulham Footballer.
  • Dr. Oskar Gerde, saber fencer, 2-time Olympic champion
  • Aladár Gerevich
    Aladár Gerevich
    Aladár Gerevich was a fencer from Hungary, regarded as "the greatest Olympic swordsman ever". He won medals in sabre in six Olympics. With Birgit Fischer, Gerevich was one of only two athletes to do so. He is also the only athlete to win the same event six times...

    , fencer (six Olympic gold medals)
  • Károly Gogolak
    Charlie Gogolak
    Charles Paul Gogolak is a retired American football placekicker....

    , (1944 – ), American football #1 draft pick of the Washington Redskins
  • Péter Gogolak, (1942 – ), American football- invented "soccer style" kicking- played for the NY Giants and the Buffalo Bills
  • Dr. Sándor Gombos
    Sándor Gombos
    Dr. Sándor Gombos was a Hungarian fencer.-World Championships:...

    , saber fencer, Olympic champion
  • Gyula Grosics
    Gyula Grosics
    Gyula Grosics is a Hungarian former football goalkeeper who played 86 times for the Hungarian national football team and was part of the legendary Golden Team of the 1950s. He was nicknamed the Black Panther ....

    , goalkeeper for the Golden Magyar soccer team undefeated from 1950–54
  • Béla Guttmann
    Béla Guttmann
    Béla Guttmann was a Jewish Hungarian footballer and coach. He played as a midfielder for MTK Hungária FC, SC Hakoah Wien, Hungary and several clubs in the United States. However he is perhaps best remembered as a coach and manager of some the world’s leading football teams, including AC Milan, São...

    , midfielder, national team football player & international coach
  • Andrea Gyarmati
    Andrea Gyarmati
    Andrea Gyarmati is a Hungarian retired female swimmer. She won two medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich....

    , Olympic swimmer silver (100-m backstroke) and bronze (100-m butterfly); World championships bronze (200-m backstroke), International Swimming Hall of Fame
  • Dezső Gyarmati
    Dezso Gyarmati
    Dezső Gyarmati is a former Hungarian water polo player and three times Olympic champion, and also a former coach of the Hungarian national water polo team.-Player career:...

    , water polo player (triple Olympic champion)
  • Alfréd Hajós
    Alfréd Hajós
    Alfréd Hajós was a Hungarian swimmer and architect. He was the first modern Olympic swimming champion and the first Olympic champion of Hungary.-Biography:...

     (born Arnold Guttmann), swimmer 3-time Olympic champion (100-m freestyle, 800-m freestyle relay, 1,500-m freestyle), International Swimming Hall of Fame
  • Mickey Hargitay
    Mickey Hargitay
    Miklós "Mickey" Hargitay was an actor and Mr. Universe 1955. Born in Budapest, Hungary, he was married to Jayne Mansfield, and the father of actress Mariska Hargitay...

    , bodybuilder and actor
  • Nándor Hidegkuti
    Nándor Hidegkuti
    Nándor Hidegkuti was a Hungarian football player and manager. He played as a forward or attacking midfielder and spent the majority of his playing career at MTK Hungária FC. During the 1950s he was also a member of the Hungarian National Team team known as the Golden Team...

     (1922–2002), soccer player
  • Endre Kabos
    Endre Kabos
    Endre Kabos , born in Nagyvárad, Hungary, was a Hungarian sabre fencer.-Fencing career:Kabos began fencing after receiving a fencing outfit as a birthday present. Although he hid the outfit in his wardrobe, a friend found it and teased him. The following day, he enrolled in a fencing club just to...

    , saber fencer, 3-time Olympic champion, bronze
  • Béla Károlyi
    Béla Károlyi
    Béla Károlyi is a Romanian gymnastics coach. He was born in what was then Kolozsvár, Hungary, a region restored to Romanian administration after 1944. Károlyi and his wife, Márta, also of Hungarian origin, emigrated to the United States in 1981 and both have dual citizenships for Romania and the...

     (1942 – ), premier gymnastics coach (ethnic Hungarian lived in Romania, now a United States citizen)
  • Károly Kárpáti
    Károly Kárpáti
    Károly Kárpáti was a Jewish Hungarian Olympic wrestling champion.-Career:He won a gold medal in 1936 in the Lightweight Freestyle class...

     (also "Károly Kellner"), Olympic champion wrestler (freestyle lightweight), silver
  • Ágnes Keleti
    Ágnes Keleti
    Ágnes Keleti is a retired Hungarian artistic gymnast. The winner of 10 Olympic medals including five gold medals, she is considered to be one of the most successful Jewish Olympic athletes of all time. She was the most successful athlete at the 1956 Summer Olympics.-Career:Keleti is Jewish, and...

    , 5-time Olympic gymnastics champion (2-time floor exercises, asymmetrical bars, floor exercises, balance beam, team exercise with portable apparatus), 3-time silver (2-time team combined exercises, individual combined exercises), 2-time bronze (asymmetrical bars, team exercises with portable apparatus), International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
  • Kincsem
    Kincsem
    Kincsem was the most successful Thoroughbred race horse ever, having won 54 races for 54 starts. Foaled in Tápiószentmárton, Hungary in 1874, she is a national icon, and is revered in other parts of the world, too...

     (1874–87), most successful racehorse in world history
  • Sándor Kocsis
    Sándor Kocsis
    Sándor Kocsis Péter was a Hungarian footballer who played for Ferencváros TC, Budapest Honvéd, Young Fellows Zürich, FC Barcelona and Hungary. During the 1950s, along with Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, József Bozsik and Nándor Hidegkuti, he was a member of the Mighty Magyars...

     (1929–79), soccer player
  • Zsuzsa Körmöczy
    Zsuzsa Körmöczy
    Zsuzsa Körmöczy was a female tennis player from Hungary. She won the singles title at the 1958 French Championships at the age of 33 and reached the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1958...

    , tennis player, won 1958 French Singles
  • Pál Kovács
    Pál Kovács
    Pál Kovács was a Hungarian Olympic fencer, who began as a hurdler, but eventually switched to fencing. He was born in Debrecen...

    , fencer (six Olympic gold medals)
  • István "Koko" Kovács
    István Kovács
    István Kovács , nicknamed Ko-Ko or sometimes The Cobra is a retired Hungarian boxer. As an amateur he won the bantamweight gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and was a world champion at the 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships in flyweight and at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships...

    , boxer, olympic champion and WBO world champion
  • Lily Kronberger
    Lily Kronberger
    Lily Kronberger , also spelled Lili Kronberger, was a Hungarian figure skater competitive during the early years of modern figure skating...

    , four-time World figure skating champion, 2-time bronze, World Figure Skating Hall of Fame
    World Figure Skating Hall of Fame
    The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame serves as a repository for the sport of figure skating. The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame is where the greatest names in the history of the sport are honored...

  • Péter Lékó
    Péter Lékó
    On the way to winning the prestigious Corus chess tournament in 2005, Lékó defeated Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand with the black pieces. The moves were:...

     (1979 – ), chess player, currently ranked 10th of the world
  • Imi Lichtenfeld
    Imi Lichtenfeld
    Imre "Imi" Lichtenfeld was an Israeli martial artist who founded the Krav Maga self-defense system. He was also known as Imi Sde-Or, the Hebrew calque of his name.-Early life:...

    , boxer and wrestler, developed the self-defense system Krav Maga
    Krav Maga
    Krav Maga is a noncompetitive eclectic self-defense system developed in Europe that involves striking techniques, wrestling and grappling. Krav Maga is known for its focus on real-world situations and extremely efficient, brutal counter-attacks...

  • Andor Lilienthal
    Andor Lilienthal
    Andor Arnoldovich Lilienthal was a Hungarian and Soviet chess Grandmaster. In his long career, he played against ten male and female world champions, beating Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Vera Menchik...

     (1911–2010), chess player
  • Johann Löwenthal
    Johann Löwenthal
    Johann Jacob Löwenthal was a professional chess master.Löwenthal was born in Budapest, the son of a Jewish merchant. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native city. In 1846, he won a match against Carl Hamppe in Vienna...

     (1810–76), chess player
  • Zoltán Magyar
    Zoltan Magyar
    Zoltán Magyar was the premier pommel horse gymnast in the world in the 1970s...

     (1953 -), twice Olympic pommel horse gold medalist
  • Gyula Mándi
    Gyula Mándi
    Gyula Mándi, also referred to as Mándi Gyula or Julius Mandel was a Hungarian footballer and manager.-Player:Mándi was part of the greatest era of MTK, the 1920s and 1930s...

    , half back footballer (player & coach of national teams)
  • Géza Maróczy
    Géza Maróczy
    Géza Maróczy was a leading Hungarian chess Grandmaster, one of the best players in the world in his time. He was also a practicing engineer.-Early career:...

     (1870–1951), chess player
  • József Munk
    József Munk
    József Munk was a Hungarian freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was Jewish....

    , Olympic silver swimmer (4x200-m freestyle relay)
  • Opika von Méray Horváth
    Opika von Méray Horváth
    Opika von Méray Horváth , aka Zsófia Méray-Horváth, was a Hungarian figure skater. She won three consecutive World titles ....

    , three-time World figure skating champion
  • Henrietta Ónodi
    Henrietta Ónodi
    Henrietta Ónodi is an Olympic gold winner Hungarian gymnast who competed at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics....

    , Olympic medal-winning gymnast (won gold, silver at Barcelona in 1992)
  • László Papp
    László Papp
    László Papp was a Hungarian boxer, born in Budapest. A southpaw, he won gold medals in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia...

    , boxer (triple Olympic champion)
  • Attila Petschauer
    Attila Petschauer
    Attila Petschauer was a Jewish Hungarian Olympic fencer.-Fencing career:Born in Budapest, Petschauer was a member of the Hungarian fencing team in the 1928 and 1932 Olympics...

    , sabre fencer, 2-time team Olympic champion, silver
  • Anna Pfeffer
    Anna Pfeffer
    Anna Pfeffer is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. She is Jewish....

     (born 1946), Hungarian Olympic medalist sprint canoer
  • Judit Polgár
    Judit Polgár
    Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest person ever to do so at that time.Polgár was ranked No...

     (1976 – ), chess player
  • Zsuzsa Polgár
    Susan Polgar
    Susan Polgar is a Hungarian-American chess Grandmaster...

     (1969 – ), chess player
  • Zsófia Polgár
    Zsófia Polgár
    Sofia Polgar Sofia Polgar Sofia Polgar (born November 2, 1974 as Polgár Zsófia is a Hungarian-born International Master of chess and former chess prodigy. She is an International Master and Woman Grandmaster, and is the middle sister of Grandmasters Susan and Judit Polgár. Since 2006, she has...

     (1974 – ), chess player
  • Imre Polyák
    Imre Polyák
    Imre Polyák was a Hungarian wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Career:...

     Olympic and World Champion Greco-Roman wrestler
  • Lajos Portisch
    Lajos Portisch
    Lajos Portisch is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik"...

     (1937 – ), chess player
  • Ferenc Puskás
    Ferenc Puskás
    Ferenc Puskás was a Hungarian footballer and manager. He scored 84 goals in 85 international matches for Hungary, and 514 goals in 529 matches in the Hungarian and Spanish leagues. He became Olympic champion in 1952 and was a World Cup finalist in 1954...

     (1927–2006), football (soccer) player
  • Béla Rajki-Reich (1909–2000), swimming coach and water polo coach
  • Emilia Rotter, pair skater, World Championship 4-time gold, silver, Olympic 2-time bronze
  • Miklós Sárkány
    Miklós Sárkány
    Miklós Sárkány was a Hungarian water polo player.-Career:He competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in Budapest....

    , 2-time Olympic champion water polo player
  • Zoltán Ozoray Schenker
    Zoltán Ozoray Schenker
    Zoltán Ozoray Schenker was a Hungarian sabre and foil fencer.-Fencing career:Born in Váradszentmárton, Hungary, in the 1910s and 1920s Schenker was one of Hungary's top fencers when the country was known as the best fencing nation in the world.-Olympics:He appeared in three Olympiads, winning 3...

    , saber fencer, Olympic champion
  • Gusztáv Sebes
    Gusztáv Sebes
    Gusztáv Sebes was a Hungarian footballer and coach. With the title of Deputy Minister of Sport, he coached the Hungarian team known as the Mighty Magyars in the 1950s. Among the players in the team were Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, Sándor Kocsis, József Bozsik, and Nándor Hidegkuti...

     (1906–86), Hungarian national soccer coach
  • Anna Sipos
    Anna Sipos
    Anna Sipos was a Hungarian table tennis player. She won 21 medals in the World Table Tennis Championships.-Table Tennis Career:Sipos won 11 gold medals in World Championships...

    , 11-time world champion table tennis player, ITTFHoF
  • Tamás Sipos
    Tamás Sipos
    Tamás Sipos was a Hungarian writer and sports commentator. His book of biographical fiction, Dohánybarna selyemmellény , is based on his travails during the Nazi occupation of Hungary, during which he was imprisoned in a work camp and narrowly escaped death.-Works in Hungarian:*A harmadik menet...

    , sports commentator and writer, former director of Hungarian television
  • Les Murray
    Les Murray (broadcaster)
    Les James Murray AM is an Australian sports journalist, football broadcaster and analyst...

     (born László Ürge, 1945– ), Australian soccer broadcaster, sports journalist and analyst.
  • László Szabados
    László Szabados
    László Szabados was an Hungarian swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In the 1932 Olympics he won a bronze medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay event.-References:...

    , Olympic bronze swimmer (4x200-m freestyle relay)
  • Miklos 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:...

    , 15-time world champion table tennis player
  • László Szabó
    László Szabó (chess player)
    László Szabó was a prominent Hungarian Grandmaster of chess.Born in Budapest, he burst onto the international chess scene in 1935, at the unusually young age of 18...

     (1917–98), chess player
  • Ágnes Szávay
    Ágnes Szávay
    Ágnes Szávay is a professional tennis player from Hungary. She is the country's highest ranked tennis player. She was the WTA Newcomer of the Year in 2007. She achieved her career high ranking of World No. 13 on April 14, 2008.- Background :...

     (1988–), tennis player
  • András Székely
    András Székely
    András Székely was an Hungarian swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In the 1932 Olympics he won a bronze medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay event. He also was fifth in his semifinal of 100 m freestyle event and did not advance.Székely died in a Nazi forced labor...

    , Olympic silver swimmer (200-m breaststroke) and bronze (4x200-m freestyle relay)
  • Éva Székely
    Éva Székely
    Éva Székely is a Hungarian retired female swimmer. She won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics....

    , Olympic champion & silver swimmer (200-m breaststroke); International Swimming Hall of Fame; mother of Andrea Gyarmati
    Andrea Gyarmati
    Andrea Gyarmati is a Hungarian retired female swimmer. She won two medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich....

  • László Szollás
    László Szollás
    László Szollás was a Hungarian pair skater. With partner Emília Rotter he won the World Figure Skating Championship four times in five years , and were the 1932 World silver medalists. They were the 1934 European Champions and 1930 & 1931 silver medalists...

    , pair skater, World Championship 4-time gold, silver, Olympic 2-time bronze
  • Gábor Talmácsi
    Gábor Talmácsi
    Gábor Talmácsi is a professional motorcycle racer. He was the 2007 Grand Prix motorcycle racing 125cc World Champion, and he is thus the first Hungarian to win a road racing World Championship...

     (1981–), 125cc MotoGP World Champion
  • Judit Temes
    Judit Temes
    Judit Temes is a Hungarian swimmer and Olympic champion.Temes, who is Jewish, was born in Sopron.She competed at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, where she received a bronze medal in 100 m freestyle, and a gold medal in 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.-References:*...

    , Olympic champion swimmer (4×100-m freestyle), bronze (100-m freestyle)
  • Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, foil fencer, 2-time Olympic champion
  • Richárd Weisz
    Richárd Weisz
    Richárd Weisz was a Hungarian sport wrestler who competed in the 1906 Summer Olympics and in the 1908 Summer Olympics.He was born and died in Budapest....

    , Olympic champion wrestler (Greco-Roman super heavyweight)
  • Lajos Werkner
    Lajos Werkner
    Lajos Werkner was a Hungarian sabre fencer.- Olympic career :He won gold medals in Team Sabre at the 1908 and 1912 Olympic Games....

    , saber fencer, 2-time Olympic champion
  • Imre Zachár
    Imre Zachár
    Imre Zachár was a Hungarian water polo player and freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912 Summer Olympics.-Swimming career:...

    , Olympic silver swimmer (4x200-m freestyle relay)

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