List of Hungarians

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

Main article: List of Hungarian painters

Main article: List of Hungarian sculptors

Business professionals

Lea Gottlieb (born 1918), Israeli fashion designer and founder of Gottex
Radovan Jelašić, governor of National Bank of Serbia
Daniel Bálint, governor of Wakeboarding
György Soros, Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philosopher, and philanthropist.

Composers and Performers

Attila Csihar, vocalist
Bálint Bakfark, composer
Béla Bartók, composer and pianist
Gergely Bogányi, pianist
Ernő Dohnányi, composer, pianist and conductor
Antal Doráti, conductor
Peter Eötvös, composer and conductor
Ferenc Erkel, composer
Peter Frankl, pianist
Endre Granat, violinist
Zoltán Jeney, composer
Joseph Joachim, violinist
Pál Kadosa, composer
Zoltán Kocsis, pianist and conductor
Zoltán Kodály, composer
György Kurtág, composer
Franz Lehár, composer
György Ligeti, composer
Franz Liszt, composer and pianist
Éva Marton, soprano
János Négyesy, violinist
Ervin Nyíregyházi, pianist
Eugene Ormandy, conductor
György Pauk, violinist
László Polgár, bass
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Eduard Reményi, violinist
Speak, rapper
Georg Solti, conductor
László Vidovszky, composer

Film artists

History and politics

Herzl Tivadar

Károlyi Mihály

Albert Apponyi (1846–1933), statesman
Almásy László (1895–1951), desert explorer, author, the inspiration for the fictionalised character of Almásy in Michael Ondaatje's, The English Patient
Andrássy Gyula (1823–1890), statesman
Antall József (1932–1993), Prime Minister (1990–1993)
Bakócz Tamás (1442–1521), archbishop, cardinal and statesman
Baross Gábor (1848–1892), statesman
George Soros (1930), stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist
Báthory Erzsébet (1560–1614), "serial killer" countess
Báthory István (Stephen Báthory):
- Báthory István (1477–1534), Governor of Transylvania
- Báthory István (1533–1586), Prince of Transylvania and King of Poland
Báthory Zsigmond (1572–1613), prince of Transylvania
Beöthy Ödön, (1796–1854), Hungarian deputy and orator
Béla Bugár (1958– ), politician
Pál Csáky (1956– ), politician
Dessewffy Aurél, (1808–1842), journalist and politician
Fessler Ignaz Aurelius, (1756–1839), court councillor and minister to Alexander I
Hadik Andreas (1710–1790), Count
Herzl Tivadar (1860–1904), journalist, modern Zionism*
Horthy Miklós (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
Friar Julian
János Kádár (1912–1989), communist leader
Károly Róbert (Charles I) (1288–1342), king of Hungary (1308–1342)
Károlyi Mihály (1875–1955), first President of Hungary (1919)
Kossuth Lajos, (1802–1894), Hungarian politician later Regent-President of Hungary
Kollek Teddy (born Kollek Tivadar; 1911–2007), Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem
Kun Béla, (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 (1896–1958), Prime Minister (1956)
Pataki, George, American, Governor of New York
Rákosi Mátyás (1892–1971), General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party
Szálasi Ferenc (1897–1946), Head of Arrow Cross Party, Head of State, Prime Minister 1944–1945
Count Széchenyi István, (1791–1860)
Tisza István (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 (1952 – ), ethnically Hungarian Calvinist pastor in Romania who helped trigger the revolution that overthrew Nicolae Ceauşescu in 1989
Count Zrínyi Miklós (1508–1566), Hungarian general and hero who defended Szigetvár against Ottoman Turks.
Count Zrínyi Miklós, (1620–1664), Hungarian general, statesman and poet.
János Zsámboky, humanist
Tom Lantos (1928–2008), former U.S. Congressman from California

Inventors

János Irinyi

Oszkár Asbóth

Ányos Jedlik

Donát Bánki, inventor of the Crossflow turbine
János Csonka, inventor of the carburetor
Ernő Rubik, inventor of Rubik's Cube, 1976
Ottó Bláthy, inventor of the voltage regulator, co-inventor of the transformer
Miksa Déri, co-inventor of transformer
Ányos Jedlik, co-inventor of dynamo 1861 and soda water, 1826
János Irinyi, inventor of noiseless match, 1836
Kálmán Kandó, inventor of electric railway traction
Tivadar Puskás, inventor of telephone exchange
Kálmán Tihanyi, inventor of cathode ray tubes, inventor of first manless aircraft in Great Britain
Károly Zipernowsky, co-inventor of transformer
Csaba Horváth, inventor of high performance liquid chromatograph
László Bíró, inventor of the ballpoint pen, 1931
János Neumann, inventor of the computer, 1944
Joseph Pulitzer, inventor of the Pulitzer Prize, 1917
József Galamb, creator of the Ford Model T, 1908
Ferenc Anisits, inventor of the BMW diesel engine, 1983
Joseph Petzval, inventor of the Binocular, 1840
Oszkár Asbóth, inventor of helicopter, 1928
Dénes Gábor, inventor of the holography, 1947
József Dobos, creator of the Dobos cake, 1884

Scientists

Avram Hershko (born in 1937 as Herskó Ferenc), Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Zoltán Bay
Máté Hidvégi
János Bolyai
Farkas Bolyai
Béla Barényi
Maria Telkes
Ignaz Semmelweis, physician and pioneer of antiseptic procedures
Charles Simonyi (Karoly)
Michael Somogyi
Thomas Sebeok
Victor Szebehely
Albert Szent-Györgyi, discovered the vitamin C, 1932
Leó Szilárd
Edward Teller
Eugene Wigner
Loránd Eötvös
Franz Nopcsa von Felso-Szilvas
Jozsef Szabo von Szentmiklos
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
Dennis Gabor
Gergely Berzeviczy
János Kornai
Johann Baptiste Horvath
Mate Hidvegi
Eugene Wigner
Robert Bárány
Georg von Békésy
Cornelius Lanczos
George Andrew Olah
Valentine Telegdi
George de Hevesy
Paul Erdős
John Von Neumann

Writers

Sports

The Golden Team, famous Hungarian national football team
Robert Antal (1921–95), Olympic champion water polo player
Péter Bakonyi (1938–), saber fencer, Olympic 3-time bronze
Viktor Barna (born "Győző Braun") (1911–72), 22-time world champion table tennis player, International Table Tennis Foundation Hall of Fame ("ITTFHoF")
István Barta (1895–1948), Olympic champion water polo player, silver
Laszlo Bellak (1911–2006), 7-time world champion table tennis player, ITTFHoF
Gyula Bíró (1890–1961), midfielder/forward footballer (national team)¹²
Balázs Borbély (1979–), footballer
Gedeon Barcza (1911–86), chess player
Zsolt Baumgartner (1981 – ), Formula One driver, 2003–04, Jordan-Ford (2 races, subbing for injured Ralph Firman) 2003, Minardi-Cosworth 2004, all 18 Grand Prix, 1 point (Indianapolis GrandPrix)
Tibor Benedek (1972–), waterpolo player, olympic champion: 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing
Pál Benkő (1928 – ), chess player
Gyula Breyer (1894–1921), chess player
György Bródy (1908–67), water polo goalkeeper, 2-time Olympic champion
Ákos Buzsáky (1982–), football player
Ibolya Csák, winner of the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Zoltán Czibor (1929–97), soccer player
Tamás Darnyi, swimmer (four Olympic gold medals)
Krisztina Egerszegi, swimmer (five Olympic gold medals)
Ilona Elek, sabre fencer (Olympic gold before and after World War II)
Árpád Élő, (1903–92), Hungarian-born American creator of the chess Elo rating system
Zsolt Erdei, boxer, WBO light heavyweight world champion
Sándor Erdös, épée fencer, Olympic champion
Dr. Dezsö Földes, saber fencer, 2-time Olympic champion
Samu Fóti, Olympic silver (gymnastics team combined exercises)
Dr. Jenö Fuchs, saber fencer, 4-time Olympic champion³
Támas Gábor, épée fencer, Olympic champion
János Garay, saber fencer, Olympic champion, silver, bronze
György Gedó, Olympic champion light flyweight boxer
Sándor Geller, soccer goalkeeper, Olympic champion
Imre Gellért, Olympic silver (gymnastics team combined exercises)
Zoltán Gera C, Ferencvaros, West Bromwich Albion and Fulham Footballer.
Dr. Oskar Gerde, saber fencer, 2-time Olympic champion
Aladár Gerevich, fencer (six Olympic gold medals)
Károly Gogolak, (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, saber fencer, Olympic champion
Gyula Grosics, goalkeeper for the Golden Magyar soccer team undefeated from 1950–54
Béla Guttmann, midfielder, national team football player & international coach
Andrea Gyarmati, Olympic swimmer silver (100-m backstroke) and bronze (100-m butterfly); World championships bronze (200-m backstroke), International Swimming Hall of Fame
Dezső Gyarmati, water polo player (triple Olympic champion)
Alfréd Hajós (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, bodybuilder and actor
Nándor Hidegkuti (1922–2002), soccer player
Endre Kabos, saber fencer, 3-time Olympic champion, bronze
Béla Károlyi (1942 – ), premier gymnastics coach (ethnic Hungarian lived in Romania, now a United States citizen)
Károly Kárpáti (also "Károly Kellner"), Olympic champion wrestler (freestyle lightweight), silver
Ágnes Keleti, 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 Fame⁴
Kincsem (1874–87), most successful racehorse in world history
Sándor Kocsis (1929–79), soccer player
Zsuzsa Körmöczy, tennis player, won 1958 French Singles
Pál Kovács, fencer (six Olympic gold medals)
István "Koko" Kovács, boxer, olympic champion and WBO world champion
Lily Kronberger, four-time World figure skating champion, 2-time bronze, World Figure Skating Hall of Fame⁵
Péter Lékó (1979 – ), chess player, currently ranked 10th of the world
Imi Lichtenfeld, boxer and wrestler, developed the self-defense system Krav Maga
Andor Lilienthal (1911–2010), chess player
Johann Löwenthal (1810–76), chess player
Zoltán Magyar (1953 -), twice Olympic pommel horse gold medalist
Gyula Mándi, half back footballer (player & coach of national teams)
Géza Maróczy (1870–1951), chess player
József Munk, Olympic silver swimmer (4x200-m freestyle relay)
Opika von Méray Horváth, three-time World figure skating champion
Henrietta Ónodi, Olympic medal-winning gymnast (won gold, silver at Barcelona in 1992)
László Papp, boxer (triple Olympic champion)
Attila Petschauer, sabre fencer, 2-time team Olympic champion, silver
Anna Pfeffer (born 1946), Hungarian Olympic medalist sprint canoer
Judit Polgár (1976 – ), chess player
Zsuzsa Polgár (1969 – ), chess player
Zsófia Polgár (1974 – ), chess player
Imre Polyák Olympic and World Champion Greco-Roman wrestler
Lajos Portisch (1937 – ), chess player
Ferenc Puskás (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, 2-time Olympic champion water polo player
Zoltán Ozoray Schenker, saber fencer, Olympic champion
Gusztáv Sebes (1906–86), Hungarian national soccer coach
Anna Sipos, 11-time world champion table tennis player, ITTFHoF
Tamás Sipos, sports commentator and writer, former director of Hungarian television
Les Murray (born László Ürge, 1945– ), Australian soccer broadcaster, sports journalist and analyst.
László Szabados, Olympic bronze swimmer (4x200-m freestyle relay)
Miklos Szabados, 15-time world champion table tennis player
László Szabó (1917–98), chess player
Ágnes Szávay (1988–), tennis player
András Székely, Olympic silver swimmer (200-m breaststroke) and bronze (4x200-m freestyle relay)
Éva Székely, Olympic champion & silver swimmer (200-m breaststroke); International Swimming Hall of Fame; mother of Andrea Gyarmati
László Szollás, pair skater, World Championship 4-time gold, silver, Olympic 2-time bronze
Gábor Talmácsi (1981–), 125cc MotoGP World Champion
Judit Temes, Olympic champion swimmer (4×100-m freestyle), bronze (100-m freestyle)⁶
Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, foil fencer, 2-time Olympic champion⁷
Richárd Weisz, Olympic champion wrestler (Greco-Roman super heavyweight)
Lajos Werkner, saber fencer, 2-time Olympic champion
Imre Zachár, Olympic silver swimmer (4x200-m freestyle relay)

References

^ Andrew Handler (1985). From the ghetto to the games: Jewish athletes in Hungary. East European Monographs. ISBN 0-88033-085-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=VJ1tAAAAMAAJ&q=%22gyula+biro%22+jewish&dq=%22gyula+biro%22+jewish. Retrieved December 20, 2010.
^ Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver (1965). Encyclopedia of Jews in sports. Bloch Pub. Co.. http://books.google.com/books?id=AgmDAAAAMAAJ&q=%22gyula+biro%22+jewish&dq=%22gyula+biro%22+jewish. Retrieved December 20, 2010.
^ Kinga Frojimovics, Géza Komoróczy (1999). Jewish Budapest: monuments, rites, history. Central European University Press. ISBN 963-9116-37-8. http://books.google.com/books?id=-wUg6rlWS2kC&pg=PA340&dq=jewish+fencing#v=onepage&q=fencing&f=false. Retrieved May 24, 2010.
^ "Elected Members of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame". Jewishsports.net. http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/Tables/LastNameSearch.htm. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
^ Joseph M. Siegman (1992). The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. SP Books. ISBN 1-56171-028-8. http://books.google.com/books?id=Qpiphgls99IC&pg=PA109&dq=jewish+%22lily+kronberger%22. Retrieved July 1, 2010.
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^ Andrew Handler (1985). From the ghetto to the games: Jewish athletes in Hungary. East European Monographs. ISBN 0-88033-085-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=VJ1tAAAAMAAJ&q=Rejt%C5%91%22fencing%22+jewish&dq=Rejt%C5%91%22fencing%22+jewish. Retrieved June 3, 2010.

External links

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THE HUNGARIAN PAGE
Hungary's Hall of Fame
Hungarian Inventors and Inventions (at the site of the Hungarian Patent Office)
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[0] Andrew Handler (1985). From the ghetto to the games: Jewish athletes in Hungary. East European Monographs. ISBN 0-88033-085-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=VJ1tAAAAMAAJ&q=%22gyula+biro%22+jewish&dq=%22gyula+biro%22+jewish. Retrieved December 20, 2010.

[1] Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver (1965). Encyclopedia of Jews in sports. Bloch Pub. Co.. http://books.google.com/books?id=AgmDAAAAMAAJ&q=%22gyula+biro%22+jewish&dq=%22gyula+biro%22+jewish. Retrieved December 20, 2010.

[2] Kinga Frojimovics, Géza Komoróczy (1999). Jewish Budapest: monuments, rites, history. Central European University Press. ISBN 963-9116-37-8. http://books.google.com/books?id=-wUg6rlWS2kC&pg=PA340&dq=jewish+fencing#v=onepage&q=fencing&f=false. Retrieved May 24, 2010.

[jewishsports3-3] "Elected Members of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame". Jewishsports.net. http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/Tables/LastNameSearch.htm. Retrieved May 25, 2010.

[4] Joseph M. Siegman (1992). The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. SP Books. ISBN 1-56171-028-8. http://books.google.com/books?id=Qpiphgls99IC&pg=PA109&dq=jewish+%22lily+kronberger%22. Retrieved July 1, 2010.

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[6] Andrew Handler (1985). From the ghetto to the games: Jewish athletes in Hungary. East European Monographs. ISBN 0-88033-085-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=VJ1tAAAAMAAJ&q=Rejt%C5%91%22fencing%22+jewish&dq=Rejt%C5%91%22fencing%22+jewish. Retrieved June 3, 2010.

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