List of Hungarians
The following is a list of famous people of Hungarian origin.
In Hungarian, the family name comes first, and the given name (or "first name") goes second. For example Janos Bolyai (English order) was born as Bolyai János, and Bolyai is his family name.
The names below are listed in Hungarian order with some exceptions, most frequently for entertainers' names (e.g., Harry Houdini, the Gabor sisters) and names of ethnic Hungarians born outside of Hungarian areas (e.g., the U.S.-born Karch Kiraly). However, the BambooWeb articles that they link to have their names in the English order (given name followed by family name).
Math and Sciences
- Bánki Donát (1859 - 1922), engineer.
- Békésy György (1899 - 1972) (Georg von Békésy), Nobel-prize winning biophysicist for research on the ear
- Bláthy Ottó Titusz (1860 - 1939), engineer.
- Bolyai János (1802 - 1860), mathematician, dicoverer of non-Euclidean geometry.
- Déri Miksa (1854 - 1938), engineer.
- Erdős Pál (Paul Erdös) (1913 - 1996), mathematician.
- Gábor Dénes (Dennis Gabor) (1900 - 1979), Nobel-prize winner physicist, inventor of holography.
- Gyarmati István (1929 - 2002, physicist
- Hernád István (Stevan Harnad) (1945 - ), cognitive scientist and academic publishing reformer
- Hollán Ernő (1824 - 1900), engineer.
- Kandó Kálmán (1869 - 1931), engineer.
- Kármán Tódor (1881 - 1963), engineer.
- Lakatos Imre (1922-1974), philosopher of mathematics and of science
- Lovász László (1948 - ), Wolf-prize-winning mathematician, now collaborant of Microsoft Research Center
- Moll Károly (1889 - 1982), balneologist
- Neumann János (John von Neumann) (1903 - 1957), mathematician.
- Polányi Mihály (Michael Polanyi) (1891 - 1976) polymath
- Rubik Ernő (1944 - ), inventor of Rubik's cube
- Semmelweis Ignác (1818 - 1865), physician
- Charles Simonyi (1948 - ), computer scientist; father of Hungarian notation
- Szegő Gábor (Gábor Szegö) (1895 - 1985), mathematician
- Szent-Györgyi Albert (1893 - 1986), medical biochemist, Nobel Prize winner in 1937.
- Szilárd Leó (1898 - 1964), physicist.
- Teller Ede (1908 - 2003), physicist.
- Wank Roland (1898- 1970), architect.
- Wigner Jenő (Eugene Wigner) (1902 - 1995), physicist, mathematician.
- Zipernowsky Károly (1853 - 1942), engineer.
- Puskás Tivadar (1844 - 1893), inventor of the telephone exchange.
Arts, Entertainment and Literature
List of Hungarian writers
- Batsányi János (1763 - 1845), poet
- Bajza József (1804 - 1858) poet and critic
- Bartók Béla (1881 - 1945), composer.
- Darvas Gábor, composer
- Eötvös József, writer and statesman
- William Fox, founder of Fox studios
- Éva Gábor, actress
- Magda Gábor, actress
- Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress
- Harry Houdini (born Weiss Erik), magician
- József Attila (1905 - 1937), poet
- Kalocsay Kálmán (1891 - 1976) is one of the foremost figures in the history Esperanto literature
- Kertész Imre, writer, Nobel Prize winner in 2002.
- Kishon Ferenc (1924 - )writer
- Kocsis Zoltán, pianist and conductor.
- Kodály Zoltán, composer.
- Korda Sándor (Alexander Korda), producer
- Kovács László, cinematographer and multiple Oscar award winner
- Lehár Ferenc, composer
- Ligeti György (1923 - ) composer
- Liszt Ferenc, composer (also known as Franz Liszt).
- Lomb Kató (1909 - 2003) interpreter, translator, language genius
- Peter Lorre (born Löwenstein László), actor
- Bela Lugosi (1882 - 1956) (born Blaskó Béla Ferenc Dezső), actor
- Sebestyén Márta, singer
- Mikes György (George Mikes) (1912 - 1987), writer
- George Pál, producer, inventor of stop-motion animation and multiple Oscar award winner
- Sándor Petöfi, poet (1823 - 1849).
- Pulitzer József (Joseph Pulitzer) (1847 - 1911) publisher and founder of Pulitzer Prize
- Szabó István, director
- Szerb Antal (1901 - 1945) scholar and writer
- Victor Vasarely (born Vasarely Viktor), painter
- Elie Wiesel, author and Nobel Peace Prize Winner
- Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer and multiple Oscar award winner
- Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures; produced first full-length motion picture
Sports
- Annus, Adrian, hammer thrower
- Darnyi Tamás, swimmer (four Olympic gold medals)
- Egerszegi Krisztina, swimmer (five Olympic gold medals)
- Elek Ilona, fencer (Olympic gold before and after World War II)
- Gerevich Aladár, fencer (six Olympic gold medals)
- Gyarmati Dezső, water polo player (triple Olympic champion)
- Hajós Alfréd (born Arnold Guttmann), swimmer (double Olympic champion) and architect
- Hargitay Miklós, bodybuilder and actor
- Károlyi Béla (1942-), premier gymnastics coach (ethnic Hungarian born in Romania, now United States citizen)
- Karch Kiraly (born Charles Kiraly, 1960-), American volleyball legend; father fled Hungary after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
- Kovács Pál, fencer (six Olympic gold medals)
- Papp László, boxer (triple Olympic champion)
- Polgár Judit (1976-), chess player
- Puskás Ferenc (1927-), football player, center forward.
- Szeles Mónika (1973-), tennis (ethnic Hungarian born in former Yugoslavia, now United States citizen)
History and Politics
List of Hungarian rulers
- 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
- Báthory Erzsébet (1560 - 1614), "serial killer" countess
- Báthory István (Stephen Báthory):
- Báthory Zsigmond (1572-1613), prince of Transylvania
- Beöthy Ödön, (1796 - 1854), Hungarian deputy and orator
- Herzl Tivadar (1860 - 1904), journalist, modern Zionism
- Horthy Miklós (1868 - 1957), admiral and regent. (1920-1944)
- I. István (Stephen I) (975 - 1038) first hungarian king
- Károly Róbert (Charles I) (1288 - 1342) king of Hungary (1308-1342)
- Károlyi Mihály (1875 - 1975) first President of Hungary (1919)
- Kossuth Lajos, (1802 - 1894)
- Kun Béla, (1886 - 1939 ?) Minister, revolutionist (1919)
- I. Lajos (Nagy Lajos) (Louis I) (1326 - 1382) king of Hungary (1342-1382) king of Poland (1370-1382)
- Mádl Ferenc (1931 - ) President
- Medgyessy Péter (1942 - ), Prime Minister (2002-2004)
- Mindszenty József (1892 - 1975), cardinal, convicted by communist government
- Nagy Imre (1896 - 1958), Prime Minister (1956)
- Németh Miklós (1948 - ), Prime Minister (1988-)
- Orbán Viktor (1963 - ), Prime Minister (1998-2002)
- Orseolo Péter (Peter Urseolo) (1010 - 1046) second king of Hungary (1038-1041 and 1044-1046)
- Széchenyi István, (1791 - 1860)
- Tőkés László (1952 - ), ethnically Hungarian Methodist pastor in Romania who helped trigger the revolution that overthrew Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989
- Count Zrínyi Miklós (Miklos Zrinyi, or Nikola Zrinski):
Business and Finance
- Gróf András (Andy Grove), former President/CEO and Chairman of Intel
- Soros György (George Soros), entrepreneur and one of the world's wealthiest men
- See also: List of people by nationality
List of people by EU state
