List of Hungarians
The following is a list of famous people of Hungarian origin.
(In Hungarian family name comes first, 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 in English order and spelling and Hungarian order is only shown when the spelling differs as well.)
Math and Sciences
- Donát Bánki, engineer.
- Georg von Békésy, Nobel-prize winning biophysicist for research on the ear
- Ottó Bláthy, engineer.
- János Bolyai, mathematician, dicoverer of non-Euclidean geometry.
- Miksa Déri, engineer.
- Paul Erdös (Erdős Pál), mathematician.
- Ernő Hollan, engineer.
- Dennis Gabor (born Gábor Dénes), Nobel-prize winner physicist, inventor of holography.
- István Gyarmati, physicist
- Kálmán Kandó, engineer.
- Tódor Kármán, engineer.
- László Lovász, Wolf-prize-winning mathematician, now collaborant of Microsoft Research Center
- Károly Moll, balneologist
- John von Neumann (born Neumann János), mathematician.
- Ernő Rubik, inventor of Rubik's cube
- Vilmos Schulhof, balneologist
- Charles Simonyi, computer scientist; father of Hungarian notation
- Albert Szent-Györgyi, medical biochemist, Nobel Prize winner in 1937.
- Leó Szilárd, physicist.
- Edward Teller, physicist.
- Roland Wank, architect.
- Eugene Wigner, physicist, mathematician.
- Károly Zipernowsky, engineer.
- Tivadar Puskas, inventor of the telephone exchange.
Arts, Entertainment and Literature
- Béla Bartók, composer.
- Gábor Darvas, composer
- József Eötvös, 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
- Imre Kertész, writer, Nobel Prize winner in 2002.
- Zoltán Kocsis, pianist and conductor.
- Zoltán Kodály, composer.
- Alexander Korda (born Korda Sándor), producer
- Franz Lehár, composer
- László Kovács, cinematographer and multiple Oscar award winner
- György Ligeti, composer.
- Ferenc Liszt, composer (also known as Franz Liszt).
- Peter Lorre (born Löwenstein László), actor
- Bela Lugosi (born Blaskó Béla Ferenc Dezső), actor
- Márta Sebestyén, singer
- George Mikes, writer
- George Pál, producer, inventor of stop-motion animation and multiple Oscar award winner
- Joseph Pulitzer, publisher and founder of Pulitzer Prize
- István Szabó, director
- 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
- Tamás Darnyi, swimmer (four Olympic gold medals)
- Krisztina Egerszegi, swimmer (five Olympic gold medals)
- Ilona Elek, fencer (Olympic gold before and after World War II)
- Aladár Gerevich, fencer (six Olympic gold medals)
- Dezso Gyarmati, (Gyarmati Dezső), water polo player (triple Olympic champion)
- Alfréd Hajós (born Arnold Guttmann), swimmer (double Olympic champion) and architect
- Miklós (Mickey) Hargitay, bodybuilder and actor
- Bela Karolyi, (Károlyi Béla), premier gymnastics coach
- Pál Kovács, fencer (six Olympic gold medals)
- László Papp, boxer (triple Olympic champion)
- Ferenc Puskás, (Puskás Ferenc), football player, center forward.
- Monica Seles (born Szeles Mónika), tennis (ethnic Hungarian born in former Yugoslavia, now United States citizen)
- Charles "Karch" Kiraly, American volleyball legend (father fled Hungary following 1956 uprising)
History and Politics
- Tamas Bakócz, archbishop, cardinal and statesman
- Erzsébet Báthory, (1560-1614), "serial killer" countess
- Ödön Beothy, (1796-1854), Hungarian deputy and orator
- Miklós Horthy, (1868-1957), admiral and regent.
- Lajos Kossuth,
- Cardinal Mindszenty, cardinal, convicted by communist government
- István Széchenyi,
- Count Miklós Zrínyi, (1508-1566), Hungarian militant and hero defended against Ottoman Turks.
- Count Miklós Zrínyi, (1620-1664), Hungarian warrior, statesman and poet.
- Laszlo Tokes (Tőkés László), ethnically Hungarian Methodist pastor in Romania who helped trigger the revolution that overthrew Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989.
Business and Finance
- Andy Grove (born Gróf András), former President/CEO and Chairman of Intel
- George Soros, (born Soros György,) entrepreneur and one of the world's wealthiest men