List of famous 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 Bólyai János, and Bólyai 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.
- Ottó Bláthy, engineer.
- János Bolyai, mathematician, dicoverer of non-Euclidean geometry.
- Miksa Déri, engineer.
- Paul Erdös, 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.
- 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.
- Leo Szilard, physicist.
- Edward Teller, physicist.
- Eugene Wigner, physicist, mathematician.
- Károly Zipernowsky, engineer.
- Tivadar Puskas, inventor of the telephone exchange.
Arts, Entertainment and Literature
- Béla Bartók, composer.
- 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 Kodály, 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 Pál, producer, inventor of stop-motion animation and multiple Oscar award winner
- Joseph Pulitzer, publisher and founder of Pulitzer Prize
- 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
- Bela Karolyi, (Károlyi Béla), premier gymnastics coach
- Pál Kovács, fencer (six Olympic gold medals)
- László Papp, boxer (triple Olympic champion)
- Ferenc Puskas, (Puskás Ferenc), football player, center forward.
- Monica Seles (born Szeles Mónika), tennis (ethnic Hungarian born in former Yugoslavia, now United States citizen)
History and Politics
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
See also: List of people by nationality
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