List of Hungarians
This is a list of Hungarians notable within Hungary and/or abroad. It includes notable Hungarians born outside present-day Hungary.
Artists
- Gyula Aggházy
- Károly Antal
- Franz Liszt
- Miklós Borsos
- Sándor Bortnyik
- Francois Colos
- Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka
- Gyula Czimra
- Gyula Donáth
- Orshi Drozdik
- János Fadrusz
- Béni Ferenczy
- István Ferenczy
- Arpad Feszty
- Simon Hantaï
- János Horvay
- László Hudec
- Miklós Izsó
- Zoltán Joó
- Ede Kallós
- André Kertész
- , architect and critic
- Susan Kozma-Orlay, designer in Australia
- Tamás Király, avant-garde fashion designer
- Zsigmond Kisfaludi Stróbl
- Márta Lacza
- Paul László
- Philip de László
- Miklós Ligeti
- Imre Makovecz
- János Major
- Zsuzsa Máthé
- David Merlini
- László Moholy-Nagy
- István Orosz
- János Pásztor
- József Róna
- Albert Schickedanz
- Henriett Seth-F.
- Amrita Sher-Gil
- Pal Szinyei Merse
- László Szlávics, Jr.
- Adam Szentpétery
- Mór Than
- János Tornyai
- Lajos Vajda
- Victor Vasarely
- János Vaszary
- Nándor Wagner
Business professionals
- Lea Gottlieb, Israeli fashion designer and founder of Gottex
- Andrew Grove, pioneer in the semiconductor industry; a chairman and CEO of Intel
- Éva Hegedüs, Chairman-CEO and majority shareholder of Gránit Bank
- Radovan Jelašić, governor of the National Bank of Serbia
- Sándor Kenyeres, international business magnate, and scientific philanthropist
- Peter Munk, Canadian-Hungarian entrepreneur, founder of Barrick Gold, and philanthropist
- Tibor Rosenbaum, businessman
- George Soros, Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philosopher and philanthropist
Composers and performers
- Bálint Bakfark, composer
- Kristóf Baráti, violinist
- Béla Bartók, composer and pianist
- János Bihari, violinist
- Gergely Bogányi, pianist
- Attila Csihar, vocalist
- György Cziffra, pianist and composer
- Ernő Dohnányi, composer, pianist and conductor
- Antal Doráti, conductor
- Péter Eötvös, composer and conductor
- Ferenc Erkel, composer
- László Fassang, organist and pianist
- Iván Fischer, conductor and composer
- Peter Frankl, pianist
- Endre Granat, violinist
- Zoltán Jeney, composer
- Joseph Joachim, violinist
- Pál Kadosa, composer
- Zoltán Kocsis, pianist and conductor
- Zoltán Kodály, composer
- Rezső Kókai, composer
- György Kurtág, composer
- Franz Lehár, composer
- György Ligeti, composer
- Franz Liszt, composer and pianist
- Éva Marton, soprano
- Ilona Náday, singer
- János Négyesy, violinist
- Ervin Nyiregyházi, pianist
- Eugene Ormandy, conductor
- Veronika Harcsa, vocalist
- György Pauk, violinist
- László Polgár, bass
- Fritz Reiner, conductor
- Eduard Reményi, violinist
- Rezső Seress, composer and pianist
- Georg Solti, conductor
- Gábor Szabó, guitarist
- Georg Szell, conductor
- Júlia Várady, soprano
- Ibolya Verebics, soprano
- László Vidovszky, composer
- Andras Schiff, pianist
- James Nemeti Stamp Aston Martin Gold Technician
Film artists
- Cicciolina
- Michael Curtiz
- Attila Dargay
- Eva Gabor
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- John Garfield
- Mariska Hargitay
- Martin Helstáb
- Harry Houdini
- Miklós Jancsó
- Gyula Kabos
- Lajos Koltai
- Róbert Koltai
- Sir Alexander Korda
- László Kovács
- Peter Lorre
- Jon Lovitz
- Béla Lugosi
- Paul Lukas
- Károly Makk
- László Nemes
- George Pal
- Gabriel Pascal
- Gábor Reviczky
- Ferenc Rofusz
- István Szabó
- Béla Tarr
- Andrew G. Vajna
- Johnny Weissmuller
- Vilmos Zsigmond
History and politics
- Viktor Orbán, current Prime Minister of Hungary
- László Almásy, desert explorer, author, the inspiration for the fictionalised character of Almásy in Michael Ondaatje's 1992 novel The English Patient
- Gyula Andrássy, statesman
- József Antall, Prime Minister of Hungary
- Albert Apponyi, statesman
- Gordon Bajnai, former Prime Minister of Hungary
- Tamás Bakócz, archbishop, cardinal and statesman
- Gábor Baross, statesman
- Erzsébet Báthory, countess
- *István Báthory, Governor of Transylvania
- *István (Stephen) Báthory, Prince of Transylvania and King of Poland
- Zsigmond Báthory, Prince of Transylvania
- Vilma Beck, writer and freedom fighter
- Ödön Beöthy, Hungarian deputy and orator
- Béla Bugár, politician
- Krisztina Csáky was a Hungarian countess, resistance fighter
- Pál Csáky, politician
- Aurél Dessewffy, journalist and politician
- Péter Doszpot, former member of parliament
- Ignaz Aurelius Fessler, court councillor and minister to Alexander I of Russia
- Catharina Anna Grandon de Hochepied, noble and amateur actress
- András Hadik, Count
- Theodor Herzl, journalist, modern Zionism
- Miklós Horthy, admiral and regent
- Stephen I of Hungary first King of Hungary
- Friar Julian
- János Kádár, communist leader
- Charles I of Hungary, King of Hungary
- Mihály Károlyi, first President of Hungary
- Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian politician later Regent-President of Hungary
- Teddy Kollek, Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem
- Béla Kun, minister, revolutionist
- Louis I of Hungary, king of Hungary
- Tom Lantos, former U.S. Congressman from California
- Géza Malasits, deputy in parliament
- József Mindszenty, cardinal, imprisoned by communist government
- Imre Nagy, prime minister in 1953 and 1956
- Ágnes Osztolykán, Hungarian politician and Romani activist
- Mátyás Rákosi, communist leader
- George Soros, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist
- Ferenc Szálasi, head of Arrow Cross Party, Head of State, Prime Minister of Hungary
- László Szalay, statesman and historian
- Count Széchenyi István
- Istvan Tisza, Prime Minister of Hungary
- Toma András, Hungarian World War II prisoner found in Russian mental hospital and returned after 55 years
- László Tőkés, Reformed Church pastor and an instigator of the Romanian Revolution of 1989
- Countess Anna Wesselényi, countess and writer
- Count Zrínyi Miklós, Hungarian general who held Szigetvár against the Ottoman Turks
- Count Zrínyi Miklós, Hungarian general, statesman and poet
- János Zsámboky, humanist
Inventors
- Ferenc Anisits, inventor of the BMW diesel engine
- Oszkár Asbóth, inventor of helicopter
- Donát Bánki, inventor of the cross-flow turbine
- Béla Barényi, inventor in field of automobile safety
- László Bíró, inventor of the ballpoint pen
- Ottó Bláthy, inventor of the voltage regulator, co-inventor of the transformer
- János Csonka, inventor of the carburetor
- Miksa Déri, co-inventor of the transformer
- Dénes Gábor, inventor of holography
- József Galamb, creator of the Ford Model T
- Csaba Horváth, inventor of high-performance liquid chromatography
- János Irinyi, inventor of noiseless match
- Ányos Jedlik, co-inventor of dynamo and soda water
- Rudolf E. Kálmán, co-inventor of the Kalman filter
- Kálmán Kandó, pioneer in the development of railway electric traction
- Dénes Mihály, inventor of television technology
- Joseph Petzval, mathematician, inventor, and physicist.
- Tivadar Puskás, inventor of the telephone exchange
- Ernő Rubik, inventor of the Rubik's Cube
- Kálmán Tihanyi, inventor of cathode-ray tubes, inventor of the first manless aircraft in Great Britain
- Károly Zipernowsky, co-inventor of the transformer
Scientists
- Antal K. Bejczy was a Hungarian scientist and a national of the United States known for his contributions to robotics.
- Avram Hershko, Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- András Arató, electrical engineer known for the Hide the Pain Harold meme
- Erzsébet Bajári
- György Bálint, Hungarian horticulturist, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP.
- Robert Bárány
- Zoltán Bay
- George von Békésy Nobel Prize
- Gergely Berzeviczy
- Farkas Bolyai
- János Bolyai
- Imre Bródy
- George de Hevesy
- Loránd Eötvös
- Paul Erdős
- Madeleine Barnothy Forro
- Dennis Gabor
- Zoltan Hajos
- Máté Hidvégi
- Johann Baptiste Horvath
- Vilma Hugonnai
- János Kornai
- Géza Krepuska, ear, nose, and throat specialist
- Cornelius Lanczos
- George Andrew Olah
- Rózsa Péter
- Thomas Sebeok
- Pál Selényi
- Ignaz Semmelweis, physician and pioneer of antiseptic procedures
- Charles Simonyi
- Michael Somogyi
- Victor Szebehely
- Kinga Székely
- Albert Szent-Györgyi, discovered vitamin C
- Leó Szilárd
- Éva Tauszk
- Valentine Telegdi
- Mária Telkes
- Edward Teller
- Imre Trencsényi-Waldapfel
- Franz Nopcsa von Felso-Szilvas
- Georg von Békésy
- Theodore von Kármán
- John von Neumann
- József Szabó de Szentmiklós
- Eugene Wigner
- Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
Sports
- Robert Antal, Olympic champion water polo player
- Péter Bakonyi, saber fencer, twice Olympic bronze
- Gedeon Barcza, chess player
- Viktor Barna, 22-time world champion table tennis player, International Table Tennis Foundation Hall of Fame
- István Barta, water polo goalkeeper, Olympic champion at the 1932 Summer Olympics, silver at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Zsolt Baumgartner, Formula One racecar driver, Jordan-Ford, Minardi-Cosworth, all 18 Grand Prix, 1 point
- Laszlo Bellak, seven-time world champion table tennis player, ITTFHoF
- Tibor Benedek, water polo player, Olympic champion: 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics
- Pál Benkő, chess player
- Gyula Bíró, midfield and forward footballer
- László Bita, footballer
- Balázs Borbély, footballer
- József Braun, Olympic footballer
- Gyula Breyer, chess player
- György Bródy, water polo goalkeeper, two-time Olympic champion
- Ákos Buzsáky, football player
- Ibolya Csák, winner of women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Zoltán Czibor, soccer player
- Tamás Darnyi, swimmer
- Krisztina Egerszegi, swimmer
- Ilona Elek, foil fencer
- Árpád Élő,, Hungarian-born American creator of the chess Elo rating system
- Zsolt Erdei, boxer, WBO light heavyweight world champion
- Sándor Erdős, épée fencer, Olympic champion
- Dr. Dezső Földes, saber fencer, two-time Olympic champion
- Samu Fóti, Olympic silver
- Dr. Jenő Fuchs, saber fencer, four-time Olympic champion
- Tamás Gábor, épée fencer, Olympic champion
- János Garay, saber fencer, Olympic champion, silver, bronze, killed in the Holocaust
- György Gedó, Olympic champion light flyweight boxer
- Sándor Gellér, soccer goalkeeper, Olympic champion
- Imre Gellért, Olympic silver-medal winner
- Zoltán Gera, soccer player; has played for Ferencváros, West Bromwich Albion and Fulham
- Dr. Oskar Gerde, saber fencer, two-time Olympic champion, killed in the Holocaust
- Aladár Gerevich, fencer, seven Olympic gold medals
- Charlie Gogolak, American football number-one draft pick of the Washington Redskins
- Péter Gogolak, American football; invented "soccer style" kicking; played for the New York Giants and the Buffalo Bills
- Dr. Sándor Gombos, saber fencer, Olympic champion
- Gyula Grosics, goalkeeper for Golden Magyar soccer team undefeated from 1950 to 1954
- Béla Guttmann, midfielder, national team football player, international coach; forced laborer in the Holocaust
- Andrea Gyarmati, Olympic swimmer silver and bronze ; world championships bronze, International Swimming Hall of Fame
- Dezső Gyarmati, water polo player
- Alfréd Hajós, swimmer three-time Olympic champion, International Swimming Hall of Fame
- Olivér Halassy, swimmer and water polo player
- Mickey Hargitay, bodybuilder and actor
- Nándor Hidegkuti, soccer player
- Endre Kabos, saber fencer, three-time Olympic champion, bronze; killed while a forced laborer in the Holocaust
- Janos Kajdi, Hungarian-born boxer who competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics in the lightweight, light-welterweight and welterweight divisions, he won a Silver medal in 1972.
- Garry Kallos, Hungarian-born Canadian wrestler and sambo competitor
- Béla Károlyi, premier gymnastics coach
- Károly Kárpáti, Olympic champion wrestler, silver
- Ágnes Keleti, five-time Olympic gymnastics champion
- Adolf Kertész, footballer
- Gyula Kertész, footballer
- Vilmos Kertész, footballer
- Kincsem, most successful racehorse in world history
- Sándor Kocsis, soccer player
- Zsuzsa Körmöczy, tennis player, world #2, won 1958 French Open Singles
- István "Koko" Kovács, boxer, Olympic champion and WBO world champion
- Pál Kovács, fencer, six Olympic gold medals
- Lily Kronberger, four-time world figure skating champion, two-time bronze, World Figure Skating Hall of Fame
- Péter Lékó, chess player
- Imi Lichtenfeld, boxer and wrestler, developed the self-defense system Krav Maga
- Andor Lilienthal, chess player
- Johann Löwenthal, chess player
- Zoltán Magyar, twice Olympic pommel horse gold medalist
- Gyula Mándi, half back Olympic footballer
- Géza Maróczy, chess player
- Opika von Méray Horváth, three-time world figure-skating champion
- József Munk, Olympic silver swimmer
- Nickolas Muray, Hungarian-born American photographer and Olympic fencer
- Les Murray, Australian soccer broadcaster, sports journalist and analyst
- Henrik Nádler, international footballer
- Henrietta Ónodi, Olympic medal-winning gymnast
- Árpád Orbán, Olympic champion footballer
- László Papp, boxer
- Attila Petschauer, sabre fencer, two-time team Olympic champion, silver; killed in the Holocaust
- Anna Pfeffer, Olympic medalist sprint canoeist
- Judit Polgár, chess player
- Zsófia Polgár, chess player
- Zsuzsa Polgár, chess player
- Imre Polyák, Olympic and World Champion Greco-Roman wrestler
- Lajos Portisch, chess player
- Ferenc Puskás, football player
- Béla Rajki-Reich, swimming coach and water polo coach
- Emília Rotter, pair skater, World Championship four-time gold, silver, Olympic two-times bronze
- Miklós Sárkány, two-time Olympic champion water polo player
- Zoltán Ozoray Schenker, saber fencer, Olympic champion
- Gusztáv Sebes, Hungarian national soccer coach
- Anna Sipos, 11-time world champion table tennis player, ITTFHoF
- László Szabados, Olympic bronze swimmer
- Miklós Szabados, 15-times world champion table tennis player
- László Szabó, chess player
- Ágnes Szávay, tennis player
- András Székely, Olympic silver swimmer and bronze
- Éva Székely, Olympic champion and silver swimmer ; International Swimming Hall of Fame; mother of Andrea Gyarmati
- László Szollás, pair skater, World Championship four-time gold, silver, Olympic two-times bronze
- Gábor Talmácsi, 125 cc MotoGP World Champion
- Imre Taussig, Hungarian footballer
- Judit Temes, Olympic champion swimmer, bronze
- Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, foil fencer, two-time Olympic champion, world champion
- Antal Vágó, footballer
- Márton Vas, ice hockey player
- Árpád Weisz, Olympic football player and manager
- Richárd Weisz, Olympic champion wrestler
- Lajos Werkner, sabre fencer, two-time Olympic champion
- George Worth, born György Woittitz, American Olympic saber fencer
- Imre Zachár, Olympic silver swimmer
- Dominik Szoboszlai, Hungarian professional footballer
- Áron Szilágyi, sabre fencer, three-time Olympic and World champion
Writers
- András Dugonics
- Endre Ady
- János Arany
- Mihály Babits
- Bálint Balassi
- János Batsányi
- Elek Benedek
- Dániel Berzsenyi
- Amália Bezerédj
- Mihály Csokonai Vitéz
- Péter Esterházy
- Mihály Fazekas
- András Fáy
- Géza Gárdonyi
- István Gyöngyösi
- Géza Gyóni
- Gyula Hornyánszky
- Mór Jókai
- Attila József
- Kálmán Kalocsay
- József Kármán
- Lajos Kassák
- József Katona
- Ferenc Kazinczy
- Zsigmond Kemény
- Andrew Karpati Kennedy
- Imre Kertész, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Sándor Kisfaludy
- Ferenc Kölcsey
- László Krasznahorkai, winner of the Man Booker International Prize
- Menyhért Lakatos
- György Lukács
- Imre Madách
- Sándor Márai
- Ferenc Molnár
- Ferenc Móra
- Zsigmond Móricz
- András Petőcz
- Sándor Petőfi
- Miklós Radnóti
- Agnes Rapai
- Jenő Rejtő
- Radoslav Rochallyi
- Istvan Rozanich
- András Sütő
- Lőrinc Szabó
- Magda Szabó
- Róbert Tábori
- Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos
- Árpád Tóth
- János Vajda
- József Vészi
- Mihály Vörösmarty
- Albert Wass
- Miklós Zrínyi
- Simon Kézai
List of Hungarians who were born outside present-day Hungary
The borders of Hungary have changed substantially in the past century. Many places once part of Hungary now belong to neighboring countries. The list is organised by country of birth and those listed have the name of their birthplace as it is currently named.[Austria]
[Burgenland]
- Robert Bárány – otologist
- Pál Kitaibel – chemist and botanist
- Ferenc Liszt – composer
[Czechoslovakia]
- Koloman Gögh – football player
[Romania]
- Endre Ady – poet
- Mariska Ady – poet
- János Apáczai Csere – educator
- Lajos Áprily – poet
- János Arany – poet
- Albert-László Barabási – physicist
- Béla Bartók – composer
- István Báthory – captain and governor
- Elek Benedek – collector of folk tales
- Gábor Bethlen – captain and governor
- István Bocskai – captain and governor
- Farkas Bolyai – mathematician
- János Bolyai – mathematician
- Ilona Borsai – musicologist, folk music historian, academic
- Matthias Corvinus – perhaps the most famous King of Hungary
- György Dózsa – leader of a peasant revolt
- Jenő Dsida – poet
- André François – painter and graphic artist
- Margit Kaffka – poet and novelist
- Sándor Kányádi – poet
- Ferenc Kazinczy – poet and language reformer
- Károly Kós – architect
- Ferenc Kölcsey – poet; author of the national anthem
- Sándor Kőrösi Csoma – orientologist
- Béla Kun – politician
- György Kurtág – composer
- György Ligeti – composer
- Bela Lugosi – actor
- Kelemen Mikes – writer
- Balázs Orbán – writer, historian and politician
- Péter Pázmány – theologian and writer
- Sándor Reményik – poet
- András Sütő – writer
- Áron Tamási – writer
- Sámuel Teleki – Africa researcher
- László Tőkés – bishop and politician
- Árpád Tóth – poet
- Sándor Veress – pianist and composer
- Albert Wass – writer and poet
- Miklós Wesselényi – politician, academician and writer
- Emília Zathureczky – museologist, collector
[Serbia]
- Géza Csáth – writer
- Dezső Kosztolányi – poet and writer
- Péter Lékó – chess grandmaster
- Monica Seles – tennis player
- John Simon – author; literary, theater and film critic
[Slovakia]
- Gyula Andrássy – politician
- Gyula Andrássy the Younger – politician
- Bálint Balassi – poet
- Ernő Dohnányi – conductor, composer and pianist
- Abraham Hochmuth – rabbi
- László Hudec – architect
- Mór Jókai – writer
- Lajos Kassák – poet, painter, typographer and graphic artist
- Imre Madách – poet
- Sándor Márai – writer
- Kálmán Mikszáth – writer
- Szilárd Németh – football player
- Ferenc II Rákóczi – prince and leader of Hungarian uprising in 1703–11
- János Selye – psychologist and researcher
- Alice Széchenyi – heiress
- Mihály Tompa – poet
[Ukraine]
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- Mihály Munkácsy – painter
- Moshe Leib Rabinovich – rabbi and scholar